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WORLAND – Agriculture and horticulture Extension educator Caitlin Youngquist of Worland will be headed to Belize later this month to help establish a small vegetable farm and compost system for Stann Creek Ecumenical College, the high school in Dangriga Town, Stann Creek District, Belize, Central America. Prior to her trip, Youngquist is holding a seed drive. According to Youngquist, seeds in Belize are very expensive and she is looking to bring some with her. For the seed drive, fruit and vegetable seeds up to three years old can be d...
WORLAND – After having public forums for each of the three superintendent candidates, the Washakie County School Board District No. 1 announced their unanimous decision on Friday, March 4, that Tawn Argeris out of Buckeye, Arizona, will replace outgoing Superintendent David Nicholas. The school board held their meeting following up the public forums on Wednesday, March 2. Tawn Argeris’ brother Brett Argeris recused himself from any discussion and participation in the search once Tawn Argeris applied for the position, according to school board c...
WORLAND – The Worland Robotics Team traveled to CY Middle School in Casper on Feb. 19 for their state competition and brought home a fourth-place finish. The robotics team members are – Oran Green, Jackson Richard, Luke Hamer and Xander Smart. Hamer and Richard are the only two returning members from last year's team. According to co-coach Steve Radabaugh, preparation for the competition started in the middle of September, where it was announced the theme for this year's competition was 'Fr...
A group of state lawmakers filed a bill that bars transgender women and girls in Wyoming from participating in high school and collegiate sports that match their gender identity. The Senate voted 25-4-1 to introduce the bill and it was referred to the Education Committee on Feb. 18. The “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act,” or Senate File 51, is sponsored by Senator Wendy Schuler, R-Evanston, and six other lawmakers. In addition to implementing a ban, the measure seeks to protect students who may experience retaliation for reporting fellow stude...
WORLAND – The Worland High School speech and debate team took first place overall in 3A at the Riverton tournament Feb. 19. Helping lead the team to the first-place victory was Kinley Anderson who was the tournament champion in drama and Elizabeth Bleicher, tournament champion in Lincoln-Douglas debate. Other placers at the Riverton meet were: Gabe Gould received second place in congress, followed by Zach Fernandez in third. Anderson and Bleicher both advanced to super congress. Chase Johnson a...
WORLAND – The bike path just north of the canal on Airport Road will hopefully be repaired this summer after the retaining wall caused cracking along the pavement. According to Washakie County Planner David Anderson, a couple of summers ago, the damage started with the pavement surface cracking north of the canal bridge. “What has happened is that the retaining wall is settling vertically and it’s also starting to shift away from the bike path, which creates gaps, which forms cracks in the asphalt,” Anderson said. “We’ve tried to repair those a...
WORLAND – This year at WESTI Ag Days in Worland, the serious topic of mental health was discussed, with the help of Darla Tyler-McSherry and her program Ask in Earnest. Ask in Earnest is an organization put together by Tyler-McSherry, a teacher at Montana State University in Billings. Tyler-McSherry gave a presentation and a workshop on the topic of farmer mental health, as well as suicide in the farm and ranch community. According to the Ask in Earnest website, Tyler-McSherry started the organization after her father, who was a farmer, took h...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Fair board announced at their regular meeting Feb. 15 that they would start taking entries for the fair book cover and the 2022 Washakie County Fair theme. Submissions from any Washakie County resident may include just the theme or theme idea and suggested cover for the fair book based on the proposed theme being submitted. Residents are encouraged to make their own cover for the fair book and submit it to the board. Last year the fair board did not receive any entries for the fair theme or book cover. The Washakie...
TEN SLEEP – At their regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, Feb. 14, Washakie County School Board District No. 2 announced that they would start accepting bids for renovations to the old Masonic Lodge in Ten Sleep. The school board is looking to accept bids to remodel the building into a board room, complete with a couple of offices as well. The board will be accepting bids for this after completing the process of getting specifications for an architect, according to WCSD No. 2 Superintendent, Jimmy Phelps. Purchased by the school in 2016, t...
WORLAND – Gloria Marcus, as well as 10 others, from the Nowood Improvement and Water Service District outside of Ten Sleep came to Tuesday’s regular meeting of the Washakie County Commissioners regarding the lack of a board for the district. According to Marcus, the subdivision stumbled across this issue after receiving a notice from a resident of the subdivision, wanting to know if they wanted to opt out of being a service district and become a Homeowners Association. “I called the courthouse to find out what was happening and found out that...
WORLAND – The Green Hills Golf Course Foundation will be holding their second annual Green Hills Golf Course Foundation Tournament along with a raffle on May 28. According to Foundation Vice Chairman Ernie Skretteberg, the Foundation was created after he was approached by Donnie Bjorhus with Sagebrush Sports, LLC, about starting a foundation after regular golfers at the course found themselves constantly wondering what could be done to improve the course, and how to begin the process. “Donnie approached several of us regular golfers about put...
WORLAND – For more than 15 years, the Worland Senior Center has been an AARP Foundation tax-aide site and this year is no exception with the free tax-return service starting Feb. 7 and continuing until April 13. According to coordinator Sherry Stottler, each year the preparers provide help to about 150 residents. The preparers are certified to prepare taxes by the IRS under the auspices of the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance/Tax Counseling for the elderly. Stottler said each preparer goes through 40 hours of training in order to become c...
WORLAND – Ann and Don Day of Worland will be celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary on Saturday, Feb. 19. The two first met when they lived in Casper. Ann Day was working at the Casper Commentary, when Don Day’s parents stopped in to buy a coat. “They told me to go check her out,” Don said. Ann and Don were married five months later in Casper. They moved to Worland in 1984. Don worked at what is now known as Rocky Mountain Power for 32 years, and worked for the Worland school system for 10 years. Ann worked at a Microsoft company in Casp...
