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THERMOPOLIS - Hot Springs County voters determined the future of the Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital on Tuesday, voting in a hospital district, financed with a series of tax increases. Faced with overwhelming state budget and Medicare and Medicaid cuts, some feared the hospital couldn’t maintain at its current level, and when allowed three years ago, formed a political action committee to form a hospital district. Voters Tuesday passed the measure by 67 percent with a vote of 1,688 for, and 809 against, according to the Hot Springs C...
WORLAND — Republicans swept the four state legislative races in the southern part of the Big Horn Basin Tuesday night. Wyatt Agar, R-Thermopolis, easily won election to Senate District 20 with 86 percent of the vote. He received 6,893 votes. Mary Jane Norskog, D-Thermopolis, received 1,546. In their home county of Hot Springs, Agar earned 1,817 votes to 714 for Norskog. In Washakie County, Agar received 3,157 to Norskog’s 570. Park County, in the Meeteetse area, favored Agar 413-57. In Big Horn County, which included Basin, Burlington and Ott...
WORLAND – A lot of high school students leave high school with a great education that will assist them in becoming successful in the adult world, but many leave without the financial literacy that’s required to not only succeed but thrive. Worland High School wants to make sure that their students receive what it takes to both succeed and thrive by offering seniors the elective consumer math class. Worland High School math teacher Tracey Wiley said that consumer math teaches seniors about and how to get mortgages, stocks and bonds, insurance, D...
WORLAND – With materials and a lesson plan provided by the Washakie County Conservation District, Worland Middle School seventh-grade science students tested the mechanics of conduction cooking on Tuesday, by making and using solar ovens to cook dessert. "It's really a culminative activity so the students can apply what they've learned in mechanics, to utilize solar energy," said teacher Robert Woffinden. Woffinden's wife, Vanessa Woffinden, a Conservation District educator, lectured the c...
POWELL — Four Northwest College jazz ensembles promise a “spectacular concert” Tuesday, Nov. 15, in the Nelson Performing Arts Center in Powell. The 7 p.m. performance features the musical stylings of two jazz combos directed by Matt Devitt and Craig Olson; plus the NWC Jazz Band II, also directed by Olson, and Vocal Jazz II, directed by Brennan Baglio. Student performers from the area include McKensi Smith of Worland, Logan Maurer of Meeteetse and Nick Murdoch of Greybull. Devitt said all the musicians in his jazz combo are new, which has m...
The University of Wyoming volleyball and cross-country teams face big weekends on the court and the course. The UW volleyball team is on the road for matches at 7:30 p.m. today at Nevada and at 7 p.m. Saturday at San Diego State. Wyoming begins the weekend one game behind co-Mountain West leaders Colorado State and Boise State for the conference title with five matches left in the regular season. The UW cross-country teams are in Logan, Utah, for the NCAA Mountain Regional meet Friday. The top...
WORLAND - Two of Worland's own, Glen Haynes and Matt Soller, traveled to ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., to compete in the International Martial Arts Festival on Oct. 14-16. They returned home as champions winning medals in multiple events and representing their town and state proudly. Both Haynes and Soller are students of martial arts teacher Don Haynes. The IMAF was broadcast on ESPN 2 and the two of them faced competitors from Puerto Rico, Guam, the...
Sandra Kay Whittle, 74 of Sun City Center, Fla passed away Oct 26, 2016. She retired as manager of Public Self Storage. She was a member of the Kings Point South Club and Prince of Peace Catholic Church. Sandra was preceded in death by her sister, Donna Koch. Survivors include three daughters, Connie Bessler, Lisa Rodi and Marilyn Sims, three sons, Gregg (Joy) Bessler, Darin (Becky) Bessler and Matthew Bessler, a sister, Marlene (Junior) Bower, brother, Rick (Joyce) Brill, 11 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Funeral Mass will be 11...
Frank Gentilini of Worland, WY passed away November 4, 2016 in the comfort of his home at the age of 78. He was born November 23, 1937 to Frank and Lucy (Calligaro) Gentilini. Frank was born and raised in Rock Springs, WY and graduated from Rock Springs High School. After school, Frank worked odd jobs until he decided to enlist in the Wyoming Army National Guard. He was stationed at Fort Carson in Colorado as an auto mechanic. Frank left the Wyoming National Guard as a Pvt. E-1 after serving...