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With information provided by the Office of the County Attorney for Washakie County. WORLAND – A Utah man accused of conspiring to have over 500 grams of Alpha-PVP, or “flakka,” delivered to a Worland residence with the intent to distribute was extradited from custody in Utah to Worland earlier this month. Dustin Ray Teeples, 42 of Orem, Utah, was serving a prison sentence for an unrelated crime in Utah and was transferred to the Washakie County Law Enforcement Center on Oct. 3. Teeples had his initial appearance in front of Fifth Judic...
WORLAND – During the regular meeting of the Worland City Council on Tuesday, Ward 1 Councilman Keith Gentzler was named to represent the city on the Worland Aquatic Center Joint Powers Board, after it was announced the city had come to an a agreement with the amended joint powers board. "I know there's strong feelings [about the Aquatic Center], but we need a volunteer to be on the board," stated Mayor Jim Gill, before Gentzler volunteered for the position, a three-year term. Previous aquatic b...
WORLAND – A written bomb threat forced the Worland Middle School to evacuate on Tuesday, sending students to a temporary shelter for most of the day. At approximately 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Worland Middle School parents received the following text message and email from Washakie County School District No. 1: “Late this morning, School employees discovered a generic bomb threat written on a stall in a restroom. After consulting with Law Enforcement Officials we determined to follow standard protocol for this type of incident. At this time Mid...
TEN SLEEP – The 23rd annual Hunter Fest welcomes hunters and outdoorsmen to Ten Sleep today, serving up food, entertainment and prizes from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. downtown. Sponsored by the Town of Ten Sleep and the Worland Ten Sleep Chamber of Commerce, with corporate sponsorship from around the region, this year’s festival will feature live music from Rattlesnake Ridge and a chili cook-off and chili feed. Up to 15 vendors are expected, including information booths from Wyoming Game and Fish and local search and rescue services. Raffles thi...
LAS VEGAS – When Jennifer Tobin, an internet technologies architect from Phoenix, Arizona, checked into the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Oct. 1, she wasn’t expecting anything more than the usual week of gambling and attending a convention for IT professionals. Arriving at around 5 p.m. and eating, playing the slot machines and mingling with peers in attendance for the NetApp Insight Conference, Tobin decided to go to her 23rd-floor room for the night, rather than see the sights of Vegas’s famous Strip. “I had a sinus infecti...
WORLAND – Eight college students from Wyoming and Colorado met with members of Washakie County’s Wyoming Public Lands Initiative (WPLI) working group on Wednesday, thanks to a program from EcoFlight of Aspen, Colorado. The WPLI is currently studying best use for Wilderness Study Areas (WSA) in the county, and took input and questions from the students during an informal lunch at the Worland Municipal Airport. Attended by WPLI working group members county commissioner Aaron Anderson, Karen Fenton with the Washakie County Conservation Dis...
WORLAND - In the Big Horn Basin on an economic development tour, Secretary of State Ed Murray sat down with the Northern Wyoming Daily News to discuss a variety of subjects on Tuesday including ramifications to the local economy in the face of a national sugar tax, to a possible run for the Office of the Governor. After a tour of the facilities of Admiral Beverage, and a meeting with the management team for a facility that has provided Worland with jobs and industry since 1945, Murray...
WORLAND - The Council for the Bighorn Range is holding four workshops next week to provide information on the evolving public lands transfer and management efforts from Wyoming to Washington. Many ongoing initiatives, both through legislation and the administration, will have impacts on access, public involvement, wildlife habitat management, recreation, wilderness management, and law enforcement on public lands. The workshops are free and open to the public and will be held in Greybull, Worland, Sheridan and Buffalo. The Council for the...
TEN SLEEP – The long-anticipated expansion of the Ten Sleep Library will take a step forward on Oct. 17, when county commissioners will open bids for the 20-foot by 80-foot addition, which is expected to include meeting space, an after-school area, and expanded services for library patrons. With a total project cost of $185,558, the expansion is being financed by a Wyoming Business Council community block grant in the amount of $136,117, an in-kind loan of $14,520 and cash in the amount of $21,929 from the county and a land donation equal to $1...
BASIN – Wyoming State Fair Director James Goodrich met with around two dozen interested fair goers and members of the local agriculture community in Basin on Tuesday, to hear ideas concerning the annual event, and discuss the impact of state budget cuts to the fair program. The program is part of a state-wide "listening session" program, to gather input from taxpayers. The State Fair is budgeted under the Wyoming Department of Agriculture, and both fair operations and related capital constructio...
WORLAND - Reports from the City of Worland and Washakie County indicate that the removal of a sediment bar in the Big Horn River is going well, and an estimated 5,000 cubic yards of material have been removed during the first week of the project. "It's going quite a bit better than expected," said Worland Superintendent of Public Works Brian Burky, noting that two trucks from the city and two county trucks have been hauling the removed material. At current estimates, based on the original estima...
TEN SLEEP – "Well, like they say, all good things must pass," drawled Jalan Crossland, from his home in Ten Sleep on Thursday. By this time tomorrow, his band, a beloved staple on the Wyoming music scene, will be no more, and Crossland will reemerge as a solo act, aligned with his early roots as a travelling musician. "I guess I'll be heading back to the basics," said Crossland. "A harmonica, guitar and one guy stomping his foot. I can probably expect to put together another band, eventually, b...
