Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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A GAME FOR THE AGES On Saturday, the Lady Warriors found themselves right where they expected to be – playing for a state championship. And as they might have also expected, it would take the most hard-fought 32 minutes of their season as they faced Star Valley to decide who would take hold of the 3A girls basketball crown. Worland (25-1 overall) trailed by two points at halftime and four heading into the fourth quarter, but came alive in the final eight minutes as it outscored Star Valley (...
WORLAND – Information obtained by the Wyoming Board of Education in October from all public schools and released this week shows a slight decline in student enrollment from the 2015-2016 school year. The first decline in enrollment since the 2005-2006 school year. Wyoming Board of Education Communications Director Kari Eakins stated Friday that areas dependent on extractment industries saw a decline in student enrollments and the southern part of Wyoming saw an increase. Fall enrollment for Wyoming is down to 93,261 from 94,002 last school year...
TEN SLEEP – The Ten Sleep Town Council will hold its first meeting of 2017 on Tuesday at 7 p.m. for the purpose of receiving town reports and approving monthly bills. Also on the agenda, the council will give an update on a loan received from the United States Department of Agriculture to finance a sewer upgrade project scheduled for spring 2017. In November, the Council voted to amend the 2016-2017 budget, to accommodate for the $724,000 sewage improvement loan from the USDA. The funding from the USDA will be used to replace outdated sewer l...
JACKSON (AP) — Searchers have recovered the body of a Grand Targhee Resort worker who failed to return from snowboarding in the backcountry. The Jackson Hole News & Guide reports 34-year-old Lee Kidd was found dead Thursday under about 2 feet of snow at the bottom of a 500-foot cliff. Rescuers believe he had been buried since Dec. 23, when he did not show up for work at the resort. Natalie Kidd told the newspaper her older brother was working his first season at Grand Targhee and had recently moved to Driggs, Idaho from Bozeman, Montana. O...
JACKSON (AP) — Hunters have been illegally killing bison bulls almost daily in the two weeks since part of a herd moved onto the National Elk Refuge. The Jackson Hole News and Guide reports fines can range from $220 to $440. Game and fish officials in Jackson have tallied over a dozen illegally killed bulls in a season that could last for weeks more. Meat confiscations had pushed the number down last winter. Managers have issued fewer bull tags over the years to reduce the population of reproducing cows. Fifty bull tags and 245 cow and calf t...
Boy a lot of folks across the country are mad at 2016. The year has taken away a lot of movie and singing icons of my generation. For Hillary Clinton supporters they are still having difficulty with President Donald Trump Administration coming Jan. 20, 2017. The year also brought a five-year high in law enforcement deaths, a lot of those from ambushes across the country. It has been a tumultuous and eventful year to say the least. Here in Washakie County, we’ve had some ups and downs as well. We’ve lost some great people in our communities tha...
