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Community Home Health has moved to a new location at 717 Broadway. With over six years of service, they are ready to provide help with many rehabilitation needs. They are available to help patients recover from an injury or illness in the comfort of their own home. They offer many services such as equipment loans where patients can receive a walker or wheel chair. They also offer their services all across the area including Worland, Basin and Tensleep Contact Community Home Health for more...
Land surveyor Rick Hudson and professional engineer Anthony Barnett will present a program titled 1901 Thermopolis Town Corners at the Hot Springs County Historical Society meeting Saturday, Oct. 10. Hudson and Barnett will give a brief history of the original and official surveys of the Thermopolis townsite and the perpetuation of the town corners set by the original surveyor, D.V. Bayne in 1901. The meeting begins at 2 p.m. at the county museum. Everyone is welcome....
The last downtown Thermopolis’ Farmers Market for this season will be held from 8-11 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 10. Be sure and get your fresh produce while it is available. The Farmers Market will resume next year during harvest season....
The grand opening of the 4-H River Bend Bark Park will be held on Saturday, Oct. 10, in correlation with National 4-H Week. The Mustang 4-H Club came up with the idea to build a dog park in town for both residents and tourists to Hot Springs State Park, creating a fenced in area that would allow dogs to run and have fun while allowing their owners to be worry-free. From the park’s inception, members of the Mustang 4-H club have raised all of the necessary funds through fundraising, grants from the Wyoming 4-H Community Fund, Central Bank & T...
Two days a week students of the Thermopolis Middle School have had the opportunity to get up close and personal with a horse. Many of the students have never been around a horse let alone ride one. The Lights On program, with the support of Nate and Macile Brown of Horse Works Ranch, have given the students such an opportunity. The students learn from the ground up, starting with respect for the horse to saddling up and riding. Stressing safety and to be cognizant of everything that is going on...
The 2015 Hot Springs County High School Homecoming Parade will start Friday at 10:45 a.m. from behind the high school on Senior Avenue and proceed to Arapahoe Street past 4th Street and Springview. The parade will then take a left onto 5th Street, immediately followed by a right onto Broadway. From there the parade will go to 6th Street (at the stoplight), where it will turn around and travel back down Broadway passing 5th and 4th streets before taking a left on 3rd Street where it will draw to a close at the high school. Friday is spirit... Full story
To open the board meeting, Cheri Benander, Director of Compliance Consulting Services from HealthTech, gave a presentation about compliance education. Compliance education, according to Benander, not only protects the care giver, but also those that receive it. In order to prevent costly lawsuits that may prevent the hospital from receiving federal support for Medicare and Medicaid acts, it also allows the hospital to reduce fraud and abuse, enhance operations, and improve quality of care. Among the most important laws Benander covered in her...
The grand opening of the 4-H Riverbend Bark Park will be held on Saturday, Oct. 10, in correlation with National 4-H Week. The Mustang 4-H Club came up with the idea to build a dog park in town for both residents and tourists to Hot Springs State Park, creating a fenced in area that would allow dogs to run and have fun while allowing their owners to be worry-free. From the park’s inception, members of the Mustang4-H club have raised all of the necessary funds through fundraising, grants from the Wyoming 4-H Community Fund, Central Bank & T...
As the water goes flying, Anne Ivie, left, encourages her minnow to swim faster against her opponent during the minnow races at Octobrewfest Saturday....
Thermopolis Volunteer Firemen responded to a vehicle fire in front of the post office Tuesday. Apparently there was a strong smell and smoke coming from an electrical malfunction toward the real of the vehicle....
The Hot Springs County District Court jury trial of French national Gilbert Vieira for first degree sexual assault concluded Friday, Sept. 25 after five days. Vieira was held in the Hot Spring County Detention Center since March, 2015 after being arrested following an incident at a local hotel. Jury selection started Monday, Sept. 21 with the trial expected to last for two weeks. Half way through the trial, Vieira took an Alford plea. An Alford plea is when the defendant does not admit guilt...
The Smoking Waters Art Guild is looking for local artists, young and old, who would like to show their art work during the Young at HeART ArtStroll November 13. Schools, churches, youth groups, clubs and individuals are invited to bring your artwork to an assigned downtown business during the November ArtStroll. The Young at HeART show will be available for viewing to the public Friday evening November 13 and during Still Strolling Saturday, November 14. To enter your artwork, contact guild member Marcia at 307-921-8496. The Second-Friday...
