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  • Cooper, Russell and Warren swim for Team Wyoming at Senior Western Zone Championships

    Alex Kuhn, Sports Editor|Aug 29, 2017

    WORLAND - Standout Worland High School swimmers Zayne Cooper, Ellyse Russell and Juli Warren competed in the Senior Western Zone Championships Aug. 1-5 at Clovis, California. The Senior Western Zone Championships is a USA Swimming sanctioned event that brought the best swimmers from Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming to compete amongst each other and as states. To compete in the Western Zone Championships all sw...

  • Board hears student feedback on WHS cell phone policy

    Karla Pomeroy, Editor|Aug 29, 2017

    WORLAND — The first meeting with Worland High School student representatives attending the Washakie County School District No. 1 Board meeting resulted in discussions on cell phones and orange period changes. Student body representative Dalton Jeffries told the board at Monday’s regular meeting that for the most part students like how the school year has started but added that “a lot of students do have an issue with the cell phone policy, but other ones do see the benefit. I personally do like it, because I do have an issue with my phone...

  • Making Tracks

    Aug 29, 2017

  • Portion of the Battle Park Road will be temporarily closed beginning Sept. 5

    Aug 29, 2017

    BUFFALO — The last four miles of Forest Service Road 24, the Battle Park Road, will be closed from September 5, 2017, until October 1, 2017. The closure includes only the road and the area 300 feet from the centerline on both sides of the road starting at the junction of Forest Service Road 24 and Forest Service Road 360, near Bellyache Flats to just south of the Lily Lake Trailhead. “We want people who use the Battle Park Trailhead and horse camping areas for fall camping and hunting season to be aware of this closure in time to make alternate...

  • Meeteetse Museums to host Labor Day Archaeology Fair, Quilt Shows

    Aug 29, 2017

    MEETEETSE — The Meeteetse Museums will be hosting its inaugural Labor Day Archaeology Fair on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 4. Admission is free. The fair will consist of a variety of fun hands-on stations (for youths as well as adults) operated by archaeologists and museum professionals from around Wyoming. The stations will run from 10 a.m. (immediately following the Meeteetse Labor Day parade) until 4 p.m. A “Passport to the Past” system will be in place, whereby everyone visiting a station will get their passport stamped. Those visiting all stat...

  • The great 2017 eclipse

    John Davis, Columnist|Aug 29, 2017

    When we first thought about the coming eclipse, my wife and I felt that the experience of an eclipse was over-hyped and that we could enjoy it as much on TV as seeing it live. And we sure didn’t want to drive through areas that promised to be chaotic. As the time grew near, however, we became more interested and tried to figure out if we could get to the total eclipse area without fighting brutal traffic. We came up with a plan: We’d go to Ten Sleep and then south on Highway 434 (the Upper Nowood Road) toward Lost Cabin and Moneta. But we were...

  • Betty Jean Harkins

    Aug 29, 2017

    EXCUSE ME! Have you not heard? Do you not know? Isaiah 40:28-31 The Lord has renewed her strength; she soars on wings like eagles; she runs and does not grow weary, she walks and does not faint. Betty Jean Harkins, 81, of Ten Sleep, Wyoming, passed away on June 03, 2017, in Goodyear, Arizona Memorial Services were held in Goodyear, Arizona at Pathways Assisted Living and Memory Care Home with Mark Knister, a Chaplain of Hospice of the Valley, officiating. Denny Harkins, a Pastor of Estrella...

  • Aug 29, 2017

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