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Fifteen years ago a committee began working on ideas for funding a new pool in Worland to replace the 33-year-old Worland Dome. Now, 15 years later, and 12 years since the pool actually opened, there are discussions and plans to dissolve the Worland Aquatic Center Joint Powers Board. The board has members appointed by the Washakie County School District No. 1 (who owns the land and the building), the City of Worland and the Washakie County Commissioners. Late last fall, School District Board Chairman and Joint Powers Board Chairman David...
Fans at all levels can get ugly, rude, unsportsmanlike and just plain mean. For the most part, most athletes are able to ignore and play on. Occasionally, you hear reports of professional athletes who have had enough and either verbally or physically go after the fans. Last weekend, Colorado State University fans exhibited unsportsmanlike behavior when a small group chanted “Russia” at Utah State men’s basketball player Max Shulga, who is from Kyiv, Ukraine. It was insensitive, asinine and rude. Yes, University of Wyoming Cowboys have chant...
Just after I wrote about House Bill 141 and kudos that it had not been assigned to a committee, in fact probably about the time that the newspaper was getting off the press in Cody, it was sent to a committee. House Bill 141, which tries to limit or prevent voters from switching party affiliation, has been assigned to the Corporations Committee and a sister bill, Senate File 163, has also been assigned to the Senate Corporations Committee. Testimony was heard Tuesday in the Senate committee with sponsor Sen. Bo Biteman and Secretary of State Ch...
There are some odd bills and some frustrating bills that have been filed during the current Wyoming Legislative Session, which should tell all residents to pay attention to what is happening in Cheyenne. Once again there is a bill to try and limit the ability for voters in the state to change party affiliation. I have argued many times in this space that voting is a constitutional right that should not be infringed by party affiliation. Some parties are concerned that elections are being manipulated by people switching parties for the primary e...
A couple of things happened during the past week that had me scratching my head and made me wonder what people were thinking. First the legislators seeking a tax holiday for school supplies in the first weekend of August. It sounds great for those shopping for supplies except that there are limits and the exemption does not apply to high ticket items. Here’s the problem, first it will be a logistical nightmare for retail stores who use upc codes for scanning items, which most do. They have to put all the items under the threshold in as n...
Monday night Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin collapsed after making a tackle on Cincinnati Bengals player Tee Higgins. CPR was administered on the field, an AED was used and then Hamlin was taken to University of Cincinnati Medical Center, where, as of this writing, he was in critical condition. A lot of thoughts have been rambling through my head since I heard what happened. On news shows and across social media there were remarks that things like this transcend the game and unites us all. Well it transcended the game to a degree. There was...
Ready or not here comes 2023 This week we say goodbye to 2022 and on Sunday we welcome in 2023. A new year brings hope for the future and apprehension of the unknown. Think about when we celebrated 2020, no one could have foreseen a global pandemic, hoarding of toilet paper, lockdown of businesses. And then came 2021 and we all thought, OK it’s going to be better, but just six short days in there was an attack on the U.S. Capitol as rioters hoped to stop the certification of the 2020 election. So when 2022 rolled around everyone was cautious a...
Forty-one Worland High School marching band members and eight parental chaperones are on their way to New Orleans with band director Frank Harding. The group left Worland Tuesday night to head to Denver and flew to New Orleans on Wednesday. On Friday they will march in the Allstate Sugar Bowl Parade and then Saturday will perform with other bands for the halftime show. Harding said, “I knew that the students enjoyed the Holiday Bowl in San Diego last time we took a trip (2018), so I wanted to choose another Bowl Game this year. It came down t...
WORLAND - Hunters with the Paintrock Hunter Mentor Program's Young Hunters Care Project (PHMPYHC) again showed their generosity and donated meat from hunts this season for the Food from the Field Program. In its third year, Food from the Field Program is a program under Wyoming first lady Jennie Gordon's Hunger Initiative. Under the program, Wyoming Hunger Initiative, the Wyoming Game & Fish Department, Wyoming Department of Agriculture, and participating processors work together to streamline...
WORLAND —Worland resident Martha Lawley will head to Cheyenne on Jan. 5 to complete freshman orientation with the largest freshman legislative class for the Wyoming Legislature. As the state representative for House District 27, Lawley knows she has some prestigious shoes to fill with 12-year representative and current Speaker Pro Tempore Mike Greear retiring when his term ends Dec. 31. “He had a fantastic 12 years. He did a good job and I really do appreciate that. I have seen more and more how he has in some ways set me up for success, bec...
A comment made at Monday night’s Washakie County Fair Board meeting got me thinking. The audience member at the meeting told the board that most people in the community do not realize all the work the board does to get ready for the fair, during the fair and after the fair. “Without you, there would not be a fair, and that people would notice.” This person was exactly right and oddly enough volunteers a lot of her time to various organizations and events around the community. There are many events in this area that without volunteers would...
WORLAND — The Worland Kiwanis Club, which has been serving the community for 70 years, was selected as the grand marshal for last Saturday’s Worland-Ten Sleep Chamber of Commerce Parade of Lights. According to member Jim Gilman, the club started on Jan. 30, 1952. The Worland chapter is just one of many that are part of the global community of Kiwanis International. According to the Kiwanis International website, Kiwanis is “dedicated to improving the lives of children one community at a time. To...
WORLAND — Residents and commercial customers across the country will likely be spending more on energy this winter compared to recent winters, according to the winter fuels outlook by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). The EIA, in its outlook, reported that “Higher forecast energy expenditures are the result of higher fuel prices, combined with higher heating demand because of a forecast of slightly colder weather than last winter.” According to the EIA, if temperatures stay average, the average household can expect to spend...
