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by Cindy Glasson Approximately 125 concerned citizens filled the basement of the Wyoming Pioneer Home last week as the Joint Appropriations Committee (JAC) once again put the facility on the chopping block to fulfill their budget cuts. Department of Health Director Tom Forslund addressed the JAC, reminding them the Department of Health oversees five facilities in the State of Wyoming and were asked to cut $90 million from the Department’s budget. According to Forslund, last year the l...
Tuesday night during the Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees’ meeting, the board approved Resolution No. 4. This resolution, Chief Financial Officer Shelly Larson explained, authorizes on a preliminary basis the hospital to move forward with expenditures. She noted it allows the hospital to go back 60 days for anything not a preliminary and utilize funds from the bond issue, and allows the hospital to be reimbursed for preliminary expenses for the expansion and renovation proj...
The Pennoyer family, Arnold, Donna and Jessie, attended the 91st Annual National FFA Convention last week in Indianapolis where Arnold was recognized by the national organization as well as the Ram Truck brand as one of three finalists in "The Farmer in All of Us" program as an individual who has made an impact on the agriculture community. To commemorate and celebrate of the fifth anniversary of Ram Truck's iconic Super Bowl commercial featuring Paul Harvey's speech "So God Made a Farmer" Ram...
Tuesday morning in Hot Springs District Court, a mental evaluation was ordered for Aaron Bissonette, who is charged with felonies including two counts of strangulation of a household member, aggravated assault and battery and second-degree sexual assault, along with misdemeanors of domestic battery and possession of marijuana. Though initially scheduled for a change of plea Tuesday, a mental evaluation was requested for Bissonette by his attorney Richard Hopkinson as he was concerned his client...
Members of the community gathered at Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital Tuesday afternoon to witness the ground breaking of the hospital's renovation and expansion project. From left: Taylor Lee with Plan1 Architects, Shawn Warner with Sletten Construction, Chief of Staff Dr. Vernon Miller, hospital board members Dan Herdt, Heath Overfield and Dave Koerwitz, USDA State Director Chad Rupe, HSCMH CEO Margie Molitor, board member Melissa Johnson and board president Dr. Bill Wi...
Governor Matt Mead has appointed Edward Luhm to be Circuit Court Judge for the Fifth Judicial District serving Big Horn, Washakie, and Hot Springs Counties. Luhm fills the vacancy occurring with the retirement of Judge Thomas Harrington effective January 7, 2019. Luhm has been in private practice in Worland for over 30 years – twenty in partnership with William Shelledy, Jr. and eleven as a sole practitioner. His practice has been diverse, including civil litigation, school law, criminal defense, domestic relations, and business and property l...
Joe Doak has been selected by the Wyoming High School Activities Association to officiate the Class 4A semifinal football game between Cheyenne East and Natrona County High School. The game will be played on Friday, Nov. 2 in Casper at 7 p.m. at Dick Cheney Alumni Stadium. Jim Pehringer, formerly of Thermopolis, was recently inducted into the 2018 University of Sioux Falls Athletics Hall of Fame. Pehringer was a federal trapper in Hot Springs County before moving to Cody in 2003....
Main Street Thermopolis has the perfect gift for someone who has everything this year – notecards of historic downtown Thermopolis buildings. The notecards were designed by Smoking Waters Art Guild members Gayle Phipps, Marcia Nelson and Sallie Wesaw. There are two different sets of notecards to choose from with eight cards in each box, each featuring four different designs. The notecards are $20 per set and are available at the Chamber of Commerce or at the Print Zone, downtown. The cards are taking the place of the Christmas ornaments the g...
After 36 years working as the deputy clerk/treasurer for the Town of Thermopolis, Wednesday, Oct. 31 marked Linda Hendrickson’s last day. Hendrickson and her husband Butch arrived in Thermopolis from Torrington, after Butch got a job at Consumers Grocery, which was at the former Ben Franklin building. She worked for the store as well, then went to Montgomery Ward briefly and then to Pinnacle Bank. While working for the bank, she said, the town would make transactions “and that’s how we got acqua...
When you make a call to law enforcement, whether it’s an emergency or reporting a dog at large, the first person you’re going to talk to is a dispatcher. Dispatcher Mel Kress explained there are two phones in the dispatch area — one for 911 calls and a normal administrative line. Calls on the 911 line have a different tone when they come in she said, which is important as they take priority. If the dispatcher happens to be on another call at the time, they let the person know they have to go or...
The most familiar face at Hot Springs County Public Health will be retiring on Monday after 35 years, Marie McDougall. McDougall began her career with Public Health in Lander before she and her late husband, Alex, moved to Thermopolis. Add that to her time here and she has 37 years in the Public Health arena. When asked what the most challenging part of being the director in Hot Springs County has been, McDougall said it has just been in the last few years – the change in administration, g...
Before heading to bed this Saturday night, be sure to set your clocks back by one hour as Sunday at 2 a.m. marks the end of Daylight Savings Time. Did you know, Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada (now Thunder Bay) was the first place to use Daylight Savings Time? They started setting their clocks forward in 1908 with many other locations in Canada soon following. Germany and Austria were actually the first countries to use Daylight Savings Time, starting in 1916....
