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  • Heartbreak Again Lady Warriors drop semifinal match to Douglas

    Karla Pomeroy, Editor|Nov 4, 2017

    WORLAND - After winning the title in 2015, the Lady Warriors have advanced to the semifinals in 2016 and again this year, both times falling to the Douglas Lady Bearcats. Last season, the Lady Warriors fought tough only to fall in four games. This year they pushed Douglas to five games, but unfortunately the end result was the same. Douglas ended Worland's chance of getting back to the championship match with a 25-14, 16-25, 24-26, 25-15, 15-7 victory over the Lady Warriors. Worland struggled in...

  • Swimming

    Nov 4, 2017

  • US returns to standard time

    Nov 4, 2017

    WASHINGTON (AP) - It's time for a change in America - a time change. Let's sleep an extra hour to that. At 2 a.m. local time Sunday, daylight saving time is ending, and it's back to standard time for most people in the United States. Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and most of Arizona don't observe daylight saving time, so there's no need to change the clocks in those places....

  • Worland, Ten Sleep schools honor veterans

    Karla Pomeroy, Editor|Nov 4, 2017

    WORLAND — The Worland fourth-graders and the Ten Sleep School will be hosting Veterans Day programs next week. Worland fourth-graders will present their annual program at 7 p.m. Monday at the Worland Middle School Auditorium. Music instructor and program director Beth Magstadt said the program, “is very focused on veterans this year, as always.” She said it is a patriotic program emphasizing that they are proud to be Americans. She said they worked on making the sure the program presented a positive patriotic message. The program inclu...

  • County hearing to address Firewise grant

    Marcus Huff, Staff Writer|Nov 4, 2017

    WORLAND – Wildland fire mitigation will be a topic of discussion at the regular county commission meeting on Tuesday, when a public hearing will be held to lay out the parameters of a 2017 Firewise grant, obtained by the county. A federal program to aid county fire wardens with wildland fire mitigation, the grant also provides educational resources for homeowners in other than urban areas, easily threatened by wildland fires. “We got the first Firewise grant in 2012, and it expired in September of this year,” explained Washakie County Fire Ward...

  • Karla's Kolumn The madness of weather and time

    Karla Pomeroy, Editor|Nov 4, 2017

    What are two things people love to talk about this time of year? That’s right, weather and time. The weather this week has been an especially hot topic with the recent snowstorm that brought record precipitation to Worland on Wednesday. People in Wyoming like to joke if you don’t like the weather just wait five minutes, or in fact just drive five miles and the weather will change. On Wednesday and Thursday at our home just south of town it took more than five minutes but we pretty much had the full gamut of weather, the snow started ever so...

  • Mylo J. Hetler

    Nov 4, 2017

    Funeral s ervices for Mylo Hetler, 52-year-old Buffalo resident who passed away Oct. 24 at the Billings Clinic in Billings, Montana, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday Nov. 8 at 2 p.m. from the Harness Funeral Home Chapel in Buffalo. Harness Funeral Home of Buffalo is assisting the family with arrangements.... Full story