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Have a safe and Happy Fourth of July celebration. Our office will be closed Thursday. We will be open Friday 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Inserts inside this week's print publication are Blair's, Reese&Ray's, Bomgaars and Big Horn Co-op. Online subscribers can find Blair's and Bomgaars on this site after you log in....
Common sense safety. If it is common sense you think the safety tips would go without having to be said, but that’s not the case, that’s why on your blow dryer it says not to immerse in water. Common sense tells us that would be a bad idea but obviously someone did it, thus the need for a warning. Many things come with common sense warnings that are not heeded by users. This week with the Fourth of July celebration starting tomorrow many people will be lighting off a plethora of fireworks. Fireworks are not toys. Fireworks are not to be use... Full story
MANDERSON - Manderson resident and activist Karen Fettig began making her way around Wyoming last week to raise awareness around the state about human trafficking and its victims. According to the National Human Trafficking Hotline website, "Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery. This crime occurs when a trafficker uses force, fraud or coercion to control another person for the purpose of engaging in commercial sex acts or soliciting labor or services against his/her will. Force,...
WORLAND – Recently, four Worland High School students went to National Speech and Debate in Dallas, Texas, to participate in multiple events and categories alongside some of the best in the country. These students were Zoe Fernandez and Madeline Martinson in world school debate and Jade Hefenieder and Nathaniel Nelson in duo. “We compete in Nationals almost every year,” speech and debate coach Rick Dorn said. “This was year 28 for Worland.” According to Dorn, Nelson and Hefenieder placed in the middle of the pack, meaning they were placing s... Full story
WORLAND – Over Father's Day weekend, Worland resident and co-owner of Graceful Woodturnings, Mat King earned the prestigious award of Best in Show at the 65th annual Summer Fest Arts Faire in Logan, Utah, for his natural edge bowls, pens, wine stoppers and vases created by woodturning. "I never expected this. As an artist you always hope that your stuff will be recognized and it just kind of validates all the hard work that I have been putting in and in the same token it is a motivational f...
WORLAND -Former Northern Wyoming Daily News circulation manager and Worland City Council member Dennis Koch was remembered as a man of honesty and integrity. Koch, 70, passed away Thursday, June 27, at his home in Worland. Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Monday, July 8, 2019, at Grace Lutheran Church in Worland, where Dennis was an active member. Koch worked 35 years as the circulation manager for the Northern Wyoming Daily News from 1979-2014. Longtime publisher Lee Lockhart said when he... Full story
Neil S. Wetherbee passed on June 24, 2019 after a short battle from a heart attack. Neil was born in Ashton, Idaho on June 4, 1925 to Lester and Fern Wetherbee. Neil graduated in 1942 from Powell High School. After graduation Neil joined the Navy and served in the South Pacific in WWII. Upon being discharged Neil began a 34 year career with Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph. Neil's first job was on a line crew constructing long distance lines across the state of Wyoming. Over the next 34... Full story
Dennis Allen Koch, 70-year-old Worland resident passed away suddenly at his home on June 27, 2019. Dennis was born on July 5, 1948 in Huron, South Dakota, the second son born to Allen Henry and Dorothy Irene (Mullholan) Koch. He spent his early years in Huron before the family moved to Rapid City where he graduated in 1966. He attended Black Hills State University and received his Bachelor's in Teaching. He married Dolores M. Hoppe on November 26, 1971. To this union 3 children were born, Dawn,... Full story
Betty joined the Lord and family in heaven on June 25, 2019. Graveside services were held at 10 a.m., Monday, July 1, 2019 at the Riverview Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Worland. Betty was born in Lander, Wyoming on October 13, 1933 to Ted and Goldie Graham. She was raised on the Graham Ranch on the Sweetwater River near Jeffrey City. During the school year, herself, brothers Jim and Tom lived in Lander with their mother. This is where, up the street, she met the love of her life, Raymond...
GILLETTE — Nearly 600 workers at Blackjewel LLC’s coal mines in Campbell County are suddenly out of work after the company abruptly closed its Eagle Butte and Belle Ayr mines Monday afternoon. The move came just hours after the company had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in West Virginia. But motions that included asking for emergency financial relief to keep mines at Blackjewel’s 32 operations in Wyoming and the eastern United States either were denied or not acted upon. Online court filings as of Monday evening did not inclu... Full story
One killed in wreck near Meeteetse CODY (WNE) — A 56-year-old woman from Basin was killed and three others hospitalized in a two-vehicle crash Saturday near Meeteetse. Wyoming Highway Patrol investigating trooper Rich Scovel said all of those hospitalized were in serious condition. The woman from Basin was declared dead on the scene after she and the driver of the 2001 Subaru Legacy she was a passenger in were ejected. Neither was wearing a seat belt. Scovel said the Subaru had pulled out onto WYO 120 South from County Road 3LE just after 11 a... Full story
CASPER — The first week of July is often a slow one in state government, shortened by a federal holiday and marked by a light legislative schedule. However, the first week of July also means something else in Wyoming – the time many of the laws passed by the Legislature this winter finally go into effect. As the clock hit midnight on Monday, more than 200 laws passed during the 2019 legislative session went into effect, impacting the lives of Wyoming residents in some ways major, some ways not. A common centerpiece in many homes around Wyo... Full story
LARAMIE — Advertising reports made with the Wyoming Secretary of State’s Office have revealed the Northern Arapaho Tribe as the only funder behind the Wyoming Public Policy Center, an advocacy group that popped up at the end of 2018 to lobby against the expansion of gambling in the state. The filing also lists Northern Arapaho Business Council co-chairman Al Addison as the group’s primary “association representative.” The filings reveal the tribe’s casino has donated $80,500 to the group since the end of 2018. Lobbyists for the group repor... Full story
Former court clerk accused of stealing $120,000 TORRINGTON (WNE) — Former Eighth Judicial District Court Clerk Kathi Rickard has been charged with six felony theft charges after an investigation by the State of Wyoming. Rickard, who resigned earlier this year - though she cited health concerns as the reason - allegedly stole $120,217.65 between 2016 and 2018, according to a press release issued by Goshen County Attorney Eric Boyer. The release said that the county will be seeking restitution for the funds. The release said the investigation w... Full story
LARAMIE — Bill Mai and Chris Boswell, two former administrators who retired from the University of Wyoming in 2018, are returning to the school on 12-month agreements to help as the board of trustees convene a search for a permanent president. Both Boswell and Mai were among three finalists for the interim presidency before the trustees selected Neil Theobald, vice president for finance and administration, to serve as president for the next year. Former UW President Laurie Nichols left the university last week after her three-year contract e... Full story
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