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At the May 3 Hot Springs County Commissioners meeting held at the Annex building, Brian Clarkson from T-O Engineers provided an update on the GIS report via speakerphone. Clarkson said they are continuing the mapping of the county road easements and right-of-way descriptions to link to historical documents. They are also performing updates and expansions on the Road and Bridge Online Applications for their maintenance. Regarding anticipated work, Clarkson said they will incorporate land-use...
The 2022 Gymkhana Series kicks off Saturday, May 14 at Hot Springs County Fairgrounds. Competitors can enter beginning at 9 a.m. Events include barrels, poles, goat tying, flag race and a fun event. Age groups are 5 and under (lead), 6 and under (not lead), 7-9, 10-13 and 14-18. Year end awards will be given in all age groups. Must participate in three rodeos to be eligible for year end awards and three events to be eligible for all-around awards. For more information, contact Amber at 307-431-1165....
The Hot Springs County Historical Society will hold a program by Laura Vietti called “Tropical Tapirs in Wyoming: The Origins, Evolutions, and Preservation of Wyoming’s Most Recent Fossil Tapir Discovery” following their May meeting on Saturday , May 14 at 2 p.m. at the Historical Museum. In the summer of 2016, a large mammal was recovered from Wyoming state lands in the approximately 53 million-year-old Fossil Lake strata near Kemmerer, Wyoming. The fossil is currently on display at the Wyoming State Museum. Initial investigations sugge...
The Hot Springs County High School Graduation Ceremony will be Sunday, May 15 beginning at 2 p.m. in the HSCHS gymnasium. The ceremony for the class of 2022 will include 45 seniors who will be receiving their high school diplomas. Jacob Randall is the class valedictorian and Jean-Luc Willson is class salutatorian. Seniors Randall and Lee Grimm will also be graduating with an associates degree from Central Wyoming College because they were able to earn the required credits while attending high school. A story on their accomplishment will run in...
The Town of Thermopolis will be holding its annual Spring Clean-Up on May 16-21. All residents and business owners are encouraged to clean their property in preparation for the upcoming summer season. According to the Town’s Director of Public Works Ernie Slagle and Assistant to Mayor Fred Crosby, four 20 feet dumpsters will be located at these addresses for residents: 14th Street next to the tennis courts, 9th Street and Big Horn, 8th Street and Amoretti, and the 200 block of 2nd Street. There will also be a Free Dump Day at the town landfill...
Main Street Thermopolis’ Great until 8! monthly shopping event takes place this Saturday, May 14. This second Saturday event showcases the businesses who are staying open until 8 p.m. or later in town. Since the first one last October, Main Street has grown this event from 11 participants to 16. Shoppers can win a $100 gift certificate by entering a drawing. Bring your receipts from the participating businesses, with the date and time of purchase on them, to Discover Thermopolis by 8:15 p.m. The $100 gift certificate will be valid at the b...
The Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) is targeting high blood pressure with a new, free program that includes blood pressure self-monitoring, education and other support. Known as the Healthy Heart Ambassador Program, the effort will be available at no cost to Wyoming adults diagnosed with high blood pressure. “High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is one of the major risk factors for developing heart disease,” said Amber Nolte, Chronic Disease Prevention Program manager with WDH. “Hypertension is often referred to as a ‘sile...
The 2021-2022 Thermoplis High School 84th annual FFA Banquet opened with advisor Britton Van Heule introducing the officers who are reporter Tucker Lake, sentinel Hanna Hill, secretary Lexi Overfield, second vice president Morgan Slover, vice president Cadence Steadman and president Hallie Martinez. Following dinner at the banquet, numerous awards were presented to FFA members and community members were honored for their support of the chapter. A.M. Hartwig was the very first Ag teacher at Hot...
The Hot Springs County School Board on April 21 authorized the district to go out for bid to remodel the Thermopolis Middle School locker rooms, and install a new vocational-agricultural bathroom. Superintendent Dustin Hunt touted these proposed improvements as addressing both plumbing and privacy issues in need of updating in the middle school and the vo-ag building, before school district business manager Chauncy Johnson went into further detail on the two projects proposed for bid. At Thermopolis Middle School, Johnson explained the one...
At the April 19 Thermopolis Town Council meeting held at the Town Hall, representatives from the Farmer’s Market requested street closure and access to the Town Hall bathrooms per their usual operation. The market will begin on June 11 and end on October 1 and will be on 5th Street next to the Bicentennial Park. Set up will be at 7:30 a.m. and pack up will be done by 12:30 p.m. It will be open to the public from 8 a.m. until 12 noon. The council voted and passed the approval of the requests. T...
At the April 20 Hot Springs County Travel and Tourism meeting held at the Quality Inn, treasurer Audra Dominguez gave the financial report and said that March’s lodging tax revenue was $9,569.22, which was a 25% increase over the previous year. It was the highest-earning March, with the exception of 2014/15. In 2014/15, the lodging tax was $11,312.51 but that was due to the workers helping clean the flood of the Wind River Canyon. She said this year’s lodging tax revenue comes strictly from tou...
