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The June 24 meeting of the Washakie County School District No. 1 Board of Trustees began with the presentation of the annual Bell Ringer Award to photographer James Yule. Presented to a community member each year who makes a difference within the schools, Yule was selected as the recipient of the Bell Ringer Award for the time he has spent over the years photographing school events. Chairman David Tommerup read aloud a statement saying, "I can't think of anyone else who devotes so much of their...
After 12 years at Hot Springs County School District No. 1, Curriculum & Professional Learning Community Specialist Breez Daniels submitted and was granted a resignation from the district during the June 20 meeting of the Board of Trustees. According to her profile on the district’s website, “In 22 years as an educator, Daniels has taught grades K-5, as well as 8th-9th grade reading strategies and social studies in a large junior high… Named Wyoming Elementary/Middle Schools Principal of the Year and National Distinguished Principal in 2016,...
Angela Leone from Washakie County Public Health approached the Washakie County Fair Board Monday in a special meeting to find out about the possibility of putting up a lactation tent for mothers during fair week. She said they need a 5-foot by 5-foot space for the tent. There will be a rocking camp chair, portable table, battery operated combination light and fan and donated wipes and diapers. Leone said it is a place for mothers to change diapers, nurse their babies or have a quiet moment. The tent and contents will be “fully the responsibilit...
Food, fun and music highlight this year's Culturefest in Worland this Saturday. This is the 14th year the Worland Community Center has organized the annual event and Sheryl Ley said she has multiple food vendors and plenty of entertainment for the family. New this year will be a mechanical bull. There is a small fee to ride, she noted. Back this year will be the bouncy houses and slides. There is a fee for the rides. This year the inflatable entertainment comes from a vendor in Sheridan, Ley...
On March 16, a grassroots committee hosted the Worland Mental Fitness Fair at the Worland Community Center. Members of the panel were Dr. Ralph Louis, psychologist from Oxbow Center in Basin; Janae Harman, owner of Family Circle Counseling in Worland; Mary Johnson, CEO of Oxbow Center in Worland; and Carol Bell, provisionally licensed therapist at Foundations Counseling in Cody. The panel answered prepared questions that came from the committee and from similar events in Shell, Greybull and Cowley. The Northern Wyoming News will be covering...
Continuing their presentations on a safe community, the Worland Seventh-day Adventist Church is hosting a public presentation regarding social media safety and online safety for children and seniors. Author and speaker John DiGirolamo will present “Inside the Mind of a Predator” at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, July 1 at the Worland Community Center . The presentation is free and open to everyone. DiGirolamo will discuss how predators operate and what every parent needs to know including covering topics such as: Is social media safe? A police off...
The Bighorn Basin Outdoor Recreation Collaborative (BBORC) convened its monthly meeting on Thursday, June 13 at the Ten Sleep Library. The featured speaker was Jared Koenig, Recreation Program Manager for the Sheridan Community Land Trust. Koenig is also a member of the newly formed Cloud Peak Outdoor Recreation Collaborative (CPORC). According to the June 21 edition of Wyoming Outdoor Recreation’s Collaborative Connection newsletter, Koenig discussed the process of creating and expanding Sheridan’s Tongue River Water Trail, a paddle and flo...
Kyle Borger, executive director of WYO HELP, came to the Washakie County Commissioners at their meeting June 18 to request a donation for his organization’s activities in Washakie County. According to its brochure, “WYO HELP is a community action agency managing multiple grants in an effort to provide stabilization services to families in need, training and education for families, and planning support for all communities to improve the health of all families.” In addition to Worland, the organization has branches in Lusk, Moorcroft, Newca...
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Washakie County Emergency Management conducted a test of the CodeRED emergency alert system on Monday, June 10. In contrast to its previous drill, conducted in 2018, which reached 88% of eligible Washakie County mobile phones and landline phones, the test conducted June 10 reached only 37% of these numbers. Although the alert system in this year's drill made 5,371 phone calls, it reached a total of only 2,013 Washakie County residents who had registered with the CodeRED system. Voice calls were...
The Bureau of Reclamation’s April forecast of the May through July runoff predicted for the Bighorn River Basin shows below average inflows for reservoirs. The predictions are as follows: •Bighorn Lake - Bighorn River June through July inflow to Bighorn Lake is forecast to be approximately 455,000 acre-feet (af), which is 59% of the 30-year average of 771,000 af. As of June 1, Bighorn Lake is 84% full. •Buffalo Bill Reservoir - Shoshone River June through July inflow to Buffalo Bill Reservoir is forecast at 400,000 af, which is 77% of the 30-ye...
