Recreation center plans discreetly move forward
Modified: Friday, Sep 3rd, 2010
For a second consecutive month, the Goshen County Community Facilities Joint Powers Board held an executive session not open to the public Wednesday, Aug. 25, to discuss personnel and development issues concerning a proposed YMCA recreation center in Goshen County.
At its July 22 meeting, the board welcomed a new member, Ron Pomeroy, who provided them with background information ...more

Imaginations to the rescue
Modified: Friday, Sep 3rd, 2010
Storyteller Denise Jackson (right) reads "Superdog: The Heart of a Hero" to a group of area children as Leanna Hunter, 3, and Grant Johnson, 4, look at the illustrations at the Goshen County Library. For more pictures see page A8. ...more

News video: Torrington Today on Sept. 3
Posted: Friday, Sep 3rd, 2010
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The price of oil
Modified: Friday, Sep 3rd, 2010
The more information circulating and communication established, the better Goshen County can be prepared for potential oil play, Sublette County officials said of their experience with their oil activity.
The county officials, together with economic, environmental and energy experts, addressed a standing-room-only crowd at the Southeast Wyoming Oil Shale Seminar Wednesday in Torrington.
"We're excited about it, but guardedly ...more

Signs of fall in the air
Posted: Friday, Sep 3rd, 2010
The second day of September served as a reminder of southeast Wyoming's blustery conditions. Wind speeds averaged about 30 miles per hour Thursday and blew sunflowers in all directions at Bump Sullivan Habitat Management Area. ...more

Downtown business prospects looking up
Posted: Friday, Sep 3rd, 2010
As the national economy is still struggling to recover and with a possible oil boom on the horizon, business owners in Torrington are working to adapt and grow in an ever-changing business world.
The Torrington Main Street Partnership and Community Builders, Inc. of Douglas recently released a baseline economic study during a public presentation outlining the present and helping analyze ...more

String of car burglaries hits Torrington area
Posted: Friday, Sep 3rd, 2010
A series of crimes occurred as individuals burglarized and vandalized three vehicles Sunday and Tuesday nights.
Sometime Sunday night or Monday morning, the rear window of a vehicle on West B Street was broken out and a skateboard valued at $180 was stolen from the vehicle, according to the police report. The skateboard is blue with a skull design ...more

One big cattle call
Posted: Friday, Sep 3rd, 2010
If you have ever been fascinated by the 100-mile-per-hour ramblings of a professional auctioneer, three of the best in the world will be on hand for a special Labor Day feeder cattle auction at Torrington Livestock Market.
The auction will feature current world champion auctioneer Kyle Shobe, a 27-year-old from Lewiston, Mont. Shobe won the championship in only his second ...more

Story time
Modified: Friday, Sep 3rd, 2010
Jackson helps Leanna Hunter with her superhero cape after reading "Superdog: The Heart of a Hero" at story time Wednesday morning. The Goshen County Library hosts story time for pre-schoolers every Wednesday at 10:15 a.m. ...more

Honor Flight Wyoming makes trip to D.C. in September
Posted: Friday, Sep 3rd, 2010
Torrington veterans Teddy Quillen and Philip Schreiner will take part in the Honor Flight trip to our nation's capital later this month.
Honor Flight Wyoming is a Wyoming non-profit with a mission to fly Wyoming's World War II veterans to Washington, D.C., free of charge to visit their memorials on a trip of a lifetime.
Honor Flight Wyoming has ...more

Natures Composites beautifies downtown Torrington
Posted: Friday, Sep 3rd, 2010
Natures Composites, a Torrington-based manufacturer of composite lumber made from wheat straw and recycled plastic, is responsible for the improvements made this summer to the large flowerbeds located at the intersection of U.S. Highways 26 and 85 at the end of Main Street.
"This was a large project and I want to thank the city of Torrington for ...more

Dental report describes Wyoming’s “State of the Mouth”
Posted: Friday, Sep 3rd, 2010
The first comprehensive oral health study of Wyoming residents in more than 20 years, including a series of recommendations, was released this week by the Wyoming Department of Health and the Wyoming Dental Association.
The Oral Health Initiative (OHI) report and the accompanying 26 specific recommendations are designed to improve Wyoming's oral and overall health. The legislatively directed OHI was ...more

