Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Sorted by date Results 26 - 50 of 557
THERMOPOLIS – Well over 100 concerned citizens attended the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (WDEQ) meeting about the proposed Moneta Divide Gas Field discharge permit Tuesday, May 21, in the Hot Springs County High School auditorium, with many leaving unsatisfied with the few answers that were given. The meeting was to receive public comment and provide information regarding to the renewal of WDEQES permit WY0002062 to expand the discharge of produced water from the Moneta Divide Gas Field operated by Aethon Energy. The d...
TEN SLEEP – For most couples, learning that they are pregnant, is an exciting event. Ten Sleep residents Levi and Savanah Collins received five times the excitement recently when they learned that Savanah was pregnant with quintuplets. Savanah, who is just a little over 13 weeks pregnant, learned during an ultrasound that she was pregnant with more than one baby. "Had a regular ultrasound, just a regular check-up and they said that this isn't what it should look like. It was the nurse that s...
TEN SLEEP – Ten Sleep FFA students received awards for a year well done, during their annual Ten Sleep FFA awards banquet on Monday, May 6. The teams that competed at state FFA; high school and middle school livestock and meats, vet science, ag mechanics, job interview, agriscience and public speaking were recognized. Ten Sleep School FFA advisor Michelle Arnett stated that she felt that each team had a great year. Anna Watson, Kinley Anderson and Josie Decker received gold in agriscience and have the chance to represent Ten Sleep in the n...
WORLAND – Banner Health Washakie Medical Center, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist Jaime Mertz received the first annual DAISY Award to be awarded at the hospital, Friday, May 10, in recognition of her skillful, compassionate care and going above and beyond for her patients. When asked for comments, Mertz said that she was only doing her job. Mertz learned that she was the DAISY Award honoree during a ceremony in the Meadowlark conference room of the hospital. During the ceremony, Mertz r...
WORLAND – Banner Health Washakie Medical Center began offering home sleep evaluations at the beginning of April, Practice Manager for the Banner Medical Group Anna Venable told the hospital board Thursday afternoon,. She said they have conducted eight studies so far with at least four more “happening soon.” “We expanded our local specialty services to provide sleep medicine services to the region. Physician Assistant Joe Tritchler received extended training within the sleep specialty and he is working with board certified Banner Health sleep m...
WORLAND – Next Wednesday, May 8, Worland residents James and Sunny Pederson will celebrate their 60 wedding anniversary. The couple was married on May 8, 1959, on James Pederson's parent's small farm between Otto and Burlington. After getting married the couple spent a night, just one, in a motel in Cody, as James had to be back at work the next day. The couple met during an LDS (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) youth event. "We went on a hayride and we kind of met there, that w...
WORLAND – The trial of former Worland man, Jason Arnold Miller, started Monday, April 22. Miller, who pleaded not guilty in November in Washakie County Fifth Judicial District Court, is facing four counts of first degree sexual abuse of a minor. The alleged abuse occurred from August of 2014 until September of 2016. Miller could be facing up to 200 years in prison, as each count has a minimum of 25 years and a maximum of 50 years in prison. Monday morning the jury of eight men and five women was selected. Opening statements from both the prosec...
WORLAND – Traveling more than 1,000 miles to serve another community is practically unheard of, but 27 high school students and eight adults from Valley Baptist Church, located in Bakersfield, California, did just that last week in Worland. As part of an annual mission trip, the students and adults helped Worland residents in many ways including offering a free car wash and babysitting. “This is our spring break mission trip; we go on a mission trip like this every spring. It gives [the students...
WORLAND – The case of the State of Wyoming against Jason Arnold Miller for four counts of first degree sexual abuse of a minor ended in a mistrial Wednesday morning after 43 minutes of testimony. Wednesday morning, Washakie County Deputy Attorney Anthony Barton called the victim’s mother to the stand to testify. After about 43 minutes of testimony, Washakie County Public Defender Richard Hopkinson requested a sidebar in the judge’s chambers. After 28 minutes, counsel and the judge returned to the courtroom where District Court Judge Bobbi...
WORLAND – Worland kindergarten through third-grade students attended the NED's Mindset Mission at the Worland Middle School Auditorium Wednesday afternoon, to follow cardboard NED through a series of adventures that teaches him important life lessons. Worland East Side Elementary School Principal Chris Peterson stated, "It's another positive interaction with kids as far as for the things we are trying to do at the school, as far as never giving up, encouraging others, doing your best. When y...
TEN SLEEP – All five bids the Ten Sleep School Board received for the construction of the new vocational building were rejected by the board Monday evening due to the fact that all bids were at least about $135,000 over budget. Arete Design Group, architect Karen Kelly, out of Sheridan explained to the board via telephone that she wasn’t expecting that the bids would be so high and that she had contacted the two lowest bidders, Diamond Point Construction out of Buffalo and Fox General Construction out of Ten Sleep, to figure out ways to low...
TEN SLEEP – Ten Sleep School is bringing Rachel’s Challenge to Ten Sleep, April 15, with a 6:30 p.m. event for the entire community along with a program for the elementary students at 8:30 a.m. and a program for the high school students at 10 a.m., as a way to help students and the community understand the detriments of bullying. “We are excited to have Rachel’s Challenge come to Ten Sleep. Their emphasis on student’s treating others with respect, kindness, and compassion is representative of our community’s values. Cultivating a culture of...
