Articles from the January 16, 2020 edition
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January 16, 2020
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Karla's Kolumn: A special kind of friend
Ever been sucker punched. You know when something comes out of nowhere, takes your breath away. I got sucker punched Sunday by way of a text notifying me that a dear friend of mine had passed away....
PDFTen Sleep mayor confident in two-term achievements
TEN SLEEP — The Town of Ten Sleep Town Council met for their regular monthly meeting on Jan. 7 to hear department reports and afterward, Mayor Jack Haggerty discussed his tenure, and reported that he will retire from the position this year, not r...
First baby of 2020 born at Banner Health Washakie Medical Center joins older brother at home
WORLAND – With a January due date Alyssa Keller and her husband Cody of Worland did not think they would be having the first baby born in the new year and the new decade. However, when she opted to mo...
No where to go with cardboard; board to suspend recycling
WORLAND – More than two years ago the Washakie County Solid Waste Disposal District No. 1 stopped accepting newspapers to recycle. Now, with action by the district board Monday night, they will be c...
Felony burglarly charge moves on to district court
WORLAND – Ashley Ann Leary was bound over from Fifth Judicial District Circuit Court to district court on one felony count of burglary. This charge carries a possible punishment of up to 10 years of p...
Ten Sleep man charged with bringing deadly weapon into Washakie County Jail
WORLAND –Michael L. Burrington Jr. was bound over from Fifth Judicial District Circuit Court to district court on one felony charge of taking a deadly weapon into jail and a misdemeanor of wearing o...
Local man bound over on aggravated assault charge
WORLAND – Mathew B. Garcia, born in 1992, was bound over from Fifth Judicial District Circuit Court to district court on charges of aggravated assault and domestic battery. Aggravated assault is a f...
Geography Bee tests middle schoolers' knowledge
WORLAND – Which state has a longer coastline, Maine or Rhode Island? Do you know the answer? This is just a sample question that sixth through eighth graders from Worland Middle School were asked on F...
Hefenieder wins Poetry Out Loud contest
By KARLA POMEROY WORLAND - Worland High School junior Jade Hefenieder won the first WHS Poetry Out Loud competition Monday night in the Little Theater. Hefenieder, and two fellow competitors, Raychel...
Ten Sleep considers excusing absenses for college visits
TEN SLEEP – The Ten Sleep school board met on Monday, Jan. 13 for their regularly scheduled meeting to discuss minor changes to the attendance policy to possibly allow for excused absences for p...
Bernedene "Bernie" Corbett Robertson
Bernedene Corbett Robertson, 74, passed away peacefully at her home in Worland on January 8, 2020, with her loving husband by her side. Bernedene, was born November 6, 1945, in Worland, Wyoming to...
Jack H Decker Jr.
Jack was born on October 19, 1957 in Trenton NJ and passed onto his next journey December 28, 2019 at his home in Phoenix, AZ. During the early 1970's while living in Centennial WY - Jack could be...
George J. Argeris
George J. Argeris, 88, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, died January 9, 2020 at Davis Hospice Center. George was born on May 12, 1931, in Tensleep, Wyoming and raised in Worland, Wyoming. Upon graduation from Wa...
Arnold Nelson Egbert
Arnold Nelson (Swede) Egbert died Jan. 4, 2020, in Spokane, Washington. He was born in Spring Creek, Wyoming, on Dec. 17, 1927 His cremains will be interred in Ten Sleep Cemetery in Ten Sleep, Wyoming, at a later date. A memorial service will be...
Jimmy Dale Ornsbey
Jimmy Dale Ornsbey, 67, died Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020 at Hot Spring County Memorial Hospital in Thermopolis. Memorial services will be held in the summer of 2020....
Jeralyn Joy 'Jerry' Brown
Memorial services for Jeralyn Joy “Jerry” Brown, 89, will be at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, January 18, at Community Federated Church in Thermopolis. Mrs. Brown passed away January 8, 2020, at Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital....
Critics say MLK holiday should be updated
JACKSON — Three decades after the state of Wyoming finally adopted the holiday that commemorates Martin Luther King Jr., some question why the date can’t be dedicated solely to the slain civil rights leader. The fact that Wyoming observes the hol...
Police chief: UW gun ban not enforced in 'open spaces'
LARAMIE — A regulation banning firearms on the University of Wyoming’s campus, which has become the subject of a high-profile lawsuit, isn’t as restrictive as it might appear at first blush, UW Chief of Police Mike Samp said in court this week....
Supreme Court hears arguments in fair board lawsuit
CHEYENNE – For the first time in more than 80 years, Wyoming Supreme Court justices sat in the Historic Supreme Court Chamber in the state Capitol, hearing oral arguments from two high-profile attorneys representing the Laramie County Board of C...
