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WORLAND – Since 2009, the Worland High School cheerleading squad has been working to get back into the top three at the state competition and they succeeded last Wednesday with a third-place finish in the 3A non-stunt division. "Two years ago we thought we had a great routine," Coach Tammy Montoya said. The judges didn't think so, so she began looking at what the judges wanted. She said they didn't need something fancy but all the jumps needed to be in synch. Montoya said, "The girls knew w...
WORLAND — Worland High School students from the six physical science classes will be testing out their cardboard and duct tape boats they have made for an assessment involving engineering, Archimedes principle, and Newton’s Laws of Motion. Winners of the speed competition was the team of Isaac Goncalves, Elijah Ramirez and Raylee Salinas. The winning maximum buoyancy teams was Gabe Gardenas, Austin Scheuerman and Richard Garay. Winners of the crash competition were Dash Lloyd and Elizabeth McI...
POWELL — Northwest College Forensics claimed its place as top community college in the Western States Communication Association Tournament at Santa Clara University in California. The team took second overall behind the University of Utah, and every NWC student who competed placed in at least one event. Debate results presented positive outcomes with Dominic Damiano of Worland earning second place in speaking awards in junior parliamentary debate, while Taylor Rempp of Harrison, Nebraska, claimed third. Also in junior parliamentary debate s...
BASIN — “Enlighten us but make it quick” is the tagline for Ignite Talks. Ignite Talks began in Seattle in 2006 and are now in more than 350 cities worldwide including Basin, according to organizer Lynn Davies. Ignite’s mission is “Everyone Speaks.” The goal of Ignite is to build communities and make it possible for anyone, anywhere to present their ideas and their stories, Davies said. The first “Ignite the Basin” event was in 2015 and have been held annually since then. This year Ignite the Basin will again be held at the Basin City Arts...
CHEYENNE — For a fourth consecutive year, Wyoming will send a team of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (D/HH) students to the Gallaudet University National Academic Bowl competition in Washington, D.C. The Academic Bowl challenges D/HH high school students in a Jeopardy-style game against their peers, and helps to foster camaraderie among D/HH students. Gallaudet is the only University for D/HH students in the world, and hosts 80 teams in four regional sites in United States. Wyoming students faced off against their counterparts in the Midwest R...
WORLAND – With a successful regular season behind them, the Worland High School speech and debate team is now focusing on their next meet, the state meet this Thursday through Saturday in Lander. Those who will be competing are Kaitlyn Bostrom and Tatum Zimmerman in duo, Nick Bower and Kim Sumida in cross-examination debate, Emily Brown in Lincoln-Douglas debate and poetry, Cody Butterfield and Jack Vines as a duo, Vines in poetry, Guendylan Byrd and Raeth Tolman as a duo, Tolman in humor, Paris Caines and Rachael Carver in CX debate, R...
WORLAND – Worland High School cheerleaders are heading to Casper Wednesday morning for the state cheerleading competition, with high hopes and a desire to place better than ever before with a routine choreographed by Worland High School assistant cheerleading coach Amy Worley. "I think we are starting to figure out what they are looking for; are you in synch, are you using the mat evenly, is your spacing looking good, timing; all that is the stuff they are looking for, not so much how fancy i...
WORLAND – Last weekend, the WHS speech and debate team had a meet in Greybull where they grabbed another win. Worland placed second overall and captured first place for 3A schools. Multiple individuals and duets broke through during the meet. Sullie-Ann Keuntjes won overall in dramatic interpretation. Jack Vines and Cody Butterfield placed first in duets, Nathaniel Nelson and Clare Neylon placed second, and Guendylan Byrd and Raeth Tolman won third, according to Speech and Debate coach Rick Dorn. “Nathaniel’s and Clare’s duet wasn’t doing gre...
WORLAND – The Hot Springs County High School speech and debate team has seen a handful of wins this season. With a young team, they’ve brought home a fourth-place finish at Kelly Walsh, a third place from Jackson and a second place in 3A from Greybull last weekend, according to coach Cindy Glasson. “We have 11 students out this year, with most doing two events but one, Tyler Kay, competing in three,” Glasson said. “As far as highlights, this past weekend at the Greybull meet we had 11 slots in finals including three of the six in drama, tw...
