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Welcome to National Newspaper Week 2016, Oct. 2-8. This year’s theme is “Way to Know!” as a way to promote the role of newspapers as the leading provider of news, whether it be in print, online or in palms via mobile devices. And that’s exactly what our role is as newspapers – to report the news. Not to report rumors, or social media gossip and complaints, but the actual, factual news. Reporting the news means reporting the good, the bad and the ugly. It means reporting on South Side Elementary earning the National Blue Ribbon Award, but it al...
I have a lot of love/hate relationships in my life. For example I love America's Got Talent but hate the best talent show in the world because, and here's the dirty secret, true democracy is terrible. In past seasons dogs have beaten out a comedian and this season an above-average singer won over the 14-year-old opera singer who can belt it out like a 20-year opera veteran. True democracy is for the birds. Another love/hate, Netflix's House of Cards, I love the cast, Robin Wright and the rest...
WORLAND – An empty aircraft departed the Worland Municipal Airport at 12:29 p.m. on Friday afternoon, signaling the end of an era. During that time, Airport Manager Lynn Murdoch and two Great Lakes Aviation employees watched as flight No. 2956 departed. The flight was the last flight out of Worland with essential air service. No commercial flyers were on board. What this means for Worland The last flight concluded events that occurred months ago. In May, the City of Worland received the o...
WORLAND - Washakie County 4-H Educator Amber Armajo has been a part of the 4-H family for more than 24 years. As a youth, Armajo spent 10 years in 4-H in Hot Springs County. Armajo had mostly livestock projects in 4-H - horses, pigs, sheep and steer. "My mom tried to get me to sew and I didn't. Looking back I wish I would have. So I will try to get my daughter sit with grandma and sew. It [4-H] would have been a great place to learn, but I was too busy with my animals." Armajo said she was in...
PRYOR, Mont. (AP) — The 5,000-square-mile Crow Indian Reservation south of Billings welcomed its newest residents with a cattail to represent the Platte River. The 18 black-footed ferrets were transported to the Crow Reservation on Wednesday, where biologists and wildlife officials hope the endangered species will eventually establish a breeding population. Marlin Not Afraid, the director of the Crow Fish and Game Department, placed a cattail next to the first burrow where he released a female ferret to signify to the animal that this was i...
CHEYENNE – Secretary of State Ed Murray is reminding everybody that absentee voting is taking place in all counties throughout Wyoming for the general election. All Wyoming citizens who are registered to vote may vote absentee either by requesting an absentee ballot from their county clerk or by going to their clerk’s office. “I am pleased to announce on National Voter Registration Day (Tuesday) that absentee voting is now underway across Wyoming. Registering to vote is an essential step on the path to casting a vote. Now that absentee votin...
CASPER (AP) — A high-ranking official with the Wyoming Highway Patrol is under investigation for posing for a photo near a bison at Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone National Park officials are investigating Highway Patrol Major Keith Groeneweg after he posted a photo on Facebook that looks like he is violating park rules that people must stay at least 25 yards from wildlife, The Casper Star-Tribune reported. In the photo Groeneweg can be seen near a bison. The caption of the photo reads, “Yellowstone signs everywhere: ‘Stay 100 yards...
WORLAND - The Rawlins Lady Outlaws pushed the Lady Warriors at home Friday night but Worland dug deep and willed their way to a 3-1 match win. WHS volleyball coach Brittany Miller said Rawlins would be a scrappy team and the Lady Outlaws lived up to that billing as they made Worland work for each point. Players on both teams were diving, stretching and hustling to make a play on each ball all night. In game one the Lady Warriors started out on a 5-0 run then kept the Lady Outlaws at a...
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