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As we start having warmer days its a good idea to start thinking about precautions you need to take when it comes to fire. Unlike most natural disasters, wildfires are usually caused by people, but there are some things you can do to prevent it. In Wyoming, farmers and ranchers burn their fencelines in the spring to eliminate weeds and unwanted grasses. Never leave that fire unattended. If you are burning on your property, be sure to keep an eye on where the fire is going and be prepared with...
Patients at Hot Springs County Hospital District will soon benefit from studies using the latest in x-ray technology made possible through a grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust’s Rural Healthcare Program. The Helmsley Charitable Trust has awarded Hot Springs County Hospital District $375,697 for a portable digital x-ray machine and a mobile C-arm x-ray machine, part of a $14.2 million initiative to upgrade x-ray technology at 50 rural hospitals in the Upper Midwest. ...
Tuesday afternoon at the meeting of the Hot Springs County Local Emergency Planning Committee, board members visited about the 2018 full-scale exercise that simulated a two-vehicle crash with a release of hazardous materials. Emergency Management Coordinator Bill Gordon said the exercise was successful with a good turnout and participate, as well as a thorough after action report and improvement plan. Though he couldn't speak for the entire fire department, firefighter James Coates thinks it...
Though there were signs of some slight spillage, an oil tank was not breached after it broke from the semi hauling it on Grass Creek last Thursday....
Within the first quarter of the year, officers with the Thermopolis Police Department and Hot Springs County Sheriff’s Office have apprehended and cited subjects for possession of marijuana and other narcotics. However, recently the number of drug-related incidents has slowed down. Police Chief Julie Mathews said the drug interdiction being done by both agencies has definitely had an impact. Looking at the numbers specifically for the police department, Mathews reported there were 24 drug b...
Thermopolis Rehabilitation and Wellness, a Thermopolis-based provider of Long-Term Care and Skilled Nursing Services, is proud to announce that they are the recipient of Pinnacle Quality Insight's 2019 Customer Experience AwardTM. Qualifying for the award in the categories of Communication from Facility and Dignity and Respect, Thermopolis Rehabilitation and Wellness displays a continued dedication to providing Best in Class senior healthcare services. Toby Homi, Executive Director of...
How many times have you needed a spare key for your car or your front door, had it cut and got all the way home, only to find that it doesn't work? Well, once the CR Key Checker hits hardware stores and locksmiths around the country, that frustration will be a thing of the past. Hot Springs County native Craig Redland, owner of CR Locksmith, has invented a small device that will check the newly cut key against the original key to verify if it will work or not. Redland says sometimes its just a...
The state of Wyoming has officially authorized its seven community colleges to offer Bachelor of Applied Science degrees. It’s the fruit of a hard-fought battle in the Legislature over Senate File 111 (now Enrolled Act 80.) SF 111 was one piece of legislation seeking to bolster attainment in the state. In 2018, then-Gov. Matt Mead issued two executive orders to increase post-secondary attainment in Wyoming. The executive order was in response to a recommendation from the ENDOW committee, which seeks to find ways to diversify Wyoming’s eco...
Even though we haven’t had as much moisture as we’ve had in the past two years at this point, irrigation forecasts for farmers still looks good. Emergency Management Coordinator Bill Gordon attended a flood summit in Riverton last week and found the forecast is showing water levels will be up to about 3,500 cubic feet per second coming down the river during the prime two months of irrigation, so everything should be normal. Loren Smith with the State Engineer’s Office says things are looking pretty normal for the Owl Creek irrigation areas...
by Angus M. Thuemer Jr. WyoFile.com Via Wyoming News Echange Millions of gallons of tainted water carrying thousands of tons of oilfield pollutants could flow into Boysen Reservoir and the Wind River each month under a proposed Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality permit, but without substantially degrading water quality, the agency says. The permit would authorize operators of the Moneta Divide oil and gas field, which is expected to expand to 4,250 wells, to discharge 8.27 million gallons a day of “produced water” from the field. Som...
With the beautiful spring weather comes calving season for most area cattle ranchers. On occasion ranchers will see a set of twins from their cows. Here the mother cow is cleaning off the second calf as the first one is up and ready to start nursing. One estimate (Gilmore) puts the percentage at about 0.5 percent or 1 in every 200 births....
Hot Springs County is on a list we never would want to be on, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institutes’ report on the health of each county in Wyoming. Of the 23 counties in the state, Hot Springs County comes in the 21st least healthy county. The data used to come to this conclusion included everything from excessive drinking and adult obesity to mammography screening, high school graduation rates and the ratio of mental health providers to the general population. Janna West Kowalski, o...
