In this Sept. 16, 2009 photo, Michael Kaplan sits in his family's Palisade Furniture store in Englewood, N.J. Kaplan went back to the family business after he lost his Wall Street job in the last recession. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
Shapes resembling automobile tires on the historic A-1 Tire building have greeted generations of travelers. The venerable building is one of the structures in Casper's Old Yellowstone District being honored with an award. (Dan Cepeda/Star-Tribune)
A helicopter leaves Wapiti Helispot en route to perform bucket work on the Gunbarrel fire this week. Courtesy Dewey Vanderhoff.
Sheila Charter leaves the Window and Wall Gallery after delivering red flyers for stores to show support for the troops overseas. The participating businesses showcase the flyers in their store front windows and give active military families a small discount from products and services. (Tim Kupsick, Star-Tribune)
Law enforcement gather at the end of Bryan Evansville Road on Tuesday morning after an apparent homemade explosive device was found near a business. Authorities used a robot to help contain the device. Photo by Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune
Randy Allen stands on the corner of Center and Second Streets on Tuesday morning with his walking billboard. SARAH BETH BARNETT/Star-Tribune
A neon sign welcomes patrons to at the Moondance Diner on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009, in LaBarge, Wyo. The former fixture of SoHo is now an incongruous landmark in sagebrush country. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)
Sheila Charter leaves the Window and Wall Gallery after delivering red flyers for stores to show support for the troops overseas. The participating businesses showcase the flyers in their store front windows and give active military families a small discount from products and services. (Tim Kupsick, Star-Tribune)
Jacob Orr cleans the Putt Putt Golf Course at Mike Sedar Park with a leaf blower as he prepares it for business on Tuesday. The course will be open from 10 a.m. to midnight Thursday, with free golfing for kids, in a summer solstice fundraiser hosted by the Breakfast Optimist Club. Photo by Ryan Soderlin, Star-Tribune.
Terry Mathes, co-owner of A-1 Used Tire Co. with his wife Devon Mathes, rolls a tire out of the shop to place back on a truck, whose owner came in for a tire rotation and balancing in February 2008. The business is located in the Old Yellowstone District, an area near downtown that is being redeveloped. (File, Star-Tribune)
Work in the AMOCO area along the Salt Creek Parkway continues Wednesday afternoon in Casper. Photo by Dan Cepeda/Casper Star-Tribune.
Wyoming Secretary of State Max Maxfield, left, and Wyoming's business compliance director Karen Wheeler stand in front of mail drop boxes at a Mail Boxes Etc., in Cheyenne, Wyo., Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008. They say the registered agents for some companies have claimed the boxes as the official locations of the companies. New state laws effective Jan. 1, 2009 will require registered agents to be reachable and able to provide accurate information about the companies they represent. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver)
Dawson Vineyard, 9, tosses a ball to a hoop during the carnival held on the last day of the Calvary Baptist Church's Vacation Bible School last week in Casper. Photo by Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune.
Home sales were helped last month by a tax credit for first-time homebuyers. This home is for sale in Palo Alto, Calif. Paul Sakuma, AP
Mike Stoesz shows his new Tangarie vertical axis wind turbine installed recently on the roof of his and wife Jeny's '21st century general store' in downtown Laramie. (Phil White/Star-Tribune correspondent)
Travelers queue up at the security checkpoint in Denver International Airport in Denver, Saturday, Dec. 23, 2006. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Jim Jones sits in a bedroom of his house that's filled with boxes of duck and goose decoys that he distributes as owner of Prairiewing Decoys. Any extra space in his home is being used as storage for the decoys. (Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune)
An emotional Yvonne Fairbanks holds her daughter Lexi, 5, at their home in Casper. Yvonne takes care of her two daughters on her own while her husband and their father, Staff Sgt. Melvin Troy Fairbanks, trains for a coming Wyoming Army National Guard deployment. (Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune)
Michaela Fairbanks, 6, reads a book while relaxing on the family table in their home in Casper. (Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune)
The face of Andrea Tuma's baby at 36 weeks is shown on the 3D/4D ultrasound machine at Gentle Touch Imaging in Casper on Thursday. (Kerry Huller/Star-Tribune)
Becky Barnhart poses in front of City Hall in downtown Sheridan last week. Barnhart's office faces the street. Photo by Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune
In this Sept. 10, 2009 photo, job hunters wait in line to meet with recruiters at a job fair in Philadelphia. Forty-two states lost jobs last month, up from 29 in July, with the biggest payroll cuts coming in Texas, Michigan, Georgia and Ohio. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Halliburton's massive $30 million facility in Rock Springs opened in 2004 to serve southwest Wyoming's growing oil and gas industry. (Jeff Gearino/Star-Tribune)
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