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WASHINGTON (AP) — A Trump administration freeze on new Environmental Protection Agency contracts and grant awards raised fears that states and other recipients could lose essential funding for drinking water protection, hazardous waste oversight and a host of other programs — while a communications blackout left them dangling in uncertainty. The agency also took a potential first step Tuesday toward potentially killing environmental rules completed as President Barack Obama’s term wound down. At least 30 were targeted in the Federal Regis...
The Dow Jones industrial average crossed the 20,000 mark for the first time Wednesday, the latest milestone in a record-setting drive for the stock market. Strong earnings from Boeing and other big companies helped push the Dow past the threshold early on. U.S. stocks closed solidly higher, lifting the Standard & Poor’s 500 index and Nasdaq composite to record highs of their own for the second day in a row. Banks and other financial companies led the gainers, which included technology and industrials. Real estate, phone companies and other h...
THERMOPLIS - The season has not gone as planned for the Hot Spring County High School boys basketball team. After fighting back from a 20-point deficit against Worland last Thursday night, before falling 67-56, the Bobcats looked to be turning the corner. Friday night against the Buffalo Bison proved to be the opposite as the Bobcats fell 67-39. "We put a lot of the energy in one of the games and had a setback in the other," said HSCHS boys basketball coach Kevin Gerber. "We're in that roller...
WORLAND — Worland will again host the Wyoming State Reading Council statewide judging for Youth Authors, and organizers are seeking volunteer judges. Organizer and Washakie County School District No. 1 elementary teacher Tina Krejci presented information about the reading council and the statewide judging to the board of trustees at Monday’s meeting. She said 25 years ago she was teaching reading at the middle school and she was invited to Reading Council. “It was awesome.” She said, of course, the first year they also had to do the Young Autho...
CHEYENNE – House Bill 230, introduced in the Wyoming State Legislature on Tuesday, would offer Wyoming the chance to grow industrial hemp for research purposes, joining 20 others states in the development of what was once a standard American crop. As defined by the bill, “Industrial hemp means all parts and varieties of the plant cannabis sativa, containing no more than three-tenths of one percent of (0.3%) of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).” In accordance with Wyoming Statute 35-7-2103, industrial hemp is considered an agricultural crop in the s...
Ellen Roden, 81-year-old Thermopolis resident passed away suddenly on January 23, 2017 at the Roden Ranch in Thermopolis. In 1929, Dan and Julia (Jukich) Skoric immigrated to America from Yugoslavia. On March 26, 1935 a little girl, Ellen, was born in Gebo, Wyoming to Dan and Julia. She was raised in Kirby, Wyoming and attended Kirby Rural School. She graduated from Thermopolis High School in 1953 after which she attended the University of Wyoming where she studied nursing. Her degree was cut sh...
Marjorie B. Lord passed away on January 24, 2017, on a cold and snowy Wyoming morning, just a couple of weeks shy of her 95th birthday. Marj was born on February 9, 1922, to Frank and Russell Baker in Omaha, joining her older brothers Russ and Fred. Her father passed away when Marj was a young teen, leaving her with a longing that would last all her days. During the war effort she would volunteer to bring hot coffee and doughnuts to the servicemen passing through Omaha on the train. She...
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