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Great Week Ahead on the Local Sports Schedule

SOCCER – The Sheridan high school soccer teams will host a varsity double header tomorrow evening against Thunder Basin the boys game leads off at 4:00. They get into league play Friday and Saturday with games against Laramie and Cheyenne South the Lady Broncs will play at home and a reminder Saturday’s games with South …

April 18, 2022

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Wyoming High School 4A Soccer Standings: April 17, 2022

The recent snowstorm disrupted the schedule of games this past week. The next scheduled games for the Broncs and Lady Broncs are on Tuesday, April 19th vs. Thunder Basin. It is a home double-header. After that, Sheridan will play Laramie and Cheyenne South on Friday and Saturday, April 22nd and 23rd (boys away, girls home). …

April 17, 2022

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Commission to Consider Wagon Box Liquor License Renewal

A their upcoming regular meeting Tuesday, the Sheridan County Commission will consider the renewal of the retail liquor license for Wagon Box Properties, LLC d/b/a Wagon Box Inn. The commission renewed the remainder of the county’slicenses at their last meeting, but the owners of the Wagon Box were not in attendance at that meeting, so …

April 17, 2022

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County Tables Decision on Wyoming Downs Racing

Johnson County’s Commissioners have tabled a decision on allowing a site in Buffalo for Wyoming Downs to operate a facility to bet on paramutual horse races. Jill Jarrard and Alison Vanderhoef, representing Wyoming Downs, brough the request before the commission for approval, saying they were looking to put 30 machines in a site in the …

April 17, 2022

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JCSD1 Tax Settlement Funds Will Go Back to the State

The $22.7 million tax settlement between Johnson County and Carbon Creek/US Realm is good news for the county’s special districts, but that does not appear to be the case with the Johnson County School District. At the recent district board meeting in Kaycee, Superintendent Charles Auzqui explained that the funds that will eventually be allocated …

April 17, 2022

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Clearmont Easter Egg Hunt Draws Good Crowd

Sawyer Todd looks over her eggs. Over 1700 eggs were filled with candy and hid for the over 50 youngsters who attended the event. Due to the chilly weather and snow on the playground, the eggs were hid in the Arvada-Clearmont School building, the 0-4 age youngsters hunted eggs in the Clearmont gym, with the …

April 17, 2022

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Easter Traditions Through the Years

Easter Sunday is April 17. Easter is an old holiday and has many traditions that have changed or endured through the years. Easter is also called, Pascha or Resurrection Sunday. Each year, Christians commemorate their Savior’s victory over sin and death. Christ was crucified on Good Friday, and his body was laid in a tomb …

April 17, 2022

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Gordon Celebrates Resumption Of Federal Gas, Oil Lease Sales

This story first appeared on Cowboy State Daily. By Ellen Fike, Cowboy State Daily Gov. Mark Gordon on Friday celebrated the news that President Joe Biden’s administration would again allow the sale of oil and gas leases. However, Gordon also questioned the impact of the Biden administration’s decision to reduce the number of acres available …

April 16, 2022

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Wyoming Ag Industry Hit By Drought, Although Not As Bad As Other States

This story first appeared on Cowboy State Daily. By Ellen Fike, Cowboy State Daily Wyoming’s farmers and ranchers are not being hit as hard by the drought seen across the West as their counterparts in other states, several told Cowboy State Daily on Friday. Kyle Berger, whose family owns a livestock ranch in Saratoga, told …

April 16, 2022

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The Johnson County War, Part One: The Causes

A Mike Thomas Sculpture in Buffalo depicting the Johnson County War Wyoming historian T.A. Larson ranked the Johnson County War as the most notorious event in Wyoming’s history. This is a three-part story. In this installment, we will look at some of the causes of the Johnson County War. On April 5, 1892, an army …

April 16, 2022

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