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McGarvin-Moberly VP retiring at the end of 2017 WORLAND – Worland asphalt contractor McGarvin-Moberly Construction Vice President Gary Bertsch has decided that after 47 years working for the company it is time to retire. His last official day with the company is Dec. 31 with Kevin Craft taking over his position at the start of 2018. "It's been a very challenging job and really rewarding. I can't say enough good about the company. It's been a good company all the years I've worked for them. McGar...
Small Business Saturday promotion gives local shoppers a chance to win prizes WORLAND – With Thanksgiving now just a memory, it's time to shift gears for the upcoming holiday season. Many people head out to larger communities or fill their shopping carts online to take advantage of advertised steals and deals. To encourage people to save the gas and shut off the computer both the Worland-Ten Sleep Chamber of Commerce and the Thermopolis-Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce are offering huge i...
Ten Sleep Little Shoppers helps students buy presents for family and friends WORLAND – There is nothing more heartwarming for the giver and the recipient than being able to give someone you love a Christmas gift that you picked out yourself on Christmas morning. For over 40 years, Little Shoppers, a one-day only shopping venue now sponsored by the Ten Sleep United Methodist Women in conjunction with the Ten Sleep Senior Center, has been helping create those heartwarming moments for Ten Sleep School students. This year Little Shoppers will be F...
WORLAND – In August, just a few short months after graduation, Emily Bryant began her career as an optometrist joining Dr. Carl Cottrell at Worland Vision Clinic. Before graduation, Bryant spoke with Cottrell about the possibility of coming to work with him at Worland Vision. Bryant said that Cottrell agreed to have her join the clinic as he was getting busy. She also said that her joining the business gave Cottrell an excuse to remodel the office. "We had talked about my possibly coming back a...
TEN SLEEP – Monday evening, on first reading, the Ten Sleep School Board approved the Washakie County School District No. 2 Security and Privacy of Digital Infrastructure, Systems and Data policy in accordance with Wyoming Statute 21-2-202. “Last legislative session a statute was passed requiring the district pass a policy concerning student data privacy and then we were told at the WBE (Wyoming Board of Education) [meeting] that the Department of Education would come out with some guidelines for us. Just a few weeks ago we got those guidelines...
WORLAND – When Worland Ford-Chrysler closed its doors on Feb. 15, it seemed that the legacy of 500 Big Horn Avenue being the longest-running automobile dealership in Worland had come to an end. That is until Midway Auto, which opened in Worland in 2006, purchased the building to expand their Worland used car and RV (recreational vehicle) dealership. Worland Midway Auto Sales Manager Ryan Green said, "We were always looking to expand in the area and we've been looking for properties. We knew t...
TEN SLEEP – During the Ten Sleep School Board meeting Monday evening the board was informed by Ten Sleep School Superintendent Jimmy Phelps he wants to create a task force to create a policy pursuant to Wyoming statute 21-3-132. The statute gives school boards the option to adopt rules and regulations allowing employees to possess firearms on campus. “Last month we had Sheriff [Steve] Rakness here, we had public comment, and I would like to create a task force to actually come up with a policy to present to you. I have asked for volunteers amon...
TEN SLEEP – Ten Sleep School art teacher Dustin Stephenson has been passing on his passion for art to students for 28 years, so far. First for 16 years in Nebraska and now an additional 12 years in Ten Sleep, drawing out amazing artistic talent from every one of his K-12 students. "I could lose everything and I would still have my art work. Trying to put that passion into the kids and getting them exciting about something when they are little makes a huge difference. Coming from a bigger s...
WORLAND – In preparation for the upcoming Wyoming State Drama Competition Nov. 30 – Dec. 2 in Casper, Worland High School drama club members will be performing their entries for the community at 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday evening in the Worland High School Little Theater. "I'm taking 50 [students] to state. We have to do technical events, we have to do acting, we have to do singing; just a variety of stuff," Worland High School drama coach Rick Dorn said. Last year the Worland Drama Club earned...
WORLAND - During the October hospital board meeting Thursday evening, board members learned that the hospital had recently installed an infant security system that would make infant and child abduction from the hospital extremely difficult, if not impossible. “That system is something that you are going to see in major medical centers. I don’t know what other small community facilities have around here but this is probably the best. This is the same system that we put in Banner Children’s Medical Center and Banner Desert Medical Center where...
WORLAND – The sixth annual Goblin Gallop begins at the Ten Sleep rodeo grounds at 5:30 p.m. Saturday evening. The Goblin Gallop is a community fun run around the town in Halloween costumes with hot cocoa and cookies after. The run is a one-and-a-half- or three-mile run. “I usually have a little fire in a burn barrel after and people just hang out and eat cookies and cocoa and cheer on people still running. Some people only do one lap and walk it and some people run it,” Goblin Gallop organizer Megan Truman said. Dirty Sally’s will be selling...
WORLAND – Worland Gottsche welcomed new outpatient orthopedic therapist Sherman Skelton to their family. Skelton started with Gottsche Aug. 23. Born and raised in Thermopolis, Skelton originally had planned a different future for himself and initially started majoring in biology but an event occurred which completely changed his plans. "Right after high school I took an EMT class in Thermopolis and ran on the ambulance crew and worked in the emergency room. It was then; there were a few patients...
WORLAND –Soon, Ten Sleep residents will be able to recycle many different items, thanks to the resourcefulness of a handful of Ten Sleep residents named Renew U Recycling, gaining the support of the Washakie County Conservation District, The Town of Ten Sleep, The Ten Sleep FFA chapter and the Ten Sleep transfer station. For the past couple of years, Ten Sleep residents have been able to recycle their corrugated cardboard, newspapers and office paper in a special recycling trailer located near the Ten Sleep Town Hall. That trailer will be u...
