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WORLAND — Washakie County Health Officer Dr. Amber Moss requested a variance on statewide Health Order 4 requiring face coverings in public spaces to protect the public from COVID-19. The variance was approved and signed on Friday, Feb. 19 by State Health Officer Dr. Alexia Harrist. The variance exempts individuals within Washakie County from the requirements in order 4 which states anyone over the age of 12 is required to wear a face covering outside of their home when in a business or government facility open to the public. On Wednesday, Feb....
WORLAND – After the January board meeting, the Washakie County School District (WCSD) No. 1 Board of Trustees was faced with a difficult decision regarding the future of the Worland High School automotive program. The district found a solution by partnering with local businesses to help keep the automotive program intact to help students work toward Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) certification. The problem first arose when long-time automotive teacher Michael Sapp was approved for retiremen...
WORLAND — Sen. Ed Cooper (R-Ten Sleep) hopes to redefine the slayer rule with a bill he is sponsoring in the upcoming March session. Cooper is sponsoring Senate File 66, Slayer Rule Applied to Joint Ownership. The bill has four other co-sponsors including Rep. Mike Greear (R-Worland) and Rep. John Winter (R-Thermopolis). Cooper said the current law states that no person who feloniously takes or causes or procures another to take the life of another shall inherit from or take by devise or legacy from the deceased person any portion of his e...
They say ignorance is bliss or what you don’t know won’t hurt you but when it comes to legislation, whether at the state or federal level, nothing could be further from the truth. We as citizens must arm ourselves with knowledge. We cannot depend on our legislators or Congressional delegates to tell us everything they are doing. We must be steadfast in checking out bills that are filed at the state and federal level. Case in point, a House Resolution that I have not heard anything about, especially in Wyoming, is the Sabika Sheikh Firearm Lic...
WORLAND — The Worland Middle School Drama Department will present “The Enchanted Bookshop, the Musical” this Thursday and Friday at the school auditorium. Curtain opens at 7 p.m. both nights. Tickets are sold at the door. This year’s musical production is under the direction of Naomi Durrant. She said the play is about a struggling bookstore whose owner gets assistance from the characters in the books in the store. Durrant said some jewel thieves and a cat play important roles in the story as well. There are 30 students involved in the cast an...
WORLAND - Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyoming) told Worland High School seniors in the AP history class that Vice President Kamala Harris has been invited to Worland. In his visit with students last Thursday, Feb. 18, at the Little Theatre, Barrasso relayed the story that two years ago then presidential candidate and now Vice President Kamala Harris came into the Capitol Building at the same time Barrasso was entering with Worland High School history teacher Randy Durr and his AP students. He took a...
WORLAND - The swimming and diving season came to a close for the Worland Warriors as they put the finishing touches to their season at the 3A State meet in Laramie on Feb. 19-20. As a team, the Warriors finished seventh, scoring 81 points. The Lander Valley Tigers won their 25th consecutive 3A State title with 342 points. The Green River Wolves were second with 202. "I thought we'd have a couple that were a little closer, but 3A was super tough this year," said WHS boys swimming assistant coach...
Longtime Ten Sleep resident, Gene C. Anderson, 93, died Thursday, February 18, 2021 at the Billings Clinic from complications related to a recent surgery he had undergone to repair a broken hip. Gene was born in Ten Sleep on November 6, 1927, the second child to Rouse and Zula (Arnold) Anderson. He went to school in Ten Sleep, graduating in 1945. After high school, he graduated from Northwest College in Powell in 1949, then returned to the family ranch before joining the U.S. Army in 1951. Durin...
Dennis Lee Soller, 70-year-old life-long Worland resident passed away on February 19, 2021 at the Billings Clinic. Dennis was born on April 26, 1950, the oldest of three children born to James Arthur and Eileen Mildred (Meisner) Soller. He was born and raised in Worland, graduating from WHS in 1968. He attended a year of college, but his desire was to stay in Worland. He returned to work heavy equipment in road construction. He did a short stint as a truck driver, but returned to the job he enjo...
Penny Carr was born in Olympia, Washington on October 7, 1946 to Alice and Alfred Haffner. She was child number five of the seven children born to the Haffner family. Her family moved around eventually returning to Wyoming where she lived during her growing up years. After finishing high school, she and Chuck Argento married and had two children, Connie and Dale. After a brief marriage, Penny and the children moved to Montana where Penny attended business school. Later, she and her children...
Richard Dean Shoults II, lovingly known as "Rich," passed away on February 19, 2021 at the age of 54 at the Washakie Medical Center after an illness of four months. Born August 5, 1966 in La Jolla, California, he was the son of Raymond Eugene and Angela Rose (Cochoit) Shoults. He graduated from Hanna-Elk Mountain High School in 1984 and attended the University of Wyoming. His love for baseball started as a child playing Little League and continued through the years in a Senior Softball League...
CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Governor Mark Gordon and the Wyoming Department of Health have announced the removal of a health order addressing operations of personal care services, along with a continued relaxing of COVID-19 protocols as Wyoming’s metrics continue to improve. Beginning March 1, Health Order No. 3, which addresses operations of barber shops, nail and hair salons, tattoo parlors and other personal care services is being eliminated completely. Attendance limits for indoor and outdoor gatherings will increase once again, and protocols for rest...
CASPER – Sen. John Barrasso cast a vote against President Joe Biden’s pick for energy secretary Thursday over concerns former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s leadership would “crush” Wyoming’s economy built on fossil fuels. “I can’t support an administration that throws my constituents out of work and hurts the schools and the hospitals in the communities, and the teachers who teach the children,” Barrasso said during testimony Thursday, referring to the Biden administration’s recent actions pausing federal leasing of minerals for fossil...
LARAMIE — As the state faces major expenditure cuts, abolishing capital punishment has resurfaced as a feasible means to cut costs. On average, approximately $1 million taxpayer dollars is retained for capital defense. Lauren McLane — assistant professor of law and Director of the Defender Aid Clinic at the University of Wyoming — broke down distribution, stating the funds ensure that death penalty qualified state attorneys and a death-qualified jury panel are utilized during trials. Additionally, capital crime trials can last up to four times...
JACKSON — The National Park Service has changed its permitting requirements so that commercial filmmakers no longer have to pay fees or gain clearance as long as shoots are small and not in the wilderness. That nationwide change in regulation, announced Monday, came after a Washington, D.C., court ruled in January that the fees were unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued a permanent injunction halting the filming requirements, finding that the fees could have a “chilling effect” for a “wide swath...
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