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MEETEETSE – The Meeteetse Middle School team of Cooper Randol, Delanie Salzman, Kalvin Erickson, Kiana Horsen, Dillon McClean, Molly Fremlin and Mickle Ogden, were surprised Wednesday morning to learn that they had won Best in Nation in the Verizon Innovative Learning app challenge, for their app Farmbook. The surprise came during a celebration disguised as a typical assembly attended by the entire school and parents. The Meeteetse Middle School team is one of four middle schools in the c...
TEN SLEEP – During the Ten Sleep School Board meeting Monday evening, after an executive session, Ten Sleep School Board members voted to extend Ten Sleep superintendent Jimmy Phelps’s contract to June 30, 2020 with a vote of three to two for the extension. Board member Terril Mills stated after his vote against the extension that he would prefer that the extension be two years instead of three. The motion passed 3-2 with Mills and Jared Lyman opposed. After the executive session board members also voted to have Desiree’ Egger to be the spons...
WORLAND -Assistance for the residents who have been evacuated from their homes since Saturday is coming in a variety of ways and variety of resources. The American Red Cross of Wyoming set up a shelter at the Worland Community Center Complex. Cindi Shank, district program manager of Wyoming said the shelter will be open as long as the evacuation is in place. She said there have been about six people stop by the shelter but no one has stayed at the shelter. She said even if they don't stay at...
WORLAND – In today's world of food filled with preservatives and chemicals, and diseases such as cancer and diabetes, many people are going back to their roots and searching for natural, healthy food to keep themselves and their families healthy. Diamond S Delights, a micro dairy in Hyattville, owned by Kris Robertson offers healthy dairy products made as nature intended with unaltered milk that comes directly from the cow. "There's getting to be quite a group of people that are taking their hea...
WORLAND – The ninth annual Women’s Expo is Saturday from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the Worland Community Center Complex located at 1200 Culbertson Ave. The expo will consist of two fashion shows, the Community Angel luncheon and about 20 different booths with the Eagle Auxiliary ladies providing concessions. “From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. there will be booths that will be available for people to come through and visit. Some are health related and some are fun,” Worland Community Center Complex Special Events Coordinator Sheryl Ley said. The Washakie County Ex...
WORLAND – The first Big Horn Basin Grow Network meeting at the Worland Community Center Complex Monday evening covered a variety of topics designed to help community members interested in growing natural food, be it plant or animal. “More and more people are trying to eat healthy and more and more people are trying to grow organically,” event organizer Karen Fettig, of Hyattville said. The network is bringing people, who are already growing their food naturally, together with people who want to. The focus is to help each other and others by sh...
THERMOPOLIS – Tuesday evening the Thermopolis Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce held the first of many public meetings at the Big Horn Federal Bank about the upcoming total solar eclipse, Aug. 21, to cover the basics of what was occurring, predicted visitors and the impact on the community. “This is sort of a preliminary meeting, working out all the scenarios, all the things that can occur, logistical matters that we are going to have to address,” Hot Springs County Emergency Management Coordinator Bill Gordon said. “Our goal tonight is to star...
WORLAND – Worland senior, Milo Vega III was one of 2,500 high school students from across the nation who had the experience of a lifetime by being part of the Presidential Inauguration Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. According to the envision experience website, The Presidential Inauguration Leadership Summit is specifically designed to empower next generation leaders as they continue on their journey toward realizing the power of their potential. The summit, which only happens every f...
WORLAND – AmeriCorps member Amy Reid, partnering with Big Brothers Big Sisters Program Director for Washakie County, Hot Springs County and Big Horn County Jennifer Wetherbee along with the help of many members of the community, are offering a yearlong parenting class. The class will meet at 6 p.m. in the RER building located at 1313 Big Horn Ave. (use the side doors across from the laundromat) the last Tuesday of every month. “As an AmeriCorps member one of the things that I wanted to do this year was a parenting class for our community and to...
WORLAND – Worland residents Leonard and Frances Larsen have been named this year's "Community Angels" and will be honored at an 11: 30 a.m. luncheon Feb. 11 at the Worland Community Center Complex during the Women's Expo. The couple received this honor for all the volunteer work they do for the community, family and friends. The couple stated, "I don't think that we are deserving, not at all. There are a lot of others that do more than we do. It's a really nice honor but we're kind of feeling u...
WORLAND – Worland High School senior MacKenzie Cottrell received the top honor in choir by being named Outstanding Senior in Choir for Wyoming by the Wyoming Music Educators Association. Worland High School choir teacher Chad Rose stated that each year the Wyoming Music Educators Association awards a Wyoming student the Outstanding Senior in Choir award. Out of around 750 auditions for the all-state choir, four students with outstanding auditions are chosen: one alto, one soprano, one tenor a...
WORLAND – With the Women's Expo coming up Feb. 12, Linda Abell, with the help of Mary Donnell, Shannon Christian and Katianne Meuller, decided to create a display at the Worland Community Center Complex with a wedding theme, featuring items from Friday Fest merchants. "I decided that I would do wedding dresses and valentines because it's February and its appropriate and people are planning. My idea was that at the beginning I would give the Friday Fest merchants space to put some things that the...
WORLAND – After a lot of hard work both in and out of the classroom, a group of six Meeteetse middle school students have first been named the Wyoming State winners out of over 1,800 entries and now one of the 24 regional winners in the Verizon Innovative Learning app challenge. The country was divided into six regions with two middle school and two high school winners selected per region. Meeteetse school principal Shane Ogden stated that the six students, Kalvin Erickson, Molly Fremlin, Kiana Horsen, Mickle Ogden, Cooper Randol and Delanie S...
