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College basketball fans thought picking the bracket was tough last season. Wait til this NCAA Tournament really gets going. With no clear-cut favorites and seemingly a dozen teams that could take down the nets in Houston, this March could be the mother of madness. Regardless of whether you have to shred your bracket early, it figures to be a fantastic road to the Final Four, so we’ve got a rundown of the top matchups, players and some other tidbits about this year’s NCAA Tournament. TOP TEAMS Kansas. Bracket’s No. 1 overall seed. No need to say...
TEN SLEEP — If you’re looking for a fun time, for an excellent cause, head over to Ten Sleep Saturday night and take in a basketball game between past Ten Sleep greats. The second annual Blue and White Classic Alumni Basketball Game will be this Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Ten Sleep gym. The matchup includes former players of all ages with current players coaching each team for the greatest prize of all, bragging rights. Last year the game was put on, with great success, as a fundraising effort for the Ten Sleep Fire Department. Public tur...
The overall numbers might not be what the University of Wyoming wrestling program expects for the national tournament, but there’s still plenty of excitement and anticipation as Wyoming will have three wrestlers competing today during the opening day of the 2016 NCAA National Championships in New York City. Senior Tanner Harms, junior Drew Templeman and sophomore Bryce Meredith will represent the Cowboys during the three-day tournament at iconic Madison Square Garden. It’s the smallest group of Cowboys to wrestle in the national meet since 200...
WORLAND – The Big Horn Mountain Coalition (BHMC) is seeking input from outdoor enthusiasts and Washakie County residents on the subject of dispersed camping tonight at 5:30 p.m. at the Worland Community Center Complex. As defined by the BHMC, “dispersed” camping is camping in the Big Horns, anywhere outside of designated camping areas. During the workshop, the fourth in a series, the BHMC will collect questions from the public to compile recommendations for the U.S. Forest Service, Wyoming Forestry Division, and the U.S. Bureau of Land Manag...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Solid Waste Disposal District (landfill) Board paid bills and had a discussion about landfill rates with an out-of-district business at their scheduled meeting Monday night. Dalin Winters, owner of Roadrunner Sanitation Inc. based out of Burlington, came to the solid waste meeting to discuss rate plans based on volumes for in and out-of-district waste. Roadrunner is a municipal waste hauler for in and out of county. Winters said, “I would like to bring increased volumes of waste in your landfill,” and added that...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama nominated appeals court judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, thrusting a respected moderate jurist and former prosecutor into the center of an election-year clash over the future of the nation’s highest court. Obama cast the 63-year-old Garland as “a serious man and an exemplary judge” deserving of a full hearing and a Senate confirmation vote, despite Republican vows to deny him both. Standing in the White House Rose Garden with Garland, Obama argued the integrity of the court w...
WORLAND —Twenty new members were inducted into the Worland High School National Honor Society chapter Tuesday night. There was one senior inducted — Levi Sinn; and 19 juniors Naibeth Ayungua, Chantelle Barr, Cody Baumstarck, Madisyn Boltz, Dalen Brazelton, James Butterfield, Mackenzie Cottrell, Bailey Gibbons, Blaine Kroger, Kyle Lamb, Hannah McEndree, Shania McGarvin, Megan Molitor, William Mortimer, Taelor Nielson, Nicholas Schriber, Brooke Seidel, Emiliano Vega and Kylie Woffinden. The curren...
