Archive - May 2012 - News

State-funded preventative programs may be restructured due to budget cuts.

The leading cause of death and disability for children ages one to fourteen, is unintentional childhood injury. Saturday at the Junior High in Sheridan, a Safe Kids Day Fair was held to help educate parents and children how to be safer in all their childhood activities.

Sheridan's African Violet Club held their annual show and sale Saturday in St. Peter's Episcopal Church's fellowship hall. A blanket of color, club president Michael Cherni says African Violets sure beat the winter doldrums.

Saturday night, the Fairgrounds Exhibition Hall was filled with race goers as the CHAPS Equine Assisted Therapy Program, held their annual fundraiser.

Cinco de Mayo turned into Cinco de Cure-o Saturday when the Black Tooth Brewing Company on Broadway in Sheridan hosted a fundraiser party for Sheridan's Cancer Society's Relay for Life.

The City of Sheridan will begin an almost month long process this week of holding daily budget work sessions. Sheridan Mayor Dave Kinskey says that City staff has been busy preparing for budget season.

The Sheridan County Sheriff' Office will light the Flame of Hope for the Wyoming State Special Olympics tomorrow morning.

Environmentalists have filed a lawsuit seeking to derail efforts by the federal government to lease an estimated 2 billion tons of coal near two major Wyoming mines.

The Hazel Patterson Memorial Trust is now accepting applications for funding from Johnson County nonprofit organizations.

Prom is finally here, and we had a chance to sit down with students from Sheridan High School to ask what is their over all thought about prom.