When the Cheyenne Boosters visited Casper, the Natrona County Tribune noted this week in 1909, "Casper greeted the boosters with a street full of people waiting to get a glad hand to the folks from the south. … The Casper band—the crack musical organization of the state, and incidentally engaged to play in Cheyenne during Frontier—was on hand with a program of most enjoyable music." Pictured: Casper Band playing at Cheyenne Frontier Days, 1909. (Chuck Morrison Collection, Casper College Western History Center.)
Wyoming's Brandon Ewing shoots over Air Force's Evan Washington in their game Saturday at Air Force Academy, Colo. Photo by BRYAN OLLER, the Gazette via AP.
Garden Square of Casper dietary aid Candie Spencer makes hot cocoa for resident Barbara Foster on Wednesday afternoon during Tea Time with Candie. Photo by Sarah Beth Barnett, Star-Tribune.
For decades, Casper's schools required pupils to wear uniforms; here is an example of school uniforms from 1920. Pictured: Charles "Strick" Hemry and Kathleen Hemry. (Kathleen Hemry Collection, Casper College Western History Center.)
Bassist Richard Cohen watches the conductor for instruction while playing Mozart during strings practice Wednesday. Photo by TIM KUPSICK, Star-Tribune.
Amanda Lee Myers, AP Fishermen pictured last week along the Colorado River following the release of a manmade flood into the Grand Canyon. Grand Canyon officials say the effects of the flood were immediate and substantial.
Ice climbers begin the hike up the mountainside to Deer Creek Falls for a clinic held during the 10th annual Waterfall Ice Festival on Saturday morning. Photo by KERRY HULLER, Star-Tribune.
Mercedee Shane, Dawn Rutecki and Nathan Young Swallow map rocks in a tepee ring at Bighorn Canyon earlier this month. Rutecki, from Indiana University, was teaching the two Crow students how to map rocks in a tepee ring. (Bob Zellar/The Billings Gazette)
Jessica Brooks plays the xylophone during a recent percussion practice at Casper College.
A former Casper electronic bingo hall has reopened as the Internet Cafe, which offers sweepstakes instead of gambling. The new service is perfectly legal, according to Internet Cafe employee Shelbie Heimbuch, but the state's attorney general was not available to comment Thursday on the new venture in Wyoming. Photo by Dan Cepeda/Casper Star-Tribune.
The Rev. Daniel Colibraro baptizes a child at Our Lady of Fatima, where he was a priest for 24 years. Photo provided by Our Lady of Fatima, courtesy
Alyson Moffitt, 16, left, of Lubbock, Texas and Meghann Swann, 20, of Gadsden, Alabama, put caulking on new windows installed by the Southern Baptist group World Changers on Tuesday morning in north Casper. The World Changers are working on 37 Casper homes during their stop in Natrona County this summer. Photo by Dan Cepeda/Casper Star-Tribune.
Bradly J. Boner, AP First lady Laura Bush delivers a speech to National Park Service junior rangers during a visit to the Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center on Monday in Grand Teton National Park.
John Lovell, an ice climber from Cody, belays a climber during a beginner clinic at Deer Creek Falls in the South Fork Valley near Cody. Lovell and Travis Hannon helped lead the clinic on Saturday. Photo by KERRY HULLER, Star-Tribune.
Tysha Stands maps rocks in a tepee ring at Bighorn Canyon earlier this month. Stands and a class of Crow honor students were learning to catalog tepee rings. (Bob Zellar/The Billings Gazette)
Mark Gocke, Star-Tribune correspondent A rainbow appears over the Salt River Range after a rain shower near Alpine in western Wyoming. Storms have brought significant moisture and cooler weather to most of the state.
Photo by Kerry Huller Charlotte Babcock laughs while talking with guests at the Casper College Alumni & Friends Banquet at the Petroleum Club in October. Babcock, who was co-chair of the banquet, has been a long-time community leader.
Verda James Elementary School principal Harper Lee Park, right, meets with new principal Steve Ellbogen before retiring at Verda James. Ellbogen had worked as assistant principal at Dean Morgan Junior High School. Photo by Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune.
Gretchen Mack, right, poses with her daughter Kelley Orndoff and a photo of her son, Pcf. Chance Phelps, in front of her home near Riverton last week. Phelps was killed in April of 2004 while serving in Iraq. Mack and Orndoff are starting a three-and-a-half-month walk to raise money for wounded soldiers and their families. Photo by Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune
Ted Lee receives his World War II certificate of appreciation from a member of the Natrona County High School Junior ROTC at a special ceremony at the Wyoming Army National Guard Armory in Casper on Saturday. Lee was one of five brothers to serve in the military during World War II. Photo by Robert Hendricks/Casper Star-Tribune.
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