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Teachers and staff at Ralph Witters Elementary were on-hand to welcome back students on Aug. 21, the first day of school....
This past Tuesday at 5:40 a.m. the Thermopolis Police Department initiated action to arrest four illegal immigrants who were working in Hot Springs County. Police Chief Julie Mathews said this incident had been “days in the making,” and by 7:20 a.m. on Tuesday the four subjects were in custody. Wyoming Highway Patrol also assisted with the incident, and the four will be turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Mathews noted they will not face any local charges. “Th...
Dick Hall said he got here when he was 12 years old, coming from Great Falls, Mont. "Before that we lived in Shelby, and before that we lived in Midwest, and before that we lived in California, and before that we lived in New Mexico." As to why he moved around so much, Hall said his father was a petroleum engineer who was later appointed the district engineer here, for the United States Geological Survey. After he graduated high school in 1948, "on a Sunday afternoon, and Monday morning I was...
On Saturday, Sept. 7, 2001 Hot Springs County High School graduate Kyle Brost will be hosting a books signing at Storyteller. Brost spent most of his childhood in Thermopolis, and the town is home to his mother and stepfather, Janice and Gary Otheiser, and his father and stepmother, Jay and Diana Brost. Following graduation Brost went to work for his father, who at the time was living in Alaska. He then did mission work for his church in Santa Rosa, Calif., before starting schooling at the...
Bill Williams, Chuck Bunch and Jerry Williams dress as the Three Wise Men, and Ellen Mortimore extends some love to a puppet, during a celebration of Mortimore's more than 50 years serving the Community Federated Church. The theatrics call to mind the skits and programs Mortimore has done over the years....
Hot Springs County High School is home to three international students this school year, and among them is Aurora Sanfelici from northern Italy around the same region as Milan, who arrived on Aug. 16, and is attending school as a senior. Sanfelici is visiting through the Rotary Youth Exchange program, the same which provided Hyrum Rich the opportunity to travel to and study in Aguascalientes, Mexico. She noted the United States was among her choices to travel, and it's one of the best places...
When it comes to the Bobcat games through the season, an element that brings some additional flair and helps generate some momentum in the stands is the Hot Springs County High School Band. Prior to the regular practices during the school year, Director Drew Brown said there were a couple days in mid-August where the students did some music rehearsal, and Aug, 19 and 20 they had a “mini camp” on marching technique to prepare. “We’re really young this year,” Brown said, “but we have really soli...
Reminiscent of a certain school of witchcraft and wizardry, at the first Voices program at Thermopolis Middle School, incoming and new students like Angel Smith have a "sorting hat" placed on their heads by teacher Becca Nelson as their school families are announced....
Jimmy Keith and the Hateful 8 perform last Saturday at the Hot Springs State Park pavilion. The concert is the last for this year's Sounds of Summer....
During their Tuesday night meeting, the Thermopolis Town, with Mayor Mike Chimenti absent, approved the first reading of an ordinance to amend Ordinance 840, Section 1, concerning adopted codes. Under the new ordinance, the town will adopt the International Building Code, International Residential Code, International Existing Building Code, International Fire Code, International Property Management Code, International Mechanical Code, International Energy Conservation Code, International...
At the Thermopolis Town Council’s Aug. 6 meeting, council approved an emergency ordinance raising landfill charges from $7.35 per cubic yard to $12. Mayor’s Assistant Fred Crosby explained the town’s Sanitation Enterprise Fund — which covers things like landfill and trash pickup — ended the fiscal year on June 30 with about $130,000 in the red, mainly due to overhauling the track loader and $82,000 in tire shredding. “Those costs are normal costs,” Crosby said. “They just came at an unanticip...
Well, summer vacation has officially come to its close, though there’s still a few weeks left in the season itself, and Wednesday was certainly a rush at the schools with parent drop offs, kids finding classrooms and teachers working to get everything situated. I’ve heard some parenting advice two different ways. One is that it gets easier watching each successive child head to their classroom for the first official day. I’ve also been told that seeing the youngest head off on that new adven...
The Bobcats are getting ready to take to the field for the 2019-20 football season, with practice beginning this past week. Their first game is a 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, at home against Big Horn. Coach Matt McPhie stated, “We’ve got great leadership as we enter into this fall. We have an incredible group of players who are eager and willing to put in the hard work necessary to accomplish great things on the field. We are lead by a stout group of seniors who have experienced some success — and a...
