Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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On this day in history: 1940 – The Battle of Dunkirk ended with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat. 1989 – The government of China sent troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after almost 2 months of occupation....
WORLAND - Brigadier General Justin Walrath, Chief of Staff of the Wyoming Air National Guard, personalized Memorial Day to those gathered for services in Worland and in Ten Sleep on Monday. Speaking Monday morning to those gathered at the Riverview Memorial Gardens, Walrath opened his remarks stating, "It's great to be back in the Big Horn Basin. These small towns of the Basin remind me so much of my youth. The people here, teachers, coaches, pastors, my parents set my moral compass. Hard work...
WORLAND — After discussing a request from a father to keep caution signs up alerting drivers in a two-block area on Charles Avenue about a deaf child, the council forwarded the issue to the city traffic safety commission. The signs are at 12th and Charles headed west and 10th and Charles heading east. The city received a letter complaining about one of the signs potentially being on private property. Public Works Superintendent Nick Kruger said he surveyed the area and the sign in question in the letter is on city property. The father making t...
WORLAND – West Side Elementary fifth-grade teacher Vanessa Keller was shocked to learn during the Washakie County School District No. 1 Board of Trustees meeting that she had been named the both the Master Teacher by the board, and earning the nod for WCSD No. 1 Teacher of the Year. "I am incredibly humbled," Keller said. "There are so many other deserving teachers in this district, and I feel like there should be so many other people to get it." Keller comes from a family of educators, as s...
There is the saying that membership has it’s privileges and I am taking advantage of that today. While we do not allow letters of thank you I am taking the time to say thank you to the person who dropped goodies off at our office on Tuesday. The note was simple, “Just want to say thank you for all your hard work and dedication during these difficult times. Please enjoy these goodies and know your community appreciates you.” While I do not know for certain but I imagine we are not the only business receiving such a warm, thoughtful care package....
WORLAND – The Washakie County School District No. 1 Board of Trustees honored their newest Bell Ringer Award winner Loretta Alcaraz during their monthly meeting on Monday, May 24. The Bell Ringer is annually awarded to an outstanding citizen from the community who contributes to the district behind the scenes. When she was honored with the award, Alcaraz was under the impression that she was going to the meeting to translate for a family who spoke Spanish. "I was shocked," Alcaraz said. "I t...
WORLAND - The recent incident of a Gillette man who reportedly caught himself on fire when he was smoking a cigarette while wearing an oxygen nasal cannula is not uncommon, but the risk can be greatly reduced, according to Washakie County Fire Warden Chris Kocher. Kocher said the State Fire Marshal's Office and fire chiefs around the state met several years ago and looked at the data in Wyoming. One of the highest risk for fatality due to fire was from oxygen-smoking related fatalities. "We sat...
WORLAND - Wyoming first lady Jennie Gordon took a tour through the Big Horn Basin as she visited local area entities that have either worked with or supported the Wyoming Hunger Initiative including three stops in Washakie County. The visits around the Basin included the Worland Community Garden, Crisis Prevention and Response Center, West Side Elementary and Paintrock Processing in Hyattville. Gordon said that the tour of the Crisis Prevention and Response Center showed the impact that the...
Mildred “Millie” Grieve, 86, passed away May 26, 2021, at the Life Care Center of Casper. Memorial services will be 2 p.m., Friday, June 4, at Mortimore Funeral Home in Thermopolis....
Neva Eloise Bentley was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, friend, and teacher. She left our world on May 18 at Worland Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, where she received loving care. Neva was 94. Neva was born November 20, 1926, in Lyons, Nebraska, the daughter of Julia and Harry Ehninger. She grew up on a farm outside of Lyons during the Depression. Neva graduated high school in Lyons, and then four years later, she graduated from Midland College in Fremont,...
LARAMIE — A short, straight-forward news release from the Albany County Sheriff ’s Office early Thursday morning came as a welcome sigh of relief for many members of the Laramie community. Those same people also would say the resignation of Sheriff Cpl. Derek Colling was too long in coming. Recently appointed Albany County Sheriff Aaron Appelhans released a two-sentence statement at about 9 a.m. Thursday. “Cpl. Derek Colling has submitted his resignation effective June 2, 2021, and is no longer employed with the Albany County Sheriff ’s Of...
CASPER – Wyoming Gun Owners filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against Wyoming Secretary of State Ed Buchanan and Attorney General Bridget Hill claiming that Wyoming’s electioneering communications law is unconstitutionally vague under the First Amendment. “It violates the First Amendment because people are inclined to self-censor when the law’s vague,” said Del Kolde, a senior attorney from the Institute on Free Speech who is co-representing Wyoming Gun Owners. The lawsuit, which was also filed against Deputy Secretary of State Karen Wheeler a...
GILLETTE – Gillette's potential as a site for a new nuclear power plant excites local officials. Wednesday morning, Gov. Mark Gordon announced that a nuclear power plant will be coming to Wyoming. The Natrium Reactor is a collaboration between Rocky Mountain Power, the U.S. Department of Energy and TerraPower, a green energy company founded by Bill Gates. The location has not been announced yet, but Mayor Louise Carter-King made the case for Gillette. “If there was ever a community that could take a project like this on, it is Gillette,” she s...
In-custody alcohol arrests show concerning level of overconsumption JACKSON (WNE) – People showing up in police custody for alcohol consumption have been drinking a lot. Jackson Police Chief Michelle Weber told the Teton County Board of Health last week that in late February and early March, the department’s “in-custodies” — people who were actually arrested — registered an average blood-alcohol concentration of 0.326. That’s a bit more than four times the legal limit to drive. “That is a staggering number, in my opinion,” Weber said. She d...
In a Cheyenne strip-mall banquet hall, Scott Presler — a nationally recognized conservative activist and Donald Trump loyalist best known for organizing post-protest community cleanups in liberal cities — whipped up the crowd. It was April 24, more than 100 days since the storming of the United States Capitol, 71 since Wyoming’s lone U.S. Representative Liz Cheney voted to impeach the former president and nearly 500 before the 2022 Republican primary. It was also the first day of Presler’s nationwide rally tour aimed at networking and trainin...
Particia Winn passed away on December 26, 2020, at the Wyoming Medical Center in Casper, WY. Pat was born on March 19th, 1939. Services were held on Monday, June 7, 2021....
Yellowstone Memorial Day visits up 50% from 2019 JACKSON — Yellowstone National Park hasn’t yet wrapped up its monthlong May visitation estimates, but the flagship park did publish figures about how many vehicles passed through its entry gates over Memorial Day weekend. Traffic shot up an astounding 50% compared to the same holiday weekend in 2019 — the most recent comparable year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. While those numbers are eye-opening, Yellowstone Superintendent Cam Sholly has been predicting for months an upswing in visit...
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