Brenda in Laramie

Another significant issue to consider when purchasing land in Albany County is water.  We have whole areas in the county with no accessible water.  Even if a well is drilled and water is found does not mean the water will be potable (usable).  Some land owners are willing to overlook this and hau...

Since we are the land of wide, open spaces, we get lots of calls from people looking for rural land. Many of those calls come from people not familiar with the area. One thing to consider about country living in Albany County is the roads.  Albany county has miles and miles of dirt roads.  Some o...

They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I suppose art is that way, too.  So it was with an open mind that I accompanied our children on a field trip to Laramie's latest installment of Sculpture, A Wyoming Invitational.  (www.uwartmuseum.blogspot.com ) in June of 2008. Seriously?!  Was...

(Post #17 in the "Why I Love Laramie" series) Oddities like the Ames Monument are another reason I love Laramie.  This is one of the strangest monuments anywhere.  It's not the monument itself that's so strange but the idea that this completed, majestic tribute to two people nobody has heard of e...

You've heard of a one stoplight town....well, Laramie is a 42 stoplight town.No, I didn't drive around and count them all!  I've just lived here long enough that I simply marked them on a map then counted them.  I could have missed one, maybe two, but I'm pretty sure I got them all.  (Yes, I know...

Yay!  The 2010 census results are finally trickling in!  Laramie is said to have increased by 13.3%, up to 30,816 people.  "Yee haw!", that's a lot of people! This number does not include the few thousand college students who claim someplace else as home but live here while they go to school.  Ov...

Yesterday, I talked about a question that always makes me smile.  As you can imagine, I get asked all kinds of questions - some easier to answer than others.  Some questions get asked all the time and I'm ready with an answer and others are one of a kind - like the time someone asked me if they c...

People from out of town ask the darndest things!  The #1 question that always makes me smile..."Does that home have air conditioning?"Air conditioning?!  In Laramie?  Ha ha ha ha ... you are kidding, ....right?!?  Yes, there are a few homes in town with actual, whole-house air conditioning and ma...

What is a "Mini Market" Report?  A look at just one small segment of our local market.Today's report: 3 Bedroom/2 Bath homes                                                                  Today, March 4, 2011, there are officially  36 3 Bedroom/2 Bath homes on market.They range in price from $8...

Seems like I missed a little excitement at work today.My first clue should have been the two police cars still parked in our plaza parking lot.Turns out that an armed robbery had taken place at the Check Cashing business two doors down.And I missed it all - officers armed with handguns and M-16s,...