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Main Street Thermopolis is holding its annual Brewfest event on Saturday, June 5 from 4-8 p.m. between 4th and 5th street on Broadway downtown. It is their main fundraiser where the entire community and families can participate. Adults 21 years and older can purchase a tasting mug for $25 and try out beer from six or more craft breweries from around the state. There will be a variety of food trucks, vendors with arts and crafts and local musicians, such as Eric Kay, Keith OBrien and Harold...
Afterschool Alliance AnnoThe Wyoming Young Entrepreneur Initiative cultivated by the Wyoming Afterschool Alliance (WYAA) encourages young people to explore and practice entrepreneurship and develop their critical thinking and problem-solving skills. The Wyoming Young Entrepreneur Pitch Challenge for Winter 2021 provided a platform for young people across the state to apply these skills and WYAA is proud to celebrate the standouts. Second place was awarded to Thermopolis Middle School Students Riley O’Brien, Ivey Goff, Mari Ford and Julia Q...
by Dustin Bleizeffer, WyoFile.com Wyoming stands at the crossroads of a permanently shrinking coal industry and a historic budget crisis as its dominant conservative politics move further to the right on several issues. Presented with these factors, a troubling number of Wyoming’s young people choose another route altogether: the one that leads out of state. The portion of Wyoming’s workforce made up of young people continues to shrink as many choose to leave Wyoming rather than stake out a future in their home state. “The consensus [amon...
by Dustin Bleizeffer, WyoFile.com In the fall of 2017, then Hot Springs High School senior Stormy Cox wrote of her home state: “In my heart I would love to stay in Wyoming … The majority of my family lives in Wyoming. It’s hard to leave all of them behind and be on my own. If I could stay in Wyoming and still pursue my dreams I would.” Her sentiments were collected as part of a project that I and Felicity Barringer, Writer In Residence at the Bill Lane Center for the American West, undertook. The goal was to understand young people’s attitudes...
NBHA Barrel racing weas held last Sunday at the Hot Springs County Fairgrounds. Results inlude: Open 1D - Baylie Mulholland, 15.201; Jerrie Slagle, 15.361; Shyla Epler, 15.608 2D - Brenda Sims, 15.723; Shyla Epler, 15.814; Brenda Sims, 15.866 3D - Nicole Spainhower, 16.323; Taylor Malcom, 16.445; Kerri DeGroff, 16.500; mandy McKim, 16.687; Baylie Mulholland, 16.714 4D - Nicole Spainhower, 18.037; Kaitlyn Schmuck, 18.087; Mandy McKim, 18.536; Annie DeGanahl, 19.084; Bobbi Byrd, 22.824 Youth 1D - Mesa Allen, 16.009; Taylor Malcom, 16.216; Taylor...
May 10-14 is NOAA Severe Weather Awareness Week. Hot Springs County Emergency Management will be running the Outdoor Alert Sirens at noon each day of that week. There are two siren tones to be aware of in Hot Springs County A solid tone, which will indicate a Tornado Warning and a Hi-Lo Tone which will indicate a catastrophic Boysen Dam Failure and Evacuation is necessary. Monday, Wednesday and Friday at noon will be the solid tone demonstration Tuesday and Thursday will be the Hi-Lo Alert for a Boysen Dam failure. Remember, these are Outdoor...
Property owners in the unincorporated areas of Hot Springs County are advised of several newly-adopted County requirements that affect new construction. These went into effect with adoption of the County’s 2020 Land Use Plan in November of last year. Prior to starting new construction in the unincorporated areas of Hot Springs County, landowners are now required to obtain a Construction Permit. This is a simple, one-page application that is available online at www.hscounty.com/departments/planning, or can be picked up at the County Planning O...
