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TEN SLEEP - If there were a pound for pound championship in Wyoming High School track the Ten Sleep Lady Pioneers would be a contender. The Lady Pioneers have seven athletes out this season and what they lack in numbers they more than make up for in talent. Last week the Lady Pioneers competed in the Riverton Twilight, Worland Triangular and Lovell Invitational and impressed at each meet. Specifically in Riverton where the team placed second and scored 88 points competing mostly against 3A and...
CHEYENNE — Senator Larry Hicks and Representative Robert McKim, co-chairmen of the Joint Agriculture, State and Public Lands and Water Resources Interim Committee, have announced the Committee will meet May 8-9 in Hulett. The meeting on Monday, May 8, is set to begin at 8 a.m. at the Best Western Devils Tower Inn. The purpose of the meeting is to begin the Committee’s interim work, as assigned by the Legislature’s Management Council. According to the Legislative Service Office summary of interim topics, the Joint Agriculture, State and Publi...
CASPER – A junior at Burlington High School shared how her parents are her heroes, taking home the top prize in the American Dream Essay Contest. Kaeli Hernandez received a total of $5,300 for her essay titled "My Haphazard but Hopeful Heroes and a Courageous Life." Her essay explained that her parent's flaws and mistakes have forced her to live each day with courage, but despite their weaknesses, they are her heroes. It was chosen as the winning entry out of more than 900 essays submitted in t...
WORLAND — If parents thought this April was busy; just wait until next year. The Washakie County School District No. 1 Board of Trustees, after some discussion, approved two out-of-state trips for the 2017-2018 school year. The out-of-state trips are for the jazz band to attend the Reno Jazz Festival in Reno, Nev., and for the AP history seniors class to take the annual trip to Washington, D.C. Both trips are in April with the jazz festival first, followed by the trip to D.C. Superintendent David Nicholas explained that the groups are s...
TEN SLEEP – During a special Ten Sleep School Board meeting Monday evening, the board decided after a brief executive (closed) session to hire Michelle Arnette as the 2017-2018 vocational technical teacher. On April 3 during another special Ten Sleep School Board meeting, the board listened to recommendations from a special 14-member task force created by Ten Sleep School Superintendent Jimmy Phelps to address the negative effect of $282,000 on the 2017-2018 budget due to state and federal cuts along with an increase in health premiums. The t...
NEW YORK (AP) — Profits are climbing for companies, and so are their stock prices. More big businesses joined the earnings parade Tuesday, saying their profits were even larger in the first three months of the year than analysts were expecting, including Caterpillar and McDonald’s. The encouraging reports pushed U.S. indexes to their second straight day of big gains, placing them either close to or firmly in record territory. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 14.46 points, or 0.6 percent, to 2,388.61. It’s within a third of a percent...
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CHEYENNE – Governor Matt Mead announced Tuesday the Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. entered its final order upholding Wyoming’s wolf management plan which confirms Wyoming’s management of wolves. The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) will file notice in the Federal Register in the coming days. “I am delighted that the Circuit Court recognized Wyoming’s commitment to manage a recovered wolf population,” said Governor Mead. “Our wolf management plan is a result of years of hard work by people across Wyoming. We recognize the...
Increased moisture causing more rocks to fall in Wind River Canyon; human safety concerns may lead to closure if more rocks continue to fall Wyoming Department of Transportation personnel in Thermopolis were dispatched to Wind River Canyon about noon Wednesday when a house-sized boulder and other debris fell to the U.S. 20/Wyoming 789 roadway. "There are quite a few big ones (rocks) that have fallen in that one area, about 13 miles south of Thermopolis," said WYDOT Maintenance Engineer Lyle...
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