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The Hot Springs County School Board met April 19 to discuss BOCHES/BOCES funding and new course requests. They also did a 30-day review of resources. Board members discussed the direction the district would like to go in regards to CWC BOCHES and Fremont County BOCES. With the decrease in valuation, the mill levy amounts for each needed to be reviewed and discussed. Hot Springs County High School Principal Scott Shoop said he would still like to be aggressive in allowing students to graduate...
Carol Burns, Thermopolis Middle School librarian, will be retiring from the Hot Springs County School District at the end of the 2015-16 school year. Burns said she has worked for the district for 15 years. In 2001, she worked part-time as a teacher's aid/tutor for students who needed extra attention. In 2002, she came on full-time as the librarian. "I never had said anything to anybody, but the library is where I've always wanted to be," she said. "And I've been here ever since." Working with...
The Bighorn Basin Sage Grouse Working Group will hold a meeting from 9:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. Friday, April 29 in the meeting room at Big Horn Federal Bank in Thermopolis. The public is invited to attend. The primary purpose of the meeting is to review projects for funding in order to implement local conservation plans. In 2007, the Sage-grouse Conservation Plan for the Big Horn Basin was finalized. When it was completed, the conservation plan encompassed the best available personal, professional a...
Those attending a program Saturday at the Hot Springs County Museum got a look at a business that has more male workers than any other industry. Of course, when it comes to honeybees, one colony alone can have thousands of these male drones in it. Dr. Jack States, a native of Wyoming, spoke Friday about the first incidence of beekeeping, and honey collection and sale. Born in Laramie, States was raised in a beekeeping family in Saratoga. His grandfather began keeping bees in the early 1920s,...
Over the weekend, 83 Hot Springs County High School music students traveled to Powell High School for the annual District Music Festival. The concert band and concert choir both earned a Superior rating while the jazz band earned an Excellent rating. Director Dustin Olsen stated, “I am so proud of our music students. They represented our community and school very well at the festival. They performed at such a high level.” Final results for solos and ensembles are: Chauncey Morris — Superior Rating and Perfect Score Zoe Stone/Michael Meier...
Hot Springs County High School students Shayna Bauer and Chloe Crosby have been selected to attend the 74th session of American Legion Auxiliary Wyoming Girls State schedule for June 11-18 on the campus of Northwest College in Powell. Girls State was established in 1941 and is an annual program designed as a practical experience in self-government, based on Wyoming State Government. The program emphasizes the importance of government in modern life and educates young women in the duties, privileges, rights and responsibilities of American...
Following an executive session Tuesday evening, the Thermopolis Town Council, with Councilman John Dorman Sr. absent and Councilman Dusty Lewis voting "no," approved a motion to authorize the filing of a declaratory judgment against the County, for clarification of the County's duty under Title 25 to pay for detention, treatment and transportation of persons in need of mental hospitalization. The judgment will hopefully provide better definition of the state statute. Also during the meeting,...
The County Commissioners approved the Travel and Tourism Board's request for permission to include a 4-cent lodging tax on the November general election ballot. Tourism Director Amanda Moeller presented the board with information about the tax, explaining a rise in tourists in the Hot Springs County area due to expanded advertising. "There are more people coming and staying in lodging establishments in Hot Springs County," Moeller said. "I would also note that we have six, soon to be eight, vaca...
The Hot Springs State Park draft master plan was released Monday. The purpose of the 20-year master plan is to guide the long-term physical improvement, management and use of the entire 1,100- acre park. The plan includes publicly and privately owned buildings, lands west of Highway 20, the bison pasture and the recreational and thermal features. It provides a comprehensive planning and decision-making structure to accommodate recreational and developmental amenities, infrastructure and access i...
A sentencing hearing for Cody Shinost scheduled for Monday in Hot Springs County Fifth Judicial District Court was continued. A new date for his sentencing has not been set. Shinost was found guilty by a jury in Washakie County District Court in Worland on Feb. 4 on three counts including, count one, aggravated vehicular homicide while under the influence of alcohol, resulting in the death of Madisen "Maddie" Price; count two, control of a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol resulting in serious bodily injury to Delanie Price; and... Full story
The Hot Springs County Sheriff's office recently delivered notifications on three registered sex offenders who are residing in Thermopolis: •Darren Leon Dumas - Residence: 620 Mondell Street; Age: 28; Date/place of conviction: July 12, 2006/ Green River, Wyo.; Crime: Sexual assault in the second degree - with intrusion; prevents resistance. •Stacy Lynn Orton - Residence: 620 Mondell Street; Age: 19; Date/place of conviction: Nov. 2, 2015/Wichita, Kan.; Crime: Sexual abuse of a minor in the first degree, actor older than 16 victim younger tha...
Though the grand opening is still a few weeks away, Shorty's owner Debra Lackey has no plans to close the door in the meantime. Lackey and her husband, Danny, took over the business April 16 from Cindy Ellison, who had Shorty's for 12 years prior. She expressed her appreciation to Ellison for the business opportunity, and to Amanda Moeller and the Economic Development Committee for information and literature on small business loans. She further added it was nice to work with local banker Minnie...
