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Half An Hour From Cheyenne Is A Wyoming State Park With Camping, Water Access, And Scenic Trails
To the rest of the country, Yellowstone defines Wyoming, but for Cheyenne residents, it means a 450-mile journey across the state. Luckily for residents of and visitors to the capital city, Wyoming offers a few places to explore for weekend getaways that don't require a seven-hour drive. Located 25 miles west of the city is Curt Gowdy State Park, a 3,395-acre destination where you can get outside. Instead of marveling at impressive geysers, bring your fishing rod to cast a line in several reservoirs. With multiple species to catch, you can move around based on what you're targeting.
coloradosun.com
Greeley is trying to close an $18M budget hole. Museum workers aren’t sticking around to see how they’ll do it.
GREELEY — If JoAnna Luth Stull had to pick her favorite object at the Greeley History Museum, where she worked for almost three decades, it would have to be the letters sent to Nathan Meeker in 1869 by Easterners hoping to snag a spot in his community out West.
wyomingnewsnow.tv
Meals on Wheels has a plan to keep food on tables during the holidays
Cheyenne, Wyo. - As the holidays creep closer, many families' tables are looking a little empty. Stephanie Freeman, executive director of Meals on Wheels, tells Wyoming News Now the organization sees higher numbers come the winter months. "As it gets colder, it becomes more difficult to get out, move about,...
capcity.news
Cheyenne All-City Children’s Chorus to launch new season this weekend
CHEYENNE, Wyo. –– The venerable Cheyenne All-City Children’s Chorus is kicking off its next half-century with its first concert of the new season this coming weekend. The first concert for its new season is titled “Deep in the Roots” and will take place on Saturday, Oct. 3 at 4 p.m. in the Laramie County School District 1 Administration Building Auditorium. The concert will be livestreamed on the group’s Facebook page.
cowboystatedaily.com
Cody Bowhunter Says He Did Nothing Wrong By Leaving Elk Partly Devoured By Grizzly
A Cody bowhunter said he hopes his ordeal with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department — after he left a bull elk partly eaten by a grizzly — will prompt change in policy regarding when hunters can abandon bear-ravaged carcasses. Ron Niziolek said he followed hunters’ ethics and...
hoodline.com
Bally's Betting Parlor Replaces Old Chicago in Cheyenne, City Council Waves It Through
The building that once served up deep-dish pizza and pitchers of beer on Cheyenne's Meadowland Drive is getting a new purpose: taking bets. Bally's Corporation will operate a gaming center at 1734 Meadowland Drive, the former home of Old Chicago, offering off-track betting and historic horse racing machines to Wyoming gamblers. The city cleared the way for the project Monday night with barely a discussion.
shortgo.co
Indian horse relay debuts in Cheyenne: championship event runs Sept. 25–27
The tenth running of the Indian Relay “Championship of Champions” arrives in Cheyenne Sept. 25–27, marking the first time the season-ending title race will be staged at Frontier Park Arena. The move brings roughly 100 relay teams from about 15 tribal nations to one of the West’s most recognized rodeo grounds—and puts a spotlight on a fast, perilous sport rooted in Native American horsemanship.
CBS News
Colorado nonprofit that helps people and animals alike is looking for a new home
wyomingnewsnow.tv
Bally's proposed off-track betting facility taking steps, final vote to come September 28
Cheyenne, Wyo. - For over two years now the Old Chicago Pizza + Taproom has been vacant, but some recent developments are calling for that to no longer be the case. However what is being proposed is not the the same business-type that operated before. Ward III Council member Ken...
wyofile.com
National Elk Refuge fields questions about what feeding elk could mean for Jackson Hole’s water
JACKSON—As National Elk Refuge leaders laid out long-term options for managing elk and bison wintering on the edge of Jackson, a discussion Tuesday turned to the northwestern Wyoming town’s water supply. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is weighing the pros and cons of feeding elk and bison,...
The Coloradoan
Fort Collins-area restaurant inspections: All pass
The Larimer County and Weld County health departments have a three-tiered health inspection rating, with rankings of pass, reinspection required or closed. Establishments with violations of 0-49 points pass; those with 50-109 points require reinspection; and any with more than 110 points face closure. This report is for Sept. 23-29. There were no inspections conducted by Weld County for Windsor during this time. Full reports for the restaurants included in this story can be viewed at the Larimer County Department of Health and Environment website . LARIMER COUNTY PASS Olive Garden Italian, 3905 S. College Ave., Fort Collins Homewood Suites by Hilton, 1521 Oakridge Drive, Fort Collins BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse, 2670 E. Harmony Road, Fort Collins Comfort Suites, 1415 Oakridge Drive, Fort Collins The Bigs Cheese-Mobile, 224 S. College Ave., Fort Collins Taco El Diablo 2-Mobile, 4619 S. Mason St., Fort Collins Sugar Buzz Cotton Candy-Cart, 1800 E. Lincoln Ave., Fort Collins Thai Station, 626 S. College Ave., Fort Collins CSU-Garbanzo Express, 1101 Center Ave Mall, Fort Collins CSU-Spoons Soups & Salads, 1101 Center Ave Mall, Fort Collins CSU-Freddy’s, Lory Student Center, Fort Collins CSU-LSC-Taco Bell, 1101 Central Ave Mall, Fort Collins CSU-That’s A Wrap, 1101 Center Ave Mall,
Wyoming News
'Pines of Rome' is no afternoon tea: Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra begins its “Masterworks Tour” with Brahms, Respighi
CHEYENNE — A respected mentor-mentee relationship. A bridge. An asylum. A lonely wife with eight kids. A 14-year age gap, but a mutual attraction. Want to know more? Behind each composition, there is a story. Fictional, or an account from the composer’s life … perhaps epic enough to deserve representation in a dramatic piano concerto. Over the phone, Maestro William Intriligator retold the background of an “incredibly dramatic, incredibly beautiful (and) incredibly original” piano concerto with an ease that made its complicated origins feel effortless and engaging to follow. “Piano concertos at the time were not this big and not this ambitious,” said Intriligator. “With this piece, (Brahms) was kind of staking his claim on being part of this tradition, but also he was already expanding it. He was saying, ‘I’m going to write the biggest, baddest concerto ever written.’” At the time, it was the longest concerto ever composed, as well as one of the most demanding from the orchestra. And that opening line? According to Intriligator, this piano concerto is the beginning of a true story from a composer’s life — one involving a dashing young man, 20, no beard (yet), thrown into a love triangle. There is