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Hot Springs County Library is hosting a traveling photography exhibit showcasing the work of Edward S. Curtis through April 30. Pieces from Curtis’s The North American Indian, a grand work that provides a permanent record of 80 North American tribes, will be featured in the exhibit. Curtis produced the unique American record at great personal sacrifice. Beginning in 1898, he travelled the American West from the Rio Grande to the Arctic Circle. Working with written accounts, photographic images and sound recordings, Curtis gathered and a...
Tucker Lee Bass drew for the winner during a drawing at the Central Bank and Trust Meet and Greet. Thermopolis-Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Meri Ann Rush announces the winner in the background....
James Benkusky with United Blood Services visits with Connie Taylor during a blood drive at the Hot Springs County Senior Citizens Center, Monday afternoon. As Taylor provided her donation, the two discussed Benkusky's musical skills and various stringed instruments....
Spring is in the air and thoughts turn to lazy days spent sitting in the sun reading a good book. That’s the perfect time to join the Friends of the Library spring book sale at the armory. The book sale will take place on two days, March 31, from 5 -7 p.m. and April 1, from 8 a.m. til noon. Come look over all the available titles, find your favorite author or genre and then read and relax at the “Starbooks Café....
Don’t worry about getting pranked this April Fools Day, instead, make plans to be at the V.F.W. for their semi-annual sale. The Ladies Auxiliary is offering tables for the event, $20 each or three for $50. There will be crafts, flea market items and gifts, all indoors, along with cinnamon rolls and coffee, starting at 9 a.m. To reserve your table, please call Karen at 921-1247 or Nancy at 349-2573....
Award winning singer, songwriter and cowboy poet, Ron Hughes, will be live, in concert at the Community Church this Sunday, March 26. A gifted songwriter and cowboy poet, Hughes has top 10 gospel albums to his credit along with a Christian cowboy album. A Male Horizon winner in 2001, Hughes was also Artist of the year in 2004 and male vocalist for 2005. The concert begins at 6:32 p.m. at the Community Church at Sixth and Big Horn....
"Pinky the Elephant" visited students at Ralph Witters Elementary last week. The mascot is used to help teach kids about poison prevention....
Students at Thermopolis Middle School are working to help the people of Sudan by providing funding for a well there. The inspiration for the project came after they read “A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park. The novel tells two stories. One is the fictional account of Nya, a girl in Sudan who is fetching water from a pond for her family, travelling over miles of rough terrain in searing heat to do so. The other story is non-fiction, the story of Salva Dut, who became one of the “lost boys...
The Bureau of Reclamation at the request of, and in collaboration with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, has scheduled a flushing flow in the Wind and Big Horn Rivers downstream of Boysen Dam for Tuesday, March 28. “The Bureau of Reclamation is able to retime operations and provide the flushing flow due to the above average anticipated inflows to Boysen Reservoir, and the expectation of needing to pass excess water this spring,” Wyoming Area Manager Carlie Ronca said. “The flush will be accomplished without adversely impacting overa...
The National Weather Service (NWS) in Riverton will teach a Severe Weather Spotter training class to increase the number of weather spotters in Hot Springs County. The free, two-hour training class will be at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 30, in the County Annex Building at 117 North Fourth Street. The course describes how various severe weather phenomena develop, outlines appropriate safety actions and details procedures for identifying and reporting severe weather to the NWS. Videos and digital images from across Wyoming are shown during the...
Having had the wonderful experience of living in Thermopolis for the past seven years, I've taken in much of the beauty from small hikes and walks around town, but there is so much yet to see. Last weekend, on a beautifully warm Sunday afternoon, I decided to check out a hiking trail a friend suggested. It was called the Gooseberry Badlands and it was only 40 miles away. So, I grabbed my camera, a bottle of water for the 1.5-mile trail and my favorite music for the drive. The directions are stra...
The Bobcat Speech and Debate team had a rough weekend at their State Tournament in Green River last week with two members of the team missing the break into semi-finals by a single point. Reilly Russell, who has been doing a delightful selection of poems about dinosaurs, missed the break by one point. "I know Reilly (Russell) was really disappointed," coach Cindy Glasson said. "This was her last performance of poetry for the year since it isn't included as a main event on the National level....
