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By PETER BAUMANN / • Thursday, October 27, 2011 The Laramie City Council and Albany County Commissioners jointly directed city and county staff to investigate implementation of a battery of aquifer protection measures along Telephone Canyon during a joint work session Tuesday night.to mitigate the potential for a contamination disaster due to a traffic accident [...]

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Unexpected costs continue to add up for the almost $40 million Laramie County-owned Archer Complex under construction east of Cheyenne. But the county planner said the project is still under budget.by Josh — since the county began construction on the Archer Complex east of Cheyenne, there have been more than $1 million in unforeseen expenses.Unanticipated [...]

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Federal regulators this week decided to review a Colorado businessman’s plans to build a 500-mile water pipeline from Wyoming to Colorado. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Tuesday notified Fort Collins businessman Aaron Million that it had accepted his preliminary permit application — a decision that opens a 60-day public comment period. [...]

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Posted by LGBT Weekly Around the City, Top Highlights Thursday, October 6th, 2011 BY CHRISTOPHER GARCIA San Diego Remembers’ observance last year Oct. 6, 1998, 21-year-old Matthew Shepard, a student at the University of Wyoming, accepted a ride home from Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson. Little did he know this decision would be one that [...]

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Sixteen years ago, Christopher Blair directed a local production of The Rocky Horror Show. “and I swore I’d never do it again,” he laughs. Ah, but there must be something sweet about 16, because Blair – who’s played Dr. Frank N. Furter at Bay Street Theatre since 2008 – is back in the director’s chair [...]

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The Laramie Project ten Years Later is a followup kind of play, a revisiting if you will, of a work of almost heart-wrenching focus on a small city and the private thoughts of its people following a very public crime. The play is two hours of soul searching and interrogation of a representative group of [...]

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[photopress:_D7H6459.jpg,full,pp_image] Twenty-eight actors, students, politicos (including Gov. bill Ritter), educators and media figures came together to read the new “Laramie Project” epilogue on Oct. 12. Photos by Jeffrey Haessler. The story of Matthew Shepard, the 21-year old University of Wyoming student brutally murdered outside of Laramie 11 years ago this week, has irrevocably changed the [...]

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A majority of Neosho city councilmembers seem willing to support a half-cent sales tax to fund a Transportation Development District on the west side of Neosho, though a few issues will need to be worked out before they completely sign off on the project. the boundaries of the TDD, which was approved by Newton County [...]

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In 2003, the Midwestern State University Theatre Department produced “The Laramie Project,” a play about the 1998 murder of a gay college student in Laramie, Wyo. “It was way more successful than I thought it would be,” said Laura Jefferson, director and MSU theater professor. “We filled the house every night. for me, and for [...]

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Dans le lot des nombreuses pièces de théâtre présentées cet automne à Montréal, voici quelques choix fort attendus. Match Le dramaturge et scénariste américain Stephen Belber avait attiré l’attention avec sa troublante pièce The Laramie Project qui relatait l’agression mortelle du jeune homosexuel Matthew Shepard au Wyoming, qui fut d’ailleurs adaptée au cinéma par Moisés [...]

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