Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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It's Fire Prevention Week!...
In September of this year Erich Berryman, a Worland firefighter who has served for 23 years, took a crew of himself, Taylor Horath of Worland and Clemens Abbott of Thermopolis to Redding, California, to fight fires. They were there on severity levels where there is perilously low number of firefighting personnel to assist with the fires in the area. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection staged them in the Sierra National Forest as part of their initial attack. The first...
About a dozen people attended a presentation about human trafficking and how it occurs in Wyoming. Terri Markham, executive director and co-founder of Uprising, discussed the definition of trafficking, whether it be sex trafficking or labor trafficking, which types of trafficking happen here in Wyoming, how it can be identified and what people can do to help the problem. TYPES OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN WYOMING Pimp controlled trafficking happens when people are forced to post sex advertisements online and are forced to go on dates. People then...
Gail Elvina (McKeag) Anderson, 90-year-old, former Ten Sleep resident passed away at the Thermopolis Rehabilitation and Wellness Center on October 2, 2023. Gail was born on January 22, 1933 to Arnold and Elvina McKeag, the fourth of six children. She grew up on the family ranch in the sandhills near Arthur, Nebraska. She remembered that time fondly: riding horses and also driving horses on her father's haying crew. She would have told you that she always preferred the horses and the haying to... Full story
Doreen Carolyn South, 92-year-old Worland resident passed away on September 29, 2023 at the Wyoming Retirement Center in Basin. Doreen was born on December 27, 1930 in Worland, WY, the oldest of two children born to John Taylor and Clara (Faure) South. After graduating from Worland High School in 1948, Doreen attended Colorado Women's College in Denver, CO where she received an Associate's Degree in Business in 1950 and Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, IA where she received a Bachelor of... Full story
Turn on any sporting event in October and you will see pink. NASCAR cars all had pink window coverings, referees in some football games had pink whistles, players, coaches and more have pink. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and pink abounds in October. Before I go any further let me just say I support breast cancer awareness month. I have friends and family who are breast cancer survivors, but I also know some who, unfortunately, did not survive. Perhaps the next well known “cancer month” is November or what has become known as “No...
In my opinion, “Hereditary” set the bar for modern horror when it came out in 2018. Stylistically it’s very similar to “Midsommar,” which was put out the following year by the same director Ari Aster. “Midsommar” is arguably the more popular of the two, but the elements present in both blew me away the first time I saw them in “Hereditary.” It’s a very unique movie; at its core, it’s just a paranormal horror movie set in suburban Utah; the kind where you would expect jump scares are the bread and butter. “Hereditary” does not have a single jump...
Kendyl Garza wasn't a stranger to Worland before she moved here, and now she's happy to call it home after getting hired as a first-year second grade teacher at South Side Elementary School for the 2023-2024 school year. Garza grew up in Powell, where she graduated high school. She didn't know what she wanted to do after high school, and instead of going to school she went on a mission with the Christian organization Youth With a Mission. She said, "I spent three months with that program in...
POWELL — A Powell accountant is facing allegations that he embezzled more than $1.2 million from his employer over a 12-year period. Carl W. Wheeler, 74, was arrested by Cody police on Monday and charged with four felony counts of theft. The charges allege that Wheeler siphoned the money from Sage Accounting, the internal business office of the Cody-based Sage Publishing Company, which owns and operates community newspapers. Wheeler remained in the Park County Detention Center on Wednesday, with his bail set at $500,000 cash or surety. W... Full story
JACKSON — What Idith Almog saw in 1973 pales in comparison to what she saw Saturday morning. Fifty years ago, when war broke out between Israel and Arab states on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, more than 2,600 Israelis and over 15,000 Arabs died. Almog was 18 years old. “That was over three weeks, and that was soldiers,” said Almog. “Here we’re talking about one day. They were women, and old, and babies and children. It’s like the Holocaust.” Almog, who is Jewish and Israeli, live... Full story
Hacker’s Brief 10/13/2023 Employment Scam: A Laramie citizen received an email from someone claiming to be an HR officer with a records management specialist job opportunity. The email had the subject line of “Sunday, October 1 2023 at 08:22:48 AM”. The sender’s email ended with a1.net which is a German website, but you were supposed to send your full name, email address, phone number, and job experience details to a Gmail address to ‘receive a job link’. CyberWyoming note: According to the Better Business Bureau Scam Tracker Reports, em... Full story
Chronic wasting disease again detected near Jackson JACKSON (WNE) — The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has detected chronic wasting disease in a mule deer in a hunt area that includes Bondurant and stretches north, south and east from the small town. The location in question is Hunt Area 154, which includes the Dell Creek drainage and Jack Creek Basin north of Highway 191. It also includes Rim Draw to the east and Noble Basin and Coyote Gulch to the south. The hunt area is bordered by three other hunt areas where chronic wasting disease h... Full story
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