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  • Cowboys QB Sean Chambers trying to keep perspective amid fast start

    Nov 16, 2018

    LARAMIE (AP) - Sean Chambers is the talk of the town. That's what happens when you go from being the backup quarterback to the starter. Wyoming's true freshman signal caller did that three games ago and has had a rousing introduction to the Mountain West in helping Wyoming get on its first winning streak of the season heading into Saturday's game against Air Force. Chambers tried to minimize the newfound attention he's gotten both on campus and back home in California, saying there's been "a...

  • Thermopolis reinstates deer management program

    Marcus Huff, Staff Writer|Nov 16, 2018

    THERMOPOLIS - The Thermopolis Police Department will restart a deer management program again this year, after taking a year off in 2017. Originally, the program began to mitigate vehicle/deer accidents and property damage in-town. “We had reached a manageable population level, and took a year off, after six years of the program, but predators are pushing them back toward town,” explained Sergeant Pat Cornwall. Off-duty police officers will be harvesting deer at the outskirts of Thermopolis in an attempt to keep the deer numbers down. The tow...

  • Six WHS students part of all state marching band

    Karla Pomeroy, Editor|Nov 16, 2018

    WORLAND — One hundred fifty-four musicians and color guard members from the 2018 Wyoming All State Marching Band (WASMB) that will be heading to Philadelphia next week to participate in the country’s oldest Thanksgiving Day Parade. Among those 154 are six students from Worland High School — Kaci Bentley on clarinet, Cameron Cabarett on TC baritone, Wyatt Douglas on trumpet, Caleb Fraser on clarinet, Joshua Kelton on trombone and Tatum Zimmerman in the color guard. According to WASMB band director Dan Holroyd, the group will head to New York...

  • Four-day schedule proposed for four Campbell Co. schools

    Nov 16, 2018

    GILLETTE (WNE) — Campbell County School District trustees have approved a proposal to adopt a four-day week next school year in Wright and at two rural county schools. The measure was first brought to the school board in October at a meeting in Wright. The next step will be to seek approval from the Wyoming State Board of Education. Cottonwood Elementary in Wright and Wright Junior-Senior High School will each adopt a four-day school week, along with Recluse School north of Gillette and 4-J School south of Gillette. All four school p...

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    Nov 16, 2018

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  • Donald Lee Schaff

    Nov 16, 2018

    Donald Lee Schaff, born on September 20, 1937 in Worland, Wyoming to parents Carl and Lola Schaff died on November 12, 2018 in Oklahoma City at the home he shared with his sister Dorothy Ann (Schaff) Thomas. He was 81 years old. Donnie grew up in Worland and graduated from Washakie High School in 1955. He left Wyoming in the 1960’s and lived in California and later in Tucson, Arizona where he worked with a family business cleaning houses and office buildings after construction or remodeling. He was the main caregiver for his mother Lola in T... Full story

  • Heidi Lynn Kay

    Nov 16, 2018

    Heidi Lynn Kay crossed over peacefully from this earth, with family by her side on October 25th, 2018. She was born to Dennis and Sharon Kay on April 17th, 1963 in Lakewood, Colorado. She was fortunate to have lived in many states. She spent most of her later school years in Buffalo, Wyoming and graduated from Worland Sr. High School in Worland, Wyoming in 1981. She attended Utah State University before doing an internship in Denver and then settling in Conifer, Colorado for ten years. In 2002 s...