Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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LARAMIE – David Hearn has always been able to control his emotions on and off the golf course. That has helped the former University of Wyoming standout become a regular member of the PGA Tour since 2011. He has amassed over $7.2 million in career earnings. But something happened two weeks ago during the Canadian Open that made the normally cool golfer choke up a little. Hearn – along with fellow Canadian Graham Delaet – were presented their Team Canada jackets for Rio Olympics, which start...
I got the mail today. A couple of bills. A greeting card. Some catalogs. A newspaper. One package that my wife grabbed right away. (Wonder what that was?) Lately, it occurs to me how completely I take for granted that I will get the mail tomorrow. I’ve had my share of gripes about the mail. As president of the National Newspaper Association, I have fielded our community newspaper members’ postal concerns all year. The mail is slower than it used to be. The U.S. Postal Service slowed it down by a day, at least, because of financial pro...
THERMOPOLIS – During the Big Horn Basin Folk Festival Saturday and Sunday there will be a special event, the first Wyoming Story Telling Circle. The Storytelling Circle will be open in the big tent in Hot Springs State Park in Thermopolis from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. both days. “This year we have a very special event, the first Wyoming ‘Storytelling Circle.’ Storytelling is one of the oldest forms of art and one of the first to which we as children are exposed. Before the internet, television and radio, people told stories around campfires, on porches...
THERMOPOLIS – The second annual Big Horn Basin Folk Festival being held in the Hot Springs State Park in Thermopolis this weekend promises a weekend of family, fun and learning. “The Big Horn Folk Festival is a celebration of Wyoming. It celebrates who we are, where we live and what we do. What is special about Wyoming is we still work with our hands, it’s part of our heritage and even today’s culture. Our artisans range from those who raise fiber animals and process their own fiber to those who work in forged metal, woodturners and furnitu...
CODY — After a day of very active burning yesterday, an infrared flight overnight Wednesday night showed the Whit Fire at 9,647 acres. This fire is burning on both the north and south side of Sheep Mountain approximately 15 miles west of Cody. The cause of the Whit Fire, which started Tuesday, Aug. 2, is currently under investigation. A public meeting was slated for Thursday night at Livingston Elementary School. During this meeting, the Central West Zone Type 3 Incident Management Team will share current information as well as planned f...
THERMOPOLIS – Hot Springs County 4-H member Reilly Russell and her 5-year-old orange tiger cat, Zombie Kitty, won best of show Wednesday during the Hot Springs County Fair in Thermopolis in the fairgrounds multi-purpose building. Showing a cat is much different than showing a dog. The cat is not lead around or expected to show their obedience. Instead the cat is presented to the judge by the handler and inspected for health and are compared to the cats breed standard. "The first thing that you d...
WORLAND – The Worland City Council approved ordinance No. 836 on its first reading, which repeals all of Chapter 12 of Worland City Code pertaining to health and sanitation. Worland Mayor Dave Duffy said Chapter 12 Health and Sanitation of the Worland City Code was made in the 1950s and has ordinances that do not apply anymore, and joked, “this removes my favorite ordinance in the city that residents in the city have to put lime in their outhouse on a weekly basis.” City Clerk Tracy A. Glanz said the chapter will be a reserve chapter and anyth...
Timmie Lee Colling, 39, of Basin, died Monday, Aug. 1, 2016 at South Big Horn County Hospital between Basin and Greybull, Wyoming. Timmie was born Feb. 21, 1977. A memorial service will be at 1 p.m. on Friday, August 5, 2016. at the First Baptist Church, 400 First Avenue North, Greybull. Atwood Family Funeral Directors assisted the family with the arrangements....
A graveside memorial service for former Worland resident Hilda Klein Aldrich will be 10 a.m., Saturday, August 6, 2016, at at Riverview Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Worland. Hilda died Dec. 17, 2015, in Helena, Mont., at the age of 96. Veile Mortuary is assisting the family with the service....