Archive - Sep 30, 2010 - News

The Kelly Schreibeis Memorial Foundation will be holding a special lighting ceremony Friday October 1st at 5:30 pm on Grinnell Plaza in Sheridan.

Main Street in Downtown Sheridan is getting a temporary face lift to commemorate October as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The Kelly Schreibeis Memorial Foundation has added a little bit of pink to the downtown area and they invite the public to a special lighting ceremony Friday, October, 1st at 5:30 pm on Grinnell Plaza.

In a media release issued Thursday from the Wyoming Community Foundation, nonprofits across the state of Wyoming have been awarded a total of just over $197,925 in grants. Of those, seven from Sheridan and nine from Buffalo have a few thousand dollars more for their coffers.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

The Wyoming Comprehensive Cancer Control Consortium is looking for a little extra “support” for breast cancer awareness as it kicks off its first Decorated Bra Event. The contest encourages participants to decorate a bra to promote breast cancer awareness.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - U.S. senators from Wyoming, Idaho and Utah are proposing legislation that would strip wolves in the northern Rockies of federal endangered species protection. The legislation unveiled Thursday is the latest in a series of recent bills all generally aimed at short-circuiting legal opposition from environmental groups opposed to seeing an end to federal wolf protections.

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) - A task force is recommending that Wyoming no longer allow private companies to seize land for small power lines for wind projects. The Wind Energy Task Force voted 5-4 Thursday in Casper to deny the power of eminent domain to private companies that want to string power lines from wind turbines to main transmission lines.

Standing left to right: Steve Baskin, Caitlin Carey, Dimitra Dugal, Michael Fox, Ben Brewer, Anne Quick. Seated left to right: Carri Carey, Genie Bowers, Rhonda Bicknell, Micah Wyatt. (Photo Courtesy of Cynde Georgen for the Sheridan Civic Theatre Guild)

The Sheridan Civic Theater Guild opens its 55th season Friday night with a classic Neil Simon comedy, called Plaza Suite. Director Cynde Georgen says.

The Superintendent of Public Instruction is one of the five elected offices in the State, along with Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer and State Auditor.

The two candidates running for State Superintendent of Public Instruction were Kim Love's guests on the September 29th edition of Public Pulse. Republican Cindy Hill and Democrat Mike Massie answered questions that both Love and guest host Sue Belish, Superintendent of Sheridan County School District 1 posed.

October 16th is the deadline for the 2011 Sheridan County Museum calendar contest photos to be submitted.

For the past several years as a means to raise money for the Sheridan County Museum, Photo Imaging Center in Sheridan and Sheridan Media, along with twelve area businesses, have sponsored a Calendar Photo Contest. For the 2011 calendar, they are looking for photos, taken within a 100-mile radius of Sheridan County, that fit the theme “Sheridan County: Your Backyard & Beyond.”