As they braved the cold, snowy weather on Thursday, Buffalo High School students were marking, cutting and screwing down deck boards behind the large Victorian-style home of school counselor MaDonna Esponda.  

You’ve probably never thought about having to teach a fifth grader the ins and outs of sending an email, but for Cloud Peak Elementary School teacher Maggi Lambert that became the centerpiece of her first-day-of-school lesson this fall. 

It is telling perhaps that Buffalo High School junior Sydney Hall describes her latest drawing as being “a little bit like an eye.”

“There’s no such thing as a free lunch,” economist Milton Friedman once wrote. But in the Johnson County School District, there is. Free breakfasts, too.

While budget cuts have impacted nearly every aspect of Wyoming government in recent weeks, mandatory cuts have not hit Wyoming schools. Yet.

A recent extension to the USDA’s food services waiver will provide Johnson County School District students with free meals from Sept. 14 through the end of 2020.

As the spread of the coronavirus leaves high school sports in disarray, Buffalo High School athletic director Ryan Mader is working to get athletes back on the field.

Do you want to know how to change a tire? Or the difference between a W2 and a W4 tax form? Or how to install smoke detectors in your house?

The 2020-21 school year will see the addition of a sixth school – and the first to be tailored entirely to struggling students – to the Johnson County School District.

In any business, the opinion of the customer counts. That holds true in Johnson County’s largest school as well.

Science, it turns out, does not always have the most pleasant smell.

Riding in a cardboard box sled requires sitting inside a box. Creating a winning one requires thinking outside the box.

A love for agriculture is infectious.

Johnson County is cowboy country – the land of the Virginian, Butch Cassidy and Sheriff Walt Longmire.

Poetry has an unexpected power that sneaks up on you when you least expect it.

Buffalo High School senior LaCee Bennett is no stranger to the Wyoming All-State Honor Orchestra, having been accepted to it in each of her first three years of high school.

After two months serving as interim chairman of the Johnson County School District’s board of trustees, Dave Belus will continue to lead the board through 2020.

Being Santa Claus is exhausting.

Former Buffalo High School activities director Jan Johnson was elected to the Johnson County School Board on Monday night. 

Student councils from both Kaycee School and Buffalo High School received the highest honor possible at the Wyoming Association of Student Councils convention in Sheridan last month.

The community will have a clearer picture of what a four-and-a-half-day school week could look like in coming months.

Fifteen years after the concrete foundation was first poured, Buffalo High School’s agriculture shop is set for a long-discussed expansion.

Excellence was bred in the Buffalo High School band long before this year’s freshmen were even out of diapers.

Winter is coming – courtesy of the Buffalo High School marching band.

Academics awaken the mind and athletics strengthen the body. But how does a high schooler feed her soul and give back to a school that has given so much?

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. When life gives Becky Qualm trash, she makes science experiments.