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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) in County is accepting applications for the Emergency Conservation Program (ECP) to address damages from list eligible disaster event that occurred August 13, 2025 through September 13, 2025. ECP provides cost-share and technical assistance to producers to restore farmland to pre-disaster conditions following a qualifying natural disaster. ECP signup begins on December 15, 2025, and ends on January 16, 2026. “The Farm Service Agency can help producers and landowners recover f...
Clay Van Antwerp auctions off a wreath during the Christmas Tree Festival at the Community Church Fellowship Hall on Dec. 8. In the background, Dr. Travis Bomengen works alongside the auctioneer. A little over $10,000 was raised for the Thermopolis Community Fund....
by Maggie Mullen, WyoFile.com via Wyoming News Exchange The Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Appropriations Committee wrapped up two weeks of budget hearings Friday in Cheyenne and adjourned until Jan. 5, when the committee will reconvene for the remaining agency presentations. Lawmakers will be responsible for crafting and passing the state’s next two-year spending plan, also known as a biennium budget, during the upcoming 2026 legislative session. It is the one task lawmakers are constitutionally obligated to complete in even-numbered years. The...
Charlee Enis helps Francis Borgen with a craft during Soup with Santa hosted by the Children's Resource Center. Jonathon Borgen and Roy Enis watch the activity....
by Nathan Oster, Lovell Chronicle via Wyoming News Exchange Reps. John Winter, R-Thermopolis, and Dalton Banks, R-Cowley, were identified as a leader and a follower, respectively, of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus in a report released last month by Better Wyoming Action + Research, a progressive nonprofit organization. Winter represents House District 28, which includes parts of Big Horn, Fremont, Hot Springs and Park counties, while Banks represents House District 26, which includes parts of Big Horn and Park counties. Winter has served since...
Part two of our saga ended with the long-simmering tensions in Big Horn County hovering on the brink of explosion. Two accused murderers sat in the Basin jail. Evidence strongly suggested both men had been killed in cold blood, and many in the county openly believed they should hang. Yet court case after court case stalled. Appeals and insanity pleas, ideas still unfamiliar on the frontier, dragged justice to a crawl and fueled the growing conviction that the courts would never act. Meanwhile,...
A towering inflatable Santa Claus waves from a front yard near the corner of Warren and 2nd Streets....
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, Dec. 8 8:48 a.m. Report of possible harassment in the Bar Nun Drive area. 12:18 p.m. Report of lost firearms. 3:58 p.m. Agency assist for the police department. 6:18 p.m. Agency asisst...
Dance performance Hot Springs Dance will present Christmas in the Movies on Thursday, Dec. 18 at 6 p.m. in the school auditorium. See the ad on this page for more details. Community Christmas meal People for People and Holy Trinity Episcopal Church will be serving a community Christmas meal on Thursday, Dec. 25 at 12:30 p.m. at the church, 642 Arapahoe St. You can eat in or have a meal delivered. To sign up or to volunteer to help, call the church at 864-3629 or Judy Carswell at 921-8264. Meals will be delivered before noon that day. Education...
Melene Mierzejewski's piano students held a recital at the school auditorium on Sunday. Performers include: front row, l to r, Elise Galovich, Scarlett Deromedi, Daxton Van Heule, Skylar Tippets; middle row, Aiden Estenson, Josephine O'Connor, Ole Estenson, Laina Benefiel, Ilena Galovich; back row, Aurora Gevas, Atley Benefiel, Jenny Deromedi, Annie Sharp, T Gevas, Lilly Estenson and Ivory Galpvich. Not pictured Avi Miller, Emerson Brost, Shayli Shumway, Amelia Johnson and Wyatt...
Annie Hayslip and Anthony Barnett were big winners at the Ducks Unlimited Banquet held last weekend at Hot Springs Hotel....
Several area churches have scheduled dates and times for services near and on Christmas Day. They include: St. Francis Catholic Church – Wed., Dec 24, Christmas Eve Mass at 4 p.m.; Thurs., Dec. 25, Christmas Day Mass at 11 a.m. St. Paul Lutheran Church – Wed., Dec. 24, Christmas Eve Service at 7 p.m.; Thurs., Dec. 25, Christmas Day Service at 9 a.m. First Baptist Church – Wed., Dec. 24, Christmas Eve Service at 6 p.m. Holy Trinity Episcopal Church – Wed., Dec. 24, Christmas Eve Candlelight Service at 7:30 p.m.; No Service Christmas Day. Ch...
by Megan Barton, publisher Coby Enterprise There are few things that spark as much quiet holiday debate as Christmas lights. Not politics, not fruitcake, not even whether “Die Hard” is a Christmas movie – but the simple question: Do you turn your Christmas lights off during the day and when you go to bed, or do you leave them on nonstop until every last strand of Christmas comes down? Drive through town on a December afternoon and you’ll see it. One house glowing like Santa’s workshop at noon, right next door to a home that stays dark unti...
