Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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LARAMIE — The University of Wyoming’s “The World Needs More Cowboys” marketing campaign has been winning high praise in different advertisement award circles recently, including the Higher Education Marketing Report and the American Advertising Federation. Chad Baldwin, UW’s director of institutional communications, said while the recognition from advertising professionals is gratifying, one of the main tests to the campaign’s success is the enrollment numbers in the fall. The campaign’s video ad recently won best single-spot television ad...
An old friend of mine died a couple of months ago. He was Aubrey Daryll Wills and everyone called him Daryll, if they didn’t refer to him as Dr. Wills. Daryll practiced medicine as a radiologist here in the Big Horn Basin for a good many years. I came to know Daryll because we both liked to hunt chukar partridges, and I remember several hunting trips south of Worland in the No Water area. One of the first was in late 1978, during a very rough winter, and I distinctly recall coming to a hill where the two-track road we were traveling (Daryll was...
Durable Medical Equipment (DME) has been an area ripe with fraud for many years. The Wyoming Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) is seeing an increase in fraudulent phone calls and media ads directed to Medicare beneficiaries, offering back, neck, and other types of braces. In many situations, the caller falsely claims to be a Medicare representative checking on a patient’s arthritis or back pain. The scammers then obtain the Medicare recipient’s personal information, add the name of an unknown referring medical provider to the order, ship the DME to...
CHEYENNE - Governor Mark Gordon closed Cheyenne State government offices at 3 a.m. this morning. Other state offices may close across the state depending on local weather conditions due to the severe nature of this wide-ranging storm. The Governor monitored the progress of this storm throughout the night with the Wyoming Department of Transportation, Wyoming Office of Homeland Security and the Wyoming Highway Patrol. He praised the responsiveness and preparedness of the agencies and their...
Red Cross opening shelter in Douglas at 4:30 PM Red Cross of Wyoming will be opening a shelter at 4:30 PM at the Converse County National Guard Armory, 315 Pearson Rd. in Douglas to assist those people affected by the blizzard and the closure of I-25. The Wyoming Army National Guard's Douglas, Wyoming, readiness center, has been opened as a temporary shelter for stranded motorists. The armory is located near the intersection of Interstate 25 and Wyoming Highway 59, at 315 Pearson Road. For more information contact Disaster Program Manager...