Category: Community News

Coffee Barn offers drive-up option

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by nathan oster Greybull wasn’t without a drive-up coffee shop for long, as Teresa Collingwood over the Days of ’49 weekend opened The Coffee Barn on North Sixth Street. By doing so, she filled a void for drive-up coffee that

Patience pays off for parade winner

SAAM horse

by nathan oster The winning entry in this year’s Days of ’49 parade wasn’t a float, but rather, a grouping of three horses that were a testament to the virtue of patience. Jessica Catlett, a groomer at Saam’s Vet Clinic

Thriving business now empty barn

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by marlys good The Greybull Livestock sales barn on the north side of Greybull sits silent and deserted. Surrounded by weathered and worn corrals and overgrown with weeds, it bears little resemblance to the bustling enterprise it was five/six decades

Nursing home honors volunteers

by marlys good LaWana Rainey, Helen Crane and Dorene Ludwig were honored as this year’s volunteers of the year at Bonnie Bluejacket Memorial Nursing Home. The three are unsung heroes to staff and residents and give countless hours. Someone tallied

Jensen: Teaching ‘gets inside you’

JENSEN again

by marlys good When the lockers are cleared out and the last students pass through the doors of the Greybull Middle School to signal the closing of the 2012-13 school year, Kathy Friebel Jensen will clear out her desk, pack

Elks distribute $12,600 in scholarships

by nathan oster Local students walked away from a dinner ceremony Friday night with more than $12,600 in scholarship money, courtesy of the Greybull Elks Lodge. Scholarship recipients this year included: • Daniel Davison of Burlington, who won the Elks

‘Faith County’ on GHS stage

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by marlys good “In Mineola, a small town located ‘somewhere in the middle of nowhere in the South,’ a colorful collection of good ol’ country folk gather at the Faith County Fairgrounds for this year’s county fair. In a place

Dunbar: Not retiring, transitioning

by marlys good Thirty-two years ago Karyne Dunbar packed up all her possessions and her horse and with her pre-teen sons, left Cripple Creek, Colo., where she had been operating a campground and livery stable, and headed north to Wyoming 

Academic Challenge team 7th at State

by nathan oster A team from Greybull High consisting of seniors Dane Gifford and Elliott Robertson, junior Alex Havener and sophomores Annaliese Fitzsimmons and Jake Gifford was among the 11 Wyoming squads that competed in the final Wyoming Academic Challenge

M-I SWACO celebrates national award

Left to Right: Ralph Ahuero, Dan Davis, Joan Kollman, Jeremy Boldt, Kelly Smith, Marlin Bestland, Terry Mollenbrink, Bill Wilson, Joe Nelson, Kegan Foote, Kyle Riley, Gary Compher, Steve Thornberry, Jim Goodwin, Justin Wright, Ryan Howe, Mart Hinckley, Jason Cook, Sam Good, Jeremy Wolf, Lonney Howe, Ken Steinhausen, Curt Winstead, Katherine Bibb, Rick Cummings, Renee Snyder, Dan Close.

by nathan oster The 120-plus employees who work at M-I SWACO’s two Greybull locations are celebrating a national award for their innovative reclamation efforts. The Interstate Mining Compace Commission (IMCC) recently announced that M-I had received one of its Kenes