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WORLAND – Several local businesses are ready to kick start the holiday shopping season this weekend With this past year being exceptionally difficult for most local businesses, they've found a way to turn it around and stay open thanks to support from the community. Larsen's Bicycle Shop owner Lisa Weamer said she's building back the bicycle inventory after last year. According to Weamer, last year's demand was much higher than normal and they spent the summer with few mountain bikes. H...
WORLAND — This Friday Pioneer Square in Worland will be lit up for the fourth straight year with a ceremony and celebration set to be bigger than ever. The Pioneer Square Lighting Ceremony is sponsored by Range and the City of Worland. Last year, due to the COVID pandemic and with many restrictions still in place, the actual ceremony was cancelled but the park was still lit up. “Last year was kind of anticlimactic. People still came out to watch the lights come on, but it was not the same,” Linda Weeks, Range regional marketing and sales direc...
WORLAND - The Worland Police Department and Washakie County Sheriff's Office have received reports of counterfeit U.S. currency that has recently been circulating through local businesses. The denominations have varied from $5-$100 bills. Law enforcement is asking businesses to please pay attention to all currency when receiving it. In most cases the counterfeit bills have the writing saying, "For Motion Picture Use Only." We have also been advised that a local bank had recently discovered a...
WORLAND – Last year the town rallied together to help decorate main street from head to toe with Christmas decorations. This year is proving no different. Last year, Worland resident Brittany Tidemann started a new tradition in town called “It’s a Hallmark Christmas.” The tradition involves businesses and citizens of Worland rallying together to help make Worland look like a town out of a Christmas Hallmark movie. Businesses are asked to decorate for Christmas. However, if they are unable to, they can put their business up for adoption and ind...
For as far back as I can remember while growing up, every year my family would watch the Charlie Brown holiday specials that aired on ABC. Watching The Peanuts was one of the rare instances we could all stand to be in the same room together for more than 10 minutes. The special that always stuck with me, however was the episode of "This is America, Charlie Brown: The Mayflower Voyagers." In this episode, the Peanuts gang boards the Mayflower in 1620 and is on their way to America. The ship, of... Full story
Happy Thanksgiving As always if we take the time we can find that there is much for which we should be and can be thankful. As I write this I cannot help but think of one Worland resident, Maricela Moreno who is thankful for her U.S. citizenship. Moreno was one of 14 Wyoming residents who became U.S. citizens down in Cheyenne on Nov. 15. When I spoke to her later that day there was no doubting the excitement in her voice as she spoke about the two years she worked to be able to take the Oath of...
Shelly Danean Nitchman passed away on November 17, 2021, at the age of 53, at the Washakie Medical Center in Worland with her husband by her side. Shelly was born May 26, 1968 in Vancouver, Washington to George John and Ethel Darlene (Dedmore) Nitchman. She grew up in Billings, Montana then moved to Camas, Washington where she graduated high school in 1986. After graduation, the family moved to Worland, Wyoming. Worland is where she met the love of her life, Myron, and they had two children,... Full story
Lenora Marie Walker, 94, passed away peacefully at her home in Worland on November 15, 2021. Lenora was born on August 15, 1927 in Maysville, Oklahoma. She was the second child and oldest daughter born to Lee Roy and Johnnie Belle (Caton) Smith. She joined big brother, Eugene at this time; Naomi, John, Shirley, Bill, and Franklin would come along later. Lenora grew up and received her education in Maysville. She married Perry Gregory Walker on August 6, 1947. The coupled moved to Wyoming where P... Full story
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