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Moonlight Madness is returning to the streets of downtown Thermopolis on Thursday, October 28. The Masons will serve tacos from 4:30-7 p.m. at the Masonic Hall. The costume contest, sponsored by Dr. Vernon and Rachel Miller, will begin at 6 p.m. on Broadway in front of Town Hall. The categories are: under 1, 1-2 years, 3-4 years, 5-6 years, 7-8 years, 9 years and above, and a group catagory. The Spooktacular Costume Contest Photo Booth by Shailee Harvey Photography will be located at Kirby Creek Mercantile. The Chamber of Commerce reminds us...
Thermopolis Middle School (TMS) Principal Steven Soderstrom reported the students did very well on the WyTopp state testing results in English and Language Arts, Math and Science in Wyoming. TMS fifth graders ranked 9th in English and Language Arts and 4th in Math with 100% growth. TMS sixth graders ranked 4th in English and Language Arts and first in math with 100% growth. TMS seventh graders ranked 3rd in Math and 2nd in English and Language Arts. TMS eighth graders ranked 4th in Math, 3rd in English and Language Arts and 3rd in Science. Sode...
At the October 14 Chamber of Commerce meeting held at Big Horn Federal, during old business, President Howie Samelson brought up the chamber banquet. Director Meri Ann Rush said that the planning for the banquet on October 16 started in the spring. The nominations were also made in January and February. Rush said the goal was to put the event together before the summer. At the time of the meeting, they had sold 131 tickets. Next, the chamber discussed the October 28 Moonlight Madness event....
Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital employees: Darla Reynolds; Elizabeth Oliver; Jennifer Paris; Jeremiah Cannon; Kristi Bonnel-Phillips; Bree Christiansen; Stephen Asay; JoAnn Moore; Bridget Truempler; Chayla Ostby; Jennifer Ogle recently completed a Pediatric Advanced Life Support Program supported by the American Heart Association. The purpose of the program is to acquire current information for healthcare providers who respond to emergencies in infants and children....
At the recent Hot Springs County Commissioners meeting, Tricia McPhie of Public Health and Prevention held a discussion with the commissioners about the executive order from President Biden to mandate vaccinations. Chairman Ryan expressed concern over it and the entire board of commissioners opposed the mandate. The mandatory vaccination executive order was proposed by Biden to be administered through OSHA regulations to have all federal employees, healthcare workers, and businesses with more...
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...
