Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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AP — Energy companies led U.S. stocks slightly lower Monday as the price of crude oil declined, snapping a three-day winning streak for the Standard & Poor’s 500 index. Phone company and real estate stocks were also among the big decliners. Technology and industrial companies eked out tiny gains. Investors are continuing to focus on company earnings reports this week as they size up the health of Corporate America. With just over half of all the companies in the S&P 500 having reported quarterly results, most have posted annual earnings gro...
POWELL — The Northwest College forensics team placed first among community colleges and second overall at the Pioneer Trails Swing Tournament hosted by Casper College Jan. 27-29. The parliamentary debate team of Powell’s Connor Hunt and Worland’s Isaabella Munoz finished fourth in the open division. In the individual events, Hunt took second in impromptu, third and fifth in drama, sixth as the tournament’s overall speaker and seventh in extemporary speech. Munoz finished first in program oral interpretation and fifth in prose. Jarelly Castro of...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Sheriff’s Office and Worland Police Department have issued a warning to all residents to be on the lookout for fake $20 bills that have been circulated in the Big Horn Basin. According to Washakie County Sheriff Steve Rakness, “It has been reported to me, through one of our local banks, that unknown subjects, mostly teenagers or possibly young adults are passing fake $20 bills, at least at Blair’s Market in Thermopolis.” The fake money is in the form of a $20 bill with ‘Motion Picture Use Only’ on the front right h...
WORLAND - A night after being out of sync on offense the No. 3 Worland Lady Warriors put on their best offensive display of the season to go with another suffocating defensive performance. "I thought we executed well on offense. We had good ball movement and we took advantage of matchup advantages and I was really proud of the girls defensively," said WHS girls basketball coach Ben Hofmann. The Lady Warriors (10-3 overall, 3-0 3A East: West Conference) were relentless on defense and offensively...
In addition to all the gas stations on main street in Worland in the 1950s, there were still more found on 10th Street and further north. Following a hypothetical driver coming from Thermopolis, such a driver could take a left at 10th Street and Big Horn Avenue and head north. The first gas station he’d see would be on the left, approximately the same location as a current motel located on Robertson Avenue and on the east side of 10th. There, Harold Schmidt ran a Chevron station. Across the street and a little further north, where the Subway i...
WORLAND – Washakie County Commissioners will meet today, to hear county agency reports and recognize the contributions of Worland residents Lowell and Punkie Peterson, the 30-year owners and operators of True Value Hardware. The couple closed the landmark Worland hardware store late last year, in order to retire. In a bid to begin a process recommended by the state, the commission will also appoint the Washakie County Wyoming Public Lands Initiative advisory committee, made up of 13 volunteers. The goal of the group is to reach a consensus as t...
CASPER (AP) — Wyoming lawmakers have removed a proposed 2 percent sales tax increase from a bill intended to fund public schools. The Casper Star-Tribune reports that lawmakers struck the tax increase Friday from House Bill 236, an omnibus education spending bill. Lawmakers are trying to tackle a $400 million annual shortfall in K-12 spending. They may dip into the Legislature’s rainy day fund, which currently has $1.6 billion, to do so. Under the omnibus bill, $100 million would be taken from the legislative savings account to fund sch...
Raymond Eugene Sharp, 85, passed away on January 30, 2017 after a 6-year battle with cancer. Ray was born in Chicago, Illinois on September 29, 1931 to Royal Leon and Ethyl Estella (Kaylor) Sharp. The family moved to Riverton when he was a young child. They then relocated to Greybull where he received his formal education. He worked at Triangle Packing for a short time. He married Jeanie Marie Barnhart on September 2, 1951. The couple made their home in Worland until on Valentine's day, 1952,...
John Edwin Oliver, 86, of Greybull, died at his residence on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017. He was born July 4, 1930. Funeral Mass will be at 10a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017 at Sacred Heart Church in Greybull. Atwood Family Funeral Directors assisted the family with the arrangements....
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