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PHOTOS: Casper chills under minus 15 degree temps during bitter cold snap early Friday

By Dan Cepeda|February 12, 2021

Ice covers the North Platte River in Casper as temperatures dipped overnight to minus 15 degrees early Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. (Dan Cepeda, Oil City)

CASPER, Wyo. – Brutally cold weather is blanketing much of the state as an Arctic mass slowly moves through this week.

According to the National Weather Service in Riverton, Friday’s nigh temperature is expected to peak at just minus 10 degrees, after a low of minus 15 degrees. Wind chill values will be a dangerously low minus 40 degrees.

Casper isn’t expected to have a high temperature above zero degrees until Monday as the air moves south.

(Dan Cepeda, Oil City)

(Dan Cepeda, Oil City)

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Mushrooms are a very big deal in the Pacific Northwest.

“A lot of business initiatives are focused around mushroom cultivation,” said Ben Fortier, who grew up in the region. “It’s an easy process; you can just do it outside in your backyard.”

Fortier left Portland to make a new home in the Casper area in 2016, and almost immediately became disappointed with the mushroom selection here.

The grocery stores all had this kind of week-old white button and some sad shiitakes,” he said. “So I started growing mushrooms on my own to meet the household needs for our cooking, and started selling some of our mushrooms every week on Facebook and [at] farmers markets.”

Fortier and his fiancée Julie Elliott called their small business Fungus Among Us, which he says they ran while working day jobs and attending school.

After taking a break from the business in 2019, he relaunched last year and has made it a full-time endeavor.

More mushrooms the better!
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Project Kenny, a local nonprofit that works to place service dogs with people with post-traumatic stress disorder, has found a new headquarters in Mills.

Project Kenny will hold a grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new location in Mills at 11 a.m. Friday, January 28. The nonprofit will open at 1005 Falcon Ave. in Mills.

Read at Oilcity.new link in our Bio!

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One of the biggest state competitions, the Wyoming High School Activities Association State Spirt Competition, is coming early this year!

At this competition, the cheerleading and dance teams from all over the state are going toe to toe and the competition is fierce.

Kelly Walsh High School (KWHS) is ready to take on the competition. They have been practicing since before the school year even started. According to Tiffani Stowe, the KWHS dance coach, they started last July with their dance camp. The dance team started learning the routines in August and September and is excited to show off their moves.

Read the whole story on Oil City News!

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Photo Courtesy of Kelly Walsh High School Dance Team

The Independence League’s Casper Horseheads will open its fourth season of play hosting Laramie’s Gem City Bison on Tuesday, May 24, the league announced Monday.

The Horseheads will play 31 regular season home games, hoping for the team’s first trip to the playoffs, which begin July 31.

“Coach [Chance] Sharp has what appears to be a great team put together, so we feel good about our chances on the field,” said Horseheads owner Chuck Heeman in the release.

#horsehead #baseball #casper #casperwyoming #oilcityproud #oilcitywyo

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Jake Hoffman holds almost reverential feelings for people who can make music.

It’s not something he’s ever been able to accomplish himself, and he’s totally ok with it.

“I’ve had a bunch of trained and untrained musician friends throughout time,” he said, “and they’re just my heroes.”

They have figured out a different frequency of being, I work in a different world.”

That world includes photography, a passion he picked up as an NCHS student in the early 2000s involved in the video and photography classes, which were then run by Lance Madzey.

On weekends he’d take cameras to local shows, combining his love of music and photography

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With a decent amount of snow finally on the slopes, Natrona County High School Junior Cody Crawford’s ski tuning and waxing business, based out of the family garage, is back in service.

“I’ve had my own coaches ask me to do their skis,” Crawford told Oil City News in a testament to his craftsmanship.

Armed with a business and marketing class in his freshman year and a workbench gifted to him for Christmas, Crawford launched Cody’s Tune and Wax in late 2018.

Read the whole story on Oil City News!

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Oil city has a sports reporter! See all the latest news about our local sports and our Wyoming pros on Oil City News.

