The Museum at the Bighorns has announced it will hold its Living History Cemetery Tour: Notable Names in Sheridan County beginning at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 9. Actors will portray various influential people from Sheridan County’s history. The notable figures portrayed this year will be Henry Coffeen, E. A. Whitney, Alden Eaton, Ann Held, Ronald …

The Downtown Sheridan Association is bringing back an event for wine lovers.  In the past, the DSA Wine Fest was held in March, but COVID-19 put Wine Fest on hold, like so many other events. This year, the DSA is revamping the festival and scheduling it for Friday, Sept. 16.  While appearing on Sheridan Media’s …

HIGH SCHOOL FALL SPORTS – The Bronc and Lady Bronc tennis teams first competition will take place tomorrow with matches in Laramie. The Bronc and Lady Bronc golfers are off until Thursday when they play at the Cheyenne invitational. The rest of our fall sports, cross country, girls swimming and diving and volleyball all start …

Those interested in guns and how they fit into the West can learn more about them at an event hosted by the Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum this Wednesday evening. According to a release from the Gatchell Museum, the Sip’n History series will feature Danny Michael, Curator of the Buffalo Bill Cody Firearms Museum in Cody, …

Buffalo Events, Inc. will be putting on Oktoberfest in Buffalo again this year, after the Buffalo City Council approved requests from the organization. Claudia Todd and Anke Kottman spoke to the council, asking for the use of Crazy Woman Square and the closure of East Fetterman from Main Street to Lobban Avenue from 6 a.m. …

Johnson County School Distirct #1 Transportation Director Dennis Zezas, in his recent report to the school board, addressed a bus driver shortage that he thought was improved, but had just become more of an issue for him. Zezas apologized for not having a written report for the board, explaining he had one started and then …

A Conditional Use Permit for Randal and Stacie Huckeba was approved by the Sheridan County Commission on a split vote, but after concerns of the commission and some neighbors were discussed. According to discussions, the Huckebas purchased the property a few years ago and have been running a siding fabrication business there, thinking it was …

As a kick-off to the new school year, on Thursday, August 11 from 2-6 p.m. there was an open house at the SCSD#3 in Clearmont. Students and parents could come and meet the new teachers and tour the school. At 4:30 there was a BBQ, with the school, church and town of Clearmont contributing, and …

This past summer the ‘Little Blue School” in Ranchester received a new coat of white paint and some repairs were done by the Ranchester-Dayton Rotary Club. A little history of the school. In the early 1900s, families living on the upper part of Five Mile Flat were some distance from the Ohlman School, and it …

One wouldn’t think that Red Cloud, the famous Indian chief who was one of the leaders in Red Cloud’s War during the 1860s would have anything in common with a Yale Professor. However, this unusual friendship did happen. After signing the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868), Red Cloud helped his people make the transition to …