Sheridan

Starting on Monday, Nov. 6 folks in Sheridan, Gillette or Buffalo may see green lights instead of the normal hue. Northeast Wyoming is participating in Operation Green Light, which is meant to show support for veterans that may have mental health problems.

The town of Sheridan is about to have a new landmark – and it speaks to a not-so-distant history that many might not know about. From 1953 to 1984, All American Indian Days brought thousands to the Sheridan Fairgrounds every year in an effort to eliminate racial discrimination.

The Northern Cheyenne Medicinal Garden at the Sheridan Food Forest consists of about 105 different plants that the Northern Cheyenne tribe has used for spiritual, medicinal, or nutritional significance. A dedication ceremony on Aug. 31 at the Sheridan Food Forest drew around two dozen community members who wanted to learn more about the significance of these plants.

Northern Cheyenne tribal members Linwood Tall Bull and his son Randall know a thing or two about plants – the father and son duo are ethnobotanists and educators from Chief Dull Knife Community College on the Cheyenne Reservation in Montana. The pair will share stories and traditional uses of Indigenous plants at the Sheridan Food Forest on Thursday, August 31st.

The WYO opened its doors in 1923 as a vaudeville house and also showed movies, including the first "talkie" in Wyoming. It's been a performing arts theater since 1989.

Sheridan County School District No. 2, which serves the city of Sheridan, purchased six housing units on the site of the former Normative Services Academy, a facility for at-risk and juvenile offenders.

The rodeo set records for attendance and event payouts. The rodeo’s board of directors reported a total of 24,807 tickets sold.

The funds are going to support various projects in Laramie, Cheyenne, Dubois, Thayne, and Sheridan.

Youth rodeo events such as steer, bronc, and bull riding are new this year, in addition to how various rodeo events are judged and live interviews with rodeo contestants.

Mackenzie Kern, an entrepreneur and social media manager from Casper, and Katelyn Reckard, a senior at Sheridan High School were crowned with Miss Wyoming and Miss Wyoming Teen respectively on June 24 at the WYO Theater in Sheridan.