Pine Bluffs Post - Serving all of Eastern Laramie County since 1908

Move over, Charlie Brown! There's a new great pumpkin in town. And a new state record. Andy Corbin of Cheyenne broke his own state record this year with a mammoth 1,854 pound pumpkin. In 2019, Corbin broke the state record with a pumpkin weighing in at 1,491 pounds. That's after he set the record in 2015 with a pumpkin weighing 1,268 pounds. Corbin takes growing pumpkins seriously. That's a pretty "smashing" record for a backyard gardener.

Harold Stinchcomb is a friendly rival of Corbin's and the two often trade state records in alternating years. So what do you do with a HUGE pumpkin like...