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At the Hot Springs County Annex Building on October 5, the County Commissioners met to hear a variety of reports. Bill Gordon gave the Emergency Management report and presented the 2021 EMPG Grant Award Agreement. This grant covers 50% of Gordon’s salary and a few additional things. Gordon said this is the same document that the commissioners have been receiving year after year, approximately 20 years. The amount for this agreement is the same as in the previous year. The commissioners voted to...
The Thermopolis Town Council met on October 5 for a brief meeting to take reports from various departments. During citizen participation, the council voted and passed to approve a liquor permit for One Eyed Buffalo for the Chamber of Commerce Banquet. Town engineer Anthony Barnett was not in attendance, therefore, Assistant to Mayor Fred Crosby gave his report. Working with Interim Police Chief Pat Cornwell, Crosby wants to place speed signs on the outside of town on both the north and south end...
The 100th Annual Chamber of Commerce Banquet will be on Saturday, October 16. This year’s theme is “Hats Off” by Dr. Seuss. The evening begins at 5:30 p.m. with an “I will drink” No Host Cocktail Hour served by OEB Saloon and at 6:30 we will have a “Woo-ville Feast” catered by Black Bear Catering. Guest Speakers will be Mike and Kathy Gear, New York Times Best-Selling Authors. The Chamber will be presenting the 2020 awards. Business of the Year nominees are Kirby Creek Mercantile, Las Fuentes, One Eyed Buffalo Brewing Company, One Stop Repa...
Deputy rescues juvenile from canal POWELL (WNE) — An off-duty Park County Sheriff’s deputy jumped into action to rescue a juvenile from an irrigation canal on Sunday. The juvenile and another youth had crashed their UTV into a lateral canal shortly after 11 a.m., not far from the intersection of Road 11 and U.S. Highway 14-A west of Powell. “The vehicle had been traveling eastbound on the canal road at a rate of speed too high to safely complete a right-hand turn,” Charla Baugher Torczon, a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office, said in a Thur...
by Leo Wolfson Cody Enterprise Via Wyoming News Exchange CODY — Kanye West’s ranch is now for sale, symbolizing the likely final page in the hip-hop and fashion mogul’s saga in Cody. On Monday morning, DBW Realty listed his West Ranch, formerly known as Monster Lake, for $11 million. The total property with additional leased federal land was listed for auction for $13.3 million in 2019 before West purchased it, but it is unknown how much he actually paid for it. “ The views of the sandstone cliffs and Absaroka mountains make it a premier Wyomin...
Three land use change requests will be reviewed during the Wednesday, October 20 meeting of the Land Use Planning Commission. The first request that will be discussed beginning at 6:15 p.m. is one made by Britt Taylor. Taylor has requested a land use change from the Agricultural land use category to the Commercial land use category, to allow a 50-unit RV campground. The subject property is a 21-acre parcel described as a portion of the NE quarter of the NE quarter of Section 3, Township 42 North, Range 95 West. Fronting on the north side of Hig...
At the September 28 Hot Springs Health Board meeting, CEO Margie Molitor spoke on the decline of Covid cases in Hot Springs County. “I’m still seeing bigger numbers around us, but Hot Springs County is down. So that’s much appreciated. I think we surged earlier than everybody else, and now we’re down and everybody else is up. From a vaccination standpoint, we have 121 staff that are fully vaccinated or 67% of our staff. We have 71% of our staff that have had at least one shot. Hot Springs...
At the September 29 Hot Springs County Travel and Tourism meeting held at the County Museum, in the financial report, Treasurer Audra Dominguez reported and said they had another record-breaking month in receiving lodging tax revenue, now being five months in a row. August brought in $33,734.00 with a historical average of $29,014.64. This amount is 41% greater than the previous year in the same month. This amount combines revenue within Thermopolis at $22,469.93 and Hot Springs County $6,544.72...
Three Hot Springs County High School students have become 2021 National FFA Agriscience Fair Finalists and will attend the National Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana on October 27-30. Finalists, Tymber Eckley, Austin Slagle and Lexi Overfield will be supported by FFA advisors Britton Van Huele, Becky Martinez and Ranell Hindman. Martinez explained the process and level of the competition and said, "the agriscience fair is something that we do intra-curricular. As part of the curriculum for...
On September 13, a dedication was held for two new structures at the Community Garden. The garden is located at the northwest corner of the intersection of East Arapahoe and Buffalo Street in East Thermopolis, near the hospital and Red Rock Family Clinic. The two structures are a shed and a picnic area. About 25 people participated in the dedication. According to Kelly Strampe, member of the Red Dirt Master Gardeners, many community members purchased a bed to garden in for the whole summer....
Angela Michel, a Cent$ible Nutrition Program Educator, from the University of Wyoming Extension, reported that in April of this year, First Lady Jennie Gordon’s Wyoming Hunger Initiative (WHI) partnered with the University of Wyoming Extension to launch a new program under the Food from the Farm + Ranch banner called Grow a Little Extra. Instead of reinventing the wheel, this collaboration utilizes existing resources to create a sustainable solution to hunger. WHI, UW Extension, Cent$ible Nutrition Program and the UW Master Gardener Program a...
A concerned citizen, Sherman Skelton, attended the September meeting of the Travel and Tourism Board to present his thoughts about new developments in the Airbnb world. Skelton said, “I was reading through your minutes of your last meeting. A couple of your guests that were here last month have some proposals in front of the planning commission. I went to last month’s meeting. I am coming to you guys to see if there’s a way to find a collective voice within the county for anybody in hospi...
