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Sunday, March 26 at noon a rock slide came down onto US/20/WY789 at mile post 114.2 on Dam Hill at the south end of Wind River Canyon near Boysen Dam. WYDOT personal were able to clear the travel lanes with a plow truck and a loader later moved the material off the highway shoulder. Unstable rock remains on the slope above the highway. WYDOT encourages motorists to use caution at this location and throughout Wind River Canyon and to slow down and watch for falling rock....
The Hot Springs County Senior Center is celebrating its 50-year anniversary on Monday, April 3. They will have an open house from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Senior Center Director Trenda Moore invites the public to “Come in, reminisce, and learn the importance of the center.” Moore added, “The festivities will be at noon. We’re going to have a couple speakers and we’re going to have cake, mints, ice cream, nuts, and all that good fun stuff including punch and coffee. Nothing formal, really, just fun....
Hot Springs County Emergency Management Coordinator Bill Gordon reports flow in the Bighorn River was increased on Tuesday morning to 1,850cfs. The Bighorn River Flushing Flow has been rescheduled for Tuesday, April 4. Accordingly, the county River and Stream Awareness Level will remain at orange. This level is used when river flow is at 5,000cfs. After a 12-hour flow of 5,000cfs the flow will be reduced and held at 2,200cfs, in order to begin making room for snowmelt in Boysen Reservoir. According to Gordon, after next Tuesday, expect the awar...
Josh Materi is a 2011 Hot Springs County High School graduate who currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland. After graduation, he attended the University of Wyoming, graduating with cum laude honors in 2015. Prior to starting medical school, he spent a year in Beijing, China on the Chinese Government Scholarship studying Mandarin at BLCU. After that, Materi came back and did EMS in Salt Lake City. Then he taught a year of special education in Tongue River Elementary. Ultimately, Materi was...
The Golden Age Club is hosting a Community Soup Supper on Friday, March 31 at Hot Springs County Senior Center, 206 Senior Avenue. Doors open at 4 p.m. with dinner served from 4-6:30 p.m. The dinner is open to the public and donations will be accepted with all proceeds to benefit the HSC Senior Center Building Fund. The menu will include Pasta E Fagiola, Green Chili, Chicken Noodle and Wisconsin Cheese served with a side of rolls and crackers. Blueberry, cherry and apply pie will be available for dessert. For more information, contact the...
The Hot Springs County Republicans nominated new officers at their March 20 meeting. Officers that will serve for the next two years are, seated, l to r, Cheryl Aguiar, Chair, Lynn Erickson, Secretary and Leyann Gomez, State Committeewoman; standing, Jean Skelton, Treasurer, Bob Aguiar, State Committeeman and Brayden Harvey, Vice Chair. Precinct reps not pictured are: Cynthia Garbin, Paul Garbin, Jerry Williams, Ted Brown and JW....
A evening of fun is planned during the Class of 2023 fundraiser Bingo night set for Friday, March 31 from 6-8:30 p.m. at the Hot Springs County Fair Building. In addition to Bingo, there will be food raffles, prizes and a silent auction. Tickets are $10 each and includes a walking taco and two Bingo cards. Tickets can be purchased at Storyteller, McCumber Well Service, Thermopolis Hardware, Dairyland and the front office at the high school. Tickets are also available at the door. All proceeds benefit the Class of 2023 graduation party in...
The Hot Springs County School Board of Trustees heard from four presenters on Feb. 16 about the positive impacts of the “Level Up” program, starting with Lyle Wiley, Language Arts teacher for Hot Springs County High School. According to Wiley, the Level Up program seeks to elevate Wyoming’s education professionals by providing leadership development to an annual cohort of Wyoming’s leading educators. “We definitely have more folks at Hot Springs involved in the Level Up community than any other district in the state,” said Wiley, who noted t...
By Miranda De Moraes Jackson Hole Daily Via Wyoming News Exchange JACKSON – Thousands of Wyoming residents are at risk of losing their Medicaid coverage over the coming months. Following nearly three years of greater funding and leniency for in-state Medicaid programs, prompted by federal COVID-19 emergency declarations, the Wyoming Department of Health is reverting Medicaid application requirements to pre-pandemic criteria. During the pandemic, Congress gave states additional funding while requiring that Medicaid programs keep people c...
At the March 15 Hot Springs County Travel & Tourism meeting Treasurer Audra Dominguez gave the financial report and said their January lodging tax revenue was $9,697.36 which was only 1% lower than the previous year. The total lodging tax revenue so far for the fiscal year 2022/2023 is $171,930.93. December 2022’s lodge tax revenue was $10,392.43. The board voted and passed the approval of the financial report. In December, the Travel & Tourism board was not in compliance with the State of Wyoming and Hot Springs County Treasurer Julie Mortimor...
Jean Skelton’s third monthly address in a row to the Hot Springs County School Board on March 16 saw their differences of opinion devolve into angry outbursts on both sides, after she’d asserted the board had failed to live up to its stated collective commitments to maintain respect, transparency and honest communication. “What I witnessed at the last school board meeting was one board member attacking another board member because of a differing opinion,” Jean Skelton said. “There was no respect or dialogue in that exchange, no striving...
