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Thermopolis Liquors will be holding a parking lot dance Saturday, June 20 beginning at 4:30 p.m. with music, food and games. All proceeds from food and pop sales will go to the Hot Springs County Senior Center. Must be 21 or older to attend....
Twenty-three percent of the residents of Hot Springs County are aged 65 or older. Nearly 12-percent of the county’s population lives below poverty level. If you were to become ill, or your spouse or parent were to find themselves in need of assistance, would you know where to go? Several community health-based organizations gathered together last Thursday afternoon for a training session with Project Out, a program under the banner of the Wyoming Department of Health through Wyoming Services for...
Bodie Ward directs traffic to slow down going through the cleanup area in Wind River Canyon....
Black bear hunters are alerted that Wyoming’s spring black bear hunting seasons closed one half hour after sunset on Monday, June 15, in all remaining hunt areas. Registered baits need to be removed by June 22, as per regulation. Wyoming black bear hunting regulations state: “Registered bait sites placed in the spring and fall hunting season, including all containers and bait materials, shall be removed within seven days after the close of the spring and fall season. Burial of the bait shall be specifically prohibited and shall not con...
Cody Hoffman graduated from the University of Wyoming with a degree in Energy Management Masters of Business Administration. Vinchinzo Hinojos-Castle was named to Central Wyoming College President’s list for the spring semester. Dana Bjorhus (honors student, Phi Theta Kappa), Kaylee Groh and Shailee Harvey graduated from Northwest College in Powell....
Set aside this weekend to attend the Annual Hot Spot Car Rally in Hot Springs State Park. For more than 20 years the rally has brought in classic and antique cars as well as trucks and other vehicles sure to take you back in time and make your heart race a little faster. On Saturday, June 20, early registration will be held for the poker run at 8 a.m. at the Kiwanis shelter in the park. The poker run will run from 10 a.m. til 4 p.m. After the run, the cars will all parade from the park, drive... Full story
Hot Springs County 4-H and FFA support groups are hosting the 2nd Annual Smokin’ Waters Golf Tournament Saturday, June 20, at the Thermopolis Golf Course with a shotgun start. There are two tee times for golfers with the morning tee time at 8 a.m. and the afternoon tee time is 1 p.m. There are several hole-in-one prizes in this tournament. Fremont Motors of Riverton is sponsoring a 2015 Ford F150 if someone gets a hole-in-one on hole two and the Wyoming 4-H Foundation is sponsoring a $25,000 cash prize for a hole-in-one on hole eight. Bank o... Full story
Pack up the family and head on down to the Hot Springs County Fairgrounds for the 2015 Thermopolis Cowboy Rendezvous PRCA Rodeo June 25-27. The action starts on Thursday, June 25 with the Chuck Mead Memorial Packhorse Race starting at 7 p.m. Get in on the Calcutta action starting at 6 p.m. See the two-man teams race through the obstacles encountered in traditional horse or mule packing in this timed event. They have to pack a bedroll, pots and pans, a dutch oven, fresh eggs and a coffee pot,...
The Thermopolis-Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce is hosting the second annual People of the Earth Days, June 25-28. Join internationally bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O’Neal Gear for a taste of the real west, including tours of ancient American Indian archaeological sites, a trip to the Dinosaur Center and a drive through Wind River Canyon. The Gears will also be doing personal readings of their literary works. The weekend begins with a reception at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 2...
Water levels in the Big Horn River south of Boysen Dam were increased again Tuesday, going up to 7,500 cubic feet per second. Emergency Management Coordinator Bill Gordon said the river should start reducing in speed after this increase. “The plan is 7,500 is as high as it goes,” Gordon said. This all comes from the Bureau of Reclamation who oversees water resource management throughout the country. Marshy and boggy stretches along the river will likely begin to be flooded, and residents are being asked to continue to stay away from the riv...
Hollywood hit home for Barb and Merlin Heinze when a costume designer working on Quentin Tarantino's newest movie "The Hateful Eight" reached out. The two proprietors of Merlin's Hide Out were asked to make buffalo coats for Kurt Russell to use in the movie. With the movie set to premiere this winter, Barb said it was stressful at times getting the work done correctly and quickly. It all amounted to eight coats for Hateful Eight, Tarantino's eighth movie. After getting the measurements for Kurt...
An emergency contract totaling nearly $200,000 has been approved for cleanup of mud slides and big rocks near U.S. 20/Wyoming 789 inside Wind River Canyon, according to Wyoming Department of Transportation District 5 maintenance engineer Pete Hallsten of Basin. The $199,200 contract has been awarded to Pab Good Trucking LLC, of Greybull. The project began June 4 and will clear the ditches of slide debris and rocks from the highway’s clear zone. “Traffic will be controlled with flaggers, and travelers should expect delays of up to 15 min...
The Retail Committee discussed their 12 Days of Christmas promotion during their meeting Friday. On December 19, there will be three cash drawings for $200, $300 and $500 Chamber Buck award amounts. The goal of the giveaway is to bring more people into town to shop. Retailers are still working on how people will enter, but the foremost plan is to require entrants to have a receipt from a local business in order to participate. A $500 budget has already been supplied to fund the activity, from the Travel and Tourism Board, and the retailers...