At the April 20 Hot Springs County Commissioners meeting, the commissioners held a discussion with County Health Nurse Tricia McPhie to discuss rescinding the Incident Command Team they created in March 2020, which was a response to the COVID situation and other aspects to the emergency situation. McPhie said, “I think we’ve learned a lot of stuff over the last year. We are not meeting like we did before. Efforts have obviously changed, too. Testing and vaccinating with a detailed plan, mor...
The Hot Springs County School District Board of Trustees approved a preliminary budget for fiscal year 2021 to 2022, after the district’s business manager, Chauncy Johnson, introduced it on April 20. After Board Treasurer Joe Martinez moved to approve the budget, and Board Vice-Chair Sherman Skelton seconded the motion, the board approved the budget unanimously. Johnson opened by noting the district’s local revenues continue to be low, as projected for most of the year, and while he assured the board that the district would be “okay” as it c...
At the April 20 Thermopolis Town Council meeting, Heath Overfield reported on their waste management situation and the transfer station. Overfield started by saying he wanted to put a placeholder in their budget for money going to the access of the transfer station because they wanted to add a lane. This would be done in accordance with WYDOT. There are a couple of options of how they can do the work and they will decide in the near future. Overfield then provided a priority list of transfer...
It looks like it's try, try again for Thermopolis' own Kacy Conner, who wrapped up his third season of semi-pro snowmobile hill climbs on the weekend of April 17-18 by qualifying in one of his four competitive classes at the national championship hill climb at the Lost Trail Ski Resort in Sula, Montana. "I qualified in the semi-pro open class, but I missed the semi-pro improved stock class by 6/100ths of a second," Conner said. "The other two categories, I was having problems with my sled, so I'll be starting over in points next January," he ad...
Deputy Travis Bench of Riverton and his dog Ricky searched around vehicles in Hot Springs County High School parking lot during a multi-municipality operation. According to Thermopolis Police Chief Julie Mathews, the dogs did hit on odors on certain vehicles but law enforcement did not find any actual drug materials. Deputy Bench said Ricky gives a passive alert when finding a scent coming from drugs. This alert is sitting down, changing in posture and breathing. When he comes to the strongest...
Brett Klein and Shirley Willis, left, have purchased White Horse Country Store from Dave and Cindy Denton, right. The couple is relocating to Thermopolis from Cheyenne and plans no major changes for the store. The IR will feature an article once the couple has moved and is here full time. Also pictured are WHCS employees Hannah Norris and Barbara Jean Kissel....
A drought has caused severe damage in all areas of Hot Springs County. If you’ve suffered severe damage, you may be eligible for assistance under the Emergency Conservation Program (ECP) administered by the Washakie-Hot Springs County Farm Service Agency (FSA) For land to be eligible, the natural disaster must create new conservation problems that, if untreated, would: •Be so costly to rehabilitate that Federal assistance is or will be needed to return the land to productive agricultural use •Is unusual and is not the type that would recur...
Sonja Johansen is the new Golf Pro Shop manager and she will be taking care of the clubhouse. There are plans to reopen the restaurant at the course soon. The menu will include, chicken, burgers, chicken fingers and some diabetic friendly foods. Along with french fries, other side options will be coleslaw, cottage cheese and other low carb options. They will also be serving morning coffee. Johansen will oversee staff, take care of the golf carts and the bar among other duties. The club house...
Governor Mark Gordon has issued the following statement in response to an announcement from the Bureau of Land Management to not hold its second quarter oil and gas lease sale. “The announcement by the Bureau of Land Management “to not hold” the second quarter oil and gas lease sale due to an ongoing review ordered by President Biden is disappointing, disheartening and not surprising. Federal reviews of anything typically take months, and sometimes years. What is most disappointing is that the Department of Interior could have chosen to revie...
by Nick Reynolds WyoFile.com Wyoming lawmakers will give Medicaid expansion a hard look in the 2021 interim after two attempts to pass the measure failed in the Wyoming Senate in the recent session. The Legislature’s Management Council approved expansion as an interim topic Friday by a 7-4 vote. The Joint Revenue Committee will now take it up. Long a hot-button topic in Wyoming politics, Medicaid expansion saw renewed interest this session after the federal government passed legislation increasing the federal match. The Management Council a...
