“Well, our bees make the honey I don’t make the honey I steal it from them not all of it but we steal their honey from them, and we’ve been doing this about I think this is our fifth winter that we’re over wintering our bees,” said Christine Bulow.
A normal day of going through the mail turned into a joyous one for the Downtown Development Authority. The organization received a 100 thousand dollar donation from an anonymous donor.
Full flights across the country are beginning to take off with Thanksgiving this week, and that’s no different here in Wyoming. The holiday season is the busiest time of year for Casper Natrona County International Airport.
“Our disciples are the ones that are gonna be handing out the food boxes so they’re gonna go door to door and just check in and see if somebody needs a Thanksgiving meal,” said Programs Director Dave Matthews.
All of the 1A & 2A football All-State honorees and the 3A and 4A football offense honorees from the KGWN & KCWY viewing areas are our Wyoming News Now Prep Athletes of the Week.
Wyomingites can take a trip back in time and learn how kids in the 1920s went to school. The Hot Springs County Museum is bringing to life a schoolhouse exhibit.
The support group was designed to help health care employees overcome feelings of grief and stress that have risen from the pressures of supporting others through a pandemic.
With temperatures starting out in the 60′s across Wyoming this week, things will be looking warm at first. However, Tuesday night will see cool air from the North and West make its way into the state, bringing possibilities for snow and precipitation in North and Central Wyoming.
27 applicants turned into four winners as Visit Casper concluded their first ever Business Challenge. The challenge featured mentor-ship opportunities and more to see what businesses would flourish in Casper.
Over half of all home heating fires across the nation will happen over the next three months. Casper Fire-EMS is reminding residents to be careful this holiday season.
The event is back after not taking place in 2020. It is the first night Christmas lights will be on in Healing Park, afterwards they will be on every night until Jan 1. The lights will turn on at 5 p.m. and the light show will begin at 5:30 p.m.
“The challenge is that a lot of textbooks and science museum exhibits you see a white male in a lab coat which is not exactly how all scientists look,” said The Science Zone Executive Director Steven Schnell.
Casper Christian School opened their doors September first, and has already seen incredible growth with 230 partners investing in the success. Being a private school, CCS decided to create a tuition-assisting program, the Mountaineer Fund, to help perspective students fund their education.
“Putting yourself before family sometimes even during the holiday is okay because we want to make sure people are putting their mental health first that way, they can enjoy the holidays and enjoy the time with their family but still take care of their selves,” said Mercer Center therapist Brittlynn Adame.
About one in four Wyomingites struggle with food insecurity, and those numbers continue to rise around the holidays. Wyoming Food for Thought is working hard to provide meals during this time of year.
According to the American Lung Association, lung cancer is the number one cause of cancer death in both men and women. November is National Lung Cancer Awareness Month, and staff at Wyoming Medical Center is encouraging preventative care.
Casper Pride recently received a grant from the Wyoming Community Foundation for resources and social events for the local LGBT community and allies to enjoy.
The Casper-Natrona County Health Department is reminding residents to get their flu shots. CNCHD began seeing influenza cases in October, and they don’t expect it to slow down anytime soon.
“We’ve been doing this for quite some time now, it’s such a useful, useful tool to combat the COVID-19 virus and it’s something we underutilize quite frankly,” said Dunn.
The group aims to provide support for youth in the community they may not find elsewhere. During the time teens can ask questions, play games, and find community with their peers.
Casper is full of hidden gems, but one that stands out to residents and visitors, is the local breweries. Visit Casper has teamed up with Frontier Brewing, Mountain Hops, Skull Tree Brewing, Gruner Brother’s Brewing and Oil City Beer Company to launch a new brewery passport, the Local Ale Trail, to help others experience Casper’s culinary scene.
The Casper Children’s Theatre is opening up their first show of the season this weekend. Cast members are “getting their heads in the game” with their performance of High School Musical Jr.
“Well this is a revisit to the celebrations that we’ve had in the past obviously there have been some different scenarios but I know at CY and District 1 these celebrations have been going on for at least the last fifteen years or so and so we’re excited to welcome veterans back into our building again this year,” said CYMS Assistant Principal Brent Jurgensen.
After a surge in Covid-19 cases, Natrona County is currently on the downward slope. The last week has shown a slight decrease in positive PCR tests. However, Wyoming Medical Center is still battling the pandemic.
The Salvation Army in Casper is preparing for the 2021 Angel Tree. Last year, the organization served around 475 families in the area with this program.
“There’s gonna be free ice cream for veterans and like a meet and greet we talk to veterans just ask them about the time that they served and then just having basic conversations,” said Casper Senior Young Marine Matthew Harvey.
If you’re driving around Casper in the evening, you may notice Christmas decorations lighting up houses and yards. Casper Fire-EMS is reminding residents to be safe when using ladders during this time of year.
Casper Natrona County Health Department is holding drive-through vaccine clinics at the Central Wyoming Fairgrounds on November 16 and 18 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Taking one flavor and turning it into another. It could be the cooking equivalent of fitting a round peg into a square hole, but Pathways culinary students were more than ready to take on the challenge.
Between 2010 and 2020, 1,181 guns were stolen in Casper. From that, twenty percent (298) were recovered by law enforcement through other crime prevention efforts, meaning those firearms were used in a crime committed in our community or seized as part of a search warrant linked to a crime. The majority of stolen firearms are not recovered and continue to circulate and be used for criminal purposes both in and outside of Casper.
“What are the ways that you’ve experienced the holidays and that you remember fondly, but also how’s it going to be different and how is that going to be hard and how can we either create new traditions, honor old traditions but in a different way, or find ways to take care of ourselves in a very difficult time,” said von Gunten.
Staff at Wyoming Medical Center celebrated a special birthday Monday afternoon. Clotilde McFarland has been a patient with WMC for over forty years and staff wanted to do something special to celebrate her 100th.
