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A dairy farm near Carpenter is facing approximately $25,000 in penalties following the death of a worker last June. The federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration currently lists four serious violations totaling $25,275 for Burnett Enterprises. The penalties listed as serious violations are pending abatement, meaning if the company can make amends the penalties could reduced or eliminated. While working at Burnett Enterprises on June 5, an employee identified as Erasmo Baeza Gonzalez, 52, entered a well house with two electrical cont...
Pine Bluffs Recreation recently announced the winners of the 2018 Christmas Lighting Contest. Winners are asked to stop by the Pine Bluffs Town Hall to collect a $10 gift card to Texas Trail Market. In a written press release, Pine Bluffs Recreation Director Pine Bluffs tahnked those who participated in the contest and helped fill Pine Bluffs with Christmas spirit. "The judges enjoyed looking at all the lights and decorations," Fornstrom said. "There were so many beautifully decorated homes to...
Pine Bluffs, WY (Dec. 17, 2018) – Pine Bluffs Distilling, the maker of unique farm-to-distillery spirits, has decided to "muddy" things up a bit by mixing its Lodgepole Creek Bourbon with a locally produced Rye. Muddy Creek Bourbon is a bourbon with 23% Rye, which gives the resulting "Ryed bourbon" a balance of spice and sweetness. "Any spirit with Rye, you think it is gong to be super spicy," said Chad Brown, who owns the distillery with his aunt Kathy Brown and Gene Purdy. "This one has the s...
On my many travels through my memories as I write these articles, some of my fondest involve hikes through the woods. I've always loved to walk and I would take off for hours, and sometimes a few days, to just hike and camp. One of my favorite places to go was to the Okefenokee Swamp in northern Florida and southern Georgia. The swamp lies across the state line so it's in both states. My father and I would canoe out into the swamp to Billy's Island to hike and camp. Actually, I would hike and he...
As a new basketball season has started, our JH team has a lot to look forward to. Even though the JH girls are already finished with their season, the JH boys have something extra for this year. New coaches have arrived in Pine Bluffs for these boys. Mr. Anthony Cox is the assistant coach with Mr. Brian Anderson being the Heach Coach. They both teach at school and will be doing a double duty with having these boys twice a day. Mr. Cox is the Art, Photography, and Desktop Publishing teacher and Mr. Anderson is the P.E. / health, weights and...
Born in Missouri in 1977, Seth E. Wilson became a Wyomingite at the age of five, when his family moved to Torrington, Wyoming. He has stayed since. Wilson, graduated from Torrington High School in 1995. This deep thinking guy headed off to the University of Wyoming to earn his bachelor's degree in Sociology, with a minor in philosophy. Even with these degrees his main focus was in pre-law. During Wilson's high school years, he was an Eagle Scout. This became a very important part of his...
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Playing in their first home game of the season, Pine Bluffs put up 19 points before the visiting Holyoke, Colo. Dragons managed to put up their first 2 Saturday afternoon. By the start of the second quarter, the Hornets led 29-2. With the 85-33 home win, the Hornets currently hold a 5-0 record. They'll be off for the winter break and will return to action January 4 when they play in the Taco Johns Invite at Cheyenne East. In Saturday's game, junior Michael Shain led the Hornets in scoring with...
The Burns-Pine Bluffs grapplers took home a ninth-place finish of the 18 schools at the Sidney-Bridgeport Invite held over the weekend. Burns-Pine Bluffs finished with 82.5 points, barely edging out tenth-place Mitchell’s 82.0 points. Lash Branigan lost in the final round of the 182lb weight class to Bryce Running Hawk of Hay Springs, Neb. Boe Clayson finished third in the 170lb weight class after defeating Ogallala’s Brock Skinner in the third-place match. Also earning a third-place finish was Ben Banville. Banville defeated Kimball’s Izaak...
It was nothing short of a nail-biter when the Lady Hornets hosted their first basketball game of the year Saturday, Dec. 15. Playing the Holyoke, Colo. Lady Dragons, Pine Bluffs didn't taste its first lead of the afternoon until late in the third quarter. Saturday afternoon's match up was a back and forth affair for the Lady Hornets and Lady Dragons. Pine Bluffs led 13-10 at the end of the first quarter. At the end of the second quarter, the lead had changed to 25-21 Holyoke, thanks to a 15-8 ru...