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Mayor set to proclaim April 27 Arbor Day

WORLAND — A proclamation for Arbor Day highlights mayor action items for tonight’s Worland City Council meeting.

WORLAND — A proclamation for Arbor Day highlights mayor action items for tonight’s Worland City Council meeting.

According to the proclamation, to be signed by Mayor Jim Gill tonight, “in 1872, Sterling Morton proposed to the National Board of Agriculture that a special day be set aside for the planting of trees.” The first observed Arbor Day in Nebraska there were more than a million trees planed...