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The Hot Springs Hospice Foundation has changed the date and the place for their monthly meetings, effective with their August meeting. From now on, hospice meetings will be held at 5 p.m. on the third Wednesday of each month at the Wyoming Pioneer Home. If you are interested in helping with the hospice foundation or would like more information regarding their meetings, please call Sharon Skiver at 864-3151, extension 2001....
A lot is happening in downtown Thermopolis in the upcoming months and the Retail Committee is preparing for it all. This weekend, for the Hot Springs County High School Reunion, the committee plans to brighten main street with balloons and is asking downtown businesses to participate in Christmas in July with sales, promotions, etc. With the recent Fourth of July parade, the retail committee discussed their thoughts on the number of parades the community holds. The general feeling was that with...
I recently had the opportunity to spend the afternoon with three local ladies talking about the roaring days of Kirby, a small community about 13 miles north of Thermopolis. The Skoric sisters, Dorothy and Ellen, and local historian Dorothy Milek, had plenty of stories about the early days when Kirby was growing at a rapid pace, the characters who lived there and the simple, yet wonderful, life growing up in the midst of it all. John Nelson bought the land where Kirby stands in 1904. His...
Mr. and Mrs. Brian Green of Lander, Wyoming, announce the engagement of their daughter, Baleigh, to Dustin Hite, son of Terry and Jennifer Swim of Kearns, Utah, and grandson of Louis and Susan Hite of Laughlin, Nevada. Baleigh is the granddaughter to Tessie and the late Ted Carlson of Lander and Barbara and the late Stephen Green of Lander. The future bride recently received her Master of Science degree in Social Work from the University of Wyoming and is currently employed by the Children's...
Visitors to Wyoming State Archeological Site Legend Rock will be happy to see a smiling face when they arrive at the visitor's center; though for returning visitors, the face should be familiar. Wyoming State Parks made improvements to the site five years ago, including a self-guided trail and visitor's center, shortly before BJ King began volunteering at the location. King has a background in education and a love for Indian culture and it is this passion that brought her back as a volunteer...
The Red Dirt Master Gardeners selected the property at 107 North 9th as their Yard of the Month winner for July....
The University of Wyoming accorded degrees upon the following students from Thermopolis at the completion of the 2015 spring semester: Cody D. Abbott BA, Sarah Stephan Green BA, Weston Garrett Hubele BSCH, Sarah Deanna Leddige BS, David Allen Leonhardt BSME, Chris D. Leyba BS, Jocelyn Gail Materi BSN, Joshua Don Materi BS and Kylie A. Olsen BA....
The Hot Springs County Commissioners are seeking a new member for the Hot Springs County Museum board. The appointment is for an unexpired three-year term and would start in August. Interested citizens are asked to apply by submitting a letter of interest along with a county board application form, which may be picked up in the county clerk’s office or printed online at www.hscounty.com. Letters of interest and applications must be returned to the clerk’s office no later than 5 p.m. on Friday, July 31. The commissioners will make their app...
The Thermopolis-Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce had a brief meeting last Thursday evening, discussing the outcome of People of the Earth Days. According to Barb Heinz, organizer of the event for the chamber, it was a great weekend with a 33% increase in attendance over last year’s maiden event. There were so many attendees they had to include two whitewater rafting trips and many of the activities had to be broken down into two groups in order to cover everything. “They are actually asking for...
Catering permits and street closures were the main discussion for Tuesday evening’s town council meeting. Catering permits for the NRA Banquet and two weddings at the HSC Fairgrounds and one permit for an Arts in the Park event were all approved by the council. Stefanie Gilbert with Main Street Thermopolis gave a presentation asking for downtown street closure for Oktobrewfest on September 26. Gilbert said the hope for this year’s event is to appeal to adults but maintain a family-friendly atm...
During Tuesday’s Hot Springs County Commissioners meeting, emergency management coordinator Bill Gordon told the commissioners, in spite of the issues we faced, Hot Springs County really skirted a lot of disaster this spring. Gordon is now asking county residents to really assess their situation and make the changes necessary to eliminate future hazards. For example, Gordon said if you live near the river and were concerned about the rising water, perhaps you should think now about building a b...
The State Park Master Plan Steering Committee met on Tuesday, June 30 with the goal of reviewing public comments and incorporating these comments into the draft preferred alternative plan. Tina Bishop, project manager with landscape architectural consulting firm Mundus Bishop, presented a list of comments from the community gathered from public meetings, website entries, emails, letters, and “I Wish” notes. These comments included a wide range of requests, some of which included: a sense of arr...
When most of us think of a "red card" we automatically think "stop" or "pink slip", neither of which is a good thing. For one young man from Hot Springs County though, that "red card" was a very good thing. Harley Rhodes, a 2014 graduate of Hot Springs County High School, recently tried out for "The Voice" in Oklahoma City. "I really just did it for the fun of it," Rhodes said. He had heard about the auditions from a friend and decided to go for it. "It was different than I expected," he said....
