Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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TEN SLEEP - In the first game of their football season the Ten Sleep Pioneers dressed a total of six players against Hulett and won 68-33. That win would be the Pioneers lone win during their 1-7 2016 campaign. After their win, Ten Sleep was able to get four more athletes to join the team, raising their total to 10, but was hit with a string of injuries afterward. One of which included junior Byron Powell who had seven total touchdowns in their first game, and with injuries mounting the...
Seriously, what the hell Cleveland? Isn't your first NBA championship good enough? You have LeBron James, the best basketball player on the planet and after his career is done will probably be the second greatest of all-time. Is that not enough for you? You don't need this World Series. The Browns are well on their way to locking up No. 1 overall draft pick in the NFL. Yes, you've had to endure five seasons worth of soul-crushing losses packed into half a season and Jimmy Haslem is an...
WORLAND – A new Homeland Security and emergency management director will start mid-November after the Washakie County Commissioners approved a motion to hire an area resident. Jeff Schweighart, who grew up in Thermopolis, accepted the commissioners’ offer via telephone at Tuesday morning’s scheduled commissioner meeting. Currently Schweighart resides in Meeteetse. Washakie County Commission Chair Aaron Anderson discussed commute and a timeline for relocation and it was decided Schweighart will have until the end of the year to relocate, granted...
WORLAND — The contractor working on this fall’s $1.13 million Americans with Disabilities Act project in Worland removed and replaced two commemorative “Trail of the Whispering Giants” coins near the Washakie County Courthouse. EHC LLC of Deaver is the prime contractor on the project that has replacing sidewalk corners, sidewalk, curb and gutter, and double gutter this fall, including electrical work, between 10th and 23rd streets in Worland. Workers with EHC LLC noticed the coins in the old sidewalk beside Big Horn Avenue near the Washaki...
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered a hearing to determine if a Wyoming man is competent to stand trial in the slaying of a couple on Montana’s Crow Indian Reservation. U.S. District Judge Susan Watters scheduled the hearing in the case of Jesus Deniz Mendoza for Nov. 21. Authorities last week submitted the results of a mental examination of Mendoza to the court. Watters sealed the document. The 19-year-old defendant is charged with double murder, attempted murder and other counts in the July 2015 deaths of Jason and Tana Sha...
WORLAND – "It's a time to get family together and revitalize tradition," Ed Keller said of his family's generation-old recipe for making sugar beet syrup. Last Saturday a conglomerate of family members and friends got together and spent the day joking and laughing while partaking in their tradition. The Keller's have had the sugar beet recipe in their family for generations and while they haven't made a batch since 2001, Keller said they plan to do it every year now. The efforts to keep the t... Full story