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WORLAND – Recently, the Washakie County Commissioners met Sept. 21 with organizations regarding Washakie County boat access for the proposal of the Bighorn River Blueway Trail. Organizations represented would include the Bureau of Land Management. This would include new land the commissioners recently discovered they owned on Tiedown Road/Lane 17 1/2. The commissioners said that, with this project they would create an access point for residents to begin floating down the Bighorn River and would create the opportunity for 4 1/2 miles of r...
Funeral services for Barbara Margaret Sterkel, 82, were held at 10am Tuesday, September 28, 2021 at Our Savior Lutheran Church with Pastor Scott Firminhac officiating. Burial followed in the Valley View Cemetery. Barbara died September 19, 2021 University Hospital in Aurora, Colorado. Memorials maybe given to Our Savior Lutheran Church in Torrington, Platte Valley Lutheran Church in Saratoga, Wyoming or St Luke Lutheran Church in Worland, Wyoming. Arrangements are by the Colyer Funeral Home and... Full story
Wife, mom, nana, sister, aunt and friend, Margaret "Peggy" Jean Paxton passed away peacefully at Spirit Mountain Hospice on September 21, 2021 after a courageous battle with cancer. She was surrounded by her husband and her daughters as she was welcomed into heaven through her faith in Christ. Peggy is survived by her loving husband of 24 years, Alan Paxton, daughter Theresa Green of Worland, WY, daughter Randi Lynn Noble (Rory) of Basin, WY, Rick (Candace) Paxton and Curt (Amy) Paxton of Rivert... Full story
Joyce Jaye Shepard passed away at Washakie Medical Center surrounded by family on Saturday, September 25, 2021. Joyce was born in Phoenix, Arizona to Lee Edward and Jessie Lula (Laird) Shepard on January 6, 1946. She spent most of her young adult life in Phoenix. She married Larry Baker in 1966 and from this union they were blessed with three children. Later in life, Joyce and Larry parted ways, and Joyce moved to Worland in 1997 to be near her children and grandchildren. More than anything in... Full story
Jimmie Allen Dowdy, 88, passed away on Sept. 24, 2021, at his home in Thermopolis. He was born on Sept. 19, 1933. Cremation has taken place and a private family service will be held next spring.... Full story
Marvilla A. Nichols, 93, passed away Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, at Worland Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center. She was born April 18, 1928, in Rexburg, Idaho. Cremation has taken place. No service is planned per her request.... Full story
WORLAND – The Washakie County School District No. 1s board meeting Monday night, awarded the bids for the pool remedy project. According to Business Manager Charlie Cauffman, discussion on the project started back in April after it was brought to the board’s attention that a differential settlement had occurred. A differential settlement commonly occurs after a type of non-uniform movement of the underlying soils. This can cause cracks in the foundation, exterior cladding and interior finishes. Additionally, with a pier and beam foundation sys...
WORLAND — The 2021 and third Warrior Hall of Fame inductee class have been announced and will be inducted tonight with a public meet and greet at 5:30 p.m. at the Worland Middle School Auditorium. A dinner for inductees and guests will follow the meet and greet. The inductees will be honored in the Homecoming Parade at 1 p.m. Friday. Also on Friday, the inductees will ring the bell to welcome the Warriors onto the field at 6 p.m. for the game against the Rawlins Outlaws. At halftime, the inductees or their representatives will be honored at t...
WORLAND — WYO HELP, the new community action agency now in Washakie County, will be hosting a town hall this Monday at 6:30 p.m. at the Washakie County Fairgrounds in Worland. “It’s important for us to understand the needs of these communities in order to be better able to serve,” said Clark Urbin, WYO HELP’s caseworker in the county. Urbin wants to hear how to prioritize the help WYO HELP is able to provide. Important questions will include: “Where are the needs; what obstacles to getting service; what agencies are available for assistance;...
WORLAND - This is the point in the girls swimming season when personal records are being set each week, and for the Worland Lady Warriors, each meet brings new PRs as seconds are being dropped all over. The Lady Warriors started last week with a triangular in Buffalo on Sept. 24, and on Sept. 25, they closed out the weekend with their annual home meet at the Worland Aquatic Center. "I liked the intensity that the girls brought to both meets," said WHS girls swimming coach Mike Blissett. "They ca...