Small nonfarm businesses in 18 Wyoming counties and neighboring counties in Colorado, Idaho, Montana and Utah are now eligible to apply for low‑interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced Director Tanya N. Garfield of SBA’s Disaster Field Operations Center-West. These loans offset economic losses because of reduced revenues caused by drought in the following primary counties that began Jan. 1, 2022. Primary Wyoming counties: Albany, Big Horn, Carbon, Fremont, Hot Springs, Lincoln, Natrona, Park, Sub...
At the April 21 Thermopolis-Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce meeting held at Big Horn Federal, president Howie Samelson gave the annual report and described their chamber’s mission. Samelson said the chamber, “is organized for the purpose of acting as the community resource source, promoting economic growth and tourism as a community resource.” They also reviewed the statistics of their growth and showed a 30% increase in memberships since 2013. The chamber members then voted for the 2021 best...
Help send Porshia Birdsley to the Strongman National Competition by participating in a bake sale, bingo and more Saturday, May 7 at 2 p.m. at the Thermopolis VFW. Proceeds will help send Birdsley to New Hampshire for the competition on June 25. Bingo will be $2 per card, three cards for $5 and kids are welcome to play. There will be yummy cakes and cupcakes as prizes....
The Hot Springs County Republican Party will hold the Reagan Day Dinner, Friday, June 3 at theHot Springs County Fair Building. The cost is $45 if you RSVP by May 15 or $50 after May 15 as seating is limited. Social hour will be at 5:30 p.m. and dinner is at 6 p.m. There will also be silent and live auctions. Candidates will be present. For more information email hscrpchairman@charter.net....
Hot Springs Freedom Riders Christian Motorcycle Association is holding their annual Run for the Son event Saturday, May 7 from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. in Hot Springs State Park. Food, music and praise and worship will be available. Donations will be accepted. Bring your bike to get it blessed for 2022....
Trent Tweddle has opened the Mining-Kart LLC at 316 Broadway St. #4. The retail business opened on Monday, May 2. Tweddle is selling a variety of liquidated items from other stores. They are manufactured discontinued items, shelf pulls that haven't been sold for some reason, or salvaged items. Tweddle said about the salvaged items, "I have stuff that is brand new, but the boxes are pretty torn up." For example, he has two refrigerators where everything is still packaged, but the bottom of the...
by Maya Shimizu Harris Casper Star-Tribune Via Wyoming News Exchange CASPER —Teton was ranked the healthiest county and Fremont the least healthy county in Wyoming, based on data in the newest report from the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. The rankings look at two main components: health factors and health outcomes. Health factors — like education, air and water quality, access to care and tobacco use — are things that can be changed to improve health. Health outcomes — the length and quality of life — represent the healt...
A $1.76 million Northwest Wyoming bridge rehabilitation project is scheduled to begin on US26/287 east of Dubois in May. The first of six bridges to undergo rehabilitation will be the US26/287 highway bridge (FJC) about 15 miles east of Dubois. Improvements at the milepost 69.42 bridge are slated to begin about May 15. Other regional bridges slated for repairs and improvements this summer and fall include the bridge (CTR) at the intersection of Bent Street (WY295) and US14A in Powell at milepost 12.55; the US14A bridge (CAH) 1 mile west of...
At the April Hot Springs Health board meeting, Chief Clinical Officer Scott Alwin gave the quality report and said they have received three applications for the hospital’s summer internship program. Currently, there are two open spots. However, there was a discussion about opening a third spot depending upon if all three students meet the criteria for the positions. The applications will be reviewed and interviews will be held in May. Alwin also reported that they are modifying processes r...
Recently, the Hot Springs County assessor’s office mailed out estimated tax assessments for 2022 to property owners, with many seeing a noticeable increase. There has been discussion and questions throughout the community as to the cause of the increase. Hot Springs County assessor Dan Webber provided some answers and insights into the matter and said, “The process really starts out with me setting a fair value on every property in the county. The term fair value is different for different cla...
At the April 20 Land Use Planning Commission meeting held at the Annex building, Hot Springs County Planner Bo Bowman presented two applicants for their requests for land-use changes for their properties. The first on the agenda was SonRise Operations LLC represented by Douglas Lindenmood, who requested a land-use change from agricultural to commercial for approximately 3.87 acres, to allow a meat processing facility. There were three conditions for his approval. One is that the commercial use...
The Hot Springs County School Board unanimously accepted a preliminary budget on April 21 as required by state statute, with school district business manager Chauncy Johnson pointing out, “It’s not something you have to approve, but you do need to accept a preliminary budget for the district.” Johnson bookended his summary of the preliminary budget with cautions that “these numbers are very preliminary,” as he outlined the district’s revenue projection of $11,166,515 for the 2022-23 school year, and proposed that the board accept that amount...
The newly renovated Family Dollar/Dollar Tree is set to open this week on Thursday, April 28....
HSCSD#1 Stakeholders, including students, parents, staff, community members, homeschool and private school parents, are invited to the 2022-23 Consolidated Grant Planning Meeting on Monday, May 2 from noon-1 p.m. The meeting will be held in the HSCSD#1 board room in the administration building. A light lunch will be served. Plan to attend to provide input for how the district will use the federal funds of the Consolidated Grant. For more information, please contact Nichole Ciz at 864-6515....