During the March 7 Hot Springs County Commissioners board meeting, Paul Galovich had requested time to discuss pubic comments at commissioner’s meetings. Current procedure at commissioner’s meetings is to allow public comments, with proper recognition by the chair, on agenda items. Public comments on non agenda issues is typically not allowed. Chairman Tom Ryan started the discussion by saying, “Commissioner Galovich asked to have a public comment discussion be added on. I think it’s a great d...
Last Tuesday, East River Road had to be closed to thru traffic when snow, water and mud slid onto the road due to warm temperatures and fast melting. The Hot Springs County Road and Bridge crew stayed busy working to clean up the road and had it reopened by Thursday....
The Hot Springs County Rural Water Joint Powers Board (HSCRWJPB) met on March 16 at the Annex building. In old business, there was a discussion about the assessment of funding and how much money each entity would contribute. The Hot Springs County (HSC) Commissioners have already contributed $5,000. There was discussion about using EDUs to gauge the different district’s contributions, but it was also noted that HSC does not have any existing customers and therefore there are no EDUs from them t...
Four Wyoming teachers – Emmy Hergert, Rick Simineo, Charity Penn, and London Jenks – have been selected as the 2023 state finalists for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST). PAEMST is the highest recognition that K-12 mathematics, science, or computer science teachers can receive in the U.S. Nominations and awards are facilitated by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the National Science Foundation. Hergert teaches seventh-grade math at Thermopolis Middle School and...
Two performances of a musical offering for the Lenten/Easter season, God So Loved, will be held Sunday, March 26 at 10:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. at the Community Federated Church, 244 N. 6th Street. Choir and orchestra are made up of musicians from the church and the community at large. This is an ecumenical musical offering of the power of what Jesus Christ did for the world through his life, death and resurrection....
Local author Lea Schoenewald has a new book proposal approved by History Press, a part of Arcadia Publishing. Schoenewald’s book will be about historical narratives of the Gebo, Crosby, and Kirby mining camps from the early 1900s. Schoenewald hopes to complete the book by the middle of October of this year. She has an editor working with her through the entire process and will send photos as well as they work through the chapter. The book will finally be published in the spring of 2024. S...
Thermopolis First Baptist Church's Caleb Howe was ordained on Tuesday, March 14. Twenty-five other pastors and ministers from Wyoming, southern Montana, Idaho, northwest Colorado, and Utah all joined the meeting. Howe described the ordination as "Where I make public God's call on my life, and our local church here, First Baptist Church, recognizes that calling. They organized this ordination meeting. The church wanted the ordination, and I wanted to seek that. And so these men came in and...
The Hot Springs County Senior Citizens Center is turning 50 this year and will be celebrating on Monday, April 3. There will be an open house at the center, 206 Senior Avenue, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. with festivities beginning at noon. Everyone is invited to join the fun and reminisce about fifty years of memories with friends, old and new. Cake, ice cream, mints and nuts will be served. For more information, contact the senior center at 864-2151....
The Bureau of Reclamation, in collaboration with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGF), has scheduled a flushing flow in the Wind River downstream of Boysen Dam, according to Wyoming Area Manager, Lyle Myler. The current reservoir content is above average, and the spring runoff is anticipated to be above average,” said Myler. “Reclamation will retime operations and provide the flushing flow with the expectation that excess water will need to be released this spring.” Flows in the river below Boysen Dam will be incrementally incre...
Hot Springs County Emergency Management uses a color coding system to inform the public of awareness levels of the Bighorn River and area streams in Hot Springs County. These have been used in previous years. As we head into spring, here is a reminder of the awareness level of each color. The levels appear each week in this newspaper and are featured on social media. Complete information can be found under the Emergency Management Department tab at www.hscounty.com. Level GREEN will be in effect...
At the March 7 Thermopolis Town Council meeting held at the Town Hall, during citizen participation, Darren Butcher presented his request to legalize chickens with a packet of proposed code language describing a potential new ordinance. Mayor Adam Estenson opened the floor to the council to speak. Council member Bill Malloy expressed his concerns about having chickens, including the time needed for law enforcement to handle nuisance calls. Malloy added, “Every time this chicken thing comes u...
At last Tuesday’s Hot Springs County Commissioners board meeting, Brian Clarkson of Ardurra (formerly T-O Engineers) gave the Geographic Information System (GIS) update. Clarkson said that they have scanned more septic permit documents, processed and uploaded septic permit files from 1982 to 1983 to cloud storage, and added septic permit information to the online GIS database. Additionally, Clarkson said that they have reviewed Samsung Galaxy Tablets for field maps. Regarding anticipated work f...
Members of the Bobcat Speech and Debate Team finished second place in 2A at the State Championships. Left to right, Julia Quintanilla, Chris Bapst, Rosalie Willson, Dean Bihr, Brendan Butler, Karina Lea, Delayni Custer, Riley O'Brien, Zoey Larson, Ivey Goff, Kiesha Kraushaar, Ben Weaver and Kalebh Nelson show off their hardware. See page 6 for the full story....
by Nicole Pollack Casper Star-Tribune Via Wyoming News Exchange CASPER — Rocky Mountain Power submitted its largest proposed rate increase in over a decade to state regulators last week. But the process of having the changes approved will be lengthy — and thorough. “The burden of proof is always on the public utility,” said Anthony Ornelas, administrator of the Wyoming Office of Consumer Advocate. It’ll be up to Rocky Mountain Power to provide sufficient evidence, he said, “that the requests that they have made are just, reasonable and in the...
