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  • Wedding display at WCCC features items from local businesses

    Tracie Mitchell, Staff Writer|Jan 19, 2017

    WORLAND – With the Women's Expo coming up Feb. 12, Linda Abell, with the help of Mary Donnell, Shannon Christian and Katianne Meuller, decided to create a display at the Worland Community Center Complex with a wedding theme, featuring items from Friday Fest merchants. "I decided that I would do wedding dresses and valentines because it's February and its appropriate and people are planning. My idea was that at the beginning I would give the Friday Fest merchants space to put some things that the...

  • Commerce pick says NAFTA will be early target for team Trump

    Jan 19, 2017

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Breaking with Republican orthodoxy, a new Trump administration will work quickly to re-do the North American Free Trade Agreement, a massive trade pact with Canada and Mexico that has boosted trade but still stings laid off workers across the Midwest, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for commerce secretary told Congress on Wednesday. At his confirmation hearing, billionaire investor Wilbur Ross said all free trade agreements should be systematically re-opened every few years to make sure they are working in the best int...

  • NC House Rep. Price says he'll attend Trump inauguration

    Jan 19, 2017

    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Rep. David Price says he’ll attend the inauguration of Donald Trump “with pride” in the country even though he’s appalled by the president-elect. The Democrat said in statement Tuesday night that he won’t join about 50 House colleagues who say they’ll boycott Trump’s swearing-in Friday in Washington. North Carolina’s other two Democratic House members, Reps. G.K. Butterfield and Alma Adams, said Tuesday they won’t attend. Price says his main reason for attending is to affirm “democracy and the rule of law....

  • Playing for Hope 'Pink Out' games scheduled

    Alex Kuhn, Sports Editor|Jan 19, 2017

    WORLAND - The Playing for Hope foundation has scheduled "Pink Out" events during high school winters sports season. As of now the Greybull vs. Riverside game on Jan. 28, Cody vs. Star Valley on Feb. 3, Thermopoils vs. Worland on Feb. 9 and Worland vs. Rawlins on Feb. 10 have been scheduled as Pink Out games. The Play for Hope is a 501 (c) (3) charity that uses Pink Outs as a fundraising opportunity to provide assistance to those diagnosed with cancer as they battle the disease. On January 7,...

  • Stay off icy Big Horn River

    Karla Pomeroy, Editor|Jan 19, 2017

    WORLAND - An icy river is no place for pedestrians. This is the message City of Worland Public Works Superintendent Brian Burky wants to get out to the public. The Law Enforcement Dispatch Center recently received one call about children being on the icy river and Burky said the city has received two calls about footprints on the ice near Riverside Rotary Park. Burky said, "Ice over flowing water like a river is often unsafe when ice over static water like a lake is safer. You need at least...

  • School CPR bill delayed by Senate panel

    Jan 19, 2017

    CHEYENNE (AP) — A Senate committee has delayed acting on a proposed bill that would require Wyoming students to receive basic instruction in CPR in order to graduate. The Senate Education Committee on Wednesday heard testimony that overwhelmingly supported Senate File 82. However, there were concerns about how the measure was written and whether a new law was the proper way to address the issue. Committee chairman Republican Sen. Hank Coe, of Cody, says the panel will take up the bill again on Friday to give sponsors time to rework it. Under t...

  • Jan 19, 2017

    Public Notice of Termination of Parental Rights...  Website

  • Thomas Anthony "Sully" Sullivan

    Jan 19, 2017

    Thomas Anthony “Sully” Sullivan passed away Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at his residence in Thermopolis after a year of declining health. Born June 30, 1929 in Hartford, Connecticut, he was one of three children of Joseph and Marion (McAuliffe) Sullivan. Shortly after high school he served in the US Marines from October 1950 to May 1952. Following Sully’s discharge, he attended Tulsa University earning his degree in Petroleum Engineering. On May 26, 1956 he married Jeanne Lee Agnew in Tulsa, OK. Tom was hired by Skelly Oil and worked in the o... Full story

  • Jan 19, 2017

    Public Notice WCSD #2 Warrants...  Website