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  • Lady Bobcats takedown Lady Outlaws to snap 10-game losing streak

    Alex Kuhn, Sports Editor|Feb 22, 2017

    RAWLINS - The wins have not come as expected for the Hot Spring County Lady Bobcats this season but for this proud group they've kept battling through the adversities, improving inch by inch. The Lady Bobcats dedication and refusal to quit paid off Friday night at Rawlins High School as they downed the Lady Outlaws 58-51. Snapping their 10-game skid was not easy for the Lady 'Cats (6-14 overall, 1-5 3A East: West conference), midway through the third quarter they found themselves in a 10-point...

  • Bobcats working to put all four quarters together

    Alex Kuhn, Sports Editor|Feb 22, 2017

    RAWLINS - A common struggle this season for the Hot Springs County Bobcats has been stringing together four consecutive quarters of basketball, often times with a single quarter hurting their chances at victory. While the Bobcats have taken positive steps this season to correcting that problem, against Rawlins last Friday, it creeped up again as they fell 69-54. "It was another one of those games that slipped out of our hands, unfortunately. We started off slow but once we got on the board we...

  • Supreme Court seems split in case of boy's death near border

    Feb 22, 2017

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appears to be evenly divided about the right of Mexican parents to use American courts to sue a U.S. Border Patrol agent who fired across the U.S.-Mexican border and killed their teenage son. Justice Anthony Kennedy and other conservative justices suggested during argument Tuesday that the boy’s death on the Mexican side of the border was enough to keep the matter out of U.S. courts. The four liberal justices indicated they would support the parents’ lawsuit because the shooting happened close to the borde...

  • Deal hunger sends food stocks higher; US indexes at records

    Feb 22, 2017

    NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks again broke records Tuesday as investors came back from a long weekend hungry for deals. While Kraft Heinz and Unilever couldn’t complete a proposed $143 billion mega-merger, food and household goods makers rose as investors bet that other deals are coming. Companies that make packaged foods, everyday household items and other consumer goods are usually seen as stable investments and rarely take center stage on Wall Street. But on Tuesday they did just that, as investors felt the failed Kraft Heinz-Unilever sale will be r...

  • Local Chief Washakie member attends 2017 Society for Range Management High School Youth Forum

    Feb 22, 2017

    WORLAND — Elizabeth Martinez, a local Worland High School senior and Chief Washakie FFA member, was selected by the Wyoming Section of the Society for Range Management (SRM) to participate in the High School Youth Forum (HSYF), meeting that was held in St. George, Utah, Jan. 29-Feb. 2. This year’s meeting theme was “Red Rock and Rangelands.” The SRM is an international organization that strives to promote public awareness of the importance of sound management and use of rangeland, the world’s largest land base. In 1966 the SRM recognize...

  • USDA proposes future flood relief program

    Marcus Huff, Staff Writer|Feb 22, 2017

    WORLAND – The Washakie County Commission heard from a representative from the United States Department of Agriculture on Tuesday, introducing the opportunity to sponsor a flood relief program that could benefit county projects in the future. Introduced by county Emergency Watershed Manager Laura Galloway of Ten Sleep, primary soil scientist James Bauchert with the USDA explained to commissioners the parameters of the Emergency Watershed Flood Funding program, and the role it could have in the local area. While the program would not benefit t...

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    Public Notice DEQ Request Devon Energy Well Completion...  Website

  • Wyoming Game and Fish relocate 24 bighorn sheep Saturday

    Tracie Mitchell, Staff Writer|Feb 22, 2017

    LOVELL – Saturday morning the Wyoming Game and Fish and the Wyoming Wild Sheep Foundation worked together to capture and health check 20 bighorn sheep ewes, three young rams and a ram lamb from the Devil's Canyon herd near Lovell before relocating the animals to the Ferris-Seminoe herd near Rawlins. A second bighorn sheep capture is schedule for today to gather another 14 ewes and two young rams for a total of 40 being relocated. The 40 animals from the Devil's Canyon herd will help increase the...

  • Feb 22, 2017

    Public Notice DEQ Request Moser Energy Systems...  Website