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WORLAND – The Washakie County Commissioners unveiled an official design for the Washakie County Library during a public comment session at their regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 4. The proposed design would include space for the Worland-Ten Sleep Chamber of Commerce in the front of the building, along with offices for the chamber and Washakie County Youth Alternatives and the Washakie County Prevention Specialist office and meeting spaces upstairs. The plans for the proposed l...
WORLAND — After an attempt by a Greybull town council member to ban pit bulls failed, a Worland resident approached the Worland City Council Tuesday to try and prevent a similar attempt in Worland. Katie Hillmer said she is a dog trainer and animal behaviorist. She said she had a proposed ordinance for the council to consider that works better than breed banning. She added that breed banning does not prevent dog bites, what does prevent dog bites is education, especially among children second grade or younger. She said there are several m...
WORLAND — Don Day Jr. of DayWeather Radio Network will be the keynote speaker at this year’s WESTI Ag Days at the Worland Community Center. The University of Wyoming Extension’s Strategically and Technologically Informative (WESTI) Ag Days will be Feb. 11-12, Tuesday and Wednesday next week. Day will open up this year’s event at 10 a.m. to speak on “Understanding Climate Change Theory and What It Means For Wyoming Agriculture.” Youngquist said that Day “takes the topic of climate change very seriously, especially regarding the agriculture a...
CHEYENNE — A Republican state lawmaker has introduced a resolution that would encourage the Wyoming Department of Education to offer voluntary gun and hunting safety classes in the state’s high schools. If passed during the legislative session that begins next week, Senate Joint Resolution 1 would urge the Game and Fish Commission to collaborate with the Department of Education to create the safety classes as a physical education elective. Sen. Ogden Driskill, R-Devils Tower, the main sponsor of the legislation, said the classes would help mit...
The "Reading Rhinos" Kade Garcia, Krew Neighbors, Noland Johnston and Donovan Warren celebrate after being named the winners of the Battle of the Books at West Side Elementary on Friday, Jan. 31.... Full story
WORLAND - Twenty-three Worland Middle School students will present a musical comedy, "Going, Going, Gone With The Breeze," next Thursday and Friday at the WMS Auditorium. Twenty cast members and three technical crew members have been working since just before Christmas under the direction of teachers Amy Wright and Kimberly Moore to present the musical. The synopsis for the play is that the "exciting new novel "Gone With the Breeze" is about to become a movie. Lone Pine films wants Peggy...
POWELL (WNE) — The federal government will continue to subsidize fall, winter and spring flights between the Cody and Denver airports, agreeing to pay United Airlines $841,000 to fly the route twice a day from October through May. The Jan. 29 decision from the U.S. Department of Transportation effectively guarantees that Yellowstone Regional Airport (YRA) will continue to have year-round commercial service in the coming years. Airlines are happy to fly to Cody in the summer months, when tourists drive up passenger numbers, offering service t...
George “Butch” Henry Yetter Jr., 57, passed away Jan. 30, 2020, at his home in Thermopolis. Services will be held at a later date.... Full story
Memorial service for Lisa McGarvin wil be held at 1:00 p.m., Friday, February 7, 2020 at Gillette Memorial Chapel with Pastor Paul Baughman officiating. Lisa Ruth McGarvin was born on January 30, 1959, in Worland, Wyoming and died on January 31, 2020, with loved ones by her side after a short illness. Lisa's love for her family, friends, and animals touched many during her 61 years. Lisa worked as a paralegal at Daly & Sorenson at the time of her death. She was a grandmother, mother,... Full story
Connie Ellen (Lungren) Hillhouse, age 73, passed away Sunday, February 2, 2020, at the Billings Clinic with family members at her side. She was born on June 19, 1946, the first of four children to parents Leo and Vada (Spatz) Lungren. She attended Worland schools and graduated in 1964. She married Richard A Hillhouse on January 18, 1964. Connie loved to help her dad on the farm and was put behind the wheel of a truck at age 5 helping in the beet fields, she rode on the tractor bailing hay and,... Full story
A year ago we welcomed our readers into a new era with the Northern Wyoming Daily News transitioning into the Northern Wyoming News and publishing its first edition as a weekly newspaper. The change brought this community newspaper full circle. It began as a weekly newspaper, the Worland Grit, later grew into the Northern Wyoming Daily News publishing five days a week, Tuesday through Saturday, and this week we celebrate one full year as the Northern Wyoming News. This year is also the 115th year for the newspaper that has called Worland home... Full story
CHEYENNE – The 65th Wyoming Legislature will convene in a Joint Session of the Wyoming Senate and House of Representatives on Monday at 10 a.m., during the first day of legislative proceedings of the 2020 Budget Session. At that time, Gov. Mark Gordon will deliver his State of the State message to the Legislature, followed by the State of the Judiciary message, delivered by Wyoming Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael K. Davis. Due to the large crowds expected in the House Chamber for this event, alternative means of participating in the j... Full story
JACKSON — The Wyoming Supreme Court says the Board of Coroner Standards doesn’t have the authority to investigate an elected coroner for misconduct. The final opinion, filed Jan. 8, stems from an ongoing dispute over Teton County Coroner Dr. Brent Blue’s alleged misconduct during a May 2017 coroner’s inquest into Anthony Birkholz’s death. The jury in Blue’s inquest concluded the 31-year-old’s death could have been prevented. More specifically, the three jurors said Birkholz died “due to aspiration secondary to alcohol and 5-methoxy-DMT ingestio... Full story
CASPER — For decades, hundreds of members of the Wyoming National Guard have been sent to serve in wars overseas, sometimes participating in military actions that have gone unapproved by Congress. Wyoming’s guardsmen have long been tapped by the federal government to serve wherever they are needed, no matter if the country they were deployed to was at peace or at war. A bill introduced this week by Rep. Tyler Lindholm, R-Sundance, however, seeks to end that practice. Counting a group of 15 bipartisan co-sponsors, Lindholm’s “Defend The Guard Ac... Full story
GILLETTE — If a proposal gets final approval, armed educators in the Campbell County School District will be trained to run toward danger, not away from it. That’s what Larry Reznicek, human resources manager in the school district, told those gathered Tuesday night as he answered what if and scenario-related questions from the public. The number of district employees at the hearing outnumbered those who showed up to make comments and asked questions during the 30-minute session. “This is intended for the very worst moment that could ever... Full story
Man pleads guilty to 2018 murder LOVELL (WNE) — A little more than two years since the murder of Carol Jean Barnes, suspect Donald Joe Crouse appeared in Big Horn County Fifth Judicial District Court late in the afternoon of Tuesday, Jan. 28, to change his plea to guilty Crouse appeared with his attorneys Diane Lozano, Brandon Booth and Timothy Blatt. Big Horn County Attorney Marcia Bean and deputies Kim Mickelson and Jennifer Kirk appeared on behalf of the state. The change of plea came as a result of an agreement, with the terms being laid o... Full story
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