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At the April Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital Board meeting CEO Margie Molitor said, “the exciting thing is that all of our outpatient areas are now open. Everything the patient touches is new or remodeled. They can come in the main entrance and find their way.” Molitor also said that their CT volume is going up and they are hoping their mammography volume goes up too. They are getting good feedback from the speciality clinic from the specialists there. Dr. Nicole Jamieson is confirmed to...
Main Street Thermopolis is holding its annual Brewfest event on Saturday, June 5 from 4-8 p.m. between 4th and 5th street on Broadway downtown. It is their main fundraiser where the entire community and families can participate. Adults 21 years and older can purchase a tasting mug for $25 and try out beer from six or more craft breweries from around the state. There will be a variety of food trucks, vendors with arts and crafts and local musicians, such as Eric Kay, Keith OBrien and Harold...
At the April 20 Hot Springs County Commissioners meeting, the commissioners held a discussion with County Health Nurse Tricia McPhie to discuss rescinding the Incident Command Team they created in March 2020, which was a response to the COVID situation and other aspects to the emergency situation. McPhie said, “I think we’ve learned a lot of stuff over the last year. We are not meeting like we did before. Efforts have obviously changed, too. Testing and vaccinating with a detailed plan, mor...
At the April 20 Thermopolis Town Council meeting, Heath Overfield reported on their waste management situation and the transfer station. Overfield started by saying he wanted to put a placeholder in their budget for money going to the access of the transfer station because they wanted to add a lane. This would be done in accordance with WYDOT. There are a couple of options of how they can do the work and they will decide in the near future. Overfield then provided a priority list of transfer...
Sonja Johansen is the new Golf Pro Shop manager and she will be taking care of the clubhouse. There are plans to reopen the restaurant at the course soon. The menu will include, chicken, burgers, chicken fingers and some diabetic friendly foods. Along with french fries, other side options will be coleslaw, cottage cheese and other low carb options. They will also be serving morning coffee. Johansen will oversee staff, take care of the golf carts and the bar among other duties. The club house...
Dr. Yun Cheng, Ph.D. is a psychologist who recently moved her practice to Hot Springs County and has set up her office at Gottsche. Dr. Cheng provides high-quality, state-of-the-art, private and confidential psychological services. With over 20 years of experience, Dr. Cheng provides psychological testing and treatment services for all ages and for a wide range of issues, including academic performance and developmental issues, neuropsychological, disability and mental health evaluations and agi...
The owners of the new Mexican restaurant Los Cabos, Ricardo Lopez and Tina Ordaz have been experiencing surprising results since they opened on February 5. There was a rough start with acquiring staffing at the beginning but they now seem to be in their stride. Ordaz said, “It’s been going really good. It was a lot busier than we expected. It’s slowed down a bit lately but I don’t know if it’s just the weather, but weekends are especially busy. It slowed down during the week, but not on the we...
Dusty Lewis and his outdoor adventure business called Rent Adventure are preparing for the coming summer season. Lewis said, “We had a super busy year last year.” Last year in July they had almost 500 customers in that month and in August just a little less than that. One particular day they had 90 people on the river. Typical floating trips start with renting the gear from the Rent Adventure shop and then the tourists head to the Wedding of the Waters at the mouth of Wind River Canyon. The...
At the April 6 Thermopolis Town Council meeting, Meri Ann Rush reported Main Street Thermopolis is applying for the Placemaking Grant. They wanted to finish the downtown area with more decorative lighting. She wants to place lights on 5th Street between Broadway and Arapahoe and also on Arapahoe with the approval of the town. Rush also requested to put up an informational board at Bicentennial Park and to paint the picnic tables there. She requested to have banners there year-round which would...
At the Hot Springs County Commissioners meeting on April 6, Nate Messenger provided the FBO Monthly Airport report and said that March was good with 138 total recorded operations at the new county airport, of which four were air ambulances and six were aircraft overnight. There was also one hangar request. Their fuel sales were 608.27 gallons of Avgas and 439.69 gallons of jet fuel. Both traffic and fuel sales were up this month. There was some discussion with the commissioners about the...
During their Tuesday meeting, the Hot Springs County Commissioners voted to adopt a resolution making the county a Second Amendment Sanctuary. Sheriff Jerimie Kraushaar presented the resolution to the commissioners and he said, “on an average week I probably have five to ten people ask me if we are coming for their guns.” Sheriff Kraushaar said his reply to them is he would never do that and they have the Second Amendment and the Wyoming Constitution to support them. Kraushaar added that his...
At the March 30 Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital Board meeting, hospital CEO Margie Molitor said they are about to complete Phase Four in their funding and are about done with the USDA loan application, which will be completed in the next week. The remaining items are cosmetic work, including painting and carpeting. Around May 15 is when they close the loan. Molitor wants the public to know that total joint replacements are possible here in Hot Springs County with surgeons Dr. Francisco,...
Dale and Ciley Andreen are holding an information meeting for those who might be interested in becoming a foster parent or foster family. The Andreen’s have been foster parents for eight years and they have had 46 kids in that time. “There’s just a need in Hot Springs County for foster homes, for respite care. We need prayer warriors, we people willing to step in and say hey, can I help you with your kids? Our foster homes are getting older. Right now there are only three or four foster home...
