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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...
There is still time to get your entry in for the 2020 Gift of the Waters Parade scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 1 at 10 a.m. The theme this year is “We are survivors!” Entries must be received in the Thermopolis-Hot Springs Chamber office by Thursday, July 30. Categories include: Individual, Business, Organization, Kids 13-18, Kids up to 12 and Pets/Animals. All entries will be judged on theme, appearance and originality. Certificates will be given to winners in each category and the overall winner will receive $100 in Chamber Bucks. Per par...
Alpha Phi #1148 Chapter of Epsilon Sigma Alpha held an installation of officers ceremony to install 2020-21 officers. The evening began with members enjoying a delicious carry-in dinner with a variety of wraps, potato skins, cheesy bread, cheese bowls, little smokies, peanut butter treats, and ice cream treats. Jenifer Grimm installed Linda Ziegler as President, who then conducted the Installation of Officers Ceremony for the other offices for the year of 2020-2021 including: Vice President-Kim Enis Secretary-Carol Andreen Treasurer-Cindy...
Wyoming’s current public health orders will be extended through July 31 as the state continues to see increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases, Governor Mark Gordon announced Monday. He stated that over the past 14 days, Wyoming has averaged 27 lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 per day, with 342 new cases confirmed since July 1. From June 15-30, there were 328 lab-confirmed cases reported. On July 13, the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations reported by Wyoming hospitals was 17, the most hospitalizations reported since April 22. While the total n...
Chamber Executive Director Meri Ann Rush gave a report for their fireworks stand at the latest Chamber of Commerce Zoom meeting. Rush had just finished their final inventory and said that the goal was to sell a gross of a quarter-million dollars. Rush said, “We bypassed that.” Even after selling fireworks with huge discounts, sometimes up to 80% off, they made a lot of gross revenue. Rush said that leftover fireworks will be taken to other stores that are open. For the next year, there will be...
by Mark Davis Powell Tribune Via Wyoming News Exchange POWELL — A panel of federal judges ruled on July 9 that grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem must remain under Endangered Species Act protections. The three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a 2018 ruling from a U.S. District Court judge in Montana. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, regional and private hunting and farming organizations had all challenged Judge Dana Christensen’s order. However, Circuit judges Mar...
by Nick Reynolds and Seth Klamann Casper Star-Tribune Via Wyoming News Exchange CASPER — Gov. Mark Gordon has signed off on more than $250 million in state budget cuts that includes furloughs and layoffs for state employees, a significant hit to senior services and a $90 million reduction to the Department of Health amid a worsening pandemic. “This is an incredibly difficult task but we must respond to the financial circumstances the state is facing,” Gordon said in a statement. “These cuts will impact families across the state, will affect...
The Thermopolis Chamber of Commerce will hold a Meet the Candidates Public Forum on Monday, July 20 at 6:30 p.m. in the Hot Springs State Park Pavillion. They have sent out invitations to all national, state and local candidates for the coming election and are waiting for RSVPs. The candidates will do a two-minute introduction and possibly more depending on time allowed. The event will allow the public to talk to the candidates and the Chamber encourages people to engage with the candidates and ask face to face questions. The Chamber and the...
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is seeking information on a buck mule deer that was illegally shot and left to waste near Worland. Worland Game Warden Matt Lentsch began an investigation after receiving a report earlier this week about a headless deer found by anglers on the Bighorn River near the bridge over Fifteen Mile Creek southwest of Worland. Upon investigation, Lentsch found a deer carcass with the head removed that had been illegally shot, most likely over the Fourth of July weekend. The carcass, which was likely dumped from the...
