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TEN SLEEP - It was a strange and trying week for the Ten Sleep Lady Pioneers basketball team. An injury and sickness left the six-player team shorthanded for their two games last week against 1A Northwest conference rivals Meeteetse and Dubois, both of which resulted in losses. "It was just an odd weekend," said TSHS girls basketball coach Sarah Novak. In their 33-19 home loss to Meeteetse, the Lady Pioneers were without sophomore point guard, and leading scorer, Bryley Moore due to sickness....
NEW YORK (AP) — Hefty gains for energy and technology companies helped U.S. stocks set more records Monday. Drugmakers announced two major deals worth about $20 billion and smaller-company stocks climbed after the Senate reached a short-term deal to end the government shutdown. Stocks were slightly higher in the early going as strong fourth-quarter results from Halliburton helped energy companies, and big technology companies like Alphabet and Microsoft continued their ascent. Starting at noon, after Senate Democrats said they would support a t...
WORLAND - The Northern Wyoming Daily News earned a first-place Pacemaker award from the Wyoming Press Association at is winter convention in Casper last weekend. Winning for spot news coverage in the daily newspaper division was ice jam coverage published on Feb. 14, with stories from editor Karla Pomeroy and staff writer Tracie Mitchell. Judges wrote, "Great timeline and sub-headers help tell the story. Numbers are used effectively to demonstrate major impact. Good photos help tell the story....
WORLAND – Many federal employees and employees of agencies which reside in federally owned buildings came to work Monday morning to commence shutdown activities and receive their furlough papers. Federal agencies across the Big Horn Basin were not answering their phones stating in the outgoing message that because of the lapse in federal appropriations, there was no one to take calls and that no calls would be returned until the shutdown ended. Thankfully for all those affected, the shutdown m...
WORLAND – Worland teachers and staff members will compete in the first Battle of the Buildings this evening from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. in the Worland High School Gym. Community members are invited to cheer on their favorite teacher or school building. Worland West Side and South Side physical education teacher Brianna Scholl stated that the competition will plot school building against school building. In other words each school building in the district will have a team with the addition of the central office and ERC (Educational Resource Cen...
WORLAND — The City of Worland’s three-phase “15th Street Project” will actually begin at Bower Avenue this week with the replacement of 700 feet of a water line. Worland Public Works Superintendent Brian Burky said Viper Underground of Riverton will be mobilizing and getting equipment ready Monday. In preparation for the project, the city invited residents from the Bower neighborhood, in addition to council members from Ward 2 — Mandy Horath, Dennis Koch and Christy Schneider — for a meeting Thursday night. Burky said there was a handful of...
James (Jim) Orval Wages Sr., 73, formerly of Worland, Wyoming, passed away January 17, 2018 at Billings Medical Clinic. He had been life flighted from Powell, Wyoming, where he resided for the past 4 years. Jim passed from respiratory failure and cardiac arrest. Jim was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming to Harold E. Wages and Ruth E. (Tharp) Wages on March 19, 1944. He graduated from Cheyenne Central High School in 1963. He then attended the University of Wyoming in Laramie, WY for 3 ½ years as... Full story
Charles (Chuck) Edson Lewton was born September 23, 1937, to George Sr. and Berniece (Palmer) Lewton. As the eldest of five children, Chuck always felt great responsibility for his family. Whatever he put his hand to he worked diligently and was rewarded with God's blessings. He passed away January 14th in Lake Havasu City, AZ after many years of health problems. After graduating from Spearfish High School, he served in the 82nd division of the army as a paratrooper. He married Jean Boe in 1960... Full story