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On the evening of Tuesday, July 21, the Hot Springs County Sheriff’s Office received a request to locate a subject in the Grass Creek Coalmine area. The subject was 83-year-old Jim Hillberry of Powell. He was driving an ATV in the area. Hillberry was later found deceased near his ATV by a family member. At the time of press it is unknown if he was killed in an ATV accident or he passed away from natural causes while driving. Search and Rescue were called in to assist. There is a possibility an autopsy will be performed. Hillberry had been a m...
Hot Springs County is officially under a fire ban as of July 21 after the county commissioners signed a resolution upon recommendation from the Hot Springs County Fire Warden. Until further notice, any open fire or discharge of any class fireworks is prohibited on all unimproved state and private land within Hot Springs County. There are exceptions, however. Trash or refuse burned between 6 p.m. and 8 a.m. must be inside a container equipped with spark arrestors inside a cleared area with at...
The Hot City Outdoor Alliance, assisted by TPT Consulting and Wyoming Pathways, are hosting an open house at the Thermopolis Volunteer Fire Department, 400 South 14th Street from 6-7:30 p.m. on Monday, August 3. The purpose is to gather public input on the type of nonmotorized trail system that could be developed in the Thermopolis area, where or where not to develop trails, and to share information on the economic and health benefits of community trail systems that Thermopolis could realize. With everyone’s best health in mind, the open h...
A kinder camp for incoming kindergarten students at Ralph Witters Elementary will be held August 10-14. On August 10-12 it will be from 8:30 a.m.-noon and on August 14 it will be from 4-6 p.m. in the kindergarten rooms at RWE. Breakfast and lunch will be provided August 10-12 and dinner will be provided for students and their immediate families on August 13 at 5:30 .m. Students who were in Kinder Boost during the 2019-2020 school year need not attend. There will be no bus transportation available....
New and returning student registration is planned for Thursday, August 6 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Ralph Witters Elementary You can register online at hotsprings1.org. Click on Student Registration K-8 New. Complete the pre-registration form and click submit at the bottom when finished. If you are a returning student, you should already have your ID and password information. If not, please contact the office. Once you have pre-registered, you will receive an email from RWE office giving you your password information. Once you’ve received y...
Reagan Severance is thrilled to see her dad, Brad Becerra, after his over ten months being gone serving in Afghanistan with the Wyoming National Guard. He surprised her during her Lady Cat volleyball camp last Thursday at the Hot Springs County High School.... Full story
Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital Foundation, Inc. was one of 130 non-profit organizations who participated in WyoGives - a first of its kind, statewide, 24-hour, online giving event that was held on July 15, 2020. Overall, the event raised $536,471.00 from 2,402 individual donors. The Hospital Foundation finished the day in 8th place, raising $12,478.00 from 26 donors – representing 250% of the Foundation’s goal of raising $5,000.00. Significantly, individual donations were sufficient to fully complete each of three matching challenges - c...
The Hot Springs County Commissioners met last week with members of the Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) for the annual State Highway Improvement Program (STIP) meeting. Peter Hallsten, District Engineer for WYDOT out of Basin, presented the commissioners with information on statewide projects as well as local projects that will be coming up in the next few years, including pricing on those projects. Due to COVID-19 there has been a 40-percent reduction in travel creating a gap betwee...
Hot Springs County School District #1 (HSCSD#1) hosted a stakeholders meeting to discuss the various grants the district receives and how they are used. Nichole Ciz, Grant Coordinator for the district led the meeting. As a parent, you may always request information about the qualifications of your student’s teacher, including their education. When it comes to student confidentiality, Ciz said HSCSD#1 is in full compliance with the safeguarding of student information. They are not able to give o...
This year is an election year and the State of Wyoming’s Secretary of State and Wyoming’s County Clerks are doing everything they can to ensure Wyoming’s voters may vote safely during the pandemic. Most have already received a mailing from the Secretary of State’s office that includes a request for an absentee ballot. Absentee ballots allow the voter to fill out their ballot in the safety of their home and return it by mail. In order to vote absentee, you must be a registered member of a polit...
Forty-five page Requests for Proposals (RFP) are now ready to be released to the public for both the Days Inn and Star Plunge in Hot Springs State Park. A meeting last Thursday with the Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Committee on Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources held in Thermopolis included a review of both RFP’s and there have been no changes to either document since first proposed. The committee hopes the documents will be out in the next week or two so those who are int...
The Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Committee on Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources held a meeting in Thermopolis last week to go over a number of items in the State Park system as well as discuss the RFP’s for the Star Plunge and Days Inn. The group discussed a draft bill that would allow more of the money gathered from state park fees to be used to offset budget cuts. Currently, they can only use 30-percent the monies collected for maintenance of the various parks in the sys...
The Hot Springs County COVID-19 Incident Management Team has reported that county COVID-19 positive tests recently grew from 9 to 11. Contract tracing for the two recently positive individuals is being performed. Individuals who may have been exposed will be notified and evaluated. Situation reports will be posted on Tuesdays and Thursday at www.hscounty.com. For daily information visit health.wyo.gov. If you are having COVID-19 like symptoms and are uninsured, COVID-19 testing and the office visit costs will be covered under the Federal Cares...
