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The Hot Springs County School District has another educator to add to their long list of award winning staff – Kinley Taylor, winner of the National University System-Sanford Teacher Award as a top inspiring teacher in Wyoming. Taylor, a kindergarten teacher at Ralph Witters Elementary, was surprised by the announcement and will receive $10,000 in recognition of her work supporting student development and achievement. She now joins the ranks with teachers from all 50 states and the District o...
The Thermopolis Town Council passed their 2021 budget on the third reading, however, assistant to the Mayor Fred Crosby did say that they may have to act fast on their feet later in the year. At the June 16 council meeting, Crosby said he has heard from the State that things may not go as well this year as they thought. If things look bad in three or four months they may have to revisit the budget and make some changes. This was due to the lower revenues caused by the COVID-19 situation. In...
The final 2020 Hot Springs County Valuation has recently been released by Hot Springs County Assessor, Dan Webber. The locally assessed value, which is pending approval from the State Board of Equalization, came in at $52,413,612. Webber expects this number will be approved with little to no change. Utilities, which are state assessed, are valued at $7,561,051. Railroads in the county are assessed at $4,214,839. Hard minerals for the county came in at $3,006,218. The oil production assessment, based on 2019 production numbers, is valued at...
Jacque and Bobbie Reed recently celebrated their 70th Wedding Anniversary. Also known as the diamond or platinum anniversary, it symbolizes a relationship that is truly once in a lifetime. When they met each other Jacque was working for Mountain Bell Telephone Company. He was a lineman stationed in Wheatland. Bobbie was working at the hospital in Wheatland. They met through mutual friends. When asked how did you know you were meant to marry, Bobbie laughed and said, "Well, I don't really know....
Shop Smart, Shop Safe is a Wyoming statewide two-part campaign to provide business recovery resources and free marketing ideas and materials designed to help business owners make their customers feel safe and comfortable to return to shopping in their stores after the COVID-19 shutdowns. “Wyoming did a great job getting out the message about the importance of staying home and flattening the curve of COVID-19,” said Wyoming Main Street Program Manager Linda Klinck. “Now, as restrictions are lifting and businesses are opening back up, busin...
In spite of much lower moisture across most of Wyoming, the National Weather Service says all indications are that Wyoming will probably have a normal wildland fire potential throughout the summer. Snow water equivalents through most of the state this month are close to the drought levels seen in 2018. A couple of late season snows in the western part of the state helped a bit over the last 30-days, however areas east of the Continental Divide are drier with many locations below 50-percent of normal. Here in Hot Springs County our precipitation...
Crews work to fix a broken water line in the sprinkler system at Hot Springs County Library....
Police Chief Julie Mathews had contacted the Injury Prevention Services and asked if there was any availability of assistance through their services against alcohol intoxication or drivers under the influence. Mathews explained that their alcohol sensors were very old, outdated and broken and were in great need of replacement. Jen Cheney of the Hot Springs County Injury Prevention Services Department was able to help and they donated eight brand new alcohol sensors to the Thermopolis Police...
It may have been a little different this year due to the pandemic, but once again, the Bobcat Speech and Debate Team made an excellent showing at the National Speech and Debate Tournament. While they were supposed to be traveling to Albuquerque for this year’s tournament, COVID-19 got in the way and the entire tournament was held online. Those doing individual speech events such as humor, drama or oratory had to pre-record their events and download them to the National’s site. Congress, debate and extemporaneous speaking were don live thr...
In preparation for the coming election and the vote on the new lodging tax, a new political action committee was formed to assist the Travel and Tourism Board in fundraising efforts. This tax will not be money taken from the local residents, but instead, it will be collected by motels from tourists who stay at their venues. The reason the PAC was created is that the Tourism Board cannot lobby for itself. Greg Willson will be the PAC’s chair and Meri Ann Rush will be the Treasurer. Willson explai...
Statewide bicycling and walking advocacy organization, Wyoming Pathways, is partnering with the Hot City Outdoor Alliance, Bureau of Land Management, and the Town of Thermopolis to develop a Thermopolis Community Trail Plan that will help guide development of future natural surface trail systems on public lands in the area, and develop a local bicycle route system for paved and gravel road routes. With the success of the recently developed multi-use trails in Hot Springs State Park, Town officials, business leaders and community members have...
A representative of the Wyoming Association of Risk Management (WARM), the company that takes care of liability insurance for government agencies in Wyoming, attended the recent meeting of the Hot Springs County Commissioners to discuss an overview on the library roof. Through an architect and contractor, the commissioners had sent a roofing bid to WARM that was an upgraded product. The representative told the commissioners their bid was over double what the insurance company feels is necessary...