This Sunday marks the start of the observance of National Newspaper Week, where I traditionally like to try and educate the public about something regarding the role of the newspaper but this year I would like to talk about “off the record.” The phrase “off the record” is bantered about quite a lot anymore, usually in jest but occasionally people say will say it when covering a meeting or in the midst of an interview. There are a few things to know about “off the record.” The Poynter Report senior media writer Tom Jones said it best in def... Full story
WORLAND — In one year, the number of calls to the regional poison control center doubled from the five previous years on complications related to ivermectin. According to a health advisory on Aug. 26, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed with the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC) that human exposures and adverse effects associated with ivermectin reported to poison control centers have increased in 2021 compared to the pre-pandemic baseline. These reports include increased use of veterinary p...
An $8.78 million slide stabilization/rock scaling project is continuing in Wind River Canyon alongside US20/WY789 between Shoshoni and Thermopolis, and a months-worth of rock scaling is scheduled to be completed next week. Prime contractor is Oftedal Construction Inc., of Casper. "(Subcontractor) Midwest Rockfall is scheduled to complete rock scaling by the end of next week," said Wyoming Department of Transportation project engineer Jordan Erz of Worland. "Following rock scaling, prime... Full story
Cheyenne censured lawyer appointed part-time judge CHEYENNE (WNE) –- A Cheyenne prosecutor was appointed as a part-time hearing judge to the Cheyenne Municipal Court on Monday, after being recently censured by the Wyoming Supreme Court. David Singleton has been an attorney in Cheyenne for almost a decade, and previously served as Laramie County assistant district attorney. He was censured this summer after failing to correct false testimony in a dismissed 2020 marijuana case. Based on his conduct, Singleton could have been suspended from p... Full story
CASPER — Sen. Cale Case on Thursday proposed a new energy tax structure that would be shared across all electricity producers. But a motion to have a bill drafted for the plan failed by a vote of 4–9 in the Joint Revenue Committee. Case, R-Lander, outlined a gross receipts tax that would be levied on producers’ total sales, but would allocate credits for existing generation fees, including the severance taxes paid by coal, oil and gas companies. “The world is changing, and we’re going to have to leave a lot of those minerals in the ground,... Full story
RIVERTON — Wyoming’s Attorney General says local tribal entities are not eligible for grants and loans through the Wyoming Business Council Business Ready Community Program, WBC staff told the Wyoming Legislature’s Select Committee on Tribal Relations last month. The news was surprising to Wyoming Sen. Cale Case, R-Lander, who was involved, almost 20 years ago, in crafting the legislation that governs the WBC program. “The idea was to have people be able to apply through the tribal governments – either individually or together,” Case said d... Full story
GILLETTE — Members of the public, including some teachers, came to tell the Campbell County School District’s board of trustees that they were not happy with the decision to offer district employees a $300 incentive for getting the COVID-19 vaccination. Two weeks ago, the board voted to offer the incentive to all district employees who could show proof of being fully vaccinated (meaning two shots of either Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, or one of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine) by Dec. 1. If employees show proof, they will receive the inc... Full story
JACKSON — At first, submissions to the Teton County Health Department’s COVID-19 complaint form were helpful. On Sept. 1, for example, an anonymous tipster wrote that Cultivate Cafe didn’t have public signage announcing the county’s mask mandate, according to records obtained by the Jackson Hole Daily. The next day, two more commenters wrote about a lack of mask compliance at Merry Piglets, Liberty Burger and Albertsons. On Sept. 5, someone expressed the same concern about Teton Gravity Research. But that same day, someone wrote to the Health D... Full story
Campbell library accused of criminal activity GILLETTE (WNE) — The Campbell County Public Library has been accused of criminal activity for having books in the teen and children’s section that some deemed inappropriate for teens and children. At 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Hugh and Susan Bennett went to the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office to report criminal activity going on at the library. They believed the library board and the library director were committing a crime by “offering for dissemination obscene material,” said Sheriff Scott Matheny.... Full story
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