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The University of Wyoming Board of Trustees has a trust issue and a transparency issue. How they proceed with the new presidential search will determine if they can fix these two issues. The board opted last week to not offer current President Laurie Nichols a contract extension, rather they are allowing the contract to expire in June. Nichols has agreed to take a position on the faculty. Nichols visited Worland a few times in her three-year tenure at the helm of the state’s only land-grant university. Her visits seemed well received. She a...
WORLAND – Due to half a dozen grass fires across the county in the last week, Worland Fire District Chief Chris Kocher reminds residents to review the county fire regulations, currently posted on the county website. “The big issue is everything is dormant right now, so all the fuels [grass, brush] will burn readily,” said Kocher. “Don’t take it for granted that it won’t burn because of the recent snowmelt.” While residents are anxious to get out in the warmer weather and burn trash of lawn materials, or start weed mitigation, Kocher wants...
WORLAND — The Washakie County commissioners interviewed four candidates for the Washakie County Emergency Management/Homeland Security director and have extended an offer to one candidate. According to Commission Chairman Fred Frandson, the county received nine applications and they conducted interviews with four candidates on Monday. He said on Tuesday during the regular monthly commissioner meeting that they are waiting to hear if their offer has been accepted. If the offer is accepted and the county “hires” the new director, the name will...
WORLAND – Worland speech and debate team’s assistant coach John Ryan received the Alumni of the Year award recently, at the speech and debate National Qualifiers tournament in Green River and Rock Springs,. The National Speech and Debate Association introduced several new awards this year. Alumni of the Year is meant to recognize NSDA competitors for accomplishment and volunteer activies. John Ryan has spent time the last year working with Coach Rick Dorn on the Worland High School speech and debate team. Ryan was born and raised in Worland, bu...
TEN SLEEP – Ten Sleep School is bringing Rachel’s Challenge to Ten Sleep, April 15, with a 6:30 p.m. event for the entire community along with a program for the elementary students at 8:30 a.m. and a program for the high school students at 10 a.m., as a way to help students and the community understand the detriments of bullying. “We are excited to have Rachel’s Challenge come to Ten Sleep. Their emphasis on student’s treating others with respect, kindness, and compassion is representative of our community’s values. Cultivating a culture of...
THERMOPOLIS — Concerned Thermopolis resident and former Hot Springs County planner Lee Campbell sought support from local officials to get comments extended for a proposed Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality permit. Campbell said when he read a WyoFile.com story regarding the proposed renewal by Aethon Energy Operating LLC for Permit Number WY0002062, he couldn’t believe it. “The project needs to go ahead, but it’s a question of water treatment and how you minimize the environmental damage,” Campbell said. According to the WyoFile.c...
WORLAND — Cecelia Sylvester of Hyattville organizes activities for four homeschooled youth in her community and last fall she was looking for a Christmas gift for them. The gift turned out to be one that benefitted her as well … swimming lessons. She contacted the Worland Aquatic Center and scheduled lessons for the Greer children — Stetson, 8; Dawson, 10; Allison, 12 and Madison, 14. “I didn’t know how to swim but I know how important it is to not be afraid of the water,” Sylvester said. Accor...
WORLAND — With the University of Wyoming Board of Trustees waiting to begin a search for their next president for the university, many students and faculty still have questions and want more transparency. One of those students, UW student body president and 2016 Worland High School graduate Alex Mulhall, spoke the UW Board of Trustees during public testimony March 28. She said she told the board that, “I felt it was my responsibility to relay to the board that there was a widespread, pretty negative reaction to their decision regarding Pre...
WORLAND — Having three meets under their belts Worland High School track and field has yet to field their full roster this season. This Saturday in Powell though, the Warriors and Lady Warriors will be the closest to full strength as they have been all season. “I was missing close to 30 kids in Buffalo, but I’m hoping when we go to Powell I’ll bring close to my full team. We do have the D.C. trip going on and I’ll be missing about six kids. I’m not sure when I’ll have a full team but we’re get...
THERMOPOLIS - With athletes gone over the spring break, the Hot Springs County High School track and field team had an open week last week. Now, with most of the team back together, the Bobcats and Lady Bobcats are raring to go as they get back to competition with the Powell Invitational on Saturday, April 6 at Powell High School. This week's practice for the Bobcats and Lady Bobcats has had an emphasis on conditioning and getting more reps for field events. "This week we've been improving our c...
