Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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The Washakie Museum will be ‘alive with the sound music’ in just a matter of weeks as we prepare to undertake the large-scale community musical production of “The Sound of Music.” We’d love to have you involved! There are opportunities from off-stage support to on-stage roles, both singing and non-singing. Let us know you’d like to be involved by coming to auditions this coming Saturday from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. or Monday, Aug. 28 from 5-8 p.m. If these times don’t fit into your schedule, please call the Museum at 347-4102 and ask for Cheryl or S...
WORLAND — Washakie County Public Health is teaming up with the Worland middle school and high school cross-country teams for a healthy but fun run Next Tuesday night. Worland cross-country coach Tanya Kienlen said, “I teamed up with Amanda Heinemeyer, Washakie County Public Health nurse manager. Heinemeyer said the funding for the event came from the Maternal Child Health Grant and on of the goals I to reduce childhood obesity. “I like to look at fun ways for children to exercise and this was one way that was fun and appealing and that the w...
WORLAND - Sunday, World War II veteran and longtime Worland resident Harold Fabricius celebrated his 90th birthday feeling strong. "I feel good and get along very well," Fabricius stated. Fabricius was born in Fort Collins, Colorado, to Jacob and Christine Fabricius and joined one brother and three sisters. At the age of 17 he decided to join the military, serving from 1944 – 1947 as a Navy Seabee, based on half a dozen different islands in the South Pacific, while his brother served in the E...
LOVELL — Ivy Merriot will be giving two programs about the Medicine Wheel on Aug. 25. There will be one program at the Lovell Bighorn Canyon Visitor Center at 5 p.m. and the other at the Horseshoe Bend amphitheater at 8 p.m. She will share her current research on the astronomical possibilities imbedded in the design of the 28-spoked wheel on Medicine Mountain. At 5 p.m. on Aug. 25 at the Visitors Center just outside Lovell, Merriot will show astrophotographic images of the Wheel at night with the Milky Way blazing overhead along with a tour o...
MEETEETSE — Meeteetse Museums will host its free, annual field trip to Kirwin, the ghost mining town, on this Saturday. The guided tour will begin at Kirwin at 10:30 a.m. Tour participants should meet at the museum by 8:15 a.m. to sign in and also to arrange for a ride if one is needed. The tour leaves at 8:30 a.m. sharp. Those wanting to meet at Kirwin and not wait for the group may do so. A high-clearance vehicle is needed to get to the ghost town. Those without a higher clearance vehicle can arrange for carpooling that morning at the m...
WORLAND - Specialty awards for the Washakie County 4-H members in foods, preservation and cake decorating were announced Wednesday morning following judging Tuesday at the Washakie County Fair. Outstanding junior exhibitor was Victoria Shaffer, outstanding intermediate exhibitor was Olivia Shaffer and outstanding senior exhibitor was Jade Hefenieder. Jarden award winners, for which a member can only win one, went to Madilyn Glanz for fruit and Allison Hampton for pickles and relish. Glanz also...
THERMOPOLIS — The Big Horn Basin Folk Festival, taking place in Hot Springs State Park in Thermopolis Aug. 5-6 will feature another great line-up of local and regional musicians. The music will run from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 5 and from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 6, based at the pavilion in the state park. “Each year, the line-up for the Festival gets better and better,” Toddi Darlington, one of the organizers of the event said. This year’s performers include old favorites and new faces — Conni...
WORLAND — A utility customer scam that has been circulating for several years appears to have come back to the Big Horn Basin this summer. In 2013, Rocky Mountain Power, in a press release stated that for the past year they have warned customers about a phone scam targeting utility customers throughout the nation, including Rocky Mountain Power customers. Unfortunately, these fraudulent calls to residential and business customers continue to occur and some have fallen victim to the scam. On Tuesday, Thermopolis Hot Springs Chamber of C...
Through Mayville State University in Mayville, North Dakota and the group People Inspire People, my dream to study abroad became a reality. My journey started when I was applying for nursing school. The nursing school at Mayville State University is fairly new, but offers many opportunities for their students. This was the first year a group of nursing students from Mayville would be traveling to Belize for two weeks for a medical mission. Myself, eight fellow students, and a faculty advisor traveled to Punta Gorda, Belize from May 14 to May...
MOBILE, Alabama — The 60th annual Distinguished Young Women Nationals Finals was June 29-July 1 in Mobile, Alabama. Distinguished Young Women is a unique program for young women in their senior year of high school that combines the chance to win college scholarships with a program that offers Life Skills training to prepare young women for the world after high school. During the two weeks that participants are in Mobile they participate in community service projects and life skills workshops in addition to the actual competition itself. P...
WORLAND - Celebrity Chef Mark Anthony, sponsored by the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, is giving a presentation at the Worland Community Center Complex Wednesday evening at 6 p.m. Anthony, who has catered to celebrities such as Jack Nicklaus, Joan Jett, Molly Hatchet, Jerry Brown, Journey, Jethro Tull, Bad Company, REO Speedwagon, Kansas and Billy Squire, will be stopping in Worland for one performance on his tour of Wyoming. “He’s willing to go just about anywhere and he was able to schedule us along with quite a few other churches in Wyo...
WORLAND – In 1916, the Wyoming Sugar Company of Ogden, Utah, started building the sugar factory in Worland. By 1917, just in time for the fall harvest, the factory was completed through the work of about 150 men and at a cost of $1 million. Since that time, the Wyoming Sugar Company has served the community and sugar beet farmers, under different names and different owners for 100 years. To celebrate the factory’s 100th birthday, Wyoming Sugar Company is planning a grand celebration. There will be a celebration at the factory on Saturday, Sep...