BASIN — The Riverside Academic Challenge team is coming off a busy week of competition. On Feb. 17 the team got up early and drove to Torrington to compete at Eastern Wyoming Community College in the last of the regular season meets. The two teams made up of juniors Matt Gesch, Adelle Stone and James DesRosier along with the freshman team of Haily Rivers, Skylar Tharp and Roger DesRosier did well with the freshman team coming in sixth and the juniors coming in third behind Evanston and Cheyenne East high schools. This cinched the third place a...
What happens in Idaho in the coming weeks undoubtedly will not stay in Idaho. What happens there could make a big difference in how much you pay for your health insurance – or whether you can even get insurance. Idaho’s Republican governor, C. L. “Butch” Otter, signed an executive order last month that, if not blocked by the federal government, will do what Republicans in Washington have not been able to do: turn the clock back to the days before the Affordable Care Act, at least in the state’s individual health insurance market. The only sign...
WORLAND – “Kilroy Was Here.” It was a staple that began in the lead-up to World War II, and soon became famous across Europe as an indication that American GIs had been in the area. A simple cartoon character, drawn on walls and battlegrounds around the world. On Friday and Saturday, the Worland Middle School will present “Don’t Say No to the USO,” a fictional musical detailing the adventures of Private Kilroy, an Army cryptologist who has to deal with USO hostesses, Nazi spies and a scheme cooked up by Office of Strategic Services operatives...
WORLAND – The Worland Speech and Debate team went to Natrona County for their most recent tournament two weeks ago. This tournament was the second biggest tournament of the state with 30 schools competing from Wyoming and outside the state. Finishing fourth place overall, the team achieved third in Wyoming schools overall. “We had two duets go to semifinals, Guendylan Byrd with Raeth Tolman and Jack Vines with Cody Butterfield.” Rick Dorn, WHS forensics coach said. “We also had Jack Vines go to finals in poetry and Nathaniel Nelson go to fina...
WORLAND – Monday, Feb. 12, was the first day of the Worland Senior Center’s annual tax assistance. Sherry Stottler has been in charge of this event for two years. “The taxes here at the senior center have been getting done for a lot of years,” Stottler said. “I used to walk by and see it. Then, one day, someone asked if I would help. And so I did help, then, last year, a few people decided that they didn’t want to do it. And I had thought ‘we just have to have taxes done!’ We do almost 150 each year. I knew somebody has to do it, so I steppe...
LARAMIE — The University of Wyoming accorded degrees upon the following students from Wyoming at the completion of the 2017 fall semester. The following degrees may be included on this list: BA (Bachelor of Arts); BAS (Bachelor of Applied Science); BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts); BM (Bachelor of Music); BS (Bachelor of Science); BSAR (Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering); BSCE (Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering); BSCH (Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering); BSCS (Bachelor of Science in Computer Science); BSDH (...
WORLAND — For the second year in a row, the University of Wyoming Washakie County Extension is hosting a Youth Ag Career Event during WESTI (Wyoming Extension’s Strategically and Technologically Informative) Ag Days next week. The Youth Ag Career Event will run from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 14, at the Worland Community Center Complex. According to Washakie County 4-H Educator Amber Armajo, there will be a free dinner but participants are asked to RSVP by Feb. 13 to the Extension Off...
WORLAND — Head to the Worland Senior Center Tuesday, Feb. 20, for the bi-monthly blood drive from the United Blood Services. The blood drive runs from noon to 5 p.m. at the Worland Senior Citizens Center. United Blood Services is a nonprofit community bloodcenter, providing blood and blood products for local area hospitals throughout the United States. They are needing O negative blood donors this time, according to organizer Judy Council. Volunteer blood donors must be at least 16 years old, weigh at least 110 pounds and be in good health. D...
