BIG HORN — A presence will be missing at Big Horn Middle School at the start of the upcoming 2021-22 school year this fall.

After 31 years of roaming the halls at not one, but two Big Horn middle schools, Principal Richard Welch won’t be there. He’s retiring effective June 30.

Welch’s tenure with Sheridan County School District 1 started in 1990, shortly after he graduated from Utah State University with a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and secondary education. He found job openings at both BHMS and Sheridan Junior High School, part of Sheridan County School District 2.

He was offered the chance to teach Spanish at Big Horn, and moved his wife and child to the area, not expecting to be in Sheridan County for the next three decades.

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