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Washakie County has had three new COVID cases in 24 hours. Please be safe and stay healthy. This week look for inserts from Blair's, Bomgaars and print subscribers will also see Sutherland's and University of Wyoming Extension Barnyards and Backyards section....
I have steered away from COVID-19 thoughts in this space for a while to give everyone a break but a lot has been happening so I’m going to over a few facts and provide a few thoughts. Fact 1: Novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) is not a hoax. It is a real disease, real people have gotten sick, real people have died and real people have recovered. We have reported on all of these specific to local residents here in Worland. According to the World Health Organization (more on them in a minute), under their Mythbusters Tab on their website, they l... Full story
WORLAND – Absentee ballots for the primary elections are available up until the day before the primary election on Aug. 17 at 5 p.m. through the Washakie County clerk’s office According to County Clerk Mary Grace Strauch, absentee ballots may be requested either in person, by mail, through a form recently sent out to registered voters, over the phone at 347-3131, through fax or on the Washakie County website under the voting tab. Voters are being encouraged if they feel comfortable to vote via a...
WORLAND — After going more than a month without a positive COVID-19 community case (June 1) or a case from the outbreak at the Worland Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center (June 4), Washakie County reported its 35th case on Tuesday, July 7. Two additional cases were reported early Wednesday morning. The 35th case is an adult male. According to Washakie County Public Health, prior to becoming symptomatic, the individual had prolonged contact with several individuals in the county. Epidemiologists with the Wyoming Department of Health are a...
WORLAND – The Washakie County commissioners met for their regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, July 7, to discuss the process of seeking contractor bids for the new Washakie County Library renovation project. The commissioners decided to begin the process of seeking bids from general contractors and sub-contractors starting on July 20 with specifications for the project expected by July 17 for remodeling costs for the facility at 801 Big Horn. Contract documents including proposal bid f...
WORLAND — Several requests for events this weekend were approved by the Worland City Council, including closing a block of Seventh Street for the Wyoming Thunder Run. Bruce Briggs from the Rendezvous Lounge came to the council at the Worland Community Center Tuesday night to request having Seventh Street closed from Big Horn to Coburn in order for the lounge to serve about 150 motorcyclists participating in the annual Wyoming Thunder Run. Bruce Johnson of the Big Horn Basin chapter of the Vietnam Vets Legacy Vets Motorcycle Clubs (VVLVMC) a...
WORLAND — The 20th Nowoodstock music festival in Ten Sleep will have to wait a year with organizer Pat O’Brien announcing Monday that he is rescheduling the 20th event for Aug. 13-15, 2021. In a statement to the Northern Wyoming News and on Facebook, O’Brien said, “The current public health situation is trending the wrong way to responsibly hold Nowoodstock XX as scheduled.” Nowoodstock XX was originally slated for Aug. 7-9. He said the contractual obligations had a deadline of this week to cancel without financial ramifications. O’Brien s...
WORLAND — The Washakie County commissioners listened to a request from Washakie County Ambulance Director Luke Sypherd for a potential increase to the ambulance department’s budget for the 2020-2021 fiscal year. The original county budget includes $37,000 for the department, but Sypherd was seeking an increase to the budget in order to gauge options to hire either more part-time help, seek a partnership with other agencies to have a paramedic on site to help due to rising ambulance calls. If...
WORLAND - Worland Public Transportation/Worland Senior Citizen Center's dispatcher Patricia Owens was honored as the Wyoming Public Transit Association Dispatcher of the Year. She was "totally surprised" by the announcement made by WSC Director Wendy Fredricks during lunch on Wednesday, July 1. According to the nomination letter written by Debbie Fields, Worland Public Transportation manager, "We are proud to nominate Patricia Owens for the Dispatcher of the Year. "Over the years Pat has...
WORLAND - After 13 years as the Washakie County School District No. 1 technology coordinator and 40 years overall of service to the district, Kathy Wise retired June 12. Wise has been the district technology coordinator for 13 years. Prior to that position she taught for 27 years in the district and one year at Emery, South Dakota. She also served in the district as an instructional facilitator for 13 years She began teaching in District 1 as a special education teacher and taught sixth-grade...
THERMOPOLIS - Despite many events having to be canceled this summer, Main Street Thermopolis has been busy. The summer started out with the news that Main Street America had selected three Wyoming communities to participate in the Main Street Façade Improvement Grant Program: Laramie, Rock Springs and Thermopolis. Wyoming Main Street - a program of the Wyoming Business Council -- will work with Laramie Main Street Alliance, Downtown Rock Springs and Main Street Thermopolis to award grants of...
WORLAND – At the Washakie Prevention Coalition (WPC) meeting on Thursday, June 25, both Washakie County Sheriff Steve Rakness and Worland Police Chief Gabe Elliott reported an increase in drug and substance abuse throughout Washakie County. According to Rakness, this uptick is due to people getting out more after essentially being in isolation due to COVID-19 for the last few months. The uptick that they have seen has been methamphetamine and heroin trafficking and usage. Local law e...
Pony Express riders James Scott, Chuck Powell, Bryony Volin, Anna Powell, Amy Reid, Jamy Cabre, Andrea Carter, Candy Treanor, Tyler Greer, Caitlin Youngquist, Sam Funk, (hidden: Katy Rogers, Olivia Shaffer) Christina Laird-Rogers, Tommy Searfoss, Janna Hampton Branger, Clint Branger await final instructions before heading off to their stations July 4, 2020. Not pictured are riders Nicole Galloway and Lyle Spence. Spence and his wife Shelley were the organizers of the annual fundraiser for the... Full story
TEN SLEEP – Derald Cheeney, 85, has been a resident of Ten Sleep since his parents moved to town just a month after his birth, and has attended nearly every single year of the Ten Sleep Rodeo since the first edition of the annual event 74 years ago in 1946. Cheeney has been in attendance for nearly all 75 editions of the rodeo, except a small amount of years in the 1950s where he served in the military and was unable to attend the annual event. "I consider it a privilege and an honor to do i...
Graveside services for Harold Damm, 92, will be Tuesday, July 14, 10 a.m. at Riverside Cemetery. Mr. Damm passed away July 3, 2020 in Thermopolis.... Full story
Graveside services for Freda Johnstone, 97, will be at 9:30 a.m. Monday, July 13, at Riverside Cemetery in Thermopolis. Mrs. Johnstone died February 12, 2020 in California.... Full story
Robert Wesley “Arnie” Barr Jr. , 61, passed away suddenly on July 3, 2020 in the mountains near Shell, Wyoming. Robert was born in Riverton, Wyoming on January 24, 1959. Cremation has taken place and a Celebration of Life will be held later this summer.... Full story
Madelon F. Wetherbee, 90 year old Worland resident passed peacefully on June 16, 2020. Madelon was born July 13, 1929 in Bridger, Montana to Bill and Dorothy Ryan. She was raised in Bridger and received her education at Bridger public school, graduating in 1947. On September 4, 1948 Madelon married Neil Wetherbee in Red Lodge, Montana. After living in many Wyoming cities over 34 years Madelon and Neil retired. Neil worked for Mountain Bell Telephone Company for 34 years and Madelon worked in Che... Full story
GILLETTE — Gov. Mark Gordon is defending a decision by the State Loan and Investment Board to go ahead with a state bid for a package of assets owned by Occidental Petroleum. The company bought the property and other Wyoming assets as part of its $38 billion acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum last August. Gordon and other state officials have been taking heat over the past couple of weeks as details of the bid were reported on, including that the bid could be upward of $1 billion. The governor said the process has been open and transparent f... Full story
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