Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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Join us Feb. 6 for our open house celebrating 115 years in business in Washakie County. 10 to 2 p.m. Refreshments and door prizes....
Next Friday will be the final pick-up day for cardboard recycling in Worland and Ten Sleep with the Washakie County Solid Waste Disposal District No. 1 board opting not to continue to subsidize the recycling program. The reasons are two-fold, according to District Manager Mike Siegfried, financing and the fact that currently there is no where to take the cardboard. Siegfried said current recycling plants are full and cannot accept anymore. This is one of the reasons it has been almost a year since they shipped any baled cardboard out of the...
WORLAND — Worland Mayor Jim Gill declared a vacancy for Ward 1 on the council following the death of Gary Gerber on Dec. 25, 2019. Worland Ward 1 Council member Gary Gerber, 68, served on the council since 2017. Gill said, “We’re going to miss council member Gerber tremendously.” The city will advertise for letters of interest for approximately 30 days. Ward 1 is mostly north of Big Horn Avenue and east of 10th Street. A ward map is located on the City of Worland website. ORDINANCES The council also approved two ordinances Tuesday night,...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Commissioners will be taking public comment regarding the Washakie County Natural Resource Plan (WCNRP) on Monday, Jan. 27 and Jan. 28. The meeting on Monday will be at the Worland Community Center in the conference room, and the meeting on Tuesday will be in Ten Sleep at the Ten Sleep Senior Center. Both meetings are from 6-8 p.m. This public comment period will help the commissioners gather information on the resources and industries in the area to take into a mee...
WORLAND — Washakie County and Mountain View Subdivision resident Bill Hill came before the Washakie County commissioners to express his frustration with what he considered unfair treatment by the Worland City Council. The council recently passed on three readings an ordinance increasing sewer rates for non-city residents to establish a depreciation reserve for future line maintenance and replacement. The non-city residents receiving the rate increase are in the service areas of Hillcrest, South Flat, Packerville, Sunset, Mountain View, S...
SHERIDAN - The Bighorn National Forest will welcome Erin Phelps as the acting Forest Supervisor later this month. Phelps assumes temporary leadership of the Bighorn National Forest Jan. 27. Phelps comes to the Bighorn National Forest from the Payette National Forest, where she serves as the District Ranger in New Meadows, Idaho. Phelps began her federal career in wildland fire with the Boise Bureau of Land Management, then with the Forest Service on Interagency Hotshot Crews in Arizona. In...
WORLAND – Jaedan Jackson, 16, had the opportunity of a lifetime when he and his family flew out to New Orleans, Louisiana, to attend the College Football Playoff National Championship game the weekend leading up to the game on Monday, Jan. 13. Jackson went to the game with his mom Brittany Baker, dad Nick Baker and his brother Cade Jackson. These four all went down to New Orleans for a weekend filled with activities, concerts and the national championship to cap it all off. This trip was made p...
WORLAND — The Worland Police Department is currently investigating multiple incidents of individuals gaining entry into unlocked vehicles to steal valuables. These incidents have recently occurred in various residential neighborhoods within the City of Worland, according to a press release. According to Worland Police Chief Gabe Elliott, during the early morning hours of Jan. 14, 2020, the Worland Police Department received a report from a citizen who had observed a person rummaging through vehicles in their neighborhood. WPD officers were able...
Jean Marie Peterson (Farnam), 83, passed away Jan. 16, 2020, at Washakie Medical Center in Worland. Jean was born March 21, 1936, in LaMoure, North Dakota. Memorial services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, January 23, 2020 at Grace Lutheran Church....
A memorial service for Gerald Neary, 87, of Baker, will be held at a later date. In accordance to Gerald's wishes, cremation has taken place. Gerald passed away January 12, 2020 at Fallon Medical Complex in Baker. Gerald Omar Neary was born January 14, 1932 in Glendive, MT, to William and Ida (Tinkey) Neary. Growing up, Gerald attended school at Carlyle later graduating from Baker High School. He enlisted into the Navy in 1951, serving in the Korean War. Gerald was honorably discharged in 1954...
Cedar Haun and Sophia Beamer show off their signs focused around the planet and women's right to vote during STEAM Saturdays at the Washakie Museum & Cultural Center....
Sue Smith pours a bowl of soup for a hungry guest during the 'Soup'er Bowl during the Big Horn Basin Classic Girls Basketball tournament in Worland Friday night. All of the proceeds from the soup sales and the auction went toward the Washakie County Special Olympics....
Man pleads guilty to stealing from Scouts, elderly woman GILLETTE (WNE) — A Gillette man has pleaded guilty to taking more than $30,000 from the Boy Scouts while he was a scoutmaster and more than $120,000 from an elderly woman for whom he had worked and befriended. Sentencing for Jason Ray Barnum, 42, will be March 5 on three counts of theft for taking $31,025 from the Boy Scouts and one count of obtaining goods by false pretenses for taking $122,573 from an elderly woman who had hired him to do repair work at her house. Prosecutors will r...
The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality has backed off a plan to allow Moneta Divide oilfield operators to increase pollutants they dump into creeks above Boysen Reservoir, and proposed new monitoring of existing salty effluent. Aethon Energy and Burlington Resources will not be permitted to dump up to 8.27 million gallons a day and more than 1,000 tons each of sodium and sulfate a month into Badwater and Alkali creeks as they requested last year, according to a revised DEQ draft permit. Instead a “significantly different” plan would ma...
POWELL — A jury convicted a Wapiti man of first-degree murder for killing his wife and a judge ordered the 77-year-old to spend the rest of his life in prison. But Dennis K. Klingbeil is hoping that the Wyoming Supreme Court will see his case differently: Klingbeil’s attorneys filed notice last month that he is appealing his sentence. Although Klingbeil owned millions of dollars worth of properties at the time of the murder, he says his assets have since been frozen and that he can’t afford a lawyer. As a result, he’s asked for a taxpaye...
Local police can’t enforce new smoking age CHEYENNE (WNE) — The Cheyenne Police Department announced Wednesday in a Facebook post that it can’t take any enforcement action relating to the new federal law that raises the tobacco purchasing age from 18 to 21 years old. That’s because state law enforcement, such as CPD, cannot enforce federal law. CPD can only legally enforce Wyoming state laws and Cheyenne city ordinances, CPD Public Information Officer David Inman said. Inman said only federal agencies, such as the FBI and the U.S. Marshal...
Uinta County authorizes land sale for detention center EVANSTON (WNE) — The Uinta County Commission Chambers were again full for the regular meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 21, when commissioners voted unanimously to pass a land transfer resolution authorizing the transfer of approximately 63 acres of county property located adjacent to the Bear River State Park to CoreCivic for the intended purpose of constructing an immigration detention/processing center. A Memorandum of Terms regarding the property sale between the county and CoreCivic lists the p...
CASPER — One of the newest companies to take over coal mines in the Powder River Basin has defaulted on its tax payments. Eagle Specialty Materials LLC — the new owner of the former Blackjewel coal mines in Campbell County — missed its first production tax payment late last month, Campbell County Administrative Director Carol Seeger confirmed. In the past 10 years, the amount of county tax delinquencies for energy production increased over 1,700 percent in the state — rising from just over $2 million in 2009 to $39.2 million in 2019. Over 59...
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