WORLAND – The tradition of searching for recently shed antlers in the spring may be in jeopardy as the Wyoming Legislature passed and the governor signed House Bill 28, allowing the Game and Fish to regulate shed gathering in much of Wyoming. According to Wyoming Game and Fish Public Outreach Specialist Sara DiRienzo, “What House Bill 0028 did is it gave the Wyoming Game and Fish commission to regulate antler hunting west of I-25 and I-90. It gives the authority to promulgate regulation that wou...
WORLAND – Dress in a costume, mentally prepare for a cold shock, find a couple sponsors and head to the Worland Aquatic Center Saturday for the Jackalope Jump to help raise money for Wyoming Special Olympic athletes. Registration starts at noon and the jumping is to start 1:30 p.m. According to a press release from Special Olympics Wyoming, the Jackalope Jump is a fun-filled event where friends gather to celebrate the abilities and accomplishments of Special Olympics athletes and spread the message of joy, courage and inclusion by jumping i...
WORLAND – Due to inclement weather in the Cody area, the Lauralynn Project was unable to visit Worland Saturday to give away around 120 bikes to children who couldn’t afford to buy one. Founder, Richard Perkins stated that the new date will be March 16 in the Blair’s parking lot 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. The Lauralynn Project was created two years ago after a woman in Cody, Lauralynn had her only form of transportation to and from work, her bicycle, stolen. Perkins said he saw her post on Facebook about having her bike stolen and offered a bike he had...
WORLAND – Part of the Worland High School AP (Advanced Placement) biology curriculum is to inject E. coli bacteria with jellyfish DNA to create glowing colonies that, once started, could be manipulated into works of art in a petri dish. For the last three years the AP biology classes have tried to achieve that goal but were unable until this year. “This is the best it’s turned out, this is the fourth year I have done this lab, and this is the best we have ever had it turn out. We have gotten a handful of colonies here and there and thoug...
WORLAND – Cody resident Richard Perkins, founder of the Lauralynn Project, will be visiting Worland this Saturday to give bicycles to area children who can’t afford to buy one. He will be in Blair’s parking lot from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Perkins stated that the only thing that would keep him from coming to Worland is if the weather is bad making it unsafe to travel. Close to 120 bikes will be available to be given away. The Lauralynn Project was created two years ago after a woman in Cody, Lauralynn had her only form of transportation to and fro...
TEN SLEEP – Complaints for an alleged disability FAPE (Free Appropriate Public Education) violation and an alleged retaliation violation with the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights against Ten Sleep School prompted a federal investigation. Ten Sleep School Superintendent Jimmy Phelps stated Thursday that the school has no comment at this time due to privacy regulations and couldn’t state if the two investigations were related or not. “It involves students and that’s all I can say. We are answering the questions that are being a...
WORLAND – One hundred years ago, on Feb. 19, 1919, Claire Lais was born to Joseph and Ida Boyd in Campbell County near Savageton. She joined five half-siblings and two full blood siblings, during a blizzard, with temperatures below zero and the snow piling up. "I was born on a ranch out here in a sheep herders shack, probably a 10 X 12 sheepherder's shack. The snow was over the top of the fences and dad went to get a midwife to have me delivered," Lais said. Her daughter Pat Wiseman added, "...
WORLAND – Community members interested in donating blood have the opportunity, every two months to do so at the Worland Senior Citizens Center. The next blood drive by Vitalant, formerly known as United Blood Service, is Feb. 19 at the senior center from 11 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. with the Washakie Hospital Auxiliary members assisting the Vitalant team. According to the Vitalant website, Vitalant, one of the nation’s oldest and largest nonprofit community blood service providers, supplies comprehensive transfusion medicine services to nearly 1,000 hos...
WORLAND – Wyoming Sugar announced this week that they have made 1 million bags of sugar, on this their 102nd campaign, and expect thousands more before the campaign is finished. "The last time, I think it was the year 2000, when the factory was owned by Imperial, they produced a million bags and it was with almost 20,000 acres of sugar beets. This year we are over a million, we should get to about 1,050,000 bags, might be a little bit more than that even and we did it on just under 12,000 a...
WORLAND – During the Banner Health Washakie Medical Center hospital board meeting Thursday evening, board member Wendy Sweeny offered her resignation since that she is moving to Sheridan to be closer to children and grandchildren. Wendy Sweeny, who was the elected treasurer for the board, asked board member Connie Sweeney to take over the position. Connie Sweeney agreed to take over the position until July when her term is up. The board voted unanimously for Connie Sweeney to take over the duties of treasurer for the duration of her term. In a...
WORLAND – Banner Health Washakie Medical Center Plant Operations Manager Steve Wiecki came to the hospital board Thursday evening asking to use what he called attic stock flooring, excess flooring from the hospital renovation, to update the Washakie Medical Center Clinic exam rooms flooring. He explained to the board that the only cost to the board would be for the purchase of an additional 200 square feet as he and his crew could do the installation. After much discussion the board asked Wiecki to gather bids for the additional flooring. W...
WORLAND – The Worland Senior Citizens Center has been working for about three years to raise money for a new four-bay garage, to be placed across the parking lot from the center, to get their public transportation vehicles out of the weather. “I’m hoping by this spring we will start doing something, hopefully we will have it up next summer,” Worland Senior Citizens Center Executive Director Wendy Fredricks said. The center received grant approval on Sept. 7, 2017. Fredricks stated that the grant will cover 80 percent of the project cost an...
WORLAND – Worland East Side Elementary School is holding a fundraiser from Jan. 21 – Feb. 13 to raise money for new playground equipment that is more suited for kindergarten and first-grade students. Worland East Side Elementary School Principal Chris Peterson explained that much of the equipment on the playground has been there since some of the teachers went to school at East Side. He added that to make the equipment safe for the students required parts to be removed because finding rep...