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Check out our Washakie County Fair coverage. Inserts this week include Sutherland's, Arby's, Blair's and Bomgaars....
Two weeks ago I said goodbye to an old friend, Peggy Sue. That's what I named my red Toyota Corolla that my husband Alan and I purchased on a Memorial Day weekend in 2004. She was brand new when we bought her but she didn't have the bells and whistles - no power windows or door locks, no cruise control (yes that proved to be an issue over the years) but she took me down a lot of fun roads. On July 17 I sold her to a son of a friend and while I was sad to say goodbye to my old friend, I couldn't...
TEN SLEEP – The Washakie County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees met in a special session on Friday, July 24, to discuss the school’s reopening plan, and approve a shared employee with Washakie County School District No. 1. The main discussion of the board was the use of masks on students being a requirement which, according to Superintendent Jimmy Phelps, the board determined that due to small classroom size, students are not required to wear masks this upcoming school year due to the ab...
WORLAND - Guardian Flight emergency flight nurse Keith Van Brunt has been recognized for his work with the Navajo Nation during the COVID-19 pandemic and nominated by a friend for a trip to Africa. Van Brunt said Guardian Flight needed more crews to help in the Navajo Nation and they requested crews. Van Brunt said two Worland crews and one Cody crew went from Wyoming, each serving a week. Although there were crews in the area serving in New Mexico, Van Brunt said with Guardian Flight there was...
TEN SLEEP - The Ten Sleep Senior Center earned top honors by the Wyoming Public Transit Association recently, named the WYTRANS 2020 Agency of the Year. According to a report in the WYTRANS newsletter the Ten Sleep Senior Center placed second in the 2019 Performance Measures Contest, Executive Director Randy Firnekas was able to secure outside grant funding including funding from the Ludwick Family Foundation, they awarded us enough extra funding to get a support vehicle. "Before the middle of...
WORLAND – The annual Lincoln Day Dinner took place at the Green Hills Restaurant on Saturday, July 25, after it was originally delayed from April 6 due to COVID-19. This dinner gives local and state republican candidates the opportunity to introduce themselves to Washakie County Republicans, and serves as a fundraiser for the Washakie County Republican Party. The dinner featured State Treasurer Curtis Meier as the keynote speaker, and he spoke about the Occidental Petroleum property, COVID-19 f...
CHEYENNE – A state of Wyoming veterans service officer from the Wyoming Veterans Commission will conduct community outreach services around Wyoming cities throughout August. Brad Cline is available to meet with veterans and their families to discuss state and federal veterans’ benefits, Department of Veterans Affairs claims, or VA healthcare. Cline can also help veterans and their families apply for benefits, file claims, or request healthcare. His office is located at 1026 Blackburn Ave., Ste. 1, in Cody. LOCATIONS He will be available at the... Full story
WORLAND – The Monster Truck Insanity Tour by Live A Little Productions returns to the Washakie County Fair this Saturday for a two-hour event. Live A Little Productions CEO Skyler Neibaur said the last time they brought the Monster Truck show to the fair was in 2016. Live A Little Productions also brought the tractor pulls to the fair in previous years. “We have a great relationship with the fair board. We did the tractor pulls for year. We’re the go to people for motor sports. We absolutely love to do it,” Neibaur said. He added that the Was...
WORLAND – The Washakie County commissioners met on Tuesday, July 21, for their regularly scheduled meeting to discuss potential road affiliation changes, discuss language changes in the Natural Resource Plan (NRP) and receive board updates from department heads. A petition was submitted to County Planner David Anderson to change Lane 17 1/2 to a county road, as the county has done maintenance and repairs on the private road before and residents surrounding the road submitted the petition. M...
WORLAND - The show must go on. The Washakie County Fair will have live music starting tonight and going to Saturday. One of the bands playing at the fair will be Madrona Road with Daniel Kosel, taking the stage tonight at 8 p.m. Playing bass for Madrona is WHS alum, Maclin Wiley. Ever since he plucked his first string, playing bass since his days in the WHS jazz band, Wiley continued to do so at Northwest College. Then last year, when Kosel, a friend of Wiley's mother, Tracey Wiley, was a solo a...
DiAnn Butler, 72, passed away July 22, 2020 at her residence in Thermopolis. Memorial services will be Saturday, August 15, 2020, 10 a.m. at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Thermopolis.... Full story
Christopher L. Bruckner, 51, died July 22, 2020. Celebration of Life will be Thursday, July 30, 9 a.m. at the Hot Springs State Park Kiwanis Shelter in Thermopolis.... Full story
Freda Marie Jensen age 87 died, Saturday, July 11, at the Spirit Mountain Hospice House, with family at her side, Freda passed on July 11, 2020. Born Freda Marie Wolf to Fredrick (Fritz) and Edna Wolf, she spent her childhood living on her Grandmother's homestead in Worland, Wyoming. At nineteen, she married Harry Jensen. Six years later Freda and Harry moved their little family to Meeteetse, Wyoming where their children were provided with a loving and unforgettable childhood. In addition to... Full story
James "Jim" Hillberry, 83, passed away July 21st in an accident while working in the ranch country that he loved. He was born June 26th, 1937, in Thermopolis to George and Leora (Haynes) Hillberry. He was raised at the family ranch on Gooseberry and attended school in Worland. The family spent summers living in a sheep wagon on the mountain while moving sheep. After his father died in 1949, when Jim was 11, his mother moved the family to Worland. During his school years Jim was active in FFA and... Full story
Funeral Liturgy for William (Bill) Patrick Ala, 82, will be celebrated on July 27, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. in Worland, Wyoming, at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church, by Father Robert Rogers. Rite of Committal will be conducted in Casper, Wyoming, at Memorial Gardens Cemetery on July 28, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. (tentative). Vigil for the deceased will be recited on July 26, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church. William died on July 22, 2020 at the Washakie Medical Center. Bill was born... Full story
The passing of a Fremont County woman previously included in Wyoming’s coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) case count has been added to Wyoming’s total number of deaths associated with the virus, according to the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH), which made the announcement Monday, Aug. 3. The older adult woman had health conditions recognized as putting patients at higher risk of serious illness related to COVID-19 and had been hospitalized. Among Wyoming residents, there have now been 27 coronavirus-related deaths, 2,333 lab-confirmed cas...
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