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At the August 31 Hot Springs Health board meeting, CEO Margie Molitor gave an update on Covid at the hospital. Molitor reported that she had a call with the State of Wyoming about activating the National Guard to help in hospitals and nursing homes. Molitor said, “As you’re well aware, we are in our fourth surge of Covid. And really for us, it’s probably our first major surge in Hot Springs County. Our numbers before we would see some increases, but nothing like we are seeing now. In the last 106 days, we’ve got one hundred new cases in Hot...
Shayna Dru Bauer graduated from Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Science Biological Sciences degree. She was Summa Cum Laude in the College of Liberal Arts and Science Barrett, The Honor College....
As of Monday, August 30, there were 131 total confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 in Hot Springs County in the last 14 days. There were 104 active cases and four deaths had been linked to the virus. On Tuesday, August 31, Hot Springs County School District Superintendent Dustin Hunt announced the district would be moving to digital instruction beginning Sept. 1 with a plan to return to in-person instruction on Sept. 13. The food service team handed out meals on Wednesday and will do so again on Sept. 8 from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Ralph...
Melissa Soneson is facing two counts of felony arson and other misdemeanor charges after allegedly starting two fires on Thursday, August 26. At 8:49 a.m. that morning, Sheriff Kraushaar and Deputy Cox responded to a call on 330 Lane 12 for a report of a motorhome on fire. When they arrived, the motorhome was fully engulfed in flames and the Thermopolis Fire Department was actively fighting the fire. Sheriff Kraushaar spoke with the owner of the motorhome, Melissa Sonensen, who informed him she...
Thermopolis Chief of Police, Julie Mathews has announces she plans to retire September 15. Chief Mathews has served the Thermopolis community since 2013. She has worked as a patrol officer, animal control officer, communications and lastly as Chief of Police. Her prior history was with the Riverton Police Department. Chief Mathews is grateful for the opportunity to service this fine community and gives special thanks for Mayor Mike Chimenti and the Town Council for supporting her in much needed upgrades to the police department. The upgrades...
An $8.78 million slide stabilization/rock scaling project began on Tuesday, Aug. 31, alongside US20/WY789 through Wind River Canyon between Shoshoni and Thermopolis. Prime contractor is Oftedal Construction Inc., of Casper, which will be hauling equipment into the area beginning Monday, Aug. 30. “The contractor plans to start slide stabilization work, with rock scaling, near the Upper Wind River Campground and the canyon tunnels,” said Wyoming Department of Transportation project engineer Jordan Erz of Worland. Erz said the state cam...
The inductees for this year’s Bobcat Hall of Fame have been announced. Included are the 2009 Bobcat Football Team, Shawna (Buckner) Farrell, Tom Zupan and Jack Kuiper. An induction ceremony and dinner will be held during Bobcat Homecoming week on Thursday, Sept 23 at 6 p.m. in the Thermopolis Middle School Commons. The inductees will also be presented during halftime of the football game Friday evening. The community is invited to attend the dinner and ceremony. The cost is $15 per plate. Please R.S.V.P. to Mark Whitt at markw@rtconnect.net o...
Becky Kersten was sworn in as the new Hot Springs County Clerk on Tuesday by District Court Judge Bobbi Overfield. Regarding her new appointment Kersten said, "I just feel really honored that the commissioners are trusting me to do this. I am really excited because I get to serve Hot Springs County and the community and meet their needs. I am looking forward to the next term and working with the staff that is there."...
Eric Kay of the local Mason Malta Lodge #17 has been successful in finding grant money to help them improve their building’s facade. The lodge is a 116-year-old building that was built in 1905. The Masons have done many local philanthropic charity events and they seek to do more. Kay said they applied first with the Main Street Thermopolis nonprofit organization to see if the lodge could be included in their jurisdiction by expanding their boundaries, but that approach ended up not being successful. The second route Kay took was to apply to t...
Lisa Beamer is the new agent owner of the Farmers Insurance office in Thermopolis. The previous agent was Robb Williamson, who moved back to Lander for family reasons. Beamer said, “I’ve been the Farmers Insurance agent in Worland since 2015.” The Thermopolis office is staffed Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. till 5 p.m. Beamer is at the Thermopolis office on Tuesdays and Thursdays and every other Friday. Beamer added, “Lainie Denton, agency manager, is in the office every day. Mondays and Wednesdays my producer is at the Thermopolis office....
Main Street Thermopolis will launch “Great until 8” to promote businesses in Hot Springs County to stay open until 8PM on the second Saturday of the month, beginning Saturday, October 9. The promotion starts with downtown businesses with plans to invite additional businesses to participate as the program expands. The program will be marketed to both locals and visitors. “With several Main Street communities in Wyoming launching similar types of promotions, we came up with this idea tailored to our community” according to Main Street Thermop...
Donations for family of fallen marine reach $500,000; local bank fund established JACKSON (WNE) — Three days after an online fundraiser was started, donations to assist the family of Rylee McCollum — the Jackson native and U.S. Marine who was killed in Afghanistan — have reached nearly $500,000. About 10,000 people from all over the nation had contributed via two online GoFundMe accounts. In addition, friends have established a local account for direct donations to Rylee’s widow, Gigi, who is expecting to give birth to their baby in Septemb...
Rhonda Perrie graduated from The College of St. Scholastica with a BS in Health Informatics Info Mgmt. Hot Springs Health staff members: Helen Garcia; Dusty Hake; Rebecca Cornell; Chayla Ostby; Justine Ahumada; Martha Galloway; Karyn White; Joe White; Bridget Truempler; Linsey Brooks; Hallie Bischoff and Stephen Asay completed the Advanced Cardiac Life Support Provider Program. The program was supported by the American Heart Association of Colorado and Wyoming. Shayna Dru Bauer graduated from Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Science...
