A tale of two halves

On an amaz­ing autumn day the Wyoming Cow­boys 1–3 (0−1 MWC) took on the Air Force Fal­cons 3–1 (2−0 MWC) to begin their Moun­tain West Con­fer­ence sea­son. It was Mil­i­tary Day at Jonah Field and all mem­bers of the armed forces, those who are with us and those who no longer are, were hon­ored before the National Anthem. The Cow­boys faced the Fal­cons for the 49^th time. Air Force leads the series 26−20−3.

In the first quar­ter both teams worked the clock and moved the ball down the field. Both teams got within 10 yards of the end­zone but nei­ther team could put any points on the board. Wyoming’s Austyn Carta-Samuels threw in inter­cep­tion in the end­zone for the only turnover of the game. The Fal­cons then marched down the field with rel­a­tive ease, to end the first quarter.

To start the sec­ond quar­ter Air Force attempts a short field goal but misses wide right. The Cow­boys get the ball on their own 20-yard-line and take Air Force’s option down the field for an even­tual rush­ing touch­down by Alvester Alexan­der. The Fal­cons then did the same and scored a rush­ing touch­down of their own by Jared Tew. The Fal­cons then moved the ball down the field very quickly for a field goal attempt to end the half. Unfor­tu­nately for the Fal­cons, the snap was short and then muffed. No kick attempted. At half­time the game was tied at 7–7. … Con­tinue Reading

New Edi­tion of Wyoming Almanac Now Available

Sept. 3, 2010 — Uni­ver­sity of Wyoming — Who drove the first car in Wyoming? What was the first radio mes­sage received in the state and who was the doc­tor who removed an arrow from Jim Bridger’s back?

The answers to these and scores of other ques­tions rang­ing from the triv­ial to the sig­nif­i­cant can be found in the sixth edi­tion of the Wyoming Almanac, writ­ten by broth­ers Phil, David and Steven Roberts and pub­lished by Sky­line West Press.

Phil is a Uni­ver­sity of Wyoming his­tory pro­fes­sor. David teaches jour­nal­ism at Mis­souri Val­ley Col­lege in Mar­shall. He founded the Med­i­cine Bow Post news­pa­per and also taught jour­nal­ism classes and served as a stu­dent pub­li­ca­tions adviser at UW. Steven taught his­tory and social stud­ies at Vet­eran and Moor­croft high schools and retired last year after a career in the U.S. Postal Ser­vice human resource division.

The book pro­vides a handy guide to Wyoming cul­ture, his­tory, pol­i­tics, sports, peo­ple, media, art and many other cat­e­gories. … Con­tinue Reading

Yel­low­stone unveils new vis­i­tor center

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK,
Wyo., Aug. 25 PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Yel­low­stone National Park unveiled its new, state-of-the-art Vis­i­tor Edu­ca­tion Cen­ter at Old Faith­ful, cre­at­ing a focal point of inno­v­a­tive learn­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties in the heart of Yellowstone.

“While there are more gey­sers and hot springs in Yel­low­stone than in the rest of the world com­bined, most vis­i­tors were leav­ing the park with­out a basic under­stand­ing of the amaz­ing hydrother­mal won­ders they had just encoun­tered,” explained Karen Bates Kress, Pres­i­dent of the non­profit Yel­low­stone Park Foun­da­tion. “Now, thanks to many gen­er­ous donors, we can open this Cen­ter — and the minds of nearly 3 mil­lion vis­i­tors annu­ally — to the won­ders of the park.” … Con­tinue Reading

WHP busy fight­ing state drug trafficking

Anx­ious drug smug­gler braves a closed I-80 to deliver “presents”

DATE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2009

Cheyenne – Due to treach­er­ous win­ter weather con­di­tions numer­ous
road­ways in Wyoming were closed to pub­lic travel on Christ­mas day.  In
par­tic­u­lar, was Inter­state 80 both east­bound and west­bound lanes between
Cheyenne and Laramie.  The blow­ing and drift­ing snow at the higher
ele­va­tion between Cheyenne and Laramie made snow clear­ing oper­a­tions and
dri­ving con­di­tions extremely haz­ardous.  The road­way was offi­cially
closed on Christ­mas day just before 3:00 a.m.

That road clo­sure on Inter­state 80, how­ever, did not keep one
indi­vid­ual from attempt­ing to deliver his Christ­mas presents on time.
The Christ­mas presents con­tained just over 5 pounds of high grade
mar­i­juana with a street value of approx­i­mately $13,500.00. … Con­tinue Reading

Wyo Troop­ers busy with drug traffic

[PRESS RELEASE –THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2009] Cheyenne – Troop­ers have made sev­eral sig­nif­i­cant arrests and seizures of ille­gal drugs dur­ing the last week on Wyoming’s roadways.

Three sep­a­rate inci­dents have resulted in the arrests of 4 indi­vid­u­als and the seizure of 1.25 pounds of hashish, 69 pounds of mar­i­juana, 4 glass con­tain­ers of mar­i­juana but­ter extract and just over $5,800.00 in U.S. currency.

Not all the events lead­ing up to the arrests began as traf­fic stops as most peo­ple would think.

The first of the events began on Fri­day, Decem­ber 11^th at mile post #12 on WYO 72, or approx­i­mately 4 miles north of Elk Moun­tain, a Trooper stopped behind a vehi­cle pulled over onto the high­way shoul­der that appeared to be a motorist need­ing assis­tance.  Upon con­tact with the dri­ver, 40 year-old Edward Gre­gory, he seemed to be extremely ner­vous. He handed the Trooper the vehi­cles car man­ual for the vehi­cle reg­is­tra­tion.  He then handed the Trooper some paper­work show­ing that he had failed to appear in court and thought that was his tem­po­rary driver’s license. … Con­tinue Reading