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WORLAND -Worland High School volleyball was on the road in Rawlins Friday and Saturday battling with other 3A rivals during the Rawlins Invite. Going against Rawlins, Newcastle, Douglas, Wheatland, Torrington, Buffalo, Thermopolis, Cody, Powell, Riverton, Lander, Star Valley, Lyman and Mountain View and the Lady Warriors wound up in fifth place at the end of the Invite. The first day of the Invite was group play with only two games being played in the match. From there the teams would be sorted...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A polygamous family from TV’s “Sister Wives” has filed a request for the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case for legalizing polygamy. Kody Brown and his four wives submitted their petition Monday. They want the high court to review an appeals court’s decision that upheld a unique provision of Utah’s polygamy law that bans cohabitation with other partners even if the man is legally married to just one woman. The ruling overturned a 2013 legal victory for the Browns in which a lower court ruled the law violated po...
After Archie Harvard was drafted in early 1942, he first went to Galveston, Texas, for nine weeks, and then took basic training for another nine weeks at Fort Bliss, Texas. He was assigned to an anti-aircraft battery. Archie’s first duty station was in New York City, at Governor’s Island in New York harbor. For 19 months, his unit guarded the city. He also remembers he and his fellow soldiers built their own barracks. (I told Archie that I knew about such barracks, because when I went through basic training at Fort Lewis in 1968, our bar...
WORLAND – “I kind of started noticing this stuff in the grass about two years ago, but I wasn’t sure what it was” says Bill Wilson, inspecting his sorghum plants north of Worland. “Now it’s everywhere.” This year, Wilson first noticed the ergot kernels invading his sorghum buds about a week ago. “There used to be barley farming all around me out here, and that burning, but they’ve pretty much rotated to sugar beets now,” said Wilson. As a lumberjack by profession, Wilson is familiar with tree fungus and how it spreads, and has a theory about...
WORLAND – Hedge Music is going back to the start. Owner Dan Frederick said Hedge Music originally started in Powell in 1975. "It's kind of funny. Hedge Music started out with a band director (Paul Hedge)," Frederick said, and added Hedge's original idea was repairing instruments for students. Hedge Music in Worland started after Frederick and his wife Cathy moved to Worland in 1981. They opened a store on Big Horn Avenue in 1983 after a location change. From there, the Worland store morphed i...
CHEYENNE (AP) — A wildfire that roared back to life closed the south gate to Yellowstone National Park again Monday and forced employees to flee. The same blaze shut down the entrance for nine days late last month. It had died down until winds picked up Sunday, taking firefighters by surprise. That’s when the fire grew by more than 9 square miles (23 square kilometers) and crossed a highway connecting Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. Authorities closed the route between Lizard Creek Campground in Grand Teton and Lewis Lake in Yel...
Jerry D. Garland, 87, of Beatrice, Neb., formerly of Basin, died Friday, Sept. 9, 2016 in Lincoln, Nebraska. He was born July 14, 1929. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016, at Christ Community Church in Beatrice, Neb. Harman-Wright Mortuary and Crematory assisted the family with the arrangements in Beatrice, Nebraska, and Atwood Family Funeral Directors assisted the family with the arrangements in Basin.... Full story
Bonnie L. Lawrence, 57, of Sheridan, died Friday, Sept. 9, 2016, at Sheridan Manor. She was born May 4, 1959 in Buffalo. Cremation has taken place and the family is planning a private memorial service at a later date. Arrangements are under the direction of Champion Funeral Home.... Full story
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