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  • Coalition channels tech community to find creative solutions for COVID-19

    Margaret Austin, Wyoming Tribune Eagle Via Wyoming News Exchange|Mar 26, 2020

    CHEYENNE – Across the state of Wyoming, there are web developers who specialize in coding mobile applications, makers who use 3D printers to bring ideas to life and mapping professionals who use GIS to show data visually. So as Array School of Technology and Design CEO Eric Trowbridge watched coronavirus impact communities around the world, he started brainstorming ways to bring Wyomingites in the tech community together to find solutions. With Array leading the charge, the Wyoming Technology Coronavirus Coalition was formed March 17. Since t...

  • Supreme Court hears arguments in fair board lawsuit

    Margaret Austin, Wyoming Tribune Eagle Via Wyoming News Exchange|Jan 16, 2020

    CHEYENNE – For the first time in more than 80 years, Wyoming Supreme Court justices sat in the Historic Supreme Court Chamber in the state Capitol, hearing oral arguments from two high-profile attorneys representing the Laramie County Board of Commissioners and the Laramie County Fair Board. Regardless of Thursday’s testimony from Gay Woodhouse and Steve Freudenthal, both of whom have served as the state’s attorney general, the Supreme Court will have the final say in determining whether the commissioners had the authority to dissolve the f...

  • Cheyenne man breaks state record with 1,491-pound pumpkin

    Margaret Austin, Wyoming Tribune Eagle Via Wyoming News Exchange|Oct 17, 2019

    CHEYENNE – The pumpkins Andy Corbin grows at his home in east Cheyenne are so big and so heavy that he needs a handmade tripod to move them. Weighing in at 1,491 pounds, his biggest pumpkin of the year broke Wyoming's state record. For more than a decade, Corbin has grown giant pumpkins in his garden to show at competitions. "It's kind of the zone where I can get away from everything," Corbin said. "My stress kind of just disappears when I go out in the garden." While it might be relaxing for C...