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William Edward Sayles (Bill) was born April 4, 1944 in Powell, Wyoming to Emil and Jennie Sayles, he died at his home in Greeley, Colorado on June 26, 2022. He will always be remembered as a happy child who loved being outdoors. Some of his fondest memories were spent many years riding horses and exploring the outdoors. He loved going Hunting and Fishing with his father and Brother in-law Ray Dorr. When he was older, he graduated from the Manderson/ Hyattville high school in 1963. After he...
WORLAND – During their regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, June 28, the Washakie Medical Center Hospital Board was informed of the possibility of two openings on the board. Treasurer Marlene Bower and Kimberly Daniels-Kielmeyer have both been absent during the last couple of meetings. Hospital board president Dean Carrell received a letter from Bower providing her formal resignation from the board. Bower wrote, “Please accept this letter as a formal notification that I’m resigning from my position as treasurer with the board. My last day wi...
Welcome to another installment of life in the country. I know you were thinking there is plenty to write about especially about elections and debates but with one big debate scheduled for Wednesday (county commissioner candidates) look for me to write about that next week. The past several weeks it has been the battle of the miller moth at our house. Thankfully we have a pup named Roscoe who has become a great moth killer, but even he can’t keep up. According to the Colorado State University Extension Education, miller moths are the m...
WORLAND - The three Republican candidates for Washakie County sheriff - Austin Brookwell, Sean Duffy and Brad Horath -- faced off in a debate at the Worland Senior Center last Wednesday, June 29, answering some prepared questions and then taking questions from the audience. The four prepared questions and answers are as follows: •Why should you be elected? What makes you different than the other candidates? Horath: I am the most experienced sitting at this table." He said he has 33 years o...
CASPER — A dozen environmental groups filed two separate lawsuits on Wednesday challenging the federal oil and gas lease sale underway in Wyoming. The sale is the state’s first under President Joe Biden. Both lawsuits were filed less than a day after the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) finalized its offerings: roughly 170 parcels spanning about 144,000 acres across the West, with the bulk of the prospective leases — 123 parcels and close to 120,000 acres — located in Wyoming. The BLM removed a handful of tracts from the sale, including the onl...
Average gasoline prices unchanged in the past week CHEYENNE (WNE) —Average gasoline prices in Wyoming are unchanged in the last week, averaging $4.83 per gallon Tuesday, according to GasBuddy.com’s survey of 494 stations in Wyoming. Prices in Wyoming are 30.8 cents per gallon higher than a month ago, and stand $1.55 per gallon higher than a year ago. The price of diesel has fallen 6.3 cents nationally in the past week, and stands at $5.72 per gallon. According to GasBuddy price reports, the cheapest station in Wyoming was priced at $4.24 per...