Jackson vs Sheridan State Soccer Semifinals: [VIDEO]

Jackson beat Sheridan 2-0 in the semifinals on Friday to advance to the state championship game in the Wyoming High School State Soccer Tournament.

Jackson was quick to score on a free kick in just the sixth minute of this game.

Jackson seemed to have control of this game the entire way despite the physicality of the match.

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The halftime score 1-0 in favor of Jackson.

Sheridan was able to get some quality shots in this match, however, the defense by Jackson was just too overwhelming.

Both teams did play down to the wire until a second goal by Jackson that was put in with 10 minutes left to play.

I was able to catch up with Jackson coach Matt Hoelscher at the end of the match and he gave me a few words about his team and is looking forward to the championship game.

Jackson advanced to the 4A boys state championship game and will play Thunder Basin on Saturday.

CLASSIC CHEYENNE: The Cole Shopping Center

In December of 2020, Blue Federal Credit Union completed its new headquarters at the corner of Converse and Pershing in Cheyenne. Well, it’s not so much a ‘corner’ as it is the smooth edge of a roundabout, but anyway. Before Blue FCU built its new campus, the site was at one time a premier shopping destination for Cheyenne. From the 1950s through 2016 it was Cheyenne's Cole Shopping Center.

Local businessman Frank Cole bought the land that would become a Cheyenne gathering place in the 1950s when the corner of Converse and Pershing was the edge of town. Starting in 1952, three different Safeway grocery stores called the Cole home over its half-century of existence. A plethora of other stores served the neighborhood too. From the movie theater to Blockbuster; there was the Cole Department Store, the fabric store, the East Branch of the Carnegie Library, and so much more.

As Cheyenne grew and changed, the Shopping Center fell into decline. Stores closed and new ones didn't take their places. The anchor of the area, Safeway, closed for good in 2016 with much of the rest following. In 2018 the buildings were demolished and the new construction began.

The Cole was so integral to the neighborhood that when we asked on social media for folks’ memories we were flooded with hundreds of responses.

Check out many of those memories below, along with several pictures of the Cole Shopping Center, mostly from near the end in the twenty-teens.