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  • IRRIGATE Act creates local concerns

    Marcus Huff, Staff Writer|Aug 26, 2015

    WORLAND - Before a packed conference room at the Worland Community Center Complex on Tuesday, advisors Brian Clifford and Travis McNiven from the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and Oaklee Anderson, a senior advisor to U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), fielded a variety of public questions and concerns over Barrasso's Irrigation Rehabilitation and Renovation for Indian Tribal Governments and Their Economies Act (IRRIGATE Act). Also in attendance was Mitchell Cottenoir, Tribal Water Engineer...

  • Worland man facing 7 federal charges carrying the death penalty

    Zach Spadt, Staff Writer|Aug 26, 2015

    WORLAND — A Worland man could face the death penalty for seven federal charges for a double murder last month in Montana. Jesus Yeizon Deniz was originally indicted in the United States District Court for the District of Montana earlier this month. The indictment, however, did not list death as a possible penalty. An updated indictment was issued Friday that listed seven charges carrying the death penalty including two counts of first degree murder, four counts of use of a firearm during and in relation to crimes of violence, and one count o...

  • Peyton Manning ditches the glove for now

    Aug 26, 2015

    ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — No glove on his throwing hand. No feeling in his fingertips. Peyton Manning has ditched, at least temporarily, the sticky-feeling, orange-and-gray glove he’s worn on his throwing hand at times since 2012. He’s gone barehanded throughout training camp and also in his preseason debut at Houston over the weekend. He’s said not to read anything into it, that he’ll probably still need it in nasty weather. Manning even told Peter King of Sports Illustrated that he still doesn’t have feeling in his fingertips four years after t...

  • Grazing Deer

    Aug 26, 2015

  • The road to the penitentiary

    Zach Spadt, Staff Writer|Aug 26, 2015

    WORLAND - That first beer or that first cigarette could be the first links in a chain that could lead to Worland's youth to spending the rest of their lives in the Wyoming State Penitentiary in Rawlins. That was the message motivational speaker Craig Conrad had for about 390 Worland High School Students Tuesday. Conrad is in Worland this week encouraging youth to remain unstoppable with his "The Unstoppable You," talk. The unstoppable speaker stopped in Worland Tuesday and will leave after...

  • Aug 26, 2015

    Washakie County Commissioners Minutes from the August 4, 2015 meeting...  Website

  • Ida Mercado

    Aug 26, 2015

    Worland resident Ida T. Mercado, 81, died peacefully at her home surrounded by her family on August 22, 2015. Ida was born on November 9, 1933 in Worland, a daughter of Nicolas and Lupe M. Rodriguez. At an early age she moved to Phoenix, AZ and then to San Jose, CA. She later returned to Worland where she had worked at various jobs including the Washakie Cleaners, Worland Laundry, Washakie Hotel and Maggie's Café. In 1960 she met the love of her life, Gene Mercado. They were married on September...

  • Aug 26, 2015

    Public Notice City of Worland Ordinance 825 Allowance of Residential Use of Business District...  Website