TEN SLEEP – Ten Sleep resident Ken Orchard was inducted into the East Denver High School Hall of Fame during an official recognition induction ceremony held in the Calloway Gym of the school, Oct. 7 for his tremendous achievements in wrestling in 1953 and 1954. "It's kind of a neat honor, the hall of famers down there go clear back to 1924. All athletics are included, boys and girls and there are 234 [inductees] so far. They pick one person for each ten year period and I was selected for the 1...
Ten Sleep implements plan to improve literacy By Tracie Mitchell Staff Writer TEN SLEEP – During the Ten Sleep School Board's October meeting board, members heard from Ten Sleep School Improvement Coordinator/ Social Studies teacher Dane Weaver about an implemented plan to improve Ten Sleep School student's literacy. The plan was created to address the low reading and English scores Ten Sleep high school students received on last year's ACT and Aspire tests. "Last time we were here [September s...
WORLAND – About a mile of Medicine Lodge Creek, from the Medicine Lodge State Archeological Site headquarters downstream to the end of Medicine Lodge Wildlife Habitat Management area, is receiving a much needed facelift to address issues caused by bank erosion, and to improve aquatic habitat and create fish passage. The project started in September and is expected to take about eight weeks to complete. “This project, we have about a mile of Medicine Lodge Creek that we are repairing. Downstream, the stream has moved about 150 feet since 199...
TEN SLEEP – During the Ten Sleep School Board meeting Monday evening, Washakie County Sheriff Steve Rakness spoke to board members and public attendees about the positives and the negatives of having school employees carry a handgun and the requirements that would need to be met. Earlier this year the Wyoming Legislature passed Wyoming statute 21-3-132 giving the board of trustees the option to adopt rules and regulations allowing employees to possess firearms on campus. In an earlier interview Ten Sleep School Superintendent Jimmy Phelps s...
WORLAND – Banner Health Washakie Medical Center is having a grand opening from 5-7 p.m. today to showcase the community’s new hospital which was three and a half years in the making. The entire community is invited to attend, look around at their leisure and meet with the people who made this event possible. “It’s an amazing facility. It’s truly one of the best that we can put into this community and I personally feel that Worland deserves the best. I’m incredibly pleased to be able to show it to our community. We are opening the doors to ev...
WORLAND – The Council for the Bighorn Range held a public workshop Wednesday evening in the Worland Community Center Complex to educate interested persons on the dangers of the state taking control of managing public lands. “There are a variety of bills out there now to change how our public lands are managed and shifting the control from our local land managers to state control. One of the biggest things that you see in almost every one of these bills is to exempt or exclude the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 from public land man...
WORLAND – The 23rd annual Gorgeous Gals Gala is Saturday at the Worland Community Center Complex. The event, put on by the Gorgeous Gals and the Worland Business and Professional Women’s organization starts at 6 p.m. with a reception, a dinner around 7 p.m. and entertainment around 8 p.m. During the reception event hostess Wendy Press Sweeny stated that there will be short presentations on the different resources that are available in the community for community members. “We are going to have Jay Stallings speaking on behalf of the hospi...
TEN SLEEP – During a work session Tuesday afternoon the Ten Sleep Town Council went over several items including ironing out the details of the upcoming Hunter Fest on Oct. 14 with Worland Ten Sleep Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Jenn Rasmussen. During a conference call, Rasmussen explained to the council that Rattlesnake Ridge would be playing from noon – 2 p.m. and that instead of the usual fare of hamburgers, there would be a chili cook-off with three different entities serving three different types of chili; red, green and a pum...
WORLAND – Saturday, to celebrate National Public Lands Day, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) along with community volunteers will collect seeds to be planted during next year’s National Public Lands Day to rehabilitate public land damaged by the Banjo Fire in August. “The plants that we will be collecting seeds from are Indian Paintbrush, Annual Lupine, Gardener’s Salt Bush and Tahoka Daisy. We will be collecting all the seeds by hand because they are all easy plants to collect seeds from,” BLM Public Affairs Sarah Beckwith said. “It’s a goo...
WORLAND – The final Washakie Farmers Market of the season is Saturday with the grand finale being the 'Great Pumpkin' weigh-off at 11 a.m. with last year's winner Ron Hoffman from Riverton bringing his pumpkin again this year and Rattlesnake Ridge playing starting at 9 a.m. "This is our last market for the season. We started last year supporting the big pumpkin weigh-in. This will be the second year that we have made it a part of the farmers market. It's amazing the number of people that are i...
WORLAND – Wyoming Highway Patrol Trooper Erin Devries has been promoted to lieutenant and has taken over the position of first line supervisor for the Wyoming Highway Patrol’s Division G, Worland. Devries is the only female first line supervisor in the command staff right now and is the third female in the history of the Wyoming Highway Patrol to reach First Line Supervisor. “It’s very exciting and a step in the right direction for my career. Right now, I’m learning everything and will figure it out once I’ve been here a little bit longer,” De...
WORLAND – For 25 years Wyoming Water Rights Consulting has been helping property owners from around the state identify, understand and manage their water rights. They even go on-site to assess the conditions of the water rights and water facilities and assist clients with changing and obtaining water rights. "I started the company back in 1992 to offer professional water rights management services to folks throughout the state. I was getting questions all the time when I worked for the state [...