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U.S. stocks closed sharply higher Thursday, snapping a two-day losing streak. Investors cheered strong quarterly earnings from Wal-Mart Stores, Cisco Systems and other companies. Technology stocks accounted for much of the market’s gains, which helped lift the Nasdaq composite to its first record high in just over a week. Health care companies and consumer product makers also posted solid gains. Energy and utilities stocks lagged. Oil prices declined. The rally knocked the major stock indexes into positive territory for the month, as i...
SHERIDAN – Over the past couple years, you may have noticed orange and blue painted trees near the Cutler Hill Nordic trails. This area is part of the Forest Service’s Johnson Creek Timber Sale. Temporary road construction work for the timber sale began in October. Recently, logging crews started felling operations. Crews began hauling logs off of the Johnson Creek Road, (FSR) 194, within the Cutler Nordic ski boundary this week. Logging operations will end in this area by December 15th to allow public use of the Nordic ski trails. Logging ope...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans rammed a near $1.5 trillion package overhauling corporate and personal taxes through the House on Thursday, edging President Donald Trump and the GOP toward their first big legislative triumph in a year in which they and their voters expected much more. The near party-line 227-205 vote came as Democrats on the other side of the Capitol pointed to new estimates showing the Senate version of the plan would boost future taxes on lower and middle-income Americans. Those projections, coupled with complaints by some G...
LARAMIE — University of Wyoming students will receive enhanced advising, career preparation and other student services following the UW Board of Trustees’ approval of a plan to institute cost-based fees for academic programs. The board voted today (Thursday) in favor of the program fees proposal, crafted by a task force appointed by President Laurie Nichols and supported by the Associated Students of UW. The fees will go into effect in the 2018-19 academic year. Revenues from the program fees will cover essential program supplies and mat...
TEN SLEEP – Monday evening, on first reading, the Ten Sleep School Board approved the Washakie County School District No. 2 Security and Privacy of Digital Infrastructure, Systems and Data policy in accordance with Wyoming Statute 21-2-202. “Last legislative session a statute was passed requiring the district pass a policy concerning student data privacy and then we were told at the WBE (Wyoming Board of Education) [meeting] that the Department of Education would come out with some guidelines for us. Just a few weeks ago we got those guidelines...
TEN SLEEP –Ground has been broken on an expansion to the Ten Sleep Library. The 20x80 addition, which is to include meeting space, an after-school area, and expanded services for library patrons, is scheduled to be completed by January. On Oct. 17, the county commission voted to award the project contract to Fox General Construction, even though the bid was $38,000 over the initial, forecasted budget. With a total project cost of $185,558, the expansion is being financed by a Wyoming Business C...
Tenth annual Gobble Wobble Run set for Thanksgiving morning By ALEX KUHN Sports Editor WORLAND — Football, turkey dinners and family are staples of Thanksgiving Day, and for the Worland community the Gobble Wobble Run is reaching staple status as the 10th annual Gobble Wobble Run will take place Thanksgiving morning on the Worland bike path at 10:30 a.m. Family and friends can take part in the two- and four-mile runs or two-mile walk before their Thanksgiving feast. The Gobble Wobble is a f...
Barbara Ann Metzler Black, 74, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, passed away Sunday morning, November 12, 2017, at the McKee Medical Center in Loveland, Colorado. Barbara was born January 13, 1943, in Worland, Wyoming, a daughter of the late Carl A. and Doris I. (Erhardt) Metzler. Barbara worked as a receiving manager for Kmart until her retirement in 2004. She will be remembered as a loving mother, grandmother, sister and friend and she will be missed by all who knew and loved her. Barbara is survived by... Full story
Joan Louise McGarvin, 69, a sixty three year resident of Worland passed away Tuesday, November 14, 2017. Joan was born on October 7, 1948 to Elmer and Martha Butz in Wheatland, WY. In 1955 the family moved to Worland for better farming opportunities. Joan, her sisters and one brother enjoyed a lively childhood. She was active in the church youth group and also enjoyed driving the tractor on the farm. Joan graduated from Worland High School in 1967. She then attended the University of Wyoming.... Full story
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