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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...
Happy Thanksgiving As always if we take the time we can find that there is much for which we should be and can be thankful. As I write this I cannot help but think of one Worland resident, Maricela Moreno who is thankful for her U.S. citizenship. Moreno was one of 14 Wyoming residents who became U.S. citizens down in Cheyenne on Nov. 15. When I spoke to her later that day there was no doubting the excitement in her voice as she spoke about the two years she worked to be able to take the Oath of...
WORLAND — The Washakie County Fair Board is hoping to provide more food vendors and a diverse entertainment schedule for the 2022 county fair. During the regular meeting Monday, Nov. 8, the board agreed to move the swine show from Tuesday evening to Tuesday morning with all livestock weigh-ins on Monday. There were many requests to move the swine show after temperatures reached 105 degrees at the start of the show this year. Moving the swine show frees up a night for a grandstand entertainment event. The fair board plans on contracting for pig...
The other day a Facebook memory popped up with a photo of me with a giant elk. No, it was not one that I had killed. It was one of the Scheel’s photo booths. At Scheel’s at the digital photo station you could at that time get your photo with an elk, deer, shark or bass. What was even funnier is you can tell the photo is digitized, i.e., fake, but I had a few people congratulating me on my hunt – maybe some were tongue in cheek but I believe by a few comments some thought it was real. In today’s technological world you can manipulate photos...
WORLAND — The Big Horn Basin or Region 8 redistricting working group will be holding a meeting this Thursday, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Worland Community Center Complex. County clerks from Washakie, Park, Big Horn and Hot Springs counties have been working since October on redistricting plans for the House and Senate district in the Big Horn Basin region/Region 8. Washakie County Clerk Mary Grace Strauch said they have also included Fremont County in the discussions as one proposal does impact the Fremont County districts. She said as they w...
WORLAND — The Worland City Council approved two requests related to the Dec. 4 Christmas Lighted Parade sponsored by the Worland-Ten Sleep Chamber of Commerce. Kara Anderson of Goose’s requested a street closure on Eighth Street from Big Horn Avenue south to the alley during the parade and until closing. She said they would have concessions, this year probably chili and s’mores. The parking lot would be blocked off for only 21 and older. She said in the past they have had fire pits on the patio and this year they are requesting them in the s...
WORLAND - Despite no bill prohibiting vaccine mandates, local legislators believe the special session that ended last Wednesday, Nov. 3, was necessary. Sen. Ed Cooper (R-Ten Sleep) voted in favor of the session and said despite only passing one bill there was "good discussion" and everyone understands the problem "even more than we did before." He added that even though they didn't pass legislation that he hoped to he now understands both sides better. "It was a worthwhile discussion. We did...