Welcome to the chamber club
Modified: Friday, Sep 3rd, 2010
Premier Steel owners Pamela Randall (front row, third from left) and Lawrence Randall (holding scissors) celebrate the business's chamber ribbon-cutting Wednesday afternoon with fellow employees and chamber ambassadors. The structural steel detailing and fabrication shop is located at 6619 U.S. Highway 85 south of Torrington.
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Back in the swing of things
Modified: Thursday, Sep 2nd, 2010
Southeast Schools elementary student Cord Herring enjoys a run on a playground tire swing during recess Tuesday morning as his classmates cheer him on. ...more

News video: Torrington Today on Sept. 2
Modified: Thursday, Sep 2nd, 2010
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Bullying: Breaking silence
Modified: Wednesday, Sep 1st, 2010
School can be tough, but it can be all the more difficult for students picked on by bullies. And because it's a significant concern in Goshen County schools, school officials are taking action.
On Thursday, all district middle and high school students will hear from Mike Hills of Rachel's Challenge, an organization dedicated to empowering students to take action ...more

News video: Torrington Today on Sept. 1, 2010
Posted: Wednesday, Sep 1st, 2010
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U.S. 26 stretch upgrade on horizon
Posted: Wednesday, Sep 1st, 2010
The Wyoming Transportation Commission recently awarded Simon Contractors of Cheyenne $977,000 to replace deteriorating concrete slabs, then overlay the slabs with asphalt in order to repair a one-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 26 between Main Street and East M Street. The project's contract completion date is August 31, 2011.
Construction will not begin until WYDOT issues a notice to ...more

Goshen DUIs near national average
Posted: Wednesday, Sep 1st, 2010
While Wyoming is the leading state in the nation per capita in DUI arrests, Goshen County's per capita arrests are closer to the national average than any other Wyoming county.
Wyoming law en-forcement officers made 7,159 DUI arrests last year, according to state circuit court filings. Calculating on a 100,000 per resident basis, the state led the nation with 1,344 ...more

Sharing community services
Posted: Wednesday, Sep 1st, 2010
Wade Bruch (left) of U.S. Bank talks with EWC student Hannah Estell at Eastern Wyoming College during the college's community fair Tuesday afternoon. The community fair was designed to showcase local businesses, their services and products to current and new students. ...more

School board race crowded
Posted: Wednesday, Sep 1st, 2010
It's shaping up to be an even more heated general election, as ten candidates are vying for four Goshen County School District Board of Trustees seats.
Incumbents Linda Kessler of LaGrange and Charlie Harshberger of Lingle join a list of eight other hopefuls: Michael Moore of Torrington, Jeff McClun of Veteran, Donna White of Torrington, Dale Heggem of Veteran, ...more

Dry conditions call for heightened fire safety
Posted: Wednesday, Sep 1st, 2010
With the unusual amount of rainfall and moisture this spring, many of the usual suspects for igniting fires were absent from the equation.
Until now.
Four fires in the last week signaled a fervent need for safety as the plains and brush have baked into a highly combustible, deadly mix.
Lightning caused two of the fires, and another ...more

Everybody loves recess
Posted: Wednesday, Sep 1st, 2010
Youngster Garrett Pew hangs upside-down on a set of monkey bars at the playground located on the school campus. ...more

Candidate Cindy Hill’s first scheduled meeting in Riverton
Posted: Wednesday, Sep 1st, 2010
Superintendent of Public Instruction candidate Cindy Hill announced she has scheduled the first of many gatherings that her campaign will be scheduling around Wyoming to meet with those on the front lines of education, including teachers, parents, school boards and administrators and students on the shape that assessments should take in the future in Wyoming.
"The ...more

Final Hawk Springs hamburger fry for the season
Posted: Wednesday, Sep 1st, 2010
Hamburgers will again be on the grill in Hawk Springs for the final hamburger fry fundraiser of the season on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Hawk Springs community building.
A wide variety of salads, baked beans and an assortment of desserts will accompany the burgers, many of which are homemade and donated by area ...more

The places you’ll go
Posted: Wednesday, Sep 1st, 2010
Torrington Rotary Club President Grant Jones congratulates Sara Lehmitz (left) and Julie Karrer on their participation in an exchange program. Lehmitz stayed with Karrer's family in Austria this summer and Karrer subsequently stayed a month with Lehmitz's family in Torrington. ...more

Elks helps provide school materials
Posted: Wednesday, Sep 1st, 2010
Torrington Lodge #1726 of the B.P.O. Elks donated more than 40 backpacks and filled each of them with a year's worth of school supplies donated by lodge members and distributed them to local teachers to give to needy youth in their classrooms. Pictured is President Joel Schwartzkopf (right) with Lingle-Fort Laramie Elementary School 4th grade teacher Rita Felton. The lodge ...more

