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The Travel & Tourism Board met for their regular monthly meeting on December 16. The Board reviewed the status of their on-going projects, and discussed other future projects. Director Angie Guyon, reported that both the Town of Thermopolis and the Town of East Thermopolis have now approved the plan for installing wayfinding signs. This project is slated to be funded in full with Destination and Development Grant dollars from the Wyoming Office of Tourism. Guyon will be meeting in January with representatives of WYDOT to finalize that...
The Thermopolis - Hot Springs County Chamber of Commerce board held their regular monthly meeting on December 11 in the conference room at Gottsche Rehab and Wellness. As planning for the upcoming new year gears up, the board discussed their 2026 city/county map project. The Board will be producing 10,000 copies of the map for distribution throughout the county. The board took note that all feedback which had been received regarding the December Lighted Christmas Parade had been very favorable. There were 25 entries in the parade, and everyone...
After a surely appreciated holiday break, the Bobcats and Lady Cats of Hot Springs County High School will be back in action this week. In the early season the two teams have each played a number of Class 3A and 4A teams, however, 2A competition has been slim. That will all change come this Thursday, January 8, when the teams will travel to Ethete to face off with two very highly touted Class 2A teams from Wyoming Indian. The Lady Chiefs are 5-3 in the early going, and are ranked 4th in 2A - just ahead of the Lady Cats. For the boys, the...
Several members of the Thermopolis Wrestling Club (TWC) traveled with Team Wyoming to Utah last weekend to compete first at the Christmas Clash Duals in Farmington and then at the Salt Lake Slam. The Christmas Clash was held at the Western Sports Park in Farmington, Utah, on January 2. It is one of the largest youth dual wrestling events in the Mountain West and features boys and girls wrestlers from both elementary and middle school levels. The girls from Team Wyoming put on a strong effort in Farmington, coming in 6th over-all in the team...
On December 30 the Board of Directors of Hot Springs Health met for their last regular monthly meeting. CEO Scott Alwin reviewed for the board the steps which have been taken to update the Community Health Needs Assessment for Hot Springs County. The needs assessment is required by the federal government to be updated every three years. Community needs were identified and prioritized at a stakeholder meeting, which took place in November. The board was asked to approve the revised needs assessment report, which will now be distributed within...
The Hot Springs County School Board met for their last meeting of the year on December 18. For their first order of business, the board held elections of officers for the calendar year 2026. With one exception, the same officers for 2025 were elected to serve for 2026. Jennifer Axtell will serve as chair, Marshall Keller will serve as vice-chair and Nichole Weyer will serve as clerk. Chauncy Johnson will take over for Jean Skelton as treasurer. The board will continue to hold their regular monthly meetings on the third Thursday of each month, w...
In the last week before the holiday break, the Thermopolis Bobcats had a dual in Greybull and then traveled to Worland to participate at the Battle in the Big Horns Tournament. This year, the Cats team is somewhat understaffed, leaving a lot of open weight classes and making it difficult to secure a win in a dual. Nevertheless, the Cats gritted out the week and found a great deal of success. On Thursday, December 18, the Bobcats came away with a win by criteria over Greybull/Riverside, with a team score of 37-36. Dyllan Myers, Cannon Boren,...
The Hot Springs County High School Lady Cat wrestling team had a loaded schedule in the week before their holiday break. On Thursday, December 11, the Lady Cats had a dual with Greybull/Riverside. There, the Lady cats won 2 of their 3 matches. Izzy Hetzel got things rolling with a pin, and two-time returning state champion, Lilly Quintanilla, followed up with another pin. Freshman Jesalyn Blair, lost her match to a state placer from last year. Junior Ava Dafoe received a forfeit at her weight class. On Friday and Saturday of that week, the...
At the second regularly scheduled Thermopolis Town Council meeting for the month of December, the council held a public informational hearing on the Town’s Lead Service Line Investigation & Replacement Project. The town’s water system currently serves approximately 2,725 residents and 1,528 service connections. The goal of the project is to investigate and identify unknown service line material types within the service system. Town employees have been undertaking a survey of service line connections, and have identified a lesser number of lea...
The Hot Springs County Commissioners made quick work of a lightly populated agenda at their December 16 meeting. Dr. Vern Miller, who has served as the county’s public health officer for a number of years, was reappointed by the commissioners to a new term. Filling some open spots on several local advisory boards, the commissioners appointed Travis Collins to the fair board, and reappointed Jim Lash to the predatory animal control board. Appointed to fill two open spots on the natural resource planning commission were Kelly Owen and Dan Wychgra...
The Thermopolis wrestling teams had a busy schedule last week. On Thursday the teams competed in a dual at Greybull/Riverside. The Lady Cats won their dual by a score of 18-6, while the Bobcats battled to a 36-36 tie in the boys division. Then on Friday the teams headed to Worland for the large 2025 Battle in the Big Horns Tournament, which drew eighteen teams to the event. As a team, Thermopolis scored 83.5 team points, landing in 8th place in the team standings. Due to an early deadline as a...
The #2 ranked Hot Springs County High School Bobcat basketball team kicked off their tournament season in Green River last weekend at the Flaming Gorge Classic. The tournament draws a large number of teams from across Wyoming and several other states. On Friday, the Cats drew Mountain View as their first opponents in the tournament. Although the score remained close through the first quarter, in the second quarter the Cats began to pull away and won the game by a score of 74-44. Bridger Peil had a great game, dropping three 3-point shots and...
