Chamber Announces Nominees, Opens Voting for 2025 Awards of Excellence
The Sheridan County Chamber of Commerce has announced the nominees for its annual Awards of Excellence. The nominees are selected by the Chamber’s Board of Directors.
Online voting for the nominees is now open HERE. Voting will end Monday, Nov. 24, 2025. Chamber members and their employees are eligible to vote. The awards categories and nominees are as follows:
COMMUNITY CHAMPION AWARD
This award honors a Chamber member individual, business or organization that has made a significant impact in Sheridan County. Understanding that a community thrives when those in it invest and contribute to its success, the nominees demonstrate vision, ambition and drive to address needs in the community and strive for the betterment of the local area.
COMMUNITY CHAMPION NOMINEES:
Chase Christensen
Rosemary Rieder
Dave Schwend
Sheridan County Conservation District
Sheridan County Travel and Tourism
STRENGTH OF SHERIDAN
This award honors a Chamber member business or organization that has a distinguished tenure of 20 or more years in the community. This business or organization demonstrates consistent service, continually invests in the community, meets challenges with innovative solutions and demonstrates sustained quality performance.
STRENGTH OF SHERIDAN NOMINEES:
Babe’s Flowers
Best Out West Antiques and Collectibles
Killy’s Smokehouse and Irish Pub
Sheridan Media
Ucross Foundation
BUSINESS OF THE YEAR
This award honors a Chamber member business that positively impacts the economic health of the Sheridan area through exceptional business practices, customer service and innovation. This business shows steady growth and consistent strong performance, excels in community relations, practices exemplary business conduct, responds positively to adversity and shows proven business achievement.
BUSINESS OF THE YEAR NOMINEES:
Catering by Bino’s, Bino’s Corner and Wholesale
Innominate Coffeehouse and Bakery
Kid Curious
Modern Merchant
Peak Consulting
BUSINESS PERSON(S) OF THE YEAR
This award honors a Chamber member business person who shows outstanding business acumen and strong leadership in business and community efforts. This person is a champion for economic development, strives to exceed customer expectations, delivers industry leading standards of service and quality and exhibits innovation in business development.
BUSINESS PERSON(S) OF THE YEAR NOMINEES:
Emily Betzler (Bought Beautifully)
Chad Franklin (Sheridan Liquor)
Susie Garber-Johnson (D.A. Davidson)
Ryan Gregory (Resilient Guides)
Karen Schumacher (Best Western Sheridan Center and Historic Sheridan Inn)
The 27th Annual Awards of Excellence will be held the evening of Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026, at the WYO Theater. During the celebration, each nominee will be highlighted, and the recipients in each category will be announced.
For more information, call the Chamber at (307) 672-2485.
