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WORLAND- The Washakie County commissioners met on Friday afternoon, May 1, with department heads via teleconference and at the Washakie County Fairgrounds to discuss reducing the Level 3 health status that is 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 on the morning of Monday, May 4. This will open all county facilities to the public w... Full story
WORLAND – The Washakie County commissioners met on Tuesday for their regularly scheduled meeting via teleconference to discuss an idea to seek help from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to fence part of Lower Nowood Road in order to help discourage cows gathering on the road. The commissioners discussed with County Planner David Anderson and Keith Bower of road and bridge a situation where vehicles are not slowing down on the road and causing accidents with wildlife once they reach the o...
TEN SLEEP – The Ten Sleep municipal election is just under a month away, with two candidates filing to compete for the position of mayor and four for the positions of town council on May 5. The two candidates that filed for mayor are current councilman Ernie Beckley, and longtime resident David Lyman. These two are vying to replace current Mayor Jack Haggerty. Haggerty announced in early January that he was not planning to seek re-election this year and instead decided to retire at the end of hi...
WORLAND – Washakie County Public Health officials held a teleconference question and answer session on YouTube Tuesday morning to address questions in Washakie County, where Washakie County Public Health Officer Ed Zimmerman said he anticipated state orders being extended through the end of May. Zimmerman noted that the orders for Wyoming are expected to be extended, not officially at this time, through the end of May when answering a question about churches planning to reconvene for s...
TEN SLEEP – The Ten Sleep Town Council met on the night of Tuesday, April 7 via Zoom web conferencing to hold their regular meeting one month from their May election. A main agenda item was concern over different approaches regarding a small triangular piece of land regarding Pam Taylor and an encroachment into that piece of land. There were multiple solutions presented from re-zoning to simply removing the encroachment, but further information and consultation was desired and no decision was ma...
WORLAND – Wyoming first lady Jennie Gordon came up to Worland from Cheyenne as a part of her Wyoming Hunger Initiative, and volunteered to help sign-in residents from the area seeking support and food through an unprecedented pandemic that has struck the country and impacted Wyoming residents. The Wyoming Hunger Initiative was started by Gordon in October of 2019 to help address childhood hunger issues in the Cowboy State. However, with the recent rise of coronavirus the goal of the initiative h... Full story
WORLAND – Washakie County schools along with schools all across the state have begun the transition to "alternative learning," which has resulted in schools in Washakie County School Districts No. 1 and No. 2 to transition to mostly distance or adapted learning. Both schools have adapted their learning plans due to the recent spread of the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) in Wyoming and across the country, and have since begun the transition to primarily online learning as requested by the s... Full story
WORLAND - In unprecedented times, the Washakie County commissioners met via phone conference on Tuesday to discuss bids for road projects and possible restrictions of camping to help prevent the future spread of novel coronavirus 2019. With spring and summer fast approaching, Commissioner Aaron Anderson brought to the attention of the other commissioners and County Attorney John Worrall a situation that happened in Gunnison County, Colorado, where county officials dealt with issues of an influx...
WASHAKIE COUNTY – Both Worland and Ten Sleep are beginning their transitions toward an online curriculum to accommodate social distancing guidelines that required schools to be shut down due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) which led to the school districts closing their doors on Monday, March 16 and Tuesday, March 17, respectfully. The order to close the schools came from a recommendation made by Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon after the first cases of the virus were confirmed in Wyoming l...
WORLAND – Through unconventional means the Worland school board met on Monday night and held a public meeting through phone and Zoom to discuss future plans for the school as well as approve a new board member. The new board member voted in by the existing members to replace former member Joe Bishop was Susan Scheuerman. Scheuerman is a former member of the board, and served previously from 1996-2016 and decided not to seek re-election in 2016. Scheuerman will remain in the position until the e...
TEN SLEEP - The Ten Sleep school board met on Monday night for their regularly scheduled meeting to set a date for their budget session, as well as approve a new contract for Principal Levi Collins. The school board ended the night in executive session to discuss personnel, and upon returned to open session to unanimously approve a contract extension for Collins through June of 2022. This extension came after Superintendent Jimmy Phelps’ contract was extended at last month’s meeting through Jun...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Commissioners met at their regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, March 3 to discuss the locks that are being updated in the Washakie County Courthouse, as well as receive reports from departments. Chris Hazen of the Washakie County Sheriff’s Office and Sheriff Steve Rakness came before the commissioners to discuss how these locks would allow the courthouse to be locked down in a moment rather than needing manpower to go around and lock all the doors in case of...
WORLAND- The Worland High School speech and debate team placed first in 3A sweepstakes while competing against 19 other schools in Riverton Feb. 28 and 29. Third place duo was to Guendylan Byrd and Michael Neufer, fifth place duo was Raeth Tolman and Cody Butterfield. Tolman also took third in drama and advanced in humor. Nick Bower and Dash Lloyd took sixth place in duo where all six duos advanced to the semifinals, Bower also placed third in humor. Every oratory that was taken advanced to the...
