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Washington, D.C. – Ten Sleep student Lindsey Holiday made Wyoming U.S. Senator Mike Enzi's list of nominees to the United States service academies for 2021. Holiday received nominations to the Air Force and Naval Academy. She is awaiting word on Senator John Barrasso's nominations and Congresswoman Liz Cheney's nominations as well. Enzi nominated 19 Wyoming residents for the United States service academies for 2021. Last week, he announced his choices for the U.S. Air Force Academy, the M...
TEN SLEEP — After an evening of music last Saturday, Ten Sleep will be full of lights this Saturday with the annual Ten Sleep-Hyattville Lions Club Parade of Lights. The parade begins at 6 p.m. Saturday with lineup beginning at 5:30 p.m. at Highway 434 and First Street. Organizer Becky Cooper said the theme this year is “Unwrap the Magic of Christmas.” She said there is usually about a dozen floats in the parade. Parade spectators can also enjoy the lights from businesses and residences that Cooper said are especially festive this year. There...
CODY (WNE) – For the last two decades snowmobile enthusiasts have been gaining ground as far as access to Yellowstone National Park. They will now get 20 extra days to access Yellowstone in the winter from the East Entrance. It’s an effort Dede Fales, co-owner of Gary Fales Outfitting, has lobbied for extensively. On Wednesday, the Park announced it will bump up its opening date for the gate from Dec. 22 to Tuesday. In the spring, the Entrance will now close on March 15 instead of the prior date of March 2. The change of dates will now align th...
WORLAND — Worland Mayor Jim Gill and department heads recognized the four outgoing council members at Tuesday’s regular council meeting. Gill presented Keith Gentzler, Mandy Horath, Kenneth Shearer and Caleb Vigil with certificates thanking them for their service. “We will miss all of these individuals,” he said. At the end of the meeting Gentzler, who is retiring after eight years on the council said, “I want to thank everybody for putting up with me. I realize I became a city council member to give back to a city that gave a lot to me. I hop...
TEN SLEEP — New Ten Sleep school board members Sarah Anderson and Erin Blutt were sworn in and Chairman Jared Lyman was re-elected as chairman during Monday’s regular school board. The meeting, held in person and via Zoom, began with the swearing in of the new board members and election of officers with Lyman remaining as chairman, Megan Truman as vice chair, Anderson as treasurer and Mona Sindelar re-elected as clerk. Blutt was appointed as the BOCES (Board of Cooperative Educational Services) and Sindelar was reappointed as the recreation boa...
WORLAND – The Washakie County School District No. 1 Board of Trustees came to the end of an era when former chairman Don Bryant who has served as the board’s chairman for 20-plus years was not nominated to continue at the position, instead the board decided to solely nominate trustee Sarah Lungren to take over the position of madam chairman of the school board. Lungren takes over the position halfway through her first term as a board member as she was elected for the first time in 2018. Oth...
Trey Wright does his best "Schroeder" impression on the keyboard as the Worland High School Jazz Band performs "A Charlie Brown Christmas" during the concert Dec. 10, 2020, at the WHS Gym. Also performing and pictured here are Ethan Dickinson, Dawson Utterback, Harley Redding, Canton Green and Raeth Tolman....
Jay's Detail was ready to give 2020 and COVID-19, the murder hornets and more the boot on their float for the Worland-Ten Sleep Chamber of Commerce's Parade of Lights Saturday in Worland. Two piles of poo followed along behind the float. The float took People's Choice in the online voting....
Smudge Prints, Vega Bros. Repair, Stray Cat Garage and Wall to Wall Construction combined on a mullti-faceted float and vehicle entry to take first place in the small business category for the Worland-Ten Sleep Chamber of Commerce Christmas Parade of Lights. The parade was Dec. 5 with online voting concluding Dec. 8. Winners were announced after press time last week. First place Large Business went to Wyoming Sugar and Washakie County 4-H won the club/church/individual catego...
Huella Francis (Griffith) Darling of Thermopolis, WY, passed from this life on Dec. 2 at the Hot Springs Health, surrounded by family members. She was 97. Huella Darling was a teacher, a life-long learner, nature lover, world traveler, informed visionary, relationship builder, and lover of ice cream, who hailed from the Show-Me state of Missouri. She was also a wife, mother, grandmother, and active great-grandmother. Huella was born on a farm in northern Missouri on July 16, 1923, to Richard...
