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  • Sauger egg collection runs smoothly

    Alex Kuhn, Sports Editor|May 31, 2017

    BASIN - The Wyoming Game and Fish Department, along with Colorado State University research student Dan Cammack, completed their collection of sauger eggs from the Big Horn River in Basin on May 23-25. The collection is the beginnings of a study that looks to determine how temperatures affect sauger in their early stages of life. "The egg take itself went really, really well," said Wyoming Game and Fish Cody Region Fisheries Supervisor Sam Hochhalter. "This was the big field effort to start the...

  • Partnerships enhance parks

    Karla Pomeroy, Editor|May 31, 2017

    WORLAND — Thanks to partnerships with different entities the city of Worland continues to improve and enhance the numerous parks and green space around the community. Worland has eight city/neighborhood parks and additional greenspace with the back field of the Worland Community Center Complex. Two major improvements were completed at Hillcrest Park and the community center earlier this spring. So far, the parks department has been fortunate to leverage city funds with help from other a...

  • Wyoming senator remains in hospital after emergency surgery

    May 31, 2017

    GILLETTE (AP) — Wyoming U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi is recovering from emergency gallbladder surgery and a spokesman says the Republican hopes to be back on the job soon. Enzi tells the Gillette News Record that he had been feeling a little bit off, and on Sunday, he felt increasingly worse and went to the hospital where doctors removed his gallbladder. The surgery was performed at Campbell County Memorial Hospital in Gillette. The 73-year-old Enzi, a former mayor of Gillette, missed a scheduled speech Monday at a Gillette cemetery. Press Secretary M...

  • TCT seeks injunction, files federal suit

    Karla Pomeroy, Editor|May 31, 2017

    WORLAND —Tri-County Telephone Association has filed suit against a former board member and his wife, alleging Misappropriation of Trade Secrets. The suit was filed, by TCT through attorney Bill Simpson, in Cheyenne U.S. District Court on May 26 against Joe Campbell and Barbara Campbell and “John and Jane Does 1-10.” The suit claims that Campbell was a member of the Tri-County Telephone and TCT board from Feb. 24, 2003 until the board was dissolved following a vote to sell the company, effective Jan. 1, 2015. The Campbells have filed a lawsu...

  • Colorado felon faces extradition after evading police

    Marcus Huff, Staff Writer|May 31, 2017

    WORLAND – A Colorado felon wanted on multiple drug charges escaped from local law enforcement officials on May 22, was caught in Hot Springs County and is awaiting extradition to Colorado. On the evening of May 22, at approximately 9:05 p.m., county officers attempted to arrest Kerr on a Colorado warrant for contempt of court and drug activity, when the fugitive escaped on foot and swam across a canal along West River Road and disappeared. After being observed by county law enforcement through the use of night vision devices, Kerr was not s...

  • Clinton Orley Holmes

    May 31, 2017

    Clinton Orley Holmes passed on to our heavenly Father, the morning of his 79th birthday, May 27, 2017. He was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, February of 2016. He fought hard but still lost the battle. Clint was born in Casper, WY, to Lillian M. (Farmer) & Charles W. Holmes, May 27, 1938. He graduated from Natrona County High School in 1957. He was married to Marcella L. "Marcy" Vigo on July 5, 1958. They had 3 wonderful sons, Craig, Burt, and Charles. Clint was a Cathodic Protection...

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