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LARAMIE – Cordae Wynn is like many high school seniors. He juggles his time between basketball practice and school at Laramie High. He spends much of his time at home doing daily chores, homework and interacting with family. Wynn has aspirations of going to college and playing basketball. But there was a time not that long ago when things like that were not fathomable for Wynn. Thanks to the Kimbrough family, now they are. Jermaine Kimbrough was hired as an assistant coach for the University o...
CHEYENNE — As lawmakers parse through Gov. Matt Mead’s supplemental budget requests during the 2019 general session, a question they will have to find an answer to is how to ensure Wyoming’s aging population has the care it needs. Included in Mead’s supplemental request for the second half of the state’s biennium budget is $13.5 million to take care of the state’s aging population. About $2.5 million is being requested for increased enrollment in nursing facilities in Wyoming, which is being matched by $2.5 million in federal funds. Anot...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Christmas has come and gone but the partial government shutdown is just getting started. Wednesday brings the first full business day after several government departments and agencies closed up over the weekend due to a budgetary stalemate between President Donald Trump and Congress. And there is no end in sight. So far, the public and federal workers have largely been spared inconvenience and hardship because government is closed on weekends and federal employees were excused from work on Christmas Eve and Christmas, a f...
CHEYENNE, Wyo. – To ensure the public and BLM’s state and local partners have sufficient time to review the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and proposed Resource Management Plan Amendments (RMPA) addressing Greater Sage-Grouse, BLM Wyoming is extending the protest period for the Final EIS/RMPA until January 23, 2019. In working with the State of Wyoming during consistency review the BLM discovered that incorrect versions of appendices A, B and C were included with the Final EIS and has now included the correct versions of these app...
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Twila "Jean" Paumer 86 passed away peacefully at the Wyoming Retirement Center on November 22, 2018. Jean was born on August 12, 1932 to Ralph and Elma Funke Sand in Hollenberg Kansas. The family moved to Powell Wyoming when Jean was four years old. After she completed her schooling she worked at Moyers Drug where she met George Paumer while he was attending college. George and Jean were married July 2, 1950. Shortly after they married George was called to serve his country. Jean lived with her... Full story