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POWELL - Rain and loose rocks led to a dangerous situation in the Wind River Canyon on Saturday night, as a rock slide blocked traffic in both directions. The Powell High School boys' soccer team was heading home from a long road trip to Pinedale and arrived just after the slide occurred. "We were one of the first vehicles there, and we had some parents on the other side of it that saw it happen in their rearview mirrors," Panther boys' Head Coach David Gilliatt said. At the scene, the Panthers...
Moving to Worland and starting a job at the Northern Wyoming News was a fresh start out of college, and my first official job in the real world apart from officiating soccer and other smaller jobs for my parents. I was not sure how I would fit in at first. Moving to a new place fresh out of college at 21 is not always the easiest thing, and I will admit that settling in to this town did take me longer than I expected. However, through the kindness and motivation of the beats that I covered...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Library in Worland is closing in on its official opening, hosting an open house style event this Saturday, Sept. 11, from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. during Harvest Fest. The exact opening date had not been set as of press time. On Tuesday they were awaiting one more shipment of furniture to be ready for a full opening. The Washakie County Library has been in development for over five years when the Washakie County Commissioners first brought up the idea of renovating t...
WORLAND – The Worland Flying Club has enjoyed steady growth since its original inception in 2015, and recently added a new plane for the group to use. According to group founder and professional pilot Bill Pennington, the group actually began with no plane when the club started in 2015. In 2016, they purchased their first plane, a 1961 Piper Tri Pacer. Then in June 2019, the group sold the Pacer and purchased N6592J, which is a Piper Cherokee 180. Then in August of this year, the club added t...
WORLAND – After an extended summer due to a calendar change Worland area schools are heading back to school this Tuesday, Sept. 7, in a completely different environment from a year ago. This year’s school is set to start as close to normal as possible, as masks are optional for students and staff, as well as temperatures not being taken upon entry. The only thing that is not changed this year is the quarantine process that is set forth by the state. On Aug. 23, Governor Mark Gordon announced tha...
TEN SLEEP – The Bighorn Climbers’ Coalition (BCC) held a meeting in Ten Sleep on Wednesday, Aug. 18, regarding the upcoming Ten Sleep climbing plan and answered questions from climbers and local area residents alike. The meeting was spearheaded by BCC President Brad Burns, who also asked U.S. Forest Service Powder River District Ranger Silas Davidson and other rangers to attend in order to help take in suggestions and answer questions. Davidson said that his answers did not necessarily rep...
WORLAND - Washakie County Fair Board Member Dani Rice came before the Washakie County Commissioners to discuss potential improvements that are needed at the Washakie County Fairgrounds. The fair board met Aug. 9 to discuss improvements that were brought to light after the 2021 county fair July 26-31. Rice began by discussing a project to place a concrete floor in the pig/sheep barn, which would include half of the concrete donated and all of the labor being donated. She asked the commissioners...
TEN SLEEP – Ten Sleep School is set to begin their designs for a new school and discussed preparations for the design phase of the building during the Washakie County School District (WCSD) No. 2 Board of Trustees meeting on Monday, Aug. 9. WCSD No. 2 Superintendent Jimmy Phelps began by giving an overview of the district’s plans for the next couple of months, beginning with a recommendation for an owner’s representative expected to be presented to the board during the September board meeti...
TEN SLEEP – Rob Weimann took the Ten Sleep scene by storm when he won the Wyoming Singer Songwriter competition two years ago, with Nowoodstock organizer Pat O'Brien being impressed by his sound and inviting Weimann to the stage this past weekend. "I am absolutely humbled to share this stage with these professional musicians," Weimann said. He said that being invited to perform on the Nowoodstock stage has been a cool learning experience and it makes him challenge what he knows so far and b...
TEN SLEEP – When Quinn Cerovski & Black Mountain Blues took the stage this past weekend at Nowoodstock, Cerovski achieved a dream that he has been working toward as a child after watching his dad perform on the stage for years. Cerovski has been around music his entire life, as his father is the guitarist for the Low Water String Band who performed at Nowoodstock this past weekend just before Cerovski took the stage for the first time. The other members of the band Danny and Greg Scott also g...
TEN SLEEP – The 20th edition of the Nowoodstock Music Festival is set to kick off this Friday, Aug. 13, at 5 p.m. and finish on Sunday, Aug. 15 at Vista Park in Ten Sleep.Last year’s Nowoodstock was to be the 20th consecutive edition of the event that was started by Pat O’Brien back in 2001, but due to COVID-19 O’Brien delayed the event until this summer. O’Brien said that the event will house a lot of familiar faces this summer. The event kicks off with local artist Lacey Nelson who will star...
WORLAND – Back in February, Dan Mattis and Naomi Durrant started discussing and working on an idea for a coffee shop/variety store at 1316 Big Horn Ave. and quickly created The Other Store which opened last Monday, Aug. 2. Mattis and Durrant, co-owners, have worked together for more than seven years in a professional capacity as Durrant has directed plays around the community with Mattis creating the sets for the stage. Both Durrant and Mattis have had experience in building and refurbishing f...