A Tennessee school board sparked controversy last week by banning Art Spiegelman’s ‘Maus’, a graphic novel that tells Spiegelman’s father’s story surviving the Holocaust and Auschwitz, citing the book’s inappropriate language and “nudity.” Before last week, I had never heard of the book. So, I decided to check it out. Spiegelman’s abstract story depicts Jews as mice, Nazis as cats and Poles as pigs. The “nudity” in question is naked mice. Yes, you read that right. The school board pulled this book from curriculum over naked mice. People ar... Full story
WORLAND – The Worland High School cheer and dance team brought home third place in the Class 3A hip hop portion of the State Spirit Competition at the Ford Wyoming Center in Casper on Jan. 28. Worland scored 77.150 points, behind state champion Star Valley with 93.65 points and second-place Lovell with 77.98 points. The competition showcased cheer and dance talent from all over the state, including WHS who competed in the hip hop and game day cheer categories. The teams were coached by Nickie L...
TEN SLEEP – At the Ten Sleep Town Council meeting Tuesday, Feb. 1, Justin Smith of Ten Sleep Brewery discussed an upcoming event would be an economic boost to the community this summer. The economic opportunity comes as a team of off-road motorcyclists who will be stopping overnight in Ten Sleep this summer on their 800- to 1,000-mile long route. According to Smith, the route will bring the motorcyclists through Ten Sleep and Hyattville, then up to Paintrock Lake Lodge. The route was organized by Backcountry Discovery Routes (BDR). According t...
WORLAND – Mexican fare returned to 1608 Big Horn Avenue in Worland this year with the opening of Los Tapatios, a Mexican-American restaurant. Los Tapatios opened Jan. 17 under the ownership of Alicia Morquecho and her business partner, Mireya Sanchez. The location was the former Habañero restaurant. Morquecho has been working in the restaurant business since she was 14 years old, and Sanchez has a restaurant in Evanston, where they got the idea to open another restaurant in Worland. "We have pe...
WORLAND – The Washakie Medical Center Hospital Board, at its Jan. 25 meeting, received a report that Banner Health’s Patient Access Services implementation of new processes to be compliant with the federal government’s No Surprises Act was underway.The No Surprises Act went into effect Jan. 1 and establishes federal standards designed to protect patients from balance billing for defined items and services provided by specific doctors, hospitals and air ambulance carriers on an out-of-network or self-pay basis. According to the Centers for Medic...
WORLAND – The course of 2021 was a rollercoaster for many businesses due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic's impact on supply as well as the impact from customers being quarantined. In Worland, residents shopped locally, helping local businesses thrive in what would otherwise be an absence of sales. Over the course of 2021, sawtheir sales improve, especially around Christmas. According to the owner, Desiree Ross, her Christmas sales were better than normal. Ross made several changes to her b...
WORLAND – During their Zoom meeting on Thursday, Jan. 20, the Washakie County Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) received information on the benefits of the emPOWER Program by Sheryl Roub with the Wyoming Department of Health. Roub explained what the program is and what it does, as well as why it is important to have in a crisis. According to a presentation provided by Roub, the Health and Human Services (HHS) emPOWER Program is a mission-critical partnership between the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (AS...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Commissioners received a report on the development of the Big Horn River Blueway Trail project during the regular meeting Tuesday, Feb. 1. The vision for the project would be to create a watertrail that would allow river enthusiasts to travel the length of the Big Horn River from the Wedding of the Waters south of Thermopolis to the Big Horn Canyon National Recreation Area in Lovell, while offering a wide variety of opportunities, including watching wildlife, ever changing scenery, fishing, hunting and camping. I...
WORLAND – Retired Marine, pastor and actor Ken Bevel is this year’s guest speaker for the ninth annual CatchAFire. Bevel, a native of Jacksonville, Florida, spent 20 years doing active service in the United State Marine Corps before retiring to serve in the ministry. According to his biography at Premiere Speakers Bureau, he served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan while in the military. He currently serves as the pastor of Membership and Local Missions at Sherwood Baptist Church. Bevel may be recognized for his roles in the films “Fi...
TEN SLEEP –The Washakie County School Board District No. 2 Board made changes to the extended leave policy to benefit employees.The board approved on first reading Monday, Jan. 10, policy 3.42 and 4.18, Extended Leave with or Without Pay. According to Superintendent Jimmy Phelps, several changes to this policy were approved. The board may approve an additional 10 days of paid leave where the employee pays the costs of a substitute. These costs will be deducted from the employee’s pay. Also in the policy, an employee may make more than one req...
I was introduced to American Sign Language (ASL) at a pretty young age. I had a deaf friend growing up, and am hard of hearing myself, not to mention my mom used to be a special-education teacher, so she learned it as well. Some of my earliest memories involve being in school every morning, going over what day it was and what we were having for lunch in ASL. I recall some of it to this day. There are many benefits to learning ASL, especially at a young age. These benefits help the child now, as... Full story
Elon Musk got Time’s 2021 Person of the Year and I’m not having it I’m on Twitter the other night and I saw a tweet from Stephen King stating, “I admire Elon Musk, but the real People of the Year are the doctors, nurses, first responders, and scientists who have worked so gallantly — there is no other word — to fight this deadly, constantly transforming virus.” I had to go back and reread this. Elon Musk got Person of the Year? The space guy who named his kid a random jumble of letters and symbols? That guy? I looked it up, just to be sure King... Full story