by Daniel Powell (totteringtimes@gmail.com) Well, another year is about to wind down, and the Christmas season is rapidly approaching. At this time of the year, I always find myself reminiscing of holidays past, when those family members I miss so much, were still here. I grew up in a northern suburb of the city of Denver, where my Mom raised the four of us by herself. Once, when I was five or six years old, my Mom took my siblings and I on a day trip downtown at Christmas time - a chance to see and to experience all the holiday lights and...
by: Karen Hebert, Ph.D. & Mackenzie Feldhacker, OTD The holiday season is fast approaching with all its festive occupations like decorating the house, buying and wrapping presents and preparing and serving holiday meals. Between the additional time requirements, costs, travel and interactions with family members, this can be a particularly stressful time of year. Difficulties with getting around the house or community, remembering and managing multiple to-do lists, and feeling comfortable socializing for long periods of time can compound holida...
Daniel Calvin Gandy, 40, passed away Tuesday, November 4, 2025, in Winchester, Va. Danny was born July 28, 1985, in Rock Springs, Wyo., to Calvin B. Gandy and Esther Snively Gandy. He married Christina Lowery on September 22, 2023. He was an avid outdoorsman, who loved Wyoming and everything from a campfire surrounded by family to recreational fishing and shooting. He had a special talent when it came to music and loved to play his guitar and sing country music in several bands with his dad.... Full story
The Hot Springs County High School Bobcat basketball team traveled to Lander last weekend to jump start their 2025-26 season. In preseason voting, the Cats are ranked #1 in Class 2A and are favored to repeat as state champs. To begin their new season, the Bobcats bit off a tough one in the Lander Tigers, who begin their season ranked #5 among Class 3A teams. The Cats, with five seniors returning from last year’s state championship team and looking to have another successful season, had their hands full in Lander. Although the two teams p...
The Hot Springs County High School Lady Cats basketball team ended their season last year with a third place finish in the state tournament in Casper. With four seniors returning this year, the team kicked off the new season in Lander last weekend, aiming for a state championship this season. In preseason voting, the Lady Cats are ranked number 4 among the state’s class 2A teams. On Friday, the 3A Lady Tigers showed up to play - putting the Lady Cats to the test, with a determined full-court press, and some talented shooting from outside the a...
Last Sunday, fifteen members of the Thermopolis Wrestling Club competed in the WAWA Middle School State tournament held in Laramie. Wrestlers from around the state gathered for the one day tournament. Four Thermopolis wrestlers were crowned champions, Gabriel Ryan in the 70 pound weight class, Aksel Polson at 80 pounds, Roxy White at 75 pounds and Hayden Robinson in the 90 pound division. Hailey Robinson at 105 pounds and Trenton Enis at 132 pounds were runners-up in a field of tough competitors. Placing third were Fletcher Lewis at 75 pounds,...
The 9th grade girls basketball team won the Pete Robinson Invite Championship last week in Rawlins Celebrating their win, l to r , Amelia Strickland, Aislyn Dobbins, Jakae Elder, Mackenzie Buckner, Karsyn Ivie, Jaydyn Boren, Paisley Logan, Paige Jones, Amuira Dukes, Lauren Teeples, Hailey Rolling and coach TJ Owsley....
Top, David Van Slyke directs the high school choir during the Holiday Concert held in the auditorium on December 9. The high school band was joined by members of the 7th and 8th grade bands for their performance....
Five members of the Hot Springs County High School Lady Cats wrestling team kicked off their 2025-26 season in Cody last weekend in an individual tournament. On Friday, pool matches of between three and four matches for each grappler led to seeding in the Saturday brackets. Junior Ava Dafoe won all of her matches by pin on Friday and duplicated the performance on Saturday, to bring home a 1st place finish. Coach, Travis McDermott said, “Ava just missed making it to State last year, and came out with great determination in the opening t...
The 2025-26 season got under way for the Hot Springs County High School Bobcat wrestling team in Powell last weekend. Twelve members of the team competed in the event, which saw some great individual performances and some new faces who are just learning the ropes. The team fielded eight grapplers in the varsity tournament, while four Cats faced-off in the JV tournament. Junior, and returning state champion, Dyllan Myers, continued his successful wrestling career in Powell. Coach Travis McDermott said, “Dyllan walked through the pools with 3 w...
by CJ Baker, Powell Tribune Rep. Nina Webber, R-Cody, was set to meet with Vice President J.D. Vance in the nation's capital this week, after clearing her schedule with a local judge. Webber was among a number of state lawmakers from across the country who were invited to meet with the vice president and other Trump administration officials "to discuss various problems that face our constituents and states," she wrote in a declaration earlier this month. Webber said the topics would include...
