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by KARLA POMEROY, Editor Northern Wyoming News WORLAND - Grateful to be alive, Lory August of Worland, Washakie County's first COVID-19 case, shared her story Friday of her recovery, a day after getting home. After a 16-day stay in the Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital in Thermopolis, August was released to finish her recovery at home in Worland. Her message to everyone during the COVID-19 pandemic, "You can beat this, be positive, you can survive." Lory August has been battling cancer on...
Like all of us, the Help Center at Common Ground has had to adapt to the emergence of COVID-19. “We are still providing our usual services,” said coordinator Ron Philips. “We just work on a ‘by appointment’ basis. We take all possible precautions to prevent the spread of the virus.” Help Center services include free boxes of food, assistance with utility bills, rent and other needs, as well as free FAXing, copying and internet access. “GED tutoring and testing have been put on hold until el...
On Monday, May 4, Hot Springs County Hospital Auxiliary in conjunction with the United Blood Service from Billings, will be holding a Community Blood Drive. This specific Blood Drive will have changes due to the COVID-19. The drive will be held at the County Fair Building, 627 Springview Street, and the donation times will be 2-6:15 p.m. Due to the social distancing policy in place, this drive will be by appointment only. Appointments can be made by going to Bloodhero.com/ or Vitalant.org and use sponsor code:thermopolis. You may also call the...
Wyoming schools are getting some relief after receiving federal waivers from education funding requirements on Tuesday, April 7. The waiver was granted to allow Wyoming schools the ability to use fiscal year 2018 funds through September, 2121, and expands the possible uses of some title programs in an effort to allow districts to meet the educational needs of students due to widespread school closures due to the spread of the COVID-19 virus. “Wyoming Superintendent of Public Instruction, Jillian Balow said, “The United States Department of Educ...
A $3.3 million highway improvement project is scheduled to begin in early May through the Town of Thermopolis on US20/WY789. Prime contractor is McGarvin-Moberly Construction Co., of Worland. The Wyoming Transportation Commission awarded the project to McGarvin-Moberly on Nov. 21, 2019. 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, r...
A $1.9 million bridge rehabilitation project, involving 5 bridges, has started on the Big Horn River bridge south of Thermopolis. An 11-foot width restriction is in place as of April 20 for the Big Horn River bridge (milepost 128.32). Other bridges scheduled for repairs include the U.S. 287 bridge over the Middle Fork of the Popo Agie River in the City of Lander, the WY432 bridge over the Upper Hanover Canal on South Flat Road (milepost 8.4), the WY31 bridge over Medicine Lodge Creek in Hyattville (milepost 21.89), and the WY37 bridge over...
by Mara Abbott Buffalo Bulletin Via Wyoming News Exchange BUFFALO — Johnson County Health Officer Dr. Mark Schueler extended an exception to three local businesses that will allow them to reopen despite executive orders from Gov. Mark Gordon that forced many businesses across the state to close more than a month ago in an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The businesses include Penny’s Shearing Shed and the Lacquered Up nail salon in Kaycee, as well as the Buffalo Athletic Club. The Buffalo Athletic Club was open to patrons on Mon...
by Clair McFarland The Ranger Via Wyoming News Exchange RIVERTON — Four Fremont County residents have died due to complications of the coronavirus. They are the first confirmed deaths from the global pandemic in Fremont County. The fatalities tripled Wyoming’s previous COVID death toll, which now stands at six. The Northern Arapaho Tribe announced Tuesday morning that all four were members of the tribe. Each had tested positive for the virus in recent days. The Wyoming Department of Health verified the deaths. “It is with great sadness and a...
For those who have recently been laid off due to the pandemic, there is now a Hot Springs County Job Board with local job leads and resource links. The link is on the tourism website, www.thermopolis.com, and will be updated as new information is sent in. The link is also on the Hot Springs County Travel & Tourism Facebook page. Nine other counties are also participating with the local job boards to help workers displaced by the COVID-19 crisis. The boards have been a way for tourism organizations, chambers and economic development...
The Thermopolis Town Council recently voted and approved Rachel Moon to join the Travel and Tourism Board. She replaced Kevin Skates who left the Board in May of 2019 and he did not re-apply for the position. The Town advertised several times for a new person to take Skates’ vacant position but no one applied. Moon currently works at the County Museum. Travel and Tourism Board President Carl Leyba did tell Assistant to the Mayor Fred Crosby that Moon has attended some of the recent state m...
A Hot Springs County resident has tested positive for COVID-19. According to information released by the HSC Incident Management Team, the individual is following isolation requirements per the Wyoming Department of Health. The contact investigation has been completed. If you were not notified, you are not considered to have had direct contact with the individual. No further information was available about the case. As of Tuesday morning, 26 tests had been performed in Hot Springs County with 1 positive HSC resident, 1 positive Washakie County...
Locally born and raised in Thermopolis, Levi Shinkle has announced he will be running for House District 28 on the Democratic ticket. According to Shinkle’s website, “Wyoming’s boon-and-bust economy means every few years, our legislators have the same conversation about the budget, about education spending, even about selling off some of our public lands. It’s time for new voices, new ideas, and new approaches to make sure the Wyoming we pass on to our children is one we can be proud of.” That i...
