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The Travel and Tourism Board recently hired their new director Jackie Dorothy from Legend Rock Media Productions as of March 1. Dorothy replaces Amanda Moeller, who recently resigned. At the March meeting, Moeller officially handed off the position and provided all documents and resources for the transition. The board voted and approved of Dorothy’s hire. Dorothy previously worked as the marketing director at the Wind River Hotel and Casino in Riverton for 11 years. She worked closely with D...
Chief Julie Mathews made a request for funding for the replacement of the dispatch console which is used by both the Police Department and the County Sheriff. It is currently 16 years old with an expected life span of ten years. According to Mathews, “It’s basically non-functional-functional.” The components cannot be repaired and are rendered obsolete. The dispatch console is necessary equipment as it is part of the 9-1-1 emergency system, but it has failed. The console is off-balance in its mo...
River of Life Fellowship serves the community in need with food supplied from the Wyoming Food Bank of the Rockies based out of Casper and has seen a significant increase in donations. In January 2019 the church served a total of 55 households, which had been the average for about a year. That included 20 children and 107 adults, bringing the total to 127 people. In February 2019 the number served jumped again to 79 households. However, in January 2020 there was a marked increase of those served...
Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital has announced tentative dates for their Open House for the new construction of their facilities. CEO Margie Molitor has proposed that the Open House will be on Thursday, April 2nd from 2:30 p.m. until 6 p.m. Molitor wants to give the public access to view the rooms and building before they move into it with equipment and furniture, etc. There will be guides directing the public for tours and will explain the new features. After the Open House, the hospital...
At the Thermopolis Town Council meeting, Town Attorney Mike Messenger presented the amendment for Town Ordinance No. 822 for a second reading. This amendment updates the definition of “Game Bird” and “Migratory Game Bird”. Essentially, it makes it illegal to feed turkeys in the town. There were nuisance reports of residents feeding wild turkeys in the neighborhoods with corn feed. The turkeys were collecting in groups, not leaving the area and were defecating on cars and property, causing damage...
Ralph Witter's Elementary School held a special flag ceremony for two families whose fathers were deployed overseas in the Middle East. The event idea was sparked by RWE's secretary Connie Dickinson, who received a package from a former student. Army National Guard Specialist Brad Becerra sent the package that contained an American flag along with a letter and two certificates from Afghanistan. This special flag flew over their base in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Dickinson thought about how to make...
Hot Springs County Clerk Rose DeSeyn and her family moved to Thermopolis in 1996. She’s been Hot Springs County Clerk for one year now and shared her reflections. “It’s been really a great experience. I got elected, started my term in January and March 1 my husband passed away. It was bittersweet, but this job, I have to honestly say, it saved me because it’s easy to just kinda fall into a depressive mode and I feel like, ugh, I can’t do this. But having to get up and come to work and learn new...
Friends and family gathered at the Wyoming Pioneer Home Sunday, February 16 to help Al Jackson celebrate his 100th birthday. Jackson was born in Burlington, Wyo., and grew up there until he was 14. For fun, he would ride horses. When he was a teenager, he went on a thirty-day pack trip with some young girls on a valley dude ranch. He did this for three years in a row. He got to see a lot of good country and he was working a lot with the horse wranglers. Jackson said, "They had a guide, a cook,...
The Hot Springs County Board of Travel and Tourism recently met and approved a language change in their bylaws. As part of their strategic plan was to define tourism, Matt Hughes gave a bylaw edit for the first reading. This was originally proposed by Robert Roos because of concerns of businesses that actually do not serve the tourism industry being part of the board. Tourism Director Amanda Moeller brought up the International Tourism Industry definition which states, “The people, activities a...
Stephanie Boren, Reading Specialist and Interventionist at Ralph Witter’s Elementary, announced a new school reading project. She gave each family of the students in the school a copy of “C is for Cowboy,” a Wyoming Alphabet book. The teachers and students will spend a week reading and talking about the book to build vocabulary and to learn about our great state. Boren states, “The benefits of reading aloud to all students are truly remarkable. Studies have shown that reading to childre...
Mayor Mike Chimenti was not present at the Tuesday meeting of the Thermopolis Town Council, vice-chairman Bill Malloy acted as Mayor Pro Temp for the evening. During the citizen participation, Howie Samelson, first gave thanks to the city for their efforts and success in helping the downtown area and the rest of the town for their snow removal. Additionally, he came to present an expansion plan to the existing lighting project for the downtown area. His proposal is to continue to improve the...
The Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital Board met Tuesday and reviewed several annual audits and made additional reports by their members. Kelli Hoblit from the Big Horn Basin Clinic gave a report and overview to the Board of how the hospital meets the federal qualifications for the 340b drug pricing program. This program was created in 1992 and allows prescription medications to be made available to those in need at a significantly discounted price. Michael Wright, an accountant of Koerwitz...
The Thermopolis Independent Record will be running a series of articles on Thermopolis and Hot Springs County elected officials who took office in January of 2019. Second in the series we spoke to Hot Springs County Sheriff Jerimie Kraushaar After one year of services as sheriff, Kraushaar sat down and shared his reflections with the Independent Record. Kraushaar started his career in law enforcement in 2004 as a patrol deputy with the Sheriff’s office. He then worked his way up in the d...
