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Having toured much of the state recently, one can readily observe the pall of smoke blanketing our state from the (mostly) California wildfires. The...

I live in Evanston, Wyoming, but my husband and I spend a lot of time in your town due to the low population, the good elevation and the hospitality...

Wondering who to vote for? Here’s what I’ve always told candidates. If you run, don’t do negative advertising, mailers or letters. They will...

Vandalism is not protected by the government. Free speech, freedom of the press and the right to protest is. To the woman who vandalized my place,...

Please think again before taking the asphalt off Missouri Flat Road. I have lived here most of my life and we were glad when an asphalt road was...

I thank my mother and father that I am not a white supremacist racist. Thanks Mom and Dad....

We have only lived in Thermopolis a few years but love it here and deeply care about the community. We certainly don’t want Thermopolis to change...

To whom it may impact (directly) In March, I presented a plan and a path to provisionally allow chickens within a restricted area of Thermopolis to...

The IR printed an ad(?) in a box with Abraham Lincoln’s picture listing “The 10 cannots…”.  This is false.  Abraham Lincoln never said...

National Stuttering Awareness Week begins May 7. Did you know more than three million Americans stutter? That’s more than the populations of...

I would like to send a big thank you to members of the Thermopolis Police Department and the Hot Springs County Sheriff’s Office for their help and...

I have been going to write this for some time now. Today is the day. On Monday evening of the 30th it was raining pretty hard, that is for Wyoming. I...

My husband and I attended the Zaniac comedy show at the HSC high school auditorium and we were delighted to see so much audience participation....

We want our county to know our county treasurer was very helpful in helping the Webelos in our Cub Scout troop learn about our government office. It...

Funny story. Last week I took my car to the shop, and walked home. When I got to my front door I realized my house key was with my car keys, at the...

Each year, Medicare loses billions of taxpayer dollars to improper claims. This puts the Medicare trust fund at risk for everyone and affects the...

The big Feb. 14 Florida mass school shooting (and the previous several) show that too many good people are helpless against determined deviants and...

One night this week we were out having dinner and when our evening was over we did not receive a bill. Our dinners had been paid for by some...

I’m getting off the train! I have to admit I was real excited about our new President. Seemed he was doing everything right, or at least as much as...

I’m humbled by the fine coverage of my selection to the Wyoming Press Association Foundation Hall of Fame given recently in the Independent Record...

Our Democratic Republic is being attacked by a political cancer. Almost every person in the Federal Government swore to uphold the United States...

Old, old laws Thermopolis Planning Board keeps on the books need to change. One law is — the city claims one hundred feet of “right of way...

I would like to say, in defense of the U.S. Constitution, the Good Book says the lion will eat grass like the lamb, but it will not happen in this...

This Christmas gift-giving season is winding down (less than two weeks before Christmas). The economy is finally improving, and the spirit of the...

What an honor and privilege to see the display of Nativity scenes as the Community Church welcomed the viewing public to this marvelous collections....