The Hot Springs County School Board was treated to an explanation of new federal food service guidelines from District Food Service Coordinator Hannah Brooks on Aug. 19, after she covered the success of the district’s summer food service program. Brooks reported district food service staff handed out 11,937 breakfasts and lunches each over 58 weekdays, averaging 205 breakfasts and lunches per day this summer, using the same recipes and variety of hot and cold dishes as during the school year, earning “fantastic” feedback from parents and stude...
by Abby Belus The August 17 Hot Springs County Commissioners meeting opened with Meri Ann Rush requesting a letter of support for the Roundtop Trail on behalf of the Hot City Outdoor Alliance. Last fall, Rush spoke with the commissioners as the Hot City Outdoor Alliance was applying for the Land & Water Conservation Grant. The first one, the Musser fund, fell through so they pulled the land and water one because they didn’t have the matching funds. Christie Walden, with Walmart, gave them $20,000 to develop Roundtop. Hot City Outdoor Alliance w...
The Wyoming Department of Health has issued harmful cyanobacterial bloom (HCB) recreational use advisories for Boysen Reservoir, Buffalo Bill Reservoir, Fontenelle Reservoir, Keyhole Reservoir, Viva Naughton Reservoir, and Wheatland Reservoir #3. The Wyoming Department of Health is working directly with resource management agencies to ensure that signs are posted at all waterbodies with advisories. Additional details regarding advisories as well as other HCB resources can be found at WyoHCBs.org. WDH issues recreational use advisories when...
There will be a Hot Springs County Preschool Screening and Health Fair for children ages 0-4 on Saturday, August 28 from 9 a.m.-noon. It will be held at the HSCSD#1 Vocational Building. The fair includes a developmental screening for vision, hearing, speech and languages, motor skills and pre-academics. Any child, birth to age four, is encouraged to have a developmental screening. The HSC Preschool Health Fair is a HSC Child Find program, sponsored by HSCSD #1, Children’s Resource Center and Head Start. For more information, call 3...
Garden harvest season is almost here and if you find your garden overflowing, the First Lady Jennie Gordon’s Wyoming Hunger Initiative (WHI), the Cent$ible Nutrition Program (CNP), Red Dirt Master Gardeners and the University of Wyoming Extension invite you to donate it. In April, WHI launched the Grow a Little Extra project with CNP and UW Extension. The project invited local gardeners to grow a little extra this summer to donate to food security agencies in their area. With growing season nearing its end, CNP is excited for donations to begin...
Brett Klein and his girlfriend Shirley Willis have had a successful summer as the new owners of the White Horse Country Story which they bought from the Denton’s in April. Klein moved to Thermopolis from Cheyenne after selling his trucking business. As to how they came to Thermopolis, Klein said “It’s actually kind of a funny story. A good friend of mine and I, we were sitting having a beer and talking about stuff. I was getting sick of the wind in Cheyenne and the population was getting out o...
At its August 18 meeting, the Hot Springs County Land Use Planning Commission continued the Dufour Bed & Breakfast proposal on Black Mountain Road to its September meeting. Chairman Adam Estenson expressed concern that the proposal was too complex to review as a Bed and Breakfast operation. Applicant Elyse Dufour is requesting approval for the short-term rental of two bedrooms in the existing residence, two existing RV spaces, and up to three tent sites on the creek bottom below the residence. The Commission discussed the definition of a Bed...
The local Oath Keepers Chapter and the Best Western sponsored a visit from author Paul Engel, founder of The Constitution Study. Engel started The Constitution Study, started in 2014 as a program to ensure our children and grandchildren are educated in the rights and freedoms protected by our Constitution and Bill of Rights. "Like many of you, I am a product of the public schools, in my case mostly through the 1970s. It's a sad state of affairs, but I learned more about our Constitution from...
Justin and Amber Popp recently relocated to Thermopolis. They brought with them their flavored peanut butter business, called PB&J’s. They make and sell flavored peanut butter, a business they originally started in Cheyenne. The start of their company began when they visited various farmer’s markets. Popp said, “We saw a need at the farmer’s markets for flavored peanut butter. You always go and you find bread, you find honey, you find jelly, but you never find peanut butter. So, we decided...
A cookie jar auction will be held for Lauri Olsen on Sat., August 28 beginning at 5:30 p.m. at the fairgrounds. In early July, Olsen was diagnosed with Stage IV pancreatic cancer, which has since metastasized to her liver. She will begin treatment soon in Billings. The auction will include a market steer donated by HSCHS student Roedy Farrell....
CHEYENNE, Wyo. – As students return to classrooms across the state during a time of increasing numbers of COVID-19 infections, state leaders are describing priorities and expectations for students, staff and families. “Our goal for this school year is to keep our schools open and our students learning safely in-person, in the classroom,” Governor Mark Gordon said. “Today we want to announce our joint plan put in place to achieve this. We recognize it will take a collaborative effort from Wyoming school personnel, students and families to be s...
After consultation with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department captured and relocated an adult male grizzly bear on August 15, 2021. The bear was a captured for cattle depredation on private lands west of Thermopolis. In cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the bear was relocated to the Fivemile Creek drainage approximately 47 miles west of Cody. According to Game and Fish, bears that are considered a threat to human safety are not reloc...