Here is a snapshot of the latest story.

When Wyoming men’s basketball coach Jeff Linder stepped into the role before the 2020-21 season, the program had gone through a couple of rough years.

The Pokes went a combined 17–48 in the prior two seasons before Linder’s arrival, a brutal stretch that often saw the Cowboys trounced home and away. A guard by the name of Hunter Maldonado was there during those years, showing flashes of potential as he battled through injuries and many, many defeats.

But the run the Pokes are on at the moment with Linder at the helm — holding a 15–2 record following a tight 93–91 win over New Mexico on Saturday — has the rest of the Mountain West Conference turning heads. And without figures like Maldonado in the fray, it likely wouldn’t be the same right now.

Photo credit:Wyoming men's basketball guard Hunter Maldonado vs. New Mexico on Saturday at Arena-Auditorium in Laramie. (University of Wyoming Athletics)

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A dog that fell through the ice into the North Platte River was rescued by two Casper Fire-EMS units on Saturday, according to Engineer and Public Information Officer Andrew Sundell on the agency’s live Facebook update Sunday morning.

Sundell said the incident occurred near the Roberston Road bridge shortly after noon on Saturday. Crews were able to retrieve the dog “swiftly and effectively.”

Sundell said a firefighter and an engineer, equipped with insulated dry suits and an inflatable ice rescue raft, went out onto the river and were able to retrieve the dog with a loop pole.

Sundell reminded the public that “if you’re near the river this time of year, have your pets on a leash so that they can’t get themselves into trouble.”

Sundell also commended the dog’s owner for not attempting to rescue the dog themselves.

“The last thing we want or need from a emergency responder point-of-view is a dog and a person in the river,” Sundell said. “That makes it much more complicated for us and much more potentially hazardous and dangerous.”

Read the full story on Oil City News!

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Some local kids enjoying the snow day! Are you making snowmen too? We want to see pictures! Send us a message!

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Jeffree Star, Casper’s famous cosmetic mogul and business entrepreneur, uploaded his latest YouTube video on Sunday, January 16, 2022. The video is all about how excited he was about his big move to Casper, Wyoming and all the things he did here.

Since coming to Casper, he has opened new businesses with roots in Casper and developed his Star Yak Ranch, which now has “95 yaks.”

He moved to Casper in 2021 and opened a fulfillment center called Scorpio Logistics, which ships products from his companies Killer Merch, Star Lounge, Jeffree Star Cosmetics, Inc., and Jeffree Star Pets, LLC. Star says in his video that the fulfillment center “officially ships all the items on jeffreestar.com.”

@jeffreestar #jeffreestar #2022

The Casper Police Department has been awarded a grant from the Wyoming Office of Homeland Security that it will use to purchase a new K-9, a K-9 vehicle retrofit and to help cover the dog’s training and K-9 handler needs.

The Casper City Council passed a resolution on Tuesday authorizing the acceptance of the $30,000 grant from the Wyoming Office of Homeland Security.

A memo from police department staff explains that the grant is intended “to support the investment of combating Domestic Violent Extremism to improve the Casper Police Department’s ability to prevent a threatened or an actual act of terrorism.”

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Have you been up to Garden Creek Falls this winter? It's definitely all frozen, but it is still beautiful!

#snapped #oilcitywyo #OilCityProud #waterfallwednesday

Photo credit: Tayler Stephenson

A sheet metal barn destroyed by high winds at the Central Wyoming Fairgrounds Sunday, 12/12/21 (Oil City Staff)

The Natrona County Commission has given the thumbs-up to replace a steel horse barn that was lifted up from its foundation and blown into a dirt berm by high winds last December.

The barn was insured through the Wyoming Association of Risk Management, but the commission agreed with Fair Board Director Tom Jones at a work session Tuesday that that the replacement should be an upgrade. Jones said space for horses was already limited, especially during events like the College National Finals Rodeo.

The cost to replace the 26-stall barn would be $152,750, Jones said. The pre-engineered structure Jones was eyeing as a replacement has 40 stalls and would cost about $235,000.

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