WORLAND – Masks again were at the center of attention as the Washakie County School District (WCSD) No. 1 Board of Trustees held a discussion on whether or not masks should be enforced during the upcoming school year. The discussion came after a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendation that students should be wearing masks when in school this upcoming year. During the special board meeting July 29, WCSD No. 1 Superintendent David Nicholas emphasized from the s...
TEN SLEEP – Washakie County School District (WCSD) No. 2 adopted their 2021-22 fiscal year budget before their monthly meeting on Tuesday, July 20, which included $2.5 million for design of the new Ten Sleep School. The design funds were approved by the Wyoming Legislature as part of the Wyoming Supplemental Budget during this year’s legislative session in April. According to WCSD No. 2 Business Manager Connie Gay, the funds to design the school will be placed into the capital construction por...
WORLAND – The Washakie County School District (WCSD) No. 1 Board of Trustees approved their budget for the 2021-22 fiscal year during a special hearing on Wednesday, July 14. The general fund for the district is slightly down compared to last year’s budget from approximately $25.8 million down to $25.162 million for the next fiscal year. This reduction was due to a decrease of Average Daily Membership (ADM) from 1,225 students down to 1,147. This decrease is based on a three-year average of dai...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Commissioners announced that they have sold the former Washakie County Library building located at 1019 Coburn Ave. after the county closed on the sale Friday, July 16. Chairman Commissioner Fred Frandson said that the building was sold to Cole and Brittany Tidemann who are believed to be opening a preschool in its place. The library is currently closed while they are transitioning into the newly renovated building at 801 Big Horn Ave. During the commissioners m...
WORLAND – During the Washakie County School Board No. 1 Board of Trustees meeting in June, teachers from West Side Elementary gave a presentation on the activities they did at West Side during June and what the students learned during that time. West Side learning support teacher Hanna Bayha started by discussing what they called Lemonade Wars for the students. This activity saw students make their own lemonade recipes and purchase their ingredients with limited money. The students then went a...
WORLAND – Washakie County Deputy Assessor Nancy Quinn was selected by the Washakie County Commissioners as the next Washakie County Assessor and was sworn in on Tuesday, July 6. Quinn has been the deputy assessor for nine years and was hoping to continue the legacy of now former Washakie County Assessor Kathy Treanor who decided to retire after holding the position for 18 years and serving in the office of assessor for 32 years. Quinn was the top candidate selected by the Washakie County R...
WORLAND - Rylan Mocko, a former student who graduated in 2019, came before the Washakie County School District No. 1 Board of Trustees on Monday to discuss another pandemic that he believes is ongoing across the country especially in the Big Horn Basin, mental illness and suicide. Mocko began by saying that he wants to bring it to the attention of the board and that he wants to make it normal for youth in the community to talk about suicide awareness as well as making it normal for students to t...
WORLAND – Outgoing Washakie County Assessor Kathy Treanor was originally brought into the Washakie County Assessor's office in 1989 in order to deal with the transition to technology in the field. "They converted the whole state in July of 1988, and I started in August of 1989," Treanor said. "Nobody in this office had computer knowledge or experience and that is why I was hired, to bring them into the 20th century." Treanor started out as a Geographic Information System (GIS) data inputter, s...
WORLAND – Following the resignation of Washakie County Assessor Kathy Treanor, effective July 6, the Washakie County Republican Party is set to host a special assembly meeting to interview candidates. According to state statute, 22-18-111 (ii) “if a vacancy occurs in a county elective office, the board of county commissioners of the county in which the vacancy occurs shall immediately notify in writing the chairman of the county central committee of the political party which the last inc...
WORLAND — The Washakie County Commissioners held a public hearing on Tuesday, June 15, to consider the proposed changes recommended by the Washakie County Planning and Zoning Commission on subdivisions. One of the major proposed changes is to set the requirement for easements to be at least 20 feet in length from both property owners, which will allow for the board to accept a width less than 20 feet as long as the subdivider demonstrates that the easement is adequate to protect the safety a...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Commissioners discussed a matter regarding the Cottonwood Creek Bridge during their regularly scheduled meeting, discussed the Washakie County Library and received other department updates. The commissioners were frustrated when they learned after they had initially narrowed the lane over the Cottonwood Creek Bridge that someone had moved the Jersey barriers that were in place. The commissioners narrowed the bridge as a compromise to keep the bridge open because i...
TEN SLEEP – During their regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, June 1, the Ten Sleep Town Council passed ordinances Nos. 224 and 225 regarding fires within city limits. Ordinance No. 225 would add section 4-1-4 which will pertain to burning, prohibited and required bonfire permits and reordering the code to change 4-1-4 to 4-1-5 regarding penalties. Section 4-1-4 would make it unlawful to “burn papers, rubbish, garbage, refuse, leaves, grass, brush, animal waste, treated or painted wood, or...
WORLAND – West Side Elementary fifth-grade teacher Vanessa Keller was shocked to learn during the Washakie County School District No. 1 Board of Trustees meeting that she had been named the both the Master Teacher by the board, and earning the nod for WCSD No. 1 Teacher of the Year. "I am incredibly humbled," Keller said. "There are so many other deserving teachers in this district, and I feel like there should be so many other people to get it." Keller comes from a family of educators, as s...