Ray Maple, a Wyoming native, along with his wife Jackie will present an entertaining program on the lives and times of Tom O’Day and Bronco Nell Thursday, March 23 at the Hot Springs County Library beginning at 6 p.m. Tom O’Day and Kid Curry rode with the infamous Hole-in-the-Wall gang under Butch Cassidy, while Bronco Nell was a friend of O’Days as well an early freighter/drover and horse thief from Meeteetse....
The Freedom Ball Adult Prom is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 25 at the Days Inn. The Big Horn Basin Riders motorcycle club is hosting the event, but attendees don’t have to be members or bikers to attend. Fancy dress is not a requirement either, so people can dress casual if they choose. A variety of music will be provided by a DJ, and there will also be snacks and a cash bar. Commemorative glasses will be available for purchase, and a photo booth will help capture memories. Tickets for the prom are $10 at the door, with no a...
Donna Pennoyer and Dennis Nierzwicki photos...
Andre Bohren and Janet Ahlquist treated Thermopolis Middle School choir students to their own private concert while they were in town for a public performance at the school auditorium. They also performed for high school band students....
Terri Sani displays his bird replicas in front of Owl Creek Graphics during the Second Friday ArtStroll. Terri makes these replicas by gluing cardboard pieces together with a rough idea of the shape. He then cuts away the cardboard to sculpt the finer details of the bird and paints them....
Owen McCumber barely escapes a dodgeball thrown in a student vs. teacher tournament during the Thermopolis Middle School Lock Late Friday. Also featured at the Lock Late was basketball, dancing, fingernail painting and a technology room....
Thermopolis Middle School students were in for a show during their voices assembly Friday, when a presentation about personal hygiene transformed into a PAWS celebration focused under and around the sea. Above, Nicole Reid, Brenda Cornwell and Hannah Brooks dance to Katy Perry's "Firework"....
The Second-Friday ArtStroll in downtown Thermopolis, March 10, 5-8pm will feature the works of schoolchildren and adult artists. The event continues on Still Strolling Saturday during regular business hours at participating businesses. “Creativity and learning are inherently tethered to one another”, a quote from Rebecca Mahony, chief marketing officer of video streaming services company TEADS, underscores how important it is for our students of all ages to participate in the Strolls. The displayed art, especially the works by our chi...
The public is invited to attend a meeting to set the 2017 hunting seasons, sponsored by the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission. The meeting will be held on March 21 from 6 – 8 p.m. in the basement meeting room at Big Horn Federal. The meeting is one of many going on throughout the state during the month of March to get the public’s input on possible changes to the hunting seasons for the coming year. If you are unable to attend the meeting, your input can still be recorded through a public comment period via the Internet. For a list of the pub...
It’s never too early to think Spring! Sign ups for this year’s community garden will begin at the Health Fair, March 25. Those who are interested in a plot should look for the Master Gardener’s booth at the fair. One of the organizers, Melanie Valentine, said they plan on using their booth at the Health Fair for sign ups in the hopes they can get some new gardeners interested in the community garden across the street from the hospital in Hot Springs State Park. Those who have had plots in the past generally take the same piece they garde...
The Thermopolis Community Blood Drive by United Blood Services will be from 3-7 p.m. Monday, March 20 at the Hot Springs County Senior Center. A community blood drive is held in Thermopolis every few months. The goal at each drive is to collect 25 pints of blood. To set up an appointment for the blood drive, individuals can call Melene Mierzejewski at 307-240-1414 or they can do so online at www.bloodhero.com using the sponsor code “Thermopolis.” Individuals can also do the pre-check self-interview so they will not have to wait before giv...
Kiwanis Essay winners at Thermopolis Middle School include: Karissa McGarvie-Balstad, first; Remmington Ferree, second and Madeline Stam, third. Other finalists were Maggie Cable, Oakley Bowman and Jocelyn White....
Bust out the boutonnieres and corsages, dust off the dresses and schedule the tuxedo fitting, for the Freedom Ball Adult Prom March 25 at the Days Inn. The Big Horn Basin Riders motorcycle club is hosting the event, with proceeds going to send care packages to our men and women in uniform. Jenni Dorman explained the Riders send monthly care packages to those currently enlisted in the United States Armed Forces, and those enlisted who have family here. For instance, she said, a grandmother here...
