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The Hot Springs County Commissioners met on October 7 for their first regular meeting for the month. Les Culliton appeared before the commissioners, to inquire about the status of collection efforts regarding the court ordered fine imposed in connection with the Tipi Retreat property. County Attorney Jill Logan stated that she was awaiting direction from the commissioners to move forward with collection efforts. Upon a motion made by commissioner Bob Aguiar and seconded by chairman Tom Ryan, the commissioners advised the county Attorney to...
Ella Slover, Kaycee Stothart, Ava Dafoe and Ann Allen ride on horseback to lead the Homecoming Parade last Friday. They are followed by the cheerleaders and football team on a firetruck....
The Thermopolis Town Council met for its first regular monthly meeting on October 7. A representative from the accounting firm of Seckman & Thomas presented a review of the audit of the town’s finances, which had recently been completed by the firm. The audit resulted in an “unqualified”, or clean, opinion from the auditors. The audit concluded that the town’s accounting procedures were consistent with accounting principles, which are generally accepted in the United States. The audit found some deficiencies in the segregation of duties,...
Homecoming Queen Madison Shaffer and King Ellis Webber hand out candy during the Homecoming Parade last Friday....
The Hot Springs County School Board met on October 9 in a special meeting to consider applicants to fill a vacancy on the board left by the resignation of trustee, Justin Budd, which became effective on October 1, 2025. Budd had advised the Board that he had accepted an offer to work over-seas, and that he and his family would be leaving the state. Immediately after opening the public meeting, the Board moved into an Executive Session, so that the trustees could consider letters of interest in the position, which had been submitted; to conduct...
From Wyoming News Exchange papers Department of Health asks for input on ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ rural health funding JACKSON (WNE) — The Trump-backed “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” passed by Congress in July called for $50 billion in funding to support rural health care. Wyomingites may now have a say in how that money gets spent in their communities. The Wyoming Department of Health is asking Equality State residents to fill out a survey that asks them to rank rural health care priorities. The public input could help state officials fill out...
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, Oct. 6 3:35 p.m. Agency assist for highway patrol in catching dogs that were impeding traffic on Highway 120. Tuesday, Oct. 7 5:17 p.m. Agency assist for the police department. W...
Logan Stropko, a 2003 graduate of Hot Springs County High School in Thermopolis, was recently inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame at Chadron State College, where he was an outstanding football player. Stropko was an inside receiver/tight end for the Eagles, catching 113 passes for 1,150 yards and eight touchdowns during his career, paced by his junior season in 2006 when he was the team’s leading receiver with 46 receptions for 513 yards. Unfortunately, he sustained a knee injury and m...
Soup supper The Golden Age Club is hosting their annual soup supper on Friday, Oct. 17 at the Hot Springs County Senior Center, 206 Senior Ave. Doors open at 4 p.m. and soups will be served from 4:30-6:30 p.m. There will be chili, Wisconsin cheese, ham and beans, chicken noodle, vegetable beef and potato soup served with a roll and butter. Proceeds benefit the HSC Senior Center building fund. For more information, call the center at 864-2151. Seed saving workshop The Red Dirt Master Gardeners are hosting a seed saving workshop on Saturday,...
Kristi Thronburg browses through a selection of books at Friends of the Library Book Sale held at the armory last week....
Who do you trust to tell you the truth? Who do you believe when it comes to finding out information? Something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately (ok, for the past several years, but even more lately) is that so many of the deep divides across our country right now come from the fact that we all trust different sources. Even worse, we tend to believe the sources that are telling us what we want to hear. I think a lot of debates over current issues end up going nowhere because one side implicitly distrusts anything they perceive as coming f...
by Debra Johnston, MD Let’s call her Sarah, although that wasn’t her name. I’d had the privilege of delivering her, and the fun of watching her grow into a precocious toddler, with an impish smile and a joyous laugh. Then I had the responsibility of explaining her autopsy report to her devastated parents. She’d died from an infection that her young, previously healthy body just couldn’t fight. It hadn’t taken long; she’d started running a fever the night before, and her parents brought her to the clinic the next afternoon. The flight crew h...
