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The Casper Mobile Vet Center (MVC) will be in Thermopolis to provide any Veteran, Service Member, service provider or veteran family member with information on Vet Center services and VA programs and benefits. Staff will be available to answer questions and assist with enrollment in readjustment counseling services, VA health care and other VA and Veteran specific programs. The MVC will be available on Thursday, Feb. 1 from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Sixth and Broadway. Weather and maintenance can delay or cancel travel on short notice. Please...
Monday night at the Thermopolis Chamber of Commerce meeting, the board approved a motion to get involved as a community liaison for the upcoming Cycle Yellowstone event on Sunday, Aug. 12. Chamber Executive Director, Meri Ann Rush, said there will be 350 cyclists coming through. Starting in Cody, they will take the Gooseberry cutoff and stop at Wyoming Whiskey. Their headquarters will be the Fountain of Youth RV Park, and they are looking for an organization to be the community liaison. Among...
Tuesday night, Thermopolis Town Council heard from Ginger Bennett, who is on the Fremont County Public Lands Initiative Committee, spoke to council regarding Copper Mountain. Currently designated a Wilderness Study Area, the committee is looking at possibly changing that designation. Bennett explained about 18 months ago a group of people in Wyoming decided to look at Wilderness Study Areas and determine what to do with them. In 1991, Congress had areas set aside that were recommended for wilder...
Upon the recommendation of the Hot Springs County Republican Central Committee, the Hot Springs County Commissioners appointed Daniel Webber as the new county assessor at their meeting on Tuesday evening. Webber was sworn in on Wednesday morning to fill the position recently vacated by the the retirement of Shelley Deromedi. A native of Hot Springs County, Webber has been with the assessor's office for 13 years. He is a permanently certified property tax assessor by the Department Revenue. "Shel... Full story
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a peek into your possible future? Maybe you would like to know what things in your past put you on your current path. Is there love in your future? When will your stars align? About 45 years ago, Allison became fascinated with astrology. At first she was skeptical, feeling like the things she was hearing and reading didn’t really ring true, and she began trying to debunk the theories she had heard. That, of course, led to buying books and reading about the sub...
Among the residents at The Pioneer Home is Elsie McMichael. Now 90 years old, McMichael came from a family of 15 and was born in McLaughlin, S.D. Though her mother passed away when she was just a baby, her sister-in-law took her in and raised her in Isabel, S.D. McMichael attended school for eight years in the small community, then had a bit of high school before she quit. She worked a bit in Isabel, doing a bit of farming, but noted the "time were rough." 1970 saw McMichael's coming to...
During the Tuesday meeting of Hot Springs Travel and Tourism, the board had a visit from Abigail Martin, the brand partnerships manager and film liaison with the Wyoming Office of Tourism. Martin explained an initiative was recently taken up to visit their partners more for lodging tax board meetings, tourism get-togethers conferences and other events. “We just want to make sure we’re out there and getting to know you guys on a more intimate level,” she said, “to make sure we’re addressin...
Numbers were recently released by the State of Wyoming on the costs of maintaining county governments throughout the state, including Hot Springs County. The report is broken down by county, showing the expenses incurred as well as the revenue and their sources, finally showing what running the government actually costs each taxpayer in each county. The largest expense Hot Springs County has is administration costs, which come in at $1,268,359 for the year. The costs for the sheriff’s office, j...
Friday morning at Thermopolis Middle School, seventh and eighth grade Health/Physical Education teacher, Shannon Hill, received quite a surprise as she was announced as a recipient of the Milken Educator Award and $25,000. The Milken Educator Awards, created by the Milken Family Foundation in 1987, recognizes teaching excellence publicly not only to inspire educators, but students and entire communities about the importance of joining the teaching profession. The prestigious honor, to be...
"I am your father." These four words are well known in the cinematic industry and to science fiction fans worldwide. But for Zenas A.P. Crees, they'll have a lifetime of use. And it's fitting for his two boys, whose names come from "a galaxy far, far away." Crees and wife Amanda Eveland welcomed newborn Ares Dylan Han-solo Crees at 8:48 a.m. Jan. 8. He weighed seven pounds, 10.4 ounces and was 19.5 inches long, with a head circumference of 14 inches. Also welcoming him to the family was his brot... Full story
As you can imagine, discipline within the school system has changed enormously, going from corporal punishment (spanking) to a more meaningful removal of privileges (no activities) and opportunities to bring grades up. Along with absenteeism, grades can make or break a high schooler’s career and chances of acceptance into college. At Hot Springs County High School, the warning list for grades includes those students carrying a D or F. A student that finds themselves on the warning list can be i...
Monday in Hot Springs District Court, Hanes Hall Jr. was sentenced to five years probation and a year in jail. The probation sentence is on a charge of aggravated assault, and the jail time is for interference with a peace officer. Hall was found guilty of both counts following a short trial in August. According to the charges, on Jan. 15 he drew a firearm, identified as a nine-shot .22 Magnum that was fully loaded, on Hot Springs County Deputy Jeremie Kraushaar. During the trial it was shown...
