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Residents frustrated after gas field discharge informational meeting
THERMOPOLIS – Well over 100 concerned citizens attended the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (WDEQ) meeting about the proposed Moneta Divide Gas Field discharge permit Tuesday, May 21, in the Hot Springs County High School auditorium, w...
Ten Sleep couple expecting quintuplets
TEN SLEEP – For most couples, learning that they are pregnant, is an exciting event. Ten Sleep residents Levi and Savanah Collins received five times the excitement recently when they learned that S... Full story
Ten Sleep presents end-of-year FFA awards
TEN SLEEP – Ten Sleep FFA students received awards for a year well done, during their annual Ten Sleep FFA awards banquet on Monday, May 6. The teams that competed at state FFA; high school and middle school livestock and meats, vet science, ag m... Full story
Washakie Medical Center nurse receives DAISY Award
WORLAND – Banner Health Washakie Medical Center, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist Jaime Mertz received the first annual DAISY Award to be awarded at the hospital, Friday, May 10, in r... Full story
Washakie Medical Center now offering home sleep evaluations
WORLAND – Banner Health Washakie Medical Center began offering home sleep evaluations at the beginning of April, Practice Manager for the Banner Medical Group Anna Venable told the hospital board Thursday afternoon,. She said they have conducted e...
Worland couple celebrates 60th wedding anniversary
WORLAND – Next Wednesday, May 8, Worland residents James and Sunny Pederson will celebrate their 60 wedding anniversary. The couple was married on May 8, 1959, on James Pederson's parent's small f...
Child sex abuse trial underway for former Worland man
WORLAND – The trial of former Worland man, Jason Arnold Miller, started Monday, April 22. Miller, who pleaded not guilty in November in Washakie County Fifth Judicial District Court, is facing four counts of first degree sexual abuse of a minor. The...
A mission of serving
WORLAND – Traveling more than 1,000 miles to serve another community is practically unheard of, but 27 high school students and eight adults from Valley Baptist Church, located in Bakersfield, Califor... Full story
Child sex abuse trial ends in mistrial
WORLAND – The case of the State of Wyoming against Jason Arnold Miller for four counts of first degree sexual abuse of a minor ended in a mistrial Wednesday morning after 43 minutes of testimony. Wednesday morning, Washakie County Deputy Attorney A... Full story
The N.E.D. Adventure comes to East Side Elementary
WORLAND – Worland kindergarten through third-grade students attended the NED's Mindset Mission at the Worland Middle School Auditorium Wednesday afternoon, to follow cardboard NED through a series o...
Board rejects all bids for vocational building
TEN SLEEP – All five bids the Ten Sleep School Board received for the construction of the new vocational building were rejected by the board Monday evening due to the fact that all bids were at least about $135,000 over budget. Arete Design Group, a... Full story
Rachel's Challenge coming to Ten Sleep
TEN SLEEP – Ten Sleep School is bringing Rachel’s Challenge to Ten Sleep, April 15, with a 6:30 p.m. event for the entire community along with a program for the elementary students at 8:30 a.m. and a program for the high school students at 10 a.m... Full story
Antler hunting could be regulated in the Basin
WORLAND – The tradition of searching for recently shed antlers in the spring may be in jeopardy as the Wyoming Legislature passed and the governor signed House Bill 28, allowing the Game and Fish to r... Full story
POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH 23 How to become a 'Below Zero Hero'
WORLAND – Dress in a costume, mentally prepare for a cold shock, find a couple sponsors and head to the Worland Aquatic Center Saturday for the Jackalope Jump to help raise money for Wyoming Special Olympic athletes. Registration starts at noon a... Full story
Lauralynn Project's visit to Worland rescheduled
WORLAND – Due to inclement weather in the Cody area, the Lauralynn Project was unable to visit Worland Saturday to give away around 120 bikes to children who couldn’t afford to buy one. Founder, Richard Perkins stated that the new date will be Mar... Full story
Fourth time is the charm
WORLAND – Part of the Worland High School AP (Advanced Placement) biology curriculum is to inject E. coli bacteria with jellyfish DNA to create glowing colonies that, once started, could be manipulated into works of art in a petri dish. For the l...
CANCELLED Lauralynn Project visiting Worland Saturday
WORLAND – Cody resident Richard Perkins, founder of the Lauralynn Project, will be visiting Worland this Saturday to give bicycles to area children who can’t afford to buy one. He will be in Blair’s parking lot from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Perkins stated... Full story
Ten Sleep School facing investigation
TEN SLEEP – Complaints for an alleged disability FAPE (Free Appropriate Public Education) violation and an alleged retaliation violation with the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights against Ten Sleep School prompted a federal investig...
100 years old and going strong
WORLAND – One hundred years ago, on Feb. 19, 1919, Claire Lais was born to Joseph and Ida Boyd in Campbell County near Savageton. She joined five half-siblings and two full blood siblings, during a b... Full story
Donating blood equals saving lives
WORLAND – Community members interested in donating blood have the opportunity, every two months to do so at the Worland Senior Citizens Center. The next blood drive by Vitalant, formerly known as United Blood Service, is Feb. 19 at the senior center... Full story
1 million bags and counting
WORLAND – Wyoming Sugar announced this week that they have made 1 million bags of sugar, on this their 102nd campaign, and expect thousands more before the campaign is finished. "The last time, I t... Full story
Sweeny resigns from hospital board before move to Sheridan
WORLAND – During the Banner Health Washakie Medical Center hospital board meeting Thursday evening, board member Wendy Sweeny offered her resignation since that she is moving to Sheridan to be closer to children and grandchildren. Wendy Sweeny, w... Full story
Hospital board asked for permission to use excess flooring to update clinic and ultra sound floors
WORLAND – Banner Health Washakie Medical Center Plant Operations Manager Steve Wiecki came to the hospital board Thursday evening asking to use what he called attic stock flooring, excess flooring from the hospital renovation, to update the W... Full story
Trying to get out of the weather
WORLAND – The Worland Senior Citizens Center has been working for about three years to raise money for a new four-bay garage, to be placed across the parking lot from the center, to get their public transportation vehicles out of the weather. ... Full story
East Side Elementary holds fundraiser for new playground equipment
WORLAND – Worland East Side Elementary School is holding a fundraiser from Jan. 21 – Feb. 13 to raise money for new playground equipment that is more suited for kindergarten and first-grade stu...
