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WORLAND — The Worland Board of Adjustment and Planning Commission (BAPC) hopes to spearhead a community art project by learning from a mural project in Casper. The idea came to the BAPC following a conference in Casper attended by Town Clerk/Treasurer Tracy Glanz and Assistant Clerk Norma Homan. The BAPC met via Zoom with Wendy Luck of ServeWyoming to discuss the projects in Casper and what Worland needs to do to move forward with their own community mural. Luck said they have completed four murals in the city, the most recent at Riverview B...
WORLAND – The Support Our Troops program has been sending packages to soldiers overseas since April 2003. This idea was started by Worland American Legion members Don Hall, Todd White, Jim Bailey and Herm Emmett. Each month the Legion members will receive a list of a select number of soldiers to send a care package to, which primarily includes members from the Big Horn Basin who have been deployed overseas. These first packages were sent in response to troops entering Afghanistan in March 2...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Fair Board met on Monday night and discussed concerns that were brought up at last month’s meeting. The board was approached by Janet Benson, who was representing both the Washakie County Extension Office where she works, and the 4H-Council, in order to help create dialogue between the two sides. Discussions were had regarding new protocols that the fair board would need to discuss in the coming months to smooth out certain aspects before next year’s fair, which...
WORLAND - Each year the Worland Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Stake Relief Society selects a humanitarian relief project and this year they chose to help their fellow neighbors in each of the communities the stake serves - Greybull, Basin, Worland, Ten Sleep and Thermopolis. Relief Society President Julie Edholm said in previous years the humanitarian projects have usually centered on helping people overseas but this year she and her council wanted to do something closer to home....
THERMOPOLIS — A three-location $664,000 rockfall mitigation project is scheduled to begin at a pair of locations on Monday, Nov. 18, with rock scaling, rock removal and repair of the existing rockfall fence west of Cody alongside U.S. 14/16/20, and rock scaling on U.S. 20/Wyoming 789 in Wind River Canyon. Grading, rockfall mitigation and other work are scheduled at three locations: U.S. 20/WY789 between Shoshoni and Thermopolis (milepost 120.6, about 12 miles south of Thermopolis) in Wind River Canyon, Wyoming 296 (Chief Joseph Scenic H... Full story
TEN SLEEP – The Ten Sleep Town Council met for their regular monthly meeting on Nov. 5, and effectively tabled a previously-introduced ordinance to allow fireworks to be discharged in town limits, during major federal holidays. Originally introduced in September, Ordinance 219 amends section 4-5-3 of the Town of Ten Sleep Town code pertaining to fireworks. Ordinance 219 states: “No fireworks shall be in any way fired or discharged at any time within the town, with the exception of the following dates and holidays. — New Year’s Eve beginni...
On Saturday, November 9, 2019 Father Edward Dean Farmer, 68, went home, surrounded by family and friends that loved him. Father Ed was born December 12, 1950 in Cody, Wyoming to Wilbur Dean and Mary Ann (McLean) Farmer. The family home was in Meeteetse, where he lived most of his life. Ed graduated from Meeteetse High School in 1969, went to college in Powell that fall and had way too much fun! At semester he joined the Navy. When he was discharged, he returned to Wyoming, moving to Gillette to... Full story
Marion Catherine Barngrover Black, 90 -year-old longtime Worland resident, passed away on October 29, 2019 at the Worland Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center. Marion was born on January 9, 1929 on the Worland Ranch just outside of Worland. She was the third of five children born to John and Elizabeth (Lehman) Eckerdt. She spent her early childhood here, attending Worland schools until the 6th grade, before moving to another ranch in Big Horn County. She graduated from Manderson High School in... Full story
Desiree Francis Munoz-Gallarzo passed away on September 25, 2019. She was born on January 13th, 1979 at Wyoming Medical Center. Desiree attended school in Casper, WY, La Vegas, NV, and Worland, WY where she graduated. Desiree met the love of her life, Esteban Gallarzo in Worland, WY, where they resided and had their first child Olivia. Three years later they moved to Hobbs, New Mexico, where she had their second daughter Henneli. We brought Desiree back to Casper, WY in 2018 because of health... Full story
Roy Wayne Phillips longtime Worland Resident passed away on November 6, 2019 at home. He was born August 9, 1939 in Billings, MT to Orville and Muriel Phillips. Roy graduated from Billings Senior High School in 1957. He served in the US Navy from 1957 to 1959. He worked many places over the years, the first was alongside his dad building homes in the greater Billings area. It was a job that brought him to the Big Horn Basin where he resided until his passing. He mentioned that two of his... Full story
Allena Mae Austin, 79, passed away Nov. 11, 2019, at Bonnie Blue Jacket Memorial Nursing Home in Basin. Allena was born on July 3, 1940 in Worland. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019 at Riverview Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Worland.... Full story
A celebration of the life of Steve G. Weaver, 61, will be Saturday, Nov. 16, at 11 a.m. at the Community Church Hall in Thermopolis. Mr. Weaver died Nov. 3, 2019 at Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital.... Full story