WORLAND – Pursuing a longtime dream and taking inspiration from her children and her everyday life, local massage therapist/author Angela Smart-Hetzel decided to pursue writing a book about people celebrating their gifts and seeing the wonderful in everyone. The children's book that she wrote is appropriately titled "Wonderful" and seeks to help children realize that everyone is special and has their own talents, no matter what the talent is. THE STORY PROCESS With the story already being f...
WORLAND – The Worland school board met at their regularly scheduled meeting on Monday night to approve different projects happening in the district, as well as begin discussions on making paid maternity leave a separate category from sick leave. Currently maternity leave is allowed as part of a sick leave bank that must be stored up as part of district policy 1.15. Under the proposed change, the district would make maternity leave a separate category, and guarantee six calendar weeks of paid l...
TEN SLEEP – Michael L. Burrington Jr. of Ten Sleep was bound over on additional charges to district court on two felony counts of aggravated assault and battery for an incident that occurred on Dec. 9, 2019, in Ten Sleep. These charges were bound over on Jan. 30, approximately four weeks after Burrington was initially charged with a felony charge of taking a deadly weapon into jail and a misdemeanor of wearing or carrying a concealed weapon. The initial felony charge of bringing a deadly w...
WORLAND – Dennis Jones, 45, a former Northern Wyoming News (NWN) employee, has been bound over to district court on three felony counts of theft that occurred during his employment at the paper. Jones was arrested on Aug. 15, 2019. After asking for several continuances, Jones officially waived his right to a preliminary hearing on Tuesday, Feb. 18, which bound the charges over to Fifth Judicial District Court. The three counts of felony theft state that Jones “did knowingly take or exercise una...
TEN SLEEP – The Washakie County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees met on Monday, Feb. 10 for their regularly scheduled meeting to discuss a new policy, new calendar, as well as perform a superintendent evaluation. The Ten Sleep school board finished the night in executive session to discuss personnel, as well as determine whether to extend the contract of current Superintendent Jimmy Phelps. Upon discussion and an evaluation of the performance that the superintendent has done, the board d...
WORLAND — The Washakie Prevention Coalition (WPC) is set to host the first Washakie Prevention Night this Friday night during Worland High School’s boys and girls varsity basketball games against Lovell. The WPC is a group of different entities whose mission “is to utilize community-wide collaboration to develop and implement effective strategies for preventing and reducing youth substance abuse in Washakie County.” Friday’s event is designed to show the youth in Washakie County that there is...
WORLAND – Meteorologist Don Day Jr. of DayWeather Radio Network kicked off WESTI Ag Days at the Worland Community Center with his keynote address regarding climate change. Day started the address for the Wyoming Extension’s Strategically and Technologically (WESTI) Ag Days by talking about the basic building blocks that constitute the current climate change scenarios that are being reported on by both the media and government. Day positioned himself as a “lukewarmer” or someone who underst...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Fair Board introduced their newest member at their regularly scheduled meeting on Monday night, Feb. 10. The new member is Shane Wiggins, a recently retired community member who loves rodeos and judging. Wiggins recently moved back to Worland with his wife in July, but had previously lived here for more than a dozen years after moving around the region. After one meeting without a full board, Wiggins will join Jeff Lapp who was voted as president, Marty Cross as v...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Commissioners unveiled an official design for the Washakie County Library during a public comment session at their regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 4. The proposed design would include space for the Worland-Ten Sleep Chamber of Commerce in the front of the building, along with offices for the chamber and Washakie County Youth Alternatives and the Washakie County Prevention Specialist office and meeting spaces upstairs. The plans for the proposed l...
THERMOPOLIS – Art comes in many forms, and one of the more difficult forms to excel at is gilding, which long-time Kirby resident Barry Bryant has taken the time to learn, and succeed with in the last 20-plus years. Gilding is a process that has been around for more than 4,600 years, and is where gold leaf, primarily 22-karat or higher yellow gold, is used in order to accent certain objects to embellish their appearance so that they are more valuable. Bryant and his wife, artist AB Word, were b... Full story
WORLAND – The Washakie County commissioners presented their initial draft of the Natural Resource Plan on Monday night at the Worland Community Center. According to the presentation, the update to the Natural Resource Plan comes after the passing of Wyoming House Bill 54 in 2019 to provide funds to the counties to “take actions specified in response related to federal land, water, air, mineral and other natural resource policies which may affect the tax base of the state, wildlife man...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Commissioners will be taking public comment regarding the Washakie County Natural Resource Plan (WCNRP) on Monday, Jan. 27 and Jan. 28. The meeting on Monday will be at the Worland Community Center in the conference room, and the meeting on Tuesday will be in Ten Sleep at the Ten Sleep Senior Center. Both meetings are from 6-8 p.m. This public comment period will help the commissioners gather information on the resources and industries in the area to take into a mee...