The Hot Springs County School Board voted unanimously on Sept. 16 to approve the previously proposed bus stop at 421 North Highway 20, but not before Board Treasurer Joe Martinez offered a few longer-term suggestions. “I made a point this morning, going to town and back home, to take a look at this,” Martinez said. “When these requests come in, it would be nice if we had some more visuals to go with them, from the actual bus stops, looking both directions, so we can see what they’re seeing.” Martinez cited the familiarity of fellow board tru...
At the Bobcat Hall of Fame ceremony held at the Thermopolis Middle School, Shawna Farrell, Jack Kuiper and Tom Zupan were inducted. Additionally, members of the 2009 State Champion Football Team were also inducted. Those who attended included players Luke Casciato, Chris Ryan, Tanner Cornwell, William Enis and former assistant coach Matt Mason. Shawna Farrell is a 1998 graduate of Hot Springs County High School and received varsity letters in volleyball, basketball and track and field. She was...
At the September 21 Thermopolis Town Council meeting during citizen participation Bradyn Harvey, representing the Odd Fellows Lodge, proposed a community food pantry to be placed in Bicentennial Park. This large metal cabinet would contain dry goods, diapers, tampons and other nonperishable items. The pantry would operate on the honor system with no questions asked if people need items from it. It would be stocked by the Odd Fellows Lodge or any other benevolent person. Harvey explained that this has been done in other cities with success....
Marie Britting is a local artist who has been painting a variety of images that include still life and plein air landscapes. Her work is currently being featured at the Three Sisters Gallery. During the Covid shutdowns and especially during the cold, snowy winter, Britting spent a majority of her time painting still lifes at her home studio. Britting said about her still life art, "I came to really love it." Britting expanded on her painting through the inspiration of other artists such as...
Newly appointed interim Thermopolis Chief of Police Pat Cornwell started his career in Park County at the Cody jail in 1994, where he worked for five years. Later he was promoted to deputy and then moved to Powell, where he received additional training. In Powell, where he worked for four years, Cornwell said, "We dealt with a lot. We had a lot of college kids living out of town. We did a lot of backing up the Powell Police Department, and they would back us up if we requested it." Later...
Karen Leyba, a speech pathologist at the Children's Resource Center, is celebrating her 30 years of work. Leyba performed speech services and said, "When I started out, I did babies through five-year-olds. And then we had Jenny Manning for a few years that helped, which took over the babies. And Jenny left two years ago now. And so now I'm back to doing all of them. Zero through five-year-olds." Regarding what it is like working with the children, Leyba said, "It's exciting. It's rewarding. To...
“When the pandemic began, The Holy Trinity Episcopal Church struggled to find the safest way to worship together.” said Father Ron Philips. “For a time we worshipped totally via Zoom. Now we offer blended services: both in-person and on Zoom. “There is an upside. We’ve reached out by publishing a weekly newsletter. We established a strong presence on Facebook. And we’re continuing to refine our Zoom broadcast so it’s closer to an in-person experience. If anything, we’ve grown. We now have as many people on Zoom as we do in church. Some of...
According to a press release issued by the USDA, Aging infrastructure and technology were taking their toll on the Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital, now known as Hot Springs Health, in Thermopolis. However, with local demand and tourists on their way to Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks, patient levels were increasing. Community leaders and hospital officials needed to find a way to fund a hospital upgrade and expansion. If not, the hospital would have to shut down. Losing their hospital was not an option so the constituents of...
Lummis says COVID serious, but mandate is overreach JACKSON (WNE) — U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis in her monthly newsletter reiterated her stance on COVID-19, the deadly virus which has hospitalized as many Wyoming patients in recent weeks as it did at the height of the pandemic. “COVID-19 is serious. It has already taken the lives of too many people in Wyoming, and each death is a travesty. My heart breaks for those who have lost family members to this devastating illness,” the Wyoming Republican said in her letter to constituents. Despite that...
The fire department is teaming up with the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), the national sponsor of Fire Prevention Week for more than 90 years, to promote this year’s Fire Prevention Week campaign, “Learn the Sounds of Fire Safety”. This year’s campaign, Oct. 3 – 9, works to educate everyone about simple but important actions they can take to keep themselves and those around them safe. “What do the sounds mean? Is there a beep or a chirp coming out of your smoke or carbon monoxide alarm? Knowing the difference can save you, your h...
CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Governor Gordon has announced that the State of Wyoming is seeking state management of grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE). The State is petitioning the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to delist the GYE grizzly bear population, following 46 years and more than $52 million in investment from Wyoming. Grizzly bears, by all measures, have been fully-recovered since 2003. “This is a notable day of celebration not only for the grizzly bear, but for Wyoming. The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bear has met...
Main Street Thermopolis will launch “Great until 8!”, a regular event to encourage businesses in Hot Springs County to stay open until 8 p.m. on the second Saturday of the month and shoppers to take advantage of the late hours. The monthly promotion, beginning on Saturday, October 9, 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. “We look forward to launching Great until 8! and the response from the businesses we have...
Although the Hot Springs County School Board was able to assure parents, during the Sept. 16 board meeting, that the board has no plans for mask or vaccine mandates stemming from the school district, there were still plenty of parents in attendance who stepped up to express their opinions on the matter. Brayden Harvey came armed with “Wyoming statutes and constitutional clauses,” citing state statute 142-206 as saying, “The liberty of a parent to the care, custody and control of a child is a fundamental right that resides first in the paren...
