Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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CHEYENNE —With gonorrhea infections continuing to climb, the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) recently sent an alert to healthcare providers across the state encouraging them to promote prevention, testing and treatment with patients. The most notable case number increases have been in Laramie County with a 140 percent increase in 2017 over the same date in 2016, and Natrona County with a 33 percent increase. “The increase in Laramie County is particularly startling,” said Courtney Smith, Communicable Disease Surveillance Program Manag...
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” I wonder if the Founding Fathers could imagine the current state of our country when they wrote the Constitution and selected freedom of religion, speech and press as the No. 1, the most important, right for the citizens of a brand new country. I doubt they could ima...
Buying lotto tickets=good, taking the Broncos as +3.5 underdogs=bad Some lady in Massachusetts won the $758.7M Powerball Wednesday night. Good for her. Seriously, that comes with no sarcasm or resentment. This week's goal isn't to bash a lady for winning a life-changing amount of money. The goal this week is to take shots at state governments that allow lotteries, but at the same time say betting the over/under of the Patriots vs. Chiefs game is amoral and cannot be allowed unless we want to...
WORLAND - After nearly 22 years with Washakie County Extension, Phyllis Lewis is retiring. Lewis began working at Washakie County on Nov. 1, 1995. Her last day as the University of Wyoming Northwest Area Nutrition and Food Safety educator will be next Thursday, Aug. 31. Lewis' journey to Washakie County began in Montana. Her interest in Extension began as a 4-H member in Montana and as a home economics teacher. She also taught at Head Start and taught first grade. When her first child, Jim, was...
WORLAND – During the Washakie County Hospital Board meeting Thursday evening, board members learned how the issues discovered in July’s meeting were being addressed. Brad McCaslin with Banner Health Development and Construction explained to the board how the drainage issue, mentioned by Washakie County Commissioner Aaron Anderson during the July meeting, was to be solved. In the July meeting McCaslin explained to the board and Anderson that the water storage issue was a tricky deal. He stated that, according to the soils report, there were no f...
CASPER (AP) — A Wyoming interim legislative panel is looking at proposals that would raise new revenue for the cash-strapped state. Five of the proposals before the Joint Revenue Committee would raise existing taxes. The proposals offered include broadening the sales tax, raising the property tax, adding a temporary half-percent sales tax, increasing the tax on wine and spirits, increasing the beer tax and finding a new way to tax tourism. Committee co-chairman Rep. Mike Madden, of Buffalo, tells the Casper Star-Tribune that not all the p...
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