The National Weather Service, Wyoming Office of Homeland Security, and emergency management agencies across central and western Wyoming, ask your help in providing the public with information about lightning safety. Since 1959, Wyoming has been typically in the top five in the nation per capita population involving lightning injuries and fatalities. Advance planning and increased awareness will help residents and visitors to Wyoming, be aware of the dangers of lightning. Throughout the week, the National Weather Service, Wyoming Office of...
In spite of many services and concessionaires being closed throughout the State Park system in Wyoming during April and May, numbers of visitors were up – way up. The state boasts 12 State Parks covering over 100,000 beautiful acres featuring just about everything you could want in an outdoor adventure, from hiking trails to fishing, swimming and boating. The five-year average for number of visitors across the state park system in April and May is 225,000 people. This year, that number more t...
Wyoming’s Governor, Mark Gordon, updated the public health orders last week, easing restrictions on public gatherings and a couple of other items, at least through June 30. With summer upon us, many events have already been canceled, however, Gordon has increased the number of persons allowed at indoor gatherings to 250. The easing of the restrictions does mean social distancing must still be in place and increased sanitation measures must be used. Church services and funeral homes are exempted from the new orders as they are already allowed to...
by Angus M. Thuermer Jr., WyoFile.com and Leo Wolfson, Cody Enterprise An arbitration panel exceeded its legal authority in awarding Hot Springs County rancher Josh Longwell $349,730 for stock lost to grizzly bears and other predators, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department has told a district judge. In an application to modify or vacate the arbitration panel’s decision, a state attorney wrote that the three-member board should have given Longwell only $134,444, a difference of $215,286. The February court filing asks the judge to reduce the a...
Wyoming State Parks and Cultural Resources is back working on Requests for Proposals (RFP) for two properties within Hot Springs State Park – the Star Plunge and Days Inn. The board was preparing the RFPs to go out earlier this year when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, causing most of the government offices to close down in Cheyenne and employees were having to work from home. At that time, Deputy Director Nick Neylon said the work was put on hold and the release of the RFPs was pushed back. Speak...
A random act of kindness was performed when envelopes showed up at various local businesses with the above note and a $50 bill enclosed. The envelope had no return address on it. Business owners would like the sender to know the gesture was very appreciated....
Former Thermopolis resident, Laura Vietti, is joining other University of Wyoming faculty, students and alumni in a three-part natural history series, “Prehistoric Road Trip”, to be shown on PBS. The three episodes will take viewers through different time periods, focusing on geology, ecology and the environment, covering paleontology and fossil hunting throughout North America. In her segment, Vietti is covering fossilized teeth and how the minerals they are made of can provide insight int...
Kameron Olsen of Thermopolis was among those who earned dean’s list recognition at George Fox University for the spring 2020 semester. Codi Goffena has graduated from Eastern Wyoming College. Stormy Cox was named to Montana State University President’s spring semester honor roll. Wyatt Wright was named to the Dean’s List....
The deadline for getting your name on the ballot for various openings, locally and statewide, ended last week with a total of 27 Republicans and 13 Democrats vying for various offices. Sixteen people are in the running for U.S. Senate for Wyoming. Ten of those are Republicans and six can be seen under the Democratic ticket. One of those names will replace Senator Mike Enzi. U.S. Representative for Wyoming, Liz Cheney (R) is up for re-election this year and will be facing off against four competitors that include one other Republican and three...
A major part of tourism in Thermopolis has finally received the go-ahead to open their doors, although there are some restrictions still in place. Hellies TePee Pool and Star Plunge were allowed to do a ‘soft opening’ the last week in May with several precautions in place, including no use of jetted hot tubs or locker rooms and open to members only. Starting last June 6, the pools were opened to the public. While social distancing is still required, the locker rooms have reopened and lim...
The Hot Springs County Commissioners approved an addendum to a hangar lease at the airport, which allows a small portion of land to be added to a lease in order to place a propane tank on the property. According to FBO Nate Messenger, there were 140 operations at the airport during the month of May, including two air ambulances. He indicated fuel sales are up quite a bit from April, as well. A new seal coat for the runway is expected to begin sometime toward the middle of this month. Once the...
CHEYENNE – In response to Wyoming’s significant revenue shortfalls, Governor Mark Gordon has instructed state agencies to immediately take action to further reduce spending and prepare for deeper cuts in the coming months. The reduction plan requires agencies to prepare for more drastic scenarios and be proactive, since the revenue situation could further worsen. Already the state has taken the first step by imposing a hiring freeze and limiting large contracts. “We are in uncharted territory,” Governor Gordon said. “We have just experienc...
The Chamber of Commerce is looking for high school students and adults to operate their fireworks store in preparation for the Independence Day holiday. Fireworks SuperMarket purchased the store last year and contacted the Chamber in February. They wanted to find an organization to run it. Chamber director Meri Ann Rush contacted a few different organizations to manage the store and couldn't find anybody to do it. Then the COVID-19 situation occurred and Rush wondered if any events were going...
