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Ever been sucker punched. You know when something comes out of nowhere, takes your breath away. I got sucker punched Sunday by way of a text notifying me that a dear friend of mine had passed away. Gladys was one of those friends who comes into your life for a short time but leaves a lasting impression. She was a co-worker with me at the Lovell Chronicle. I remember our first conversation on the telephone before I was even hired. I remember her welcoming smile on my first day. She became like a... Full story
TEN SLEEP — The Town of Ten Sleep Town Council met for their regular monthly meeting on Jan. 7 to hear department reports and afterward, Mayor Jack Haggerty discussed his tenure, and reported that he will retire from the position this year, not running for re-election. “I’m pretty much done,” said Haggerty. “I’ve been on the council since 2003, and served a term and a half as mayor, and accomplished quite a lot in that time, but it’s time to hand it over to a new mayor.” During Haggerty’s time as mayor, the town has faced the destruction and r...
WORLAND – With a January due date Alyssa Keller and her husband Cody of Worland did not think they would be having the first baby born in the new year and the new decade. However, when she opted to move up the date for her cesarean delivery on Jan. 2, that's exactly what happened, when Lucas Paul Keller came into the world at Banner Health Washakie Medical Center in Worland. Alyssa Keller said she had the option of moving up the date by a few days. Initially she wanted to bump it up nearly two w...
WORLAND – More than two years ago the Washakie County Solid Waste Disposal District No. 1 stopped accepting newspapers to recycle. Now, with action by the district board Monday night, they will be ceasing accepting cardboard starting Jan. 31. District Manager Mike Siegfried said, "We've been trying to figure out what to do." With newspapers and cardboard they are not producing enough volume to make it cost effective to truck it out and there is now no where to take the cardboard. One of the i...
WORLAND – Ashley Ann Leary was bound over from Fifth Judicial District Circuit Court to district court on one felony count of burglary. This charge carries a possible punishment of up to 10 years of prison time, and a possible fine of up to $10,000. According to an affidavit of probable cause, Leary was arrested in early November after a traffic stop where it was discovered in her vehicle that there was property belonging to Ryan Allen. The items were then shown to Allen, who has been incarcerat...
WORLAND –Michael L. Burrington Jr. was bound over from Fifth Judicial District Circuit Court to district court on one felony charge of taking a deadly weapon into jail and a misdemeanor of wearing or carrying a concealed weapon for an incident that occurred on Dec. 9, 2019. Burrington was bound over from circuit court to district court on Jan. 2, with no date set in district court for his arraignment at this time. The charge of taking a deadly weapon into jail carries a maximum penalty of 10 y...
WORLAND – Mathew B. Garcia, born in 1992, was bound over from Fifth Judicial District Circuit Court to district court on charges of aggravated assault and domestic battery. Aggravated assault is a felony offense, and carries a maximum penalty of up to 10 years in prison and a possible fine of up to $10,000 and domestic battery is a misdemeanor which is punishable with a possible jail sentence of up to six months, and a fine of up to $750. According to an affidavit of probable cause, Garcia w...
WORLAND – Which state has a longer coastline, Maine or Rhode Island? Do you know the answer? This is just a sample question that sixth through eighth graders from Worland Middle School were asked on Friday, Jan. 10, as part of the school competition for the National Geographic Geobee. The winner of the competition was sixth-grader Ethan Miller, with the runner-up being eighth-grader Jackson Richard. The deciding round came down to a final second tie-breaker question after they both got one out o...
By KARLA POMEROY WORLAND - Worland High School junior Jade Hefenieder won the first WHS Poetry Out Loud competition Monday night in the Little Theater. Hefenieder, and two fellow competitors, Raychel Duffy and Isabelle Burky, each performed two poems in front of four judges and a small audience. Local Poetry Out Loud organizer Pam Greek said the competitors had to select their poems from the list provided by the national Poetry Out Loud organization. One poem had to be 25 lines or fewer and one...
