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WORLAND – Hanna Bayha is the new learning support teacher at West Side Elementary, stepping into her first teaching position after living in Worland the last four years. Bayha was originally brought here with her boyfriend who is an engine captain for the Bureau of Land Management. Before moving to Worland, she grew up working for a cattle ranch in Brewster, Washington, where her family also grows apples and cherries. Bayha has received her bachelor's degree in animal sciences from the U...
WORLAND – The Washakie Medical Center Board of Trustees met for their regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 22, to receive their first departmental in-service and to receive updates from Washakie Medical Center (WMC) staff. The first of a series of informational meetings with departments in the hospital was held with Chief Nursing Officer Lisa Van Brunt. These meetings are being set in order to help the board understand the functions of each department of the hospital should they be appr...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Commissioners held a public hearing regarding the adoption of Lane 17 1/2 and the vacation of Lane 18 1/2 at the Washakie County Fairgrounds, as part of their regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 15. The meeting began with discussion around the vacation of Lane 18 1/2, which has been considered a county road for nearly 100 years. At the beginning of the meeting, the County Commission stated that there were no written objections submitted prior to the m...
WORLAND – Jeana Croft is not a stranger to the classroom in Worland, she was previously the family and consumer science (FACS) teacher at the middle school before moving away, and when Brenda Trippel decided to file paperwork to vacate her position for this school year due to COVID-19, Croft stepped into her position. Croft was the FACS teacher at the middle school before moving to Cody four years ago for her husband's job, so experience filling in for Trippel was not a problem when she d...
WORLAND – The Washakie Prevention Coalition (WPC) met for their first meeting after a two month summer break at the Worland Community Center on Thursday, Sept. 17, to discuss a future Positive Culture Framework (PCF) Social Norms Campaign, provide updates on the W-Club presence in elementary schools, data from the community survey sent out last year and discuss other youth initiatives in the community. Washakie County Youth Alternatives Grants Manager/Fiscal Supervisor Sheri Gunderson d...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Commissioners met for their regularly scheduled meeting at the Washakie County Courthouse on Tuesday, Sept. 15, to receive an update on the proposed budget from Groathouse Construction for the new Washakie County Library, as well as receive updates from county departments. The County Commission received two post-bid budget alignments, one option included an elevator with that cost estimate and the other included a stair-lift option. The option with the elevator cost...
WORLAND – Jessica Tharp has been a paraeducator at Worland High School since 2017 but has transitioned this new school year into a new role as a life skills special education teacher while also co-teaching geometry and online curriculum for the district. Tharp moved to Worland in 2003 after she graduated from Rocky Mountain College in Billings in 2002 with a double major in English literature and equine studies. She lives in Worland with her husband and two children. Prior to working at the h...
WORLAND – The Ten Sleep Town Council met for their regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 1, to discuss the influx of traffic to the Ten Sleep Library, and how that has impacted the area around the library. Ten Sleep Mayor Ernie Beckley said that around 15 people attended the meeting that were in support of the climbers. Washakie County Commissioner Aaron Anderson and Beckley have said at multiple meetings throughout the summer that there has been a large influx of traffic in Ten Sleep d...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Commissioners met for their regularly scheduled meeting last Tuesday, Sept. 1, to discuss a new WyoLink project with Nathan Smolinski from the Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) and local officials. Smolinski came before the County Commission, Sheriff Steve Rakness and Washakie County Fire Warden Chris Kocher to discuss a new site being implemented at Meadowlark to expand the network coverage in Washakie County. According to the WYDOT website, WyoLink i...
WORLAND – During their monthly meeting Tuesday, Aug. 25, Chief Financial Officer Jennifer McMillan informed the Washakie Medical Center Board that the Washakie Medical Center is behind budget for the year by approximately $396,000. “We are still not quite where we wanted to be but we are starting to see some recovery from the COVID period,” McMillan said. McMillan said that the Swing Bed program has really slowed down at the hospital. Swing Bed is a Medicare program that allows for patie...
WORLAND – Washakie County School District No. 1 hosted a town hall meeting via Zoom to provide an update on how the first week of school went and how activities would be conducted this fall. The district began by providing an update from curriculum director Jody Rakness discussing how technology is being utilized in the district and how students are being helped to get online should quarantine result for that child. Rakness said that the district has heeded advice from parents in the spring a...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Commissioners met for their regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 1, to discuss the value engineering list set forth regarding the new Washakie County Library by the tentatively awarded bidder Groathouse Construction and the county’s engineering firm TSP. Those present for the discussion were the Washakie County Commission, Project Manager Mark Averett from TSP, Groathouse Construction President Fred Bronnenberg along with representatives from the Washakie C...
WORLAND – The Washakie County School District No. 1 Board of Trustees met on Monday night, Aug. 24, via Zoom to hear updates from administrators and to hire several positions to start the year. Administrators that spoke throughout the night continually gave praise to the cleaning staff and to the teachers for the job that they have done during the first week in trying to keep schools safe to start the year. Superintendent David Nicholas reported that there are more than 100 students enrolled i...
