Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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Check out our state championship coverage in this week's issue....
CHEYENNE — “We put together a pretty good budget,” Rep. Mike Greear (R-Worland) reported from Cheyenne Saturday. He said the House approved an amendment stopping phase 3 cuts that would impact in-home services, disability waivers and chiropractic Medicaid waivers. He said the cost is about $15 million but there are $13 million in federal matching funds with the programs. Greear said he supports cuts but noted that the CREG (Consensus Revenue Estimating Group) came back with estimates that revenues would be $84 million above and beyond the e...
WORLAND - Sarah Garcia of Washakie County Youth Alternatives discussed financing and the importance of the county’s diversion program during the Washakie County Commissioners meeting Tuesday. Funding to the diversion programs is expected to be cut drastically this year due to declining state revenues. The diversion program is a program that allows for youth to choose an alternate pathway through programming, supervision and supports rather than the traditional adult record, detention or other f...
Congratulations to the Worland Warriors on their 3A State Boys Basketball title. It is well-deserved. Congratulations also to speech champions Kim Sumida and Chase Johnson and state champion wrestlers Luke Goncalves and Lane McBee. It is a pleasure to be able to cover the achievements of our youth this year and every year. When a team wins a state title I find myself reminiscing about state championships I have covered, specifically when I covered sports for the Lovell Chronicle and the Basin Republican Rustler. The first state championship I...
CHEYENNE — Sen. Ed Cooper (R-Ten Sleep) supports the Senate bill designed to take a look at how state and local health orders will be handled in the future. Senate File 80 is one of four bills addressing health orders, with the other three bills originating on the House side. The Senate file states that no health order issued per state statute can become effective without at least 48 hours notice to the public and without the governor and Department of Health providing for public comment. The bill allows for a health order to become effective i...
WORLAND — Goshen HELP, a community action agency serving Carbon, Crook, Goshen, Niobrara, Washakie and Weston counties is seeking public input to prioritize assistance in Washakie County. According to Executive Director Kyle Borger, Goshen HELP is seeking input on how it should focus grant resources in Washakie County to address poverty. “We need your input whether you need help or not. Please take the survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Washakie2021.” Borger said initially the community action agency provided rent and utility assis...
TEN SLEEP - The Kids Heart Challenge is a fun and exciting event where students learn about their hearts while helping others by raising money for the American Heart Association, according to Ten Sleep physical education teacher Desireé Egger. According to the program's website it prepares children for success through physical and emotional well-being. This year Ten Sleep elementary students were fortunate enough to hear from Ten Sleep's own heart hero freshman Elektra Shoopman. Egger said...
WORLAND - Whether it be 1921 or 2021, the boys basketball season always ends the same, the Worland Warriors hoisting a state championship. For the fourth time in school history (1920, 1921, 2016, 2021), the Worland Warriors added state championship hardware to the WHS trophy case by beating the Mountain View Buffalos 55-49 on March 11 at the Ford Wyoming Events Center in Casper. "Each loss in that slump prepared us for tonight," said WHS boys basketball coach Aaron Abel. "As we lost those...
Richard A. Mills, 77, passed away in his home in Wapiti on March 12th, 2021. Rich was born July 21st, 1943 in Greybull, Wyoming to Harris Alvin and Doralee Mills. He grew up on a ranch in Basin, WY, and loved to share stories of his work on the ranch as a kid. He loved spending time in Powell with his Grandma and Grandpa Wales and his aunts Loretta and Elaine and uncles Duaine and Harry, who were like siblings to him. He married Dee Ann Spann in 1965 and had their two children Todd and Michelle... Full story
Clarence Melvin Beck, 82, passed away at his home on March 10, 2021. Clarence was born to Albert and Cora (Williams) Beck, youngest brother to Marvin Beck. He married Sandra (Ewing) Beck on November 4, 1962. To this union were born four children: Jim (Sandra) Beck, Penni Beck, Lori Paulsen (Dave Paxton), Paula Beck (Larry Winzenried), eight grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. Cremation has taken place. Services will be 10:30 am, March 20, 2021 at Grace Lutheran Church with inurnment... Full story
Dorothy Eileen Holt, 90, of Worland, Wyoming passed away March 14, 2021 at Worland Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center. She was born March 24, 1930 in Worland to Vernon and Elta Hunt. Her grandma's name was Clara Wortham. She grew up the oldest of four children. She had one sister, Shirley and two brothers, Doyle and Harry. They all grew up in Worland on a dairy farm and went to school in Worland! Dorothy married Bob Holt from Payne Springs, TX on February 25, 1949 in Worland, WY. She had six... Full story
Governor Gordon Orders Flags Be Flown at Half-Staff Statewide Through March 22 in Honor of the Victims of the Tragedy in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Governor Mark Gordon, pursuant to President Joe Biden's Proclamation honoring the victims of the tragedy in the Atlanta metropolitan area, has ordered both the U.S. and State of Wyoming flags be flown at half-staff statewide until sunset March 22. The Presidential Proclamation follows: HONORING THE VICTIMS OF THE TRAGEDY IN THE ATLANTA METROPOLITAN AREA - - - - - - - BY THE PRESI... Full story
Legislators pitch in to fix Capitol leak CHEYENNE (WNE) — A historic winter storm that brought nearly 31 inches of snow to Cheyenne last weekend caused some slight damage to the Wyoming State Capitol, but the weather’s impacts to the building were quickly taken care of, in part with the help of a few state lawmakers who were nearby. After the heaviest bands of snow fell overnight Saturday, House Speaker Eric Barlow, R-Gillette, learned from a security official Sunday morning that there was water dripping into the House floor from the cha... Full story
– As the Department of Family Services (DFS) continues to prepare to administer the federal Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) in Wyoming, public input is requested and encouraged at a virtual statewide town hall at 3 p.m. March 25. The ERAP is to help tenants who have not been able to (or are concerned they will not be able to) make their rental or utility payments. ERAP will also help landlords and utility companies that may have not received payments owed to them as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Because a loss of employment i... Full story
CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Governor Mark Gordon, pursuant to President Joe Biden's Proclamation in honor and remembrance of the victims of the tragedy in Boulder, Colorado., has ordered both the U.S. and State of Wyoming flags be flown at half-staff statewide until sunset March 27. The Presidential Proclamation follows: As a mark of respect for the victims of the senseless acts of violence perpetrated on March 22, 2021, in Boulder, Colorado, by the authority vested in me as President of the United States by the Constitution and the laws of the United... Full story
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