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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...
Do you have expired or unused medications to dispose of safely? Turn in your unwanted medication for safe disposal Saturday, Sept. 26 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Joint Law Enforcement Center lobby at 415 Arapahoe St. No sharps will be accepted....
The Hot Springs County Board of Commissioners meeting Tuesday began laying the final groundwork for the new Hot Springs County Airport opening, planned for November 7. The three-hour meeting was dedicated to reviewing final steps for the completion of the airport, and featured discussions about the third and final coat of seal and paint on the runway, which will occur on September 21-22, fuel tank procurement, updates on the SRE building, and the possibility of renting a fuel truck from a nearby...
With skillful execution of parliamentary procedure, the Thermopolis Town Council meeting was started. The agenda was approved with one change. A catering permit for Shorty’s Saloon for Octobrewfest to serve alcohol on the main street was granted. Alex McLean requested an application to close the street at the stoplight for the Homecoming Parade. The town needed to sign off on the parade to be able to turn around at the stoplight. Mayor Mike Mortimore signed the application so it can be passed o... Full story
The third and final public meeting regarding the upcoming Hot Springs State Park Master Plan Draft sparked passionate debate between Thermopolis residents on Monday night. The meeting, held at the Thermopolis Fire Hall, was attended by tens of Hot Springs County residents and was the last public forum in which invested members of the community could gather to voice their opinion regarding the formation of the first Hot Springs Master Plan in nearly three decades. This Master Plan, when eventuall...
The wild fires are getting closer to home. On Wednesday, Sept. 9, 70 acres of grass and sagebrush burned at the Jones Creek Basin on Copper Mountain. The fire was quickly under control as several special equipped aircraft left from Casper to fight the fire. These S.E.A.T (single engine air tanker) dumped an estimated 10,000 gallons of slurry onto the fire. Thermopolis's own volunteer fire fighters contributed five engines and the BLM added two more to the fight one from Worland the other from...
Thermopolis Volunteer Fireman Brandon Blakesley sprays water on a smoldering tree stump during a grass fire on South 5th Street. The fire department responded in full force to quickly contain the fire as the wind fueled the fire....
A new counseling and consultation office, run by a longtime Hot Springs County resident, has opened in Thermopolis. Catherine Crumpler, who has worked in the mental health field for almost 30 years, has recently begun taking consultations at her 6th Street office. Crumpler, who has worked in Thermopolis as a mental health professional for over 17 years, says she has so far experienced "nothing but positive support" during the process of opening her own office. Crumpler says she has loved her...
A Wyoming veterans service officer from the Wyoming Veterans Commission will conduct community outreach services in Thermopolis Thursday, Sept. 24 at the Hot Springs County Museum from noon-2 p.m. Brad Cline is available to meet with veterans and their families to discuss state and federal veterans’ benefits, Department of Veterans Affairs claims, or VA healthcare. Cline can also help veterans and their families apply for benefits, file claims or request healthcare. His office is staffed in Cody, at 1026 Blackburn Ave., Suite 1. Cline can be r...
A representative from the Riverton Workforce Center, a local office of the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services, will be available Tuesday, Sept. 22 at Hot Springs County Library from 10-noon and from 1:30-3:30 p.m. The Riverton office of the Department of Workforce Services is also available by phone at 307-856-9231 or on their website at http://wyomingworkforce.org....
New Orleans singer songwriter Kerry Grombacher explains to the English III class about inspiration and structure to create a good song....
Several new teachers joined the Hot Springs County School District for the 2015-16 school year. Thomas Koehler Thomas Koehler, who is starting his first year as an Industrial Arts teacher at Hot Springs County High School, has nine years' teaching experience and a strong background in construction, welding, drafting, and machining. He moved to Thermopolis with his wife, who teaches third grade at RWE. His favorite aspect of teaching is being able to expose students to every opportunity they...
What if your family was living a busy and involved life, as respected members of the community, businessmen, civic leaders, homeowners, children active in schools. Then suddenly, overnight, everything is turned upside down. You are given a few days to pack what can be carried in a suitcase, rounded up by military guards, and removed from your home to a remote area where you must make a new life surrounded by barbed wire fences, guards in towers watching 24 hours a day. It happened to nine-year-old Sam Mihara in 1942, then living in San...
