Parents! If you are looking for a way to keep your kids busy and your sanity, during the summer break LCCC has an answer for you, and it’s educational. Extra brownie points! Laramie County Community College is registering their Summer Educational Experiences for Kids or SEEK.
For folks who love aeronautics, the Cheyenne Regional airport’s construction gives everyone an up-close study on planes...Really close.If you’ve driven past it, you’ll see it’s still in the works.
Spring is here, and citizens of Cheyenne are volunteering to clean up our beloved Greater Cheyenne Greenway. The City appreciates the community’s continued support of the Greenway and its significant maintenance contributions.
“Each of us can play a role in preventing illnesses when we swim, play and relax in and near water whether outdoors in warm weather or indoors year-round,” said Courtney Tillman, epidemiologist with WDH. “Swallowing a small amount of indoor or outdoor recreational water can make people sick,”
The official kick off of summer in Wyoming is Memorial Day, and that means taking the boat out, maybe for the first time this year. Before hitting the road for the holiday weekend, Game and Fish reminds all boaters — from motorized boaters to paddlers — to be prepared and be sure watercraft are outfitted with the required safety equipment.
Casper Area Transit will not offer services on Monday in honor of the Memorial Day holiday. Both the ASSIST - Door to Door service and LINK - Fixed Route service will not operate and transit offices will be closed. Normal services will resume on Tuesday, May 31 at 6:30 a.m.
On May 20, 2022, J.M. Smucker Co. issued a voluntary recall of select Jif products sold in the U.S. for potential salmonella contamination. The recalled peanut butter was distributed nationwide in retail stores and other outlets. Recalled products include the products below with lot codes 1274425 – 2140425. Lot codes are included alongside best-if-used-by date.
“We really just support programs that are already in existence around the state that fight food insecurity,” she said. “We are working with children’s groups, with veterans groups, seniors groups, and just families and pantries that are serving folks that are struggling during this time.”
While the courts decide the future rights of both hunters and landowners, a heavy hitter just joined the fray. The Wyoming-centered, corner crossing legal battle made national news when 4 Missouri hunters won their case against criminal trespassing charges.
Recent upticks have been reported from the northern part of the state, including Sheridan and Park counties, as well as in southern Wyoming’s Laramie County. Commonly described as “stomach flu” or “food poisoning,” gastroenteritis can spread easily when people eat or drink contaminated food and beverages, touch contaminated surfaces or through close contact with someone already sick.
The vote comes as gas prices hit new record highs across the country. “I’m impacted financially, but we’re all forced to either pay the price or walk or ride a bike, which I’ve resorted to,” said one concerned Casperite named Ezra.
Dr. Andy Dunn spoke with Wyoming News Now on May 20, 2022 to discuss the baby formula shortage. Dr. Dunn hit on the do’s and don’ts when it comes to keeping your child healthy amid the shortage.
Sellers are posing online as legitimate companies or breeders in an attempt to lure in individuals seeking a furry companion to add to their families. The supposed seller asks for payment for the animal upfront, as well as excess fees for crates and insurance during transport.
Each week Blue Federal Credit Union and Wyoming News Now are teaming up to salute our community helpers with our do-gooder award. This week’s recipient is Linda Sandoval.Linda is being recognized for helping the community for 31 years. The Eagles Nest bartender has also worked with Laramie County School District 1 to help kids with disabilities at Carey Junior High.
This year’s annual VA 2K was held Wednesday, where veterans, nurses, and more gathered to get some exercise, for a good cause. The donations received on Wednesday will be used to help create move in kits for homeless vets who are moving into a home or apartment. These move in kits provide them with essentials like bed sheets, plates, paper towels, and more.
The Wyoming Air National Guard upgraded its 30-year-old, C-130s on Tuesday.The 153rd Airlift Wing helped outfit C-130s with new engines, propellers and glass cockpits, all in preparation for fire season. Mechanical teams from Texas and Aircraft from Nevada came to get their 30-year-old engines replaced with new modified engines that provide more power, quicker climb and better fuel efficiency.
The cause of the fire was determined to be a heat lamp placed too close to combustible items in a trailer adjacent to the barn. Laramie Fire Department would like to remind you to be mindful of the distance to combustible materials when utilizing heat lamps to warm livestock, pets, and chickens.
The Adopt an Airman is meant to bridge Airmen into their new communities. But sometimes, this program does more than that. It brings together our shared humanity. The Adopt an Airman program helps Air Force Members anchor into their new communities.
“We’re really excited that we were able to provide this for them [CNCHD], and that they can come to Mills so the residents here are able to come a lot closer and not have to go to Downtown Casper to their appointments,” said Mills Community Development Director Sabrina Kemper.
“My former role at the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra as the executive director there I think really prepared me to move into this organization and be able to help continue to nourish the community not with music but with food,” said Bailey.
Charity Lafountain, the Victim Services Coordinator for Natrona County Sheriff’s Office, spoke to Wyoming News Now on May 18, 2022 about bystander intervention and the STOP method. As we near the summer months, you may encounter more situations where you can help someone out of an uncomfortable scenario.
