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    Jul 25, 2018

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  • Solution remains elusive for landowners undergoing cheatgrass assault

    Jul 25, 2018

    Fearsome cheatgrass taking over land can generate enough horror to reach for silver bullets. But there are no silver bullets for cheatgrass, University of Wyoming Extension specialist Dan Tekiela told those attending the July 11 cheatgrass management field day in Sybille Canyon. More than 45 people attended the event in the relatively isolated Tom Thorne/Beth Williams Wildlife Habitat Management Area between Laramie and Wheatland, representing producers, government agencies and the herbicide industry. Pickups and SUVs parked near the herbicide...

  • State unemployment unchanged; area counties up

    Jul 25, 2018

    CHEYENNE — The Research & Planning section of the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services reported Tuesday that the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 3.7 percent in June, unchanged from May. Wyoming’s unemployment rate was lower than both its June 2017 level of 4.0 percent and the current U.S. unemployment rate of 4.0 percent. Seasonally adjusted (A statistical procedure to remove the impact of normal regularly recurring events such as weather, major holidays, and the opening and closing of school from economic time serie...

  • New playground equipment coming for Kiwanis Park

    Tracie Mitchell, Staff Writer|Jul 25, 2018

    WORLAND – The City of Worland and the Worland Kiwanis Club are working together to bring additional playground equipment to Kiwanis Park on 20th Street in Worland. The additional equipment will be for children ages birth to 5. City of Worland Superintendent of Public Works Brian Burky stated that the city has already purchased $30,000 worth of equipment for the park and that everything has been delivered; the equipment, the border and fall surface. "We got some real neat items for smaller k...

  • Yellowstone Lake Invaders: Helping hands

    Alex Kuhn, Sports Editor|Jul 25, 2018

    Yellowstone Lake Invaders is part of a series that will take a look at the efforts to restore the Yellowstone cutthroat trout in Yellowstone Lake. "Helping Hand" is the final entry in the series. By ALEX KUHN Sports Editor YELLOWSTONE - Lake trout have decimated the population of the Yellowstone cutthroat in Yellowstone Lake since 1994. In order to combat the nonnative species and restore the cutthroat to their rightful prominence, a serious undertaking has been afoot. Battling the lake trout an...

  • Wanda Jean Chopping

    Jul 25, 2018

    Wanda Jean Chopping passed away in Billings, Montana on Friday, July 20, 2018 at the age of 73. Jean was born November 21, 1944 in Lovell, Wyoming to Gordon Bullard and Edith EvaLee (Johnson) Hoffman. Jeannie spent her early years with her parents following the oil field work around Wyoming and Montana. She attended schools in Worland and other schools around Wyoming. At the age of twelve, she left the United States with her mother to join her father in Arabia where Gordon was working for Getty... Full story