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WORLAND — During National 4-H Week last week, Washakie County 4-H honored a member and a leader from five clubs. Washakie County 4-H Educator Amber Armajo said, “We are going to need them, all of them. We need their determination, their compassion and their leadership. We need the next generation of leaders to face the challenges the future will bring and 4-H is doing just that. 4-H is growing the next generation of leaders —we need them and we support them.” The list of honorees are as follows: Monday: The Outlaws member Melvin Craft and lea...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican lawmakers made the case Tuesday for a bill that would allow Wisconsin farmers to grow hemp, stressing that the plant shouldn’t be confused with marijuana and that farmers should be given the option to raise another profitable crop. Rep. Jesse Kremer and Sen. Patrick Testin told reporters during a news conference ahead a public hearing on the measure that the proposal would give hope to farmers. “The message from a united agriculture community is this: We’ve led the nation in hemp production in the past. It’s ti...
WORLAND — The Veterans of Foreign Wars have announced their 2017-2018 student essay contests. The Patriot’s Pen contest for sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders, has a theme of “America’s Gift to My Generation.” Patriot’s Pen is a VFW-sponsored youth essay competition gives students an opportunity to write essays expressing their views on an annual patriotic theme. More than 120,000 students participated last year. There are local prizes awarded, winners advance to the district, regional, state and then national competition. National wi...
WORLAND - In the Big Horn Basin on an economic development tour, Secretary of State Ed Murray sat down with the Northern Wyoming Daily News to discuss a variety of subjects on Tuesday including ramifications to the local economy in the face of a national sugar tax, to a possible run for the Office of the Governor. After a tour of the facilities of Admiral Beverage, and a meeting with the management team for a facility that has provided Worland with jobs and industry since 1945, Murray...
WORLAND - The Worland Fire Department is spending a busy Fire Prevention Week talking to students in the Worland community about ways to prevent fires. The department visited kindergarten and first-grade classes at East Side on Monday, and second- and third-grade classes at South Side on Tuesday. Today they will be visiting Worland Head Start and Worland Preschool as well as the Washakie County Library to talk to children about fire prevention and fire safety. Thursday they will head to West...
JACKSON HOLE (AP) — A Wyoming high school teacher says she did not write the multiple-choice quiz that included “shooting at Trump” as an answer. The Jackson Hole News and Guide reports Jackson Hole High School English teacher Carin Aufderheide told the Jackson Hole Daily: “While I did not write the quiz questions and answers, it was my responsibility to proofread it; had I done so I can assure you I would not have distributed the quiz without first changing the offensive answer.” Teton County School District No. 1, which previously confirmed...
William Ralph Murdoch passed away on October 3rd at his cabin on Cottonwood Creek. He was born on April 16, 1962 to William (Bill) and Dawn Murdoch in Worland, WY. Will always had a mind of his own and was quite bull headed, but had a big heart and was always there to help those in need. His childhood was spent at the family cabin in the Owl Creek Mountains, which was the start of his lifelong love of the great outdoors. He enjoyed making improvements to his ranch and tending to his heard of... Full story
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