Blooming interest
Modified: Tuesday, Aug 31st, 2010
Although Wyoming farmers and gardeners grow many different plants and crops, raising tropical flowers is a rare thing for the Cowboy State. One group in Goshen County, however, aims to do just that.
Goshen County Library Director Isabel Hoy said flower enthusiasts conceived the Goshen County Library Orchid Interest Group after roughly 15 people attended a presentation on June 28 ...more

News video: Torrington Today on Aug. 31
Modified: Tuesday, Aug 31st, 2010
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News video: Torrington Today on Aug. 30
Modified: Monday, Aug 30th, 2010
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News video: Ernie LaPointe author talk
Modified: Sunday, Aug 29th, 2010
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News video: Torrington Today on Aug. 27
Modified: Friday, Aug 27th, 2010
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WMCI in high gear
Posted: Friday, Aug 27th, 2010
Wyoming Medium Correctional Institutution officials reported expanding opportunities for both the inmates and the community at the Prison Community Partnership Committee meeting Wednesday evening.
WMCI Warden Mike Murphy said several positions are now open at the facility. Of the 356 positions at the prison, not including positions in the institute's healthcare branch, the 25 incoming positions from a partnership with ...more

Kirchhefer takes plea deal
Posted: Friday, Aug 27th, 2010
Gary Kirchhefer, Jr. pled guilty to four counts of larceny by bailee, one of them a felony, as part of a plea agreement in District Court Tuesday. The hearing was held to allow a change of plea and immediate sentencing.
Per the agreement, Kirchhefer was sentenced to 540 days in jail, and is ordered to pay restitution in the ...more

Stars in the making
Posted: Friday, Aug 27th, 2010
Lincoln Elementary special education teacher Abby Bruch reacts to how many children have already earned Star Bucks during the first day of school on Wednesday morning. Star Bucks is a reward system for good behavior and following STARS rules: being Safe, a Team player, being Accountable, being Respectful and Successful. ...more

Youth center advocate has some big ideas
Posted: Friday, Aug 27th, 2010
After years of listening to cries from the community for a youth center, Jason Gantz decided to take action himself.
"The town keeps saying they need one," Gantz said. "I thought it was about time somebody did something instead of just talk about it."
And with that, Gantz resigned from his position as youth pastor for Torrington's Bethel Baptist ...more

Budget format boasts new look
Posted: Friday, Aug 27th, 2010
The newly-approved county budget is being transferred to a new format and will be available within two weeks to the general public upon request at the Goshen County Clerk's office.
Accountant Ron Russell appeared before the Goshen County Commissioners Tuesday with his near-finished refurbishing of the layout for the county's financial statement. The commissioners added some extra explanatory notations and ...more

Bomgaars celebrates grand opening
Posted: Friday, Aug 27th, 2010
Retail up-and-comer Bomgaars celebrated its Torrington grand opening Thursday, complete with complimentary hot dogs and soda, sign-ups for a prize giveaway and a ribbon cutting ceremony.
General manager Mike Swanson promised a larger inventory and better prices, as well as better service with seven extra employees - four of them full-time. The depot also features a clothing section with Carhartt ...more

Boy Scout Troop 26 report
Modified: Friday, Aug 27th, 2010
The Troop 26 activities for the last 30 days were:
July 12, Court of Honor
At the Court of Honor, seven scouts advanced in rank and others received merit badges earned at Camp Laramie Peak in June. Merit badges were first-aid, pioneering, leatherwork, basketry and rifle shooting.
July 17
The troop practiced canoe skills at Packer's Lake.
July ...more

Eclipsing 25,000 bonnets
Posted: Friday, Aug 27th, 2010
The Sun Bonnet Gals get together to celebrate the completion of 25,000 bonnets. They used the Senior Friendship Center Transportation to take them to lunch on Monday, Aug. 23. If anyone would like to volunteer to help make bonnets, they sew on Tuesday mornings from 8:30 a.m. until 11 a.m. at the Senior Friendship Center. Pictured are Sun Bonnet Gals ...more

One high-flying day job
Modified: Thursday, Aug 26th, 2010
As far as day jobs go, one could find less risky things to do than flying a single-passenger plane over the crop and brush lands of Wyoming for six hours a day.
But to Ag Flyers owner and operator Dean McClain, this is the least challenging aspect of his business.
"The hardest part is managing the business," McClain said. "Keeping ...more

