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Last week the Hot Springs County Commissioners approved the transfer of a liquor license from Stones Throw Restaurant back to the Legion Town and Country Club, dba Thermopolis Golf Course. Since then, lots of folks in town have wondered what the plan is for the building. According to Jason Ciz, chairman of the golf course board, the tentative plan at this time is to move the current pro shop into the restaurant area and continue to sell beer and liquor out of the bar area. In addition, they are... Full story
Over the weekend, two Thermopolis residents were inducted into the Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame during a ceremony in Laramie. Carl Obe Dockery was born on Owl Creek in 1936 and raised there by parents Clifford and Edna. During his childhood, he said, much of time was spent going places with horses, except for the quarter-mile trip to school, which he walked. The family ranch had 15-20 mares at the time, as well as some saddle horses. The main trip they took was going up the creek to pick buffalo...
Russ Dowdy has retired from the Wyoming Department of Transportation after 24 years with the Thermopolis maintenance crew. "It's been a good run," Dowdy said at his retirement luncheon on Sept. 21. Dowdy was born in Greeley, Colo. He graduated from Hot Springs County High School in Thermopolis in 1973. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1973-77 at Camp Pendleton, Calif., Okinawa, Japan, and Camp LeJeune, N.C. He was honorably discharged as a sergeant. Dowdy joined the Wyoming Department of...
Last week, several Thermopolis residents traveled to Laramie for the three-day Wyoming Working Together conference, presented by the Wyoming Economic Development Association, the Wyoming State Chamber of Commerce and the Wyoming Business Council/Main Street. Attending were Phillip and Shurie Scheel, Meri Ann Rush, Amanda Moeller and Howie Samelson. The conference began with an “enlightening” tour, Moeller said, put on by Main Street. Among the stops on the tour was the business park and the dow...
During the Tuesday evening meeting of the Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees, Dr. Jason Weyer reported the big day — Oct. 1 — is coming up with regard to Title 25 patients. Starting that day, the hospital will no longer accept Title 25 patients as the hospital is not an appropriate facility for that. He further added the hospital will make sure such patients are medically stable, but will not be the accepting facility. Weyer explained Title 25 is the statute that people who...
A project around town certainly getting a lot of attention is the destruction of the former Maverik store and preparation of the area for the new store. Of course, it's kind of hard to miss the machines and crews working inside the fenced area on Sixth Street. Though a projected date for opening the new store was sometime in the first week of November, Chief Marketing Officer Aaron Simpson said construction is on track to finish on Nov. 28 and the store would likely open Nov. 29. Of course,...
The public is invited to attend the second and final meeting for the reuse study for the former Thermopolis airport. The meeting will be held on Monday, Oct. 2 at 7 p.m. at the County Annex. At this meeting the final report on the alternative uses for the airport will be presented. The public is welcome to attend the meeting in order to review and provide comment on the final report. If you would like to look at the report prior to the meeting, copies are available at the County Clerk’s office, the Chamber of Commerce, or online at g...
According to information from the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, on average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States. During a year, this equates to more than 10 million women and men. One in three women and one in four men have been victims of some form of physical violence by an intimate partner within their lifetime. One in four women and one in seven men have been victims of severe physical violence by an intimate partner i...
Unemployment numbers for the month of August have been released by the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services, showing Hot Springs County’s unemployment rate dropped from 3.7 percent in July to 3.1 percent in August. While that may seem like a significant drop in unemployment, it is necessary to realize the actual workforce in the county dropped by 49 people, either through moving out of the county, retiring or otherwise leaving the workforce. That leaves just 32 people actually seeking work in the county, a difference of just 17 people c...
Josh Schmidt, a veterans service officer from the Wyoming Veterans Commission, will conduct community outreach services in Wyoming cities through October. Schmidt is the new service officer for the Big Horn Basin, and is replacing Brad Cline. Schmidt will be available in Thermopolis on Thursday, Oct. 12, noon-2 p.m. at the Hot Springs County Museum. Appointments with Schmidt can be scheduled by calling 307-250-3890, and his office is staffed in Cody, at 1026 Blackburn Ave., Suite 1....
At the Thermopolis Town Council meeting Tuesday evening, council approved providing a letter of support of the Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees’ application for $1.5 million in SLIB funds for the hospital addition and renovation. Representing the hospital board were Dan Herdt and Melissa Johnson. Herdt noted there are two times a year when SLIB funds can be applied for, and they’re in a bit of a rush to get the application in to Cheyenne. It’s hoped the SLIB board will...
With not a lot of business on their agenda Tuesday afternoon, the Hot Springs County Commissioners had a brief meeting. The afternoon started out with a public meeting regarding the transfer of a liquor license from Stones Throw Restaurant and Bar, LLC to the Legion Town and Country Club, dba Thermopolis Golf Course. Per the lease agreement Stones Throw had with the Country Club, if they decided not to continue with their lease, the license would be transferred back to the Club. Since there was...
During the Tuesday meeting of Hot Springs Travel and Tourism a motion passed 4-1, with Rick Tudor voting “no,” to approve a contract with Young Strategies Inc., for firm representative Berkeley Young to have a conference with board members at the Governor’s Conference in Cheyenne Feb. 25- 27. The motion included a contingency that money be obtained through the Technical Assistance Co-op Program offered through the Wyoming Office of Tourism. The program would provide 50 percent matching up to $5...