Jack Baird, Sonja Becker and Tom Ryan are seeking two available seats on the Hot Springs County Commissioners. Jack Baird Life-long Hot Springs County resident, Jack Baird, knows the county inside and out, and as a land owner and self-employed rancher, has covered much of the 233 miles of county roads on a regular basis. A straight talking, hard worker, Baird is dedicated to the county. Owning a successful business for over 20 years, he knows how to budget and operate within the good years and the lean years. He said he will listen to all the...
by Cindy Glasson Teachers, parents and community members gathered Tuesday night for a Candidates Forum featuring the six people who are vying for three seats on the School Board. Kendi Heinze, Daniel Pebbles, Sherman Skelton, Jennifer Axtell, Rick Englebrecht and Ronda Freel were on hand to answer a series of questions created by the Wyoming Board of Education. Each of the candidates were given the time to introduce themselves and give their reasons for running for one of the open seats....
The Hot Springs Board of County Commissioners met on Tuesday afternoon and discussed an application for supplemental funding for an apron expansion project at the airport. In talking with TO Engineers, the commissioners learned chances of getting the grant look to be about 50/50 at this time, but more money is coming down in the next three years. The grant would be a 100 percent grant amounting to about $3 million, however, that is one of the smaller projects WYDOT and the FAA are looking at,...
Firefighters respond to a grass fire in Kirby Monday afternoon. Though extinguished, dry fuel in the area reignited Tuesday and firefighters went out again....
One building downtown that sees plenty of use is the old fire hall in the 400 block of Broadway. Though no longer used for its original purpose, Mayor’s Assistant Fred Crosby noted the building still has plenty of use. The Thermopolis Police Department utilizes it for impoundments, Public Works houses vehicles there, spare light poles have a pot there, occasionally car seat safety checks are done in front of the building and most recently it’s been buzzing with people refurbishing the Chr...
The final day for Ron Jurovich as the magistrate for Hot Springs Circuit Court is Nov. 1. A reception will be at the Circuit Court office on Tuesday, Oct. 30 from 10-11:30 a.m. Born and raised in Thermopolis, Jurovich earned his Bachelor's of Arts in Political Science from the University of Wyoming in 1971, then attended law school for one year and read law with the county attorney for two years. He further explained it was previously the statute that someone was required to have one year of...
Thermopolis’ own Jackrabbit Java is starting to receive the recognition it deserves with a recent write-up in Coffee Review magazine. The article on Mountain States Coffee Roasters took a look at roasters at high elevations such as Colorado, Montana, Utah and Wyoming. Jackrabbit Java was listed in the top 11 of the high elevation roasters with a 92-rated Columbia, “a quintessentially classic type, a fine we-processed Columbia from the Narino growing region.” Coffee beans respond diffe...
Last week, Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital CEO, Margie Molitor, attended the inaugural meeting of the Big Horn Basin Healthcare Partnership. The meeting was initiated by Amy Quick, Northwest Regional Director for the Wyoming Business Council. Molitor explained this partnership is designed for basin hospitals to come together and discuss the issues they have in common. At this first meeting, she said, there were people from Hot Springs, Big Horn, Park and Washakie counties, representing...
During Tuesday nights meeting, the Thermopolis Town Council — with Mayor Mike Mortimore absent — approved the third and final reading of Ordinance 854, with an effective date of Nov. 1. The ordinance amends Chapter 4 of the town code, updating fines and fees as well as providing definitions for “bit or bitten” and “dangerous animal” and adding language for domesticated animals which are bitten. Among the fee changes is the increase from $5 to $50 per head of impounded animals and from $3 to...
Though it’s died down a bit, one of the bigger topics of discussion in recent months has been the quality of water, particularly in town and area districts. One item that has been a concern is the amount of total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and them being in compliance with the EPA standard of .080 micrograms per liter. In July, the water for the town tested at .087 micrograms of TTHM per liter, though the construction for the water line rehabilitation project factored into that reading according t...
The Hot Springs County School District’s Board of Trustees met on Tuesday night and heard a report from the Ralph Witters Elementary (RWE) fourth grade team. RWE principal, Catelyn Deromedi, learned about a new system during a conference she attended called the “15 Day Challenge”, and turned that information over to the fourth grade teaching team, asking them to give it a try. The teachers took the information and ran with it. The challenge had them identifying the essential standards for fourt... Full story
Monday in Hot Springs District Court, Duane Jarvis pleaded guilty to, and was sentenced on a felony charge of wrongful taking or disposing of property over $1,000 and misdemeanors of fleeing or eluding police, reckless driving, and leaving the scene of an accident. In exchange for his plea, a felony charge of theft was dismissed in Hot Springs County; he was prosecuted on the same charge in Park County. The charges are from an April 8 incident, during which Jarvis drove a white Chrysler 300...
Shortly before 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 10, firefighters respond to a jackknifed truck just north of Black Mountain Road. Though the accident delayed traffic a bit, the driver was reported as fine....