At the April 21 Hot Springs County Travel and Tourism Board meeting, Treasurer Matt Hughes presented the financial report. Hughes said for March the lodging tax receipts are $8,288.66 with interest income at $8.64, totalling to $8,297.30. The month was down from last year, but up 10% from the historical average. For the nine months ending in March, their lodging tax receipts are $133,301.73 and they are 75% through the fiscal year. The year to date receipts are 76.2% of their planned $175,000. They are almost perfectly on track with their...
The Hospital Auxiliary is sponsoring their Community Blood Drive on Monday, May 3 from 2-6 p.m. at the Senior Citizen’s Center. At the moment, they have only a few appointments available but they are able to offer walk-in appointments for this drive. To make an appointment, please go to Bloodhero.com to find a time that will fit in your schedule. Remember that each donation has the power to save up to three lives. There is always a need for blood and only volunteer donors can fulfil that need for patients in our community. Every two seconds s...
by Angus M. Thuermer Jr., WyoFile.com Conservation groups are challenging Wyoming’s approval of an energy company’s plan to inject oilfield waste into an underground aquifer, telling federal regulators the state plan fails to meet Safe Drinking Water Act requirements. The Powder River Basin Resource Council, Wyoming Outdoor Council and Natural Resources Defense Council say Wyoming relied on flawed economic analyses by Aethon Energy, the company seeking the permit to inject “produced water” from the Moneta Divide oil and gas field mainly...
by Tom Coulter Wyoming Tribune Eagle Via Wyoming News Exchange CHEYENNE – Wyoming’s federal delegates have largely come out in opposition to President Joe Biden’s roughly $2 trillion infrastructure plan, even as a few details of how the plan could impact the state were released by the White House earlier this week. The president’s proposal, known as the American Jobs Plan, calls for the modernization of 20,000 miles of highways, roads and main streets nationwide, as well as the reconstruction of the 10 most economically significant bridges...
According to Bureau of Reclamation officials, there is no flushing flow from Boysen Dam scheduled for this year because there is not sufficient water to do the flush. The snowmelt forecast issued in April for Boysen Reservoir showed the predicted Wind River runoff from April through July at 450,000 af, which is 72% of the 30-year average of 621,400 af. Even with the recent snow storms and accumulation, the runoff will still be below the 30-year average....
Jill Tonn, of Thermopolis, was presented the Founders by Charlie Decker this past weekend in Lander at the Red Canyon Banquet. Jill was a Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (RMEF) employee for over 14 years and in her time, Wyoming was the top fundraising state six times under her leadership. The RMEF Founders' Award purpose is to recognize the significant contribution of the RMEF Founders, Charlie Decker, Bob Munson, Dan Bull and Bill Munson, and create an RMEF Award in their honor and to capture...
Lights On Afterschool will host a Drug Awareness Night as a free dinner with walking tacos being served. Drugs are not what they used, but we need to know what they are now. Students, family members, parents/guardians, community members and adults involved with youth are all urged to attend. The event will feature speakers and guests from the Thermopolis Police Department, Hot Springs County Sheriff’s Department and HSCSD Counselors and the Prevention Coalition. The event will be at the Thermopolis Middle School Commons, Thursday, April 28 f...
The Food Bank of Wyoming will have their Pop-Up Mobile Food Pantry on Saturday, April 24 from 1-3 p.m. They will be distributing boxes of food on Senior Avenue. They ask that you follow these directions for proper traffic flow. The line begins going north on Springview Street. At Park Street turn right on Park, staying to the right as you pass the High School. At Senior avenue, you will be directed to turn right and guided into two lanes headed south on Senior Avenue. Next, you will go through the food distribution area and then exit south on...