Wyoming will have a rare treat October 7-9 when international award-winning musician Okaidja will perform in Thermopolis. He will be accompanied by Shókoto, whose music and rhythms fuse Ghanian traditional song with drums and other traditional African instruments. The musicians will be conducting a three-day residency in the schools. A public concert will be held Oct. 8 at 7 p.m. in Hot Springs County Schools Auditorium at 415 Springview. The program is sponsored by Hot Springs Greater Learning Foundation with grants from the Western States...
All it takes is a single glance into the night sky to see how lucky we are to have such an amazing view. The Hot Springs County Library brought in a special guest to talk about our beautiful skies. Dr. Kevin Manning astronomer, author and national speaker, took the time to speak at the library about the celestial bodies hiding in the night sky. When Dr. Manning was nine he saw the rings of Saturn for the first time and his imagination went wild. Traveling as a speaker allows him the opportunity...
A long-awaited decision announcing the West’s greater sage grouse will not be added to the Endangered Species List was announced last week. Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead and other governors stood by as U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell made the announcement along side U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service director Dan Ashe. Mead later announced at a press conference the decision was “a tremendous victory for Wyoming and a tremendous victory for the West.” Wyoming is one of 11 Western states home to around 37 percent of the remai...
Composer and Wyoming native Tyler Gilmore directs "A Rambling Stretch" during the public concert at the school auditorium Sept. 23....
Steve’s Plumbing, Julia’s Rentals and Stevie Ann’s Ice will host their 11th annual Customer Appreciation Chili Feed on Saturday, Oct. 3 at 602 Shoshoni Street. A chili and corn bread dinner will be served from 6-7:30 p.m. with live music from the band Blackwater starting at 7 p.m....
Hot Springs County saw its unemployment rate hold steady at 3.5 percent in both July and August. The number of unemployed residents is 87, and the labor force is 2.457, according to information from the Research and Planning section of the state Department of Workforce Services. The county unemployment rate in August 2014 was 4.1 percent, with 102 unemployed residents from a labor force of 2,515....
Recognition of National Fire Prevention Week in Thermopolis was started many years ago by Barbra Moeller to educate children of the importance on how to react to a fire. After Moeller retired, the Volunteer Fire Department continued local activities during National Fire Prevention Week. This year it runs from Oct. 4-10. Reaching out to the public and going to the local schools to educate and teach important fire safety the Thermopolis Volunteer Fire Department will be going to Risen Son School,...
Hot Springs County Public Health Nurse Anita Weisbeck talks to a participant at the Interactive Health Fair held at the senior center....
The second annual Oktobrewfest, which will feature 10 microbreweries, nine food vendors and 20 non-food vendors will take place Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. in downtown Thermopolis. The event, presented by Main Street Thermopolis, seeks to draw members of Thermopolis and other Wyoming communities to the town’s historic downtown district and will feature German food, music, historic building tours, and games for people of all ages. The ten breweries involved will each present one beer that w...
Hot Springs County Children's Librarian Sue Hurd watches to make sure Matthew Reynolds clears the line of books during one of the events at the Library Olympics Friday. Other competitors Griffin Kreho, Brennun Paxman and Darrick Collins await their turn....
Hot Springs County Local Emergency Planning Committee has a lot to get done in the next couple of months. Chairman James Coates started the meeting with a need to conduct an exercise for this calendar year. Mary Gordon from Hot Springs County Public Health spoke of a Mass Dispensing Exercise for the Hot Springs County Public Health. She would need community participation, as many people as she can get to make the exercise beneficial. Residents will stand be issued fake medicine and have to fill...
The Hot Springs County School Board began their September meeting as usual with the acceptance of the current agenda and then onto monthly celebrations. Thermopolis Middle School Principal Breez Longwell Daniels addressed the board, giving reasons why TMS secretary Brenda Cornwell was the August Staff Member of the Month because of her dedication to the students and the public. Superintendent Dustin Hunt also had great words for RWE secretary Susan Little, the September Staff Member of the Month...
The Hot Springs County Treasurer is now taking payments online. The County Treasurer website offers online payment for both license plates and property taxes for Hot Springs residents. “It’s quite an interesting system,” said County Treasurer Julie Mortimore. Mortimore did a soft release of the system in late August in order to keep traffic low to make sure the program worked properly, and thus far she has been impressed with the system. “I still want to see [our residents’] smiling faces at the...
