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WORLAND – Jaedan Jackson, 16, had the opportunity of a lifetime when he and his family flew out to New Orleans, Louisiana, to attend the College Football Playoff National Championship game the weekend leading up to the game on Monday, Jan. 13. Jackson went to the game with his mom Brittany Baker, dad Nick Baker and his brother Cade Jackson. These four all went down to New Orleans for a weekend filled with activities, concerts and the national championship to cap it all off. This trip was made p... Full story
WORLAND – Ashley Ann Leary was bound over from Fifth Judicial District Circuit Court to district court on one felony count of burglary. This charge carries a possible punishment of up to 10 years of prison time, and a possible fine of up to $10,000. According to an affidavit of probable cause, Leary was arrested in early November after a traffic stop where it was discovered in her vehicle that there was property belonging to Ryan Allen. The items were then shown to Allen, who has been incarcerat...
WORLAND –Michael L. Burrington Jr. was bound over from Fifth Judicial District Circuit Court to district court on one felony charge of taking a deadly weapon into jail and a misdemeanor of wearing or carrying a concealed weapon for an incident that occurred on Dec. 9, 2019. Burrington was bound over from circuit court to district court on Jan. 2, with no date set in district court for his arraignment at this time. The charge of taking a deadly weapon into jail carries a maximum penalty of 10 y...
WORLAND – Mathew B. Garcia, born in 1992, was bound over from Fifth Judicial District Circuit Court to district court on charges of aggravated assault and domestic battery. Aggravated assault is a felony offense, and carries a maximum penalty of up to 10 years in prison and a possible fine of up to $10,000 and domestic battery is a misdemeanor which is punishable with a possible jail sentence of up to six months, and a fine of up to $750. According to an affidavit of probable cause, Garcia w...
WORLAND – Which state has a longer coastline, Maine or Rhode Island? Do you know the answer? This is just a sample question that sixth through eighth graders from Worland Middle School were asked on Friday, Jan. 10, as part of the school competition for the National Geographic Geobee. The winner of the competition was sixth-grader Ethan Miller, with the runner-up being eighth-grader Jackson Richard. The deciding round came down to a final second tie-breaker question after they both got one out o...
TEN SLEEP – The Ten Sleep school board met on Monday, Jan. 13 for their regularly scheduled meeting to discuss minor changes to the attendance policy to possibly allow for excused absences for post-secondary institution visits. The board approved the change unanimously on first reading. Another policy concerning the Ten Sleep Recreation District changed verbiage to become more aligned with state statutes regarding final budget being reviewed and considered by the school board. This policy was a...
WORLAND – President Donald Trump signed into law on Dec. 20, 2019, a new regulation restricting the sale of tobacco products to anyone under the age of 21. The new law does not explicitly state when it goes into effect. The new law also only addresses purchasing of tobacco but not possession or use of tobacco. The new federal regulation, passed with the House spending bill, HR 1865 - Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020, specifically changes the sale of tobacco products to i...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Commissioners met for their first regularly scheduled meeting of 2020 on Jan. 7 to amend changes to the county’s policies regarding vacation, sick and compensation (comp) time. The amendments that were made to the verbiage included changing the range of years an employee accrues 15 days of vacation leave from a range of 10-14 years (from the previous 10-15 years), and earning 20 days of leave when working for the county 15 years of more. A paragraph was also str...
WORLAND – The Worland High School Speech and Debate team took first place in Class 3A in the Green River Speech and Debate tournament that took place last month on Dec. 13-14. According to speech and debate coach Rick Dorn, Trenton Keuntjes and Chase Johnson took first in novice policy debate. Zoe Fernandez took second in Congressional Debate, and Elizabeth Bleicher took second in novice Lincoln-Debate and fifth in novice oratory. Dorn said that this win should be expected from a smaller tournam...
WORLAND – Schools in Worland will be using a new Raptor security system as a preventative measure to ensure whoever is entering the building is safe to be with children starting this Monday, Jan. 6. The new security system will scan a driver's license from visitors wanting to enter the building, to make sure that the person entering the building is safe to be with students. This system will only be in place at the schools within the district, and not at offices for the district such as the c...
WORLAND – The Bighorn Basin Outdoor Recreation Collaborative (BBORC) is a volunteer group that has come together over the last year to understand what they can do as a group to make the Bighorn Basin area a tourist destination for activities rather than just a quick stop on a drive or fly over destination. According to co-chair Kristi Robison and the organization’s manual, the mission statement for the organization is “to promote, enhance, and develop sustainable outdoor recreation that encou...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Commissioners held a conference call with Dessa Dale from the Environment Resources Group (ERG) during their regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 17 to help determine basic guidelines that should be included in a Natural Resource Plan to be developed in the coming months. The commissioners discussed with her the importance of focusing on certain weeds in the county that have started spreading rapidly here or in surrounding counties in recent years. These w...
WORLAND – Former Worland man Jason Miller received a sentence of 50 to 100 years imprisonment following a sentencing hearing in the Fifth Judicial District Court in Worland on Wednesday, Dec. 18. Miller, 43, was found guilty of three felonies by a jury of six men and six women on Aug. 27, which included two charges of first degree sexual assault and sexual intrusion of a child under the age of 13 and one count of sexual assault and sexual intrusion of a minor under the age of 18. A trial origina...
