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The weather radar used by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Riverton will be down for three days beginning Sunday, Oct. 30, for technicians to install an important technological upgrade. The work on the WSR-88D radar has been scheduled to minimize any potential impacts to office operations and will be delayed if hazardous weather is forecast. During the outage, some radar coverage is available from adjacent radar sites including Pocatello, ID, Billings, MT, Salt Lake City, UT, and Cheyenne. A crew will install a new signal...
Hot Springs County Clerk Nina Webber shows one of the computer chips that are sealed inside the voting machines prior to the election. Webber and members of the clerk's office ran a test of the machines on Oct. 17 before securing them. There is limited access to the secured area where the machines are kept and a "fob" system is used that records every person, time and date of entry into the area....
Carllena Farman, who served in the United States Army from 1981-89 — honorably discharged as a Specialist E4 — and who underwent triple-bypass surgery earlier this year, is still in need of financial assistance. Fellow veteran Jeff Dierks noted a fundraiser for Farman was held in August. Proceeds from that event have helped, but they are dwindling. Farman, who has lived in Thermopolis since 1991, has had some setbacks health-wise and has not yet been able to return to work. She is only abo...
Wyoming State Treasurer Mark Gordon stopped into the offices of the Independent Record on Saturday morning to discuss Amendment A, an issue that will appear on the ballot Nov. 8. Currently, Wyoming’s funds are split into two areas – permanent funds and non-permanent funds. The Wyoming Constitution allows permanent funds to be invested in equities. According to Gordon, Amendment A would allow legislature to invest non-permanent funds in the stock market as well, as long as there is a two-thirds a...
by Cindy Glasson As anticipated, oil and gas production numbers and the money that production will bring into Hot Springs County is lower than it’s been in years. The value per barrel pulled from the ground is down $12.14 from 2015, coming in at $24.28 for 2016 and $36.42 per barrel in 2015. Nationally, we hear oil is coming in at $50 or so per barrel, however, in Wyoming it costs more to pump out and more to refine, keeping our gas prices higher than other areas of the country, and our price pe...
by Cindy Glasson In 2014, the Hot Springs County Commissioners, in conjunction with the Wyoming County Commissioners Association, Wyoming Department of Transportation and the State Transportation Innovation Council, authorized a study of county roads across the state. The results of the study have been recently released and our county roads in Wyoming are in pretty poor shape. Hot Springs County has 32 segments of paved county roads totaling 77 miles. We have just three percent of the county...
by Cindy Glasson The Hot Springs County Commissioners had a brief meeting on Tuesday evening covering program funding for Youth Alternatives, sage grouse issues, the status of hangars at the new airport and a discussion regarding Gooseberry Road. Barb Rice, director of the Youth Alternatives program approached the commissioners regarding an extension of the contract between the program and Volunteers of America (VOA) and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). VOA and...
by Mark Dykes The public will not be allowed to dump tires at the Thermopolis landfill for the next couple of weeks. Mayor Mike Mortimore, speaking at Tuesday night’s Town Council meeting, explained there have been issues regarding tires over the past several days, such as them being found in ditches. However, he said, a couple “entities” took out something to the equivalent of 1,000 tires each to the landfill. Council recently approved an ordinance that created a fee schedule for tire dumpi...
by Mark Dykes The Wyoming Dinosaur Center will celebrate the end of its most successful tourist season with a Dining with Dinosaurs Gala Saturday, Oct. 22 beginning at 5:30 p.m. at the center, 110 Carter Ranch Road. Big Horn Basin Foundation Director and Wyoming Dinosaur Center Education Director Jessica Lippincott said the event will feature a string trio from the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra — Christine Dunbar on cello, Ben Winckler on violin and Jack Hess on viola — and guests will be ser...
Get your appetite ready for the Saint Francis Annual Harvest Dinner, coming Sunday, Oct. 30. From noon until 4 p.m., share food, laughter and fellowship with friends and neighbors at the Parish Fellowship Hall, across the street from the church at 808 Arapahoe. Tickets are $10 for individuals or $40 for a family. They may be purchased by calling Roxie Braley at 864-3444 or Kathy Wallingford at 921-1920....
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Kummerfeld are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Megan, to Nolan Fraser, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andy Fraser of Moorcroft, Wyo. Megan is a 2001 graduate of Hot Springs County High School and a 2009 graduate of the Denver School of Nursing. She is currently employed as an RN for Campbell County Hospital in the Ob department. Nolan is a 2003 graduate of Moorcroft High School and a 2008 graduate of the University of Wyoming. He is employed by HDR Engineering in... Full story
by Mark Dykes As seen in the past few months, a hot topic for this year’s general election in Hot Springs County regards the formation of a hospital district. However, should the initiative for the district pass, it does not mean it becomes a permanent establishment. According to the 2015 Wyoming State Statute Title 35, Chapter 2, Article 4, the trustees of a hospital district may vote to dissolve and terminate the district. The plan to do so shall provide for payment of all bonded and other i...
