Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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WORLAND – A plant pathologist identified and gave tips for treatment for two barley diseases MillerCoors LLC wants growers to know about at Friday morning WESTI Ag Days presentation. William Stump, an Extension plant pathologist, identified and gave tips for treatment for fusarium head blight and ergot. Fusarium head blight is a fungal disease that can cause disease in both barley and wheat, Stump said. “A primary symptom is come bleaching of the florets prior to maturity.” Stump said “Fusarium head blight has always been around but is becomin...
WORLAND – Worland resident Jeff Anderson will soon be headed to Arequipa, Peru, as a missionary on a long-term mission. A missionary is someone who goes to another country to promote religion, usually Christianity. "Missionaries are sent out by a church like ours," Big Horn Independent Baptist Church Pastor Ron Fanning said. "The congregation votes to officially send and commission him. He will go to churches similar to ours and explain his plan," he added. "God has been working in my heart t...
CHEYENNE (AP) — The National Weather Service reports a wind gust that reached 103 mph in Wyoming. Strong winds whipped through the state Thursday and Friday with gusts of 50 to 70 mph common in many areas. The Weather Service says the 103 mph gust was measured by a remote weather station at about 9 p.m. Thursday night northwest of the small community of Clark in Park County, near the Montana-Wyoming border. A 94 mph gust was measured nearby along the Chief Joseph Scenic Highway northwest of Cody. The Wyoming Department of Transportation c...
CHEYENNE– Governor Matt Mead issued the following statement after the State Senate rejected an amendment to the budget bill that would have expanded Medicaid: “The Medicaid expansion amendment to the budget failed. We will not provide health care coverage for 20,000 Wyoming citizens. Wyoming’s hospitals continue to struggle with the burden of uncompensated care. Millions of federal tax dollars paid by Wyoming people will continue to flow to other states. I am disappointed. Support for Medicaid expansion in Wyoming is strong and continu...
Author Roland Smith of Portland, Ore., talked to Worland elementary students on Friday about how he became an author. He said it took him 20 years to learn what he needed to, to write books, but he would teach them in four minutes. First, you must do a lot of research, he said, that includes a lot of reading. He said he spends about twice as much time on research as he does writing a book. After research he develops a story board, or a plan for his novel, outlining scene by scene. Then comes the...
I wonder why the United States doesn’t have a better way of selecting the party nominees for president. Why for the most important position in the country do we let every state set up their own system, their own time. Some states have caucuses, some conventions, some actual primary elections, some, like Wyoming used to have straw polls but Republican bylaws no longer allow straw polls unless they are “binding” for that candidate. Some elections the winning candidate is awarded all the “dele...