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TEN SLEEP – Ten Sleep Superintendent Jimmy Phelps reported to the Ten Sleep school board on Monday, Nov. 11, that the Select Committee on School Facilities voted unanimously to recommend to the Wyoming Joint Appropriations Committee to appropriate $2,500,000 for the design of a new school. The School Facilities Commission visited and toured the current Ten Sleep School earlier this year on June 26. “We are anxious to see if the appropriations committee picks up our request,” Phelps said. The r...
WORLAND – The Support Our Troops program has been sending packages to soldiers overseas since April 2003. This idea was started by Worland American Legion members Don Hall, Todd White, Jim Bailey and Herm Emmett. Each month the Legion members will receive a list of a select number of soldiers to send a care package to, which primarily includes members from the Big Horn Basin who have been deployed overseas. These first packages were sent in response to troops entering Afghanistan in March 2...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Fair Board met on Monday night and discussed concerns that were brought up at last month’s meeting. The board was approached by Janet Benson, who was representing both the Washakie County Extension Office where she works, and the 4H-Council, in order to help create dialogue between the two sides. Discussions were had regarding new protocols that the fair board would need to discuss in the coming months to smooth out certain aspects before next year’s fair, which...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Commissioners closed the sale during their meeting on Tuesday for the purchase of the Kennedy Ace Hardware Building at 801 Big Horn Ave and agreed to also purchase the Kennedy Ace Rental building at 124 North Eighth Street. The morning began with a discussion with public and officials alike regarding the additional building being purchased on Eighth Street. This brought about concerns with the building regarding the difficulty of traffic flow on Eighth Street r...
WORLAND – The State Drama competition may be happening on Dec. 5-7 in Laramie, but the Worland High School Drama team is preparing hard this month to win the competition for the third year in a row for Class 3A. Being able to pull off a three-peat is difficult in any form of competition. Sports teams attempting to pull off these feats work night and day to pull off such an accomplishment, but the drama department does that much and more to ensure that every part of their play is perfect for t...
WORLAND – Typically art can take weeks and even months to finish and perfect, but the Mammoth Quick Draw challenges artists from around the region to complete entire masterpieces from start to finish, or finish an already existing piece of art in under an hour this Friday starting at 5:30 p.m. at the Washakie Museum and Cultural Center. This event started eight years ago, and will feature 32 artists this year during the insanity that is the Mammoth Quick Draw. One of those 32 artists who will b...
WORLAND – The Worland school board met on Monday night to discuss the numbers surrounding the future of softball in Worland, and approved a one-time stipend for classified and certified staff in the district. Worland High School Activities Director Mark Mortimer brought forth an estimate for the initial costs to support a softball team, as well as a list of 23 girls that would be interested in playing in the initial season from Worland and the Basin/Greybull area, but School Board Clerk Terri L...
TEN SLEEP – Ten Sleep athletics recently joined the National Federation of State High School Associations , or National Federation of High Schools (NFHS) streaming service to provide livestreams of sporting events to people who are unable to attend the games in person. "We all definitely have a little bit of a learning curve," Ten Sleep Athletic Director Sarah Novak said. "I know that I do since I am responsible for putting in all of the information." According to Novak, Ten Sleep currently o...
WORLAND – Worland High School students from Brenda Trippel's family and consumer science courses have helped out over the years by providing custom embroidering for different departments throughout Washakie County School District No. 1. According to Trippel, different departments, such as sports teams and activities come to her and ask her class to make personally embroidered objects, and the respective department will pay the Family and Consumer Science group in order for Trippel to purchase m...
WORLAND – A Worland man was bound over to Fifth Judicial District Court on 15 counts of theft, along with charges related to exploitation of a vulnerable adult. The charges that have been filed against Randall Kent Schneider, born in 1963, are as follows: felony charges of one count of intentional exploitation of a vulnerable adult, intentional neglect of a vulnerable adult and nine counts of theft over $1,000. He has also been charged with misdemeanors of reckless exploitation of a v...
WORLAND – The Worland High School Black Thunder marching band received a superior rating at the 2019 State Marching Band Festival in Casper on Saturday, Oct. 19. Black Thunder, led by Chad Rose and Frank Harding, along with drum majors senior Caleb Fraser and junior Anja Sheesley, received this honor and was one of three 3A schools to garner this honor. Black Thunder played highlights of “La Nouba, a Cirque Du Soleil” show, arranged by Jay Dawson. “We work hard to get recognized with a superio...
WORLAND - Worland Middle School students from social studies teacher Joe Winkler's classes took a field trip to Legend Rock State Archaeological Site on Oct. 3 to learn about the history of Legend Rock, and do activities to help learn more about the area and processes that have gone on there for thousands of years. According to Hot Springs Travel and Tourism, Legend Rock is on the route to Meeteetse from Thermopolis, at the Hamilton Dome turn-off. According to site officials, Legend Rock is a...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Commissioners approved renewing a contract with Guardian Flight to provide medical transportation services to Washakie County residents during Tuesday’s regular meeting at the courthouse. Guardian Flight, recently acquired by Air Medical Group Holdings Inc. (AMGH), operates a fleet of approximately 100 fixed and rotor wing aircraft dedicated to air medical flights in the Upper Midwest, Mountain West, Southwest, Alaska and Hawaii. With more than 800 professional sta...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Fair Board met on Monday night to talk about possibly condensing down the amount of days entertainment is available for the 2020 Washakie County Fair, as well as starting the entertainment earlier. These discussions led to a general consensus of reducing entertainment nights down to three from six last year, as well as starting evening events earlier, but an official decision was not made on these potential changes. Another discussion that went on was the p...