Patricia O'Brien shakes hands with Congressional Candidate Liz Cheney during a recent Meet and Greet event. Right, Nathan Winters and Rob DiLorenzo visit with former vice president Dick Cheney....
by Mark Dykes Tuesday afternoon during the meeting of the Hot Springs Travel and Tourism Board, Director Amanda Moeller reported there was a record deposit this month. “We are eight percent up over last year for this month,” Moeller said, “which actually brings us up from about 10 percent down to about four percent down for the year.” Moeller said the deposit this month was $32,068, and last year it was $29,000. She pointed out last year was a record year as well, so there is a steady increas...
by Mark Dykes Thursday evening, the Thermopolis-Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce Board chose the executive board officers for 2016-17. Officers are President Greg Willson, Vice President Deb Tudor, Treasurer Tracy Linko and Secretary Robin Griffin. The four are also authorized signers on accounts. Also presented at the meeting were board election results. Chamber Executive Director Meri Ann Rush noted the election was exceptional this year, as there was a 43 percent of the membership voting;...
by Cindy Glasson Whether we realize it or not, most of us use mathematics almost every day and Jessica Hostetter, the new high school math teacher, is there to get our students ready. Hostetter came from Texas originally and attended college at Laramie County Community College and the University of Wyoming. Her student teaching was completed in Gillette. She and her husband Drew were married just a few months ago and the search was on for where they wanted to be and where Hostetter wanted to...
by Cindy Glasson Fall is in the air and leaves are on the ground, the perfect time to get a little help with your yard from students at Thermopolis Middle School. The annual Yard Clean-up Day will be held on Monday, Oct. 31 in the afternoon. If you would like the students to come rake the leaves from your yard, simply call the middle school at 864-6551 to get placed on their list. There is no charge for the students to come rake your leaves. If you know of a friend or neighbor that could use...
It may still take several months to work through a suit filed in District Court by the Town of Thermopolis and Thermopolis Police Department against the Board of County Commissioners regarding “who pays for what” when it comes to Title 25 patients. Title 25 refers to patients who are detained by law enforcement who may be a danger to themselves or others and are made to undergo involuntary psychiatric treatment (WY Stat 25-10-110). The Town is requesting reimbursement for police officers’ time s... Full story
In addition to hearing from the candidates of the various races this election during Thursday evening’s meet the candidates forum, those attending heard from representatives of three Political Action Committees, and received information about Amendment A. Karen Sinclair spoke for the Yes to Our Hospital PAC. “Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital is a vital part of our community,” Sinclair said. “It is the foundation of healthcare in Hot Springs County.” She noted the hospital offers a wide varie...
The recent rains experienced in Hot Springs County have made many of us wonder if we were going to need webbed feet before it was all over, but Brett McDonald with the Riverton office of the National Weather Service gives us a glimmer of hope. According to McDonald, the type of rains we’ve been having during September and this first part of October are quite unusual. Generally, we get a majority of our moisture in the spring months, particularly March and April. Weather has been plotted in H...
The biggest local race this election is easily for the five seats on the Hot Springs County Hospital District Board of Directors. This board would be formed, should the initiative to form a hospital district pass in the general election on Nov. 8. As the district initiative, as well as the measure to create a one percent special purpose tax, have been hot topics this year, candidates were sure to address them at the candidate forum held at Thermopolis Middle School Oct. 6. The public heard first...
An accident occurred at about 12:20 p.m. Friday, when a 2015 Z71, driven by a juvenile male subject, pulled out of the Blair's parking lot, heading north. The truck hit Colette Spain, who was on a scooter, crossing in an unmarked area. The juvenile stated he did not see Spain, who appeared to not be crossing at an intersection. According to the report, Spain had previously been cautioned about crossing outside designated areas. There were no charges filed against the driver.... Full story
Recently, Vicki Nichols of the Hot Springs County University of Wyoming Extension Office was awarded the Frances Freese Secretary of the Year Award. She received the award during the ESCAPE (Extension Secretary Conference - A Professional Event) meeting in Buffalo. She was honored to receive the award, but also surprised as there are secretaries around the state who have been in their positions longer than her; one of the criteria for being nominated for the award was being a secretary for a...
Carrie Shaffer of Thermopolis and Foxfield, Colo. was recently informed by the Jefferson County Historical Commission of Coloradro that she has won the Writer’s Award Center for 2016. She wrote about the Shaffer family of Shaffer’s Crossing, a village 30 miles southwest of Denver established in the 1900s and named for her ancestor, pioneer Samuel A. Shaffer. The award will be presented to her Oct. 20, and published in the 2016 edition of “Historically Jeffco.” Her article submission was made po...
Traffic delays are scheduled to begin Tuesday, Oct. 18, on U.S. 20/Wyoming 789 through Wind River Canyon as a Cowley, Wyo. contractor begins rock scaling, cleaning culverts, reshaping ditches and other work related to the Memorial Day weekend flooding and mud slides of 2015. Wilson Brothers Construction, Inc., is the prime contractor on the $840,000 project. The work within Wind River Canyon will take place between mileposts 116.80 (near the tunnels) and 126.82 (about six miles south of Thermopolis). All work is dependent upon favorable...
