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RIVERTON (WNE) — The man who accidentally shot and killed his friend last year in Riverton has pleaded no contest to manslaughter. Keith Sack, 23, of Riverton, entered the plea during a change-of-plea hearing Jan. 31. His sentencing date is yet to be scheduled, pending review of a pre-sentence investigation report ordered by the judge in the case. District court staff said Sack’s no-contest plea also will be accepted or rejected pending review of the pre-sentence investigation.He initially was charged with involuntary manslaughter after sho...
Bobcat Senior Barbara Kissel was recently chosen as the Wyoming FFA Region 2 Star in Ag Business. Kissel said she has her own club lamb operation, named B Spear Club Lambs after her brand. She kept records and explained her program to a committee, and in the Big Horn Basin the committee thought hers was the best running and best overall. FFA Advisor Britton Van Heule noted there were two other applications, but every student that has an entrepreneurship Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) c...
Thermopolis eighth grade student Karina Lea will be attending the 28th Jackson Hole Writers Conference June 27-29 on a full ride scholarship. Lea said the conference brings together Wyoming writers, to read each others' work and give critiques. It also provides the opportunity to meet with agents, she noted. "Of course, with these kinds of things there's always a fee to get in." Last summer, she went to a camp the Jackson Hole Library offered and was able to speak with authors and get advice on...
Two graduates of the Hot Springs County High School Class of 2016, Jacob Hart and Tyler Cornwell, recently graduated from Basic Military Training for the Air Force at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. Both have attained the rank of E-3 Airman First Class. The airmen completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills. Airmen who complete basic training also earn four credits toward an associate in...
Worland’s Shopko is the latest victim of the corporation’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will be closing its doors on May 12. The store received word they would be shutting down last week amid the company’s Chapter 11 restructuring that was filed in December. Worland joins the Thermopolis store, which has a closing date of April 7, along with Greybull (March 2), Lander (May 5), Green River and Mountain View (May 12) as well as the pharmacy portion of the Powell store. This recent round of closures added another 139 stores to the corpo...
If you’re a regular reader, you might have noticed we’ve started covering more than just the happenings here in Hot Springs County. Recent stories have included the notice of the ice fishing derby in Meeteetse, and this issue has a story about a plea change in the shooting of Levi King. At the Thermopolis Independent Record,we believe it’s important to keep you informed not just about what’s happening locally, but to those towns closest to Hot Springs County, namely Worland, Meeteetse and Shoshoni. Additionally, we’ll also be running stories t...
At their Feb. 7 meeting, the Thermopolis-Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce voted for the Business, Citizen and Non-Profit Organization of the Year. The winners will be announced at the annual Chamber Banquet on March 23. This year marks the 100th anniversary for the chamber, with that milestone incorporated into the banquet as well as other activities throughout the year. The speaker for the banquet is Craig Johnson. Also during the meeting, there was discussion about changing the format of the regular Chamber Meet and Greet events, in order to...
Wyoming has had quite a year with its grizzly population and the on-again, off-again management hunt. Right here in Hot Springs County we had three separate instances of grizzly activity during September of 2018. On September 4, a grizzly was removed from the area due to multiple cattle kills. Just three days later, on September 7, another was removed from the Lost Lake area for killing cattle and the bear was taken to Teton County. Five days later, on September 12, yet another grizzly was...
Tuesday evening, the Thermopolis Town Council took action regarding two SLIB grants. Council first approved providing support to Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital’s grant request. Hospital CEO Margie Molitor spoke in regard to a request for the council’s support for a new roof on the current hospital building. Molitor said there new roof was never part of the expansion and remodel project, and while the additional will, of course, have a new roof there is about 27,000 square feet of the exist...
Tuesday morning, Senator Wyatt Agar reported House Bill 295 “never made it out of committee and the steam behind the subject seems to have dissipated,” meaning the bill was, in essence, killed for the current session. The bill was introduced last week as another attack on the Wyoming Pioneer Home, which had previously survived two legislative attempts to privatize the facility, and this late session bill took a different tactic with attempting to eliminate its annual state subsidy. The bill was...
Things are starting to move right along in Cheyenne with the legislature going through myriad bills and each session getting longer. The priority this past week was the supplementary budget process where each amendment is individually reviewed, debated and then voted upon. The budget bill, HB0001 was approved and received in the Senate. HB0295, which would remove state funding from the Pioneer Home, popped up unexpectedly last week on the last day bills could be introduced. The bill did not...
A Go Fund Me page has been set up online to help save the Thermopolis Golf Course (TGC) from closing. According to the page, there have been rumors the course will be closing, however, the golf course board is committed to keeping it alive. “In an effort to save money, the TGC Board will operate the golf course without a club professional, and we will hire a greens-keeper and summer help,” the page says. Infrastructure repairs and maintenance on water pumps, irrigation systems and a failing und...
On Monday, Judge Bobbi Overfield sentenced Daniel L. Ford to four years supervised probation, with a requirement that he attend inpatient treatment, on felonies of wrongful taking or disposing of property and two counts of possession of a controlled substance, as well as two misdemeanors of use of a controlled substance, second or subsequent offense. The felony charges are from an April 24 incident, during which items including a four-wheeler, leaf blower and gas cans — all known to be stolen ...