Two Angry Guys Concrete is a local business started by Joseph Alu and his dad, Calvin Turnbaugh. "Starting my own company has always been one of my goals because working with concrete has always been one of my favorite things to do, and something I want to do for the rest of my life," Alu said. Alu said Two Angry Guys Concrete primarily focuses on sidewalks, curbs, gutters and retaining walls, but they are also willing to do other projects as well. "I like everything about owning my own...
Hot Springs County School District's Lights On Afterschool program is joining with the National Afterschool Association to celebrate the professionals that are at the heart of afterschool programs during the first ever "Afterschool Professionals Appreciation Week" on April 25-29. Program Coordinator Jenny Davis said part of the effort is simply to appreciate and recognize the afterschool professionals that we have and to put more information out about the impact of afterschool programs to studen...
In the coming weeks, students in the Hot Springs County High School ProStart program will get some real world experience around town. Teacher Becky Martinez explained part of ProStart is working in a commercial kitchen. While there is such a kitchen at the high school, from which they serve food, Martinez noted the students are more familiar with the kitchens that might typically be in a home. This past week has seen the girls working at Dairyland, getting the business up and running for the...
The Hot Springs County Commissioners are seeking applicants for the Hot Springs County Travel and Tourism Board. The Travel and Tourism Board is seeking one member for a three-year term. The travel and tourism applicants must be from the lodging or tourism industry. The position will start June 1. Hot Springs County residents interested in applying to serve on this board should submit their county board questionnaire to the Hot Spring's County Clerk's Office no later than 5 p.m. Friday, May 13....
The Hot Springs County Recreation Department has suspended recycling at the armory for the time being. Recreation Director Brad Morrison said Riverton has issued a new protocol for recycling. Recyclable materials can no longer just be loaded up on a trailer every Friday and taken down. "What they are saying now is that they no longer accept glass," Morrison said. "They'll only take Type 1 and Type 2 plastics, and it has to be uncontaminated and pre-sorted." Type 1 plastics are polyethylene terep...
Hot Springs County delegates Chuck Carver, Kevin Dickey, Benge Brown and Joe Casciato visit with Senator Leland Christensen during the Wyoming Republican Convention. HSC will be represented at the National Convention by Representative Nathan Winters, Republican State Committeeman Jim Collins and Republican State Secretary Charles Curley....
Merit Energy Co. of Dallas, Texas, recently agreed to acquire all the upstream and downstream assets in Wyoming that belong to Marathon Oil Corp., Houston, for $870 million. The upstream properties, comprised primarily of waterflood developments in the Big Horn and Wind River basins, averaged 16,500 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) during the first quarter. The assets also include the 570-mile Red Butte pipeline, the only export line in the area, according to Marathon. The deal is effective Jan. 1, and is expected to close midyear....
The formation of the Lodging Tax Election Committee was referred to the Executive Committee and Hot Springs Travel and Tourism Liaison Barb Heinze, during the Thermopolis-Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce annual board meeting April 14. Chamber Vice Chair Greg Wilson said there would be a push to put the vote to renew the lodging tax on the ballot, and suggested board members be on the committee to get word out on what the tax does for the community. Hot Springs Travel and Tourism Board Director Am...
Property Notices of Assessment for Tax Year 2016 were mailed Friday, April 15 to property owners in Hot Springs County. According to Hot Springs County Assessor Shelley Deromedi, "Properties throughout Wyoming are assessed to the owner of record and valued as they existed as of January 1 each year." The Assessor's office has the statutory responsibility for determining the current fair market value of taxable property annually. The level of assessment is set by statute and the mill levy is based on budget requests from various taxing entities...
Dustin Olsen directs the Hot Springs County High School Jazz Ensemble during the pre-festival concert April 14. Also performing during the evening were the high school concert choir and concert band, intermingled with soloists and ensembles. The students will be performing at the District Music Festival in Powell Friday and Saturday....
Philip and Shurie Scheel helped to relocate a diabetic-alert dog to a loving, home with Jet Warren in Highland Ranch, Co., a suburb of Denver. Shurie said they adopted the dog - Timber - with the intent of retraining her and finding her a diabetic she could help. "We thought she should be placed back in training," she said. "Timber is a very unique dog and you can tell that just from being around her. She's a pet and a really awesome pet, but she's also more than that. You can tell that just...
Tuesday afternoon at their regular monthly meeting, the Travel and Tourism Board took a look at the lodging tax receipts, presented by Director Amanda Moeller. Though Moeller previously presented receipts for the fiscal year beginning July 2014, she presented a revised set that does not factor in settlement money paid out. It was discovered a couple years back that some online booking companies were not paying the lodging tax. After being held accountable, these agencies paid out settlement...
John Gores, the instructional facilitator for the Hot Springs County school district, will be retiring at the end of the 2015-16 school year, after a lifelong commitment to education. Gores said he came to Wyoming in Dec. 1975 chasing oil rigs to put himself through college. "I went from the oil rig to the classroom in two days," he said. "Thursday I was working out on a Parker oil rig and Monday I was Mr. Gores." He taught half a year in 1976 in Riverton before resigning in the summer of 1977...
