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  • Finding peace in nature

    Carol Ryczek, Laramie Boomerang via Wyoming News Exchange|Updated Jan 1, 2025

    LARAMIE - There is a rugged beauty to southeast Wyoming. A new organization wants to help combat veterans experience that beauty in a positive way. Laramie Range Adventures for Veterans is a new program connecting combat veterans with hunting, fishing and wilderness experiences, as well as with fellow veterans. Daniel Haff, LRAV founder and president, said the concept of bringing veterans to the outdoors has its roots in the military experience. Haff, a U.S. Army veteran who w...

  • Buyer, and seller beware

    Carol Ryczek|Updated Oct 18, 2023

    LARAMIE — Stephanie Fortman had a gut feeling about a sale of some land near Laramie. Something wasn’t right. The seller told her he was building a house and wanted to sell the property quickly, below market value, to finance his new home. “Quickly,”Fortman, an associate broker at Mountain Valley Properties said. “That’s a word I learned — quickly.” The reason for the speed, she eventually discovered, is that the seller was trying to profit from selling a piece of property he didn’t own. In the absence of concrete evidence...