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WORLAND - It has been nearly a month since the Worland Warriors and Lady Warriors basketball teams last played a game, but this week both teams will put the hours of practice to good use as they compete in the Big Horn Basin Shootout basketball tournaments tomorrow and Saturday. The Warriors play their first games of 2018 at Worland High School as WHS and Thermopolis will split hosting duties for the Shootout's boys basketball tournament. The Warriors play in the Worland bracket with Wind...
HYATTVILLE - With Mother Nature finally allowing it, on Christmas day, Medicine Lodge State Archaeological Site opened its newest addition to the park - an ice skating rink. According to Park Superintendent Brooks Jordan, the ice skating rink was installed in November, although, with Wyoming's generous supply of warm weather that lasted until mid-December, the rink wasn't ready to be used until Christmas morning. The 60-foot by 60-foot rink has been quite busy since. Between the week that it...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman sued special counsel Robert Mueller and the Justice Department on Wednesday, saying prosecutors had overstepped their bounds by charging him for conduct that he says is unrelated to Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The lawsuit by Paul Manafort, filed in federal court in Washington, is the most direct challenge to date to Mueller’s legal authority and the scope of his mandate as special counsel. It comes amid Republican allegations of partisan bias among...
CHEYENNE - Rex Rammell officially announced his entry into the 2018 gubernatorial race with stops in Riverton, Casper and Cheyenne Wednesday. The 57-year-old veterinarian from Rock Springs will make his second attempt to become a state governor. Rammell grew up in the mountains of Western Wyoming and Eastern Idaho near Yellowstone Park. The Rammell family settled in Teton Valley in 1889 and were honored by having a mountain named after them. The family made their living farming, ranching, and...
WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to weather, it’s hard to sound scarier than “bomb cyclone.” It’s a version of a real weather term that applies to a massive winter storm that pulled together Wednesday off the U.S. Southeast coast. But as fearsome as the storm is with high winds and some snow, it may not be quite as explosive as the term sounds. Meteorologists have used the term “bomb “ for storms for decades, based on a strict definition, said University of Oklahoma meteorology professor Jason Furtado. After it showed it showed up in a Washingt...
Wyoming State Park would gain 52 acres from Game & Fish HYATTVILLE – A new bill presented to the Wyoming Legislature would effectively increase the size of the Medicine Lodge State Archeological Site, north of Hyattville, currently part of the state parks system. "Ultimately, the bill would expand the boundary of the park, to increase visitation and to add more campsites," explained Medicine Lodge Superintendent Brooks Jordan. Under the bill (Senate File 005), Medicine Lodge would gain 52 a...
Robert "Rob" Wetzel Orchard, Jr., life-time Ten Sleep resident, passed away on January 2, 2018 at the Washakie Medical Center. He was 85. Robbie was born on April 17, 1932 in Denver, Colorado to Robert Wetzel, Sr. and Marlene Adell (Chamberlain) Orchard. He attended elementary school in Cody, WY and High School in Denver, CO. All the while, spending his summers on the "Cowboy Crew" at the ranch. Following his graduation from East Denver High School in 1950 he attended CU in Boulder where he... Full story