Hot Springs County School District #1 Board of Trustees held their monthly meeting on Tuesday night, starting things out with a meet and greet of the new teachers in the district. David Duncan and Carrie Ryan were on tap for the district initiatives discussion, telling the board what they are doing to help those students with problematic behaviors in the classroom. Duncan said it isn’t just the students with disabilities they are working with, although some of the students do qualify as s...
In District Court on Monday afternoon, a sentencing was continued in a case against Justin Spence. Following a three-day trial in late April, Spence was found guilty of incest, which states he molested a juvenile on July 4 or 5, 2014. Though Spence was scheduled for sentencing on Monday his attorney, Travis Smith, argued there was a delay in getting the pre-sentence investigation (PSI) to his client. This delay, he said, meant Spence has not had the PSI in his possession for at least 10 days as...
Carl Obe Dockery and Ernest Nathan “Nate” Brown, posthumously, have been selected as inductees for the Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame (WCHF) for Region 8, which includes Hot Springs County. Dockery and Brown were selected by the WCHF Board of Directors during their annual business meetings on May 20 and 21 in Casper. The process of selection is done by committees in ten geographic regions across the state soon after nominations closed. The WCHF sends each nomination to the county from which it was submitted, where regional honorees are chosen by...
Larry Bentley was recently selected to receive the Wyoming Department of Agriculture’s (WDA) Friend of Agriculture Award. The award is given to a person or group who has gone above and beyond to promote sustainable agriculture in Wyoming. The recipient has worked with the Department of Agriculture, particularly the Natural Resources & Policy Division (NR&P), and demonstrated expertise and passion for agricultural values. According to a letter from WDA Director Doug Miyamoto, staff chose to r...
One-half of this Nation’s children are growing up in a home with no father present. That is over 25 million kids under the age of 18. Statistics show children from fatherless homes comprise 67 percent of state prison inmates, 85 percent of juveniles in reform schools come from fatherless homes and they are twice as likely to drop out of school. Many times, single mothers have no idea where to turn when it comes to raising a son all alone. They carry deep, damaging wounds of abandonment that a...
During Thursday night’s meeting of the Thermopolis-Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce, board members looked at possible fundraisers for the fall and winter season. A vacation getaway awarded via raffle was a popular idea, and one that has been done in the past. Greg Willson said it could be done one of two ways, either one large grand prize or first, second and third place trips. Initial location ideas for the trips included Jackson, Las Vegas or Deadwood, S.D. However, upon further discussion m...
Hot Springs County residents are being asked to consider applying to serve as the county representative on the Big Horn Basin Nature and Discovery Center’s Joint Powers Board. If you are interested in applying to serve on the board, you should submit a county board questionnaire, available at the Hot Springs County Clerk’s office or online at hscounty.com. Applications must be back in the clerk’s office no later than 5 p.m., Sept. 29. All applications will be considered and appointments made at the commissioners meeting on Tues., Oct. 3....
Though there isn’t much that’s visible in terms of progress, a couple town projects are still moving forward. Among them is a water line rehabilitation, done in three phases. Phase 1 goes from the water treatment plant along south Fifth and Seventh streets; Phase 2 involves Hot Springs State Park and Phase 3 involves Valley View Drive from the Cedar Ridge pump station Town Engineer Anthony Barnett said, with regard to the water line rehabilitation project, there was a meeting with the Hot Spr...
The public is invited to attend the second and final meeting for the reuse study for the former Thermopolis airport. The meeting will be held on Monday, Oct. 2 at 7 p.m. at the County Annex. At this meeting the final report on the alternative uses for the airport will be presented. The public is welcome to attend the meeting in order to review and provide comment on the final report. If you would like to look at the report prior to the meeting, copies are available at the county clerk’s o...
If you live in Wyoming, without a doubt, somewhere along the line you've heard what a huge issue predators are to livestock. However, unless you are a rancher, you probably don't understand what all of the issues are and what costs they create to the producer. Federal surveys of the problem produce limited information on Wyoming specifically. In order to have a better understanding of Wyoming's situation, Dr. John Scasta, Ph.D., from the University of Wyoming took on an investigation into...
At 1:04 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 5, the Hot Springs County Sheriff’s Office received a report from Billie Jo Norsworthy, of a 2014 white Ford truck stolen from her residence. The vehicle was later stopped in Riverton, and it was discovered the driver, 43-year-old Christopher Mitchell of Cody, was involved in a chase leading across several counties. It is believed Mitchell had a separate vehicle that he abandoned prior to taking the truck, and the pursuit originated in Park County before going into Washakie, Hot Springs and Fremont counties b... Full story
Thermopolis Middle School teacher Kristin Ryan was recently awarded a $2,000 Unsung Hero Grant from Voya Financial. The firm awards grants to K-12 educators nationwide in honor of their innovative teaching methods, creative educational projects and ability to positively influence their students. Ryan's idea, "TMS Living Wax Museum," which was held May 2 at the school, brought history through about 100 seventh and eighth grade students dressed up as national and local historical figures. People...