BASIN — On Saturday two three-member teams from Riverside High School participated in the regional science bowl in Casper. The science bowl, which is funded by the Department of Energy tests high school students on questions dealing with science, math, physics and biology. This year’s competition pitted teams from around the state against each other in head to head competition. The winning team of each round received 2 points, the loser 0, in the case of a tie each team received one point, according to instructor Stuart DesRosier. Teams cou...
POWELL — Outstanding performers from the Showalter Memorial Music Festival present a free concert at 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 10, in the Nelson Performing Arts Center Auditorium at Northwest College in Powell. The festival is named in memory of Victor Showalter, a former music professor at NWC, who started the tradition in 1975. Now in its 44th year, the festival has expanded to include brass, woodwind, percussion, guitar, violin, piano and voice students in grades five through eight. This year’s clinicians are Don Christman, Carisa French, Mor...
BASIN — Riverside Academic Challenge is in the midst of its season with several meets coming up in Cheyenne, Torrington and Billings. The team has been on a roll this year finishing in the top three spots in all of its competitions so far, according to Coach Stuart DesRosier. Most recently the team won the Big Horn Basin Knowledge Bowl held Friday, Jan. 19, in Lovell edging out the Greybull team 122 to 117. The Saturday before that the team came in third in the Northwest College meet behind two Cheyenne East teams (Cheyenne East High School s...
WORLAND — The status of brucellosis in Wyoming, producer requirements for transport or selling and liability and reports on a new test for the disease are among topics at February meetings in Worland and Lovell presented by members of the Governor’s Brucellosis Coordination Team. The first is the afternoon of Thursday, Feb. 15, during WESTI Ag Days in Worland, said Bruce Hoar, coordinator of brucellosis research at the University of Wyoming. WESTI Ag Days is Feb. 14-15 at the Worland Community Center, 1200 Culbertson Ave. The team then mee...
WORLAND — WHS debate team witnessed another win this weekend at their tournament in Jackson Hole. “We won overall for small schools,” Rick Dorn, the debate team coach, said. “There were some kids who advanced in every area that they were entered in, including Jack Vines, Kaitlyn Bostrom, and Rachael Carver, he said. Carver was entered in cross examination debate and poetry. Bostrom took part in duet acting and impromptu speaking. Vines has gone into finals in duet acting, impromptu speaking, and poetry reading. Kailynn Deniz won overall...
LARAMIE — The University of Wyoming lists the following students from Wyoming on the 2017 fall semester president’s honor roll. The president’s honor roll consists of regularly enrolled undergraduates who earned a 4.0 (“A”) grade-point average for the semester. To be eligible, students must have been enrolled for a minimum of 12 credit hours taken for letter grades. Area students on the president’s list are: Worland: Jessica J. Lamm, Mary Rose Linneman, Alex L. Mulhall, Kinli B. Vigil and Brandon Todd Wilde. Thermopolis: Cody D. Abbott, Cha...
LARAMIE — The University of Wyoming lists the following students from Wyoming on the 2017 fall semester academic dean’s and dean’s freshman honor rolls. The honor rolls consist of regularly enrolled undergraduates above freshman standing who earned a 3.4 or better grade-point average, and freshmen who have earned a 3.25 or better grade-point average. To be eligible, students must have been enrolled for a minimum of 12 credit hours taken for letter grades. Local students on the honor roll are: Worland: Bryanna Michelle Barrus, Nathan T. Barru...
WORLAND — Seventeen Worland High School music students were selected for All-State music groups, participating in All-State Music Jan. 15-16 in Evanston. Selected for All-State Orchestra were Dane Bennett, oboe and Caleb Fraser, bassoon. All-State Jazz Band were Jade Hefenieder, trumpet, and Andy Deniz, trombone. All-State Band members from Worland were Aaron Vigil, tuba; Anja Sheesley, flute; Katelin Scheuerman, trumpet; and Carmyn Buckman, percussion. All-State choir members from Worland were altos, Joslyn Alonzo, Lauren Anderson, Abby B...