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Angela Leone from Washakie County Public Health approached the Washakie County Fair Board Monday in a special meeting to find out about the possibility of putting up a lactation tent for mothers during fair week. She said they need a 5-foot by 5-foot space for the tent. There will be a rocking camp chair, portable table, battery operated combination light and fan and donated wipes and diapers. Leone said it is a place for mothers to change diapers, nurse their babies or have a quiet moment. The tent and contents will be “fully the responsibilit...
Food, fun and music highlight this year's Culturefest in Worland this Saturday. This is the 14th year the Worland Community Center has organized the annual event and Sheryl Ley said she has multiple food vendors and plenty of entertainment for the family. New this year will be a mechanical bull. There is a small fee to ride, she noted. Back this year will be the bouncy houses and slides. There is a fee for the rides. This year the inflatable entertainment comes from a vendor in Sheridan, Ley...
Summer officially began last Thursday with the summer solstice and with it comes the busy time of summer for special events in Washakie County. This weekend is the annual Culturefest celebration at the Worland Community Center Complex back lawn. There will be food, fun and music for the whole family. The event runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Also Saturday is an antique show and community yard sale in the parking lot of the Washakie Cinemas. The following week is Ten Sleep's annual Fourth of July celebration with parade, rodeo, craft show, street...
Continuing their presentations on a safe community, the Worland Seventh-day Adventist Church is hosting a public presentation regarding social media safety and online safety for children and seniors. Author and speaker John DiGirolamo will present “Inside the Mind of a Predator” at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, July 1 at the Worland Community Center . The presentation is free and open to everyone. DiGirolamo will discuss how predators operate and what every parent needs to know including covering topics such as: Is social media safe? A police off...
The Northern Wyoming News staff has been working hard over the past few weeks on our 79th annual Big Horn Basin Edition. I am excited for you to check out the special features we have for you this year. This section has changed over the years. In the beginning it used to be included in the overall section of the paper, making the section at times 100 pages. In the beginning it was about progress and as communities and businesses grew there was a lot of progress to report on. When I began as editor of the Northern Wyoming News, the Big Horn...
George "Buster" Sheaff founded the Worland-Ten Sleep Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors in 1973, inviting several other businessmen to join him as a welcoming committee for businesses and dignitaries. The organization had some ups and downs in membership and finally waned out in about 2017. According to former ambassador Julie Wetherbee, there were eight charter members -Buster Sheaff (clothing store), Ray Bower (bank), Bruce Edwards (real estate), Gene Kelley (shoe store), Leo Rhodes (Ten Sleep, a...
Cowley resident John Bernhisel has been fascinated by bridges ever since he was a kid growing up north of San Francisco. That fascination has grown into a passion to explore bridges around Wyoming, the country and the world. Bernhisel said, "I grew up north of San Francisco and crossed the Golden Gate bridge all the time. I was even able to run across the bridge in several races. I loved how massive it was but also became interested in its engineering and aesthetics. As I got older I started to...
The Washakie County Fair Board finalized the entertainment schedule for this year's fair, July 20-27, as well as opened up all open class entries, indoor and market animals to any Wyoming resident, during their regular meeting June 10. The fair begins on Saturday, July 20 with the horse show and a cornhole tournament. Monday, July 22 will be the new Tug-of-War tournament in the arena. There will be a $5 entrance fee to watch the fun. Team applications will be available on the fair's website....
After fundraising for years and being an unofficial ambassador for the Shriners Children™ in Pennsylvania, Liette Brown is now an official ambassador for the hospital where she had back surgery in 2018. Brown was diagnosed with scoliosis and had surgery several years ago. Since then she has been reaching out to patients and raising funds through various projects for Shriners. Last year she was an unofficial patient ambassador at the Wyoming Shrine Bowl in Casper. This year, she was again an u...
The historic Ludlow house may have a new location and be on display for the public with the City of Worland working with Jim Gillman and John Davis to preserve the home of widowed seamstress Katherine Ludlow. According to an article in the Northern Wyoming Daily News in Sept. 2015, Originally a home to widowed seamstress Katherine Ludlow in Camp Worland, the Ludlow house has taken a long, circuitous route to its current location at the Washakie County Fairgrounds in Worland. In 1905, when the Burlington Railroad resurveyed and established the...
A Washakie County man wants to make sure county residents know that the county membership with AirMedCare only covers transports by AirMedCare as he learned after his wife was transported by another carrier earlier this year. In a letter to the county commissioners, Washakie County resident Ernie Skretteberg expressed frustration with comments made by Wes McAden of AirMedCare (Guardian Flight) regarding coverage of air medical evacuations for Washakie County residents. Washakie County has contracted with AirMedCare since 2015. Under the...
Washakie County residents are encouraged to sign up for CodeRed and OnSolve emergency alert system, before a county wide test this coming Monday. Emergency Management Coordinator and County Homeland Security Director Kami Neighbors said, “We are hoping to get more people signed up before the day of the test. We have not had a test since 2018.” The test in 2018 was deemed a success with then Washakie County Emergency Management Director Jeff Schweighart telling the Northern Wyoming Daily News that there was an 88 percent connection rate for the...
As of June 1, Taco John’s Worland will shutter its doors. From what I learned from the owner, Lindsay Stilwell of Lodar Inc. from Casper, she has opted to not renew the franchise agreement that is up on June 2. There are a number of reasons for this including cost of the agreement and new requirements. Please read the story on Page 1. It’s unfortunate but not unusual for businesses to have to let franchise agreements go; especially here in the Big Horn Basin. Both Greybull and Thermopolis have had sandwich franchises close down and re-...