“To my knowledge, we have never been able to cover every single grave with a single rose or any kind of flower,” said Young Marines Unit Commander Vincent Fernandez.
“We’ve been blessed to participate in the distribution of over 250,000 hardback books to first graders. It’s been a labor of love, this is our 24th year here in Casper doing it," said Jorgensen.
Beginning May 17, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service fire staff plan to take advantage of windows of opportunity to conduct a cumulative 978 acres of prescribed burns on the Pole Mountain unit of the Medicine Bow National Forest. Daily decisions to burn will be dependent on fuel and weather condition alignment.
Wyoming is known to circle the wagons when someone needs help, and that’s exactly what a local mom did when she heard about the baby formula shortage. Local Mom Kathy Scigliano started a baby-formula Facebook group on Friday, after seeing a social media post about the formula shortage.”I was watching tik-tok and saw someone who said they were going to start a Facebook group and um just to basically to get information into their community on where baby formula was and so I thought I can do that,” said Scigliano.
Water woes for a Wyoming city continue due to leaks in its 100-year-old water system. The City of Rawlins remains under a water irrigation restriction. According to city officials who say they are working to fix the issues. The City council has re-allocated some ARPA and general reserve funds for immediate repairs costing about $2M.But Rawlins City Spokesperson Mira Miller says the city needs about 15 to 20 million dollars in water infrastructure repairs.
When preparing for deployment, Wyoming Air National Guard Civil Engineers train to be ready at a moment’s notice. “Our missions are generally base maintenance and base set up. So when we deploy, this is what we do in a deployed environment. We will actually build a base from nothing. Using all these tents and various systems,” said Master Sgt. Bradly Kechter, Structures NCOIC.Training begins in the classroom, but these guardsmen and women were out at F.E Warren Air Force Base practicing for emergency situations on Friday.
“I think less and less people are unaware of mental health. I think mental health has been dominating the picture the last few years... so I think one of the challenges we begin to surmount is how to get help, as opposed to just being aware of mental illnesses, how to manage mental illness since we all struggle with some form of it at this point,” said WBI Associate Medical Director David Martorano.
Cutting-edge computer technology designed to mimic the human brain is being used by hackers to create lifelike videos of celebrities and politicians. But now, bad actors are using this readily available tech to target everyday social media users in cryptocurrency scams.
A new Wyoming company is popping up in Pine Bluffs. This Crypto Mining host named Crypto Knight’s held its groundbreaking event on Friday.Crypto Knight is the 1st Wyoming family-led crypto business to set up its facility in Wyoming. Wyoming’s Crypto-forward business practices and laws have helped it become one of the 1st states to pioneer legislation providing depository institutions, chancery court laws, and custody digital assets.
“That every day is different... You know we can have crazy crazy days where it’s non-stop radios and phones going off constantly, and we’ll have other days and even though there are bit of a slower days, we’ll still get a phone call for stuff that we’ve never had to deal with before, and so we’re trying to use our resources and get people connected where they need to be,” said Slominksi.
University of Wyoming employees making less than $150,000 annually will receive base pay raises of $1,400 or $1,900, along with additional increases based upon merit, market and compression issues, in the fiscal year that begins July 1. UW’s Board of Trustees today (Thursday) approved the plan for employee compensation increases proposed by the university’s administration. The allocation methodology focuses on providing larger percentage raises to employees in the lowest pay grades without creating additional salary compression.
As construction season starts, WYDOT is opening one of their bridges ahead of schedule.“It is completed. They are still I believe still taking down some of the shoring some of the barriers and opening up some of the lanes to traffic. But umm as of right now the column has been fully repaired and it is operational for live traffic,” said Andrea Staley, Senior Public Relations Specialists- WYDOT.In January, the Grand Ave., I-80 interchange bridge in Laramie was damaged when it was hit during a snow event. The eastbound off-ramp was closed at exit 316.
A military working dog named Eby was retired today. After almost 7 years of service, the 90th Security Forces Squadron honored her service to the military.“She was my very first dog. She taught me what its like to be a handler. She really eased me into things. In the K-9 world, there’s a kind of dog that we say they are push-button. Eby was definitely a push button dog,” said Senior Airman Nathan Yates F.E. Warren AFB.
Hilton was nominated for his willingness to help others. A pastor and a police chaplain, Hilton goes out of his way to help and support the homeless and is always helping organize events for the police department.
As technology expands, so does the need for greater emergency response. On Wednesday, WYDOT held its regular quarterly meeting. But they also held their first Public Safety Communications Commission meeting.
If you’ve ever noticed how puppies melt away stress and seem to make everything better, so has the Cheyenne Regional Medical Center.They kicked off their special program that brings in puppies to help soothe whatever ails you.“It’s been a really difficult last 2 years with the pandemic so this gives them an opportunity to escape everything that they are doing and get some love and de-stress,” said JJ Barley-Dunning, medical imaging representative- CRMC.
Wyoming U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis has made her stance on abortion clear. She is sponsoring pro-life legislation in Congress and now she is speaking up about the supreme court leak. Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis said Tuesday she supports the leaked Supreme Court draft decision indicating its intent to overturn Roe vs. Wade.
