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POWELL - While the new school year has not officially begun the Worland High School Warriors and Lady Warriors golf teams began their season with the Powell Invitational on August 10-11. Senior Lady Warrior Katelin Scheuerman, coming off a second-place finish at state in 2016, finished a team best ninth overall shooting a 94 and 95. Scheuerman's teammates Robyn Horath shot a 109-120 in her first tournament, Rachael Carver 122-115, Elise Washington 131-119 and Saibrynn Crippen 133-NS. For the...
The Wyoming Stock Growers Land Trust (WSGLT) announced last week that Jim Wilson will be the recipient of the 2017 Kurt Bucholz Conservation Award. Wilson lives in Thermopolis where he ranches with his wife Teri. The Wilsons are known for their practical and progressive agricultural practices and management techniques. The couple has led the way in the conservation of the Greater Sage Grouse, elk, deer, and antelope in the Thermopolis area. Additionally, Wilson previously served as president of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association (WSGA) and...
DUBOIS — Senator Larry Hicks and Representative Robert McKim, Co-Chairmen of the Joint Agriculture, State and Public Lands and Water Resources Interim Committee, have announced the Committee will meet Sept. 11-12, starting at 8:30 a.m. both days. The meeting will be held at the Headwaters Art and Conference Center, 20 Stalnaker St. in Dubois. According to the meeting announcement, the purpose of the meeting is to continue the Committee’s interim work. The Committee will study topics concerning the state fire suppression account, the Sho...
TEN SLEEP – During the August Ten Sleep School Board meeting Monday evening the board heard the bids to remodel the weight room in the basement of the Masonic Lodge and the bids to demolish the two houses on the properties purchased with the intent of creating additional parking for the school. Three companies bid on the remodeling of the weight room in the basement of the Masonic Lodge. Before accepting those bids the school worked with the fire marshal to make sure that all regulations would be covered. “We have had a change in fire mar...
WORLAND — The 13th annual Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championship and Bluegrass Festival has added a brewfest to its celebration. The brewfest, a fundraiser for the festival, has been held on a Thursday in the past with success. After a break for a few years the festival committee brought the brewfest back two years ago, holding it on a Saturday separate from the festival but with limited success, according to festival director and event organizer Dave Paxton. Paxton said the committee this year wanted to bring back the Brews and Ques Brewfest t...
WORLAND — The Washakie County Commissioners approved fire restrictions for the county for the weekend of the solar eclipse and through the solar eclipse. Washakie County Fire Warden Chris Kocher said during Tuesday’s meeting that the reason for the restrictions is to try and not stress fire resources. He said Friday night at about 5:30 p.m. two lightning strikes in the Banjo Road area burned more than 3,000 acres in about five hours. Kocher said, “With the influx of people we have coming in, that additional potential is there, that if we have p...
WORLAND - Sunday, World War II veteran and longtime Worland resident Harold Fabricius celebrated his 90th birthday feeling strong. "I feel good and get along very well," Fabricius stated. Fabricius was born in Fort Collins, Colorado, to Jacob and Christine Fabricius and joined one brother and three sisters. At the age of 17 he decided to join the military, serving from 1944 – 1947 as a Navy Seabee, based on half a dozen different islands in the South Pacific, while his brother served in the E...
Edith Eva Lee Johnson Hoffman, 88, passed away Thursday, August 10, 2017 at the Washakie Medical Center with her husband by her side. Eva Lee was born December 3, 1928 in Burns, Kansas, the daughter of John Dietric Harm and Helen Augusta Sophia (Quathamer) Johnson. She was the youngest of eight children. She moved to Wyoming with her mother and older siblings in the fall of 1934. Most of her youth was spent in Lovell, Wyoming where she attended school, except for about a year when she and her... Full story
Lloyd Vernon Hehnke, 60, of Cody, Wyoming went to be with his Heavenly Father on Sunday August 6, 2017, peacefully at home with family by his side, after a year and a half battle with liver cancer. Lloyd was born in Casper, Wyoming on March 6, 1957 to Howard "Bud" and Bonna (Smith) Hehnke. He graduated from Ten Sleep, Wyoming. Lloyd was an avid hunter and outdoorsman. His greatest joy was riding around in the badlands with his family. When Lloyd was not working he was in the hills. If there was... Full story
Linda Jo Lawton, 69, of Worland, Wyoming went on to be with the angels on August 14, 2017 after a very long battle with MS and Transverse Myelitis. Linda was born December 30, 1947 in San Bernadino, California to her parents Ronald Frank Hunt and Johanna Jean Blakey. Linda married Wayne Lawton on April 6, 1970 leaving California to raise her children, Clint and Johanna, in Wyoming. She is preceded in death by her stepfather Merle F. Blakely. She is survived by her mother Johanna Jean Blakely, her siblings Donna Leavitt, Patricia Murray and Dan... Full story