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The classified ads have ran on the inside back page of the Thermopolis Independent Record for several decades. In a world where it seems like everything changes, this, too, has changed. The classifieds and the business directory will now be bumped up two pages into the body of the IR. This week they appear on pages 10 and 11. This change is due in part to our loyal advertisers. Thank you! This week, we are thrilled to have several color ads. The press we print on has limited color pages available. We decided to utilize the inside back page for...
The first day of school for students enrolled in Hot Springs County School District No. 1 was Wednesday, August 21. Other area schools may have different start dates but will also be beginning soon. Although the first day of fall is not until September 22, once school starts many feel summer is over. Well, summer break is over. Time for students, teachers and other staff to fill the schools again. It is also time for the rest of us to be aware of children traveling too and from schools. Although they may be reminded to always look both ways...
by Megan Barton, publisher, Cody Enterprise Everywhere we look it seems we’re at the mercy of AI. It is present in everyday life, and some might argue that it’s changed our daily routines for the better. Sure, there are certain circumstances in which AI can benefit you. It can create a new company logo or advertisements, we could dive into the robotics that help individuals regain mobility and gain newfound independence (we won’t), but there seems to be this ever hovering “cloud of doom” when discussing AI. Recently, the Cody Enterpris...
by Lara Love I believe the column to the right about mistakes is worthy reading. Mistakes come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Some are simple oopsy doopsy moments, while others have tragic results, and there are hundreds of varying levels in between. Some mistakes are made in private, some are public and others are made public because of the circumstances. Many times there are consequences for our mistakes, as there should be. I was coming into town the other morning, distracted, looked down and realized I was going 42 in a 30. Could I have...
Hot Springs County Fair wraps up Friday evening with the Junior Livestock Auction and Judges’ Choice Bake Sale in the multi-purpose building at the fairgrounds. The bake sale will be a silent auction starting at 5 p.m. A pre-sale buyers dinner will be served at 6 p.m. followed by the auction beginning at 7 p.m. Market beef, swine, sheep and goats will be available to help you fill your freezer. In return, you will be supporting a 4-H or FFA member who has worked hard to raise and show their animal. Last year was a record breaking year for t...
Hot Springs County Fair begins this week and is packed full of a variety of events. Youths and adults will be kept busy competing, hosting events, judging and more during the fair, which kicks off on Thursday, July 25 and ends on Friday, August 2. We have several ads and a story in this edition informing you about all the events taking place. There are a few new events this year and some long time favorites, including the Ranch Rodeo and Family Fun Nite. Lets fill the bleachers and pack the fairgrounds to show our support of the competitors,...
The Thermopolis/Hot Springs County High School Reunion will be held this weekend. The reunion committee was restructured a few years ago and new members stepped in to try to keep the reunion going. Information we received from a committee member indicates four classes have signed up through the committee. Other classes may still be meeting and holding events on their own. The committee is hosting a dance at the VFW Saturday night and a lunch picnic on Sunday in Hot Springs State Park. We do not know the plan regarding the taking of class...
Sometimes in life, unforeseen circumstances arise. Although these circumstances may be inconvenient, the true test of character is how we deal with them. This week’s Thermopolis Independent Record is two sections. We typically do not divide our paper into two sections unless there is a true need. The choice to do so this week was beyond our control. We don’t feel the need to go into all details, but we had to use a fill in printer this week and the limitations on their press are different than our regular printer. So if you are looking for the...
Independence Day is the true fundamental American holiday. On the Fourth of July, lets celebrate our extraordinary country and the freedoms we have as Americans. Many people around the world wish they had the freedoms we have. Our country’s founders recognized the importance of these freedoms in the formation of our country. American service men and women have fought, and died, to preserved that right for you and I. Our country is not without its issues. Americans are free to disagree, p...
by Chris Bacon, Editor, Cody Enterprise It’s gonna be a big show. Thursday night’s presidential debate will likely be a pivotal moment for our nation. CNN will host the event between two men who have both been president. To understand how unusual this is in U.S. history, remember that only one president, Grover Cleveland, ever served non-consecutive terms. He was first elected 10 years before the famous flight of the Wright brothers. The last president to even try to be reelected after losing an election was Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. Rec...
Some of us in the community as children growing up in Thermopolis dreamed of having a McDonald’s restaurant in town. Years later, we got one – and a Pizza Hut restaurant as well. Some grew up hoping for even more, a shopping mall, a cold water swimming pool, a stoplight at Amoretti and Sixth Streets. We never got those. According to the US Census, In 1983, Thermopolis and East Thermopolis’ population was about 4,410 people and we had the infrastructure to handle that amount at the time. Today Thermopolis population is 2,702. Hard numbers to sw...
This Thermopolis Independent Record contains two and a half pages of public notices. We suggest you read them. Included on those pages are notices about another request from Rocky Mountain Power for a rate increase, an invitation to bid, board vacancies, notices of Sheriff sales, commissioner and council minutes and more. These are required to run by state statute and there is a good reason for that. The information included in these notices must be accessible to the public for a variety of reasons. One of the most important is that our city...
by Rhett Breedlove, Torrington Telegram This perhaps is something everyone can relate to, and it falls under all sorts of categories. It’s in our nature to continue to try over, and over again until we finally succeed. Or at least until we get something right. This is the absolute truth if we ever plan to get anywhere in life, and as we all know very well by now nothing worth having is going to come easy. When we were young we were rightfully taught if at first you don’t succeed, you must try, try again. Absolutely. None of us ever became good...
by Lara Love A photo being circulated of a wolf with red tape wrapped around its muzzle posed next to Daniel, Wyo. resident Cody Roberts, has people across Wyoming and the nation sickened by the man’s actions, myself included. The man reportedly ran the wolf down with a snowmobile on the last day of February. He did not kill the wolf. Instead he kept the wolf, bringing it into the Green River Bar in Daniel on March 1, before later killing the wolf behind the building. The Wyoming Game and Fish fined Roberts $250 for possessing a live wolf. T...
