Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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Sports editor's note these are the favorite sports stories from Worland, Thermopolis and Ten Sleep in 2017 are compiled in no specific order. Happy New Year! WORLAND 12U BASEBALL WINS HOME TOURNEY They came, they saw, they conquered. The Worland 12U baseball team closed out their home tournament Sunday afternoon with a 7-5 victory over the Casper Crush to win the Worland Club Tournament championship at Newell Sargent Field. "We were playing to show that we're right there with them. That was out...
The iconic ball drop in Times Square turns 110 years old Sunday. According to history.org, the earliest celebrations for the New Year mark back to 1904 when New Yorkers brought in the new year with a literal bang as they allowed one fiery blast above One Time Square, newly owned by New York Times, causing falling ashes. These celebrations prompted the police department to then ban explosives. The iconic ball drop didn’t take place until 1907, when Adolph S. Ochs, owner of the Times, was on a desperate search for new entertainment for his New Y...
WORLAND — Those who itemize are trying to get the most out of the current tax plan. Many residents across the country were hurrying this week to pre-pay state and local taxes before the new tax plan goes into effect Jan. 1, but county treasurers around the Big Horn Basin have not seen a rush to pay property taxes in full. The federal tax overhaul signed by Republican President Donald Trump last week puts a new $10,000 limit on deductions for state and local taxes, according to the Associated Press. Larry Heiser, Worland certified professional a...
Wall Street capped 2017 with a loss, weighed down by a broad slide in light trading ahead of the New Year’s holiday. Technology companies, banks and health care stocks accounted for much of the market’s decline. Energy stocks also fell, even as the price of U.S. crude oil surged to its highest level in more than two years. Despite the downbeat end to the week, the U.S. stock market finished 2017 with its strongest year since 2013. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index, the broadest measure of the stock market, gained 19.4 percent for the year, more...
I have to give Mother Nature the nod as the top story in 2017. Mother Nature was critical to several top stories in Washakie County and the Big Horn Basin. First there were the ice jams in February that flooded parts of west Worland. Mother Nature was responsible for the ice forming, the fast melting and the development of the sandbar that created the logjam of ice right in front of Rotary Riverside Park. We had to wait on Mother Nature for the ice jam to unjam. As ice is beginning to form on the Big Horn River it doesn’t look to be as bad a...