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WORLAND — Red Cross of Wyoming assisted four adults affected by a house fire on South Tenth Street in Worland on Friday, Dec.  23. According to a press release from the Worland Volunteer Fire Department, the department was was paged to 804 South 10th Street at 2:30 p.m. on Friday for the report of wiring…

WORLAND – Effective at the start of January 2023, Mary Grace Strauch will be retiring from the position of Washakie County Clerk after 38 years of service. As County Clerk, Mary Grace helped a lot of people over the years; for every title written, every election vote cast, and every action taken by the Washakie…

TEN SLEEP – State Senator Ed Cooper, Republican representing Senate District 20 that includes Big Horn, Fremont, Hot Springs, Park and Washakie counties since 2021 gave insight into his duties and the issues he will face in the upcoming year. Cooper’s committee assignments have not changed since last year; he is still the Chairman of…

Washakie County Attorney John Worrall, Clerk to the Washakie County Commissioners Board Mary Grace Strauch, attended their final Washakie County Commissioners meeting on Dec. 20 before they retire in January. ROAD AND BRIDGE During Tuesday’s meeting, Stuart Bower of Washakie County Road and Bridge said they will be halting major projects until spring to focus…

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Governor Mark Gordon has ordered both the U.S. and State of Wyoming flag be flown at half-staff statewide on Friday, December 23 in honor and memory of Bruce Lang, a volunteer firefighter and Training Officer with the Pine Haven Volunteer Fire Department. Lang died Thursday when the utility task vehicle he was…

Vince M. Cervantes passed away December 8, 2022, at the age of 93. He was born April 5, 1929, in Alden, Kansas. He graduated from Worland High School where he was a star football and basketball player. Vince served with the Wyoming National Guard unit that was deployed to Korea during the Korean War during…

The Ten Sleep-Hyattville Lions Club selected the top three floats among 12 entries from Saturday’s Christmas parade. Taking first was the Big Horn Bar, second was Daily Bread and third was the Ten Sleep Fish Hatchery. Voters selected the winners from the Dec. 3 Worland-Ten Sleep Chamber of Commerce Parade of Lights in Worland. People’s…

WORLAND – Worland High School senior Sophia Scheuerman had an early graduation ceremony at the Washakie County School District No. 1 Board of Trustees meeting Tuesday night, Dec. 13. While friends and family crowded into the Administration Building, Scheuerman walked into the board room wearing a cap and gown and received her diploma from board…

Maycle Fern Boyd Wilson was a kind, thoughtful and loyal daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend. She was born May 2, 1929 at Midwest WY, her family moved to Thermopolis shortly thereafter where she lived the rest of her life. She passed away on December 17, 2022 in Bozeman, MT, at the age of…

Douglas Agee, of Fort Collins, Colorado, passed away on December 10, 2022. Born in Worland, Wyoming in 1925, he grew up on his family’s sugar beet farm with two sisters and four brothers. After graduating from Worland High School, he attended Colorado State University, University of Hawaii, and University of Wyoming. He enjoyed a 30-year…

Ian Simpson, 35, of Carthage, Texas, passed away on Sunday morning, December 11, 2022, near Clayton, Texas due to injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Ian Andrew Simpson was born on September 6, 1987, in Lander, Wyoming to Patrick Doyle and Sharon Ella Skiles Simpson. He graduated from Carthage High School with the class of…

I heard through the grapevine that I am on the naughty list and I am writing to protest. I feel you need to hear my side of things before making a final determination before Christmas. Before we get started with my defense I just want to say thank you for giving me the best Christmas…

For decades in the United States, the most frequent cause of accidental death had been a motor vehicle crash. That is no longer the case and, unfortunately, it’s not because cars and drivers are suddenly much safer. No, the top spot has been taken over by drug overdoses, driven largely by opioid drugs. Communities large…

Caroline Cone Hansen, 90, died Monday December 12, 2022, at Worland Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center. She was born January 3, 1932, in Sheridan, Wyoming to Maurice and Janet (Prendergast) Cone. She lived in Sheridan until her father died when she was 10, then her family moved to Minnesota, where her mother eventually remarried. At the…

POWELL — Kanye West and his businesses may owe more than $50 million in taxes, but they appear mostly all square with the State of Wyoming. Now known as Ye, the musician and entrepreneur left behind tens of thousands of dollars worth of IOUs to the state when he and his businesses pulled out of…

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WORLAND – Hunters with the Paintrock Hunter Mentor Program’s Young Hunters Care Project (PHMPYHC) again showed their generosity and donated meat from hunts this season for the Food from the Field Program. In its third year, Food from the Field Program is a program under Wyoming first lady Jennie Gordon’s Hunger Initiative. Under the program, Wyoming Hunger Initiative,…

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JACKSON — Access to abortion in Wyoming will remain legal, for now, after the Wyoming Supreme Court has declined to answer questions of law about whether new restrictions passed by the Legislature violate the state’s constitution. In a notice filed Tuesday, Chief Justice Kate Fox declined to answer a dozen questions certified to the state’s…

Talented band and choir students from Worland High School have been selected to perform at the state level and beyond in winter 2023. All State Band and Choir participants submitted an audition and were selected to participate in All-State Music in Sheridan on Jan. 16-17 with musicians from other Wyoming schools. Representing the Worland High…

WORLAND – Starting their season on an excellent note, five Worland Warrior swimmers qualified for the 3A State meet in February during the first weekend of the season. Swimming at the Powell quad on Dec. 9 and the Cody Pentathlon on Dec. 10, Warriors Trae Bennett, Walker Cooper, Canton Green, Gage Stanek and Wyatt Whitlock…