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WORLAND - The 3A State boys and girls soccer tournaments begin tomorrow morning in Jackson at Jackson High School. Both Worland programs are highly ranked and are among favorites to be the final team standing in their respective brackets. Both teams are title contenders and are looking to bring home the first championship in the history of either program, but there are challenges up and down the bracket. Here's look at each team's path to a title. NO. 1 WARRIORS Since the start of April, the...
TEN SLEEP – During the May Ten Sleep School Board meeting Monday evening after an almost 2.5-hour executive (closed) session, the board accepted the resignations of several employees and approved the hiring of several more. The board approved the resignations of Ten Sleep School agriculture and business teacher Jarred Bower, Ten Sleep School fourth- and fifth-grade teacher Ross Hauptman, who also received teacher of the year, and Ten Sleep School secretary Angela Munger. The board also welcomed Levi Collins, originally from Lovell, as the n...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Commission met for their mid-May meeting on Tuesday, and voted to maintain current salaries for elected county officials, citing overall state budget woes as a reason to not consider raises at this time. According to Wyoming statute, the board of county commissioners of each county shall meet not later than June 1, every four years, for the purpose of setting salaries. The salaries shall not be changed during the term of each official for whom a salary is determined. In other business, the commission opened bids f...
TEN SLEEP — A Pennsylvania man was injured in a one-vehicle crash on U.S. 16 about noon on Monday. According to Wyoming Highway Patrol Trooper John Hoffman, Enos Martin, 35, of Pennsylvania was driving a tractor-trailer combination, hauling an excavator westbound on U.S. 16. “He was going too fast for the curve, locked up his brakes and drove through the guardrail on the switchback,” Hoffman said. The tractor-trailer went down a steep embankment of about 80 feet, coming to stop, according to Hoffman, The crash occurred at milepost 39.1 at ab...
TEN SLEEP — The Ten Sleep FFA Chapter presented its annual awards during the school awards banquet last Thursday. Top awards were: Star Greenhand- Brian Rice Chapter Star- Zayne Cooper Other first-year students earning Greenhand awards were: Brian Rice, Aiden Searfoss, Liz Lungren, Payton Casteel and Daniel Favier Chapter degree honorees were Zane Taylor, Will Loveland and Bryley Moore State Degree awards were presented to Corey Rice, Byron Powell and Cole Anderson. Advisor Jarred Bower said Ten Sleep maintains a 100 percent of seniors earning...
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Marial Flynn Eckhardt, 82, passed away Sunday, May 13, 2018 at the Wyoming Medical Center in Casper. Born November 13, 1935 in Hebron, Nebraska, she was the daughter of Frank and Evelyn (Keith) Flynn. The family moved to Fairbury, NE and in 1944 to Worland, WY where Marial's father was Superintendant of the Wyoming Industrial Institute. Marial graduated from Washakie County High School in 1954 and attended Nebraska Wesleyan in Lincoln, NE for two years then transferred to the University of...
No traffic delays are expected Thursday during the concrete bridge deck pour over Sage Creek on U.S. 310/Wyoming 789 between Lovell and Cowley in northwest Wyoming. "We are expecting to pour about 190 cubic yards of concrete beginning at 6 a.m. Thursday. The concrete work will involve the entire bridge deck over Sage Creek," according to Wyoming Department of Transportation resident engineer Michael Miller of Basin. "We expect the concrete pour to take about four hours to complete." The $11.7 million Sage Creek highway and bridge improvement...