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WORLAND – During the week of Sept. 28 – Oct. 2 43 silhouettes of domestic violence murder victims could be found all around Worland. On Saturday Oct. 3 all the silhouettes were brought together for the Wyoming Silent Witness Ceremony at the Worland Community Center. Seeing the single silhouettes around town created a feeling of sadness but seeing all the silhouettes together gave a profound and intense feeling. One could almost feel the beseeching eyes from the silhouettes and almost hear the...
TEN SLEEP - Wyoming author Cat Urbigkit took time during her One Book Wyoming tour to discuss writing Thursday morning with the Ten Sleep elementary students. During her tour she gave presentations at the Worland Senior Center and the Washakie County Library on Wednesday and the Ten Sleep Library Thursday evening. According to the onebook.wy.gov website, "Libraries across Wyoming will host events to inspire conversation, including book discussions, cultural programs and guest appearances by Cat...
WORLAND – Domestic violence is one of the least known and understood crimes that occur every day in the country and in Wyoming. This Saturday the annual Wyoming Silent Witness Ceremony will be hosted by Washakie County Crisis Prevention and Response Center in Worland. The ceremony is in support of the victims and their families and is a way to raise awareness and change the growing problem of domestic violence. The ceremony includes a silent witness exhibit. "There are 67 people in the (state s...
WORLAND – Worland Middle and High School have added longtime teacher Chad Rose to their staff this year. He has been teaching for 17 years in Wyoming. Rose teaches sixth grade general music and seventh and eighth grade choir for Worland Middle School. He teaches 9 – 12 grade jazz choir and helps with the 9 – 12 grade marching band at Worland High School. This is his first year teaching for Washakie County District # 1. For the last two years Rose has been working at the Wind River High School and Middle School creating a program. “I spent t...
WORLAND - Everyone always jokes about how Mondays are always the worst day of the week, but this Monday was no Joke to Michael Bost, 29, from Powell, who allegedly fell asleep at the wheel this morning only to wake up and find himself and his 2012 Dodge Ram, Bar T. Electric company truck in the Big Horn River. According to Worland Police Captain Zack Newton, Bost, who was southbound on U.S. 20, fell asleep at the wheel just before the new river bridge, went down the embankment, through a barbed...
WORLAND – As the days get shorter and the weather gets cooler, more and more people are spending time indoors which leads us to the onset of the flu season. Washakie County Public Health, area physicians and Shopko are now armed with the flu shot to protect you or lessen the duration of the flu. "I would recommend that everyone get the shot to help keep themselves and others safe and healthy," Washakie County Public Health Nurse Manager Amanda Heinemeyer said. You can get your flu shot from y...
TEN SLEEP – Worland and Ten Sleep sixth graders visited Sitting Bull Campground in Ten Sleep to learn about nature and the importance of clean water during an all-day field trip Wednesday. The students learned about water testing, soils, fisheries, wildlife, plants, stream morphology, insects and geology through a series of stations that they visited in groups throughout the day. The event marked Water Monitoring Day, where the children learn about water monitoring, such as the nitrates in the w...
Worland – Crafters everywhere find that they have nowhere to sell their creations except maybe on the internet, or if there is a trade show or Christmas bazaar. Amy Masters, owner of Perfect 10 Nail Salon saw the need for a crafting outlet and opened the backroom of her Perfect 10 Nail Salon located at 738 Big Horn Avenue in Worland for just that purpose. The Shabby Chic Boutique opened in July. "It started because I like to craft and to repurpose things, and unless there's a trade show going o...
WORLAND – Jackson Hendrickson, former Worland resident, visited the Worland elementary schools on Sept. 9 and 10 to teach the students about legal graffiti art at the request of an old friend and as part of his pilot to a program he plans on submitting to every school in the country. Hendrickson is trying to keep art in the hearts and minds of elementary students as more and more schools are pulling art from the curriculum, especially in the town where he grew up. "When you have a community t...
THERMOPOLIS – In this day and age of technology it should be no surprise that schools are taking advantage of the resources that technology offers. Thermopolis Middle school has invested in Chromebooks for their students. The use of Chromebooks has made it so that the school has gone basically paperless. The seventh and eighth graders do basically everything on their Chromebooks. “Seventh and eighth grade (students) do a lot of their homework and everything on them, because we use Google docs, which is one reason we went to Chromebooks. Tha...
WORLAND – Hearts in Service invited Reality Outreach Ministries from Twinsburg, Ohio, to Worland to assist in this year’s performance of Heaven’s Gates and Hell’s Flames this Friday at Worland Middle School. “The performance will be a series of five-minute skits, replicating where a person is in life’s journey,” Hearts in Service (HIS) founder Jackie Denison said. According to the realityoutreach.org website, “For over 30 years, Reality Outreach Ministries has been joining with churches of many different denominations with one common goal … t...
WORLAND – Imagine a place in town where girls can go that feels like a second home to them. A place where there are no social stigmas and no type of discrimination. Where girls can be girls, be it silly or serious. Where they can learn important values that will help them in their growing years and into their adult life. Now look at the Edith Healy Little House located at 704 Howell Avenue in Worland. That house is owned by the Girl Scouts and is the meeting place for the Worland Girl Scout t...
