News

05/14/2026 - 8:00am
Lilac Days to celebrate semi quincentennial June 5-6
Basin’s annual Lilac Days celebration is June 5 and 6. To help celebrate the United States Semi Quincentennial, attendees are asked to wear red, white and blue.  Also added to honor the 250th birthday, children first through fifth grade are invited...
Tentative 2026 fair schedule approved
Trout in the classroom
Medicine Wheel issue at the forefront again
How mill levies, taxes and budgets work in the county
Community Calendar

Obituaries

05/13/2026 - 2:45pm
Mark Allen Cheshier
November 24, 1945 - April 30, 2026 Mark Allen Cheshier, 80, of Basin, WY, passed away peacefully at home on Thursday, April 30, 2026, with his wife by his side. Born on November 24, 1945, in Greybull, WY, Mark married Charlotte Carol Rice on...
Michael Lamar Scott
James Francis Spargur
Death Notice
Judy Gaye McMahon
Karen Christine Hoffman Cates

Opinion

05/14/2026 - 8:00am
Icemen and explosive flour
Questions In what mountain range was the 5,300-year-old frozen and mummified body of Ötzi the Iceman found? What year did the first woman officially run the Boston Marathon? What are the four smallest Wyoming counties by population, and what are...
Things we were told as children … that never happened
Letter to the Editor: ‘Thoughts from an old airman’
Letter to the Editor: The Republican Party left me
Chicken story number 3 or is it 4?
Pastors Corner: Jesus is coming again