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A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue headlines of the week. None of these stories is legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked these out; here are the real facts: ___ NOT REAL: The crisis actors of Florida Parkland school shooting THE FACTS: Suspicion that students speaking to the media about the Florida school shooting that killed 17 were “crisis actors” who had not really been there sparked hundreds of false claims online. Much attention was focused on David Hogg and Emm...
BASIN — The Riverside Academic Challenge team is coming off a busy week of competition. On Feb. 17 the team got up early and drove to Torrington to compete at Eastern Wyoming Community College in the last of the regular season meets. The two teams made up of juniors Matt Gesch, Adelle Stone and James DesRosier along with the freshman team of Haily Rivers, Skylar Tharp and Roger DesRosier did well with the freshman team coming in sixth and the juniors coming in third behind Evanston and Cheyenne East high schools. This cinched the third place a...
Kudos to the Big Horn Basin legislators for banding together and getting Senate File 112 to study and work toward privatizing the Wyoming Retirement Center and Wyoming Pioneer Home killed. The legislators also worked to restore full biennium funding for the two facilities on both the Senate and House budget bills. While this is good news for now Basin and Thermopolis need to be aware that it doesn’t mean the two facilities will remain state facilities forever. In fact, in listening to the comments during the House budget amendment debate, f...
WORLAND - Wyoming Department of Transportation bridge inspectors will be conducting an inspection of the Culbertson bridge in Worland on Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 28, and Thursday morning, March 1. The bridge over the Big Horn River is scheduled for closure from noon to 4 p.m. on Feb. 28 and 7:30 a.m. to noon on March 1, according to Clint Huckfeldt, Wyoming Department of Transportation area maintenance supervisor in Thermopolis, Worland and Ten Sleep. During the closure, traffic will be routed...
TEN SLEEP – Ten Sleep High School senior Lee Whitlock has been chosen to have his ceramic art work, a teapot, exhibited March 14-16 in the National K-12 Ceramic Exhibition in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. "It's a humbling thing. I was hoping that I would get something in, but wasn't expecting it; I wouldn't have been disappointed if I didn't," Whitlock said. "It was one of my assignments; to make a pour pitcher or a teapot. It was my first one and it just ended up working out. Everything just came t...
WORLAND — The Worland Board of Adjustment and Planning Commission approved the site plan review and landscaping plans for Bomgaars store at 3400 Big Horn Avenue during Thursday’s regular meeting. Worland Building official and zoning coordinator Nick Kruger reported to the BAPC that the plan includes a 35,800 square-foot building on a 209,000 square foot lot. The plan also calls for a gravel storage area and a concrete pad to be used for temporary nursery/greenhouse. He said the city requirement for the size of the building planned is 90 par...
CASPER - All season long the Worland Warriors have talked about finishing strong. They did it during the regular season, at the 3A East regional wrestling tournament and now, on the last day of the season, have a chance to close it out on the biggest stage. At the end of Friday the Warriors sit in second place with 121 points at the 3A state tournament in Casper. They trail Star Valley by 63 points with four wrestlers in the championship matches and have strong positioning on the wrestle-backs...
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