Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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Check out coverage of the Washakie County Fair in this week and next week's Northern Wyoming News. Inserts in this week are Blair's, Reese&Ray's and Bomgaars. Online subscribers have access to Blair's and Bomgaars....
WORLAND — It’s official. Kennedy Ace Hardware will be moving east on Worland main street from 801 Big Horn Avenue to 100 South 20th Street. Actual moving day has not been set. Lee and Gerry Kennedy, owners of the Worland Ace Hardware store, purchased the building that formerly housed Shopko, with final closing on July 19. Lee Kennedy said the process of purchasing the property was long and involved and they had almost given up when things moved quickly the week of July 15 and they were able to finalize details and sign paperwork. Kennedy sai...
TEN SLEEP – The 19th annual Nowoodstock Ten Sleep Music Festival is set to kick off Friday, Aug. 9, and run through Sunday, Aug. 11 at Vista Park in downtown Ten Sleep. Ever since its creation in 2000, the event has exploded into a large annual event for the town of Ten Sleep. This event brings together a wide variety of music from different genres that event coordinator Pat O’Brien strives for. “I definitely shoot for variety,” O’Brien said. “I get bored at other concerts where all of the same...
WORLAND - Junior showmen can have little or up to three years experience but each year continues to be a learning experience, never more so than with the horsemen at Saturday's Washakie County Fair Horse Show. Beckett Tharp and Zane Lentsch have both been involved in 4-H for three years, competing in the junior division for the horse show and horse showmanship. Next year they will move into the intermediate category. Beckett with his horse Roxy took fourth in showmanship on Saturday. He said he...
WORLAND –A Ten Sleep student had an once-in-a-lifetime educational opportunity this summer. Josie Decker, an upcoming freshman at Ten Sleep School had the opportunity to join other students from across the nation to take part in a unique, academic and career-oriented development experience, Envision's Explore STEM at Babson College in Boston, Massachusetts. Worland Middle School's seventh-grade social studies teacher Mike Montgomery nominated Decker for this program. In order to go to Boston, D...
WORLAND – The Worland and Ten Sleep United Methodist churches welcomed recent seminary graduate Kayilu Pfoze as their new pastor earlier this month. Pfoze is originally from India, growing up in Nagaland. Pfoze stated that he belongs to an ethnic community called the Naga Community where 90 percent of the population is Christian. He added that the Naga Community has a unique culture and history, much different from the rest of India, but that the community is also a part of the diverse c...
WORLAND — In response to a U.S. District Court judge ruling against Tri County Telephone on the breach of contract and misappropriation of trade secrets, the Big Horn Basin telecommunications company has filed a notice of appeal, and filed a similar case in Fifth Judicial District Court in Thermopolis. According to the U.S. District Court document, the notice of appeal was filed July 2 and states, “Notice is hereby given that Plaintiff Tri County Telephone Association, Inc. in the above named case hereby appeals to the United States Court of Ap...
Mary Irene Sutherland, 99-year-old Worland resident, passed away on July 24, 2019 at Worland Healthcare and Rehabilitation. Mary was born on July 1920 to Laura Radi in Bemedji, Minnesota. Mary received her education in Bemedji, graduating in the late 30's. She married Claude Harrison Sutherland in Bemidji just prior to his entering into military service in 1940. To this union two sons were born, Terry and Ted. While Claude was overseas, Mary took a job as a waitress while caring for her two...
Timothy 'Drew' Dacus, age 61, of Custer, SD, passed away on July 28, 2019, at the Custer Regional Hospital in Custer, SD. Drew was born on September 22, 1957, in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada, to Richard and Edna Marie (Kohen) Dacus. He graduated from KWHS in Casper, WY in 1975 and attended Oklahoma Christian University. Drew and Jody met at Wyoming Bible Camp in August of 1985. He went home from camp and told everyone he met the girl he was going to marry! Jody moved to Casper a few weeks...
Billy Gene Huhnke Sr., 83, of Branson, Mo., passed away in Branson on June 21, 2019. Billy was born on Sept. 14, 1935, in Smith Center, Kansas. No services are planned at this time....
Lewis "Lew" Edgar Markley, a former teacher, businessman, city councilman and mental health advocate whose life in Worland was enriched with a profound love of family, music, theater and community engagement, died July 21 of advanced lung cancer. He was 76. Born June 26, 1943, to Edgar and Stella Markley, Lew grew up on a farm near Powell where he raised 4-H livestock and worked alongside his father in the fields. He graduated from Powell High School in 1961, and in January 1967, he earned a...
