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  • All-American wrestler and UW wrestling coach to be the guest at Cowboy Joe Tournament

    Alex Kuhn, Sports Editor|May 6, 2016

    WORLAND-The Green Hills Golf Course will host its leg of the annual Cowboy Joe tournament Saturday, May 7 at 10 a.m. The tournament is part of a series of tournaments put on by the Cowboy Joe Club to raise money to support the over 350 student-athletes playing for the University of Wyoming. Tournament participants will all receive Nike tournament gifts, there will also be nine hole prizes and Nike team prizes up for grabs amongst the competitors. Traveling on behalf of the Cowboy Joe Club for...

  • WHS track team competes in Cody for last meet of season

    Alex Kuhn, Sports Editor|May 6, 2016

    CODY— The Worland High School track team was scheduled to compete today in Thermopolis but with the weather once again putting a damper on things, the team headed to Cody Thursday night for the last meet of the 2016 regular season. “We wanted to take advantage of the good weather before that weather front came in. And it was also a chance for us to have more of the kids AQ (Automatic Qualifiers),” said coach Tracey Wiley on changing meets. It was a good night for Worland at the Cody Track...

  • Plans for 15th annual CultureFest underway

    Karla Pomeroy, Editor|May 6, 2016

    WORLAND —Plans for Worland’s 15th annual CultureFest are in full swing. This year’s event will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 4. This year’s celebration is again being organized by the Worland Community Center Complex but Sheryl Ley, WCCC special events manager, points out that CultureFest is truly a community event. “This really is a community event. We are doing it for the community,” Ley said. She said it began under the direction of a specific CultureFest Committee but a few years ago the committee sought someone else to org...

  • Life R U Ready?

    Tesia Galvan, Staff Writer|May 6, 2016

    WORLAND – There are consequences to all life's decisions, and a new pilot program for local eighth graders and freshmen introduced students to real experiences and gave students hands-on opportunity to realize where their potential life choices can take them. "Life R U Ready?" brought in eighth graders and some freshmen from Worland, Ten Sleep and Meeteetse schools to the Worland Middle School Auditorium Wednesday morning for the day-long event. The program, organized by sixth- through e...

  • Man arrested after armed bank robbery in Evansville 

    May 6, 2016

    EVANSVILLE (AP) — Police in Natrona County have arrested a man in connection with an armed bank robbery in Evansville. A man with a semi-automatic handgun robbed the Platte Valley Bank on Tuesday morning and fled with $12,000. No customers were in the bank at the time. Authorities say 64-year-old Kemp Eugene Cravens, of Casper, turned himself in to police shortly after the robbery and is facing federal charges. The Casper Star-Tribune reports he is accused of driving a rented SUV to the bank and demanding money from two tellers while wearing a...

  • Stocks close flat as investors wait for Friday's jobs report

    May 6, 2016

    NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks closed mostly unchanged on Thursday, as an earlier rally in oil prices faded and investors waited for the release of a closely watched jobs report on Friday. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 9.45 points, or less than 0.1 percent, to 17,660.71. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 0.49 of a point, less than 0.1 percent, to 2,050.63 and the Nasdaq composite lost 8.55 points, or 0.2 percent, to 4,717.09. As the week comes to a close, the market’s focus is turning to the U.S. jobs report for April due out Friday. Inves...