Brian Trautwein

In light of all the news that is inevitably bad in this day and age, we must keep our eyes to the horizon and our chin up. We must remember to keep going no matter how bleak a situation seems. There is always a silver lining on the thundercloud, if one can just remember to keep going...

Last Friday night started as mundane as most Friday nights do in a small town. The same haunt for drinks after work with no new interesting people to talk to. In fact, at first impression, it seemed like the same Friday night as the one before and the one before that...

Last night I had the privilege of attending the Granger Smith concert via my radio station, Y95 Country. The show was held at the Gryphon Theatre, which is arguably one of the best venues I've been to in Laramie. It’s a small venue, but usually the best concerts come from smaller stages.

When I was a young boy, I had the normal attention span of an adolescent child. But the one thing that I could focus my one-track mind on was fishing.

The wind finally gave up for a couple days this last weekend on the Laramie Plains Lakes and I had a chance to set up for what turned out to be a very productive afternoon of jigging on Twin Buttes. Location has everything to do with the success of an angler on this particular lake, and since I often float tube and fish from a boat on this lake in the summers, I am able to make a mental note of wh