Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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Longtime Worland resident LaDonna Kay Sonesen, 67, died on February 8, 2016 at Worland Healthcare Center. Kay was born on September 3, 1948 in Winchester, WY, a daughter of Dorothy (Brownell) and Eldon Short. She attended schools in Worland. Following high school she moved to Thermopolis where she met Seth "Sandy" Andrew Sonesen, and they were married in 1965. The couple then lived in Casper for a short time before moving back to Worland. Kay had worked as a waitress at the Rams Horn Café and... Full story
CODY — The Wyoming Game and Fish Department will hold a public meeting from 6-8 p.m. Feb. 16 at the Park County Library, Bison Room (1500 Heart Mountain St.) in Cody to discuss fisheries in the Big Horn Basin and proposed statewide fishing regulation changes for 2017-2018. Cody Region Fisheries Supervisor Sam Hochhalter said the primary purpose of the meeting is to engage the public in general conversation about fisheries in the Bighorn Basin, which can include anything from regulation changes to stocking. “This meeting will provide the pubic w...
WORLAND — While seeing someone carrying a firearm to their vehicle in Wyoming is a fairly common occurrence, one such occurrence Thursday afternoon resulted in three Worland schools being sent into a lockout. Washakie County School District No. 1 Superintendent David Nicholas said about 1 p.m. Thursday a citizen was seen carrying a rifle near the Worland Middle School. “A school employee reported the incident and to be safe we went into a lockdown at the middle school, high school and South Side,” he said. “A report was made to law enforce...
CHEYENNE (AP) — The state of Wyoming would spend through roughly $1 billion of savings over the coming two years under a budget bill that cleared a crucial committee vote this week. The Legislature’s Joint Appropriations Committee on Wednesday night approved the general government appropriations bill for the two-year period that starts this July. The House and Senate will start hearings on mirror versions of the bill next week. Faced with low energy prices and economic forecasts that predict increasingly tough times ahead, the committee vot...
WORLAND – Worland resident Vera Eckhardt turns 90 on Monday. She is the only child of Glenn W. and Dorothy Kinsley Hinkle. She was born at home on South Flat Road and has lived on South Flat road her entire life. When she was born she was laid in a Victrola lid that weighed four pounds, which would be her first bed. Over the years Vera has seen a lot of changes in Worland. "I attended the Emmett and Watson elementary schools. The Emmett school was where Jon's (Reese and Ray's) is and the W...
AL-ARID, Egypt (AP) — A donkey has leapt to fame in a small Egyptian village by defying her species’ well-known stubbornness and jumping hurdles on command. Ahmed Ayman, a 14-year-old farmer living in the Nile Delta north of Cairo, discovered his donkey’s natural talent when she leapt over an irrigation canal one day, and decided to train her. “We got a very small barrier, and then would make it higher and higher each day,” he said. Now the two perform in front of crowds of gleeful children from their village of al-Arid. Ayman uses a wooden ba...
WORLAND – Worland met its match on the mat on Thursday with Powell coming to town for a dual as both teams finish up the regular season schedule this week. The four-time defending state champion Panthers showed why their reign atop the 3A wrestling world has lasted so long, beating the Warriors 40-21 on a night where the seniors were honored. The dual started at 160 with senior JD Nelson moving up from his usual 152-pound slot to face Powell's Tucker Darrah. The two were battled well with the m...
(AP) — Replay officials are likely to have more power when it comes to calling targeting penalties in college football next season. The NCAA football rules committee proposed giving replay officials more authority to overturn incorrect targeting fouls and to call targeting penalties when they are missed on the field. The committee also agreed to allow conferences to experiment with NFL-style centralized video replay review systems in 2016. The rules committee completed four days of meetings in Orlando, Florida, on Thursday and announced s...
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