Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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This last Saturday (July 15) the Washakie Museum held its annual Washakie Museum Paleontology and Archaeology Symposium. I’ve attended these through the years, and they’ve been wonderful sessions. I learned that the Big Horn Basin is considered to be a kind of heaven for geologists, and what remarkable, cutting edge work has been done here. Some 144 people attended. The usual suspects (museum aficionados) were there, plus a lot of people I didn’t know. I guessed that this last category consisted mostly of people involved with archa...
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks mostly fell on Monday, and broad-market indexes inched modestly backward at the start of a busy week of corporate earnings reports and a meeting of the Federal Reserve. Technology stocks, though, added to their big gains for the year and helped push the Nasdaq composite to another record. The Standard & Poor’s 500 lost 2.63 points, or 0.1 percent, to 2,469.91 after nine of the 11 sectors that make up the index logged losses. It marks the first three-day losing streak for the index in a month, though it’s still withi...
WORLAND — If you’re looking for a way to solve that competitive itch and have fun while taking part of a good cause, the annual Kris Sheaff Memorial Volleyball tournament is where you need to be at 8 a.m. this Saturday at Kiwanis Park. This will be the eighth year that organizers Matt and Barney Schneider will head the tournament that honors the late Kris Sheaff, a former Lady Warrior volleyball standout who was an all-stater and on the 1987 state championship team. The tournament is open to players aged 12 or older, as long as liability waiver...
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Monday ruled in favor of a wildlife activist who said his free speech rights were violated when a sheriff’s deputy barred him from watching livestock agents herd wild bison into Yellowstone National Park. The case dates to 2012, when a Gallatin County deputy issued a misdemeanor citation to activist Anthony Reed alleging he obstructed a peace officer, after Reed initially would not get behind a barricade that was out of sight of the herding operations near West Yellowstone. Reed’s attor...
WORLAND – Two wildland fires kept firefighters from Worland, Ten Sleep, the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service busy this weekend, in both the Worland and Ten Sleep areas On Saturday afternoon about 3:15 p.m., the Worland Fire Department was called to assist Ten Sleep Fire with a blaze approximately 20 miles South of Ten Sleep. Called the “Otter Fire,” the fire was started by lightning and due to heavy brush fuel such as juniper and sage, quickly spread to over 12 acres. Crews from Ten Sleep, Worland, BLM, and Forest Servi...
Grace Carlson, 109, of Meeteetse, passed away at the Spirit Mountain Hospice House on July 21, 2017. Gracie Anne Steele was born May 9, 1908 in Meeteetse, Wyoming to W.O. and Gracie Price Steele. Gracie spent her younger years in Meeteetse, completing the fourth grade in school. In late August of 1918 her mother took her and her sister, Mary, to Missoula, Montana and enrolled them in Sacred Heart Academy, a girls boarding school, for the school terms with vacations at home. Gracie's seventh... Full story
Muriel F. Gerstner, age 96, passed away peacefully on July 19 at her beloved Big Trails Ranch. This ranch was homesteaded by her grandfather in the late 1800's. The majority of her life was spent in the house built by her Dad in 1904. Muriel was born on December 20, 1920 in Auburn, New York to John Earley and Norma Grout Earley. She married Louie Gerstner on November 25, 1946. Five children were born to this marriage. Muriel was the quiet, loving matriarch of our large and extended family. She... Full story
Funeral services for Durward Guffey, 86, will be at 10 a.m., Saturday, July 29, at Mortimore Funeral Home in Thermopolis. Mr. Guffey died at his home in Riverton, July 16, 2017.... Full story
WORLAND – The main street in Worland, Big Horn Avenue almost lost another business, but thanks to former owner Janene Dorr and new owner Janet Heron, the Bee Healthy health food store will remain open for business, right where it is, with a grand opening planned for the second week in August, right before the eclipse. Former owner Dorr opened the business in 2011 and recently decided that she needed to either shut down the store or move it to her greenhouse [Enchanted Gardens] to make it e...