The annual Lion’s Club Easter Egg Hunt has been rescheduled for this Sunday, April 7 at 2 p.m. in Hot Springs State Park. Last Sunday’s weather was not favorable for the event. At press time, the forecast for the weekend is for moisture both days. We are hopeful that for a few hours on Sunday we will get a window of relief from the rain so the annual event can be held. A local Lion’s Club representative said that they believe it has only be three times that the event had to be canceled or rescheduled due to weather. They also said if there is i...
by David Peck, Lovell Chronicle, via WNE Newspapers from coast to coast a few weeks ago celebrated Sunshine Week, a time to champion openness and transparency in government in issues from access to public records to open meetings. Ironically, Sunshine Week 2024 happened to coincide with an example of transparency worth celebrating in Lovell. Thursday night, Big Horn County School District No. 2 held a public forum during which citizens were able to question three finalists to be the next principal of Lovell Elementary School. We’re not sure m...
In cooperation with Hot City Outdoor Alliance and the Thermopolis Fire Department, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department is planning a prescribed burn at the Wedding of the Waters Public Access Area near Thermopolis later this week. On the morning of March 21, crews plan to burn one half acre of phragmites, an invasive perennial reed grass, along the shoreline of the Bighorn River, upstream and downstream of the boat ramp. Ignition is tentatively planned for 10 a.m. The prescribed burn is weather dependent. Sportspersons should be aware that acc...
During National Sunshine Week, we celebrate freedom of information (FOI) laws and efforts to use and ensure the effectiveness of those laws to get the information we need as self-governing citizens. Over a century ago, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, stated that “Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.” The Florida Society of Newspaper Editors launched Sunshine Sunday in 2002 in response to efforts by some Florida legislators to create scores of new exemptions to the state’s public records law. It was decided that the i...
by Zac Taylor, Powell Tribune A $100 bill remains an extraordinary piece of currency to hold. Even in an age of inflation, a Benjamin still represents some serious dough. These days, the bill is also a veritable work of art, with various designs, a hologram and textures. Those are there, of course, to make it hard for counterfeiters to work, but it seems locally a few have gotten through to local businesses. The Powell Police Department has reported three instances of counterfeit $100 bills ending up in the hands of tellers who spotted the...
The Independent Record staff is providing you with five papers in February this year. Leap year occurs every four years with Feb. 29 being designated as Leap Day. For us to print five papers in February, the 1st and the 29th had to fall on a Thursday, which is very rare. But what is a leap year? According to NASA, although our calendars usually consist of 365 days, it actually takes approximately 365.2422 days for Earth to orbit the sun. Research indicates that in 45 B.C., Roman emperor Julius Caesar, with the help of astronomer Sosigenes,...
Cheyenne is around a five hour drive from Thermopolis, but the work of our state’s legislature will affect us in Hot Springs County as well as every county around the state. There are a number of important issues facing Wyoming and our Legislatures. Property taxes, voting regulations and foreign ownership of Wyoming land are just a few of the topics that are keeping us all interested as they move through the process. As a reminder, the Wyoming Legislature’s website can be used to track legislation and participate in policymaking during the 202...
The 67th Wyoming Legislature convened in a joint session of the Wyoming Senate and House of Representatives on Monday, Feb. 12, during the first day of legislative proceedings of the 2024 Budget Session. Gov. Mark Gordon delivered his State of the State address, followed by the State of the Judiciary address, delivered by Wyoming Supreme Court Chief Justice Kate M. Fox. We encourage you to use the Wyoming Legislature’s website to track legislation and participate in policymaking during the 2024 Budget Session. The web address is www.wyoleg.gov...
by Kimball Shinkoskey, Cody Enterprise I think most people would agree that democracy is under threat by forces on the left or on the right, or in the middle, or in a neighboring state or in our own state, or in the schools, or under the bed maybe or in the sky. Somewhere, somehow, forces either organized or just naturally occurring are stealing away what our ancestors had that made this country great. So, what would a pro-democracy movement look like in the United States, or in your state or town? I think it would be something very humble and...
Everyday, as I walk from the editorial department in the back of the office to the breakroom to get coffee or tea, I pass by wall shelving holding bound copies of every edition of the paper down to the early days, more than 100 years ago. It’s a repository of information on the community, from notes on high school grads now serving in one of the century’s big wars, how the local high school teams performed, what new policies the city council or school board were enacting. It’s also a repository of information from local governments, from count...
In psychologist Angela Duckworth’s New York Times bestseller “Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance”, she shares her insight on the ability to achieve. Duckworth shows us that it is not talent or gifting that gets us to the places we want to be, but our own willpower and desire to succeed. In fact, those who have “natural” skills end up giving up or quitting far faster than someone who has a deep passion for what they are doing. In other words, someone who has grit. Yet, one of the key dynamics for an individual or an organizat...