WORLAND - For the second year Angie's Kitchen owner Angie Garcia has offered a sober Thanksgiving dinner for persons in recovery. This year about a dozen people enjoyed a meal of ham, green bean casserole, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy and rolls, along with two types of pie for dessert. Garcia said about 20 people attended last year, the first time she offered the dinner. Garcia has been catering since 2018 and offered food during special events including Culture Fest and Rotary Club meeti...
WORLAND — Despite recent criticism of a rise in the use of restraints and detention rooms over the past few years, Wyoming Boys’ School (WBS) Superintendent Dale Weber maintains that the school is one of the safest environments some of the young boys have ever encountered. Weber noted there has been a significant decline in restraints and secured detention this year. HISTORY According to a history reported in the Northern Wyoming Daily News on Aug. 26, 1947, The Wyoming Industrial Institute, located six miles southwest of Worland, was sta...
WORLAND - For former NFL quarterback and Heisman finalist Ryan Leaf, the money and fame were not his biggest accomplishments. He told the young men at the Wyoming Boys' School last Thursday that getting sober was his biggest accomplishment because it was the hardest thing he has had to do. Leaf, now a motivational speaker, spoke to three groups in Worland last week, brought to the community by Cloud Peak Counseling Center and Cloud Peak's Substance Abuse Coordinator Wendy Wiecki. While there...
WORLAND — Washakie County voters overwhelmingly approved continuing the one-cent general purpose tax and the 2% lodging tax on Tuesday. The sales tax was approved by 69.7% of the voters casting ballots on Election Day, with 2,125 in favor and 925 opposed. The tax will be distributed to eight entities over the next four years — Town of Ten Sleep, City of Worland, Worland and Ten Sleep senior centers, Crisis Prevention and Response Center, Worland Community Center Complex, Worland Youth Learning Center and Washakie Development Association. The...
Congratulations to Tuesday’s winners and to the others who were on ballots around the Big Horn Basin. Those who also ran are not losers. They cared enough about their communities, their counties, their state to put their name on the ballot. Filing for office and having your name on the ballot is not an easy thing to do. If you are elected people expect you to serve and to hold true to the things you said you would do while running for office. If you are not elected, do not be discouraged and do not give up on the desire to serve. You still h... Full story
On Tuesday, Nov. 8, voters in Washakie County will be asked whether they would like to continue the one-cent general purpose tax aka the fifth-cent. Voting in favor of this tax will not raise taxes in Washakie County but will keep them at the 5% sales tax it is currently at, while also benefiting eight agencies — City of Worland, Worland Community Center, Town of Ten Sleep, Worland Senior Center, Worland Youth Learning Center, Ten Sleep Senior Center, Washakie Development Association and Crisis Prevention and Response Center. All eight of t... Full story
TEN SLEEP — Eight entities are hoping voters on Nov. 8 will continue the fifth-cent or one-cent general purpose tax to continue to provide a vital source of funding for each. During a forum at the Ten Sleep Senior Center on Oct. 20, the majority of the entities spoke to the lunch crowd and answered questions. Those in attendance were asked their thoughts about the sales tax and the consensus from the public was that they knew what it was for and that they were used to it. What they would not support would be a new tax, many said. GENERAL TAX I...
WORLAND — It was almost back to the drawing board for the 2023-24 school calendar with Business Manager Charlie Cauffman and Superintendent Tawn Argeris discussing three options for Washakie County School District No. 1 Board of Trustees to consider. Argeris said that a survey of staff, students and parents show about 75% were in favor of Calendar A which has the earliest start date of Aug. 17, but has Christmas break starting the earliest on Dec. 18. Both A and B calendars have the first semester ending before Christmas break. Board member S...
WORLAND - Work will begin soon to move a nearly 100-year-old bridge from County Road 86 to the Washakie Museum & Cultural Center as part of a joint project between the museum, Wyoming Department of Transportation, Washakie County and Newell Sargent Foundation. According to a summary document of the WYDOT project, Washakie County has requested that WYDOT replace the Cottonwood Creek Bridge on County Road 86/Winchester Road as part of the Bridge Replacement Off System Program. The bridge is...
National Newspaper Week was Oct. 2-8 this year and while I usually try to recognize this important week on the actual week, this year that week, just like the month of October, has quickly slipped by so I am taking a moment now to recognize National Newspaper Week and say thank you to our readers. Thank you for taking the time to read this and other newspapers. Thank you for supporting us, through your subscriptions or your purchase on newsstands, for your kind words about stories, columns and editorials for myself and our staff. Thank you for... Full story
WORLAND — The 2022 Indigenous Peoples Day at the Washakie Museum & Cultural Center Saturday brought together many cultures to listen and to dance. Washakie Museum & Cultural Center Executive Director Marian Bender opened the celebration Saturday morning stating, “We are holding this celebration on the traditional territorial homelands of the Crow, Eastern Shoshone, Northern Arapaho and Sioux people. We are honored to have many members of those tribes here today.” She introduced George Abeyta, a...
So I love fall. I love fall temperatures. I love fall sports. I love fall colors. The one thing I hate about fall is spiders. OK, so I hate spiders in any season, but fall it seems like the spiders, which for the most part were fine being outside in the spring and summer and are now like “Oh, no, it’s getting cold, let us in.” As I’ve written before I don’t like spiders and my husband is not a big help as he sees them as beneficial. He prefers the catch and release. Releasing them only gives them the chance to come back in the house. I don’t gi...