It has been about five weeks since several competitive seasons were cancelled across the state, including speech and debate. Knowing this was difficult on the students, especially seniors, the Wyoming State Speech and Debate Association put their heads together to figure out a way to not only have the State Tournament remotely, but to be able to choose National Qualifiers, which will also be held remotely rather than in person. After getting permission from the National Speech and Debate Association, a specific formula was used to determine...
by Karla Pomeroy Northern Wyoming News WORLAND - Grateful to be alive, Lory August of Worland, Washakie County’s first COVID-19 case, shared her story Friday with the Northern Wyoming News. Her message, “You can beat this, be positive, you can survive.” She has been battling cancer for three years and for 10 days she self-isolated at home thinking she had pneumonia. A visit to her doctor in Thermopolis on March 24, Dr. Bischoff, for a CT scan showed her lungs “were a mess.” She was placed in an isolation room, tested for influenza, strep and...
A 31-year-old man, with ties to Hot Springs County, has died from injuries sustained in a rollover crash northeast of Thermopolis last week, according to Wyoming Highway Patrol. Jesse Tyler was traveling east in a pickup near mile marker 4 on WY 172, when he encountered severe frost heaves on the roadway. According to the investigation, the vehicle crossed the south fog line and Tyler then overcorrected to the north, losing control of the pickup. Tyler was transported by helicopter from Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital to the Wyoming...
Not many people can say they have spent 26 years doing a particular job these days much less doing it in the same town all that time. Pastor Harvey Seidel and his wife, Lois, came to Thermopolis in April 1994 to become the new pastor at First Baptist Church, and after 26 years behind that pulpit, he is retiring. “When we came our church was an older congregation,” Seidel said. “Pastor Pulis had been here 40 years and it was hard to follow a man who pastored that many years.” Before coming...
The Hospital Board held a special, last-minute meeting to approve an application to the CARES Act Payroll Protection Program. Hospital CEO Margie Molitor said in regards to this decision, “Through the COVID legislation that was passed in Congress, the CARES Act, they have a small business payroll protection program. Because basically, healthcare is an example, but any organization that essentially had to stop or reduce their business and they want to keep their good people on the payroll and not lay them off. We want people to keep their s...
by Nick Reynolds Casper Star-Tribune Via Wyoming News Exchange CASPER — As record numbers of workers across the United States are forced to apply for unemployment benefits as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, workers in Wyoming can rest somewhat reassured that the state’s unemployment fund is among the nation’s strongest. According to a report released by the Tax Foundation on Thursday, Wyoming’s unemployment insurance fund was flush enough to fund current levels of unemployment claims for 321 weeks — the longest such duration in the count...
Two people were transported to Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital following a one vehicle rollover Saturday evening near the intersection of Sixth and Arapahoe Streets. Seat belts were in use by both occupants. Members of the Thermopolis Volunteer Fire Department were on scene to clean up the fuel spill.... Full story
While some parents and students are adjusting well to the new adapted learning plan Hot Springs County School District #1 is using during this school closure, others are having a rough time with how everything works. The district’s adaptive learning plan was approved by the state in late March and went into effect April 3. The main instruction mode for those students in Kindergarten through fourth grade include using digital, online learning methods as well as instructional packets. For g...
The number of coronavirus cases in Wyoming reached 216 on Tuesday with the diagnosis of four new cases in three counties. The number of recoveries for the state were listed at 62 Tuesday morning. Meanwhile, state health officials followed the lead of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in urging everyone who visits a place where people congregate — such as a grocery store or pharmacy — to wear face masks. “If and when you do need to go out in to the community, this is an extra voluntary measure CDC is suggesting to help people who m... Full story
Unemployment rates across the country have been skyrocketing and Wyoming is not immune to the trend being generally associated with the spread of COVID-19 and the oil industry. Wyoming had more than 6,000 new claims for unemployment last week, and increase of 160 percent from the week before. Restaurant workers have been hit hard as well, along with construction and mining. The unemployment numbers released by the state are only available through February, showing an unemployment rate of 4.5... Full story
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital’s CEO Margie Molitor announced that “In light of everything happening we have a move-in date of April 29 that is tentative.” The hospital will do a virtual open house on Facebook and the internet prior to the move in so the public can see all the rooms and facilities. They have postponed their strategic planning until a later date. She also said they have one patient that is positive with COVID-19 in the hospital that...
The Fire Department Training Center south of town is not quite ready for use but will be later in the year.... Full story
Pinnacle Bank is randomly handing out 30 gift certificates at their drive-thru, in hopes of positively impacting both local restaurants and community members. The Thermopolis branch began distributing them on April Fools, and it is no joke. “We know families and local businesses have been impacted. This is one way we can help our neighbors and local restaurants,” said Minnie Miller, Market President. The branch compiled a list of all restaurants currently offering curbside pick-up and developed a gift certificate, valued up to $10.50, to be...