WORLAND – There is a five-way race for three seats on both the Washakie County School District (WCSD) No. 1 Board of Trustees and Washakie County School District (WCSD) No. 2 Board of Trustees after filing ended Monday. In District No. 1 David Tommerup has filed for re-election, with Tim Wright, Tami Young, Jonathan Hake and Brett Argeris also filing for the three board seats. Dean Dupree and Susan Scheuerman did not seek to retain their seats on the board. The five members who have filed for t...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Commissioners met Tuesday, Aug. 25, at the Washakie County Courthouse to read a letter of recommendation from their engineering firm TSP, and draft a notice of intent to award the bid for the remodeling of the former Kennedy Ace Hardware building at 801 Big Horn Avenue into the new Washakie County Library to Groathouse Construction out of Cody. It was drafted with the stipulation that the contract would not be awarded until the project is aligned with the budget s...
WORLAND – Bronze sculptor Chris Navarro of Casper has been sculpting full-time for 35 years, creating countless masterpieces around the state of Wyoming, and opening a new traveling exhibit at the Washakie Museum & Cultural Center (WM&CC) last Thursday, Aug. 20. Navarro has had a large impact on the museum over the years, as he sculpted the life-size Columbian mammoth for the front of the museum back in 2010 which has become a staple in Worland the last decade. Navarro also has had a display o...
WORLAND – Unofficial results from Tuesday night's primary showed a tightly fought race between Ed Cooper of Ten Sleep and Linda Weeks of Basin for the Republican nomination split by just over 200 votes with Cooper winning at an unofficial total of 2,300 votes (47.6%) to Weeks' 2,084 (43.1%). Cooper outperformed Weeks in Washakie County, seeing a total of 1,298 for Cooper and Weeks garnering 719, which resulted in a 579 margin of victory for Cooper in Washakie County. Weeks gained ground back i...
WORLAND – Washakie County School District No. 1 held a town hall discussion via Zoom on Thursday, Aug. 13, one day after the Worland school board decided to delay the reopening of East Side School after reported COVID-19 cases among staff. The presentation featured administrators highlighting points of the reopening plan that was used when most schools in the district opened Tuesday, Aug. 18. The presentation featured information, which was outlined last week in the Northern Wyoming News, on t...
TEN SLEEP – The Washakie County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees met for their regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, Aug. 10, to hold second readings on three policies, receive their annual audit and to approve different agenda items prior to school starting yesterday. The three policies in questions were Bylaw Article XII, Bylaw Article XIV and board policy 3.27. Bylaw Article XII regarding special meetings was approved on first reading to align with state statutes. The current article...
WORLAND – Four community members have filed for both Washakie County School District (WCSD) No. 2 Board of Trustees and Washakie County School District (WCSD) No. 1 Board of Trustees, three have filed for the Worland Fire Protection District No. 1 board, two have filed for Ten Sleep Cemetery District, two have filed for Washakie County Conservation District and one has filed for Ten Sleep Fire board as of Monday, Aug. 17. The four members who have filed for the three open positions in District N...
WORLAND – Washakie County School District No. 1 has not held full capacity schooling since the middle of March due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) but are set to begin in person learning starting next Tuesday, Aug. 18. In person school is expected to begin Tuesday for all schools except for East Side Elementary as the WCSD No. 1 Board of Trustees is set to meet Wednesday, Aug. 12, to discuss potentially delaying East Side’s reopening until Thursday, Aug. 20, due to two positive COVID-19 cas...
WORLAND – The Washakie County commissioners met last Tuesday, Aug. 4 for their regularly scheduled meeting to hear board reports and to approve different forms. Tom Schmeltzer of building maintenance reported to the commissioners that at least five contractors and a large amount of sub-contractors appeared for the pre-bid conference regarding the construction of the new Washakie County Library. Bids are being received for the project until today, Aug. 13 at 2 p.m. and will then be opened. B...
TEN SLEEP – Ten Sleep School has not been open since mid-March due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) but is set to open on Wednesday, Aug. 19, and house a full school of students for the first time in about five months. Washakie County School District No. 2 has been working with the Wyoming Department of Education (WDE), Washakie County Public Health (WCPH) and Wyoming Department of Health (WDH). The district is planning to open under tier one under the WDE Smart Start plan, which allows for a...
WORLAND – Republican U.S. Senate candidate Donna Rice made a stop in Worland on Saturday to attend the annual Lincoln Day Dinner, a Washakie County Republican fundraiser typically scheduled for April to meet candidates. Rice was born in Newcastle and raised in Casper prior to graduating from Kelly Walsh High School, Casper College, and the University of Wyoming. She attended law school and the University of Denver. Rice now owns a small business as an estate planning attorney in Casper that s...
WORLAND – Washakie County Commissioner Aaron Anderson has announced his bid for re-election as he seeks his fourth term as a commissioner. Anderson was first elected to the Board of Commission in 2008. "I am seeking another term as Washakie County commissioner for two basic reasons," Anderson said. "One, I feel like I have a skill set that can make a difference to the people of Washakie County and two I truly enjoy this job because counties are the local arm of state government and being a c...