LARAMIE — The University of Wyoming lists the following students from Wyoming on the 2017 spring semester academic Dean’s and Dean’s Freshman Honor Rolls. The honor rolls consist of regularly enrolled undergraduates above freshman standing who earned a 3.4 or better grade-point average, and freshmen who have earned a 3.25 or better grade-point average. To be eligible, students must have been enrolled for a minimum of 12 credit hours taken for letter grades. University of Wyoming Spring Semester Dean’s and Dean’s Freshman Honor Rolls: Resident...
LARAMIE — The University of Wyoming accorded degrees upon the following students from Wyoming at the completion of the 2017 spring semester. The following degrees may be included on this list: BA (Bachelor of Arts); BAE (Bachelor of Architectural Engineering); BAS (Bachelor of Applied Science); BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts); BM (Bachelor of Music); BS (Bachelor of Science); BSAR (Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering); BSCE (Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering); BSCH (Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering); BSCP (Bachelor o...
LARAMIE — Washakie County 4-H was in Laramie at the University of Wyoming last week participating in the 2017 Showcase Showdown event. The event drew over 300 4-Hers from across Wyoming to participate in state contests including, livestock skill-a-thon, dog skill-a-thon, rocketry, robotics, table setting, cake decorating, horse judging, hippology, produce judging, food cook-off and presentations, plus educational workshops, dances and lots of fun, according to Washakie County 4-H Educator Amber Armajo. The youth from Washakie County p...
CHEYENNE — Emily Wheeler, Girls State delegate from Worland, attended the 75th session of American Legion Auxiliary Wyoming Girls State held on the campus of Laramie County Community College in Cheyenne on June 11-17. Wheeler was elected Paintbrush City Fireman and Postal Clerk and Judge of the District Court. Upon arrival to the program, girls are assigned to “cities”, where they live during their residence at Girls State. During the program, which is operated in accordance with the basic laws of the state of Wyoming, girls elect their own c...
WORLAND – The Washakie Hospital Foundation’s fifth annual Badlands Poker Run, to benefit local community members diagnosed with cancer, is Saturday. Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. at Rumors Sports Bar and Grill located at 1515 Big Horn Ave. in Worland with departure to the first stop at 10 a.m. “One hundred percent goes right back to what it’s designated for; people receiving cancer therapies, to help offset some of the essential costs like food, travel and lodging when they have to travel out and get their cancer therapies. Zero percent...
WORLAND – Washakie County 4-H intern Kellynne Doyle, has been an 4-H intern for two summers in preparation of one day becoming a 4-H youth educator. “I was in 4-H for nine or 10 years and I did the internship last year too and that’s kind of what I am thinking about going into with my degree is maybe 4-H development,” Doyle said. She will be graduating from the University of Wyoming next May with a major in agriculture communication and a minor in human development and family sciences. When asked if her internship with 4-H for the last two sum...
Blowing out 80 birthday candles today is Worland resident Alice Lass. "I was born in a little A-frame house on the west side of the river on the county line," reflects Alice. "You should see the house now, it looks as bad as I do." Born on June 20, 1932, to Ralph and Sylvia Reed, Alice was one of five children. Her dad was a farmer; and with her mother working outside of the home, Alice had to bare the task of cooking for her family. "I was a self-taught cook," she said. "Standing on a wooden...
POWELL — Students from 18 states and 10 countries were among the 284 students who graduated from Northwest College in May. December 2016 graduates are also listed. Northwest College, located in Powell, is a two-year, residential college offering transfer programs based upon the traditional arts and sciences, and occupational programs which include strong general education requirements. Graduates considered honor students have a 3.5 grade point average or better. Graduates who are Phi Theta Kappa members are noted with PTK. Local graduates are f...
WORLAND — Two 10-year-old friends will spend an afternoon and early evening Wednesday trying to raise funds and awareness of the many animals available for adoption at New Horizons Care Center. Audra Neighbors and Aubree Kruger volunteer at New Hope Humane Society walking the dogs and spending time with the cats to help them socialize. On Wednesday, at 4 p.m. at the start of the bike/walking path at Washakie and 15th, they will set up a lemonade/bake sale stand to raise funds for the New Hope Humane Society. According to Audra’s mother, Kami Ne...
WORLAND – During the 78th annual Wyoming Trucking Association convention on May 19, in Casper, Admiral Transport Corp. of Worland truck driver Bill Reed was recognized as the fourth quarter 2016 driver for driving professionally for nearly 40 years, with nearly 4 million miles under his belt and no accidents. “Bill is one of our most professional drivers and it was an honor to see him get recognized for everything he has done, not just for that quarter but the years that he has devoted to driving for Admiral Transport and Admiral Beverage Cor...
POWELL — Students from 18 states and 10 countries were among the 284 students who graduated from Northwest College in May. December 2016 graduates are also listed. Northwest College in Powell is a two-year, residential college offering transfer programs based upon the traditional arts and sciences, and occupational programs which include strong general education requirements. Local graduates include from Worland, Kaeli Campbell, Aaron Dacus, Sakoya Jones (honors student with 3.5 grade point average or higher), Kali Lempka (honors and Phi T...
WORLAND – The Willy Wonka Golden Tickets in the story “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” gave five children an exclusive look into the workings of Willy Wonka’s remarkable factory. Staying in theme with the original story the Washakie Museum and Cultural Center in Worland created the Washakie Museum Golden Ticket Scholarship Contest which awarded two local children the option to attend the museum’s three-week musical theater intensive camp. The camp will end with a performance of the play “Willy Wonka Jr.” The Washakie Museum Golden Ticket Sch...