Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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WORLAND - Celebrity Chef Mark Anthony, sponsored by the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, is giving a presentation at the Worland Community Center Complex Wednesday evening at 6 p.m. Anthony, who has catered to celebrities such as Jack Nicklaus, Joan Jett, Molly Hatchet, Jerry Brown, Journey, Jethro Tull, Bad Company, REO Speedwagon, Kansas and Billy Squire, will be stopping in Worland for one performance on his tour of Wyoming. “He’s willing to go just about anywhere and he was able to schedule us along with quite a few other churches in Wyo...
WORLAND – In 1916, the Wyoming Sugar Company of Ogden, Utah, started building the sugar factory in Worland. By 1917, just in time for the fall harvest, the factory was completed through the work of about 150 men and at a cost of $1 million. Since that time, the Wyoming Sugar Company has served the community and sugar beet farmers, under different names and different owners for 100 years. To celebrate the factory’s 100th birthday, Wyoming Sugar Company is planning a grand celebration. There will be a celebration at the factory on Saturday, Sep...
WORLAND – During the 2017 Wyoming Legislative there were many laws that were passed and many existing laws that were amended session that came into to effect July 1. Below is a sampling of the new laws and amendments. Wyoming Statute 6-3-203 was amended to expand the definition of acts that are considered a felony of aggravated cruelty to animals. Paragraph c was added which states, a person commits aggravated cruelty to animals if he or she shoots, poisons or otherwise intentionally acts to seriously injure or destroy any livestock or d...
WORLAND – July 1 is the beginning of the fiscal year and also the day when the majority of laws passed by the Wyoming Legislature come into effect. One of the new state laws that goes into effect today is Wyoming Statute 6-4-305 which makes sending or possessing nude images of a minor (who is at least 11 years of age and under 18) by a minor illegal. While Washakie County Attorney John Worrall has not had to deal with this issue, he did state that he could see the need for such a law. “I can see circumstances where that would be something the...
WORLAND – On July 4, 1776 the Declaration of Independence was adopted and from 1941 when the Fourth of July was made a federal holiday, it’s been a time to celebrate our country’s independence with fireworks, parades, family reunions, rodeos and dances. This year will be no different with celebrations starting as early as today. The festivities begin this evening at 6:30 p.m. with the 19th annual Climbers Fest at the Ten Sleep Brewery. The Climbers Fest is one of the Bighorn Climbers’ Coalition fundraisers and community/enrichment events....
WORLAND – Friday afternoon firefighters from around the Big Horn Basin had their hands full with a wildfire which started at the entrance to Hidden Dome Oilfield about 12 miles east of Worland. The fire spread rapidly burning 775 acres of BLM (Bureau of Land Management) managed public lands and 367 acres of private land due to the abundant grasses and swirling wind. The fire was deemed contained Saturday. Worland Fire Department incident commander Brandon Yule stated that the cheatgrass which is about two to three feet tall, really thick annual...
WORLAND – For the past couple weeks, people have been seen doing something strange on the edge of the Big Horn River in Worland's Riverside Rotary Park. Those people are a crew of graduate and post doctorate students from the University of Florida, University of Minnesota, Duke University and the Florida Museum of Natural History and what they are doing is washing dirt taken from an area east of Worland in search of small animal fossils. The crew is led by Johnathan Bloch, a researcher at the Fl...
WORLAND – The Washakie Hospital Foundation’s fifth annual Badlands Poker Run, to benefit local community members diagnosed with cancer, is Saturday. Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. at Rumors Sports Bar and Grill located at 1515 Big Horn Ave. in Worland with departure to the first stop at 10 a.m. “One hundred percent goes right back to what it’s designated for; people receiving cancer therapies, to help offset some of the essential costs like food, travel and lodging when they have to travel out and get their cancer therapies. Zero percent...
WORLAND – Washakie County 4-H intern Kellynne Doyle, has been an 4-H intern for two summers in preparation of one day becoming a 4-H youth educator. “I was in 4-H for nine or 10 years and I did the internship last year too and that’s kind of what I am thinking about going into with my degree is maybe 4-H development,” Doyle said. She will be graduating from the University of Wyoming next May with a major in agriculture communication and a minor in human development and family sciences. When asked if her internship with 4-H for the last two sum...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Homemakers, after saving money for two years will be hosting, for the first time, the Wyoming Homemakers state meeting June 16-18 at the Worland Senior Center. The theme of the meeting is "Wonder Women of Wyoming. " "This is the first time since the county has had Homemaker clubs that we have felt we could house and feed the 60 or more homemakers who will be attending this meeting," Town and Country homemaker member Bonnie Schreibeis said. During the Wyoming Homemak...
WORLAND – During the 78th annual Wyoming Trucking Association convention on May 19, in Casper, Admiral Transport Corp. of Worland truck driver Bill Reed was recognized as the fourth quarter 2016 driver for driving professionally for nearly 40 years, with nearly 4 million miles under his belt and no accidents. “Bill is one of our most professional drivers and it was an honor to see him get recognized for everything he has done, not just for that quarter but the years that he has devoted to driving for Admiral Transport and Admiral Beverage Cor...
WORLAND – The Willy Wonka Golden Tickets in the story “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” gave five children an exclusive look into the workings of Willy Wonka’s remarkable factory. Staying in theme with the original story the Washakie Museum and Cultural Center in Worland created the Washakie Museum Golden Ticket Scholarship Contest which awarded two local children the option to attend the museum’s three-week musical theater intensive camp. The camp will end with a performance of the play “Willy Wonka Jr.” The Washakie Museum Golden Ticket Sch...
