Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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WORLAND — Last week at the 90th Wyoming State FFA Convention, Chief Washakie FFA members showed just how proficient they are by winning 13 state championships in proficiency areas and 17 members who were state runners-up in their respective proficiency areas. According to advisor Grace Godfrey, applications were due and judged by agriculture teachers/FFA advisors from around the state as well as business and community leaders from the Torrington area on March 19 in Torrington. Proficiency applications can be in one of the following c...
NEW YORK (AP) — A late round of buying erased early losses on Wall Street, leaving major indexes mixed at the close of trading. Bigger companies managed to eke out modest gains, while smaller companies mostly fell. A big gain in Boeing pushed the Dow Jones industrial average higher, breaking a five-day losing streak. Late in the day, energy companies got a boost after Exxon Mobil said it is raising its quarterly dividend. Stocks got off to a weak start as investors worried that growing costs for raw materials along with rising interest rates wo...
THERMOPOLIS – During the April meeting of the Hot Springs County Historical Society in the Big Horn Federal meeting room, members discussed the importance and issues with getting the “World’s Largest Mineral Hot Springs” rock sign with two arrows on Monument Hill in Thermopolis refurbished. “Several years ago it was redone by the Historical Society. The rocks are starting to slide. They have been sliding for years, so the letters themselves are kind of getting out of whack. Every time we have a snow storm a little bit keeps sliding away,” Ho...
CHEYENNE (AP) — University of Wyoming officials and gun advocates are looking to the courts to resolve a dispute over university policy that prohibits people from carrying weapons on campus. The issue came to a head during the state Republican Party convention last week when a GOP delegate who defied the weapons ban was issued a citation by the UW police chief. UW President Laurie Nicholas is standing by the decision to cite the delegate, while gun advocates contend the university’s policy conflicts with provisions of the U.S. and Wyoming con...
DALLAS (AP) - In 1967, the San Diego Chargers selected defensive tackle Ron "Pedro" Billingsley with the 14th overall pick of the NFL/AFL Draft. Billingsley, who died last February, was a 6-foot-8 University of Wyoming graduate out of Florence, Alabama. He was taken 10 picks after Purdue quarterback Bob Griese, one of eight Hall of Famers taken in that draft, which lasted 17 rounds. It was a different era then. The Chargers were still three years away from joining the NFL, but 1967 marked the...