Ellen Sue Blakey, of Thermopolis, won 2nd place in Free-Verse Poetry for her poem “Braiding Rugs,” at the writing contest presentation at this year’s Wyoming Writers, Inc., conference, held June 5-7 at the Holiday Inn in Cheyenne. Judge Rick Kempa, of Rock Springs, author of two books of poems and editor of a third, had this to say about her work: “’Braiding Rugs’ is an intimate account of a grandmother “ripping the canniballed cloth” of her family’s “former glory”—clothing, one imagines, that has lain for decades in the cedar chest—an acti...
Hot Springs County High School 2016 underclassmen rose to the challenge and recently received bragging rights of their own this spring by achieving scores in the top 10% for ACT PLAN and ACT EXPLORE scores. PLAN tests are practice tests that prepare students for the types of questions and structure of the ACT. Students receive scores from their practice test that show them where there is room for improvement before taking the actual test. EXPLORE tests students in similar areas (English, Math,...
HealthTech Management Services project manager, Neil Todhunter, started the monthly hospital board meeting held Tuesday, June 30, with an overview of the company and what they can do for the Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital (HSCMH). Todhunter reviewed the roles and expertise of his staff and then covered how these individuals will work directly with HSCMH to reduce expenses in 2016. Board chairman Dr. Bill Williams discussed his experience at a recent conference that board members himself,...
Figures are now final for the 2015 assessed value of Hot Springs County according to treasurer Shelley Deromedi. Current locally assessed values are $50,592,682. State Assessed utilities have come in at $5,783,687, railroads are $3,634,384 and hard minerals have been assessed at $3,666,132. Oil production came in with a final $166,763,947 and gas production assessed at $399,035. Together, these values bring the total assessed value of Hot Springs County to $230,839,867, up 1.46% over 2014. One...
Hot Springs County School District No. 1 has decided to continue with the four-and a half-day school week for the 2015-2016 school year. The intent with the shorter week was to ensure students were getting more time with their teachers as well as opening up Friday afternoons for sports and other activities without a loss of class time, especially on the high school level. Since the change, the district has been able to schedule professional development for educators on Friday afternoons rather...
The Hot Springs County Museum was busy the evening of Monday, June 22. The Wyoming Business Council's Access to Capital Solutions and Strategies presentation by Ryan Whitehead, Business Finance Program Manager from Cheyenne, held an informative discussion at 5:30 p.m. Whitehead presented the public with multiple loan and investment programs offered by the Business Council and encouraged local banks to investigate these programs to offer local small business owners more options for funding. Many...
You can see it in a person's eyes when they are passionate about something. You can hear it in their voice and you can see it in their work when they are doing what they love. It's something a person spends a lifetime working towards and passes on to the next generation; and in the cowboy state, it's that cowboy way of life that so many live for and the Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame (WCHF) is preserving. 2014 marked the first year for WCHF inductees, and recently 2015 Honorees were chosen.... Full story
Local photographer Michael Balog received two awards in June during the annual Cody Art Show. His first place entry was a female Broad-tailed hummingbird, shot in the Wind River Canyon as she was attempting to land on a nectar feeder. His second place entry, also taken in the canyon, featured a baby Rufous hummingbird on his maiden flight from the nest. Balog's photos may be seen on his website, HogbatsPhotogaphy.com or by stopping by Thermopolis Chiropractic where a large display of his work...
Kim and Wayne Carswell of Thermopolis, Wyo., would like to announce the engagement of their daughter, Ashley Carswell, to Wheaton Kremke, son of Jennifer and Tim Frary of Casper, Wyo. and Kurt and Lori Kremke of Burwell, Neb. The future bride graduated from the University of Wyoming in 2010 with a Bachelor of Science in nursing. She is currently employed as a registered nurse at Torrington Community Hospital. The future groom graduated from Chadron State College in 2010 with a Bachelor of...
Ms. Mari Marquart of Thermopolis is pleased to announce the engagement of her daughter, Kassidi, to Bryant Durßfee, son of Chuck and Loretta Durfee of Sundance, Wyo. Kassidi, a graduate of the University of Wyoming, will be teaching in Cheyenne and Bryant is an accountant in Cheyenne. A July 18 wedding is planned in Thermopolis....
CodeRED is a high speed emergency and community notification system that has been in use in Hot Springs County since 2008. The system has been used frequently in the past month or so because of the variety of weather, flood and drinking water alerts and warnings sent out via phones. These warnings are not sent out frivolously. This alert system can be used for more than natural disasters. In the case of a hostage situation or other dangerous event, residents of area houses can be singled out to...
The Washakie-Hot Springs County Farm Service Agency (FSA) has programs available to help in disaster situations. Any disaster event relating to agricultural land should be reported to the FSA office so proper notifications can be made to assist in these events. The FSA County Committee (COC) is aware that flash flooding has occurred in the county and varying degrees of damage has resulted. The COC is considering making a request for Emergency Conservation Program (ECP) funds if the damages are significant enough to warrant federal aid. The COC...
