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  • Earnings fail to lift US stocks as economic growth slows

    Associated Press|Oct 30, 2015

    NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks slipped Thursday after the U.S. said economic growth slowed more than expected in the summer. A mixed batch of third-quarter earnings reports didn’t inspire investors. Companies including restaurant chain Buffalo Wild Wings and camera maker GoPro plunged after releasing weak results. The market was lower all day after the Commerce Department said the economy cooled off in the summer as businesses cut production and drew down their inventories. The department estimated that gross domestic product grew 1.5 percent, a bit...

  • 'One of the best'

    Zach Spadt, Staff Writer|Oct 30, 2015

    WORLAND — Washakie County School Dist. No. 1 schools are performing above average according to an AdvancED report. Officials from AdvancED visited schools in the school district throughout the week. The review culminated Thursday with a public meeting at the Worland Middle School Auditorium. During the survey, officials with AdvancED spoke with 80 teachers, 138 students, 46 support staff and 23 parents and members of the Worland community. “We see a culture of improvement throughout the school district,” Steve Epperson told school offic...

  • Lifetime achievements

    Karla Pomeroy, Editor|Oct 30, 2015

    A Worland woman achieved two milestones this month, turning 90 on Oct. 11, and then being the first inductee into the Washakie County Library Foundation Wall of Fame. Mary Alice Hinkel, former fourth-grade teacher at South Side Elementary and former Washakie County Library Board member and Washakie County Library Foundation Board member, was presented with a plaque at the Friends of the Library dinner Oct. 22. The plaque will hang at the library in Worland as the start of the Foundation's Wall o...

  • Ten Sleep Fire Hall

    Oct 30, 2015

  • State police using shotguns to deflate wayward blimp 

    Oct 30, 2015

    MUNCY, Pa. (AP) — State police used shotguns Thursday to deflate a wayward surveillance blimp that broke loose in Maryland before coming down into trees in the Pennsylvania countryside. The military was in the process of gathering up some 6,000 feet of tether, and the blimp’s tail section could be removed Thursday afternoon, said U.S. Army Captain Matthew Villa. The much-larger hull, however, was still in the process of deflating and will be removed in “the next day or so,” he said Thursday afternoon. When the blimp went down in trees along a...

  • Lady Warriors push 7 through to finals today at state meet in Gillette

    Sisco Molina, Sports Editor|Oct 30, 2015

    The Lady Warriors may not have had their strongest performance on Thursday, but still did well enough to advance seven swimmers to the finals of the 3A State Swim Meet today in Gillette. According to Worland girls swimming coach Kim Wyman, the swims could have been better on Thursday. But the girls still put themselves in a position to be successful. And the room for improvement from top to bottom has her optimistic for her team’s chances. “We didn’t have our best day of swimming but we still had solid swims and placed ourselves in posit...

  • Kerr Patrick Sullivan

    Oct 30, 2015

    Kerr Patrick “Pat” Sullivan, 60, of Worland died suddenly on Oct. 28, 2015. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Monday, at Zion Lutheran Church. Bryant Funeral Home is assisting with arrangements.... Full story

  • Oct 30, 2015

    Public Notice WCCD Big Horn River Nowater Creek Watershed Implementation Plan...  Website

  • Oct 30, 2015

    Public Notice City of Worland Ordinance 827...  Website

  • Oct 30, 2015

    Public Notice Petition of Name Change Richard Fernandez...  Website

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