WORLAND – The Worland Garden Club has awarded Patty Bradey the September Garden of the Month award for her flower, vegetable and character display at her home on the 800 block of Grace Avenue. She has always loved flowers and worked in the floral department in Lawn and Garden at one time, but she hadn't planted her garden until last summer. "This is my second year planting flowers. I started last summer, right after my son passed away as a dedication to him," Garden of the Month winner Patty Bra...
WORLAND – The students at East Side Elementary School in Worland learned about legal graffiti art from graffiti artist Jackson Hendrickson Wednesday afternoon. Hendrickson explained to the students that there is a legal form of graffiti art and an illegal form. "Graffiti art without permission is vandalism. Vandalism will cause you to go to jail, get a ticket and become a criminal and not be able to get jobs later in life," Hendrickson said. If you want to practice on a building use mud, that wa...
WORLAND – As the Worland landfill has begun charging $15 per cubic yard of general waste, questions have arisen about the impact to local businesses. Businesses such as Roadrunner Sanitation are finding an increase in business and expect to see that increase continue. “I think that people will see the savings, whether it’s in time, money or effort in just having a sanitation company come and collect their garbage, rather than them hauling it to the landfill themselves. When people see the prices we charge for garbage service, they’ll be exci...
WORLAND — Ten Sleep School welcomed more students this year than they did last year, with their enrollment up to 104 students from 88 last year. “It seems we’ve had some transfers from Worland and we had some new people move into the district,” Ten Sleep Principal Russ Budmayr said. Last year there were 47 students in grades K – 6, 11 students in grades 7 – 8 and 30 students in grades 9 – 12. This year there are a few more students with 52 in grades K – 6, 15 students in grades 7 – 8 and 37 students in grades 9 – 12, which is an enrollment in...
TEN SLEEP – When the water levels get low in late summer and fall, many landowners along the Nowood River have nowhere to turn. As the water level goes down water rights to the Nowood River are systematically suspended for use for that year, with the newest rights going first. The Nowood Watershed Improvement District was created in 2007 to try and address the problem with two studies underway looking at a new Alkali Creek Reservoir or expansion of the Meadowlark Lake reservoir. The district was officially formed Aug. 20. “The Nowood Wat...
WORLAND – Big Horn Redimix truck driver Bruce Severson's Friday started off well, but ended in flames at the intersection of West River Road and 15 Mile Road in Worland at 8:45 a.m. "I left Greybull and stopped in Basin for coffee and everything was fine until here when the tires started smoking," Severson said. The fire started on the driver's side of the trailer but soon engulfed both sides. Worland Fire Department arrived and quickly had everything under control. No one was hurt in the i...
BASIN – Rock and roll and finances don't seem to have anything in common, but Gooding has found a way to combine the two in a fun and educational way. The financial literacy program at Riverside High School in Basin Thursday morning, started with a short video that explained the history of the band and what they do and why. "We want to reach them (students) before they get into financial problems," Gooding band leader Gooding said. "They need to know the basics and know what a credit score i...
WORLAND – The Bureau of Land Management forester takes care of the BLM forests by being in the field 90 percent of the time. There are three BLM foresters in the state and Jim Gates is the forester for the Bighorn Basin/Wind River District. "I work for the district, which is the three field offices, Worland, Lander and Cody," BLM forester Jim Gates said. The amount of land that the BLM district forester is in charge of is large. "Within the district we have 100,000 acres of forest land and 3...
WORLAND – The Kiwanis club held its annual barbecue and softball game with the Worland Boys School Sunday. "We do a barbecue, have fellowship and play a softball game," Kiwanis President Steve Hunt said. The barbecue and softball game is "a chance to get the kids who have earned the privilege, out and have a good time and get away from where their reality is right now," Hunt said. The softball game is a little different than the ordinary game, with painted grapefruit being substituted for the s...
TEN SLEEP – The new student counselor for the Ten Sleep School is Chawna Weichmann. She comes to Ten Sleep with 13 years experience teaching. Over the years she has taught high school math, been a high school math facilitator, a math instructional facilitator and a counselor. She has resided in Ten Sleep for the last seven years. “I was waiting for an opening in Ten Sleep, so I could live and work in the same community,” Weichmann said. She would like to get an elementary guidance program going this year to work on social issues that the kids...
TEN SLEEP - The new music teacher at the Ten Sleep School this year is Karen Loveland. She comes to Ten Sleep with many years of experience with children. She previously worked for the Shoshoni School system as a music teacher. Loveland is the mother of eight children with six out of the nest and her two youngest attending Ten Sleep School. During her first year of teaching she lived with her youngest daughter in Shoshoni and the rest of her family lived in Indiana. This year they are all together again in Ten Sleep, no longer separated by...
HYATTVILLE – Saturday's meal packing for the Nicaragua Christian Education Foundation in Hyattville went well with people from all over the state meeting to pack meals to be sent to Nicaragua to help starving children. "We packed 77,328 meals with the help of 80 volunteers," organizer Nancy Jones said. The food was packed in an assembly line fashion, with stations set up to fill, weigh, seal, and box the meals. The full boxes, which each held 36 meals, were than taken to the tapers to be t...
WORLAND – The variety of responsibilities that are required for outdoor recreation planning for the Bureau of Land Management is quite long and goes from paperwork to field work. According to BLM Worland Field Office Outdoor Recreation Planner Adam Babcock, Paperwork takes up about 50 percent of the time and one of the most common is Special Recreation Permits. Special Recreation Permits are permits that are required if someone wants to be a hunting or fishing guide on public lands. Special e...