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WORLAND - The Wyoming Association of Municipalities has named its clerk and treasurer of the year. Of the 99 municipalities in Wyoming, Worland's Clerk/Treasurer Tracy Glanz received the award. "Given that there are 99 municipalities in the state, I am very honored," Glanz said Wednesday. Glanz was hired as City of Worland payroll/deputy clerk in September 2000. She was appointed clerk/treasurer in January 2004. Worland Mayor Dave Duffy and City Attorney Kent Richins sent letters of nomination t...
WORLAND – The proposed Washakie County Wyo-Ben bentonite project one mile west of Ten Sleep has been years in the making and is up for public input before the final decision is made. "We probably started the data collection process 4 to 4.5 years ago. We would have submitted parts of it 2 to 2.5 years ago. It's a lengthy process, the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) is very thorough. They have an obligation to be very thorough and we appreciate that. It has to go through the entire e...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — With several GOP governors calling to stop Syrian refugees from entering their states in the wake of the Paris attacks, one Republican leader in Tennessee wants to take that matter further: He says the National Guard should round up the refugees and return them to federal immigration centers. “We need to activate the Tennessee National Guard and stop them from coming in to the state by whatever means we can,” House Republican Caucus Chairman Glen Casada of the Nashville suburb of Franklin told The Tennessean for Wedne...
BASIN - Hilary LaBudda of Basin has left his mark on highways, maybe more than any other Wyoming Department of Transportation employee in northwest Wyoming. LaBudda, 58, is WYDOT's urban paint striping foreman; he retires with honor on Dec. 1 after 27 years of public service. Like other long-time WYDOT employees, LaBudda remembers his first day at WYDOT -- March 16, 1988. "I moved to Wyoming on the Ides of March in 1982," LaBudda said. "I moved out here for full-time work. My brother said that...
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) - Lost in the jet wash of Peyton Manning's benching is the story line of John Fox facing his former team Sunday when the Denver Broncos visit the Chicago Bears. "We're all human, so emotion's going to be involved," said Bears QB Jay Cutler, whose own NFL roots were planted in Denver. "But he's a professional. He's been in this for a long time. He's going to approach this game like we have the other ones." The Bears (4-5) wobbled through the first half of their season, but b...
Robert W. "Bob" Birch, 83, passed away peacefully on Friday, November 13, 2015, at the Quarry in Vancouver, WA. Bob was born in Worland,a Wyoming on July 18, 1932, to Thomas L. and Pearl Schlosser Birch, the youngest of seven children. His father was a farmer and his mother was a teacher. The Birch family moved to Lucerne where Bob completed grade school. He graduated from Hot Springs County High School in Thermopolis in 1949 and was Valedictorian of his graduating class. Bob received his M.S. D... Full story
Michael John Paul Porath, 25, died suddenly Saturday, November 14, in Fremont County, as the result of an auto accident. Born April 17, 1990 in Worland, Wyoming, Michael is the son of Daniel and Leila (Luehne) Porath and brother of Christina Porath. He graduated from Hot Springs County High School in 2008. Attending Casper College he received his pilot's license and Associate Degree in Aviation. Michael asked Lorraine Carver to marry him on January 19th, 2013, while on a family trip to Las... Full story