Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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WORLAND – During the winter months, many people take to the outdoors to engage in activities such as fishing, snowmobiling and cross country skiing. Those activities sometimes involve going out on frozen lakes and ponds and knowing what to do if you fall through the ice can save your life. The Washakie County Sheriff’s Office and Search and Rescue received cold water survival training on Nov. 14 through the Northwest College Worland Community Education Program at the Worland Aquatic Center. “The class was taught by Larry Marlow who is a forme...
WORLAND — Recorded interviews with law enforcement heard during a jury trial Wednesday painted the picture of a routine cookout with family and friends that went tragically wrong. During the third day of a jury trial in the Wyoming Fifth Judicial District Court in Worland Wednesday, jurors heard recorded interviews with Anthony Haire, the suspect in the shooting death of Washakie County resident Jamye Don SoRelle, who was shot and killed the night of April 13. The jury then later heard from Haire himself as he took the stand. Haire, who is clai...
CASPER (AP) — A Wyoming company has a chance to submit a proposal to organize an eclipse celebration after the Casper City Council voted to delay their pending bid to a Colorado company. The Casper Star-Tribune reports that TownSquare Media, Wyoming, owner Bob Price asked the council on Tuesday to delay the bid to organize Eclipse Fest 2017, a planned four-day celestial celebration. By tabling the vote, the Council moved the deadline for proposals to Dec. 17 with the idea they could then review the issue again during a Dec. 22 work session. C...
WORLAND – Four Seventh-day Adventist Churches in the area are welcoming a new pastor to the fold. Steve Nelson is the new pastor for the Ten Sleep, Worland, Cody and Powell churches. “There is a district here, Ten Sleep and Worland are one side (east) of the district and Cody and Powell are on the other side (west),” Nelson said. Nelson will be dividing his time between the four churches preaching at the different churches different Saturdays of the month. He will spend the first and third Saturdays in the east side of the district and the s...
WORLAND – For the kids that have been practicing their free throws, the chance to see their hard work payoff is finally here. The Elks Hoop Shoot will be held at Worland Middle School on Saturday, Dec. 12 and is open to Washakie County youth. Boys and girls between the ages of 8-13 are encouraged to sign up for the event with registration beginning at 8:30 a.m. Worland High School’s basketball coach Aaron Abel is running the event once again this year and is hoping to see a bigger turnout this year and push more kids through to the district com...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Major League Baseball recommended teams have protective netting between the dugouts for any field-level seats within 70 feet of home plate. The guidelines were announced Wednesday at the winter meetings following a season in which several fans were injured by foul balls, prompting MLB to study fan safety. Most teams are expected to expand their use of netting. “It is important that fans have the option to sit behind protective netting or in other areas of the ballpark where foul balls and bats are less likely to ent...
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Hilda Aldrich passed away quietly in her sleep at St. Peter's Hospital in Helena, Montana on Thursday, December 17, 2015. She was 96-years-old. Hilda was born to Casper and Katherine (Mehling) Klein on September 26, 1919, in Loveland, Colorado-the fourth oldest of eleven children. She married Merle Aldrich on July 3, 1937. Merle passed away in 1975 in Worland, Wyoming. Other family members preceding her in death are her parents, her sisters: Helen, Betty, Lydia, and Pauline; and brothers...