WORLAND – Monday on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, AmeriCorps member Amy Reed spoke at the Worland Senior Citizens Center about the ways that people 55 and older can give back to the community through AmeriCorps Senior Corps program. Reed stated at the beginning of her presentation that Senior Corps helps the young people in the community thrive, connects seniors to the community and makes a difference and that AmeriCorps provides necessary training. Reed began her presentation quoting Martin Luther King Jr. asking, “Life’s most persistent quest...
WORLAND - Former Wyoming Senator Gerald Geis has retired after 35 years of service and handed the mantle over to Wyatt Agar from Thermopolis. "I'm 83 years old and I think that it's time to turn it over to the younger generation," Geis stated. "I wish my new senator well and I hope that he got a good mentor to guide him because I couldn't stay forever. He will learn the same as I did. There is a lot of give and take down there if you are going to be a good senator or House member. You need to...
WORLAND – Cloud Peak Middle School students won the Challenge of the Books at the Worland Community Center Complex Wednesday morning, competing against six other area middle schools. The Challenge of the Books is a Jeopardy-like competition. Before the competition all participating middle school students read and study the same 12 books. During the competition the students as six member teams are asked questions about the books. Worland Middle School teacher Donna Hunter stated that each r...
TEN SLEEP – During the January school board meeting Monday evening, the Ten Sleep school board was faced with a very difficult decision, whether or not to accept Ten Sleep School shop teacher, yearbook advisor and coach Jake Zent’s resignation. The board deliberated for close to three hours in executive (closed) session before making the decision to accept Zent’s resignation with a 3-2 vote. Ten Sleep School Board Chair Tesia Greet stated, “I had a very hard time with this and I strongly believe that everyone deserves a chance to present...
WORLAND – Many Worland and Ten Sleep residents have fond memories or have heard the stories from family members about Hollywood actress Debbie Reynolds' visit to the area in 1968. Reynolds came to Worland to serve as mistress of ceremonies of a banquet, attended by 700 people, honoring National Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. officials, and the unveiling of the purchase and plan to create the Girl Scout National Center West (Girl Scout Camp) east of Ten Sleep in Ten Sleep Canyon. Reynolds, who p...
WORLAND – Information obtained by the Wyoming Board of Education in October from all public schools and released this week shows a slight decline in student enrollment from the 2015-2016 school year. The first decline in enrollment since the 2005-2006 school year. Wyoming Board of Education Communications Director Kari Eakins stated Friday that areas dependent on extractment industries saw a decline in student enrollments and the southern part of Wyoming saw an increase. Fall enrollment for Wyoming is down to 93,261 from 94,002 last school year...
WORLAND – Despite the internet, large retail stores and unemployment, local businesses for the most part report an increase in sales this holiday season compared to last holiday season. “This holiday season was awesome, definitely up from last year, although it came down to the wire with a lot of people shopping last minute,” Larsen’s Bicycles of Worland owner Lisa Weamer said. “I don’t know what influences people but being open, available and stocked with good merchandise paid off,” she added. Storyteller of Thermopolis owner Ellen Reed ag...
WORLAND – Every family has traditions that they do every Christmas, but not every family has the same traditions. The way people in the same community celebrate Christmas is as different as night and day. Some of the traditions start well before Christmas day such as the advent calendar. There are many different definitions of the advent calendar but the main gist is that it is a December calendar that has a little door for each day that is opened to reveal an assortment of different things. Some advent calendars have a little gift for each d...
WORLAND – Most teenagers plan on celebrating their 16th birthday by getting their driver's license. Lexi Boltz of Ten Sleep celebrated her 16th birthday by taking her first solo flight Thursday afternoon at the Worland Municipal Airport. When asked which she was more excited about, getting her driver's license or her first solo flight she stated, "The solo is more important than my driver's license." Boltz, with her flight instructor Bill Pennington watching, did all the preliminary safety check...
WORLAND – Cloud Peak Chiropractic is accepting donations for the Diaper Bank and Crisis Prevention and Response Center from Dec. 19 – Jan. 6 For the Worland Elks Lodge Community Diaper Store (Diaper Bank) they are accepting diapers, wipes and pull-ups, with a specific need for larger sized diapers, Cloud Peak Chiropractor Sarah Radabaugh said. “The diaper bank really fills a need in this community,” she added. Worland Elks Lodge Community Diaper Bank Director Ladonna Lacroix stated in an earlier interview, “The diaper bank helps supplemen...
TEN SLEEP – During the Ten Sleep School Board meeting Monday evening several students were honored for different achievements from football to state drama to students of the month. Ten Sleep football coach Jake Zent stated that Zane Taylor received honorable mention and all-conference in football and Corey Rice received all-conference in football and honorable mention all-state in football. Worland High School Drama Coach Rick Dorn attended the board meeting to honor Ten Sleep student Madisyn Boltz for all-state drama. “You have a student, wor...
WORLAND – Washakie Medical Center and Banner Health held a sneak preview open house with a tour of the surgical wing Thursday afternoon. During the tour RN Senior Manager Surgical Services Lisa Gomez explained that the new surgical suite has all the best available medical instruments, and comfort for the patient and staff is the top priority. Before entering the surgical wing all tour members needed to put on paper booties and paper coats to help maintain the sterility of the environment. The first stop was the new pre-operation area. Gomez s...