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WORLAND – The Washakie County Commissioners met in a special session Tuesday, June 30, to finalize bills for the 2019-20 fiscal year and to address other agenda items. At the beginning of the meeting, the commissioners transferred $13,000 to the public health budget and $20,000 to the road and bridge budget to finish balancing out the 2019-20 budget. Both amounts were transferred from the unanticipated expenses funds. After transferring the funds, Washakie County Fire Warden Chris Kocher c...
WORLAND – Saturday, May 9, was progressing like any normal day for Thad Shaffer as he was out in the yard with his wife Beth trimming trees, and talking to their neighbor when, at around 4:03 p.m., they heard a sudden crunch and a puff of dust fly into the air. Without having a direct line of sight, Shaffer sprang into action and hopped onto his four-wheeler towards the area on South Flat Road where he had seen the dust fly into the air. "I saw the truck in the ditch with the driver's side down,...
WORLAND – The Worland High School speech and debate team and the drama team held an end-of-year celebration on Thursday, June 18, at Sanders Park to celebrate the drama team's three-peat as well as give out individual awards for speech and debate. The celebration was delayed the past couple of months due to gathering restrictions put in place to limit the spread of COVID-19. Due to restrictions being loosened, speech and debate coach Rick Dorn, who is also the drama teacher, decided to hold a b...
WORLAND — After discussing potential options for opening for the new school year, the board handled several personnel and policy items during Monday’s regular meeting. A one-time stipend was approved due to a surplus of funds being unable to be carried over to the next year, with $850 to be paid to certified staff and $550 to be paid to classified staff. During the regularly scheduled meeting the school board passed the third and final reading of policy 2.29 regarding student retention. Und...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Commissioners appointed Christy Schneider as the new Clerk of the Fifth Judicial District Court to replace current clerk SuZann Whitlock who submitted her letter of resignation at the June 2 commissioners meeting. Whitlock occupied the position for 26 years and was a county employee for 36 years before deciding to retire and move on at the end of June. Schneider was selected Tuesday after a more than 30-minute executive session, which resulted in Commissioners F...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Commissioners met Tuesday morning in a Zoom call with the Wyoming State Loan and Investment Board (SLIB) to discuss their request for a Business Ready Community Enhancement Grant. The grant is provided through the Wyoming Business Council (WBC) and will help renovate the former Kennedy’s Ace Hardware Building at 801 Big Horn to house the new Washakie County Library. The SLIB board voted unanimously to approve the $500,000 request. The commissioners and County Cle...
TEN SLEEP – Jack Haggerty, who has been the mayor of Ten Sleep since October 2014, said one last goodbye to the council and reflected on his time as Ten Sleep mayor in an emotional end to his long career in public service. He also served as a council member since 2003 prior to being appointed mayor in 2014 after previous mayor Sandi Juetten resigned. In his final address to the town council, Haggerty was thankful for all of the hard work that he and the council have done over his tenure and a...
WORLAND – Worland second-grade teacher Jannel Scheuerman was named the Washakie County School District No. 1 Teacher Of The Year. Scheuerman is currently in her eighth year of teaching overall, all of which have been at the second-grade level. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in elementary education in 2012, and earned a master's degree in curriculum and instruction, with a specialty in reading, in December 2017. "It meant a whole bunch," Scheuerman said regarding the award. "I am not a person w...
WORLAND – The Worland school board approved capital projects for the upcoming year at their May 25 meeting along with allowing staff movement on the salary schedule steps and lanes for the 2020-21 budget. According to Business Manager Jack Stott, the two major projects that are set to impact Washakie County School District No. 1 this upcoming year are the final security upgrades to the Worland High School entrance, along with upgrades to the Worland Middle School entrance which Stott said he r...
WORLAND – The Washakie County District No. 1 Board of Trustees presented Kara Anderson with the Bell Ringer Award at their regular meeting May 25 in the Worland Middle School Auditorium. The Bell Ringer is awarded to an outstanding citizen from the community who contributes to the district behind the scenes. "I am humbled," Anderson said. "It was not something that I sought out, but I am very honored." Anderson currently works with the Department of Family Services. However, even though she h...
WORLAND – Washakie County School District No. 1 Board of Trustees hands out an award for their master teacher of the year at their May meeting each year, but this year it had a little bit of a twist. Instead of being called the Master Teacher Award, the district decided to name it the Master Educator Award. The award was presented to Worland Middle School Principal Ryan Clark at the school board meeting on Monday, May 25, after a dance was performed by the school board for the audience. "I d...
WORLAND – The Worland school board met on Monday night in the Middle School Auditorium to hold their regular monthly meeting for the first time since February, while adhering to social distancing guidelines with audience members. The school board passed on third and final reading their policy 1.15 pertaining to sick bank leave and paid maternity leave. WCSD No. 1 joins Platte County School District No. 1 (Wheatland) as the only districts in the state to guarantee paid maternity leave. Maternity...
