Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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WORLAND - A project started nearly 18 years ago came to fruition at Christmas time for local author Diana Pickerel. Pickerel, who moved to Worland in 1979, has resided in Worland since then, except for six years when she lived in Lovell to take care of her mother Evelyn Wittick. Her first book, "My Caring Home," is about the Wittick family and how they overcome a tragic accident. She did note she did fabricate the name of the person who dies in the accident. According to the synopsis on the...
WORLAND — As 2022 gets underway, Worland Mayor Jim Gill said he wants the focus for himself, the council and the city on growing Worland. In his first year as mayor, Gill started the Grow Worland Initiative, looking at ways to grow the community and in an interview Monday he said he can see some of that growth occurring in the area around North Fourth Street. Unique Precisions, a manufacturing company from California relocated to Worland and has spent months renovating the old Coors building into its tool manufacturing business. The Ten S...
WORLAND — A new president of the council was elected and a new event approved during the first Worland City Council meeting of 2022. With each new year comes election of council officers. William Worley was elected as president of the council and Wendy Fredricks was elected as acting president of the council. The council gave approval for a Celebration of Life event planned for Jan. 22 by the Knights of Columbus. Three members of the organization were in attendance at Tuesday night’s meeting. They said this would be the first Celebration of Lif...
Well the new year came on Saturday with really barely a whisper but there is a lot in store for us this year. The City of Worland will be appealing the 2020 census figures. This could have potential impact on future funding if they are successful. This is a story to watch. There are several construction projects in the works right now that are expected to be completed this year — Sunlight Federal Credit Union, Unique Precisions, Pit Stop Travel Center and Big Horn Cooperative Travel Center. All of these will be great additions to the c...
THERMOPOLIS - A number of missing persons from the Big Horn Basin are listed on the new Wyoming Missing Persons database. John Daily Hammond, age 65, has been missing since Nov. 5, 2021. Hammond is a resident of Hot Springs County and was last seen on November 5, 2021, in Carbon County in the Miracle Mile (Sage Creek) area between Seminoe and Pathfinder Reservoirs. According to the Wyoming Missing Persons database, he is a white male, approximately 5-10, 195 pounds, with hazel eyes, and brown...
WORLAND — Two of Worland’s newest residents, born last fall, are facing heart surgeries in 2022. Julie and Dan Atkinson welcomed daughter Emma on Oct. 9, born at Children’s Hospital in Denver. Emma was born with a serious heart condition known as DORV (double outlet right ventricle), according to childrenshospital.org, DORV “is a rare congenital heart defect where the pulmonary artery and the aorta — the heart’s two major arteries — both connect to the right ventricle.” In addition to the heart defect, Emma was also born with a rare condition c...
WORLAND — There are several bills that the Washakie County Conservation District will be following when the 2022 Wyoming Legislature convenes its budget session in February. During a meeting with legislators and county officials earlier this month, the WCCD Board discussed four bills of interest. House Bill 005, a Joint Agricultural Committee bill, would “require notice to federal land management agencies of the costs of wild horse grazing on state lands; authorize enforcement by writ of mandamus for removal of wild horses from nonfederal lan...
If 2020 was the year of the pandemic then 2021 was the year of the comeback, at least here in Washakie County and the surrounding area. I know what you are thinking – what comeback. You are thinking we are still dealing with COVID-19, vaccines and vaccine mandates (with the Supreme Court to hear a case next week). But let us take a look at 2021 and you will see what I mean. Both Worland and Ten Sleep schools finished the 2020-21 school year in person. There were actual proms and regular graduation ceremonies. The start of this year came with n...
WORLAND — In addressing a point in question from Cody Regional Health, the Washakie County Commissioners reviewed both the agreements with Cody Regional Health for a ground ambulance and the membership agreement for air medical evacuation with Guardian Flight. At the regular commissioner meeting on Dec. 21, Chairman Fred Frandson said they received a point in question from Cody Regional Hospital (CRH) that they had an understanding that Guardian Flight/AirMedCare was bringing in a ground ambulance to transfer patients from the hospital to t...
WORLAND – Frontier Tire in Worland celebrated the 30th anniversary in business earlier this month. Frontier Tire started in December 1991 by Jeff Dorr, his wife at the time, Dale Hovander. They purchased the Petty Tire store at 417 N 10th Street to begin their auto repair business. Dorr said, "Naming the shop was difficult. I had many different names in mind and settled with Frontier. I felt the name was fitting to Worland and the area. Dorr eventually bought out Hovander in 2001. Owning his own...
Thank you Washakie County; your generosity never ceases to amaze. Every year we have sponsored the Silver Tree for Seniors I am amazed and blessed by the generosity of folks wanting to help spread the Christmas cheer with our elderly. Over the past four years I have heard tell many a story about the powerful, positive impact your generosity makes on those who receive the gifts. One year I was even blessed with the privilege of helping to deliver the gifts and got to see firsthand the joy those gifts bring. It truly is better to give than to...
WORLAND — Thanks to some generous youthful hunters, more than 400 pounds of venison was delivered to three food banks in the area last week with more to be delivered this week. As part of the Food from the Field program, Wyoming Game and Fish Game Warden Matt Lentsch gathered some youth together to go hunting and donate the meat to help families in the southern Big Horn Basin. According to the state website, “What do you get when you pair a great love of hunting with a passion for helping those in need? Food from the Field, an innovative pro...
