Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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Lots of interesting visitors in this edition!...
About $5,000 was raised Saturday at a fundraiser to launch the Eden Rose Foundation established by the Lockard and Franzen families. The foundation was established in 2021 after the death of Tyler and Molly Franzen Lockard's daughter Eden Rose. According to information on the Eden Rose Foundation website, Eden Rose Lockard was born on Monday, June 7, 2021, at 7:31 a.m. to parents Tyler and Molly (Franzen) Lockard at a Wyoming regional health hospital. She was 39 weeks in utero, weighed 8...
Fr. Thomas G. Ogg, 82, died August 29, 2023, at Monument Hospital in Rapid City, SD. He was born on November 30, 1940, to George Harper Ogg and Lena (Salzman) Ogg in Worland, Wyoming. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 8, 2023, at St. Matthew’s Catholic Church in Gillette. Inurnment service will be at 4 p.m., Friday, Sept. 8, 2023, in Riverview Memorial Gardens in Worland. A full obituary can be found at www.osheimschmidt.com.... Full story
Mary Pauline Austin, (born Mary Pauline Crisp), a Worland resident, passed away on August 30, 2023, 12 days after her 104th birthday. Pauline was the only child of Robert and Mary Jane Dunwoody Crisp, born on August 18, 1919, near Allen Reed, Texas. Pauline grew up on her grandfather's cattle ranch. She rode her horse to attend school each day. Later, her father married Marguerite Merriman on September 12, 1928, and had Pauline and three half-sisters. After graduation from high school, Pauline g... Full story
Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon isn’t often on the same page as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, but they recently found common ground on the need for advancing carbon capture technologies. Advanced carbon capture technologies could mitigate climate change rules placed by the current administration, while providing sustainable and reliable energy for the nation. Wyoming has enough reliable energy reserves to keep the lights on in the U.S. for several hundred years. States such as California have mandated electric vehicles. But where are C...
In 2021, Lt. Ray Krogman's family reaped the benefits of a scientific recovery team that found the remains of Krogman more than 50 years after he disappeared over Laos in 1967. Next weekend, area residents can view a documentary about one organization committed to bringing service members home who have been killed or missing in action. Alan Brown of Worland said he watched the documentary about Project Recover, "To What Remains," while browsing on YouTube. He said initially he thought about...
The Circle J Ranch is currently host to a unique group of volunteers; retirement-aged members of the Methodist Church from across the country are spending three weeks doing summer projects for the ranch. The ranch had two projects that it wanted done ahead of the Apple Fest on Sept. 30 – painting and repairs to the boys dormitory and constructing stairs at one of the ranch's entrances – and they brought in the NOMADS to get them done. Project Leader Suzanne Cronin, a volunteer from Texas, explai...
A team of researchers led by Dr. Larry Loendorf recently completed the field work for a project to record and categorize superimposed rock art at Medicine Lodge Archaeological Site. Having worked in archaeology for 60 years, Loendorf believes that time is of the essence in his field. Whether it be natural erosion or human activity, rock art is disappearing and being destroyed at an incredible rate. For this reason, 12 years ago Loendorf started Sacred Sites Research, a nonprofit organization ded...
The season-opener did not go as planned for the Worland Warriors football team in Powell on Sept. 1. The Warriors fell 51-0 to the WyoPreps No.4-ranked Powell Panthers 51-0. "We've got to continue to find ways to get better," said WHS football coach Patrick Sweeney. "We will get better. I think Powell made us better. Cody will make us better this week. We just have to stick together. Got to stick together and use it as motivation and use it as an opportunity to learn." Masen Decker led the Warri...
CHEYENNE, WY – On September 7, Secretary of State Chuck Gray sent a letter to New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan outlining his concern with recent reports that Secretary Scanlan was considering the removal of Donald Trump from the New Hampshire primary ballot in 2024 citing Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. “First, I take issue with the extremely broad and overreaching interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment to unilaterally remove a candidate from the ballot before an election,” Secretary Gray wrote. “Lest we are living thro... Full story
Governor Gordon Orders Flags be Flown at Half-Staff Statewide on Monday, September 11 in Honor of Patriot Day CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Governor Mark Gordon has ordered both the U.S. and State of Wyoming flag be flown at half-staff statewide from sunrise to sunset on Monday, September 11, Patriot Day, to honor and pay our respects to the individuals who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. "Twenty-two years ago, our country experienced one of the worst terrorist attacks in... Full story
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