The Bobcat Speech and Debate team finished their season in fine form, qualifying two students for the National Tournament in Dallas, Texas this June. Junior Hannah Hu will be attending with her informative on beauty. Hu went beyond the normal talk of physical beauty to point out how our minds perceive beauty in nature and everything around us, including photographs, art and the Japanese aesthetics of wabi sabi, the acceptance of imperfection. Hu wrote her informative at the start of the year... Full story
Tuesday night the Thermopolis Town Council received an update on the Thermopolis Golf Course from Jason Ciz and Joey Johnson. Ciz noted the fundraiser for the course scheduled for March 9 has been moved to May 4. As far as progress on getting a restaurant at the course, Ciz said the person they had been visiting with backed out so they will be advertising again. Course cleanup is scheduled for March 30 and 31 at 10 a.m., as long as the snow is melted. March 28 is the next fundraiser meeting and...
by Cindy Glasson The Hot Springs County Commissioners had a discussion with the Town of Thermopolis regarding the landfill at their meeting Tuesday afternoon. The agreement between the Town and County for the landfill expired some time ago, but the two entities have been adding addendums periodically to keep it active. Everything is split between the town and county. According to the commissioners, the Town has violated a major part of the agreement and they are far from happy about it. The...
On March 19, a fatal crash occurred at milepost 128 on US 20 south of Thermopolis, Wyoming. Around 1:10 a.m., Wyoming Highway Patrol troopers were dispatched to the area for a one-vehicle rollover. A 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt was traveling southbound on US 20 when the vehicle failed to negotiate a curve to the left and went off the right side of the roadway. The Chevrolet crossed through a guardrail and down a steep embankment before coming to a rest on the railroad tracks below. The driver of the C...
The Hot Springs County Sheriff’s Office apprehended Herbert E. Urban on March 14 for alleged sexual exploitation of children, a felony charge that carries with it a maximum penalty of five to 12 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. According to information from Sheriff Jeremie Kraushaar, a deputy was called to the Department of Family Services (DFS) on a report of a male contacting a juvenile female via Facebook and requesting sex. According to court documents, the DFS worker observed the m...
A two-vehicle collision happened on Tuesday morning near Town Hall. There were no injuries reported....
Joseph Junior Mulvaney has been waiting literally decades to find his final resting place and that time is finally coming. Known as the “skeleton in the trunk”, Mulvaney’s remains were finally identified on October 26, 2017, through a DNA profile at the state crime lab in Cheyenne. His body had been originally found in a trunk on Newell Sessions’ property in 1992 and the mystery began. The trunk had been left behind by John David Morris, aka David Tanner, when he moved from the Sessions place si...
The mercury’s back on the rise again, hopefully this time for good, and it won’t be long before people will be going after cold treats at Dairyland. Though it may not be visible, the business recently underwent a change as Kevin and Jordan Gerber became the official owners of the property. Kevin said he and Jordan are getting ready to enter their seventh year with the business, and in their first year they managed the business for former owners Brad and Shannon Shaffer. From there, they ent...
We’ve all watched the wildfire disasters in California, the tornado disasters in the panhandle and, most recently, the flooding disaster washing away entire towns in Nebraska. But do you know what to do in case of any of these situations? In Hot Springs County, one of the best things you can do is to get yourself and your family enrolled with CodeRed. Sure, we have sirens here in town, but they are designed to warn people who are already outside. The chances of you hearing the sirens if y...
Although the State of Wyoming has no plans for doing any rock scaling in Wind River Canyon until 2020, WYDOT foreman Shane Wilson assures us his team will be cleaning up whatever happens to come down. Wilson urges folks traveling the canyon to take it easy and use caution right now since we’re getting into the thaw/freeze/warm up cycle that causes slides and larger rocks to make their way to the roadway. There was a slide crews cleaned up on Tuesday morning near the dam and a larger rock fell to the roadway just a couple of weeks a...
The Wyoming Department of Workforce Services just released the numbers for unemployment in the state, showing a drop to just 4 percent in January, down one-tenth of a percent from December. In Hot Springs County, however, the unemployment rate in January was 4.7 percent, a full percentage point higher than December when it was just 3.7 percent. Comparing January, 2019 to January, 2018, our unemployment rate is four-tenths of a percent higher than a year ago. Our labor force in the county is up 15 people from December, but there are 89 fewer...
The Bureau of Reclamation has released its March forecast of the April through July runoff predicted for the Bighorn Basin. The report shows the forecasted April through July inflow to Boysen Reservoir is 600,000 acre feet (af), which is 90 percent of the 30-year average of 603,300 af. The bureau prepares monthly forecasts for the runoff, which typically occurs between from April through May. Forecasts take into account snow accumulating at an average rate. If the temperature increases and there’s not as much snow as predicted in the coming w...
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