Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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On this day in: 43 BC - Octavian, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul 1893 – Frank Wisner invented the Root Beer Float....
WORLAND — There is excitement this year from the cooks to the judges for the 17th Pepsi Wyoming BBQ Championship & Bluegrass Festival at the Washakie County Fairgrounds Friday and Saturday. Committee chairman Dave Paxton said, “There is a lot of interest this year. We’ve had tons of people wanting to know if we were doing it. We have 32 teams, that’s one away from being completely full.” The teams will compete in a Kansas City BBQ Society sanctioned cook competition with four meats — chicken, pork, brisket and ribs. Those teams that want c...
TEN SLEEP – Ten Sleep School is set to begin their designs for a new school and discussed preparations for the design phase of the building during the Washakie County School District (WCSD) No. 2 Board of Trustees meeting on Monday, Aug. 9. WCSD No. 2 Superintendent Jimmy Phelps began by giving an overview of the district’s plans for the next couple of months, beginning with a recommendation for an owner’s representative expected to be presented to the board during the September board meeti...
Recently a reader came into the office to purchase an ad and asked that it be placed on page 2. We told her we would try and accommodate the request and her reply was that she did not read anything passed page 2, which I found unfortunate as there is a lot of news on the other 18 pages in the Northern Wyoming News. Now if you are reading this you are one who at least reads to page 4 and we here at the Northern Wyoming News appreciate that. Every week — beyond page 2 – we have the church schedules for churches in Worland, Ten Sleep, The...
WORLAND - Every other Wednesday was, Work-It-Wednesday, this summer with West Side students gather to harvest produce from the school garden established just prior to the end of the school year in May. Andrea Cooley, West Side teacher and project coordinator said she has had a different group of students gather nearly every week. They have planted tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, pumpkins, strawberries, lettuce, peas, beans, broccoli, cauliflower, pickling and cutting cucumbers, radishes, banana...
POWELL (WNE) — After passing thousands of dollars worth of bad checks — including some stolen from his mother and grandmother — to businesses around northern Wyoming, a Lovell man is headed back to prison. Philip K. Mickelson recently received a five- to seven-year sentence for felony counts of check fraud and forgery in Park County. Mickelson has pleaded guilty to additional felony check fraud-related charges in Campbell and Washakie counties that are expected to tack on an additional three years of supervised probation, which will be served a...
TEN SLEEP – Rob Weimann took the Ten Sleep scene by storm when he won the Wyoming Singer Songwriter competition two years ago, with Nowoodstock organizer Pat O'Brien being impressed by his sound and inviting Weimann to the stage this past weekend. "I am absolutely humbled to share this stage with these professional musicians," Weimann said. He said that being invited to perform on the Nowoodstock stage has been a cool learning experience and it makes him challenge what he knows so far and b...
TEN SLEEP – When Quinn Cerovski & Black Mountain Blues took the stage this past weekend at Nowoodstock, Cerovski achieved a dream that he has been working toward as a child after watching his dad perform on the stage for years. Cerovski has been around music his entire life, as his father is the guitarist for the Low Water String Band who performed at Nowoodstock this past weekend just before Cerovski took the stage for the first time. The other members of the band Danny and Greg Scott also g...
Esther Lorraine Alvarado-Sweeney passed away on August 11, 2021. Esther was born at 209 Robertson Avenue, Worland, on February 17, 1959, to Lawrence Alfred Alvarado, Sr., and Margaret Gonzales Alvarado. She was a first-grade student at South Side School, where she had Jeri Kyner in her first year of teaching. Esther and her family moved to LaRose, Louisiana in 1968 with Texas Gulf Corporation. Esther graduated from South LaFourche High School in 1977. Her classmates voted her most beautiful....
Todd Eugene White, 76, died August 14, 2021 at Washakie Memorial Hospital of natural causes. He was born September 23, 1944 at Ivinson Memorial Hospital in Laramie, the son of James Harold and Fern Edna (Wilt) White. He had an older sister, Janet Joan. He attended schools in Laramie, graduating in 1962. He played football and basketball in high school for the Laramie Plainsmen. White entered the University of Wyoming in the fall of 1962, graduating in 1967 with a Bachelor of Science degree in...
Joey Lance Johnson, 51, passed away Saturday, August 7, 2021, at his home in Thermopolis surrounded by family and close friends. He fought a courageous battle against pancreatic cancer. Born January 21, 1970, in Newcastle, Wyoming, he was the son of Garry and Barbara (McDaniel) Johnson. With fond memories of his childhood, Joey graduated from Newcastle High School, then attended Casper College earning several national awards in livestock judging. He then attended the University of Wyoming...
CASPER – By the time Wyoming hit its COVID-19 hospitalization peak last November, nearly 250 people were being treated for the virus statewide. The physicians who were caring for them were largely working without days off, filling in for colleagues who had either tested positive or been exposed to the virus themselves. Then, cases began to fall. Gov. Mark Gordon approved a statewide mask requirement in mid-December, which the state’s top infectious disease experts later credited with the sharp decline. By mid-March, fewer than 10 people wer...
Join us Aug. 23 in Greybull or Aug. 24 in Worland CODY - The Wyoming Game and Fish Department invites hunters, landowners and other interested persons to attend one of two public meetings to discuss chronic wasting disease (CWD) and potential management options for several hunt areas in the eastern portion of the Big Horn Basin. The discussion will focus on deer hunt areas 164, 41 and 47, but deer hunt areas 35, 37, 39 and 40 will also be discussed. CWD was first detected 17 years ago in the area and has spread across most of the Big Horn Basin...
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