Crews under the management of Wyoming Type 3 Incident Management Team 2 successfully contained the Neiber Fire at end of operations on Monday. From its origin on July 14, the blaze spread rapidly through rough and remote sagebrush country and grassland that posed special challenges for firefighters and management. Firefighters from multiple federal, state and local agencies battled the fire which started near the Washakie/Hot Springs County line. The crews were worked to continue to hold and improve line in the rough terrain of the Mud Creek...
Danielle Yarrington recently opened her new restaurant Elle’s Restaurant and Bar in the former location of Thermopolis Cafe. Her journey to get to this place has been full of hard work and perseverance. When Yarrington graduated high school in 2015, she left Thermopolis and went to school in Casper for three years and graduated with two associate degrees. Yarrington has been working in restaurants since her sophomore year of high school. She came back to Thermopolis and began the process to b...
The Farmers Market is starting soon and is now managed by Douglas Nelson. Nelson said that he is looking for more vendor participants to add their wares to the market. He added that he thinks with the more global shortages of food that people would be more interested in shopping locally. Currently, there are five vendors signed up, however, Nelson is optimistic that more will show up closer to the opening time. He said eight to ten vendors are typical for the season. Vendors must provide their...
In the Travel and Tourism Board’s financial report of the Annual Lodging Tax Revenue Comparison, the data showed some positive information. The total revenue for the 2019-2020 year was $181,497.51, higher than the previous year. The total revenue for the 2018-2019 year was $172,170.04. Even though the revenue for the final three months of the fiscal year, April, May and June were significantly lower than the previous year due to the COVID-19 situation, they showed an overall increase. The L...
Due to dry conditions and high fire danger, Stage 1 fire restrictions will begin July 17, 2020, on public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management Lander Field Office in Fremont, Hot Springs and Natrona counties; Worland Field Office in Washakie, Hot Springs and Big Horn counties; and Cody Field Office in Park and Big Horn counties. Hot, dry conditions and high fire danger have prompted the prohibition of the following activities: Building, maintaining, attending or using a fire or campfire except within agency-provided fire grates a...
“Ever since the Baby Boomers turned 65 years old in 2011, there has been a rapid increase in the size of the older population,” says Dr. Wenlin Liu, Chief Economist with the State of Wyoming, Economic Analysis Division. Wyoming’s population aged the fastest in the country from 2018 to 2019 with the elderly, those 65 and older, growing 3.8 percent. The median age in the state grew to 38.4 years, 0.4 percent in a single year while the national age grew just 0.2 percent. Wyoming has one of the highest proportions of Baby Boomers, those born betwe...
The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (WDEQ) has received a request from the Wyoming Department of Transportation for State certification of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Nationwide Permit #23, for discharge of dredged or fill material to the Wind River downstream of Boysen Reservoir. The project involves stabilizing an active landslide that is impacting U.S. Highway 20, associated road slopes and the Upper Wind River campground entrance. Active erosion of the right bank of the Wind River is also occurring at the project locati...
by Seth Klamann Casper Star-Tribune Via Wyoming News Exchange CASPER — Wyoming’s smallest hospitals received tens of millions of dollars in federal loan money in April and May, funds that helped keep the facilities afloat as the effects of the pandemic ravaged hospitals’ coffers. In the spring, Congress passed the CARES Act, which included the Payment Protection Program. The stimulus program granted loans to businesses that promised not to layoff employees, loans that would become grants — and wouldn’t need to be paid back — if the businesses...
The COVID-19 Incident Command team of Dr. Vernon Miller, Emergency Management Coordinator Bill Gordon and Mary Gordon, Public Health Response Coordinator met with the Hot Springs County Commissioners to discuss where we are with the pandemic. Events or businesses need to submit an exception if there are portions that are not going to be able to be done with the state and county requirements currently in place. The team discussed plans and exception forms, letting the commissioners know they are...
The Joint Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources Committee is meeting Thursday, July 16 at the Hot Springs County Annex building to hear from Wyoming Game and Fish regarding the effect the pandemic has hand on fishing and hunting license sales as well as State Parks and Cultural Resources with further information on its management of state campgrounds and facilities. There will also be an update on Hot Springs State Park and progress on the current concessionaire contracts. In...
To recognize the entrepreneurial spirit driving teachers to meet their students’ distance learning needs at the end of last school year, SONIC® Drive-In matched all donations to DonorsChoose on Teacher Appreciation Day, giving Carbon Kennington, a teacher at Ralph Witters Elementary, $364. Through Limeades for Learning®, $1 million was given to public school teacher requests across the country on Teacher Appreciation Day – Tuesday, May 5, 2020 – supporting their endeavors to provide students with essential education resources. Kennington’s proj...
Town Engineer Anthony Barnett brought up a pressing budgeting issue in regard to chip sealing Thermopolis streets at the recent Town Council meeting. Town Clerk-Treasurer Tracy Van Heule had budgeted $515,000 for one-cent sales tax revenue, which is approximately $43,000 per month. May’s distribution was $49,000. Van Heule wondered out loud if this is an expense that can be put off until next spring and was not sure if this is feasible weather-wise. She said, “It’s one-eighth of our total of the...
