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House Fire Causes 20k in Damage
Laramie County Fire District#2 firefighters were called to a house fire at 2509 Champion Drive around 11am Thursday, according to district#2 spokesman Lew Simpson.
He says several people had called 911 to report the side of the house was on fire and the rest of the home was threatened
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BOPU Spokesman Says Water Reserves ‘A Little Low’
Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities spokesman Clint Bassett says BOPU water reserves are a little lower than normal, adding it's not clear at this point whether the situation merits concern or not.
Bassett says water in the city's reservoirs is about 73 percent of capacity, which he characterizes as 'a little lower than normal, but not bad"
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AG’S Office Warns of Phone Scam
The Administrator of the Wyoming Attorney General's Consumer Affairs Division says her phone has "been ringing off the hook" the last couple of days with reports of a telephone scam in the Cheyenne area
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Stock Says Building Plan Could Help Students Transition
Laramie County School District I Superintendent Mark Stock says a plan to build 5th and 6th grade schools to ease overcrowding in the district could also help students transition to junior high school
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Kaysen:UDC Repeal “Would Be A Step Backward”
Cheyenne Mayor Rick Kaysen says repealing the city's controversial Unified Development Code--or UDC--would ''be a step backward" in terms of city development.
The code is currently under review by the city council, as mandated by one provision of the code when it became law last year
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‘Why Teens Kill’ Seminar Announced
The Cheyenne Police Department will host a seminar on ''Why Teens Kill" on May 21 at the Cheyenne Civic Center, according to spokesman Officer Dan Long.
The seminar will be presented by Phil Chalmers, who Long identifies as the leading authority in the nation on juvenile homicide. Chalmers has interviewed over 200 teen killers an
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CRMC Transitional Care Unit Recognized
The Transitional Care Unit at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center has been recognized with a top five star rating from the Centers For Medicaid and Medicare Services.
Staci Stone, Program Director for the unit says the CRMC unit was one of five nursing homes in Wyoming to receive the top rating in the most recent survey by the centers
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District to hold immunization clinics for sixth-grade students
Since Wyoming’s immunization law requires all students entering seventh grade to receive a tetanus vaccine, Laramie County School District 1 and Cheyenne-Laramie County Health Department nurses are sponsoring immunization clinics for sixth-grade students. Tdap vaccines w
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Would A New Fence Fix ‘The Hole’?
Cheyenne Mayor Rick Kaysen says that while talks continue between the city and a Kansas company about a possible purchase by the city of the 2/3 of the property it doesn't currently own, officials are looking to mitigate the visual impact of the empty property with a new, more decorative fence
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Boys&Girls Club Offers Spring, Summer Programs
The Boys and Girls Club of Cheyenne will be open over Spring Break next week, offering a full slate of fun and educational programs for local youth, according to spokeswoman Baylie Evans.
She says the club wil
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DDA Wants Downtown Public Safety Building
The Cheyenne Downtown Development Authority has written a letter to city officials urging the location of a new Public Safety Building in downtown Cheyenne.
The Cheyenne City Council on Monday rejected a proposal to purchase the former Dinneen Car Dealership at 18th and Pioneer as a location for the building on a 5-5 tie vote
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Steenbergen Warns of ‘Bloated Bureaucracy’
Greater Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Dale Steenbergen says he is concerned about over-regulation of business by both local and state government.
He says people need to pay attention to the governmental regulations that effect business and speak out against needless regulation and red tape that often serves no useful purpose. Steenbergen say