Renée Jean

3 days ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Renée Jean

Share Things are greening up at the historic 1887 Double Rafter Ranch near Parkman, Wyoming, and the little baby chicks are at that stage where they get mighty hungry overnight. That means an early morning for seventh grade Wyoming cowgirl Raelee Warner. It doesn’t matter what the weather is like, or what else she’s got to do on any given day. Rain or shine, state championship or not, there are no days off when you’re a Wyoming cowgirl. Take last weekend.

3 days ago | cowboystatedaily.com | Renée Jean

No one who has ever tasted anything by Wyoming’s celebrity chef Petrina Peart would ever guess she has any self-confidence issues behind the smiling face that’s presenting her latest masterpiece. After all, the Cheyenne-based chef was just one vote shy of beating celebrity chef Bobby Flay on the Food Network’s “Beat Bobby Flay” show — no easy task — and she was tapped to serve as a U.S. culinary diplomat.

3 days ago | cowboystatedaily.com | Renée Jean

Things are greening up at the historic 1887 Double Rafter Ranch near Parkman, Wyoming, and the little baby chicks are at that stage where they get mighty hungry overnight. That means an early morning for seventh grade Wyoming cowgirl Raelee Warner. It doesn’t matter what the weather is like, or what else she’s got to do on any given day. Rain or shine, state championship or not, there are no days off when you’re a Wyoming cowgirl. Take last weekend.

4 days ago | cowboystatedaily.com | Renée Jean

Lottery lovers have new math to consider with changes to the multistate Mega Millions game. Bigger jackpots, better odds of winning — but also, higher ticket prices. That has those who play the lottery on a regular basis in a wait-and-see mode right now. At a busy Maverik Adventure’s First Stop station in Cheyenne, there was just one lottery ticket buyer ahead of Tuesday night’s draw in more than 45 minutes. That’s not typical, Cowboy State Daily was told.

4 days ago | cowboystatedaily.com | Renée Jean

Josiah Harlow made a connection with a technicolor Robin Hood novel from the 1950s while he was a teenager at Cheyenne’s Central High School in 1994. How it happened exactly remains a mystery to him to this day. Like a lot of people who have inadvertently kept a library book for 30-some years, he doesn’t remember the entire chain of events. In this case, he just remembers that there was something about the book that caught at him, and he picked it up. Sometimes, that’s just how life is.