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WORLAND — Representatives from Worland City Council and Washakie County School District No. 1 Board of Trustees have been invited to meet with the Washakie County commissioners today to discuss funding for the Worland Aquatic Center (WAC). The WAC operates currently on a $270,000 budget. The commissioners, as part of their regular monthly meeting, have the aquatic center on the schedule at 3 p.m. Commissioner Terry Wolf said that the commissioners told the school district and Worland Aquatic Center Joint Powers Board that they would make a d...
WORLAND - The Bureau of Land Management has selected Mike Phillips as the new field manager for its Worland Field Office. Phillips served as the assistant field manager for renewable resources in Worland since 2007. "We're happy to have Mike as the Worland Field Manager," said Mary Jo Rugwell, interim state director for BLM Wyoming. "His experience with building and maintaining strong relationships in the community will be an asset to the Worland Field Office." In 1991, Phillips joined the BLM...
CHEYENNE —The Wyoming Highway Patrol did not investigate a single fatal crash through the extended New Year’s holiday weekend Dec. 31 through Jan. 3. There were three crashes involving four fatalities during this same time period last year. One of the three crashes was alcohol related. The rest were related to inclement weather and speed. WHP Colonel Kebin Haller is crediting the lack of fatalities to “personal responsibility with motorists making good decisions before getting behind the wheel and the increase in law enforcement working late...
CODY - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Wadman Corporation of Ogden, Utah, have begun a massive $3.5 million renovation of the Cody Mural Historic Site located at 1719 Wyoming Avenue in Cody, with a projected completion date of June 1, 2016. This project, funded by a private trust, is taking place nearly 65 years after the famous Cody Mural was completed by Chicago, and later Cody, artist Edward T. Grigware (1889-1960). In 1950, before beginning to paint the mural in the...
In 2006, the Jim Gatchell Museum Press (Buffalo) published a writing by Gil Bollinger and Scott Burgan titled “Spanish Explorers in Wyoming,” in which the authors looked at evidence regarding the presence of Spaniards in Wyoming in the 18th century. They employed heavily a collection of Glen Sweem, a Sheridan archaeologist and historian who had spent a good part of his life running down evidence of the presence of Spaniards before 1800. When, in the late 1990s, I looked at the question of 18th century Spanish presence in Wyoming, I knew Swe...
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Wildlife officials have divvied up how many grizzly bears could be killed by hunters in the Yellowstone region of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho as the states seek control of a species shielded from hunting for the past 40 years, according to documents obtained by the Associated Press. The region's grizzlies currently are under federal protection, but that could change in coming months, turning control over to the states. A draft agreement detailing the states' plans for the...
NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — One man’s back hair is another man’s canvas. At least that’s how Mike Wolfe, 35, of Nampa, Idaho, has decided to approach manscaping. Wolfe tells KTVB-TV that after years of feeling ashamed of his body hair, he asked a friend in 2008 to trim an American flag on his back rather than undergoing hair removal processes like shaving or waxing. Since then, the two meet up several times throughout the year to design a new creation onto Wolfe’s back. “Pssh, it’s manhandling back hair,” said Wolfe. “It’s disgusting. But it...
LARAMIE -The results have been frustrating, but for University of Wyoming men's basketball coach Larry Shyatt there's only one thing he and his team can do. UW (7-8 overall, 0-2 Mountain West) has lost four consecutive games - all away from home. Three were by a combined 16 points, including a double-overtime loss. The other was by 12 points in its Mountain West opener at San Diego State last Wednesday where UW cut a 25-7 first-half deficit to four points midway through the second half. The...
Maxwell M. Martinson, 8, of Cheyenne, died on Monday, December 28, 2015. He was born on October 15, 2007 in Tampa, Florida and had lived in Cheyenne for seven years. Maxwell had attended Lebhart Elementary School and was to begin attending Anderson Elementary School in January. He was very active in many sports through the local recreational leagues and the YMCA. Maxwell enjoyed fishing, hiking, the outdoors, animals, board games, and Pokemon. He was a very special boy who had a kind, kind...