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Twila Virginia Bancroft, 91, passed away peacefully on March 28, 2016 at Worland Healthcare, Worland WY. Visitation will be at Bryant Funeral Home,1320 Big Horn Ave., Worland on Thursday, March 31 from 7:00-8:00p.m. Graveside services will be held at Riverview Memorial Gardens, Worland on Friday, April 1, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. with a Celebration of Life reception following at 501 Wyoming Street, Worland. Online condolences may be made at www.bryantfuneralhomeonline.com. Twila was born on February... Full story
Private family graveside services for Floyd Benjamin French, 91, will be Saturday, April 2, at Monument Hill Cemetery in Thermopolis. Mr. French died March 26 at the Health Care Center. Mortimore Funeral Home is assisting the family.... Full story
Longtime Greybull resident, Barbara Joanne Winstead, 72, died Saturday, March 26, 2016, at Washakie Medical Center in Worland. She was born Dec. 23, 1943. A funeral service for Barbara will be at 2 p.m. on Friday, April 1, 2016, at the Christian Missionary Alliance Church in Greybull with Pastor Dave Havener officiating. Atwood Family Funeral Directors assisted the family with the arrangements.... Full story
WORLAND – Thirty teachers within their non-continuing contracts had contracts renewed at the Washakie County School District No. 1 Board of Trustees for the 2016 – 2017 school year meeting Monday night. “A non-continuing contract is someone who is not on their fourth year of teaching … on the fourth year they [a teacher] will automatically have another year of employment unless they are terminated,” Superintendent David Nicholas said. Meaning, “anyone in the first, second or third year have to be renewed by the school board,” Nicholas said...
THERMOPOLIS – The CEO of Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital announced her resignation recently, effective June of this year. Robin Roling will go from Thermopolis to Cheyenne to work at the Cheyenne Regional Medical Center as the chief operating officer mid-June. She said she is very excited for the new opportunity, and that she gets to stay in her home state of Wyoming. “It’s a bittersweet experience … I’m sad to leave, but excited about a new adventure,” Roling said. Roling has worked at the Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital for four ye...
CHEYENNE (AP) — Cheyenne officials are considering a proposal that would allow residents to keep chickens in their yards. The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reports that the City Council is looking at a proposal that would make it legal to keep chickens within city limits. Cheyenne would be joining a number of communities across the nation that have legalized forms of urban agriculture. Councilman Richard Johnson says the ordinance includes provisions to limit any nuisance for people on the same property or neighboring property. Roosters are not a...
WORLAND – During the Worland American Legion Welcome Home Veterans Ceremony on Saturday, not only the veterans who returned from war were honored, a special moment was taken to remember those who didn't come home at all. The POWs (prisoners of war) and MIAs (missing in action) were remembered, honored and prayed for by all who were present. A small table was placed at the front of the room and each piece on the table held an important symbol. The ceremony went as follows: Those who have s...
LARAMIE - The University of Wyoming's Michael B. Enzi STEM Facility is a game-changing addition that promises to benefit the entire state by advancing scientific inquiry and education, according to speakers at the building's dedication ceremony. Among those cutting the ribbon for UW's new undergraduate laboratory building Tuesday in Laramie were Gov. Matt Mead, UW President Dick McGinity, Trustee Dave Bostrom of Worland and the facility's namesake, U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi. Saying that he has "never...
BURLINGTON- The Burlington boys basketball team won the 1A state basketball championship for the third year in a row March 5 in Casper. This is the 9th championship for the program and the first three-peat in school history and when you factor in the school's storied basketball history, this is quite the feat. The Burlington Huskies finished the regular season with a 21-4 record overall and an 8-0 record in conference play. Of Burlington's four losses, three of them came against 2A opponents,...