THERMOPOLIS – Thermopolis students in grades third through sixth attended the Farm to Table Ag Expo, Thursday at the Hot Springs County Fairgrounds to learn about agriculture and how their food goes from the field or ranch to their table. "The expo is to help educate students about what ag is, opportunities in ag and where their food comes from," Thermopolis Middle School vocation teacher Becky Martinez said. "The goal is to springboard off recent legislation allowing more locally grown food i...
WORLAND – Worland High School Principal Kevin Smith elected to take the early retirement option approved by the Washakie County School District No. 1 school board in February to help with the revenue reductions that the district is facing. The incentive provides those who choose early retirement to receive a "reward" of $20,000 paid in two installments over two years along with their retirement benefits. "This retirement thing, I don't really consider it retirement, right now. I'm leaving but I...
MEETEETSE – Led by the town's fire department with lights and sirens the town of Meeteetse showed their support for Grace Carlson, who may be the oldest Wyoming resident, by helping her celebrate her 109th birthday at her home Tuesday with singing, a prayer and numerous well wishes. Meeteetse Fire Chief Larry Rankine stated that the town has been celebrating Carlson's birthday since 2008 when she turned 100. "That year we had fireworks that lasted for about 45 minutes," he said. When Carlson b...
TEN SLEEP – The Harlem Ambassadors, a professional basketball team that tours around the country nine months out of the year, visited the Ten Sleep School Monday afternoon to promote staying in school, never giving up, anti-bullying and always giving your best. The team used comedy, student and teacher participation and amazing basketball feats to slam dunk the message home to students. Harlem Ambassador coach and female member Brittany Dorsey explained to the students how she earned her spot on...
TEN SLEEP – During the May Ten Sleep School Board meeting Monday evening the responses to student and parent survey’s caused concern for board member Jane Thurston. Thurston was concerned about the complaints issued by students and parents regarding the schools reading program Pioneer Path. Thurston stated that the comments from several students and a couple parents on their surveys this year and comments on past surveys complaining about Pioneer Path when answering the question, “How do you feel we can improve our school?” gave her cause for c...
THERMOPOLIS – During the eclipse meeting sponsored by the Thermopolis Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce Monday evening, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Field Manager Mike Phillips explained to attendees that the priority of the BLM during the eclipse event is protecting the resources. “We have a lot of cultural resources around, Paleo resources along with grazing, oil and gas activities and mining and all those kinds of things. They all have an economic driver that we have to look at and that’s what we have to protect and that’s not just for us,...
THERMOPOLIS – Updates on solar eclipse preparations in Thermopolis, including establishing an information hotline, were discussed at Monday’s meeting. About two dozen people attended the meeting at Thermopolis Middle School sponsored by the Thermopolis Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce. Thermopolis Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Meri Ann Rush started the meeting by explaining that she had recently attended a state of Wyoming Chamber conference in Pinedale and that some of the reports that she received was that the pop...
THERMOPOLIS – During the Main Street Thermopolis meeting Thursday evening members and attendees discussed what is needed to bring more solid businesses into the community and the issues that may be causing people to shy away from investing in the town. Thermopolis Hot Springs Economic Development Company CEO and Main Street Thermopolis Board member Amanda Moeller said, “I’m the EDC director for economic development and we as a group, we had a couple of building owners that were at the meeting last [Thursday] night. One of them is going to be...
THERMOPOLIS – During the Main Street Thermopolis meeting Thursday evening the fate of the abandoned building at 518 Arapaho, was briefly discussed but no decision was made since there was no quorum. The building built in 1917, last used as a furniture warehouse for Fair Deal Furniture, has been abandoned for an unknown number of years and the current owners have agreed to donate the building to Main Street Thermopolis. Members of the community representing Main Street Thermopolis, the town council, Hot Springs County Commissioners, local m...
Cloud Peak Middle School closing in May WORLAND – Eighth grade 2016-2017 graduates will be the last class to graduate from Cloud Peak Middle School in Manderson due to the Big Horn County School District 4 board members vote in their April meeting to close the school at the end of the current school year, a couple of years sooner than originally planned. Big Horn County School District 4 Business Manager Andrew DeGraw stated that the original plan was to close Cloud Peak Middle School upon t...
TEN SLEEP – During a special Ten Sleep School Board meeting Monday evening, the board decided after a brief executive (closed) session to hire Michelle Arnette as the 2017-2018 vocational technical teacher. On April 3 during another special Ten Sleep School Board meeting, the board listened to recommendations from a special 14-member task force created by Ten Sleep School Superintendent Jimmy Phelps to address the negative effect of $282,000 on the 2017-2018 budget due to state and federal cuts along with an increase in health premiums. The t...
WORLAND –The Worland sign language club, with students from third to 12th grade, will be offering audience members an enchanted evening, singing and signing classic Disney songs, at 7 p.m. Thursday evening in the Worland High School Little Theater. They are going to be doing 5 songs. It will be a short program because of spring and all the spring sports activities, Worland Middle School teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing Mallorey Melton said. This is a sign language program to make sign language more common in the Worland area. Anybody c...
WORLAND – For five years people in the Big Horn Basin have seen and heard about the CatchAFire event for men, which has gotten bigger every year. Friday the first annual CatchAFire Women's Event for women and girls middle school age and up, will be at 5:30 p.m. in the Worland Middle School Auditorium. The vision for a CatchAFire Women's Event began with an expressed desire from women in the Big Horn Basin for a women's conference similar to the men's event. Some wives of those who help plan t...