Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks set more records Monday as health care companies and banks continued to surge as investors grew more optimistic about the recovery in manufacturers. Stocks got a boost after the Institute for Supply Management said U.S. factory activity hit a 13-year high in August as hurricanes disrupted supplies but drove up demand for manufactured goods. Investors snapped up shares of companies that are linked to more rapid economic growth, like banks and health care and industrial companies as well as smaller, U.S.-focused c...
THERMOPOLIS - The mission for the Hot Springs County High School volleyball team Saturday was to improve after a tough showing against Worland earlier in the week. Ultimately, the Lady Bobcats did show improvement, unfortunately, it would not be enough as they went down to the Rawlins Lady Outlaws 3-0, (25-18, 25-8, 25-15). "That first game I told them this is how good they could be when it comes together. That second game we lost that one point and it turned on us and we could never gain it...
CHEYENNE —The Wyoming Meth Project, a statewide prevention and education non-profit, will be dissolving before the end of 2017. This initiative started in April 2008, with a message aimed at young people to “Not Even Once” try methamphetamine. During that time, 5 surveys of teens were conducted at various times in schools across Wyoming to see if students were getting the message and not using methamphetamine. Additionally, countless presentations were conducted in Wyoming High Schools and Businesses. One of the greatest accomplishments durin...
I’ve been reading a lot of odds and ends in the last month or so, I suppose because Celia and I have been so busy that I just grab what reading I can fit in. That trend is unlikely to change soon: We plan to go to Jackson Hole at the end of the week to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary and then a week after that to another big occasion (I won’t reveal the details, because I want to write about this event in next week’s column). My daughter gave me some short books when I was in Seattle and I found a couple of them to be quite inter...
LAS VEGAS (AP) - The rapid-fire popping sounded like firecrackers at first, and many in the crowd of 22,000 country music fans didn't understand what was happening when the band stopped playing and singer Jason Aldean bolted off the stage. "That's gunshots," a man could be heard saying emphatically on a cellphone video in the nearly half-minute of silence and confusion that followed. A woman pleaded with others: "Get down! Get down! Stay down!" Then the bam-bam-bam sounds resumed. And pure...
WORLAND — The Worland City Council will discuss the water rate increase ordinance at tonight’s regular meeting. Ordinance 844 if passed on three readings will increase the water rates for city water users by 10 percent, 12 percent, 14 percent or 15 percent. Four options will be presented to the council on first reading. At the Sept. 19 council meeting, auditor James Seckman, certified public accountant, recommended a water rate increase. At the September meeting he said, “One of the things that I want to update you on is that state statu...
BASIN - Big Horn County Detention Officer Craig Shidler was recently honored by the Wyoming Peace Officers Association as Detention Officer of the Year. Shidler, who resides just outside of Cowley and is a Big Horn County native, began working for the Big Horn County Sheriff's Office in May 2010. He said he had an interest in law enforcement for years but never found the right avenue or opportunity. After working for the North Big Horn Hospital ambulance service (since 2007), he began having mor...
CHEYENNE (AP) — The longest-serving justice currently on the Wyoming Supreme Court plans to retire as he reaches the state’s mandatory retirement age for judges next year. William Hill’s last day on the bench will be Feb. 16, his 70th birthday, he announced Monday. Republican Gov. Jim Geringer appointed Hill to the Wyoming Supreme Court in 1998. By now, Hill has served longer than any other current justice by seven years. His departure gives Gov. Matt Mead the chance to appoint a fourth justice to the five-judge panel. Hill told The Assoc...
Ann was born in Smith Lake, Minnesota June 29, 1914, the third of fourteen children born to Peter and Anna Margaret Spomer Lass. She passed into His loving arms September 15, 2017. One hundred three years - two and one half months - at Willamette Falls Adult Home Care in Oregon City, Oregon. Her early years were spent in Minnesota and Nebraska before the family moved to Wyoming. Ann developed a strong work ethic along with her parents, sisters and brothers working the sugar beet fields. During...
March 17, 1926 – September 28, 2017 BASIN, WY…Basin resident, June R. Hill, age 91, passed away on Thursday, September 28, 2017 in Casper, Wyoming. June was born to William John Reid and Bernice Sackett Reid on March 17, 1926. She attended Greybull High School, graduating in 1944. On June 8, 1947, she married Wesley A. Hill. The couple lived in Laramie, Wyoming while Wesley finished college. They moved to Worland and then to Basin, living at the Hill family farm north of Basin. Wesley was killed in an accident in October 1952. Wesley and June h...
Alfred Fink, 93, died on Sept. 29, 2017, at Powell Valley Care Center of natural causes. Alfred was born to John D. and Emelia Fink in Kane, Wyoming, on April 27, 1924. He was eighth of 10 children. Al's family moved to Lovell when he was young and after graduation, he enrolled at the University of Wyoming. He met Marie Dourlet at college and stayed in contact with her while serving in World War II. Alfred served in the U.S. Army in New Guinea. After returning from the South Pacific, he married...