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There’s no short supply of new business in town, and one of those planning to stick around after all the hail damage is repaired is Bazooka Lumber & Livestock, LLC. Managing Member Brad Hutzenbiler said he’s been working with a lease agreement through John Dorman, Sr. for space, and is seeking something long-term at the former home of Owl Lumber. As the two front buildings at Owl Lumber are being used by a dent repair company, Hutzenbiler said he is using the back side. Additionally, he not...
If you need some repair work done on your vehicle, there’s a new shop in town, CMB Auto, owned and operated by Cory Bowman. Bowman’s shop was finally finished in June at 296 Georgia St. in the Sage Valley subdivision and is open daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on the weekends with just a call. “This shop has been a dream for a lot of years,” Bowman said. “I’ve been working on cars my whole life.” He can handle alignments, tires, oil changes and brakes and he also works on diesel pickups and even four-wheelers. Folks can drop in anytime to ha...
Tony Deromedi welcomes customers to his new business, the Healing Waters Tavern, at their opening last week....
This month, Broadway will have a new look as the Thermopolis Print Zone moves from its current location at 521 Broadway, going a few doors west to the WOW Store. Print Zone owner Howie Samelson said he purchased the building and the business, with the sale finalized on July 1. He did it for two reasons, he said. One was because his business is growing and he needed more space. The second is that there is a need for a business in town to “pick up some of the slack with Shopko closing.” As par...
Washakie Medical Center (WMC) in Worland was awarded a 2019 Hospital Quality Excellence Award by Mountain-Pacific Quality Health during this years’ Wyoming Hospital Association Annual Meeting and Convention in Casper. Quality awards are presented annually to Wyoming hospitals for their hard work and commitment to improving patient care. To earn the award, hospitals had to meet six categories of criteria including patient and family engagement activities, patient satisfaction and clinical care. WMC is one of eight hospitals honored during t...
Guys and gals have a new place to get a trim, style or even a hot shave, as Kristen Monasmith opened the doors of Smoking Waters Barber Shop. She officially opened her current spot at 316 Broadway, No. 3 on June 18, though she had previously rented some space from Twisted Mane Salon and Spa starting on May 2. She decided to open a barber shop because she had been doing hair for a while and kept hearing people wanted a barber shop. Her husband, Raymond, is the junior vice commander for VFW Post...
The franchise is reaching a milestone this year, and the Thermopolis location is celebrating with a trivia week July 1-7, during which people can come in and answer questions for a free koozie. Following the trivia week, the restaurant will have weekly deals through Aug. 18. Taco John’s history dates back to 1968 when a small taco stand opened in Cheyenne. It was a hit, and two local businessmen — Harold Holmes and James Woodson — purchased the franchise rights in 1969 and named the restaurant Taco John’s, after the man who opened that first t...
Everything is right on track with the completion of the construction at Gottsche Rehabilitation and Wellness Center for March 1, 2020. According to Gottsche director Cheryl Shero, things are going very well and the "new side" of the facility will be amazing. The addition will include new bathrooms and reception area as well as new space for patients. Phase I, which was the outside of the building, is completed, and the addition is known as Phase II. Last week, Gottsche had a community BBQ to...
Tony Deromedi recently attended the Thermopolis Town Council’s April 16 meeting, during which council approved a liquor license transfer to him. The following day, the property known most recently as Loonie’s Bin, but which was once known as The Buckboard and as a gas station in its years, closed. In just over a month, Deromedi expects to open the door on the new Healing Waters Tavern. He looks forward to offering a new place for people — residents and tourists alike — to have fun, day or nigh...
The mercury’s back on the rise again, hopefully this time for good, and it won’t be long before people will be going after cold treats at Dairyland. Though it may not be visible, the business recently underwent a change as Kevin and Jordan Gerber became the official owners of the property. Kevin said he and Jordan are getting ready to enter their seventh year with the business, and in their first year they managed the business for former owners Brad and Shannon Shaffer. From there, they ent...
Those who need some assistance in figuring out their finances can visit with Edward Jones Financial Advisor Travis Winger, who joined the office in November. Winger said provides a wide variety of services including financial assessments and solutions, annuities, bonds, life insurance, mutual funds, business retirements and several more. Raised in Lander, Winger moved to Thermopolis in 2011. Though the Edward Jones physical office is located in Worland, Winger spends 95 percent of his time in...
On March 1, Dr. Kevin Dickey, DVM, closed on a new building in Meeteetse. The former Gould Veterinary Clinic was operated by Bill Gould, who was ready to retire, and Dickey saw it as a good opportunity to expand his veterinary medicine practice in the Big Horn Basin. The new clinic will be Greybull River Veterinary Service, and Dickey stressed the acquisition doesn’t mean he is picking up and leaving his current office at Owl Creek Veterinary Service, only expanding. Regarding added workload, the doctor said he will go back and forth between t...
Around the home of Melba Lee you'll find custom curtains, sheets, chair covers and mink throw pillows – pockets included – all handmade by her. Lee opened her sewing and mending business, Melba Lee Designs, last week and has already been busy with customers. She noted Doris Hurlburt called her last week and chose to refer any calls she gets these days on to Lee. Hurlburt said she officially closed up her shop on Jan. 31, but was waiting for someone to pick it up because she knew there are a lot...
