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WORLAND – As of Wednesday morning, the candidate pool for Worland City Council and Washakie County commissioner has remained the same with no one new filing this week. And with seven seats open on the council and only seven candidates there is not a contested race at this time. To date five current city council members have filed with the Worland City Clerk’s office to retain their seats on the Worland City Council — Keith Gentzler (Ward 1), Marcus Sanchez (Ward 3), Lisa Fernandez (Ward 1) and Mandy Horath (Ward 2) and Dennis Koch (Ward 2). T...
CHEYENNE (AP) — State Treasurer Mark Gordon has filed a lawsuit over the state Capitol building renovation project. The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reports that the lawsuit was filed on May 16 in Laramie County District Court against the Capitol Building Rehabilitation and Restoration Oversight Group. It contends that the legislation authorizing the Capitol project is unconstitutional because it did not include the state treasurer. It says the state treasurer is required by the Wyoming Constitution to approve contracts for any work on the b...
WORLAND – A grand total of $777,200 of capital projects district-wide was approved by the Washakie County School District No. 1 Board of Trustees on Monday night for the 2017 fiscal year. The money, provided by the general and major maintenance fund, will give Washakie County District No. 1 schools their top requested items like new whiteboards for East Side Elementary, varsity double rack lifting platform for the high school weight room, wrestling mats and a milk cooler for the middle school and replacement restroom privacy panels for the s...
LARAMIE — The University of Wyoming would eliminate at least 70 vacant positions, standardize the teaching load for faculty members, offer an employee retirement incentive and take other measures to reduce ongoing spending by about $19 million in the fiscal year that begins July 1, under a plan to be presented to the UW Board of Trustees. Internal, one-time reallocations totaling about $6 million also are proposed. The plan also calls for, by the end of this summer, the university to identify ongoing savings of at least an additional $10 m...
WORLAND - Bruce Blanchard is retiring from teaching after 19 years. He has taught 10 years in Worland, one year in the Pine Bluffs area, two years in Oklahoma, three years in Louisiana, and three years in Missouri. "I haven't ever taught the same thing. I've been in Worland for 10 years and every year I taught something different, mostly in English and Social Studies," Blanchard said. Blanchard attended Northwest College Assemblies of God in Kirkland, Wash. and received his first bachelor's in B...
The hero's journey is the most common plot type in film and with good reason. What's not to love about a seemingly ordinary person battling through adversity to achieve a goal that's said to be unattainable. It's why movies like "Star Wars" or "The Wizard of Oz" are so loved, normal people rising to the challenge. For as great as these stories are, they're scripted. Luke was supposed to bring down The Empire and Dorthy was supposed to defeat the Wicked Witch of the West. The hero's journeys...
WORLAND - The Warrior and Lady Warrior soccer teams are locked and ready to go for the Wyoming state soccer tournament that begins today. The Lady Warriors will be the first team in action as they take on Star Valley at 9 a.m. The Lady Warriors are the No. 2 ranked 3A girls team in the state and earned a 1-seed by winning the Northwest quadrant. The last time these two teams met up was in Star Valley and Worland walked away with 3-2 OT victory. As one of four No. 1-seeds the Lady Warriors...