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WORLAND - Kickoff for both Worland High School soccer matches Thursday and Friday has been changed. Thursday's matches at Douglas High School will begin at 3:30 p.m. for the No. 2 Lady Warriors and 5:30 p.m. for the No. 1 Warriors. Friday's matches at home vs. Rawlins High School will start at 3 p.m. for the Lady Warriors followed by the Warriors match at 5 p.m. With Friday's matches being moved up, senior night will take place between the boys and girls matches....
WORLAND – On Wednesday, Worland eighth-graders participated in the annual Life R U Ready event. Through a series of activities, Life R U Ready works with students to increase awareness of the consequences of at risk behaviors, decrease the motivation to participate in risk-taking behaviors and provide new opportunities for parent-teen communication. The program is a real life simulation where students learn how to avoid the risky behaviors that can change their lives. On Wednesday, e...
LARAMIE — A rare fossil discovered near Kemmerer — of what is possibly a new genus and almost definitely the first of its species found in the area — is being prepared for further study with help from a wide range of individuals in Wyoming and beyond. The tapir-like, or tapiromorph creature — preserved for roughly 50 million years in the Green River Formation — was discovered in 2016 by Rick Hebdon, the owner of Warfield Fossil Quarries, and examined by the late Duke University paleontologist Gregg Gunnell. Gunnell determined the fossil co...
WORLAND — The Worland City Council approved five citizen requests for four public events and one private event at Tuesday night’s council meeting. The council approved on an 8-1 vote a request from Tammy Sanchez for a road closure on the 600 block of Seventh Street from Big Horn Avenue to the alley from noon to 8 p.m. for a family graduation party for her son. Council member Lisa Fernandez asked if it was a public party and Sanchez said it was a family graduation party. Fernandez was the dissenting vote. Worland Police Chief Gabe Elliott sai...
BASIN — An interim administrator has been named to lead the Wyoming Retirement Center (WRC) in Basin, a Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) healthcare facility. Bruce Allison will assume the WRC administrator role. Allison is currently superintendent of the three WDH Aging Division facilities: the Pioneer Home in Thermopolis, the Veterans’ Home of Wyoming in Buffalo, and the WRC. He will continue as superintendent of each facility along a more direct day-to-day administrator presence at the WRC. “I’m grateful for Bruce’s willingness to step i...
WORLAND- The Washakie County Commission hosted a sales tax meeting on Tuesday, to help determine the best use for a general one-cent sales tax for seven county entities made eligible for the funding. Representatives from the seven tax-entitled entities, the City of Worland, the Town of Ten Sleep, the Worland and Ten Sleep senior centers, the Worland Community Center, Crisis Prevention and Response Center and Worland Fire Protection District No. 1, discussed how to move forward, and decided on a final percentage breakdown for the funds, to be...
Dennis B. Perryman, 77, of Sheridan Wyoming passed away on April 24, 2018 at his residence. He was born on August 3, 1940 to Homer and Phyllis Perryman in Laramie Wyoming. In attended and graduated from Worland High School in 1958. Dennis was educated at Mesa College and University of Wyoming through his Masters degree. Starting in 1962, he taught and coached basketball at Evanston High School where he met his future wife Cherie and married her on July 25, 1964. In 1967, his love for Junior... Full story