DeeAnn (Buchanan) Jenniges was born on August 12, 1950, to Donald Dee Buchanan and Ruth Gladys (Nielsen) Buchanan in Thermopolis, Wyo. She lived in Thermopolis for most of her youth and attended Thermopolis area schools. DeeAnn also attended community college for several years to further her education and did bookkeeping for a hotel in Buffalo, Wyo., as one of her first jobs. DeeAnn later moved to Rapid City, S.D. It was not long after this move that DeeAnn began a relationship with Duffy...
Elizabeth V. (Betty) Turgeon, age 88, passed away on October 5, 2025, in thet Hot Springs Health Emergency Room in Thermopolis, Wyo. Betty was born on June 25, 1937, in Lunenburg, Vt., to Frederick George and Lila Estella (Nichols) Whitehead. Betty was raised in Vermont and New Hampshire, where she received her education. She moved to Ten Sleep, Wyo. in 1981. She worked at the Ten Sleep Senior Center until she retired in 2002. Betty moved back to Vermont for a couple of years, but eventually...
Following on a trend, the Hot Springs County High School volleyball team played away and home games last week, facing the Lady Bulldogs in Lovell on Thursday, and then the Cougars of Wind River for Homecoming on Saturday. Going into the match, Lovell was ranked number three among Class 3A teams, and their level of play displayed how they come by their ranking. The team carries a lot of height, and displays a good deal of talent and skill. Lovell took the first two sets from Thermopolis (25-8 and 25-14). In the third set, however, the Lady Cats...
The Hot Springs County High School Bobcat and Lady Cat cross country teams traveled to Powell last week to compete in the Pinnacle Bank Powell Invitational. The event will serve as a final tune-up for the conference finals, which will be held at Wyoming Indian on Friday. In Powell, the team continued to set some remarkable splits times, reflecting that the athletes are hitting their season peak physical condition at just the right time. Senior Jadeth Elder, finished the event in 7th place, turning in a time of 17:08, which was his best time...
The Thermopolis Middle School boys and girls cross country teams wrapped up their season last Thursday at the Pinnacle Bank/Powell Invitational held at the Powell Golf Club. The boys team brought home fourth place and the girls finished in 5th place with nine middle school teams competing. For the boys team, eighth grader Apollo Jenks ran a 12:18 in the 3200 meter race to earn a fourth place finish, while brother and sixth grader Archer finished in 14th place with a final time of 12:48. Other individual results from Powell include: Girls -...
On Friday night the Lyman Eagles rolled into town to challenge Hot Springs County at Leroy Hayes Field. It was Homecoming week and the Bobcats were looking to extend their win streak. Sporting their all purple uniforms, the Cats put on a great show for the home town faithful, and secured a 14-7 win over the Eagles. Lyman won the toss, and elected to defer to the Bobcats. Coach Anderson of Lyman displayed a bit of trickery on the opening kick-off, sending an on-sides kick just across the fifty yard line, which was covered by one of the Lyman pla...
Members of the 2025 Bobcat Homecoming royalty include, top to bottom, left to right, King Ellis Webber and Queen Madison Shaffer, senior attendants Cruz Mascorro and Alix Sorensen, senior attendants Nolan Collins and Jayssie Owsley, junior attendants Zeth Berry and Isabella Ketner, sophomore attendants Clayton Hubele and Reagan Huckfeldt and freshman attendants Tanner Delay and Mackenzie Buckner....
by Terri Geissinger Hot Springs County Historical Society's first presentation of the season was Double Legacy: Revealing the Iconic Origin of Tom Skinner's Bar by Terri Geissinger. The program centered on recent research of the bar and how she traced the evidence backward through time. The first clue which cracked the case was a small article published in the Independent Record on December 13, 1907, which stated Tom Skinner had purchased bar fixtures and furnishings from Bru...
by Noah Zahn Wyoming Tribune Eagle Via Wyoming News Exchange State lawmakers have advanced a bill intended to prohibit sexually explicit books from being housed in the children’s sections of public and school libraries, saying it will give more authority to parents and communities. Some elected officials, however, said that the bill, as it is currently written, is a form of banning books, and that it exhibits unnecessary government overreach on parental rights. It also prohibits many sacred texts, including the Bible, the Quran and the Book o...
