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Dumping trash will cost more Sept. 1
WORLAND - The Worland Solid Waste District is looking to raise additional revenue to stay solvent, and will begin charging fees to use the Worland dump. During the Aug. 18 meeting of the Washakie Coun...
Rising from the ashes
TEN SLEEP — It was a story that captured the country’s imagination: a small western fire hall ablaze on a quiet winter night, burning to the ground as the town’s firefighters stood helplessly by, keeping horrified townspeople at bay and safe from...
Lack of weight not an issue for Granderson
LARAMIE – It’s a question Carl Granderson gets asked a lot. “Everywhere I go, they ask me if I play basketball. I say, ‘No, I’m a football player. I just need to get bigger,’” he said. That’s true for the 6-foot-5, 200-pound University of W...
Color Me Pink a success
WORLAND — Despite the cold and windy weather Saturday more than 140 people participated in the Color Me Pink 5K Walk/ Fun Run. Many people stayed for refreshments and dancing to music provided by D...
Wyoming man dies after battle with 'rabbit fever'
CASPER (AP) — Five and a half weeks of hell. That’s how Linda Schwope of Cowley described her husband’s battle with tularemia, a bacterial disease spread to humans by rodents and rabbits, as well as ticks and deer flies. Michael Schwope, 74, died...
Glenda G. Harshbarger Alberts
Glenda G. Harshbarger Alberts, 47, of Basin, died at her home in Basin on Wednesday evening, August 19, 2015. She was born Oct. 1, 1967. A graveside funeral service will be at 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 30, 2015, at the Patriot Cemetery in Basin. Funeral... Full story
Leroy A. Meier
Leroy ‘Roy’ A. Meier, 72, died Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015, at Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital in Thermopolis. Roy was born in Pennsylvania. A private graveside service will be at a later date in Willow Grove Cemetery in Buffalo. Mortimore Fun... Full story
Gary Ronald Benson
Gary Ronald Benson, 68, died Friday, Aug. 21, 2015, at his home in Thermopolis. Services will be at a later date. Mortimore Funeral Home assisted the family with arrangements.... Full story
Cindy Dixon Siebert
Funeral services for Cindy (Dixon) Siebert, 54, of Gillette, who died Aug. 17, 2015, in Gillette will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, August 27, 2015, at the Zion Lutheran Evangelical Church in Worland. Memorial services for Cecil Ray Dixon, 93, of...
Cynthia Renee Dixon
Cynthia Renee Dixon age 54, of Gillette, Wyoming passed away on Monday, August 17, 2015. Cynthia was born on October 8, 1960 in Worland, Wyoming to Lydia (Lipps) and Cecil Dixon. Cynthia grew up in... Full story
Hisashi "Sas" Nakamura
Hisashi “Sas” Nakamura passed away at the age of 88 August 7, 2015, while being treated at Kadlec Medical Center in Richland, Washington. Sas was born March 4, 1927 in Powell, Wyoming. He grew up on the family farm in Kirby, Wyoming and gra... Full story
Virginia Ann Foreman
Born in Washakie County in 1932 to John and Margaret (Eckert) Salzman, Virginia graduated from Washakie County High School and then attended Carroll College, where she received a Bachelor of Science... Full story