TEN SLEEP - The first meet is in the books for the Ten Sleep track and field teams, to which they got their season off to a solid start in Buffalo on March 30 as they competed against 2A, 3A and 4A schools. "It was good, I thought we had a good first meet," said TSHS track and field coach Desiree Egger. "Lindsey [Holiday] did well in the triple jump. She was disappointed with her time in the mile but it was a good starting point for the season and gives her room to grow. Kelli [Holiday], always...
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Camille Beth Neuffer Carter (94) passed away on March 31, 2019. She was born March 13, 1925 to Myron and Camille Cole Neuffer in Preston, Idaho. As a child Beth loved to walk in the hills behind the farm; especially in the springtime as she searched for bird nests and the first Bluebells and Buttercups which grew in abundance on the dry farms. She graduated from Preston High School. Beth loved music; playing the piano was a favorite pastime all her life. Beth married Mark J. Carter on September...
Francine Helen Fritz, 69-year-old Worland resident, passed away on March 22, 2019 at the Washakie Medical Center. Francine was born on October 6, 1949 in Thermopolis, Wyoming, the only daughter of five children born to John Francis and Helen Gertrude (Todd) Austin. She was surrounded by brothers. Growing up she had her dad’s eye and knew that whatever she said was the rule. She was the boss and the boys didn’t question that, but she was also their buddy. She grew up in Worland, but spent man...
Funeral services for Jack C. Sheldon, 72, were held April 1, 2019, at First Baptist Church in Thermopolis. Mr. Sheldon passed away during a visit to Arizona City, Arizona, March 19, 2019....
Joyce Ann Lovercheck Kelley, 79, passed away April 2, 2019, at Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital in Thermopolis. Memorial services will be Saturday, April 6, 2019, 11 a.m. at First Baptist Church in Thermopolis....
Average Wyoming gas price increases GILLETTE (WNE) - The average gas price in Wyoming on Monday was $2.46 per gallon, an increase of 6.2 cents per gallon over last week, according to GasBuddy's daily survey of 494 stations. Gas prices in the state are 24.3 cents per gallon higher than a month ago, and 4.1 cents a gallon higher than a year ago. The national average price of gasoline has risen 3.9 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $2.69 per gallon Monday. It is the seventh straight...
CODY — A brachiosaur stretches its long neck to reach a leaf from a high branch as a giant ichthyosaur gently swims by in the water far below. This scene likely played out in the Big Horn Basin millions of years ago. Paleontologists will be descending on Cody this summer to investigate what scientists are describing as a “Jurassic Mile” in the Basin, a fossil-rich plot of land hosting a slew of specimens, including an 80-foot-long brachiosaur, a 90-foot diplodocid and many other bones, track ways and fossilized plants. Professor and chair...
CASPER — Federal workers at the Bureau of Land Management approved 74 oil and gas drilling permits in Wyoming during the 35-day government shutdown earlier this year, according to a public records request submitted by a western environmental group. A partial shutdown shuttered some federal agencies in late December as Congress and President Donald Trump bickered over the White House’s desire to fund a $5 billion wall along the country’s southern border with Mexico. An estimated 800,000 workers were affected, with many banned from work until...
CHEYENNE — Laramie County School District 1 has identified at least one student believed to be responsible for creating the racist and anti-gay flyers found at McCormick Junior High last week. LCSD1 Superintendent Boyd Brown said Tuesday that because the student is a minor, he could not give any details, other than that the student is being disciplined in line with district policy. Kaycee Cook, the substitute teacher and McCormick Gay Straight Alliance club co-sponsor who was told via email she was no longer welcome at the school after r...
Gillette man guilty of unemployment fraud GILLETTE (WNE) — A Gillette man accused of defrauding the Wyoming Unemployment Insurance program has pleaded guilty to the charge. Gerald Roderick-Jackson, also known as David Jackson, was convicted in Natrona County District Court of under-reporting his income to continue receiving unemployment insurance benefits. Under state law, that constitutes fraud. Roderick-Jackson pleaded guilty to obtaining benefits by fraud and was ordered to pay $982 in restitution plus $735 in fines and fees. Robin C...