TEN SLEEP – The Ten Sleep school board met on Monday, Jan. 13 for their regularly scheduled meeting to discuss minor changes to the attendance policy to possibly allow for excused absences for post-secondary institution visits. The board approved the change unanimously on first reading. Another policy concerning the Ten Sleep Recreation District changed verbiage to become more aligned with state statutes regarding final budget being reviewed and considered by the school board. This policy was a...
Bernedene Corbett Robertson, 74, passed away peacefully at her home in Worland on January 8, 2020, with her loving husband by her side. Bernedene, was born November 6, 1945, in Worland, Wyoming to Lawerence Joseph and Zelda (Sessions) Corbett. Bernie spent her childhood working on the family farm and playing with her rambunctious older brothers. After attending school at the University of Kansas, Bernie returned to her beloved Wyoming where she met and eventually married Rickey Chad Robertson... Full story
Jack was born on October 19, 1957 in Trenton NJ and passed onto his next journey December 28, 2019 at his home in Phoenix, AZ. During the early 1970's while living in Centennial WY - Jack could be found experiencing the joy of riding his motorcycle with his friends throughout the back country of the Snowy Range Mountains - most notably the Sand Lake road. He learned early-on hard work has its rewards. Putting in several winters at the Ski Lodge on the mountain and summers at the Sawmill. Before... Full story
George J. Argeris, 88, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, died January 9, 2020 at Davis Hospice Center. George was born on May 12, 1931, in Tensleep, Wyoming and raised in Worland, Wyoming. Upon graduation from Washakie County High School in 1949, he attended and graduated from the University of Colorado in Boulder in 1954 with a B.A. degree in International Affairs. He was a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and served in the U.S. Army in Germany from 1954 to 1956 and was honorably discharged with... Full story
Arnold Nelson (Swede) Egbert died Jan. 4, 2020, in Spokane, Washington. He was born in Spring Creek, Wyoming, on Dec. 17, 1927 His cremains will be interred in Ten Sleep Cemetery in Ten Sleep, Wyoming, at a later date. A memorial service will be conducted in Spokane Valley at the United Church of God, 9320 E. Mission Avenue in Spokane Valley at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 25.... Full story
Jimmy Dale Ornsbey, 67, died Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020 at Hot Spring County Memorial Hospital in Thermopolis. Memorial services will be held in the summer of 2020.... Full story
Memorial services for Jeralyn Joy “Jerry” Brown, 89, will be at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, January 18, at Community Federated Church in Thermopolis. Mrs. Brown passed away January 8, 2020, at Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital.... Full story
JACKSON — Three decades after the state of Wyoming finally adopted the holiday that commemorates Martin Luther King Jr., some question why the date can’t be dedicated solely to the slain civil rights leader. The fact that Wyoming observes the holiday at all is a tribute to the persistence of Liz Byrd, the state’s first African American senator, who tried each year for a decade to sway her colleagues to support it. Ultimately, in 1990, she accepted a compromise, and the Legislature lengthened the title to include “Wyoming Equality Day,” j... Full story
LARAMIE — A regulation banning firearms on the University of Wyoming’s campus, which has become the subject of a high-profile lawsuit, isn’t as restrictive as it might appear at first blush, UW Chief of Police Mike Samp said in court this week. Guns are not allowed in campus buildings or other enclosed “facilities,” like War Memorial Stadium, but the regulation does not extend to “open spaces” on campus, he said. The university’s regulation on firearms states that “no dangerous weapon may be stored or carried in or upon university facili... Full story
CHEYENNE – For the first time in more than 80 years, Wyoming Supreme Court justices sat in the Historic Supreme Court Chamber in the state Capitol, hearing oral arguments from two high-profile attorneys representing the Laramie County Board of Commissioners and the Laramie County Fair Board. Regardless of Thursday’s testimony from Gay Woodhouse and Steve Freudenthal, both of whom have served as the state’s attorney general, the Supreme Court will have the final say in determining whether the commissioners had the authority to dissolve the f... Full story
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