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CASPER - For 31 minutes the Worland Warriors controlled the game against No. 1-seeded Cody, but during the final minute of Thursday's 3A State boys basketball quarterfinal game the Warriors had the lead slip through their hands as they lost to the Broncs 51-50. WHS boys basketball coach Aaron Abel said, "There was silence for most of the time. I told them they deserved better, played hard and while they might have teary eyes and hanging heads in the locker room, I told them when we leave the...
WORLAND — The Worland City Council reviewed a sick leave payout policy Tuesday night. Three members of the council worked on the policy with City of Worland officials including Clerk/Treasurer Tracy Glanz. The policy would allow employees to be paid for accrued sick leave upon retirement, resignation or death. The requirements are that an employee must be a full-time, permanent employee in good standing with a minimum of 20 years of service. Under the policy the city would pay 50 percent of sick hours accrued up to 720 hours. While the p...
THERMOPOLIS – The Alliance for Historic Wyoming (AHW), along with the Hot Springs County Museum will be celebrating historic Carnegie libraries around Wyoming with a traveling exhibit and tour this Saturday. Built in 1917, the Carnegie Library in Thermopolis, located at 328 Arapahoe Street, is one of 16 Carnegie library buildings built in Wyoming, financed by steel magnate Andrew Carnegie. At one time the richest man in America, Carnegie began financing community libraries in 1883. With small grants of around $12,000, Carnegie provided the b...
WORLAND — Worland High School students from the six physical science classes will be testing out their cardboard and duct tape boats they have made for an assessment involving engineering, Archimedes principle, and Newton’s Laws of Motion. Winners of the speed competition was the team of Isaac Goncalves, Elijah Ramirez and Raylee Salinas. The winning maximum buoyancy teams was Gabe Gardenas, Austin Scheuerman and Richard Garay. Winners of the crash competition were Dash Lloyd and Elizabeth McI...
POWELL — Northwest College Forensics claimed its place as top community college in the Western States Communication Association Tournament at Santa Clara University in California. The team took second overall behind the University of Utah, and every NWC student who competed placed in at least one event. Debate results presented positive outcomes with Dominic Damiano of Worland earning second place in speaking awards in junior parliamentary debate, while Taylor Rempp of Harrison, Nebraska, claimed third. Also in junior parliamentary debate s...
BASIN — “Enlighten us but make it quick” is the tagline for Ignite Talks. Ignite Talks began in Seattle in 2006 and are now in more than 350 cities worldwide including Basin, according to organizer Lynn Davies. Ignite’s mission is “Everyone Speaks.” The goal of Ignite is to build communities and make it possible for anyone, anywhere to present their ideas and their stories, Davies said. The first “Ignite the Basin” event was in 2015 and have been held annually since then. This year Ignite the Basin will again be held at the Basin City Arts...
WORLAND – Two Gillette residents pleaded guilty Thursday for taking 11 elk and only possessing three tags from hunt area 48 in Washakie County last November, while three family members also pleaded guilty to unlawful transfer of a hunting license. According to a press release from the Washakie County Eugene Thompson, 45, and his girlfriend Tanyae Maldonado, 37, told Fifth Judicial Circuit Court Judge Thomas P. Harrington that they had gotten carried away and didn’t notice any fallen elk in the herd, so they continued to fire. At least 11 elk ha...