Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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It is Monday morning and I’m waiting for U.S. Supreme Court Justice nominee Amy Coney Barrett to give her opening remarks, but first you have to get through the opening remarks from every Senator on the Judiciary Committee. OK, to be truthful I just watched I did not actually listen to them. According to the Supreme Court website, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes described the role of the court “As the final arbiter of the law, the Court is charged with ensuring the American people the promise of equal justice under law and, thereby, als... Full story
WORLAND – More than three years after an ice-jam flood event that flooded homes on the west side of Worland, figures were provided for a feasibility study to determine what actions could help prevent future flooding. On Tuesday, Oct. 6, Washakie County Emergency Management/Homeland Security Director Kami Neighbors presented to the Washakie County Commissioners, the estimate provided by the Army Corps of Engineer to perform the feasibility study on the Big Horn River. Neighbors told the c...
WORLAND — With this year’s Washakie County Fair fading into a memory, the Washakie County Fair Board turned its attention to the 2021 fair. The 2021 fair will be July 24-July 31. The board has already asked Daniel Kosel to handle the musical lineup for the fair. During Monday’s meeting, board member Tamara Drake noted that some people have complained about the music being the same time as the grandstand events. Beth Shaffer added that the music was hard to hear during the Monster Truck event. They discussed possibly having music on Wedne...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Commissioners received board updates from department heads, received bids and discussed potential changes to upcoming staffing in the courthouse during their regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 6. Tom Schmeltzer of building maintenance appeared before the board and discussed the preparations for winter and that all heating is set to go in buildings and the fairgrounds is winterized. Schmeltzer also reported that 95% of the items were taken out of the former...
TEN SLEEP – The Washakie County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees met for their regularly scheduled meeting in person and over Zoom on Monday, Oct. 12, to discuss two policies, discuss the Wyoming School Board Association (WSBA) Convention, approve a new mission and goals statement and receive updates on different subjects. The board discussed policy 5.27 regarding the discipline of students which would add a sentence that would allow for the “administration in consultation with the Bui...
Voters will have to decide on one Wyoming Constitutional Amendment during the general election. The League of Women Voters of Wyoming has provided a Guide for the 2020 General Election. The information on the amendment comes from LWVW voter’s guide. Constitutional Amendment A Ballot language: This amendment will remove the constitutionally specified limit on the amount of debt a municipality can create for sewer projects and would allow the Legislature to prescribe by law the debt limit for municipal sewer projects. Other ballot issues? This i...
WORLAND - While they lost their Oct. 8 dual to the Cody Fillies, 102-82, the Worland Lady Warriors swimming and diving team continued to put up some of their best times in the pool or scores on the board. "I was just thinking about when I first moved here and began coaching it was a bit of a culture shock for me to see so many invitationals and so few dual meets, compared to what I grew up with in Michigan," said WHS girls swimming and diving coach Mike Blissett. "I have enjoyed having the oppor...
WORLAND — The Meeteetse Museums will be at the Washakie Museum and Cultural Center on Oct. 24 to measure bison skulls and crania found within the Big Horn Basin from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Measuring each specimen takes roughly 10 to 15 minutes depending on completeness. Bison crania can be taken home immediately after they are measured. While staff members are measuring the bison, we ask you fill out a sheet that provides us as much information on the bison as possible. Bison of the Big Horn Basin is a project of the Meeteetse Museums to learn m...
TEN SLEEP – Ten Sleep School’s homecoming week is set to kick off today Thursday, Oct. 15, and according to High School Student Council sponsor Paula Beck-Acord, this year is set to look a little different due to the COVID-19 pandemic but will include most traditions from years past. The week will kick off today with pajama dress-up day for students along with hall decorating. There is no school this Friday so the fun resumes on Monday when the dress-up day will be a western/camo day and a dodge...
Donald Wayne Short died on Oct. 3, 2020, at his home in Powell. Don was born on Oct. 25, 1945, in Worland. Celebration of life will be held on Saturday, Oct.17, at 10 a.m., at Faith Community Church, located at 1267 Road 18 in Powell.... Full story
Embry JoAnn Reid-Ward was born and passed on Friday, October 9, 2020 at the Washakie Medical Center in Worland. There will be a private family service at a later date.... Full story
Graveside services for Janet Heinze Parrent, 82, will be Friday, October 16, 2020 at Monument Hill Cemetery in Thermopolis. Mrs. Parrent died Monday, October 12, 2020 at Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital.... Full story
Bruce Ernest Stratmann, 90, passed away on October 11, 2020 at the Washakie Medical Center in Worland. He was born on November 2, 1929 in Holyrood, Kansas. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, October 17, 2020 at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church.... Full story
Lanny Frank Myers, a resident of Bountiful, Utah, for 50 years, passed away peacefully, with his daughter by his side, at Lakeview Hospital, on August 4, 2020, after a brief fight with Covid. Lanny's wife, Doris, was in a rehabilitation center, due to Covid related health issues, at the time of his death. Lanny was born on February 18, 1939. He was the son of Frank Myers and Nella Myers, formerly from Greybull, Wyoming. Lanny grew up in Worland, Wyoming. Lanny and Doris Huffman began dating in... Full story
WORLAND - Last year's sugar beet harvest was hindered by three hard freezes that amounted to about 40% loss of sugar for Wyoming Sugar, according to Wyoming Sugar CEO Mike Greear. This year, they have to concern themselves about above average temperatures. In the 2019 harvest, Greear said they were able to process all but about 1,000 acres of beets. He added, however, that many of the beets harvested after the freezes lost a lot of sugar content. The freezes impacted about 70% of the beets in...
WORLAND - If you could list all the agriculture grown in Wyoming and the Big Horn Basin, grapes likely would not make the list. The climates of Napa Valley and Bordeaux grapes are better suited for vineyard. However, you might be surprised to learn that grapes not only can be grown here in Wyoming but can thrive. Worland's Lyle and Shelley Spence and others have proven as much. The Spences not only successfully grow grapes on their property outside of Worland. But their vineyard is just as...
BIG HORN COUNTY – Jude Buchanan-Sandoval and her father Collin Buchanan were both excited to grow hemp this year after it was federally approved in February of 2020. They decided to begin a small project to see how the growing experience would go this past summer. Sandoval and Buchanan were able to acquire the licensing to grow hemp in early June of this year, and the two decided to plant 1.8 acres worth of hemp seed at Buchanan's farm in Big Horn County between Manderson and Worland. S...
WORLAND - What began as a family outing to watch the giant pumpkin drop has turned into one teen's passion for plants, giant, carnivorous and everything in between. Dawson Utterback, a freshman at Worland High School this fall watched the giant pumpkin weigh-in and pumpkin drop and decided to try his hand at growing giant pumpkins. He attended a Washakie County Extension class on growing giant pumpkins taught by Jay Richard. "I watched the pumpkin drop and got hooked. I got my first seeds from...
CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Governor Mark Gordon has made free, at-home COVID-19 testing available to the state’s residents. The saliva test is administered by Vault Health and allows residents to get results at home without needing to visit a healthcare provider. Wyoming has purchased 75,000 tests and could obtain additional tests if needed. The program will supplement currently available testing options that include private healthcare providers, hospitals and some pharmacies. The Governor is utilizing Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CA... Full story
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