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WORLAND- Saturday the Worland High School powerlifting team was in action at the first annual Heavy Metal Classic. Eleven athletes took part in three events squat, bench press, and deadlift. WHS and Shoshoni High School competed. Results are as follows. Girls 148lbs Rhiannon Kozlowski, Worland, 1st place, Female Lightweight outstanding lifter `Best squat- 105lbs, Best Bench- 95lbs, Best Deadlift- 180lbs, Total weight- 380lbs Girls 165lbs Kayla Hannah, Shoshoni, 1st place, Female Middleweight...
LARAMIE – Allen Edwards will be the 21st head coach of the Cowboy basketball program, University of Wyoming Athletics Director Tom Burman announced Monday. Edwards assumes control of the Cowboys after serving as an assistant under Larry Shyatt the previous five seasons. With 12 appearances in postseason tournaments and 14 conference championships, Edwards has created success during his playing career at Kentucky and as an assistant the past 14 seasons. He has agreed to terms on a five-year c...
WORLAND – The first Washakie County Jackalope Jump held at the Worland Aquatic Center on Saturday March 19 raised nearly $8,500 for the Wyoming Special Olympics. The event, organized by Yvonne Bryant, was the first of many and had 47 participants despite the less than appealing weather conditions with a high of 44 degrees and the icy waters. In the beginning, Bryant said she was told a community the size of Worland could only raise $2,500, and Worland exceeded all expectations. "For our first y...
WORLAND — Signs are being manufactured and crews could be out on rural two-lane highways before the end of the month posting 70 mph speed limit signs, according to the Wyoming Department of Transportation. Gov. Matt Mead signed into law March 15 a bill raising the statutory speed limit to 70 mph for non-interstate highways in Wyoming. The Wyoming Department of Transportation expects to have about 1,500 miles of highways raised to the 70 mph limit by the end of April, and another 1,000 miles by the end of May, with work continuing through the s...
NEW YORK (AP) - When it comes to emojis, the future is very, very ... Face with Tears of Joy. If you don't know what that means then you: a) aren't a 14-year-old girl. b) love to hate those tiny pictures that people text you all the time. Or c) are nowhere near a smartphone or online chat. Otherwise, here in 2016, it's all emojis, all the time. And Face with Tears of Joy, by the way, is a bright yellow happy face with a classic, toothy grin as tears fall. The Face was chosen by Oxford...
WORLAND – Area students who are entering the eighth grade in the fall can apply for Washakie Medical Center’s fifth annual Camp Med scheduled for June 28-30. Past activities at the camp have included using a scope and other surgical equipment, bandaging and casting exercises, using medical imaging equipment, touring the ambulance and Flight for Life helicopter and learning other lifesaving medical procedures on mannequins. Camp Med is not just for kids who are considering being a doctor or a nurse. The camp will expose students to all the dif...
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Ruth B. Eggleston, an 88-year-old Worland resident passed away peacefully on March 19, 2016 at the Worland Healthcare and Rehab Center. Ruth was born on September 16, 1927 in Reichenbach, Germany. As a young woman, she first worked as a domestic but later became a butcher's assistant where she quickly learned to peel a rabbit faster than the butcher. She applied for a work visa to England in response to a job offer from a former neighbor to work as a domestic/ nanny. Her uncle, Carl Merz,... Full story
Robert Maurice Fausset was born to Maurice Dyer Fausset and Edythe Roach Fausset in Darrouzet, TX on June 24th, 1933. He passed away on March 20, 2016. Bob's family moved to Worland from Texas when he was a small child where he attended school and graduated in 1952. He graduated from Auctioneering College in Billings, MT. when he was in the 7th grade. He enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1953 and he proudly served as a flight mechanic for the B36 Bomber where he was stationed at Ellis A... Full story