Worland’s Shopko is the latest victim of the corporation’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will be closing its doors on May 12. The store received word they would be shutting down last week amid the company’s Chapter 11 restructuring that was filed in December. Worland joins the Thermopolis store, which has a closing date of April 7, along with Greybull (March 2), Lander (May 5), Green River and Mountain View (May 12) as well as the pharmacy portion of the Powell store. This recent round of closures added another 139 stores to the corpo...
LK Essentials and AromaTouch officially opened in January, with Lindsey Bowman providing massages that utilize essential oils. Bowman said she did her first massage here on Jan. 15, though she previously had an office in Casper for a little over a year, doing the same thing, but she moved to Thermopolis more than a year ago. Bowman graduated from the Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant (COTA) program at Casper College in 2005. She further attained certification in the AromaTouch technique,...
The Twisted Mane Salon and Spa is officially open for business on Broadway. Owner Alicia Werner said this is a full service spa for hair, skin and nails. She is styling hair and doing facials and manicures, and plans to add pedicures to the services. Werner attended Rocky Mountain Academy of Hair, Skin and Nails in Casper and while there she knew she wanted to open her own salon, so when a space and opportunity presented itself she jumped in with both feet. The Twisted Mane is open regularly at...
Employees of our local Shopko found out last Tuesday that the doors will soon be closing on our local store due the company filing voluntary petitions for a court-supervised financial restructuring under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. For a few months, Shopko had been releasing the locations of stores that were closing, but Thermopolis had not shown up on any of the lists until last week. The Worland Shopko will also be closing. Since December, the company has been selling off...
From the sounds of things, the Christmas shopping season and the year, overall, has been pretty good for Thermopolis businesses. Owl Creek Graphics said they are definitely up for the year when it comes to sales. Foot traffic during the week has been about average for them, but they said the weekends have been very busy. The items that seem to be selling best this Christmas are women’s hats, gloves and scarves. Owl Creek Graphics has been constantly adding new University of Wyoming and Bobcat me...
Recently, WellSpring Counseling welcomed two new staff members to its family of clinicians. Joseph Stringer was hired in June as a staff therapist and is licensed as a professional counselor. He has experience in both mental health therapy and substance use disorder treatment. Stringer graduated from Colorado Christian University with his Master's in 2009 and had worked prior to that as a caseworker for the Arapahoe County Department of Human Services. He is also a certified addictions...
Thermopolis’ own Jackrabbit Java is starting to receive the recognition it deserves with a recent write-up in Coffee Review magazine. The article on Mountain States Coffee Roasters took a look at roasters at high elevations such as Colorado, Montana, Utah and Wyoming. Jackrabbit Java was listed in the top 11 of the high elevation roasters with a 92-rated Columbia, “a quintessentially classic type, a fine we-processed Columbia from the Narino growing region.” Coffee beans respond diffe...
Wyoming Whiskey recently announced the addition of a new member. As of Sept. 6, Edrington and Wyoming Whiskey have formed a strategic partnership. Edrington, the international premium spirits company, has a portfolio of products which includes The Macallan, Highland Park, The Glenrothes, The Famous Grouse, and Cutty Sark Scotch whiskies, Brugal rum, and Partida tequila. As a result of this partnership, Wyoming Whiskey will immediately join Edrington Americas’ nationwide distribution network w...
The first annual Roasters Rendezvous, featuring small coffee roasters across Wyoming was held in Riverton last weekend. Thermopolis’ own Jackrabbit Java from Storyteller took “People’s Choice” honors during the event. They took eight of their roasts with them, including two that scored over 92 points and Coffee Review’s #3 value coffee of 2018. The festival included unlimited sampling of the region’s best coffees as well as local vendors, music, workshops and even coffee cocktails in the Intertribal Center at Central Wyoming College. Co...
If you happen to stop in at Farmer's Insurance, you're going to see a new face as they have a new owner agent, Robb Williamson. Williamson comes to Thermopolis from Lander where he has been with the company for three years. Although his wife and high school aged children are still in Lander, Williamson said he is not commuting, he is here full time. Both he and his wife are Wyoming natives, she, coming from Worland and he, originally from Casper. "This is a totally new Farmer's," Williamson...
It started simply. Two brothers, Tom and Jim, and six or seven trucks. Sixty years later its a family affair with 30 sets of asphalt haulers, 30 tractors and 90 trailers that travel 47 states. Ryan Brother's Trucking is celebrating 60 years as a business staple in Hot Springs County, having started in September, 1958, with the buy-out of Herman Trucking and Halstead Trucking. Jim was in charge of taking care of the shop and all the mechanic work while Tom handled the business side of things,...
As one opens the front door to Happy Tails Pet Grooming, he or she might get quite the welcome as a small welcoming crew - two- and four-legged - comes to investigate. Lynda Kurkowski officially opened in May, and wanted to do something with her girls, four-year-old Nova, two-year-old (three next month) Ruby and 16-month old Jade. She felt like the people of the town needed a quality dog groomer, and she will have been grooming for 10 years next month. In addition to her girls, Kurkowski also...
