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WORLAND — The Worland-Ten Sleep Chamber of Commerce is co-sponsoring a business costume contest this year. The event spearheaded by Rachel Casteel of Western Sage Accounting has about a dozen businesses participating with their staff getting dolled up in Halloween attire on Friday, or a few on Saturday. Casteel asked the businesses to donate what…

Time to vote absentee in the 2020 election is beginning to run out, as absentee ballots may only be requested through Monday, Nov. 2, at 5 p.m. through the Washakie County Clerk’s office. According to Washakie County Clerk Mary Grace Strauch, there have been nearly as many ballots requested absentee as the last two election…

CODY (WNE) — Yellowstone Regional Airport has fallen victim to cybertheft. Heidi Rasmussen, YRA board member, revealed during a board meeting on Oct. 14, that a wire transfer for $7,829.67 was mistakenly sent to a fraudulent requester posing as the job-hiring firm the airport recently hired. Rasmussen said this encompassed about the first 40% of…

WORLAND – The Washakie County Commissioners met with Dessa Dale of DJ&A during their regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 20, to discuss the next step of the county’s Natural Resource Plan which is to seek public input regarding the plan. The commissioners, along with Dale, determined that since they had made the necessary adjustments…

Did you know that Daylight Saving Time was initially started as an energy saving movement during World War I? Don’t forget to set your clocks back one hour this weekend on Saturday… Top Featured Tags: – Wyoming News Press Release Distribution Service

WORLAND — This year brought its own set of challenges for the Wyoming Sugar sugar beet harvest, but in the end, all beets were harvested and with what is now considered an industry-record sugar content. Last year, Wyoming Sugar and other sugar cooperatives and companies fought hard freezes. This year there were different battles to…

WORLAND – Jack Stott has been the business manager of Washakie County School District (WCSD) No. 1 since 1995, and on Monday night the WCSD No. 1 Board of Trustees accepted his letter of resignation for retirement. “With regret it is a celebration tonight of the most celebrated business manager in Wyomings, my friend Jack…

This week the Northern Wyoming News profiles candidates for the U.S. House and U.S. Senate. Incumbent Liz Cheney won the Republican nomination for the U.S. House and is challenged Democrat Lynnette Grey Bull, Constitution Party candidate Jeff Haggit and Libertarian Richard Brubaker. The candidates were given a questionnaire to provide information on why they are…

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Vesta Mae Voss, 97, passed away on October 17, 2020 at the Wyoming Retirement Center in Basin, Wyoming. Vesta was born on November 16, 1922 in Worland, WY to Rolland George “Slim” and Isa Mae (Wilson) Chenoweth. Vesta attended school in Worland graduating from WHS in 1941. She married Paul Patrick Voss on January 1,…

Bruce E. Stratmann passed from this world to his heavenly home on October 11, 2020 following a brief illness. Bruce was born to Ernest and Meta (Stoltenberg) Stratmann on November 2, 1929 in Holyrood, Kansas. He was the only son to this family; his father passed when he was only 7 and he was left…

TEN SLEEP – Ten Sleep School was nearly left without a school nurse when Colleen Holiday resigned in July just before school beginning in August, but then Kenzi Weddle decided to apply for the position and was hired. She left her position at Cloud Peak Counseling Center to accept her new role at Washakie County…

Ronald Dean Denniston Sr. of Worland died Friday, Oct. 16, 2020, in Fort Collins, Colorado, after a short battle with cancer. He was surrounded by his wife and his children. Ronald was born in Denver, Colorado, on June 26, 1953, later moving to Wyoming. He married his lifelong partner, Myrna Denniston, on Dec. 10, 1972.…

Rodney Wayne Freier, Sr., 63, passed away suddenly at his home on October 12, 2020. Rodney was born on July 15, 1957 in Billings, Montana to Kenneth Paul and Darlene “Dottie” (Ginter) Freier. Rodney graduated from Campbell County High School in 1975 and married Susan D. Reid that July in Worland. He joined the Navy…

TEN SLEEP – Ten Sleep School was nearly left without a school nurse when Colleen Holiday resigned in July just before school beginning in August, but then Kenzi Weddle decided to apply for the position and was hired. She left her position at Cloud Peak Counseling Center to accept her new role at Washakie County…

Leslie Scott Kimzey, 79, passed away peacefully at his home in Snowflake, AZ on October 16, 2020. Scott was born December 5, 1940, in Worland, WY to Clarence Leslie and Virginia Viola (Whitlock) Kimzey. In high school, Scott met Patricia Ann Grable. Following his graduation in 1959 and hers in 1960, the couple was sealed…

TEN SLEEP – Ten Sleep School was nearly left without a school nurse when Colleen Holiday resigned in July just before school beginning in August, but then Kenzi Weddle decided to apply for the position and was hired. She left her position at Cloud Peak Counseling Center to accept her new role at Washakie County…

WORLAND – A break in a line to a fire hydrant resulted in a Worland couple’s home being flooded and the home having to be demolished last weekend. Joe and Kristy Vigil have owned their home at 1215 South Lane for the past 10 years with no flooding issues until Aug. 11 of this year.…

WORLAND – A break in a line to a fire hydrant resulted in a Worland couple’s home being flooded and the home having to be demolished last weekend. Joe and Kristy Vigil have owned their home at 1215 South Lane for the past 10 years with no flooding issues until Aug. 11 of this year.…

Mardyss Aldean “Marti” Groh, 82, passed away Sunday, October 18, 2020 at the Wyoming Pioneer Home in Thermopolis. A celebration of her life will be held in… Top Featured Tags: – Wyoming News Press Release Distribution Service

WORLAND —The City of Worland and University of Wyoming Extension have set up three Saturdays for residents to bring green waste for the city compost pile. Public Works Director Brian Burky said this year there will not be volunteers picking up green waste – leaves, branches and limbs up to three inches and grass clippings.…