Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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WORLAND - Emotions ran from tears to anger during the second day of The Joint Labor, Health and Services Interim committee meeting which started Monday in Lovell and resumed Tuesday at the Wyoming Retirement Center in Basin. Tuesday's open meeting in Basin was to discuss the future of the Wyoming Retirement Center, with public comment. After a brief tour of the facility the meeting began with an overview of what the committee was considering and why. The general public was given time to comment...
WORLAND — The Wyoming Department of Education released the Performance Assessment for Wyoming Students test last month. Because the state has implemented more rigorous standards for Wyoming students, school districts statewide, including Washakie School District No. 1, are seeing a decline in students’ proficiency rates, according to WCSD No. 1 Curriculum Director/Grants Manager Jody Rakness. Rakness said that the 2014 – 2015 school year was the second with more rigorous standards, and while students are doing well with adapting to the new s...
WORLAND - One Book Wyoming is a statewide reading initiative encouraging all residents to read one book and engage in discussion of the ideas and perceptions of that book, or in the case of this year, three books, according to Carol Greet of the Ten Sleep Library. Three books by Cat Urbigkit have been chosen for this program, "Brave Dogs, Gentle Dogs: How They Guard Sheep (a bilingual edition)," "The Guardian Team: On the Job with Rena and Roo," and "Shepherds of Coyote Rocks." Since Urbigkit...
LARAMIE — It’s a position on the University of Wyoming football team that isn’t talked about much -- not during fall camp or even during the season. No, it’s not the offensive line. But the Cowboys’ fullbacks are similar to offensive linemen in many respects. They’re primary duties are to block. They don’t get a lot of attention or recognition, unless they screw up. In other words, no news often times is good news when it comes to this group. But the news has been good for UW’s fullbacks as they enter their second year in coach Craig Bohl’s We...
