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Ralph Witters Elementary of Hot Springs County School District #1 is one of three Wyoming schools named as 2025 National Blue Ribbon schools. The Wyoming Department of Education announced last week that the public schools had been selected as recipients of the prestigious award. This honor recognizes schools that demonstrate overall academic excellence or make significant progress in closing achievement gaps. “Congratulations to our 2025 Blue Ribbon Schools. Wyoming continues to lead the nation in education, and these three schools are s...
Hue Howe shows off a firefighter uniform while Savannah Paulk, Ciley Andreen and Thermopolis Volunteer Firefighter Ken Smith watch during Storytime at the Hot Springs County Library last week. See page 8 and 9 for our salute to our firefighters during National Fire Prevention Week....
The Hot Springs Health Board of Directors met on September 30, 2025 for their regular monthly meeting, and recognized nurse Paula Whitt. Whitt was nominated to represent Hot Springs Health in the Wyoming Hospital Association’s annual Norman Holt Award competition. The competition recognizes excellence in nursing throughout the State of Wyoming. Board Chair, Melissa Johnson, stated: “We are very proud of Paula, and very thankful for all that she does for the patients, and for Hot Springs Health.” Board Member, John Anderson, reported on his a...
This beautiful sunrise was captured from downtown Thermopolis on a rainy Saturday morning....
On the Record policy It is the Thermopolis Independent Record’s policy that all people arrested or cited under the “Sheriff’s office” or “Police department” in the On the Record section are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. We print the names of all people upon their initial arrest. Names of minors are not printed. Sheriff’s office Monday, Sept. 29 3:49 p.m. Report of cattle loose on Buffalo Creek Road. Deputies located one goat and placed it back into its designated pen with no incident. 6:01 p.m. Welfare check near Gebo...
A squirrel was recently identified as the thief of peanuts and other goodies as it stores food in preparation for upcoming colder temperatures....
The Broadway Bridge over the Bighorn River has been closed since July as it gets a much needed upgrade. Last Thursday, crews poured 300 yards of concrete, a little over one million pounds worth, to cover the bridge surface....
More so than any other season in the Tetons, autumn comes and goes in the blink of an eye. Nothing gold can stay, as Robert Frost wrote. With school back in session and waning visitation, the valley quiets a bit as Mother Nature puts on a show. The only sensible thing to do is to spend as many hours as possible soaking it in. Slow down. Back away from the screens. Focus on what matters: people, place, passion. Pack a picnic and head for the parks, windows down on the drive for a chance to hear bugling elk. Don’t forget the binoculars. Go for a...
by Bryan Golden Imagine carrying a heavy weight around with you every day. With it, you can’t move fast or far. Your back hurts. Your legs are sore. Your burden is exhausting. Would you continue holding onto this weight if you didn’t have to? Of course not, you would drop it as soon as possible. Without the weight, your quality of life would improve immensely. Too many people carry around the heavy emotional weight of worry and stress. This burden has destructive effects. When it’s held onto constantly, physical and mental ailments are commo...
Laura Louise (Riggs) Harvey Dockter, Mother and Homemaker and life long Thermopolis, Wyo., resident went home to the Lord on Sunday, October 5, 2025, at the age 75. Laura was born in Rock Springs Wyo. Her mother Harriet Wilde Trank and William Trank moved to Thermopolis when she was young. She spent her school years in Thermopolis. Over the years she was involved in many different occupations including janitor at the high school while her children attended school and restaurant owner. Laura... Full story
Becky Van de Vord plays the hammered dulcimer during the Unplug Evening Service in the Celtic tradition at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church last Sunday....
by Andrew Graham, WyoFile.com The justices on the Wyoming Supreme Court want the state to understand that, unlike their counterparts in Washington, they don’t select the cases that reach their chamber in Cheyenne. Any case in Wyoming that’s appealed beyond the district court lands in their courtroom, and requires a resolution from the five justices. “We just take them as they come. We don’t get to pick and choose,” Chief Justice Lynne Boomgaarden told WyoFile on Wednesday. She made the remarks in an hour-long interview, in which she was joine...