George David Ribble, husband and father, passed away Dec. 7, 2020, surrounded by his family. George was born Dec. 23, 1939, to George Joshua and Rose (Bosch) Ribble in Worland on the family farm where he grew up and graduated from Worland High School. Family was important to George; he married Judy Stefanowich on Dec. 28, 1963. In marriage, he was a devoted son-in-law. Together Judy and George, and Ruth and Joe Stefanowich, traveled the United States. After George graduated from the University of Wyoming, the young couple moved to Sheridan,...
Mary Alice Hinkel, long-time resident of Worland, Wyoming, passed away at the age of 95 on Saturday, December 12, in Billings, Montana. Mary Alice was born in Juda, Wisconsin, on October 11, 1925. She attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, graduating in 1947 with a degree in home economics and a minor in chemistry. She worked for two years as a Wisconsin home extension agent, meeting her future husband Everett while she was judging at the Richland County Fair. They were married on April...
Edward Lee Fernandez, age 71, passed away in Billings, Montana on Thursday, December 10, 2020 with his loving girlfriend and her daughter by his side. Ed was born on December 23, 1948 in Basin, Wyoming to Richard and Viola (Ortez) Fernandez. He was the youngest of 12 children and was raised in the Big Horn Basin. Ed was a private person but was known for his humor and being a hard worker his entire life. Living in Billings, Montana since 1975, Ed worked numerous jobs and lived life his own way. Ed was preceded in death by his parents Richard...
Bernice Joann Smith passed away peacefully on Nov. 28, 2020, at her home, Waldron Place in Hutchinson, Kansas, just two weeks short of her 94th birthday. She was a hard-working, resilient and generous person who lived by the principles of her Christian faith. She cherished her family, took pride in her home, and used her dry wit to bring laughter into any conversation. In a career lasting 60 years, she worked as a nurse in hospitals, clinics and nursing homes in Kansas and Wyoming. Bernice was...
Retired Wyoming State Trooper David Brian Gluyas, age 63, died Sunday, November 29, 2020 in Naples, Florida following heart by-pass surgery. He was born in Miles City. Dave retired after 25 years serving Wyoming Highway Patrol in Jackson, Lovell, and Worland. Dave is survived by his wife, Carie. He treasured his fellow Troopers of Wyoming Highway Patrol, Sheriff Departments, and local law enforcement. Due to coronavirus restrictions, funeral arrangements are pending. Guestbook and obituary are...
Rachel Gloria Lemos, 81, a resident of Worland, Wyoming passed on December 9th, 2020 in Gillette, WY. Rachel was born on April 8, 1939 in Trinidad, CO to Jesse and Stephanie (Duran) Summall. She grew up in Denver, CO. Rachel married Glenn Julian Freyta in Denver, CO. With this union there were three children. The couple later divorced after which she moved to Ogden, UT. While there she re-married Jose Manuel Lemos and in doing so gained an additional great family. In 2006 after the passing of...
Isaac "Ike" Leyva, 84, a lifelong resident of Worland, Wyoming passed away December 8, 2020 at the Worland Healthcare Center. Ike was born in Worland, Wyoming to Andrew and Julia Leyva on December 4, 1936. Ike grew up the oldest of nine children and all of his schooling took place here in Worland. After school he went to work for Holly Sugar and he continued his employment there until about 64 years of age. During that same time he worked part-time for Walt Smith Masonry. Ike was married in...
Kay Renee (Woodhams) Scheuerman went to her eternal heavenly home to be with Jesus on December 10, 2020 in Billings, MT. Kay was born in Worland, WY to Bill and Fern Woodhams on March 22, 1945. Kay was the second daughter of three girls in the family. Kay graduated from Worland High School in 1963 and went on to attend one year of college at the Seattle Pacific College in Seattle, Washington, majoring in medical technology. Kay married Dan Scheuerman on December 27, 1964. They were two weeks...
Twenty-three coronavirus-related deaths among Wyoming residents who tested positive for COVID-19 have been confirmed, according to the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) in their report Thursday, Dec. 17. An older adult Converse County man died within the last week. He was hospitalized and had health conditions recognized as putting patients at higher risk of serious illness related to COVID-19. • An older adult Converse County man died last month. He was hospitalized and had health conditions recognized as putting patients at higher risk of s...
Twenty-two more coronavirus-related deaths among Wyoming residents who tested positive for COVID-19 have been confirmed, according to the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH), according to a release on Tuesday, Dec. 22. • An older adult Campbell County woman died earlier this month. She was a resident of a local long-term care facility and had health conditions recognized as putting patients at higher risk of serious illness related to COVID-19. • An older adult Campbell County man died earlier this month. He was hospitalized in another sta...
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