After showing a decline in the 2018-19 fiscal year compared to the previous year, lodging tax receipts for Hot Springs County are off to positive start for the first couple months of the 2019-20 fiscal year, according to the financial report at Tuesday’s meeting of Hot Springs Travel and Tourism. Receipts for July were $15,375,78 compared to $13,359,59 in July 2018, an increase of 10 percent, and receipts for August were $24,279,55 compared to Aug. 2018, a 10 percent increase. The total receipts...
During their Aug. 15 meeting, the Thermopolis-Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce approved the slate of board nominees including Jana Oliver, Jen Fisher, Howie Samelson, Jen Arends and Beth Lewis. The board currently has four board members — Phil Scheel, Deb Tudor, Greg Willson and Barb Heinze — who will “term out” in October, meaning they have served two consecutive three-year terms. The new board members will be announced, along with the chamber’s executive board, during the October meeting....
Decker Agar celebrates his skills after untying a ribbon from a goat's tail during last week's Gymkhana. Goat tail tying is one of the regular events for the monthly Gymkhanas, with participants having to either tie the ribbon on or untie it. See full results on page 6....
There’s plenty happening at what was formerly the southeast lawn of Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital as the new addition is well into its construction. Hospital CEO Margie Molitor said Monty Wardell, superintendent of Sletten Construction, has about four different areas for the project and he’s very coordinated. Steel is still going up in one area, and walls will be put up in the next couple weeks of the operating room area. The last area completed will be the emergency room. “It’s been br...
On Friday, Aug. 2, Raymond W. DeVries Sr was fined a total $600, $100 for each of five misdemeanor counts of theft under $1,000 and one count of misdemeanor criminal trespassing. The charges come from an Aug. 30, 2018 incident, where DeVries brought a truck and forklift onto the property of Linsey Brooks with the purpose of taking five large landscaping rocks. One of the rocks cracked while being moved, and a portion was left on the property. In addition to the fine, DeVries is also sentenced...
Judge Bobbi Overfield has sentenced Hollie Smith to three years of supervised probation for conspiracy to deliver a controlled substance, methamphetamine. Though sentenced to three to five years in prison, that term was suspended. Smith had pleaded guilty to the charge, and a second count of unlawful possession of meth was dismissed. The charges are from a Nov. 2 incident, in which Smith was in a vehicle pulled over due to not having an illuminated rear license plate. The officer observed open...
Senator Wyatt Agar was certainly easy to spot as he kept busy during the Hot Springs County Fair this month, he’s also been keeping busy during the interim of the Wyoming Legislature. As a member of the Appropriations Committee, Agar said he’s been dealing with the results of the Blackjewel mines closing a month ago. That closing, he noted, meant a loss of $78 million in federal mineral royalties. Agar explained the state fronts those royalty monies for the first 18 months, so essentially the...
You may have noticed a sign change along Sixth Street last week, as Finishing Touches became the Hot Rod Station. But the sign is just something of a formality, as owner Dennis Leonhardt said for a year he ran under the Hot Rod Station but didn't have signs up. "We changed the business," Leonhardt said. "We were going to do more old cars - hot rods, street rods, rat rods, modified vehicles and customs." He had previously been doing body and paint work, and just a few weeks prior to getting the...
The fifth annual Fly In at Hot Springs County Airport on Saturday had 25 total aircraft, according to Fixed Base Operator Nate Messenger. That number is almost double the 14 seen last year. It was definitely a better turnout, Messenger said, and though there was nothing different about the event - aside from English muffins as the breakfast rather than pancakes - he believes it's because he got some fliers in the right places. Typically he mails them out, but this year he handed them out to...
Following a Pre-K Health Fair last week, Piper Rossler takes advantage of the water fun set up. The event was sponsored by community schools, Hot Springs County Library and Hot Springs County Public Health. Students were tested in various areas including hearing and motor skills. Public Health provided bike helmet fittings, and their office has free bike helmets for ages toddlers to adults....
During their Tuesday night meeting, the Thermopolis Town Council approved rate increases for water and sanitation, as well as landfill charges. Council approved Resolution 555, which amends Ordinance No. 841 to raise the base rate from $18 to $18.90 per month for all in-town and out of town users for each single unit and per single unit in a multiple unit. The rate for water usage of 1,000 gallons per month is not affected by the rate raise. Mayor’s Assistant Fred Crosby said the last water incr...
In the latest development of a case involving Joe and Barbara Campbell, as well as 10 anonymous plaintiffs, against Tri County Telephone Association, TCT has filed an appeal on an order to the United States Court of Appeals. The appeal, filed July 2, contests the judgment entered on June 4, on the cross motions for summary judgment in the case. The judgment ordered in June by the U.S. District Court of Wyoming was that the federal claims made by TCT against Joe Campbell be dismissed. Further,...