News video: Torrington Today on Aug. 26
Modified: Thursday, Aug 26th, 2010
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News video: Torrington Today on Aug. 25
Modified: Wednesday, Aug 25th, 2010
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Egg recall largely unfelt
Posted: Wednesday, Aug 25th, 2010
Main Street Market in Torrington has removed Shurfresh Extra Large Eggs from its shelves due to a possible connection between the eggs and the recent nationwide salmonella outbreak linked to Iowa-produced eggs.
Iowa egg suppliers Hillandale Farms and Wright County Egg have recalled 500 million eggs as of Tuesday afternoon during a nationwide recall of shell eggs contaminated with ...more

Sheriff’s office investigating death
Posted: Wednesday, Aug 25th, 2010
A Torrington man was found dead Sunday morning at the north end of the Huckfeldt Trucking parking lot in Torrington. According to a press release from the Goshen County Sheriff's Office, the man has been identified as 31-year-old George Sell.
Sheriff's deputies responded to a report of a man down at the trucking firm at 11:06 a.m. Sunday. ...more

Supreme Court reverses elder adult abuse conviction
Modified: Wednesday, Aug 25th, 2010
The Wyoming Supreme Court reversed a felony elder adult abuse conviction last week one year after a Cheyenne man was sentenced in Torrington for the alleged crime.
The alleged abuse was brought before a Goshen County jury last August because of a mistrial in Laramie County.
Prosecutors alleged now 47-year-old Ricky L. Dougherty sexually touched himself in front ...more

Representing the Lakota people
Posted: Wednesday, Aug 25th, 2010
The image is vivid in our subconscious: thousands of marauding American Indians led by bloodthirsty Chief Sitting Bull butchering General Custer and his outmanned battalions in the battle of Little Bighorn.
But now Ernie LaPointe, the great-grandson of the legendary Lakota tribe leader, has come forward with a new book and DVD to set the record straight concerning Sitting ...more

Hittin’ the books
Posted: Wednesday, Aug 25th, 2010
Carol Andersen, right, helps Eastern Wyoming College freshman Erin Durfee locate course textbooks and materials at the college's bookstore Tuesday morning. A large number of students joined Durfee in purchasing their books on the first day of fall semester Tuesday. ...more

Pink is the color of my true love
Posted: Wednesday, Aug 25th, 2010
A set of pink fire trucks is definitely a head-turner, as they were Friday when they rolled through Torrington just after noon on their way to Bismarck, N.D., the second leg of the 2010 Pink Heals Tour.
The tour is a fund and awareness raising movement to not only help battle cancer, but to hopefully lift the spirits of the ...more

A new beginning
Posted: Wednesday, Aug 25th, 2010
(From left to right): Council member Cameron McCoy, Public Works Director Tracy Pragnell, Council member John Beightol, Mayor Mark Marshall and Council member Mike Huseby, all of LaGrange, cut the ribbon in front of the new LaGrange Heritage Square building Saturday evening. The LaGrange Heritage Square used to be the LaGrange Public School building, but has been restored and converted ...more

Hunter safety classes underway
Posted: Wednesday, Aug 25th, 2010
Hunters like the youth pictured above can take part in hunter safety classes through the Wyoming Game and Fish Department before seasons start. This class is in the Wheatland area. ...more

Gay couple challenges Wyoming’s marriage law
Posted: Wednesday, Aug 25th, 2010
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- A gay couple has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Wyoming law that defines marriage as existing only between a man and a woman.
David Shupe-Roderick and Ryan W. Dupree of Cheyenne say the Laramie County Clerk's Office has refused to issue them a marriage license. They're asking U.S. District Judge Alan B. Johnson to stop ...more

Festival of Hope 5K run
Posted: Wednesday, Aug 25th, 2010
The Festival of Hope Foundation recently held a 5K run in Mitchell, Neb. The foundation supports cancer victims and their families.
Two local women participated in the run held at the Scotts Bluff County Fairgrounds. Roni Bennett of Torrington placed first in the women's division ages 40-49. Tara Rose of Lingle placed fifth in the women's division ages 20-29. ...more

Attention aspiring stage actors
Posted: Wednesday, Aug 25th, 2010
Goshen Community Theatre (GCT) will host a "curtain call" for the fall production of "A Christmas Story", Tuesday August 31. The workshop will take place at 7 p.m. in the Fine Arts Auditorium at Eastern Wyoming College.
The "curtain call" workshop is designed to help people feel comfortable with auditioning for parts in this production as well as gain ...more

Torrington Today on Aug. 24
Posted: Tuesday, Aug 24th, 2010
Torrington Today
August 24, 2010 ...more