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  • County completes successful Hazmat exercise

    Marcus Huff, Staff Writer|Dec 11, 2018

    WORLAND – Local agencies and infrastructure organizations completed a county-wide full-scale exercise last Saturday, to enact a hazardous materials event. The event was a success, with 18 local emergency management and business interests participating. The Saturday exercise, paid for by a Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness (HMEP) Grant, took place north of Worland from 9 a.m. until noon, in the vicinity of the town sewer lagoon property. In the planning stages for nine months through t...

  • Guardian offers town hall meetings

    Dec 11, 2018

    WORLAND — Guardian Flight and the AirMedCare Network Membership program are hosting three question and answer Town Hall Sessions for Washakie County residents. The sessions are available for anyone who wishes to talk one-on-one with a network representative or have questions about the program answered. All meetings are from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The first meeting is this Wednesday at the Worland Senior Center, then next week on Dec. 19 at the senior center and on Dec. 20 at the Ten Sleep Senior Center. Washakie County has renewed their agreement w...

  • Teacher evaluation, special ed cap highlight legislative meeting

    Karla Pomeroy, Editor|Dec 11, 2018

    WORLAND — School district representatives from Worland, Ten Sleep, Thermopolis and Basin met with local legislators on educational issues ahead of the upcoming legislation session in Worland Friday afternoon. Washakie County School District No. 1 Superintendent David Nicholas opened the discussion asking for changes to the Teacher Accountability Act. He said the legislation approved calls for one evaluation method for all districts in the state. He noted that a committee was working on putting together the evaluation system. Worland, he s...

  • Legislature to review several tax bills in 2019

    Ramsey Scott, Wyoming Tribune Eagle-WNE|Dec 11, 2018

    CHEYENNE — Start a conversation about Wyoming state government’s finances with lawmakers or outside observers, and inevitably the talk will move to the need for the state to diversify where it gets its money. Currently, just less than 50 percent of all state revenue comes from the mineral industry. That oversized financial dependence on mineral extraction has led Wyoming to feel every boom-and-bust cycle in the energy market. So diversifying the state’s tax structure has been a focus of state lawmakers for years now. And in 2019, Wyomi...

  • No. 4 Warriors bounce back big in East-West Classic

    Alex Kuhn, Sports Editor|Dec 11, 2018

    WORLAND - Opening the season with a 67-64 loss to Douglas at the East-West Classic in Buffalo did not sit well with the Worland Warriors, as they cruised to double-digit victories against Pinedale and Lander Saturday at Buffalo High School. "We were better, I think we learned the hard way against Douglas that it won't be quite as easy as the boys thought it would be," said WHS boys basketball coach Aaron Abel. "With Lander, they're going to be a very good team. They had to play the toughest...