April 9, 2018 marks the day Anthony Haire’s new trial is scheduled to begin in Washakie District Court. Haire was initially found guilty of involuntary manslaughter on Dec. 10, 2015, and sentenced on May 4, 2016, to 8-10 years with the Wyoming Department of Corrections. The charge stems from an April 13, 2015 incident during which Haire shot and killed his stepfather-in-law, Jamye Don SoRelle. Leading up to the fatal shooting, SoRelle had been invited over to the home of Haire and his wife f...
Friday at 10:06 p.m., the Thermopolis Police Department responded to a call from a local business regarding people in the parking lot who appeared to be loading a syringe with an illegal substance, while in a vehicle. According to call logs, officer Mark Allen responded to the scene. The officer parked the patrol vehicle behind the suspect vehicle, and upon contact the driver backed the vehicle into the patrol unit. The vehicle then proceeded forward and struck a bollard and a pergola at the...
The Hot Springs County Commissioners are asking folks to consider an appointment to to the Predatory Animal Control Board, a three year term. There are two openings available on the board, one for a sportsman member and the other for a member at large. Sportsmen and hunter representatives should be bona fide residents of the district not engaged in raising sheep, goats or cattle and must hold or have held either a valid Wyoming fishing or hunting license or a Wyoming wildife damage management stamp within the last 12 months. County residents...
The Hot Springs County Recreation District is currently accepting applications for funding for 2018. Funding requests are to be used for community recreation activities for the coming year. If you would like to apply for funding, you may pick up a form at the armory. Deadline for applications is Feb. 16....
The State of Wyoming Department of Audit recently released a report on the cost of maintaining city government for the fiscal year of July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2017. The report provides information in fund revenues and expenses, as well as what the cost is per taxpayer. According to the report, the Enterprise Fund revenue total was $2,655,831, broken down to: Garbage — $464,191; Sewer — $690,283; Solid Waste — $193,515; and Water — $1,307,842. The total Enterprise Fund expenditures were $2,339,...
10 saw significantly fewer calls for service for the Thermopolis Volunteer Fire Department, compared to 2016. According to information from the TVFD, there were a total 72 calls last year, compared to 108 in 2016. Fire Chief Mark Collins attributed the decrease in calls to people being more cautious, and there were not as many controlled burns that got out of hand. Among the 72 calls, there were 14 for grass fires — 24 total acres burned in Hot Springs County, and 264 acres burned in W...
Just like water turns to ice, fingers, hands, toes, feet and even your ears and nose can freeze. The phenomenon is known as frostbite and can occur in as little as five minutes in severely frigid weather. Unfortunately, some folks don’t even realize they are getting frostbite until its too late since the area becomes numb. So what do you look for? In the early stages of frostbite the skin turns pale yellow or white and may itch, burn, sting or feel like pins and needles. Once it gets to the i...
There were some changes in leadership during the Hot Springs County Commissioners meeting Tuesday. John Lumley stepped down and Tom Ryan was newly elected the chair of the Hot Springs County Commission going into 2018 with Phillip Scheel as the new vice chair. Ryan was not in attendance at the meeting, so Scheel chaired it. The change in roles comes as part of the commission’s reorganization for 2018. Among other reorganization items were keeping the dates of the first Tuesday of the month at 9...
On Dec. 27 at the Hot Springs County Government Annex, several county representatives and people from around town helped County Assessor Shelley Deromedi celebrate her retirement. Appropriately among the cake and other refreshments at the party, were Deromedi's former photo ID card and a Polaroid of her with former assessor Wallace Shaffer at his retirement party. December 31 officially marked Deromedi's last day as the assessor for Hot Springs County. She began working for the assessor's...
With the plethora of online opportunities folks have during the year to get all of their Christmas shopping done early, its nice to find out that our local businesses all appear to have had a good shopping season, too. WOW Discount said they had a pretty good shopping season, although not an outstanding year. The things that sold the most coming up to Christmas was crafting items that grandparents came in to get to keep the grandkids busy during their visit. Down the Street at Owl Creek Graphics, Dan Herdt said they were satisfied with how...
by Mark Dykes Among the residents of The Pioneer Home is Al Jackson, who has spent the majority of his life living in Wyoming. Jackson was born in Burlington, Wyo. He got one year of high school before moving 15 miles up the south fork of the Shoshone River. "We had no bus up there," he said. "That was back during the Depression days and there was no bus running." The move, he noted, was because his parents wanted a bigger place. His brother, Edward, already had himself a larger home and his...
Tuesday evening, Thermopolis Town Council approved replacing the bulbs in the decorative street lights with LED bulbs. Mayor’s Assistant Fred Crosby explained the town was recently approved for the wattsmart® incentive program through Rocky Mountain Power. Through the program, $9,287.40 of the total $22,632 project cost will be covered, leaving the remaining $13,344.60 to be covered by the town. Crosby noted there was $10,000 budgeted to change out the bulbs, and strongly recommended the council...
Friday morning at Thermopolis Middle School, Shannon Hill received quite a surprise as she was announced as a recipient of the Milken Educator Award and $25,000. The Milken Educator Awards, created by the Milken Family Foundation in 1987, recognizes teaching excellence publicly not only to inspire educators, but students and entire communities about the importance of joining the teaching profession. The prestigious honor, to be presented this 2017-18 season at 44 schools across the nation, has been described as “the Oscars of teaching” by Tea... Full story
