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  • Wrestling program gets boost with ten freshman

    Rex Clothier|Dec 10, 2015

    Hot Springs County High School head wrestling coach C.J. Scholl and asst. Jake Smith are in their second year, but this season begins a new era for the sport at HSCHS. Gone are the Bobcats first two multi-year state champions, Ryan Bradshaw and Vinnie Castle, who had won district, regional and state honors for the last four years. Their departure leaves a grand total of two upper class men wrestlers, seniors Colter Hansen and Louie Castle. Both showed good progress throughout last season, and both acknowledge their most important task this...

  • Jessica Schierkolk named to All-State Band

    Chandler Smith, Reporter & Photographer|Dec 10, 2015

    Hot Springs County High School senior Jessica Schierkolk has been named to the Wyoming State band, becoming the first HSCHS student in eight years to receive the prestigious honor. Schierkolk started playing trumpet eight years ago and has been playing with teacher Dustin Olsen the entire time. The talented trumpet player practiced her audition piece daily for the months leading up her audition and beat out over 280 other players to be named one of the 19 trumpets on the ensemble. "When he...

  • Hot Springs County Barrel Racing results

    Dec 10, 2015

    The Hot Springs County Barrel Racing Winter Series second event of the season was Sunday at the Hot Springs County Fairgrounds. The next event in the series will be Sunday, Jan. 24. Results include: Peewee barrels Division 1D: Taylor Malcolm, 19.444. Division 2D: Allison Magargal, 20.250. Division 4D: Madison O’Meara, 26.433; Kaycee Stothart, 31.804. Youth barrels Division 1D: Emme Norsworthy, 17.205; Brye Williams, 17.270. Division 2D: Katie Fisher, 17.902. Division 3D: Katelyn King, 18.254; Taylor Nuttall, 18.781; Brye Williams, 19.034. Divis...

  • Fourth graders pitch in to clean RWE cafeteria

    Chandler Smith, Reporter & Photographer|Dec 10, 2015

    Ralph Witters Elementary students Mason Reese, Chase Herring, and William Coale for years have had one desire when it comes to lunch time in the school’s cafeteria: to help custodian Ann Peterson clean up. Although it may sound strange that fourth graders are eagerly willing to clean up after themselves, Peterson said that Reese, Herring and Coale have been asking for years to pitch in during cleanup. “Since last year they’ve been trying to help me, and I wouldn’t let them,” Peterson said. “Th...

  • Hospital excited to receive two fetal heart monitors

    Chandler Smith, Reporter & Photographer|Dec 10, 2015

    RoxAnne Arnett, obstetrics lead nurse, surprised the Hot Springs community during a Chamber Meet and Greet with the presentation of not just one, but two fetal heart monitors. The monitors, which enable nurses to monitor the heartbeat of an unborn child, were purchased with matching funds from the Hospital Foundation Board and the greater Hot Springs County community. The Hospital Foundation board challenged the community in October of last year to raise half of the $30,000 necessary for the...