A mystery was solved Tuesday morning after possible graffiti was reported on some rocks in Hot Springs State Park. What looked like blue paint was found in several areas of rock near the entrance to the buffalo pasture from Warm Springs Road. After some investigation, park personnel determined it was nothing more than a dye used in pesticide as some spraying for Dalmation toadflax had been going on in the park Monday afternoon....
After weeks of fundraising, the "Pretty Little DI'ers" made their way to Knoxville, Tenn. to participate in the Destination Imagination Global Finals on May 19. More than 15,000 people attended the event including more than 1,100 teams from 45 states, seven Canadian provinces and 13 countries. The girls did their performance just after lunch the following day in the Clarence Brown Theatre on the University of Tennessee campus. According to their director, Wes Meier, there was a bit of a glitch...
Hot Springs is one of seven Wyoming State Parks, Historic Sites and Trails venues that have been awarded the TripAdvisor 2015 Certificate of Excellence Award. “We greatly appreciate that the public has shared the great experiences they have had in our unique and spectacular parks and sites,” State Parks, Historic Sites and Trails Administrator Domenic Bravo said. The other parks recognized are Bear River, Curt Gowdy, Fort Phil Kearny, Historic Governors’ Mansion, Sinks Canyon and the Wyoming Territorial Prison. Award winners must maint...
The outdoor pool at the Wyoming State Bath House will be closed at the end of June for approximately 10 days. According to State Park Superintendent Kevin Skates, the pool needs to be drained and repaved now as the material they’re using needs to cure. “It has to be done during the Summer,” Skates said. Because the resurfacing needs consistent temperatures, the work can’t be done easily at other times during the year. And while the indoor pool will remain open while resurfacing takes place, it’s a modest attraction compared to the draw the...
Last month, Wyoming Game and Fish Department game wardens and fisheries personnel gathered on the Bighorn River near Thermopolis to check fishermen and enforce fishing laws. “With the fish population in the Bighorn at an all-time high and an increase in anglers and boaters on the river, we wanted to see what compliance was like with fishing and boating laws,” said Scott Werbelow, Cody region game warden coordinator. “For the most part, compliance was good and Bighorn River anglers are abiding by the rules.” Werbelow said that wardens and bio...
County Assessor, Shelley Deromedi, has released updated estimates on the values of Hot Springs County. Final figures will not be available until next week after the final hearing of assessment. Deromedi figures the current local assessment at $50,592,682, but the final figure will not be available until June 15. Final assessment on state assessed utilities is $5,783,687. Other final figures include hard minerals in the county at $3,666,132, oil production during 2014 at $167,162,982 and gas...
The first home in the Crimson View subdivision was placed on Monday via a crane from JMS Crane and Rigging out of Billings. The home was brought to Thermopolis in three pieces on semi trucks, then each piece was carefully lifted from the truck and placed on the full-basement foundation and secured in place. The new subdivision, owned by Scott Miller and Rob Schmidt, was approved by the Hot Springs County Commissioners less than a year ago, and can be found behind the Lutheran Church on Highway...
The Thermopolis Town Council approved spending an additional $9,123.50 on an updated WYOLink dispatch console for the Law Enforcement Center. WYOLink is a statewide digital network that connects police, fire, other agencies and emergency agencies. The current system is being replaced because it is out of date compared to most of the rest of the state, but the new system should last the town 15 to 20 years according to information from Motorola, who maintains the equipment. The board also approved the renewal of the IT contract with Mike... Full story
The Hot Springs County Commissioners signed a proclamation on Tuesday afternoon naming the road into the new airport “Manning Road,” after late commissioner Frank Manning. Commission chair Brad Basse said one of the last things Manning did as a commissioner was review the submittals by the various engineering companies interested in constructing the new airport, recommending GDA Engineering as the contractor. The board agreed naming the road after Manning was a good way to honor his work on the...
Howard Samelson and Deb Tudor were named board members to serve on the Main Street Thermopolis board during their meeting May 28. Both were unanimously voted into the positions following recent board resignations. The board also discussed planting flowers in pots downtown. Currently, flowerpots located in the downtown district are almost all empty except for those being filled by local businesses. The Main Street board is trying to coordinate filling those pots. Chamber Director Meri Ann Rush...
David Hicks, 45, was given 21 to 25 years in prison following his guilty plea to felony third-degree sexual assault without inflicting sexual intrusion or bodily injury, and felony abuse of a vulnerable adult. County Attorney Jerry Williams asked the judge for the max sentence for both crimes; thirteen to 15 years for felony third-degree sexual assault and eight to 10 years for felony abuse of a vulnerable adult, to run consecutively. “It’s one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever seen on a tape,” Williams said. The main point of evidenc...
Shayla Hansen is the new Gottsche Wellness Director. She graduated from the University of Wyoming with a Kinesiology degree, is an ACE Personal Trainer, and certified to perform Functional Movement Screens. Hansen grew up in Yoder, Wyo. where she participated in numerous sports. Fitness has been a big part of her life and she enjoys showing others how fun and rewarding it can be. She will be offering free personal training sessions at Gottsche through June for limited slots. Her goal is create...
