Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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WORLAND - The 2022 boys soccer season ended with the Worland Warriors hoisting their fourth consecutive 3A State championship and improving their unbeaten streak to 67 straight games. The Warriors closed out the season with a 17-0-1 record, their 17th win coming in the 3A State title game, where they defeated the Torrington Trailblazers 7-0. Adding to their state championship run, the Warriors also had four players named to the All-State tournament team: Jorey Anderson, Court Gonsalez, Cole...
Edward "Ed" Peter Hausauer, 96, passed away surrounded by his family on May 28, 2022 at Hot Springs Health Center in Thermopolis, Wyoming. He was born to Jacob and Emilie (Sommer) Hausauer in Dunn Center, North Dakota on July 13, 1925. Ed attended school in Dunn Center and farmed with his father. He served in the U.S. Navy toward the end of WWII before returning to farming. On July 22, 1958, Ed married Vera Rehberg and they welcomed daughter, Carol, in 1959. Along with family members - father,... Full story
Raymond (Ray) Clark Chapman passed peacefully in Platte County Legacy Home in Wheatland, Wyoming at the age of 90. Ray was born in Lander, Wyoming on May 27, 1931 to Hazel (Clark) and Raymond Chapman. He graduated from Fremont County Vocational High School in Lander in May of 1949. Following high school, he attended Barnes Business College in Denver from September 1949 to December 1950. Ray joined the Air Force January 1951 and served until October 1954. While in the Air Force, he attended... Full story
Frank Allen Dietz, 63, passed away peacefully at his home on May 27, 2022, after a courageous six year battle with Melanoma Cancer. Frank never lost hope, and bravely participated in many clinical trials in hopes of finding the one drug that would cure him. His family and friends would describe him as a kind, quiet, and gentle man with a huge heart, who also loved to tease. Frank was born to Robert James and Dolores Ann (Frank) Dietz on January 5, 1959, in Worland, Wyoming. He completed... Full story
Freda Mae Skrettingland, 90, passed away at the Worland Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center on Friday, May 27, 2022. She was born in Cheyenne on March 6, 1932. Graveside services will be at 3 p.m., Friday, June 3, 2022, in Cheyenne at the Mountain View Cemetery...
WORLAND – This Saturday will be the second annual March for Jesus, starting at Seventh Street and proceeding east on Big Horn Avenue. The march will begin at 10 a.m. but marchers are asked to gather at 9:30 a.m. The march will proceed down the eastbound lanes of Big Horn Avenue. Participants will hand out bookmarks and balloons from Seventh to 11th streets where they will then head south to Sanders Park for an ice cream social. Big Praise, a local Christian worship group, will be sharing live music at the park after the march. There will a... Full story
WORLAND – Rita Miller currently works as the manager of respiratory and cardiopulmonary rehab at Washakie Medical Center, where she's just celebrated working for 20 years. Miller has lived in Worland since 1986. She grew up in Idaho and Montana. "I actually was eight years with Lutheran Hills Systems when they were here. I originally started as a rover, so I worked in administration, medical records, was a pharmacy tech, purchasing manager, and then I was in clinical informatics as Banner," M...
WORLAND — The Worland Board of Adjustment and Planning Commission (BAPC) will hear comments from Washakie County and from the public regarding a special exemption to have an ambulance station at 603 North Road 11. The county initially appeared before the BAPC on May 9. Building Official Randy Adams told the board at the May 9 meeting that the ambulance service is allowed as a special exemption use in the high-density residential zone where the property is located. He said under the new matrix the special exemption does not require a public h...
WORLAND - A visitor to West Side Elementary last week brought a surprise for fourth-grade teacher Andrea Cooley as Wyoming Agriculture in the Classroom Board Vice President Megan Degenfelder presented Cooley with the Ag in the Classroom Educator of the Year Award. According to the Wyoming Agriculture in the Classroom website, "The Educator of the Year recognizes an outstanding Wyoming educator who demonstrates excellence in education by implementing innovative agriculture and natural resource...
WORLAND — The Fraternal Order of Eagles (FOE) Aerie and Auxiliary 3096 in Worland will be hosting the state convention Wednesday through Sunday, June 8-12, the first time in four years. This year the Wyoming Aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles celebrates its 100th year and the Auxiliary celebrates its 74th year. According to Worland Auxiliary member Lory August, on Wednesday, June 8, a poker run registration begins at 7 a.m. at Eagles Hall with Kick stands up at 8 a.m. For Eagle member golfers, registration for the golf tournament is at 1... Full story
On Monday, the Worland Board of Adjustment and Planning Commission will be conducting a public hearing on the special exemption request by Washakie County for a new ambulance station. In anticipation of a large crowd, the meeting has been moved from its regular location at city hall in the council chambers to the Worland Community Center. By city code a public hearing is not required for this type of special exemption but Board Chairman Scott Fritzler, seeing the number of people interested in the board’s decisions and listening to some of t... Full story
GOP chair seen on restricted grounds By Victoria Eavis Casper Star-Tribune Via Wyoming News Exchange CASPER — Wyoming GOP Chairman Frank Eathorne was discovered to have been on restricted Capitol grounds during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot — after saying last year he only made a “brief stop in the vicinity of the Capitol,” according to a newly published report. Photos and video from the day appear to show Eathorne in the restricted area in front of the platform for Joe Biden’s inauguration, which was still two weeks away at the time, NBC News firs...
NEWS BRIEFS for June 1, 2022 From Wyoming News Exchange newspapers Yellowstone's first bison goring in '22 JACKSON (WNE) — Summer is once again here in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, at least as evidenced by the first bison goring of a visitor to Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone National Park reported its first bison goring of the 2022 season, sending out a press release Tuesday afternoon that said an Ohio woman got within 10 feet of a bison Monday morning on a boardwalk near Black Sand Basin just north of Old Faithful. The woman a... Full story
SHERIDAN — Results of a survey available on the Wyoming Education Association website shows 65% of Wyoming teachers would quit if they could, researcher Mark Perkins said. During an interim meeting of the Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Education Committee May 31, Perkins — the assistant professor of educational research at the University of Wyoming’s College of Education — gave legislators a preview of the survey, which was conducted jointly between the Wyoming Education Association and the University of Wyoming. The survey includes responses... Full story
Owner of ammo company ordered to pay $350,000 to feds LARAMIE (WNE) — The owner of a now-defunct Laramie ammunition manufacturing company will spend time in prison and has been ordered to reimburse more than $350,000 of unpaid federal tax withholdings. While operating an ammunition manufacturing and sales business in Laramie from 2013-16 under the Ammo Kan brand, Curtis Allan Perry of Windsor, Colorado, failed to pay federal taxes that were withheld from his employees’ paychecks, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. “Although he withhel... Full story
SHERIDAN — Results of a survey available on the Wyoming Education Association website shows 65% of Wyoming teachers would quit if they could, researcher Mark Perkins said. During an interim meeting of the Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Education Committee May 31, Perkins — the assistant professor of educational research at the University of Wyoming’s College of Education — gave legislators a preview of the survey, which was conducted jointly between the Wyoming Education Association and the University of Wyoming. The survey includes responses... Full story
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