WORLAND – Worland High School choir students were honored in a non-traditional way on May 12, in a Zoom call honoring their year in music, a year that was unfortunately cut short due to COVID-19. Eight students were honored for being named to the All-State Jazz Choir, five students were named to All-State Choir and two students were honored for being named to the All-Northwest Choir. Tatum Zimmerman, Alexis Sandoval, Andrew Nelson, Caleb Fraser, Jacob Durrant, Hailie Carver, Jayron Klinghagen a...
WORLAND – Each year the Marshazz choir group at Worland High School has a senior song that they sing at the final concert. However, with all school events being canceled since mid-March due to the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), Choir Director Chad Rose decided to share a piece with the music students that they had "worked on with Grammy nominee Sara Gazarek at Jazz Festival." The piece the choir performed is called 'American Tune' which was written by Paul Simon and arranged by Jamie Dyer T...
TTEN SLEEP – The Ten Sleep Town Council met in a special meeting on Wednesday, May 6, after an election on Tuesday to determine the new mayor and council members. The council approved a first reading of the budget for the 2020-21 year, and noted that this budget did not see many changes, but may change as the process moves along prior to the final reading. The council also amended the current budget for the 2019-20, to include the Cottonwood Street and First Street projects. The projects will b...
WASHAKIE COUNTY – Both Washakie County School Districts No. 1 and No. 2 are set to host a different type of graduation this weekend in order to honor the graduates of the 2020 class in a public manner. WORLAND Worland school district is set to host a parade for graduates beginning at 2 p.m. on Sunday, the time when the traditional ceremony was originally scheduled. Observers are asked park along the parade route 20th Street to Railway Avenue along Big Horn Avenue. The rules of the parade will no...
WORLAND – For the first time in over a month, the county commissioners held a public meeting in the Washakie County Courthouse, to receive updates from departments as well as view a presentation regarding a study done on the bike path on Airport Road. The commissioners met with County Planner David Anderson and viewed a presentation from Inberg-Miller Engineers (IME) regarding a study that was done on the bike path after the bid was awarded to IME back in October of last year. The study r...
WORLAND – The Worland school board met on Monday, April 27 to discuss and approve a second reading that would grant guaranteed separate maternity leave, and approve a first reading of a policy regarding retention. Third and final reading of the maternity leave policy will be at the next regular meeting on May 25. Once approved it will make Washakie County School District No. 1 the second district in Wyoming to guarantee paid maternity leave to all staff. The school board also approved a p...
TEN SLEEP – The Ten Sleep school board met in a special session on Wednesday, April 29, to announce the district will be finishing the year on its adapted learning plan, and to discuss the preliminary budget for the 2020-21 school year. With no preliminary report from the Wyoming Department of Education (WDE), it is harder for Business Manager Connie Gay to predict revenues for the next year. She told the board that she hopes to have a better estimate for the budget in May, when the school b...
WORLAND — The Washakie County commissioners met Friday afternoon, May 1, with department heads via teleconference and at the Washakie County Fairgrounds to discuss reducing the Level 3 health status that was in place currently on county facilities. The county commissioners, along with a consensus from departments heads, voted to reduce the county down to a modified Level 2 status, opening all county facilities Monday, May 4. This will open all county facilities to the public with r...
WORLAND – Superintendent David Nicholas and the Worland school board announced that Washakie County School District (WCSD) No. 1 intends to finish the school year, unless directed otherwise from the state, on their current adaptive learning plan. The current plan has been approved through the Wyoming Department of Education (WDE) to last through the end of the year. “There is no plan to come back this spring, brick and mortar, for all of our kids,” Nicholas said. However, Nicholas said that adde... Full story
WORLAND – The Worland speech and debate team competed in the Wyoming State Speech Championships in a unique fashion, and finished third overall behind Riverton and Jackson, with one individual and one duo earning 3A state champions. The three state champions were Elizabeth Bleicher in original oratory and Madeline Martinson and Kim Sumida in CX policy debate. Bleicher finished fourth overall among all classes, and first among 3A competition. Bleicher also took third in 3A in the L...
WORLAND – Mark Becker is set to retire today (April 30) from the United States Postal Service (USPS) after working for the Worland Post Office the last 24 years. Becker moved to Worland from North Dakota where he was a food service inspector for seven years in North Dakota. He continued his food service inspection work in Wyoming until he began his job at the post office in the 1996 as a counter clerk. Becker has been working for the Postal Service since the transition of 24 people sorting out m...
WORLAND – Two Worland educators, Don Bryant and James Mims, were honored with awards from the Wyoming Education Association at the end of March for the 2019-20 school year. According to WEA Worland area President Vickie Overcast, Bryant was set to receive the Friend of Education award from the state association at the end of March. This award was for his service as a teacher at West Side for two years, and spending the last 28 years on the school board, serving 23 of those as the president of t...
TEN SLEEP- The Ten Sleep school board met on Wednesday night in a special session where Superintendent Jimmy Phelps announced that they intend to finish the school year with their adapted learning plan that was approved by the Wyoming Department of Education (WDE), and will request an added addendum that will allow for tutoring of certain students. Washakie County School District No. 2 plans to continue with their current adapted learning plan, but will also submit a request to allow students... Full story