Hot Springs County Road and Bridge Supervisor Shane Rankin provided information on how speed limits are determined on county roads and elsewhere. Rankin said, “Mainly the county doesn’t set the speed limits. The speed limits are an engineered study. Basically, in layman’s terms, setting a speed limit must be established by a WYDOT study. When the speed limit is posted, it should be within five miles per hour of the 85% of free-flowing traffic.” WYDOT puts counters across the roads, which a...
Monday, March 29, is the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. In 2017 President Trump made March 29 the National Vietnam War Veteran's Day. Veteran Tobi Johansen of the local VFW Hall Post 2281 held a volunteer help day for our local veterans to commemorate the day. Johansen said, "It's based on one of the final battles in that war. It wasn't officially over until another couple of years later, 1975. But in 1971 was one of the bigger battles. To commemorate that we wanted to start...
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department and the Wyoming Department of Agriculture recently convened a meeting of Wyoming's Invasive Mussel Response Team. The team, formed by Gov. Mark Gordon, is a multi-agency effort to stop the spread of and limit impacts from invasive zebra mussels in Wyoming. Hot Springs State Park Superintendent Kevin Skates said that Game and Fish are really concerned about the zebra mussel invading the cooling ponds of the park and elsewhere. Skates said, "It's an invasive sp...
A new Sketch Club has been started here in Thermopolis that allows artists to meet fellow creative people. It was formed by Joe Moon and Josh Rathbun, who happened to discover their shared artistic interests by chance during jury duty. Moon saw Rathbun's iPad Pro digital drawings and was immediately struck by his ability. Moon told Rathbun that he has an art background as well. Moon said they were, "trying to think of something to get artists together, to just hang out and be creative without...
On Tuesday, March 16, Officer Mike Mascorro, of the Thermopolis Police Dept., conducted a traffic stop near the Armory on US Highway 20 North. The vehicle was pulled over for speeding in a school zone. During the traffic stop, Officer Mascorro smelled the overwhelming odor of marijuana emanating from the interior of the vehicle and requested assistance from additional units. During a subsequent search of the vehicle, Thermopolis Police Department Officer Scott Gardner and Hot Springs County...
At the March 16 County Commissioners meeting, Shane Rankin gave his Road and Bridge report and said that the Big Horn Basin Discovery Center requested assistance in moving some dirt for a mound on their center’s location. They want to use a bulldozer and loader to form the mound in preparing for a pond and waterfall to eventually be put there. The work would take about one to two days. A formal motion was not necessary, and the commissioners gave their approval. Hot Springs County Sheriff J...
At the March 16 Town Council meeting, the Town Council approved a catering permit for Shorty’s at the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation event set for April 10. Howie Samelson from Main Street Thermopolis provided his quarterly report and said they will be scheduling their Spring Clean Up for May Samelson also thanked the council for approving the street closure for the coming Brewfest. Samelson said that they are working with Brian Beadles, from the Wyoming State Preservation Office to expand T...
In a recent letter to the editor in the Independent Record, the writer spoke about her interest in using CI or Capital Improvements for paying for the replacement of many dumpsters for the town. She stated, “It seems that the CI monthly fee of $5 per customer which we have been paying for many years now would have accrued quite a nest egg by now. What better use would CI of $5 be than equipment replacement costs such as this.… It’s time the monthly capital improvement fee be applied to the d...
At the Thermopolis Town Council meeting on March 2, Meri Ann Rush and Howie Samelson, representing Main Street Thermopolis, requested street closure for the Brewfest event occurring on Saturday, June 5. The event is from 4-8 p.m. with the closure starting at noon so the vendors can set up and with closure ending at 9 p.m. They asked for extra barricades to help make things secure and prevent people from driving through. The event is for both food and non-food vendors. There will be a corn hole t...
At Hot Springs County Commissioners meeting on March 2, County Health Nurse Tricia McPhie gave her report saying the maternal-child health position is still open and they are starting to receive applications. The advertising they paid through the Wyoming Nursing Magazine has recently gone out. Scheduling interviews will be next once they receive more candidates. McPhie said that the Department of Health has finally distributed numbers for the maternal-child health contract. She will present...
Officer Mike Mascorro recently gave a drug awareness presentation to Thermopolis high school freshmen for their health classes. This is now Mascorro’s third year in giving this education. He showed some videos about what hard drugs do and also about vaping and nicotine. At the end of his speaking and questions and answers with the students, Mascorro showed them mock fake drugs or props that are similar to what they look like in real life. This helps the students know how to recognize them if a...
Brad Becerra recently opened up his auto detailing business called Precision Detail. Becerra said he wanted to do an auto detail business before he was deployed to Afghanistan. He and his wife were looking for a place to put it and end up deciding to run it out of his garage at home. They bought the property next to their house and plan on building a shop there in the future. Precision Detail is located at 1116 Amoretti and is available by appointment only. Becerra is able to do a car or two a...
