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The NFL season is here and after a quiet offseason, or the other sports drowning out any NFL news, it's nice to have pro football back. Granted the real NFL season doesn't start for another five weeks, but the preseason does offer fantasy players to prepare for the upcoming season and for fans to get wildly optimistic about their teams, only to have those hopes and expectations crushed in the first two weeks of the season. With those nice things out of the way, what I didn't miss about the NFL...
A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week. None of these stories are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked these out; here are the real facts: NOT REAL: NPR: 25 Million Votes For Clinton ‘Completely Fake’ - She Lost Popular Vote THE FACTS: The headline falsely describes the gist of a National Public Radio story published four years before the 2016 presidential election. It cited a Pew study, which was released in 2012 and based in part on 2008 res...
You can learn a lot at county fairs if you just sit back, watch and contemplate. Friday morning on my drive to Basin for the Big Horn County beef show I was contemplating what to write for this week’s column and my mind was full of several topics, including county fairs. We’ve been busy this week covering all three fairs. I have covered horse shows, a rabbit show, swine show, flower show and beef show. As I think back on these shows and the judges’ comments there are some life lessons that can be learned. —Hard work is rewarded. When watchin...
TEN SLEEP — Four bridges are receiving safety improvements east of Ten Sleep on U.S. 16, and a 14-foot width restriction is in place across the bridges. The 14-foot width restriction is in place on the project to allow the contractor to install temporary concrete barrier to protect workers while new bridge railing and guardrail are being installed, according to Wyoming Department of Transportation resident engineer Dan McAfee of Worland. “Please drive careful near the work zones and watch for construction workers. Give them a brake,” McAfee sai...
LOVELL — Due to high temperatures and very high to extreme fire danger across Montana and Wyoming, Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area is instituting Stage 2 Fire restrictions on the Montana side of the park beginning August 4, 2017. Stage 2 Fire Restrictions prohibit the following within the park boundary until further notice: —Building, maintaining, or use of all open fires and charcoal barbeque grills. —Smoking, except within an enclosed vehicle or building, a developed recreation site or while stopped in an area at least three feet in d...
WORLAND — In an abbreviated special meeting, the Washakie County School District No. 1 Board of Trustees approved a bid for new network servers and approved three new bus drivers. Meeting at the Washakie County Fairgrounds during the fair Friday, the board approve a bid from Pine Cove for new network servers with a five-year warranty for $117,499.04. Business Manager Jack Stott said, $75,000 would come from the technology budget with the rest from capital projects and curriculum. Technology Director Kathy Wise said, “These are quite a step up...
Funeral services for Lester Hans Nielsen, 94, will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, August 8, at the First Baptist Church in Thermopolis. Mr. Nielsen died August 3, 2017, at Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital in Thermopolis . Mortimore Funeral is assisting the family with arrangements....
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