WORLAND – A former Worland man who won a Wyoming State Supreme Court decision earlier this year, and was granted a retrial for a 2015 shooting incident that resulted in the death of a family member, has waived his right to a speedy trial and will face a retrial in early 2018 in the Fifth Judicial Court. According to an affidavit of probable cause, the original events stemmed from a simple parking dispute. Anthony Haire fatally shot Jamye Don SoRelleSoRelle, 58, on the night of April 13, 2015, near their trailers on shared property located at 1...
WORLAND — Banner Health project manager Brad McCaslin gave his final quarterly update to the Washakie County Commission on Tuesday, and announced a grand opening date for the Washakie Medical Center. Washakie Medical Center broke ground on the $23.4 million construction project June 16, 2015. Additions to the hospital include: a new patient wing with 12 patient rooms and 16 beds, plus two labor and delivery rooms dedicated to obstetrics. Rooms are larger with some accommodating double occupancy based on demand to provide a total of 18 l...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Commission will meet today, starting at 9 a.m., to review county department reports and hear from the county attorney regarding bridge sharing with the state. The commission will hear from County Attorney John Worrall at 9 a.m., regarding a memorandum of understanding with the state, regarding the county maintaining the Cottonwood Creek bridge. “I just want to make them aware of a few things [in the contract], that the county will be responsible for,” said Worrall on Monday. Following, the commission will receive a...
THERMOPOLIS – Downtown Thermopolis will play host to Oktobrewfest today, from 11 a.m. until 8 p.m., with activities for the whole family, including historic building tours and live music. A farmers market will feature fresh local produce and craft items, from 8 until 11 a.m. on Fifth Street. Thermopolis 100th Birthday building tours will begin at 1 p.m., featuring 15 original downtown buildings, including the Klink Building, and the Masonic Lodge. Cake to celebrate the birthday will follow. A cornhole tournament will take place at 3 p.m. at t...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene of an emergency aircraft landing on Tuesday, located in the Enduro oil fields east of Worland. A Cessna C 182, registered to Meridian Flying Services of Sidney, Mont., was forced to land in the area after the aircraft ran out of fuel while conducting pipeline monitoring operations, according to Washakie County Sheriff Steve Rakness. According to an initial incident report by the Federal Aviation Administration, Casper, the pilot suffered no injury, although the aircraft exe...
WORLAND – One charge of attempted second-degree murder and one charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon have been filed in Fifth Judicial District Circuit Court in the case of the State of Wyoming versus Joel Jaime Moreno, from an altercation on June 25, which resulted in Moreno being shot by a Worland police officer after attacking two officers with a baseball bat, knocking one unconscious. According to a report filed by Special Agent Darrell Steward with the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation, at approximately 11 p.m. on J...
WORLAND - On Tuesday, the Washakie County Commission awarded a $109,255 contract to McClellan and Macqueen Inc., of Worland, for the removal of a sediment sandbar in the Big Horn River, adjacent to Riverside Park. The firm was the only bidder. The estimated 1.3 acres of sand and sediment in question has been the catalyst for ice jams and flooding along the river as it runs through Worland, growing steadily over the last three years. An initial survey of the mass estimated over 18,700 cubic...
WORLAND — In advance of a county project to remove a sediment bar from the Big Horn River, the Washakie County Commission will open bids today at 10 a.m., before awarding the project. The estimated 1.3 acres of sand and sediment in question has been the catalyst for ice jams and flooding along the river as it runs through Worland, growing steadily over the last three years. An initial survey of the mass estimated over 18,700 cubic yards of material had built up, at a depth of five feet. Previously, the commission contacted the Wyoming Bureau of...
WORLAND – "If you want to receive, first you have to give," noted author and speaker V.J. Smith on Friday, during a speech to Worland High School students in the Worland Middle School auditorium. For an hour, students sat transfixed on Smith's stories of appreciation through kindness, with a focus on using "thank you" as a way to validate others. A 1978 graduate of South Dakota State University, Smith spent the 1980s working for the Allied Signal Aerospace Company in Kansas City, Missouri. He r...
TEN SLEEP – On Wednesday, during the September Town Council meeting, it was announced that the town’s sewer improvement and upgrade project is moving into the second phase, with major replacement of lines along the Cottonwood area of town. The council noted that the project is currently tying together sewer lines on Third and Sixth streets, and will continue underneath Main to the alleyway on Fifth Street. Mayor Jack Haggerty noted that any excess funds left over from the project would go tow...
WORLAND - In advance of a county project to remove a sediment bar from the Big Horn River, in an effort to reduce future flooding, the Washakie county Commission contacted the Wyoming Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) on Tuesday, to request that canal volume be lowered during the time of the project, to ensure safety and ease of work for the contractor removing the material. The estimated 1.3 acres of sand and sediment in question has been the catalyst for ice jams and flooding along the river as it...
WORLAND – Virginia Garcia had always wanted to make and serve authentic Mexican food from her region of Laredo, when she finally realized her dream last year by opening a taco truck on Big Horn Avenue in Worland. Soon, the business became bigger than the small truck, and required more than Garcia could handle on her own. This year, her daughter and son-in-law, Marion and Sergio Nieto stepped in and expanded the business, hired employees, and became partners to help run Tacos, Burritos and M...
WORLAND – On Tuesday, Dominic Desean Jones, 18, of Casper, was arraigned in Fifth Judicial Circuit Court in Worland on one count of attempted murder in the second degree, after the alleged stabbing and attempted shooting of Cody Ray Kimble, 20, of Worland, on the evening of Sept. 2, in Worland. According to documents provided by the court, at approximately 10:53 p.m. on Sept. 2, Worland Police Department officers were called to the 1200 block of Howell Avenue, responding to a report of an argument, and a possible gunshot. Arriving on the s...