On March 16, a grassroots committee hosted the Worland Mental Fitness Fair at the Worland Community Center. Members of the panel were Dr. Ralph Louis, psychologist from Oxbow Center in Basin; Janae Harman, owner of Family Circle Counseling in Worland; Mary Johnson, CEO of Oxbow Center in Worland; and Carol Bell, provisionally licensed therapist at Foundations Counseling in Cody. The panel answered questions. The Northern Wyoming News is covering the questions on a weekly basis. The pandemic...
Faces of Recovery is a column begun by Wendy Weicki of Oxbow Center about people in the community who are in active recovery from addiction. As both a newspaper reporter and a recovering alcoholic, I’m in a unique position to bring back this column with the story of my own journey. Hi, I’m Sean and I’m an alcoholic. My addiction began at 19, my first year of college. That was the year I first tried alcohol and marijuana, though my use was still infrequent. That time is mostly of note for traumatic events that negatively affected me. My best...
P.E.O. (Philanthropic Educational Organization) is not just a social club. Members fundraise to offer scholarships for women, according to a release from the chapter. The chapter's symbol is a star and refers to "women helping women reach for the stars," by helping women achieve higher education with college scholarships, according to member Charleen Hamilton. "We offer local and state scholarships, and loans at the current interest rate of 2%. There is the International Peace Scholarship and...
The Worland Speech and Debate Team is currently in Des Moines, Iowa, competing in the 2024 National Speech and Debate Tournament. Bus driver Dave Wiley departed with speech and debate competitors from Worland, Thermopolis, Rawlins and Laramie on June 15. Of the busload of students, 10 are from Worland; eight qualifiers and two supplemental entries. Coach Rick Dorn said, "That's a new thing that the National Speech and Debate Association started offering, you get up to two spots to let kids go ex...
The 2024 commemorative Pony Express envelopes are now available for purchase at various locations in Worland, Ten Sleep and Hyattville. Each year on July 4th, the Ten Sleep-Hyattville Lions Club re-enact a horseback mail relay from Hyattville to Ten Sleep, and the public is invited to purchase commemorative envelopes to mail letters by Pony Express. Envelopes are sold for $5 each, and are available in Worland at the Washakie County Library, the senior center and Cloud Peak Vet Service. In Ten...
George "Buster" Sheaff founded the Worland-Ten Sleep Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors in 1973, inviting several other businessmen to join him as a welcoming committee for businesses and dignitaries. The organization had some ups and downs in membership and finally waned out in about 2017. According to former ambassador Julie Wetherbee, there were eight charter members -Buster Sheaff (clothing store), Ray Bower (bank), Bruce Edwards (real estate), Gene Kelley (shoe store), Leo Rhodes (Ten Sleep, a...
Dan and Maureen (Tolman) Flannery weren't expecting to begin a new adventure in Wyoming at this stage in life, but three historic wooden buildings later they don't seem to regret their decision. Now based in Illinois, the home state of her actor and English teacher husband Dan, Maureen works as a poet, often drawing inspiration from her upbringing in Worland and her family's sheep ranch in Ten Sleep. She is an award-winning poet, having written 10 books of poetry including over 500 poems...
The Arapaho Ranch, with its headquarters six miles west of Thermopolis, has long been a symbol of Native American culture in the West, but new developments are making the ranch a place for hands-on education in history, science, agriculture and art. According to arapahoranch.org, the ranch's website, it was originally established in 1867 on 75,000 acres outside Thermopolis and it grew to become the largest sheep ranch in Wyoming by 1918. The ranch fell victim to the Great Depression and went...
Cowley resident John Bernhisel has been fascinated by bridges ever since he was a kid growing up north of San Francisco. That fascination has grown into a passion to explore bridges around Wyoming, the country and the world. Bernhisel said, "I grew up north of San Francisco and crossed the Golden Gate bridge all the time. I was even able to run across the bridge in several races. I loved how massive it was but also became interested in its engineering and aesthetics. As I got older I started to...
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Washakie County School District No. 2’s ‘Annual Leave’ policy came under review by the board of trustees during their meeting on June 10, sparked by a grievance from Technology Director Boyd Whitlock. Earlier in the school year, Whitlock suffered a broken ankle that rendered him unable to work for an extended period. Whitlock anticipated that he would get to use his sick days while recovering with a broken ankle, but found that he had to use his annual vacation days up first. He said, “I have 78 days of accrued sick time, and to have to use...