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  • Karla's Kolumn

    Karla Pomeroy, Editor|Apr 29, 2017

    Last month I passed my two-year anniversary mark as the editor here in Worland at the Northern Wyoming Daily News. It’s been an interesting and enjoyable two years. I’ve written before about the pleasure of getting to know Worland as an adult rather than when I was a child living in rival Thermopolis, so this time I want to reflect on the differences working for this daily as compared to working at weeklies. I have worked on one other daily, the Laramie Boomerang, in which I was the city council beat reporter and general news reporter. I wor...

  • Hear me out...Who is the greatest American athlete of all-time?

    Alex Kuhn, Sports Editor|Apr 29, 2017

    I know it's anticlimactic to spoil the answer in the subhead but I'm going Quentin Tarantino with it and telling you the ending now and work backwards from there I've wanted to write something on Serena Williams for a while. Originally, I wanted to write a column on how underappreciated she is, after her dominant Australian Open victory, but I was on a role in the NFL playoffs and she got pushed to the backburner. But she sent out an Instagram post of herself 20 weeks pregnant last week; then...

  • Born Again retail store is 'born again' at new, larger location

    Karla Pomeroy, Editor|Apr 29, 2017

    WORLAND - Born Again store has been "born again" at a new location just down the street from where it was for eight years. Born Again is a retail store operated by the Born Again Board as an outreach for St. Alban's Episcopal Church. It started in 1950 and has had several locations including homes and garages. "It's been all over town," Wildman said. But the last eight years, the store has been a main street staple at 734 Big Horn. "It was a major move to be downtown as a retail store," Wildman...

  • Fate of abandoned building still unknown

    Tracie Mitchell, Staff Writer|Apr 29, 2017

    THERMOPOLIS – During the Main Street Thermopolis meeting Thursday evening the fate of the abandoned building at 518 Arapaho, was briefly discussed but no decision was made since there was no quorum. The building built in 1917, last used as a furniture warehouse for Fair Deal Furniture, has been abandoned for an unknown number of years and the current owners have agreed to donate the building to Main Street Thermopolis. Members of the community representing Main Street Thermopolis, the town council, Hot Springs County Commissioners, local m...