LK Essentials and AromaTouch officially opened in January, with Lindsey Bowman providing massages that utilize essential oils. Bowman said she did her first massage here on Jan. 15, though she previously had an office in Casper for a little over a year, doing the same thing, but she moved to Thermopolis more than a year ago. Bowman graduated from the Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant (COTA) program at Casper College in 2005. She further attained certification in the AromaTouch technique,...
During the Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees regular meeting, the board accepted the audit report from Michael Wright. Hospital Chief Financial Officer Shelly Larson noted the audit provides a fair presentation of the hospital’s financial statements. According to the financial highlights of the audit, total assets were $13,860,563 at fiscal year end (FY) 2018. It should be noted that this includes the special purpose tax received, though those funds are restricted. Total l...
Sage grouse and their habitat are in the limelight once again as newly elected Governor Mark Gordon agreed with conservationists last week who say it is Wyoming’s authority to require developers to make up for impacts to greater sage grouse habitat. President Trump’s administration has moved to abandon this requirement of late with the tossing of the requirements through the Bureau of Land Management. The issue stems from oil and gas leases on federal property. Those companies must receive state approval before drilling and a good portion of...
Chloe Galovich has been named to the Southeast Missouri State University Dean’s List for academic achievement during the fall 2018 semester. Stormy Cox has been named to the President’s Honor Roll at Montana State University for the fall 2018 semester. Wyatt Wright of Thermopolis has been named to the Dean’s Honor Roll at MSU for the fall 2018 semester. Melissa Ward has been named to the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture’s Dean’s Honor Roll for the fall 2018 semester. Kayla Gilbert and Sampson Rich have been named to the Dean’s Li...
Business out at the airport picked up considerably during January according to a report received by the Hot Springs County Commissioners from FBO Nate Messenger at their Tuesday meeting. According to Messenger, there were 216 total operations at the airport during January including seven twin engine turbo prop aircraft, six single engine turbo props, one twin engine piston aircraft and 94 single engine piston. Nine of those were air ambulances. Public Health Officer Tricia McPhie brought some...
Just over a month ago, a bust led to one of the largest drug-related cases in the county. Hot Springs County Deputy Jon Bartlett, who has been compiling information about the initial incident and the after effects, said things began on Dec. 21 and are still ongoing, and there is significant evidence to suggest multiple individuals were involved in conspiracy to transport, distribute and use marijuana, methamphetamine and prescription drugs in and around the county. So far, five subjects have...
After two failed attempts at relieving the State of Wyoming of the burden of the Wyoming Pioneer Home through privatization, the legislature is now making and end run at the facility by proposing to eliminate its annual state subsidy. A bill was referred to the Appropriations Committee on Tuesday morning, HB0295, sponsored by Republican Representative Donald Burkhart of Carbon County that would eliminate the state subsidy of $1.4 million per year to the Pioneer Home. They would continue to... Full story
Senator Wyatt Agar reported Tuesday morning that he was busy working on the second reading of the budget bill on the floor. Agar noted both chambers did first reading of the mirror budget bill yesterday in which no amendments are allowed, but in this second reading is when changes can be seen within the chamber. “I have spent the morning looking at what the Senate body wants to do with the budget,” Agar stated. “In our body you will see the budget return to the basic Governor’s recommendations,...
Another week is in the books with the 2019 State of Wyoming Legislature in Cheyenne. Several bills have moved quickly through the process, including Senate File 93, which references Grizzly Bear hunts in the state, sponsored by Wyatt Agar and co-sponsored by John Winter. “Wyatt (Agar) did an excellent job in presenting this bill to the committee,” Winter said. “I testified in the Senate Committee from the standpoint of an outfitter and as to the importance of the bill to outfitters and the resid...
The Wyoming Department of Education recently released statistics on the graduation rates for high school students across the state, showing an increase in graduating seniors for the fifth consecutive year. For the 2017-18 school year, Hot Springs County had an 80.4 percent graduation rate, down from the 87.3 percent graduation rate of the 2016-2017 school year. In 2017, 48 out of an expected 55 seniors graduated from Hot Springs County High School, while 45 out of an expected 56 graduated in...
Monday in Hot Springs District Court, Jennifer L. Gambogi was sentenced by Judge Bobbi Overfield to three years of supervised probation on a felony charge of possession of meth with intent to deliver. The charge is from a Sept. 17, 2018 incident, during which a vehicle Gambogi was a passenger in was stopped for expired plates. The driver granted the officer permission to search the vehicle, during which he located a glass smoking pipe that tested presumptive positive for meth. While both...
The Twisted Mane Salon and Spa is officially open for business on Broadway. Owner Alicia Werner said this is a full service spa for hair, skin and nails. She is styling hair and doing facials and manicures, and plans to add pedicures to the services. Werner attended Rocky Mountain Academy of Hair, Skin and Nails in Casper and while there she knew she wanted to open her own salon, so when a space and opportunity presented itself she jumped in with both feet. The Twisted Mane is open regularly at...
