Laramie Live Radio Show

Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained is one of the latest projects to be filmed, partly, in Wyoming. But the cowboy state does have a few other credits to its name.

Plans to develop the Cirrus Sky Technology Park in Laramie have received a significant boost with the signing of an agreement by the University of Wyoming to buy a portion of the proposed development.

The University of Wyoming Board of Trustees is hoping to announce the next UW President in February of 2013. Board President David Bostrom said they want to find a successor for Tom Buchanan, who will retire next summer, as soon they can.

Ivinson Memorial Hospital has broken ground on a $36.5 million construction project. The two-year expansion will upgrade patient rooms, renovate operating rooms, build a new dialysis center and add a 30-room patient tower to the Laramie hospital.

Not My Life, a documentary that depicts the cruel and dehumanizing practices of global human trafficking and modern slavery, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, in the University of Wyoming College of Education auditorium.

Plans to reconstruct Grand Avenue in Laramie between 15th and 21st Streets in 2014 will be the main topic at an open house being put on by the Wyoming Department of Transportation. WYDOT spokesperson Ross Doman says the public is welcome to come and learn more about the project on September 27 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the West Ballroom in the UW Student Union.

If you're going to get people together, you may as well have a dance party. The celebration was on for the 12th Annual Wyoming Buddy Walk, which began at Washington Park in Laramie on Saturday.

It will be up to the citizens of Albany County to decide whether or not enact a quarter-cent economic development excise tax to benefit the Laramie Economic Development Corporation.

Drought conditions in Wyoming mean that rivers are running a little lower these days, so the 8th Annual Big Laramie Duck Race will be at Huck Finn Pond in LaPrele Park this year. A 12-horsepower generator is going to be used to make a stream for the rubber ducks to race down, with the winner getting a prize of $1,000.

The 22nd Annual Hospice of Laramie Wine Gala and Taste of Laramie will feature many on the staple events the fundraiser has become known for, but the silent auction will have a much more modern touch. For the first time ever, an electronic bid system will be used.