Sorted by date Results 1 - 25 of 4624

Santa and Mrs. Claus wave from a brightly lit fire truck as crowds gathered along Broadway on Saturday evening for the Lighted Christmas parade....

Elijah Miller focuses on placing a piece of paper during the Gift of Truth reading event held at the library last week....

A scene captured of a snow covered Hot Springs State Park looks cold but is beautiful. Temperatures have warmed back up for a spell prior to the official start of winter on December 21....

The Parade of Homes was held last Saturday and featured beautiful decorations at local residences and the Wyoming Pioneer Home. Proceeds went to Philips Help Center and HSC Prevention Coalition.... Full story

Visitors of all ages were welcome to have a photo taken with Santa and Mrs. Claus last Saturday at Thermopolis Hardware....

Ashley Jurovich ladles gravy onto Marjorie Slack's plate during the Community Thanksgiving meal provided by People for People at the Holy Trinity Church. Approximately 400 people were served....

As temperatures dropped, ice started to build up along the steaming Rainbow Terraces in Hot Springs State Park....

Thermopolis Middle School choir, sixth grade band and seventh/eighth grade band performed a concert Monday afternoon under the direction of David Van Slyke....

by John Bernhisel This is part one of a series that will run in the Independent Record over the next several weeks. A Fresh Start in Otto, Wyoming In the winter of 1901, John and Agnes Hoover were finally building the life they wanted. Otto, then a settlement of several hundred people, felt full of possibility as homesteaders, Mormon families, ranchers, and railroad crews carved out homes on the high sagebrush plain. Lives connected in the Black Hills John Hoover, born in 1859 in Putnam County,...

On a warm fall day, fisherman float down the Bighorn River while others stroll along the banks making the most of the clear skies and mild temperatures....

Sandhill cranes fill the sky over Thermopolis during their seasonal migration....

The River of Life Church Fellowship hosted a massive food distribution event to support local families. Over 200 boxes were given out, which included over 50 turkeys, 18 chickens, 30 Cornish hens and 50 ham steaks donated through Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, via extra funds the state distributed through the Wyoming Department of Family Services and the Wyoming Hunger Initiative....

Fog settles along the path of the Bighorn River as the sun lights up RoundTop on a chilly fall morning....

Taytum Dickey looks over a basket of handmade ornaments at the annual Beta Sigma Phi Holiday Craft Fair held last Saturday at Thermopolis Middle School....

Chloee Owsley and Kolby Deere compete in a doughnut-on-a-string challenge while Logann Farrell and Tanner Delay hold the lines during a Bobcat Pride Student Council activity at Hot Springs County High School....

Dennis Russell, top, admires a wreath made with barbed wire during the People for People Backpack Program Silent Auction held Saturday in the Thermopolis Middle School commons. Bottom right, Char Bartlett watches Lynette Quayle place a bid on an item. The annual Holiday Craft Fair, hosted by Beta Sigma Phi, was held in the TMS gym. Bottom left, Sue McCann selects wooden ornaments from a vendor....

Thermopolis Middle School student Grant Coates presents Duane Richter, Army 1960-1966, Gold Star Family and Sue Knighton, Army 1992-1997, Military Police Officer, with the Quilts of Valor during the Veterans Day Program held at the school auditorium on Veterans Day....

Jay Ritchey works to separate cattle during the Thermopolis Sorting Series at the Hot Springs County Fairgrounds last Saturday....

Ernie Over shares stories from his life during a presentation hosted by the Hot Springs County Historical Society at The Learning Center last Saturday....

Volunteers who gathered at Monument Hill Cemetery on Veterans Day to put up the Memorial Avenue of Flags were treated to a beautiful sunrise. Marian Blackmon, Zack Hurley, Frank Davis, Keith Haagensen, Lloyd LaFave, Basil Sorensen, Shawn Hegwood and the photographer put up 101 flags Tuesday morning....

We have been treated to some spectacular sunrises and sunsets this fall....

Traci Moriarity and Natalie Strauss pick out a Christmas gift at the Day of the Dead Artists Exhibit and Sale held at the armory last Saturday....

Members of the Hot Springs County High School band and choir performed during their annual concert held last Tuesday in the school auditorium....


Oaklee Jackson helps herself to some dessert at the Saint Francis Harvest Dinner held at the Parish Fellowship Hall last Sunday....