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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...
During the Thermopolis-Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce meeting on March 14, much of the discussion focused on an idea that has been circulating around town the past couple months — a collaboration between the chamber, the Hot Springs County Travel and Tourism, the Hot Springs Economic Development Company (EDC) and Thermopolis Main Street. Phillip Scheel met with Greg Willson earlier in the week to discuss the possibility of bringing multiple entities under a larger board so services are not dupl... Full story
Hot Springs County School District held their March meeting on Tuesday night, adding Dan Pebbles as an alternate classroom professional, approved the hiring of Jennifer Cheney as the Community Support and Prevention Specialist, hired Jack Horab as a counselor and Kylie Bears as a fifth grade teacher for the upcoming school year. The Community Support and Prevention Specialist position is a new one, created to establish a program to motivate and mobilize the community regarding alcohol, tobacco...
At Tuesday’s meeting of Hot Springs Travel and Tourism, Director Amanda Moeller reported there is continued decline in the lodging tax receipts. “We took a pretty big hit again this month,” Moeller said. Receipts were down 41 percent compared to last year. Last month’s deposit also showed a decrease of 14 percent from the previous year, and Moeller further pointed out that of the past nine months, seven have ben lower than last year. For the year, receipts are down 10 percent compared to this ti...
On Friday, March 8 at 12:40 p.m., Governor Gordon signed into law Senate File 57, which officially takes effect July 1. The file sets forth requirements for the release of public records, as well as designation of an ombudsman by the governor to receive complaints for violations of the public records act. In January during the 2019 Legislature, Senator Wyatt Agar said the bill was a good one, as it allows for transparency in local government agencies without making it such a burdensome task to...
A WYDOT plow truck's wing plow was hit from behind by a commercial vehicle at about 7 a.m. on March 7. Charges are pending against the commercial truck driver. When driving on snowy roads, be aware and drive safe with plows out so they can get the roads clear....
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department will conduct six open-house meetings throughout the Bighorn Basin with one final meeting in Cody to discuss 2019 hunting season proposals for game birds and big game. During the open houses, Game and Fish personnel will be available to discuss proposed changes to 2019 hunting seasons for local hunt areas. A final meeting, during which statewide seasons may be discussed, will be held from 6-8 p.m. March 28 at the Park County Library in Cody. Public input is valued and an important part of the season setting...
This cold and flu season seems to be hanging on forever with folks suffering from coughs that have lasted for weeks, congestion that seems never ending and flu symptoms that come and go what feels like every other day. Its been the same for kids, too, passing illness around and around the classroom. Kids actually catch about eight colds each year, and with everything from sharing school supplies to toys, its no wonder parents feel like their kids are constantly sick. All it takes is one third grader to come home with a bug and the next thing...
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