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Community rallies to save elementary overnight field trips
Community member Beth Lewis addressed the Hot Springs County School District No. 1 Board of Trustees during their Oct. 19 meeting about alternatives to cancelling elementary overnight field trips. The district is planning to phase out these field...
Putting hope into hops
When you think of commercial crops grown in the Big Horn Basin, you most likely think of sugarbeets, barley, alfalfa, corn or beans. Bill Pennington is looking to add hops to this list. His company,...
Big Horn Regional water project splits due to funding shortage
Originally a two-part operation, a Big Horn Regional Joint Power Board plan that would both increase the capacity of the water line from U.S. Highway 16 to the Worland Municipal Airport and install a water tank in the town of Kirby to supply the...
'Annihilation' introduced cosmic horror to new audience
“Annihilation” flew under my radar for a long time, actually. I have no idea how, because when it popped up on my recommended queue on Netflix, I read the description about Natalie Portman being a soldier/biologist and I hit play. That sounded lik...
Worland, Thermopolis firefighters save a life in California helicopter crash
In September of this year Erich Berryman, a Worland firefighter who has served for 23 years, took a crew of himself, Taylor Horath of Worland and Clemens Abbott of Thermopolis to Redding, California,...
Powell native joins teaching team at South Side
Kendyl Garza wasn't a stranger to Worland before she moved here, and now she's happy to call it home after getting hired as a first-year second grade teacher at South Side Elementary School for the...
Worland mulls chances for state shooting complex
The State Shooting Complex Oversight Task Force met last Wednesday, Sept. 27 in Riverton to continue discussion of creating a state-of-the-art shooting sport facility in Wyoming. Survey results and criteria for scoring site proposals were on the...
Join me in observing Spooktober
October holds a special significance for me, more so than any other month of the year. There comes a noticeable shift in weather over a short period time; the cold brought on by night begins to linger into the day. Brisk winds and sporadic rainstorms...
Community guests are a facet of new social studies class
On Sept. 21, Ray Witt visited Brandon Vicker's social studies classroom at Worland High School to talk to his outdoor adventure students. As the owner of The Outdoorsman, a retail store for all...
Thermopolis schools excelled last year in testing
Hot Springs County High School Principal Catelyn Deromedi and Middle School Principal Darren Luebbe got in front of the Hot Springs County School District No. 1 Board of Trustees on Sept. 21 to share the testing results of Thermopolis students last...
Admiral Transport driver surprised with driver award
Jeff Mackay had an unusual day of work in May, when he was convinced to go to Sheridan to pick up a van that didn't exist and ended up at the annual Wyoming Trucking Association Convention. On May...
A lifetime of tinkering earns Richard mechanic award
On May 12, Zach Richard, a mechanic for Admiral Transport Corporation in Worland, won the 2023 Mechanic of the Year award at the Wyoming Truckers Association's Annual Convention in Sheridan. When...
Ross leads group in Face of Horror contest
In August, Desiree Ross was selected as a competitor in a nationwide contest held on Facebook where fans vote for one person to be that year's "Face of Horror." The winner will receive a $13,000 cash...
Ten Sleep school board approves bus lease for wedding
An unusual request crossed the table during the Sept. 11 meeting of the Washakie County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees. Participants of a wedding planned for Nov. 4 asked to lease one of the district’s school buses to shuttle the wedding par...
Ten Sleep council expresses concerns over new crosswalk
The highlight of the Sept. 5 meeting of the Ten Sleep Town Council was the approval of an amendment to a contract between the Town of Ten Sleep and HDR Engineering Inc. from Gillette. The contract for the project of extending the water/sewer network...
New music teacher finds her dream home in Ten Sleep
Like many who travel through Ten Sleep, Grace Kienzle mused on what it would be like to live in such a place. She said, "My now husband and I went on a trip to Yellowstone last August, and we drove...
National volunteer organization helps to spruce up Circle J Ranch
The Circle J Ranch is currently host to a unique group of volunteers; retirement-aged members of the Methodist Church from across the country are spending three weeks doing summer projects for the ran...
World-class archaeologists finish research at Medicine Lodge
A team of researchers led by Dr. Larry Loendorf recently completed the field work for a project to record and categorize superimposed rock art at Medicine Lodge Archaeological Site. Having worked in a...
WHS alum hired as elementary extended learning teacher
Approved as the sole certified staffing change of the August 28 meeting of the Washakie County School District No. 1 Board of Trustees meeting, Worland alumni Connor Warner will return as an elementary extended learning instructor. Warner will also...
Hospital board re-elects all officers
The Board of Directors of the Washakie Medical Center held office elections during their meeting on August 22 which resulted in no changes from the previous term. Dean Carrell was re-elected as president, Sheri Gunderson remains vice president,...
Worland woman hopes love of Halloween and horror is winning combination
To those who know her, it came as no surprise that Desiree Ross found herself entered to compete in the Face of Horror contest. Surrounded by costumes and trinkets in her store, Second Treasures in...
Time-lapse camera installed to watch new Ten Sleep School progression
James Seckman was present at the Aug. 14 Washakie County School District No. 2 meeting to deliver a report to the board on the results of the annual audit for the fiscal year 2022-2023. Seckman said that he was able to identify no major issues in...
Ten Sleep's music festival Nowoodstock still going strong in year 22
The 22nd Nowoodstock Festival, a music event held every year in the summer in Ten Sleep, will take place this weekend. “We’ve got an awesome lineup again this year,” said Kurt Steinke, assistant festival director. He added, “We have an excelle...
Trailer approved for use as mobile command center
Although volunteers and law enforcement have been unable to locate Breanna Mitchell, after nearly two weeks of searching Washakie County Sheriff Austin Brookwell said that he and his team have learned the value of having a mobile command center for...
UW will begin advertising later this month for new Extension educator
After over eight years with the University of Wyoming Extension Office, Caitlin Youngquist has left her position as an agriculture and horticulture educator. Youngquist worked for most of her career with the Extension Office in the Northwest area,...
