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    Alex Kuhn, Sports Editor|Feb 13, 2018

    TEN SLEEP - Adversity has been a part of the Ten Sleep Pioneers basketball 2017-18 campaign all season long. Having only seven players on the roster was tough enough, then the team was hit with the injury-bug that caused them to forfeit a few games in January. Jump ahead a few weeks and the Pioneers are back in business with a healthy roster. Friday, with all seven players suiting up, the Pioneers grabbed their first win of 2018 since December 2017 by defeating the Dubois Rams 72-51. "It helps...

  • Stocks power higher after a dreadful week; Dow jumps 410

    Associated Press|Feb 13, 2018

    NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks powered higher Monday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average up 410 points, as the market clawed back more of its massive losses from the previous two weeks. Apple jumped 4 percent and led a rally in technology companies, while industrial companies, banks, and consumer-focused companies like retailers also rose. Netflix and Amazon surged again as stocks that led the market higher in 2017 recovered more of the ground they lost recently. Energy companies got some relief as oil prices turned higher. All of that helped s...

  • Worland Senior Center starts up annual tax assistance

    Cyd Lass, Staff Intern|Feb 13, 2018

    WORLAND – Monday, Feb. 12, was the first day of the Worland Senior Center’s annual tax assistance. Sherry Stottler has been in charge of this event for two years. “The taxes here at the senior center have been getting done for a lot of years,” Stottler said. “I used to walk by and see it. Then, one day, someone asked if I would help. And so I did help, then, last year, a few people decided that they didn’t want to do it. And I had thought ‘we just have to have taxes done!’ We do almost 150 each year. I knew somebody has to do it, so I steppe...

  • Wyoming Gop seeks applicants for secretary of state

    Feb 13, 2018

    CHEYENNE — Wyoming Republican Party Chairman W. Frank Eathorne has called a meeting of the Wyoming Republican Party State Central Committee to consider applications to fill the vacancy in the office of Secretary of State resulting from the resignation of Secretary of State Ed Murray on Feb. 9. Murray announced his resignation Friday, effective immediately. According to his statement, Murray said, “After deep and profound contemplation I am announcing my resignation as Secretary of State, effective [Friday]. I step aside with peace and ser...

  • Christensen to run for secretary of state

    John Spina, Jackson Hole Daily Via Wyoming News Exchange|Feb 13, 2018

    JACKSON - State Senator and Alta native Leland Christensen announced Friday that he will run for Wyoming Secretary of State this year. The former Teton County sheriff's deputy and county commissioner has spent the past eight years in the state Senate, where he chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee for the past three years. His decision to run was largely a result of current Secretary of State Ed Murray announcing he will not run for re-election amid sexual assault allegations. On Friday, Murray...

  • Game and Fish trout reintroduction meetings create public comment

    Marcus Huff, Staff Writer|Feb 13, 2018

    WORLAND – Designated the state fish in 1987, the Yellowstone cutthroat trout, a native to Wyoming before settlement and once abundant, is scheduled to be reintroduced to the Absaroka, Beartooth and Big Horn Mountains, but ahead of the measure, Game and Fish officials taking public input from interested anglers and outdoors enthusiasts. Last month in Worland, a group of wildlife officials led by Cody Regional Fisheries Supervisor Sam Hochhalter met with a half dozen residents to take recommendations before holding similar meetings in Cody and L...

  • Lights! Camera! Action!

    Tracie Mitchell, Staff Writer|Feb 13, 2018

    WORLAND – Saturday, the Worland Fire Department welcomed a Discovery Science freelance reporter and cameraman from the United Kingdom to do a feature about the sulfur fire just north of Worland that occurred in July 2017. Local firefighters who participated in the filming were Worland Fire Department Chief Chris Kocher, Captain Brandon Yule, Angie McClain, Caitlin Youngquist and Bruce Nielson. Yule took a video of the fire, which occurred at around 10:38 p.m. on, July 7, 2017 while the fire c...

  • Donald J. 'Donnie' Alexander

    Feb 13, 2018

    Donald James “Donnie” Alexander, 65, of Cody and formerly of Burlington passed away Feb. 9, 2017, in Longmont, Colo. Donnie was born Dec. 15, 1952. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m., Friday, Feb. 23, 2018, at the Burlington Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.... Full story