Herbert Julius Jennerich gently went to be with the Lord on Friday, July 26, 2019, under the peaceful and loving care provided by HopeWest Hospice. Herbert was born on March 21, 1927, to Julius and Emma Jennerich in Kaunas, Lithuania. His father had a butcher shop and Herbert, his two brothers (Waldemar and Ludwig), and his mother helped run the business. Julius passed away when Herbert was nine years old - but the family business continued. Faced with impending Russian invasion, Herbert and...
Rebecca Whittemore Edwards, 65, passed away on Sunday July 21, 2019 in Worland WY from pancreatic cancer. Becky was born in Davenport Iowa on July 22, 1954. She moved to Wyoming in the early 70s then to Texas in the late 70s. She retired from the Department of Justice and moved back to Wyoming in the summer of 2018 to get back to the mountains. She loved going to church and singing. Among a few of her favorite things was enjoying ice cream with her kids and grandkids and watching old gameshows....
Coming up with a 52 topics in a year can be difficult at times. OK, let's be honest, coming up with the topics is easy, putting them together in a column or editorial in a way that makes sense is not. This week I have about three or four column ideas running through my head, all of them need a little research before putting all my thoughts down on paper. So this week, in the midst of fair week our readers get some random thoughts. FAIR I was going to share some of my favorite fair memories but...
I used to think it was impossible for kids to grow up into what they wanted to be. It wasn't until I had been in my old bedroom, packing boxes when I came across a composition notebook from fourth grade. One of the journal entries was "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Turns out, I fulfilled my 9-year-old self's aspirations to become a journalist. My freshman year of high school, Ten Sleep had an event for their high school students similar to job shadowing. I had an "interview" with a...
Sheridan, WY-August 1, 2019- Fire managers are flying a reconnaissance flight this morning to determine where lightning may have ignited fires between Story and Powder River Pass. Yesterday evening, Johnson County firefighters spotted several potential new fires south of Story. With hotter, drier weather forecast for the weekend, holdover lightning fires may emerge. Fire managers will locate the fires, and set priorities based on safety. While scattered rain occurred on the Forest, fuels continu...
I’m a sucker for the one-man army, heist and/or unapologetic action movies, your “Diehards”, James Bond, anything with Dwayne Johnson or the “Fast and Furious” franchise. I just love the spectacle of it all, the cheesy one-liners, how the henchmen, who are usually alluded to being highly-trained killers themselves, are terrible shots, like to attack one at a time and give up their gun advantage in favor of hand-to-hand fighting. LOVE. IT. ALL. Last week I was finally able to see “John Wick 3: Pa...
WORLAND - When Mike Propp and his Propper Golf Management got the contract to manage the Green Hills Golf Course in the fall of 2018 there was one man that Propp had in mind to become the course's new golf professional, that man is, Donnie Bjorhus. Bjorhus and Propp have been friends a while and worked together for the last few years. Propp was the Green Hills golf pro in 2016-17 and the golf pro at the Powell Golf Club in 2018. Before coming to Worland, Bjorhus was the golf pro at the Legion...
GILLETTE — In the absence of another qualified and better bid, Contura Energy Corp. may be one step closer to acquiring the Eagle Butte and Belle Ayr mines in Campbell County and nearly 600 workers may be close to being recalled to work. Wednesday was the deadline for bids in Blackjewel LLC’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy auction of its assets and the culmination of a month of turmoil for the company. Since filing for bankruptcy July 1, the company has: Locked out its 1,700 employees in Wyoming, Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia; Ousted its for...
JACKSON — Wyoming and two neighboring states lost decision-making authority over grizzly bears with a federal judge’s ruling more than 10 months ago, but it wasn’t until this week that the federal government formally completed the paperwork to comply. The “relisting” of grizzly bears as a federally classified “threatened” animal under the Endangered Species Act became a done deal Tuesday. The last step was publishing a final rule in the Federal Register, a document that U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Principal Deputy Director Margaret Ever...
GLENROCK - Christopher Rusin wedges a fine needle-point tool into hard-packed mud stone that hasn't budged in more than 60 million years. At his feet rests a pile of mangled bones from a dinosaur. It's Rusin's first dinosaur dig. He drove north from his hometown of Golden, Colorado, to check "dinosaur dig" off his bucket list. It's his fifth consecutive day out in the Wyoming summer heat, but you couldn't tell by the permanent grin he's wearing. Even the blister on his palm – the size of a s...
POWELL - As many Park County residents enjoyed the sights and sounds of the Park County Fair over the weekend of July 27 and 28, a celebration of a different sort was taking place at the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center. For the eighth consecutive year, the center welcomed back former incarcerees and their families to its annual Heart Mountain Pilgrimage, an event that serves as a remembrance of a dark chapter in American history. The federal government ordered the relocation and confinement o...
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