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  • Sep 17, 2015

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  • ATTENTION PRINT SUBSCRIBERS

    Editor|Sep 17, 2015

    Our apologies to our subscribers in the city of Worland. We had a glitch in our label system. Please feel free to come to our office at 201 North Eighth and pick up your copy. For those who get mail at the post office, copies are available at the front desk at the Worland Post Office. Thank you for your patience.... Full story

  • Crisis Prevention Center awarded grant for new shelter

    Marcus Huff, Staff Writer|Sep 17, 2015

    WORLAND – The Wyoming Business Council Board of Directors awarded a $375,000 block grant to the Worland Crisis Prevention and Response Center (CPRC), furthering their ultimate goal of $743,430 to build a new domestic violence shelter and office facility. The current shelter, located at 9th and Big Horn, was closed in 2010 due to structural defects, forcing the CPRC to house victims of domestic violence in local and regional motels. The proposed new facility on the PDRC’s current property would feature business and conference areas, bed...

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  • Chromebooks changing education

    Tracie Mitchell, Staff Writer|Sep 17, 2015

    THERMOPOLIS – In this day and age of technology it should be no surprise that schools are taking advantage of the resources that technology offers. Thermopolis Middle school has invested in Chromebooks for their students. The use of Chromebooks has made it so that the school has gone basically paperless. The seventh and eighth graders do basically everything on their Chromebooks. “Seventh and eighth grade (students) do a lot of their homework and everything on them, because we use Google docs, which is one reason we went to Chromebooks. Tha...

  • Wildlife investigation ends in a 15-year felony firearms possession conviction

    Sep 17, 2015

    SHERIDAN – What started out as an investigation of a deer poaching incident ended up with a Sheridan area man receiving a felony firearms possession conviction. The illegal poaching investigation began with an anonymous tip to the Sheridan County Sheriff’s Office and Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI). The Sheridan County Sheriff’s Office then contacted Wyoming Game & Fish Department Sheridan Regional Wildlife Investigator Scott Adell who obtained a search warrant from Sheridan Circuit Court Judge Shelley Cundiff for the Sheridan...

  • Worland swimming back on the road

    Sisco Molina, Sports Editor|Sep 17, 2015

    WORLAND – The Lady Warriors are set to take on another meet on the road as they travel to Powell once again for a dual. Worland was in Powell on Saturday with a number of other teams, but will be competing head-to-head with the Lady Panthers this time around. "I think we match up very well with them. We maintain about the same number of swimmers," Worland coach Kim Wyman said of Powell. "I'm kind of excited because it's the first time we've ever really matched up this well with them. "The g...

  • Sandra Sue (Sandee) Lumley Garrelts

    Sep 17, 2015

    Sandra Sue (Sandee) Lumley Garrelts, 67, passed away September 14, 2015 at St. Vincent Hospital in Billings, Montana, from complications of cancer. Sandee was born September 21, 1947, in Billings, Montana to John Lumley and Helen (Moore) Lumley. As a small child the family moved to California, before settling in Thermopolis, Wyoming in 1955. She graduated from Hot Springs County High School in Thermopolis, Casper College with her RN degree, and the University of Oregon Health Sciences College with her Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She was a... Full story