Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Sorted by date Results 1 - 10 of 10
WORLAND - The 2015 4-H senior showman grand champion Bailey Gibbons is fresh off her competition at the National High School Finals Rodeo cow reining. While Gibbons' first time competing at the NHSFR in Rock Springs earlier this month didn't go as well as she would have liked, missing the short-go, her fair competition is starting out well with the grand champion honor. In addition to showmanship, Gibbons also won eight of nine horse performance events in the senior division Saturday. She won We...
WORLAND - With the Washakie County Fair going into full-swing this week, area residents will have the opportunity to see a rapidly growing Wyoming music act tonight at the Washakie County Fairgrounds. The Chancey Williams and the Younger Brothers Band will take the stage at 7 p.m. According to press information released by the band, Chancey Williams was "raised on a ranch near the small town of Moorcroft where his mom is a recently retired school teacher; his dad and brother ranch and his other...
WORLAND - Three teams competed in the annual Washakie County Fair Horseshoe Pitching Contest. The field included five-time state champion Joyce Desmond, who partnered with her husband Dick and won the tournament. Jim Ruffing and Gary Menard paired up to take second at the tournament Saturday morning at the Washakie County Fairgrounds in Worland. Tom Shuman, who recently returned from the World Championships in Topeka, Kansas, teamed with Adam Turner. Shuman said he has been competing for about...
Dymple Mae Stewart, 77, of Worland, died on July 23, 2015 at the Billings Clinic, Billings, Montana. Dymple was born on March 30, 1938. Memorial services will be held at Utah State Veterans Cemetery in Bluffdale, Utah at a later date. Bryant Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements... Full story
Samuel Jerry Clingan, 68 year old Worland resident passed away on July 22, 2015 at the Washakie Medical Center in Worland. Jerry was born on October 25, 1946 to John and Ruby (Smith) Clingan in Rock Springs, Wyo. He graduated from Rock Springs in 1965. He worked at Coors Can Plant in Golden, Colorado, retiring after over 30 years of dedicated service. He then relocated to Worland, where he work for a number of years at Kennedy Ace Hardware. He was preceded in death by his parents, sister, Eva... Full story
Marjorie Ann Skrobut passed on to be with the Lord on July 22, 2015 in Flagstaff, AZ after a short but courageous battle with cancer. Marjorie was born to Reinhardt and Mary Bohl on October 1, 1943 in Worland, WY. She grew up and attended school in Worland and attended Casper College before joining the U S Army in 1963 and moving to New York. She resigned from the army to marry and to that union was born her daughter Lynnette. She married Larry Skrobut in 1979 in Mesa, AZ. Years later she returned to Arizona with her family to purchase a busine... Full story
Gladys Augusta Nichols Jones passed away July 25, 2015 at the New Horizon Care Center in Lovell Wyoming. Gladys was born near Lysite Wyoming September 13, 1929 the daughter of James Lee Nichols Sr. and Susie Parm Nichols. Gladys grew up on the family homestead on Bridger creek attending schools in Shoshone before moving to Lucerne area near Thermopolis where she graduated from high school in 1948. After high school Gladys lived with her sister Helen Hill and worked at the Coca-Cola bottling company. Gladys married Andrew Charles Jones on... Full story
The Big Horn Basin is in the midst of three fairs, so it is a busy time for 4-H families, open class exhibitors, those of us in Extension, those who attend the events to support family and friends, those who are in the newspaper business and trying to take pictures and write stories about each fair as well as those who attend to catch up on what is new in their friends’ and neighbors’ lives. The people here in Washakie County that have been a blessing to me are Fabric and Fashion judge Margie Jackson, from Thermopolis, and Rita Farmer, a Washak...
WORLAND – Worland’s Cal Ripken 10-U baseball team found itself in a pickle over the weekend. The strong run at the end of the season that delivered Worland its second straight state championship a couple of weeks ago abruptly came to an end as the team competed in the 2015 Cal Ripken 10-U Pacific Northwest Regional Tournament held in West Linn, Oregon. Worland opened the tournament Thursday, July 23 with two pool games – dropping the first to Meridian, Idaho 11-1 and falling in the second game to host West Linn by a score of 9-7. The strug...
The Big Horn Basin was well represented this past weekend in Casper as three local athletes competed in all-star games as part of the Wyoming Coaches Association All-Star Weekend held Saturday, July 25, 2015 at Swede Erickson Thunderbird Gym in Casper....