WORLAND – After Shopko closed down in March, the employees of the pharmacy were looking for a new home to provide medication to the city of Worland, and they found their home with the opening of the Worland Pharmacy at 1095 Circle Avenue on Sept. 30. They had originally anticipated a grand opening date of Aug. 1, but unfortunately had a few delays, such as weather, that caused the store to open just over a week ago, according to pharmacist David Ahlstrom. Even though it was a six- to seven-month...
WORLAND – Becoming a teacher appeared to be the perfect fit for Ashley Weaver, with teaching being a large part of her family as a whole, she became a new fourth grade teacher at West Side Elementary this 2019-20 school year. "I have always had wonderful teachers and enjoyed being in school more than most children," Weaver said. "My mom suggested that teaching would be a perfect fit for me and what I wanted out of life." After graduating with honors from Murray State University in Kentucky, W...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Commissioners met on Tuesday to open the four bids that were submitted for the repairs to a failed retaining wall along a section of the bike path along Airport Road. The four bids were from Jorgensen Geotechnical LLC out of Jackson, Inberg Miller Engineers out of Riverton, Strata out of Gillette and WJE Engineers Architect Scientists out of Lakewood, Colorado. County Planner David Anderson stressed that it is more important to consider qualifications over bids w...
WORLAND – The Worland school board met Monday night to discuss how the first month of school went, as well as the future of girls fast-pitch softball in the Worland community. Softball was brought up and discussed by Superintendent David Nicholas, and Athletics Director/Wyoming High School Activities Association Representative Mark Mortimer to discuss what was next for softball possibly becoming a sanctioned varsity sport in Worland. After the Laramie school board voted to become the eighth scho...
WORLAND – Rachel’s Challenge has been a part of promoting kind acts every day through schools across the country the past 18 years, and on Monday, Sept. 16 and Tuesday, Sept. 17, the program came back to promote that message to Worland area schools. The first year of the program tells the story of Rachel Scott and how she has been able to inspire millions, even after being the first victim of the Columbine High School shooting in 1999. This story was told by her uncle, Larry Scott, who to this d...
By SETH ROMSA Staff Writer WORLAND – A purchase agreement was signed on Tuesday by the Washakie County Commissioners, and Gerry and Lee Kennedy to agree in principle to purchase the Kennedy’s Ace Hardware building, with the intent of moving the Washakie County Library to the building. The purchase agreement is for $525,000 that was generated from a one-cent tax that was enforced from 2009 until 2012 and has been in a savings fund gaining interest for purchase of or construction of a new lib...
TEN SLEEP – The Washakie County School District No. 2 School Board met on Monday, Sept. 9 to discuss what would happen with the future of the football program, and give final approval for employees in Ten Sleep schools to conceal carry firearms Five teachers were officially approved for concealed carry at Ten Sleep School during executive session on Monday night, after they were able to pass a psychological examination, a class put on by the Worland Police Department, and a drug test to g...
WORLAND – Washakie County School District No. 1 teacher Sharee Barrus is attending (remotely and onsite) Saint Mary's College of California, for a full-time year of study focusing on how best to help first graders who are struggling with beginning reading and writing. The study is part of a training program that will qualify Barrus to be a Reading Recovery teacher leader. The award was generously funded by Pioneer Valley Books. "Reading Recovery is a short-term, early intervention program for f... Full story
WORLAND – Rachel’s Challenge is set to make a return to Worland Middle School and Worland High School on Monday and Tuesday This will be the second year in a row that the program has come to Worland, and it will come with a little bit of a twist, as sixth graders will receive a little bit different of a program, while all of the other grades will receive the same program that they did last year. Rachel’s Challenge was set up 18 years ago by Rachel’s father Darrell, just two years after the Colum...
WORLAND – Officials from various organizations in Worland and Ten Sleep met on Wednesday, Sept. 4, to discuss what would happen in the case of a major snowstorm and cold spell in the Washakie County area. This meeting was the annual Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) which is hosted in order to discuss different scenarios. The meeting started out with the laying out of a scenario which depicted nearly two feet of snow accumulated, negative 25-35 degree temperatures f...
WORLAND – Spring testing in Worland brought about positive results for Worland area schools. According to the Wyoming Department of Education, the Wyoming Test of Proficiency and Progress (WY-TOPP) is a system of assessments that will help determine the level that each child is performing at, with this test just recently replacing the Proficiency Assessments for Wyoming Students (PAWS) which had been administered to Wyoming students since 2005-06. These scores are being compared district by d...