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  • Six Lady Warriors to be honored on senior night

    Alex Kuhn, Sports Editor|May 5, 2017

    WORLAND - It has been a long journey for six Worland Lady Warrior soccer players and today they will be recognized for their contributions to the program as the they host the No. 5 Douglas Lady Bearcats. Carley King, Hannah McEndree, Shania McGarvin, Megan Molitor, Hannah Ozmon and Brooke Seidel are the seniors being honored today in what will be their final home match of the regular season. "Having them back this season has been nice. We've been working hard and I've been super impressed with t...

  • White House promotes latest health care bill

    May 5, 2017

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is promoting a new health care proposal that the president insists will lower premiums and guarantee insurance coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, even though some medical groups say they aren’t so sure. Gary Cohn, chairman of Trump’s economic council, said the overhaul appears to have enough votes to pass. “This is going to be a great week,” Cohn told “CBS This Morning.” ‘’We’re going to get the health care bill to the floor of the House, I’m very confident.” But later in the day, White House pr...

  • Worland student among those recognized for artwork by Governor Mead

    May 5, 2017

    CHEYENNE - Eleven Wyoming students from across the state were recognized for their artwork in Cheyenne on April 21 by Governor Mead. The celebration acknowledged their achievement in art and excellence in interpreting agriculture and natural resource concepts. Each year Wyoming Agriculture in the Classroom (WAIC) encourages second- through fifth-grade students to submit a hand-drawn bookmark for the program. This year WAIC received over 3,000 entries, a record number, from students across...

  • Resource protection priority for BLM

    Tracie Mitchell, Staff Writer|May 5, 2017

    THERMOPOLIS – During the eclipse meeting sponsored by the Thermopolis Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce Monday evening, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Field Manager Mike Phillips explained to attendees that the priority of the BLM during the eclipse event is protecting the resources. “We have a lot of cultural resources around, Paleo resources along with grazing, oil and gas activities and mining and all those kinds of things. They all have an economic driver that we have to look at and that’s what we have to protect and that’s not just for us,...

  • Ten Sleep Council amends sewer rate ordinance

    Marcus Huff, Staff Writer|May 5, 2017

    TEN SLEEP – The Ten Sleep Town Council voted Wednesday to amend the town’s current sewer ordinance, ahead of a scheduled upgrade to the municipal sewer system. In 2016, the town voted to raise sewer rates an additional $2 per user, to qualify for a United States Department of Agriculture loan to replace outdated sewer lines and upgrade the town’s lagoon. According to Ordinance 203-2017, the town revised rates for 2017 and added an index for industrial users. The monthly rates under the ordinance are $25 per residential user, $30 for busin...