In the most recent Thermopolis - Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce meeting, Pastor Sam Needham, President of the Chamber, gave high praises for the ice skating rink just outside of town. “It’s awesome. My kids have been using a lot, the skates, it’s a great idea.” Chamber Director Meri Ann Rush said that it was a group effort with Hot City Outdoor Alliance and with Big Horn Basin Outdoor Coalition. They get together once a month to promote outdoor recreation. Rush said the Rec District in Powell...
Amanda Moeller, Director of the Travel and Tourism Board, has resigned her position as of January 1, 2020. The board is currently seeking her replacement. Moeller started her role with the board in July 2013 as Tourism Director. She worked as a board contracted consultant through her company Cowgirl Consulting. Regarding some of the work, she is proud of she said, “they did a good job branding, utilizing the “Opolis” billboards all over the state that started with different themes and moved...
The Thermopolis Town Council were given reports of several nuisance issues by Town Animal Control Officer Ame Longwell at their Tuesday, Jan. 21 meeting. Mayor Mike Chimenti was not present at the meeting, vice chairman Bill Malloy was acting as the leading administrator for the night. Longwell brought up two reports of nuisance issues effecting the town. She received complaints from residents on Cedar Ridge and Mountain View where subjects are pouring out large amounts of corn feed onto the...
The Thermopolis Independent Record will be running a series of articles on Thermopolis and Hot Springs County elected officials who took office in January of 2019. First in the series, Thermopolis Police Chief Julie Mathews reflected on her first year as one with challenges and a time for continuing the education and training of her force. Prior to her role as Chief, she worked in Communications, Animal Control and Street Patrol in Thermopolis. She started her career in law enforcement in 1999...
Thermopolis Booster Club President Kelly Cole and Hot Springs County High School Activities Director Brandon Deromedi want to invite local parents of athletes to participate in their activities. For this school year, there are no community parents volunteering as members of the Booster Club. There are only four active officers. The Booster Club services 100 to 120 different athletes out of those four parents. Cole and Deromedi would like parents to volunteer to come and help. Cole said, “We n...
Jayci Mead, owner of JC's Dream Team Bucking Bulls, had her bull, JC's Gangster, in New York City at Madison Square Garden for Professional Bull Riding (PBR) on Jan 3-5. Friday in round 1 Fabiano Viera from Brazil drew Gangster and rode him for 85.5 points. JC's Gangster was asked back for Round 3 on Sunday. Jess Lockwood, the 2019 PBR World Champion drew him and rode him for 86.75. LJ Jenkins hauls Jayci's bulls and had eight other bulls there too. LJ, a retired PBR bull rider, is now a stock c...
Wedg and Kathy Taylor held a celebration on December 29, 2019, for their 50th wedding anniversary. Wedg said, "It was good. We had a lot of people there." Kathy said, "It was very nice." The guests came in for over a four-hour period. She added,"The food was wonderful. It was very sociable. We just walked down table to table to meet the guests." Kathy's twelve-year-old granddaughter did a video of wedding photos put together with 60s-70s music. It was quite the family affair. Wedg and Kathy met...
Phillip & Shurie Scheel have partnered with Bradyn & Shailee Harvey to open up Kirby Creek Mercantile in downtown Thermopolis. They are a retail and food establishment. They decided to create their business about a year ago and they purchased the property from Jackie and Michael Wright. Phillip and Bradyn’s combined backgrounds in construction led them to be able to do most of the building renovations. “We decided to do as much of a rebuild ourselves as possible, little did we know nine mon...
The Christmas shopping season turned out well for many Thermopolis stores, according to some small business owners. Loyal local customer support is strong and out-of-town shoppers are showing up as well. Business owners comments on the holiday shopping season are encouraging. Howie Samelson, of Discover Thermopolis, said “We had a strong Christmas with lots of hot sauces sold. There was good interest in all the changes we’ve made, hard to quantify. But lots of crafts stuff, across the board gif...
During the first Town Council meeting of the year, Fred Crosby, the town administrator, reported that the city’s property and car insurance premiums with HUB and underwriter Travelers will increase by 9.5%. He noted that Travelers did not pay enough for the city’s hail damage. The city’s coverage will lapse on Thursday, January 9. Crosby asked Gary Bowers, an insurance consultant from HUB, to shop around for other insurance companies, but all carriers declined to give a quote. In 2019 insur...
The Discover Thermopolis shop located in downtown Thermopolis now has the largest selection of hot sauces in the state of Wyoming, according to owner Howie Samelson. The store has over 700 different flavors and it might be more than in the state of Colorado as well, according to one distributor. Samelson said, "The real goal is to create an additional destination in Thermopolis. The people will come here because of the selection." The idea came to him at last year's Main Street Conference in a...
Greg Willson is a full-service insurance agent at Rams Head Financial which is a part of Big Horn Federal Bank here in Thermopolis. For the last six years, he was an independent insurance agent with New York Life, which is still an affiliate. Willson's services covered life, long-term care, retirement products, annuities, 401k, IRAs, investments, the whole gamut of insurance and financial service. However, as of October 2019, Willson took and passed his property and casualty insurance license,...
