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Hot Springs County High School students and their families enjoyed dinner and a showing of "The Princess Bride" Friday night....
Opening day for small game and upland bird species begins tomorrow, Friday, Sept. 1. Wyoming Game and Fish is predicting an average to good hunting season for game birds due to the moisture conditions across the state. Also, cottontail hunting is projected to be excellent, but hunters are advised to wear rubber gloves when cleaning the animals, particularly prior to cold weather, as tularemia has been diagnosed in several areas of the state. Bird hunters can be on the look out for mourning doves, sora and virginia rail, snipe, early Canada...
This past weekend saw the 12th annual Great American Turbo Turtle Trek, the main fundraiser for the local Rotary club. Brian Yarrington won the first place prize of $1,000, with Gunner Morningstar winning the second place cash prize of $500....
NW BOCES students and staff joined together on Monday to watch the eclipse. Several visitors and community members all over the county paused to watch the amazing sight of the total eclipse, just as hundreds of thousands did across the state and country....
Mud slinging, engines revving, screaming fans – it was a typical night at Hot Springs County Fairgrounds as the Demolition Derby hit the field. After four main heats, the Herbie Derby and the Truck Derby, it came down to the final heat with Pat King, Stephen Flinn, Kyle Larson, Deven Scherf, Zack Larson, Wyatt Ramsey, Kyle McIntosh, Kurt Shaffer, Luke Mead and Chase Mead. The survivors were first place, Wyatt Ramsey; second place, Zack Larson; third place, Stephen Flinn and fourth place, D...
With school back in session, the People for People Backpack program is ready to kick off another year of helping fight hunger for the school children in Hot Springs County. The program is aimed toward helping children who may not have enough to eat over the weekend by providing bags of food the children can easily prepare for themselves or their siblings on Fridays as they leave school. Once each month, Food Bank of the Rockies makes a stop in Thermopolis at the Episcopal Church to drop off...
Hot Springs County High School is planning a special Dinner and Walk In Movie Night event for high school students and their parents on Friday, Aug. 25. The event provides and exciting way to start the school year and an opportunity to interact with staff. Dinner will be served at 7 p.m., featuring a menu of pulled pork sandwiches, Hessenthaler corn and chips. The movie will begin at 8 p.m., at the football field. The film, “The Princess Bride,” is a fairy tale adventure, told from the perspective of a grandfather reading to his grandson. It...
Jessica Lippincott and London Jenks prepare a weather balloon for launch at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center. The activity was among the happenings in Thermopolis Monday prior to the solar eclipse. Once the balloon was filled and the data collection equipment attached, those attending had an informal launch countdown....
The 16th Annual Fall WYO Quarter Horse Ranch Sale is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 9 at the Hot Springs County Fairgrounds. The sale is set to begin at 1 p.m., with a performance preview at 9 a.m. The day before, on Friday, Sept. 8, there will be a “Parade of Geldings” preview, beginning at 7 p.m. at the fairgrounds. Carole Smith noted for sale there will be 32 broke geldings, 32 started two-year-olds, eight yearlings and 27 weanlings. Smith further added the two-year-olds, yearlings and weanlings are all home raised. The sales regularly bring...
Hot Springs County High School senior Jared Little finishes a mural at Ralph Witters Elementary, where he spent his younger school years. Little feels RWE was a big part of his life and the mural is an opportunity for him to give back....
New high school freshmen had a good rolling start on Tuesday with the help of some mentors from the upper class. Lots of teamwork, learning and fun was the highlight of the day....
Erin Dyok looks to knock a frisbee into a goal during the Gottsche open house for the eclipse....
Willow Moore took advantage of the variety of cookies available during a fundraiser lunch Sunday afternoon at the Hot Springs County Senior Center....
Captured the moment the moon began to move out of the path of the sun during Monday's celestial 2017 total eclipse event....
There are still some tickets available for the 12th annual Great American Turbo Turtle Trek on Saturday, Aug. 26. The event is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m., at the Big Spring outlet stream. The trek is the main fundraiser for the local Rotary, which uses the money for projects such as scholarships, handicap accessible swings in Hot Springs State Park, helping with Christmas baskets and donating to building an outhouse at the 4-H camp. The local club has also sent Rotarians to Kenya to help with the clean water project. The turtle trek begins...
Visitors to Thermopolis for the eclipse used some home-grown ingenuity when it came to photographing the event. People came together to fill parks, downtown and surrounding areas to view the once in a lifetime event....
Violet Peterson gets to sit in the cockpit of a medical helicopter as Elizabeth Peterson takes a look at the controls, during the fly in at the Hot Springs County Airport Saturday. Visitors were treated to a pancake breakfast and observed the fliers who came in, which included helicopter and plane pilots, and even a bat or two....
A special eclipse ArtStroll takes place in downtown Thermopolis, Friday, Aug. 18, 5-8 p.m. Hosted by the Hot Springs County Museum and Cultural Center, artists will be set up Friday evening both in stores and on the sidewalks of Broadway. Artists and demonstrators continue Still Strolling Saturday during regular business hours, and some will continue to participate on Sunday. Strollers will enjoy a variety of wares for sale, on display, and in demonstrations. As explained by Stroll co-organizer Toddi Darlington, “The ArtStroll, usually held o...
The Wyoming Dinosaur Center will be hosting a series of films and lectures this weekend, Aug. 19 and 20 at the school’s auditorium. All of the events are free to the public. On Saturday, at 10:15 a.m., learn all about “Solar Superstorms” through a major production that takes viewers into the tangle of magnetic fields and super hot plasma that vents the sun’s rage in dramatic flares, violent solar tornadoes, and the largest eruptions in the solar system – coronal mass ejections. The show will...
The Hot Springs County Senior Center will be extending their services over the weekend to give visitors and locals alike the opportunity to take advantage of the center. Saturday, they will be serving a pancake breakfast from 8 a.m. til 9:30 a.m., featuring pancakes, sausage, eggs, fresh fruit and juice. Breakfast will be available for seniors 60+. There is a suggested $4 donation. Lunch will be served on Sunday from noon til 1:30 p.m. with your choice of sub sandwich or chef salad, macaroni and potato salads, chips and cookies. Sunday will be...
Cindy Toth, Sonja Becker and Shelley Deromedi shred pork for the Red Dirt Master Gardeners Farm to Plate Gala. The Sunday evening event featured foods from local producers....
Open gym for the community will be at the Thermopolis armory, beginning this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Open gyms will continue each week, 7-9 p.m. every Wednesday and Friday, and 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. every Saturday....
Zeb Massey enjoys a treat Friday afternoon during Central Bank and Trust's ice cream social in appreciation of its customers and friend....
The 12th annual Great American Turbo Turtle Trek is scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 26 at 1 p.m., at the Big Spring outlet stream. The event is the main fundraiser for the local Rotary club. Among the service projects Rotary has done are: scholarships, the handicap accessible swings in Hot Springs State Park, helping with the Christmas baskets and donating to building an outhouse at the 4-H camp. For the past few years, the local club has also sent Rotarians to Kenya to help with the clean water project. The turtle trek begins when numbered...
