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What is a mother? Merriam-Webster defines mother in its simplest terms, “a female parent.” Other dictionaries start off with the primary definition of a mother as “someone who has given birth. Merriam-Webster in my mind has it right. A mother is so much more than “someone who has given birth.” Using that definition eliminates so many mothers, adoptive mothers, foster mothers, godmothers, grandmothers and more. Mother’s Day always makes me remember, with fondness, my own mother, gone now nearly 11 years. The first Mother’s Day column for my...
WORLAND — The National Weather Service issued a special advisory statement Friday regarding the smoke in the area. The smoke from a large wildfire in Alberta, Canada, will continue to drift south into northern Wyoming as north winds continue to spread the smoke south into the area behind this Friday morning’s cold front. The visibility could drop to one mile or lower in in some areas. Rainfall expected by Friday evening was expected to wash out much of the smoke in the area. According to the Associated Press, a massive convoy was under way Fri...
LARAMIE (AP) — A tractor-trailer has crashed on Interstate 80near Laramie, releasing millions of bees that had been in its cargo. The Laramie Boomerang reports that Wyoming Highway Patrol says the truck owned by Wisconsin-based Rushfeldt Farms was traveling eastbound on I-80 when the driver apparently fell asleep at the wheel on Wednesday. The cargo on the trailer contained beehives with honey bees. The semi veered off the road, landing on its passenger side and releasing the bees. Trooper Aren Peter says beekeepers from Albany and Carbon c...
TEN SLEEP – “Butch Cassidy is definitely an obsession for me,” remarked English historian Michael Bell, while on a research tour of Wyoming’s various record archives. “If there’s a cure for it, I haven’t found it yet.” For Bell, a resident of Birmingham, West Midlands, England, and the author of 15 in-depth articles and the book “Incidents on Owl Creek: Butch Cassidy’s Big Horn Basin Bunch and the Wyoming Horse Thief War,” the journey to track the Wyoming outlaw’s early years has brought him to the United States 30 times, with 25 trips to...
BASIN – The South Big Horn County Hospital between Basin and Greybull welcomed people from all over the state and country Friday morning for their expansion grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony. Representatives from the U.S.D.A. (United States Department of Agriculture), Wyoming Governor Matt Mead, former and current Wyoming legislators and members of the community braved the high winds and smoke from the wildfires in Fort McMurray, Canada to celebrate the expansion, meet those r...
WORLAND- It was an exciting atmosphere yesterday afternoon, to start it was senior night for the boys and girls of Worland High School soccer teams. Then the opponent for the night was Jackson, the No. 1 ranked team for both boys and girls. The Lady Warriors got the first shot at Jackson and from start to finish they made the Lady Broncs play their game. Worland was more physical, faster and locked-in mentally. They made Jackson work for each and every possession. At the end of the first half...
CODY- A strong showing at the Cody Trackstravaganza Thursday night has the Worland Warriors ready for the regional meet in Buffalo next weekend. "Both boys and girls teams are strong. We've been having a good year and look to bring it all together for regionals," said coach Tracey Wiley Thursday night. In Cody Bryanna Mickelson took second in both the shot put and discus, Kylah Mills was second in the 400-meter, Allyson Klingler second in the 1600m and the girls 4x100-meter relay team (Kylah Mil...