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If you didn't go downtown Saturday night for the Christmas Parade of Lights you missed a great show. Unlike last year's bitter cold, the weather was perfect, for December in Wyoming. The evening started with the helicopter buzzing main street, followed by a wonderful lighted parade. There was a variety of styles and stories being told on the floats and parade entries. The streets were lined with enthusiastic parade watchers, especially children awaiting the arrival of Santa Claus on the fire...
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rose Friday following a better-than-expected U.S. jobs report, and the strong finish pushed the Standard & Poor’s 500 index to its third straight weekly gain despite some weakness earlier in the week. The gains were widespread, and telecom and health care stocks helped lead the way. Overseas markets were also higher after negotiators hit a breakthrough in the United Kingdom’s efforts to leave the European Union. The S&P 500 rose 14.52 points, or 0.6 percent, to finish at 2,651.50, another record. The Dow Jones indus...
CHEYENNE —With flu activity reports in the state beginning to show growing numbers of illnesses, the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) is reminding residents how they can best avoid spreading influenza or becoming ill with the disease. “Our reports have been showing increasing levels of activity across the state in recent weeks,” said Reggie McClinton, a WDH epidemiologist. “At this point, flu reports are coming in most frequently from the southwestern area of the state.” Influenza is a contagious, respiratory illness caused by a virus. Sy...
WORLAND – The 101st Wyoming Sugar campaign is going strong and should continue until the middle of January 2018 with Madden Farms LLC generating sugar beets which produced 14,417 pounds of sugar per acre and Sage Creek Land and Cattle’s beets producing 13,402,109 pounds of sugar on their 1,072 acres. According to Wyoming Sugar President and CEO Mike Greear the top 10 growers for this year are: — Madden Farms LLC with 14,417 pounds of sugar per acre. — Weilever Farms LLC , Midvale, with 13,677 pounds of sugar per acre. — Russell Land and Lives...
Worland high school students Caleb Fraser and Jaycee Page both recently had the chance of a lifetime, a chance to perform with national ensembles. The band and choir students had the opportunity to partake in the 2017 All-National Honor Ensembles in Orlando, Florida. “It was throughout the full nation,” Fraser said. “I met people from Florida, New York, just all over. I also got to make one or two new friends. I had made first chair bassoon in Wyoming All-State, and since I made first chair in Wyoming, I was able to audition for a spot in na...
A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week. None of these stories are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked these out; here are the real facts: NOT REAL: What’s This? Congress Has Paid Out $15 Million from ‘Sexual Harassment Slush Fund’ to ‘Quiet’ Victims! THE FACTS: A Congress-administered fund does exist to settle harassment and other disputes with lawmakers, but all of its actions are public. Multiple sites posted stories after several politicia...
Benjamin Franklin is often credited with creating the idiom nothing is certain except death and taxes. While true that Franklin wrote, "Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." It was actually English actor Christopher Bullock first to say, on record that is, "Tis impossible to be sure of anything but Death and Taxes" during the play "The Cobler of Preston" in 1716. There...
WORLAND - For their season opener the Worland Lady Warriors definitely had their struggles but even with those struggles there were plenty of positives to take away from Friday night at Worland High School. Hosting Billing Central, the Lady Warriors fell 54-29 and while the scoreboard shows a 25-point loss. Worland can look on two pivotal moments that caused the loss. First, was being outscored in the first quarter 13-2 and, second, after going on an 11-2 run in the third and cutting Central's...