TEN SLEEP — The Washakie County School District No. 2 Board elected new officers at the Dec. 13 meeting with Erin Blutt elected chairman, replacing Jared Lyman. Bill Murphy was elected vice chairman, Sarah Anderson was elected treasurer and recreation board representative. Mona Sindelar was elected clerk. Blutt will also serve as the district’s representative for the Northwest Board of Cooperative Education Services (BOCES). Ten Sleep Principal Levi Collins, during an interview last week, said the board was notified of a Friday schedule cha...
WORLAND — Cheyenne attorney Harriet Hageman, who focuses on water and natural resource matters, joined a meeting of the Washakie Conservation District Board, local legislators and county officials via Zoom to discuss the 30 x 30 Biden Administration proposal. The executive order issued Jan. 27, sets one goal of conserving 30% of the land and 30% of the waters in the country by 2030 and 50% by 2050 to combat climate change. She noted that the executive order, however, does not explain how the “land grab” will actually combat climate chang...
Anyone who thinks libraries are becoming obsolete need only to have attended the grand opening of the new Washakie County Library on Saturday, with more than 200 people taking time out of their weekend to stop by and check out the library. While the facility at 801 Big Horn also houses several government and economic development offices upstairs, Saturday’s event highlighted the main floor, or Suite 100, the Washakie County Library in Worland. Young and old were checking out books. Sheridan County Librarian Cameron Duff was found reading a book...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Commissioners, in a presentation from Commissioner Aaron Anderson dedicated the Washakie County Library at 801 Big Horn Avenue, Suite 100, in memory of Jean Baily Healy. Worland resident Mike Healy, husband of Jean, was presented with a plaque at Saturday’s grand opening of Worland’s new library. The wording on the plaque is, “In loving memory of Jean Bailey Healy, an avid reader and writer, who believed that the advancement of literacy and the arts is vital to the community.” Healy donated more than $1 million t...
WORLAND — The Washakie County Fair is looking at bringing a headliner to showcase the musical entertainment at the 2022 fair, setting an overall budget of $45,000. The board unanimously approved contracting with Daniel Kosel to handle the musical lineup at the regular meeting Monday night. Kosel, meeting with the board via telephone said if the board set a budget he could propose a handful of names to the board to consider. He had provided a list of names ranging from $10,000 up to $30,000 per performance for the main concert. He said most b...
Redistricting in Wyoming seems to have gotten harder this year than in past decades due to declining population in certain areas. Listening to a portion of the Joint Corporations Committee work on the plans from all 10 regions in the state, it appears there are issues in several regions with at least three of them outside the preferred plus or minus 5% deviation from the ideal population. The ideal population per each legislative district is based on the entire state’s population and dividing by 60 — number of House districts — or 30 — number...
WORLAND — Worland Mayor Jim Gill appointed and the council approved the appointment of Alain Poncelet to the Board of Adjustment and Planning Commission (BAPC). The BAPC has been missing its seventh member since Jenn Rasmussen’s resignation in the spring. Poncelet, in his letter of interest and at Tuesday night’s council meeting said he is originally from Belgium and moved to Eugene, Oregon, seven years ago. He moved to Worland almost a year ago and is employed at Wyoming Sugar. He said he just bought a house a few months ago and plans on st...
WORLAND — After staving off a late amendment, the Big Horn Basin’s Region 8 plan for redistricting remains intact at this time after the Joint Corporations Committee meeting last week. State Rep. Mike Greear (R-Worland) said that while he did not seek the appointment to the House Corporations Committee, thus a member of the joint committee, “There were two times yesterday I was happy I was on there, and happy to be able to Zoom in.” Greear, with work commitments for Wyoming Sugar attended the two-day meeting via Zoom from his office. The com...
Unlike the popular Thanksgiving movie “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” starring John Candy and Steve Martin, my Thanksgiving vacation only featured planes and automobiles, no trains or buses. My husband and my fur kids (just the dogs) left a week before I did, driving down to Arizona to visit his dad and siblings. I was to follow a week later, having booked a one-way ticket from Billings to the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport. Before booking my flight, and after finding limited seating prior to Thanksgiving, I had to make a quick call to my brothe...
WORLAND — Washakie County has seen 40 new active lab-confirmed COVID-19 cases in the past 14 days, according to the Wyoming Department of Health on Tuesday. In contrast, Hot Springs County has had only one new lab-confirmed case in the past 14 days, Big Horn County 26 and Park County had the highest in the Big Horn Basin with 75. On Monday there were six reported COVID patients at Washakie Medical Center in Worland, one in North Big Horn Hospital in Lovell, four in Powell Valley Healthcare and five at Cody Regional Health. According to the Wyom...
WORLAND — This Friday Pioneer Square in Worland will be lit up for the fourth straight year with a ceremony and celebration set to be bigger than ever. The Pioneer Square Lighting Ceremony is sponsored by Range and the City of Worland. Last year, due to the COVID pandemic and with many restrictions still in place, the actual ceremony was cancelled but the park was still lit up. “Last year was kind of anticlimactic. People still came out to watch the lights come on, but it was not the same,” Linda Weeks, Range regional marketing and sales direc...