Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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WORLAND – The holidays are over and the new year has begun, causing many people to make new year’s resolutions. Worland Senior Citizens Center is offering a weight-loss challenge starting today through April 10 to help all, not just seniors, who are interested in getting healthier with monetary incentives to lose weight and refrain from gaining extra weight. The initial weigh-in is today and requires a $10 start-up fee, although Worland Senior Citizens Center activities coordinator Tammy Kunz stated that as long as you get signed up by the end...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Commission met Tuesday for the first meeting of the year, hearing department reports, recapping events of 2018 and minor upgrades to county properties. Commission members Terry Wolf and Fred Frandson were sworn-in at a ceremony in the morning, with Frandson appointed commission chairman before convening department reports. Washakie County Ambulance Director Luke Sypherd reported to the commission that the county ambulance service answered 963 requests in 2018, w...
CASPER — Lawmakers will consider a bill that would increase taxes for all property in Wyoming and send tens of millions of dollars to public schools here over the coming years. The education-funding deficit has been a dominant topic for Wyoming lawmakers for years, as the recent bust created a deficit that was projected to top $1.8 billion by the beginning of the next decade. Two years later, the situation has stabilized somewhat, but the core problem remains unsolved, officials said. This measure, which would add three mill levies to all p...
THERMOPOLIS - In the midst of a six-game losing streak, the Hot Springs County boys basketball team is hoping this weekend's home tournament, the Pinnacle Bank Big Horn Basin Classic, will be what gets them out of their early-season rut. Last weekend the Bobcats were in Rawlins for the East-West Classic and got three more games under their belt. Unfortunately for them, those three games resulted in three losses that pushed their losing streak to six. The 'Cats lost to Big Piney 48-46, Pinedale 5...
Thornton Dode Harrison, beloved husband, father, grandfather, and great grandfather passed away on January 5, 2019 at his home in Basin, WY with his wife by his side. Dode was born February 8, 1951 in Cody, WY to Helen Mar Ives & Vern Harrison. He was the only boy with three sisters Judy Rae, Verna Kay, and Rita Ann. Dode attended Greybull schools for his elementary, middle, and high school years. He graduated from Greybull High School in 1970. He was active in football, basketball, and FFA....