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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Monday, October 6th. I'm Mac Watson, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily news center… "Brought to you by the Wyoming Business Council. Wyoming youth are our future, but they're leaving the state at ALMOST TWICE the national average. What would bring them back home? Share your bold ideas with the Wyoming Business Council at wbc dot P U B backslash story."

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Hoskinson Health & Wellness Clinic in Gillette believes it can be the Mayo Clinic of the West. Cowboy State Daily's Renee Jean got an exclusive tour of the new facility and reports what sets this clinic apart is its mission statement: it's all about the patient.

"It's a more personalized experience. They have different levels…There are lots of private procedures that insurance doesn't cover yet. They're quote, unquote experimental, but the studies have shown good results…like transcranial stimulation is an example that's shown great efficacy for depression and things like that…I don't think I've ever been to a medical clinic where there are so many conversation starters everywhere you look, it's almost like it's a museum plus a hospital."

A spokesperson for the clinic tells Cowboy State Daily that like most medical facilities, saving lives is the primary aim of the Hoskinson Health & Wellness Clinic. They just want to do it in a much bigger way than most medical centers in the country.

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Hudson, Wyoming native Mike Dabich, AKA "Moose" remembers fondly crashing the boards in the NBA with basketball legends like Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell. Cowboy State Daily's David Madison reports that Dabich credits growing up and playing with Native kids gave him the skills to make it to the NBA.

"He grows up playing on the Wind River Reservation…And you know, learning to pass, learning to do the weave that there are these, these skills by necessity, that when you had outdoor courts on the reservation, it was a disadvantage to dribble because you might hit a rock or a rut. And so there was a style of play that really valued thinking a few steps ahead and doing quick think passes. And I think he credited that with some of the skills he took into the pros."

Even though Dabich played in the NBA, traveling across the country and even played in Europe, he came back to his hometown of Hudson where he still lives today.

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More than 4 tons' worth of giant pumpkins were weighed at the 2025 Wyoming State Championship Weigh-Off and Pumpkin Drop on Saturday. Cowboy State Daily's Andrew Rossi reports that tonnage was hoisted 200 feet into the air and dropped – exploding in spectacular fashion.

"The thing they don't prepare you for, is the immense hollow boom when a 1700 pound pumpkin is dropped from any height, let alone 200 feet, which is what happened at the Wyoming way off and pumpkin drop in Worland. It was a big event. People from multiple states brought their pumpkins, watermelons, Morrows and zucchinis to get weighed…And then the coup de grace was when these massive pumpkins were weighed to lift it up in the air and dropped on a swimming pool, an outhouse, which was the crown jewel of the whole event."

The Wyoming state record for a pumpkin was set by Andy and Amy Corbin in 2023, with a 2 thousand, 62 pound gourd they grew in Cheyenne.

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