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Confidence consumer reports are available for viewing for the South Thermopolis Water District and the Owl Creek Water District. The reports are posted at White Horse Country Store, 180 South Hwy. 20 and will be available through the month of May. If you have questions regarding the reports, please call Charlie Stickney at 921-9269....
As the State of Wyoming slowly begins to reopen, Hot Spring County Travel & Tourism recognizes that all our local business owners need as much help as possible to restart their businesses. That is why they have teamed up with Truly360, a Google partner, to offer a free Coronavirus Relief Package. Truly360 is a Google Trusted Agency and is offering a limited amount of free services for Hot Spring County businesses. All businesses, tourism related and otherwise, are invited to schedule a call to see what your business can qualify for from Truly36...
Mayor Mike Chimenti, under the recommendation of Town Attorney Mike Messenger, appointed Marshall Keller as the assistant town attorney. Messenger said that Keller has been working on the codes for the past five weeks and reviewing the codebook. He wants him to have some authority if Messenger is not available for Town Council or Town Court. Town Engineer Anthony Barnett reported that there was a substantial completion of the raw water bore for the golf course and they finalized the pay estimate...
Wyoming began taking steps toward normalcy as some counties won permission to reopen restaurants and churches. State officials approved requests from seven counties for county-wide variances from the public health orders that were imposed in mid-March to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Hot Springs County officials presented a request for exemptions and variances from the public health orders issued by state officials. At press time, the request was still being reviewed by the Wyoming Health Department. We will update this story on our... Full story
As a result of the increased demand for hand sanitizer, Wyoming Whiskey distillery, in conjunction with other Wyoming distillers, have answered the call. The production of hand sanitizer requires the use of 190 proof alcohol. Wyoming Whiskey stills are not designed to produce alcohol to that proof, so they have produced a base spirit that will be refined at other Wyoming distilleries before being used in the final product. The resulting hand sanitizer is being distributed to emergency management facilities across Wyoming for distribution as...
Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital CEO Margie Molitor had to push back their move-in date for their new facility. She said, “We were shooting for a move date of May 5 but this has been moved back.” Molitor says she doesn’t know when the move will actually happen yet. Molitor has said before that the dates were always tentative. The hospital has to do some touch-up work and film the virtual tour. However, Molitor did say, “There are lots of things going on.” With COVID-19 there were continual...
A local woman has become something of a celebrity after a parody she sang and posted to Facebook went viral overnight. Jenie Borders had had “one of those days” with her kids during this pandemic, and that evening she sat down and sang her own rendition of a Tones and I song, “Dance Monkey.” In the Tones and I rendition, it repeats a phrase over and over, so Borders took that cue with her kids, ages six, five and nine months, saying “hey mommy, hey mommy, hey mommy can we just go and play with friends today?” over and over all day and added ...
Hot Springs County residents are urged to keep their eyes open for the arrival of their reminder postcard to fill out your response to the 2020 Census. Census takers will begin visiting addresses that do not respond via mail or online at a later date. Wyoming households are continuing to participate in the Census with nearly 45-percent of residents responding. Nationally, however, that number is closer to 54-percent. According to 2020Census.gov, Hot Springs County currently has a 49-percent response rate with 34-percent of those coming from...
Nine members of the Bobcat Speech and Debate Team were recently named to the All State team. Those gaining that recognition include Kyle Mosser, Hannah Hu, Jean-Luc Willson, Josiah Butler, Jacob Randall, Aime Robinson, Tyler Kay and Breeze Petty. Of those nine, Petty, Willson, Randall and Butler were named All State twice for different events. In addition, the team has four Academic All Americans this season, Kay, Petty, Hu and Ashley Brawley....
It has taken a few decades, but Mother Nature has reclaimed an area of land which was once a flourishing community filled with families and homes, churches, barrooms and a booming coal mine – Gebo. All that remains now are the shells of a few stone houses on “Rock Row”, the scattered bits and pieces of the lives of some 2,000 residents and patches of shiny black coal here and there. It all began when the railroad made its way into Hot Springs County in the mid-1900’s. Mining claims were filed th...
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has completed its investigation into a recent incident where a grizzly bear injured a man in Sunlight Basin northwest of Cody. Last Friday, Spencer Smith of Cody was shed antler hunting in the East Painter Creek Drainage when he was injured by a grizzly bear. He was able to walk approximately 1.5 miles to his ATV after the attack where he was assisted by area Game Warden Chris Queen. He was then flown by helicopter to a regional hospital for treatment. Upon Smith’s evacuation, Game and Fish began an i...
by Camille Erickson Casper Star-Tribune Via Wyoming News Exchange CASPER – Changes made to a federal lending program last week could open up loans to Wyoming oil and gas firms left reeling from volatile oil prices and low fuel demand during the pandemic. The Federal Reserve released new guidelines Thursday for its Main Street Lending Program, geared to provide an additional layer of financial relief to small to midsize companies, including some heavily indebted firms with low credit ratings, during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Wyoming’s oil and natu...
