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Former Worland resident Jessie Trujillo Martinez, 70, of Aurora, CO, died peacefully at her home Thursday, June 2, 2016. She was born Oct. 14, 1945, the oldest daughter of Mecho "Mitch" and Catalina "Katie" Trujillo. She attended Worland schools, graduating with the class of 1964. Jessie was married to Richard Martinez in June 1969, and to the union two children were born, George and Tricia. She worked at Prairie Middle School for a number of years as a nurse technician. She loved to make cakes...
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are skidding Friday in a wave of selling that has wiped out most of the market’s gains from earlier this week. A drop in oil prices is taking energy companies sharply lower and banks are falling again as bond yields continue to shrink. A poll showing Britain may be more likely to leave the European Union is weighing on stocks as well. KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial average sank 156 points, or 0.9 percent, to 17,829 as of 2:48 p.m. Eastern time. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 24 points, or 1.1 perce...
Saturday I attended my second CultureFest. I had been here just a few months last year when CultureFest rolled around. I attended late afternoon when apparently several vendors had already left. This year I attended mid-morning and stayed until early afternoon, partly this year because I was covering the event, which I wasn’t last year; partly because I had company as I had brought along my sister; and partly because it was a lot of fun. There was a great variety of entertainment with a different styles of music and dance. There was a wide r...
One of my favorite movies is the wildly underrated "A Most Violent Year." During one point in the film protagonist Abel Morales is asked why he keeps pushing so hard for a property deal while there are so many negatives surrounding him like being investigated by the district attorney, threats against him and his family and rival competitors. Morales calmly responds with this line, "When it feels scary to jump, that is exactly when you jump, otherwise you end up staying in the same place your...
WORLAND – The Wyoming Joint Appropriations Committee will be meeting with Governor Matt Mead to discuss the governor’s proposed 8 percent cuts June 21 and 22. According to a press release, Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead is set to present state agency budget cuts to state law makers later this month in Cheyenne. Mead announced in April that falling state energy revenues would require all state agencies to cut their spending below the $3 billion general funds budget that lawmakers worked out earlier this year. Mead will brief the Legislature’s Joint...
WORLAND – Jeanne Core has devoted her life to public service and the well beings of others, and now she will continue on and help others re-build their lives after being a victim of crimes in a different way. The Idaho-native graduated from Brigham Young University and worked as a paramedic for 10 years, and in law enforcement as a dispatcher before working in crisis prevention. Now, Core, Worland's Crisis Prevention and Response Center director, will soon leave to attend Wyoming Law School a...
WORLAND — The Bureau of Land Management Worland Field Office advises that travel near the Washakie Midstream Gas Plant, approximately four miles east of Worland, will be temporarily restricted from June 13-30 due to the potential for high levels of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) gas. The gas plant road to North Rattlesnake Ridge, north of U.S. Highway 16, will be restricted during workover operations for an injection well. The maintenance operation is expected to be completed by June 30. The potential for high concentration levels of H2S is d...
