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  • Worland track readies for the 3A East regional meet

    Alex Kuhn, Sports Editor|May 8, 2018

    WORLAND - The regular season for track and field is finished, and this week and next is about finishing strong for the Worland High School track and field athletes. The Warriors and Lady Warriors closed out the regular season, Friday at the Trackstravanganzameet in Cody. Highlights from the meet were Alexa Caballero (shot put), Porter Harman (800-meter run) and Luke Mortimer (300-meter hurdles) all automatically qualifying for the 3A State meet in their respective events. Harman and Mortimer...

  • Record numbers utilize hazardous waste collection day

    Karla Pomeroy, Editor|May 8, 2018

    WORLAND - The highest number of people participated in bringing items to the 2018 Washakie County R3 Coalition Ag and Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day Saturday at the Worland area landfill. Washakie County Weed and Pest Supervisor Jarrod Glanz said, "We had by far more people than we've ever had." He added that with only a handful of volunteers, less than 20, it "made for a very long day." Glanz said that in 2016, they had 74 vehicles come through the hazardous waste collection day dropp...

  • Wyoming officials confident in election security

    Joel Funk, Wyoming Tribune Eagle Via Wyoming News Exchange|May 8, 2018

    CHEYENNE — Wyoming’s secretary of state is confident in the security of the state’s election systems amid widespread national concerns of foreign interference in 2018’s midterms. In addition to the general tumultuous nature of the 2016 election, the Department of Homeland Security heightened concerns about possible interference in election systems when it reported 21 states were the targets of foreign nation-state meddling. President Donald Trump met with top figures in his administration Thursday to discuss measures aimed at protect...

  • Flood planning topic of Monday meeting

    Marcus Huff, Staff Writer|May 8, 2018

    WORLAND – County, town and city officials and first responders from Washakie and Big Horn counties met on Monday to review flood planning and threats for 2018, and heard from Office of Homeland Security Director Guy Cameron and Deputy Director Larry Marjerus on emergency management going forward. After a heavy flood-event year in 2017, which saw major flooding in both Worland and Manderson, and elevated flooding in Basin, Homeland Security officials, including Washakie County Coordinator Jeff Schweighart and Big Horn County Coordinator LaRae D...

  • May 8, 2018

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  • Beth Legg

    May 8, 2018

    Beth Legg, age 52 of Worland, Wyoming, journeyed from this world into the next on the evening of April 30th, 2018. In her last days, she was cared for and surrounded by her husband, Gerald, and her loving family and friends, including her two nephews, Tigger and Eli, her "beautiful boys." Beth was born May 24, 1965 to James Legg and Ann (Miller) Legg in Vermillion, South Dakota. She spent her summers in Bartlesville, Oklahoma with her beloved Grandma Dorothy and Grandpa Rip where she developed... Full story

  • Marilyn C. Lang Showalter

    May 8, 2018

    Marilyn C. Lang Showalter born July 19, 1939 in Bismark, North Dakota went to be with her loving Father God, Feb. 25, 2018 from her home in Rawlins, Wyoming surrounded by loving family. Raised in Sterling, North Dakota on a farm, she worked along side her brothers and sisters. She attended Asbury Collage, in Wilmore, Ken. where she met the love of her life Robert B. Showalter. Married in Dec. 1960. To this union two daughters were born. Marilyn had a love of music and played both piano and orego... Full story

  • Harry Richard Moberly

    May 8, 2018

    Harry R. Moberly passed away at home surrounded by family on April 30, 2018. He was born November 12, 1933 in Greybull, WY to Jim and Fern (Chapman) Moberly. He married Donna Bruce on September 23, 1950 in Red Lodge, MT. He graduated high school in 1951. He took a correspondence course in accounting, graduating September 28, 1962. At age 21, he was the youngest manager for Nash Davis Machinery, a Caterpillar dealership, which moved him to Worland in 1960. He joined Dale and Gordon McGarvin to st... Full story