The Hot Springs County High School Lady Cats basketball team traveled to Green River last weekend to compete in the vaunted Flaming Gorge Tournament. Teams head to Green River for this event as a means to jump-start their seasons and to get a quick look of how teams are looking as the season gets underway. Ranked #4 among 2A teams, the Lady Cats faced off with the Class 3A Lady Buffs of Mountain View on Friday at Green River High School. Without senior Jayssie Owsley, who was out with an injury, teammates Kamryn Farrell and Chloee Owsley were...
The Hot Springs County High School Bobcat basketball team traveled to Lander last weekend to jump start their 2025-26 season. In preseason voting, the Cats are ranked #1 in Class 2A and are favored to repeat as state champs. To begin their new season, the Bobcats bit off a tough one in the Lander Tigers, who begin their season ranked #5 among Class 3A teams. The Cats, with five seniors returning from last year’s state championship team and looking to have another successful season, had their hands full in Lander. Although the two teams p...
The Hot Springs County High School Lady Cats basketball team ended their season last year with a third place finish in the state tournament in Casper. With four seniors returning this year, the team kicked off the new season in Lander last weekend, aiming for a state championship this season. In preseason voting, the Lady Cats are ranked number 4 among the state’s class 2A teams. On Friday, the 3A Lady Tigers showed up to play - putting the Lady Cats to the test, with a determined full-court press, and some talented shooting from outside the a...
Five members of the Hot Springs County High School Lady Cats wrestling team kicked off their 2025-26 season in Cody last weekend in an individual tournament. On Friday, pool matches of between three and four matches for each grappler led to seeding in the Saturday brackets. Junior Ava Dafoe won all of her matches by pin on Friday and duplicated the performance on Saturday, to bring home a 1st place finish. Coach, Travis McDermott said, “Ava just missed making it to State last year, and came out with great determination in the opening t...
The 2025-26 season got under way for the Hot Springs County High School Bobcat wrestling team in Powell last weekend. Twelve members of the team competed in the event, which saw some great individual performances and some new faces who are just learning the ropes. The team fielded eight grapplers in the varsity tournament, while four Cats faced-off in the JV tournament. Junior, and returning state champion, Dyllan Myers, continued his successful wrestling career in Powell. Coach Travis McDermott said, “Dyllan walked through the pools with 3 w...
At the December 2 Thermopolis Town Council meeting, the council held a discussion about employee pay rates. At a previous meeting, the council had agreed to increase the base pay rate for the police department by two dollars per hour. After conducting a survey of similar sized towns in Wyoming and finding that Thermopolis is four-six dollars below the pay rates of other municipalities, Assistant to the Mayor Jim Jeunehomme proposed that the council increase the base pay rate for all other town employees by two dollars. Jeunehomme suggested...
At the December 2 Hot Springs County Commissioners meeting, chairman Tom Ryan commenced a discussion regarding the office hours at the 4-H Extension office. He stated that he had been contacted by a constituent, and was advised that the office has no posted hours, and there is no way of knowing when someone will be in the office. Ryan questioned whether the county should continue to provide funding for a position if the office is not being manned. Representatives from the office were present and advised that the office hours had been made...
The Hot Springs Health Board of Directors met on November 25 for their regular monthly meeting. The board held their annual election for board officers, electing John Fenton as the new board chair. He will take over for current chair, Melissa Johnson. Johnson will remain on the board. John Anderson will continue as vice chair, and Aimee Kay and Jessica Benefiel will continue as secretary and treasurer, respectively. The board received and reviewed its 2025 Audit report. The auditors commended the hospital accounting and finance staff for their...
Last Saturday, Hot Springs County High School played host to the Big Horn Basin Middle School Wrestling Championships. Boys and girls teams gathered from across the basin to match their skills, talent and training on the mat. If you were there, most assuredly, you may count yourself among the most fortunate. With so many grapplers and their families in attendance, parking spaces at the high school were at a premium, and so were seats in the stands. As the matches got under way, interested...
The Thermopolis Christmas Tree Festival will take place this year at the Community Church Fellowship Hall, 631 Big Horn St., on Monday, December 8. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m., and the auction will begin at 6. The event is sponsored by the Thermopolis Community Fund, a local non-profit organization, which has hosted the event for more than twenty years. The festival is held this time of year to raise funds from the sale of decorated Christmas trees, wreaths and other holiday decorative items. Bidders will be sure to find something they like...
The Travel & Tourism Board met for their regular monthly meeting on November 18 and reviewed the status of a number of on-going projects. The board approved an expenditure of up to $55,000 for a new web page and support services. Director, Angie Guyon, advised the board that she had received and reviewed a proposal from a company called Granicus, which provides web hosting services for the travel and tourism industry. The board had previously discussed updating its current web page, and the Granicus proposal is meant to address the needs that...
As we head in to the holiday season, it is a good time to take a look back at the many triumphs of Hot Springs County High School in the fall sports programs. The Bobcats and Lady Cats competed in golf, cross country, volleyball and football - with each team hitting new highs, and bringing home new hardware for the trophy case. In golf, the Thermopolis golf teams had garnered state championships in the two preceding years. The Lady Cats were state champs in 2023, and the Bobcats were state champs in 2024. With those wins, and with the Lady...
The Hot Springs County Commissioners met on November 18 for their second regular monthly meeting. With a relatively light agenda, the commissioners made quick work of their tasks. Administrative assistant to the commissioners, Connie Guntly, requested that the commissioners authorize her to issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) for realtor services for the Overlook at Roundtop project at the old airport. The commissioners were all in agreement with that request. Nate Messenger gave the monthly report on airport operations. The airport had a...