An emergency meeting of the Hot Springs County School District Board of Directors resulted in all schools within the district remaining closed through the end of the current school year. The Friday afternoon meeting was done electronically and streamed live on the district’s webpage as well as their Facebook page to ensure as many people as possible could watch as the board made its decision. While regular classes are not being held in the buildings, the district will continue with the d... Full story
Governor Mark Gordon has announced that new public health orders effective May 1 will allow gyms, barber shops, hair salons and other personal care services to reopen under specific operating conditions designed to minimize public health risk from COVID-19. Other parts of the phased approach involve easing restrictions on day cares and issuing guidance to hospitals allowing them to resume elective surgeries. “These new orders start our process of getting this part of Wyoming’s economy up and running again,” Governor Gordon said. “We have as...
During this time of uncertainty and closures that have negatively impacted our economy, Hot Springs County Travel & Tourism have teamed up with the Wyoming Office of Tourism (WOT) to unite residents with the Spirit of Travel. Wyoming’s travel and tourism industry will be essential to Wyoming’s recovery, especially since it is Wyoming’s number two economy generator. “Now, more than ever, it is extremely important to recognize Wyoming’s tourism industry contributions and continue to advocate its vitality to the state,” said Diane Shober, exe...
Hot Springs County firemen put out a brush fire Tuesday north of town along Highway 20. The property owners thought they put out their controlled burn, but the flames continued and spread out needing extinguished....
The Messenger Law Firm has recently hired a new attorney, Marshall Keller, a former Navy Seal who also has a background in the mining industry. Keller recently passed the bar exam from the University of Wyoming College of Law. He took his exam on February 24. He spent two-and-a-half years at law school preparing for his law license. He will mostly focus on civil litigation and take on some defense work as well. The Court has already talked to him about taking some court appointments and doing...
One of Hot Springs County High School’s speech and debate team coaches was recently honored by the National Speech and Debate Association for exemplary volunteerism to promote speech and debate. Coach Lyle Wiley not only co-coaches the Bobcat team, he serves on the Wind River District Committee, which oversees speech and debate activities for half of the state. According to a press release from the National Association, “Wiley goes above and beyond in service to the speech and debate community at large. Committee member responsibilities inc...
by Seth Klamann Casper Star-Tribune Via Wyoming News Exchange CASPER – Wyoming has received roughly $32.5 million in federal funding to help its 48 school districts offset costs incurred because of the novel coronavirus, the state announced last week. The money, part of the gargantuan stimulus bill passed by Congress several weeks ago, will be doled out to Wyoming’s districts according to previously established formulas for providing federal money to districts with low-income students. It cannot be used to offset existing expenses — like payro...
Students in the Hot Springs County School District have been doing distance learning for several weeks now and the principals in each of the buildings presented their participation rate for the various grades at their April meeting. Principal Catelyn Deromedi from Ralph Witters Elementary told the board they are having great success with the current learning situation with 97 percent of students working from home. Kinder Boost showed 93 percent of students participating and 96 percent of the kindergarteners are on board along with 96 percent... Full story
Hot Springs County Travel and Tourism’s Director Jackie Dorothy welcomed new members Rachel Moon and Susan Lankford to the board during their April meeting via Zoom. Dorothy presented the latest financial report to the board. She said their numbers started off strong in March. “We were hit hard, as everyone knows, from the Coronavirus and those numbers fizzled off.” She compared the total revenue for April, which was $8,212.59. That amount was down 58% from last year. However, last year they were up 130%. This was due to the construction that...
Pre-registration for kindergarteners will be online this year for the 2020-2021 school year. Registration will open on Monday, May 4, and you must do your pre-registration online. Following pre-registration, parents will receive an email with their password to finish the registration process on Powerschool. Simply go to hotsprings1.org and click on Student Registration K-* New and complete the form. Click submit at the bottom when finished. You will receive your Powerschool password and then return to the school’s website, scrolling to the b...
The Wyoming FFA has announced its plan for rescheduling parts of its annual convention, including delivering some content online. The FFA was forced to cancel its convention due to school and facility closures from Covid19 related health concerns. The convention was to take place April 15-18 in Cheyenne. Beginning in May, the Wyoming FFA will deliver online award announcements and their state officers’ retiring address presentations. There will also be an online conferring of the 2020 Wyoming FFA State Degrees. “We’re excited to announce the r...
A $3.3 million highway improvement project is scheduled through the Town of Thermopolis on US20/WY789. Contract completion date is June 30, 2021. The project’s scope of work includes grading, milling asphalt pavement, placing crushed base and asphalt pavement surfacing, asphalt wearing course, removal and replacement of broken sidewalk and curb and gutter, replacement of every Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) street corner, and other work on 2.6 miles on US20/WY789 beginning at milepost 130.82 (near the Wyoming Department of T... Full story
by Karla Pomeroy Northern Wyoming News Ten Sleep rancher Ed Cooper hopes to use his experience in ranching and the oil and gas industry to represent State Senate District 20. Cooper announced his run for the Republican nomination last week. “I’ve thought about this for a while. I considered it four years ago but I chose to back Wyatt [Agar]. Agar (R-Thermopolis) won the seat four years ago and announced after the 2020 Legislative session that he would not be seeking a second term. Prior to Agar, the seat was filled by Worland resident Ger...