The Hot Springs County High School Bobcat and Lady Cat cross country teams hosted their annual Bobcat Invite on Friday, October 3. Scheduling conflicts with an event being held in Cody the same day caused just one other varsity team to appear for the event in Thermopolis. Nonetheless, there were many middle school teams who did appear that day, and who all were able to partake of the fine, sunny weather in Thermopolis. As a bonus to the exquisite weather, the restricted field of runners allowed...
The Hot Springs County High School Bobcats traveled to Cokeville last Friday, for an afternoon game against the newly fifth-ranked Panthers. In the time that Thermopolis and Cokeville have found themselves competing in the Class 2A West Conference, the Bobcats had yet to take a win against Cokeville – but Friday changed that. With no lights on the field in Cokeville, the game was played in the early afternoon, following a very early morning bus ride for the Cats. There had been some light rain in the area earlier in the day, and at g...
Seven middle school teams gathered in Thermopolis last Friday for the Bobcat Cross Country Invitations held at the Thermopolis Golf Course with the TMS boys team placing 4th and the girls finishing in sixth place. In the last regular meet of the season and with home field advantage, multiple runners posted personal records. Seventh grader Amelia Johnson and eighth grader Kylie Geis both shaved minutes off last year's time with Johnson leading the girls team with a time of 13:51 and a ninth place...
Last week, the Hot Springs County High School volleyball team, once again, played home and away matches. On Friday, October 3 the team met up with the Lady Grizz of Rocky Mountain and then traveled on Saturday to Powell to face off with a very talented Class 3A team in the Lady Panthers. Coming into the match, the Lady Grizz held a record of 14-8, and sat in second place in the 2A Northwest quad standings. In practice, Coach Kylie Corpening had the team working on some new combinations, which she was eager to try out against their 2A Northwest...
Submitted by Nelda Currah, Hunting with Heroes Wyoming "Chief Helper" The Thermopolis Chapter of Hunting with Heroes Wyoming (HwH WY) recently celebrated its 12th year of hosting disabled veterans during the annual Antelope Hunt, held Sept. 27. Ten veterans traveled to Thermopolis for the event, representing seven states - Wyoming, Colorado, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, and Washington - with a combined 159 years of military service among them. The 2025 hunt participants...
by Rachel Finch Laramie Boomerang Via Wyoming News Exchange LARAMIE — The Wyoming Department of Health concluded its series of public meetings across the state at the University of Wyoming student union, hosting a town hall focused on the Rural Health Transformation Program. The final in-person session was held on Thursday, wrapping up a series of eight sessions hosted throughout September and October, along with two virtual meetings conducted on Sept. 23 and 25. The effort follows Section 71401 of House Resolution 1, the One Big Beautiful B...
by Daniel Rasmussen Cody Enterprise Via Wyoming News Exchange More than six years after allegedly murdering Angela Elizondo in Cheyenne, Joseph Carl Underwood received the maximum sentence for crimes committed in Park County. During Underwood’s Monday sentencing, District Court Judge Bill Simpson sentenced Underwood to serve more than 14 years for the four charges he was facing. “Mr Underwood… I don’t know how what happened here could be otherwise described in any other light than horrific, terrible and tragic,” Simpson said. “It’s a monstrous...
This yellow garden spider was approximately three inches from tip to tip. They are classified as an orb weaver and skillfully build large orb shaped webs....
by John Bernhisel I'll begin this story with a bold claim: The land beneath Thermopolis has been part of more geographic domains than any other town in U.S. history. Imagine dangling your feet for the past 500 years in our famous hot springs and watching the world change around you. As time passed, and without ever moving you would have experienced life in four countries, seven U.S. territories, seven counties, and one state all while the Native American claims were taken, then given back, then...