WORLAND — The Washakie County Commissioners intend to offer their support for the governor’s Wyoming Pipeline Corridor Initiative (WPCI) after discussion at their regular meeting Tuesday. The discussion began with members who attended a recent discussion in Thermopolis on Dec. 11 pertaining to the WPCI. The WPCI recently came into the public eye after being worked in the upper levels of government since former Governor Matt Mead started discussions in 2010. The WPCI is currently in the ini...
WORLAND – At the short pre-Christmas break school board meeting on Monday night, the Worland school board members voted to retain their current positions on the school board as they were last year. Don Bryant was nominated and voted to remain as president, David Tommerup was voted on to remain vice president, Terri Logan was voted to remain clerk and Duane Whitlock was voted on to remain as the treasurer. Superintendent David Nicholas and Business Manager Jack Stott gave an update regarding s... Full story
WORLAND – Longtime Worland resident and longtime visitor of the Washakie County Library Mike Healy has donated $1 million for the Washakie County Commissioners to use at their discretion in the remodeling of the Kennedy Ace Hardware building into the new library once the process officially begins. Healy got into contact with Commissioner Terry Wolf around the time the commissioners decided to purchase the Kennedy Ace building to start talking about a substantial donation. Healy wanted to do t...
WORLAND – Everything started a few years ago when Washakie County School District No. 1 Board President Don Bryant overheard a student talking to a friend in Taco Johns about how she was going to drop out of school. Bryant intervened to try and figure out what the district could do to help her graduate, and eventually he handed her a diploma when she walked through commencement exercises. That life changing moment led Bryant to challenge teachers to make an impact in student’s lives every day, a...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Fair Board met Monday night and discussed getting more organized for the future, and ensuring that responsibilities are communicated with the Washakie County Extension office. The meeting ended with fair board chair person David Doyle announcing that he would be stepping down once his term expires on Dec. 31, leaving the board with the four members of Marty Cross, Beth Shaffer, Jeff Lapp and Tamera Drake until his replacement is found. Doyle, who was originally a...
WORLAND – The Ten Sleep Parade of Lights will kick off this Saturday at 6 p.m. in downtown Ten Sleep. The theme for this year’s Parade of Lights is “Tis the Season to be Freezin’” and there will be at least eight floats in the parade, which is sponsored by the Ten Sleep/Hyattville Lions Club. The parade will run down main street and will feature burn barrels up and down the sidewalks to help keep viewers warm during the festivities. The announcers booth being placed in front of the Sleepy Co...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Commissioners met on Tuesday for their regularly scheduled meeting, and were approached by Mike Healy for a “significant” donation towards funding for the remodel of the Washakie County Library that will be moving into Kennedy’s Ace Hardware on Big Horn Ave. Healy said that he is donating because his history with Worland and the library building goes so far back that he can remember when it used to be the hospital, and believes that the library is an integra...
WORLAND – The Worland school board approved bowling as a club activity unanimously on Monday, Nov. 25, during their regular meeting. With bowling being approved as a club activity, student bowlers will be allowed to receive excused absences for tournaments, as well as the opportunity to advertise the club in the schools, to promote the scholarships that are available with the sport. During the meeting, the school board also passed a school calendar for the 2020-21 school year, with school s...
THERMOPOLIS – On Thursday, Nov. 21, Wyoming State Senate Vice President Ogden Driskill (R-Devil's Tower) and District 20 Wyoming State Senator Wyatt Agar (R-Thermopolis) held an open discussion with Thermopolis residents and concerned customers of the Star Plunge and the Days Inn about Senate File 116. According to Driskill, Senate File 116 was intended to nudge businesses to sign long-term contacts with the state in order to prevent the businesses from living on a month to month deal with t...
WORLAND – The Worland school board narrowly voted Monday night at the monthly meeting to approve girls fast-pitch softball as a sanctioned varsity sport. Doubt and concern were expressed regarding declining enrollment in the district, as well as uncertainty about the budget this upcoming year, but the measure allowing for softball to become a varsity sanctioned sport passed by a vote of 4-3. Voting in favor of the motion to make softball a varsity sport were School Board President Don Bryant, V...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Prevention Coalition will be having a survey sent out through the Wyoming Survey and Analysis Center (WYSAC) in order to gather information about what Washakie County residents believe is happening with the local area youth regarding alcohol use and substance use. According to Sheri Gunderson and Sarah Garcia from Youth Alternatives, about one-third of Washakie County households should have received a letter from WYSAC within the last couple of weeks regarding t...
WORLAND – A grant has been awarded to the Washakie County Victim/Witness Coordinator Office for a new camera specialized to help show more physical evidence with sexual abuse cases. According to Washakie County Victim/Witness Coordinator Bob Vines, the Department of Justice Office of Violence against Women Grant of just under $62,000, will be for the new camera equipment and for the training of 16 individuals to learn how to use the equipment and software. Most likely the training and e...