Na Wana Virginia Wallace, 87, of Thermopolis, passed away on Nov. 11, 2019 at the Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital. She was born April 24, 1932, in Penrose. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 18, 2019, at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Thermopolis.... Full story
In watching what has transpired over the past few years in Washington politics and across our country and world we tend to believe there is no civil discourse anymore, that people don't respect someone else's opinion, where political leaders are sometimes literally attacked for supporting certain projects and legislation. Thankfully we have our local government to instill hope in civil discourse again. I have seen some heated government meetings over the many years of my journalism career, inclu... Full story
West Side students Alyssa Wantulok, Zachary Davis, Elizabeth Goble and Cameron Lloyd honor the flag with the singing of the national anthem at the start of the Veterans Day program under the direction of Willie Wright, on Nov. 7.... Full story
CHEYENNE — Erin Taylor joked that there were movie stars present in the Little America Hotel and Resort ballroom early Wednesday afternoon during the Governor’s Business Forum. She was preparing the guests, around 600 in attendance, to watch a 20-minute pilot episode of “High Noon in America,” a planned series that will show two conversations between two sets of people with opposing political and ideological viewpoints. One of the major points of the episode was how people with different points of view can still be civil toward each other d... Full story
CASPER — Gov. Mark Gordon said he “firmly supports” the state Health Department’s director amid allegations that a 2015 Medicaid fraud investigation was obstructed by various government officials, a charge that has been denied by those involved. “The Governor firmly supports Mike Ceballos, the Director of the Wyoming Department of Health and his ability to administer the agency’s programs, including Medicaid,” Gordon’s spokesman, Michael Pearlman, said in a statement to the Star-Tribune. Gordon’s statement comes less than a week after Mark G... Full story
Woman charged with attempted murder in husband’s shooting GILLETTE (WNE) — The woman accused of shooting her husband Monday morning had allegedly pointed the same gun at him four days earlier after he told her that he was ending their relationship. Paulette Iliff, 54, is charged with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated assault and battery. She made her initial appearance in Circuit Court on Wednesday morning, where Circuit Judge Paul S. Phillips set her bond at $500,000 cash only. Iliff reportedly pointed a .45-caliber Ruger han... Full story
CHEYENNE, Wyo. – The Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) will receive a $14.5 million federal grant from the U.S Department of Transportation for a wildlife crossing project north of La Barge in southwest Wyoming. The Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) grant for the Dry Piney wildlife crossing project will be used for underpasses, fencing and related improvements along a 19-mile stretch of US 189 between La Barge and Big Piney. “Wyoming has demonstrated leadership in protecting wildlife as they migrate,” Gover... Full story
CHEYENNE – State legislators on the Joint Education Interim Committee turned down a bill Thursday that would have let college students receive more Hathaway Scholarship money if they reached certain GPA benchmarks. The bill, which failed by a 8-5 vote during the committee’s meeting in Cheyenne, would have given students the ability to boost their scholarship funding if the student maintains a 3.75 GPA for two consecutive semesters. The Hathaway Scholarship program can be used at the University of Wyoming or any community college in the state. T... Full story
CASPER — Next week, Gov. Mark Gordon will head to Washington, D.C., to testify before Sen. John Barrasso’s Committee on the Environment and Public Works about potential reforms to Section 401 of the Clean Water Act. The governor is the latest in a string of Wyoming officials invited by Barrasso to speak in Washington since he took command of the committee in 2017. A hallmark provision of the act, Section 401 allows states and tribes to manage the permitting of federal projects that discharge into their jurisdiction’s waters. It is also one o... Full story
6-year-old Cheyenne boy charged as adult for allegedly making school threats CHEYENNE (WNE) – The 15-year-old boy who caused a disturbance earlier this week at Cheyenne’s Triumph High and made threats against other schools was arrested Thursday and is being charged as an adult. Charles Rees Karn is being charged for making terroristic threats, which carries up to three years in prison and/or a $10,000 fine. It’s unclear at this time why Karn is being charged as an adult. According to court documents: On Tuesday, Karn had caused a disturbance a... Full story
CHEYENNE — Lawmakers on the Joint Education Interim Committee spent more than an hour Friday discussing school safety, though they ultimately rejected a bill requiring school districts to adopt certain security policies. The bill, which failed by a 7-6 vote, would have required school boards to follow safety policies consistent with models developed by the Wyoming Department of Education. Under the bill, threat assessment procedures, which aim to identify threatening students prior to them committing a violent act, would have to be included i... Full story
CASPER — As state lawmakers wind down committee work for the 2019 interim session, Wyoming’s cities and towns are beginning to prepare for battles over a number of issues in Cheyenne this winter. The overarching theme: The need for the state to step up and allow municipalities to help themselves. In meetings across the state this month, cities and towns have been pulling together a wish list of legislative changes big and small that they would like, concerning everything from stabilizing their often unpredictable revenue streams to ret... Full story