Want to serve your community and have time to devote to the City of Worland or Washakie County? Now is the time to step up and throw your proverbial hat into the ring and run for city council, county commissioner or mayor. You can even run for a state legislative seat or U.S. congressional seat. There are plenty of opportunities to serve and filing continues for one more week, ending at 5 p.m. on Friday, May 31. There is already a race for Republican nominations for the lone county commission seat up this year, for the U.S. Senate, for Senate...
After writing a few weeks ago about my music interests and how diverse they were I began thinking about my interests in other mediums, such as TV and movies and, of course, books. At first, I thought, well I’m pretty much mystery books all the time but at a closer glance I realized I have quite a variety of interests in reading as well. When it comes to fiction, yes, my first love is mysteries. I grew up on the Hardy Boys mysteries (no not Nancy Drew). I could read a book in about a day. I recently completed three books in the Detective Jen Gar...
Last Tuesday I attended the Chief Washakie FFA awards banquet, and, like other times I have attended the banquet I saw seniors talk about their respect, admiration and appreciation for advisor and ag teacher Grace Godfrey. Each time I witness this I think back to my own primary and secondary schooling and while I remember many of my teachers fondly, I never felt the type of closeness and admiration that was expressed Tuesday night toward Mrs. Godfrey. I had some favorite teachers in high school but for the most part I just wanted high school to...
Entrepreneur Ty Jenkins of Ten Sleep talked about finding a home in Wyoming and offered some tips to business owners during his keynote address at the Worland-Ten Sleep Chamber of Commerce awards banquet April 26. Jenkins said he and his wife, Debbie, built a company in 1991, but prior to that he began work for a credit union and then some consultants doing some auditing. He said he realized there had to be a better process to streamline things. "I sat down, I started typing a little bit of...
Several businesses and organizations were honored at the 2024 Worland-Ten Sleep Chamber of Commerce awards dinner Friday night at the Washakie Museum. After the board gets a list of worthy nominees, award recipients are voted on anonymously by board members - President Bill Fuchs, Vice President Linda Weeks, Secretary Caryn Ramirez, Treasurer Ken Westphal, Michael Short, Staci Brazell, Ann Brock and Hannah Skretteberg. Washakie Cinemas was honored as the New Business of the Year. The theater...
Nothing like a gathering of 200 people to remind one’s self of why they love living in a small town. Friday night about 200 people gathered at the Washakie Museum & Cultural Center for a dinner, auction and awards ceremony. The event tripled in attendance from its just over 60 who attended the last awards evening. That’s a testament to the board and Executive Director Ruth Dugger and her assistant Liz Bankert. After a delicious meal and entertainment the awards began. I was busy taking notes and capturing photos of the honorees but it was not...
Wyoming State Parks announced Monday the selection of Wyoming Hot Springs LLC as their partner for the future growth and development of concessions at Hot Springs State Park. The decision will impact two current business owners within the park, owners of the Star Plunge and owners of Hot Springs Hotel. “This marks the conclusion of our thorough and public RFP (request for proposals) process, and reaffirms our commitment to the values expressed by the community in the Hot Springs State Park master plan,” said Big Horn District Manager Brooks Jor...
There has been much written about the Daniel man Cody Roberts and his mistreatment and killing of a wolf earlier this month. Reports state he ran the wolf over with his snowmobile, taped the mouth shut (later putting a muzzle and shock collar on it) and took it home and then to a bar in Daniel. Then, finally, hours later, with the wolf slowly dying from injuries sustained from being run over, he took the wolf out and killed it. He was fined $250 for having a live wild animal. Because wolves are considered predators in much of Wyoming the killin...
The Worland City County received updates on two projects along Washakie Avenue during its meeting last Tuesday, April 2. The council approved having the mayor sign the agreement with Ardurra Engineers for the design phase of the Washakie Avenue reconstruction from Eighth to 15th. Per the agreement the scope of work as north of Sage Creek ditch, which serves as a wasteway for the Lower Hanover Canal. “This section of Washakie Avenue will require removing trees and brushes from the ditch, reshaping the cross section and possibly shifting some min...
A situation in which a city employee tried, in the words of City Attorney Kent Richins, “everything in their power to try to get rid of department heads and council members” has prompted some proposed changes to the city’s chain of command policy. The council has discussed chain of command briefly in other meetings and has gone over the chain of command during a work session. Last Tuesday they spent 20 minutes discussing language in the proposed changes. Two main concerns have been voiced by council members, not being allowed to talk to city...
In case you have not heard, Beyoncé has released a new album, a country album if you will, but many are calling foul on it being categorized as country. I am a huge country music fan, but I am overall a music fan and my thought when Beyoncé came out with her country album “Cowboy Carter” was if Dolly Parton can do a rock album then Beyoncé can do a country album. And, by the way, Dolly’s “Rockstar” album is a must listen for music fans. I am not a Beyoncé music fan but curiosity got the better of me so I gave it a listen. What I found is I li...
Did you save those solar eclipse glasses from 2017? You may want to grab them for Monday. On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will cross North America, passing over Mexico, the United States, and Canada, according to the NASA website. According to eclipse2024.org, the mid eclipse will be at 12:42 p.m. with the eclipse beginning at 11:35 a.m. Magnitude is at 58%, compared to the 2017 total eclipse that hit Wyoming and Worland was at a near total eclipse. Per NASA, “During a total solar eclipse, the moon completely blocks the sun while it pas...