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Obstetrics lead registered nurse RoxAnne Arnett presents two new fetal heart monitors during the Chamber Meet and Greet at the Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital. In October 2014, the Hospital Foundation Board challenged the community to raise half of the $30,000 needed to purchase a new fetal heart monitor, and in just over a year residents raised more than $17,000 for the purchase of one of the state-of-the-art machines. Arnett surprised those in attendance when she revealed the hospital...
Saturday will serve as the beginning of the Chamber of Commerce’s Hometown Holiday celebration. Events will be held to encourage holiday shoppers to spend the day in town shopping at their local merchants. Small Business Saturday will have businesses featuring specials all day Saturday. Main Street Thermopolis plans on making this Saturday one to remember, and has organized a special scavenger hunt to encourage participation in the event. In coordination with the Lights On afterschool p...
Hot Springs County Commissioners and GDA engineer Jeremy Gilb declared the Nov. 7 airport grand opening a “huge success” on all fronts during their Thursday afternoon meeting. Over 300 people attended the event, which according to early estimates ran a mere $50 dollars over budget. Incredible Edibles, who catered the event, counted 212 plates served, and Gilb added that he saw around a hundred people that did not eat. Opening day for the airport was a busy day, with 20 different planes lan...
Members of the Hot Springs County community are currently making plans in advance of the 2017 solar eclipse. Tourists from all over are expected to come to Hot Springs County and surrounding communities because Wyoming will be in the eclipse's area of totality, meaning the entire sun will appear as a black dot as it passes behind the moon. Representatives from the area's state parks, Chamber Board, and Shoshoni officials attended a meeting on Wednesday that sought to find the best way to plan...
shed for 1,329 yards this season, was named to the Wyoming Super 25 team, an all-star team compiled of players from every division in Wyoming high school football. Cornwell, who was a staple of the Bobcats run-heavy offense over the last three years, averaged over 1,000 yards a season his sophomore, junior, and senior years. "I've been working for it for a long time," said Cornwell of his honor. "I'm very thankful that I got it." Last year, his junior year at Hot Springs County High School, he...
School football players were named to the 2A All-Conference football team Monday, with three of those players also making it onto the 2A All-State team. Cody Bjorhus, Tyler Cornwell, and Eric Herold were named to both the All-Conference and All-State teams, while teammates Dominic Jensen, Milton Peden, and Noah Schwalbe were named to the All-Conference team. Milton Peden and Noah Schwalbe are both sophomores who have two more years of eligibility to play for the Bobcats. Cornwell, Bjorhus,...
Three Hot Springs County High School students recently took a trip to Washington, D.C., as part of the Close Up program, which believes "a strong democracy requires active and informed participation by all citizens." Eric Herold, Courtney Yarrington, and Liz Rhodes were among the 68 high school students from around the country that descended on the nation's capital last Sunday to take tours, meet state representatives and debate other students on current issues affecting American society. The...
Cruz Mascorro. top, and Scott Coale take shots at the annual Turkey Hoop Shoot, held at the Armory on Tuesday....
Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital hosted two evening discussions featuring representatives from Erdman and interested members of the Hot Springs County community to discuss the ongoing Master Building Plan process. Erdman collaborates with healthcare organizations to improve profitability, patient satisfaction and staff satisfaction by helping them meet their business goals. The discussions, which were attended by over a dozen members of the community, featured an hour-long presentation by...
Participants consider their moves at the beginning of the Hot Springs County Library chess and checkers tournament Friday. Prizes were award to overall winners in each game....
In coordination with communities across the country, Small Business Saturday will be held Nov. 28 in Thermopolis. Main Street Thermopolis plans on making this Saturday one to remember, and has organized a special scavenger hunt to encourage participation in the event. In coordination with the Lights On after school program, Main Street Thermopolis has designed and purchased a 1,000-piece puzzle. Puzzle pieces with their business name written on the back of the puzzle pieces will be distributed...
The Walter Manly Haynes Memorial, dedicated to the first Hot Springs County resident to die as a serviceman on foreign soil, was rededicated Nov. 11 in honor of Veterans Day. The memorial was originally dedicated in 1927, but in the years since it has gone unnoticed and most Thermopolis residents do not even know it is a monument to Haynes. Just like the rededication of the monument, Haynes' story is quite incredible. Born on July 31, 1893, Haynes was the second of eight children born to Benjami...
Gayla Mead-Ellis, a member of the Chamber Board, was appointed to the Chamber Board of Directors during the group’s Thursday meeting. Mead-Ellis, who is involved in a number of community organizations, was confirmed unanimously by the group, and will fill a recently vacated Board of Directors position expiring October of 2017 The Chamber Board, who is sponsoring the decorating of light poles throughout town, also decided that the board itself should find and decorate a light pole to encourage o... Full story
The Hot Springs People for People Backpack Program, which aims to stop hunger in the county’s public schools, will be selling donated Christmas trees and wreaths on Nov. 21 for a higher purpose. The trees and wreaths were decorated by volunteers and will hopefully raise a quarter of the total funds that allow the program to send food home to 150 local Hot Springs County public school students who otherwise cannot afford to eat during the weekend. Operating on about $15,000 of donations a year a...
GDA Engineers Director of Operations Dustin Spomer revealed four proposals for renovating and repairing Black Mountain Road to over a dozen concerned community members at Hot Springs County Annex on Nov. 5. Spomer, who has worked closely with the county during the recently completed Hot Springs County Airport project, said of the Black Mountain Road in question, “This is a roadway corridor in failure. There is not a lot of debate when it comes to that question.” The road, which connects with Cou...
The new Hot Springs County Airport grand opening is slated to take place Saturday, Nov 7. The grand opening celebration will start at 9:30 a.m. when the first plane will land at the airport, signaling the lifting of the NOTAM (notice to airmen) and the opening of the airport to the public. At 11 a.m. Governor Matt Mead will fly into the airport, and shortly after at 11:15 a.m. the master of ceremonies will give a welcome speech and introduce the guest speakers to the podium. At 11:45 a.m. the...
Thermopolis local and hometown hero Jayci Mead returned in October from the Million Dollar Bucking Bulls Games with not one, but two bulls in the top 25. Her two bulls, Call Me Trigger and Wyoming Dominator, finished tied for 10th and 18th respectively out of 200 bulls. The 21 year-old Thermopolis native's fate was seemingly sealed when her high school had a career day during which students could explore possible career paths for the future. Mead chose 'bucking bull stock contractor' because of...
Shirley Morgan, president of the Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital auxiliary, describes her service to the auxiliary as a “circle of life”, volunteerism supports the hospital staff, which in turn helps members of this community. However, volunteerism at the hospital auxiliary has been declining so much that Morgan has trouble staffing the hospital gift shop. The auxiliary has about 32 members, but as Morgan says, “Most of us are older,” and participation includes baking sweets for the monthly...
The Hot Springs County High School Lady Bobcats traveled to Lander on Friday for the first round of regional play, facing off against second-ranked Kemmerer. The Lady Cats "came out a little bit flat footed," according to coach Shannon Hill, and lost the first game 9-25. "We picked it up in the second two games and went point for point with them, but unfortunately let them go on runs towards the end of each game which set us back," she said. The Lady Cats lost the second and third sets 16 - 25 a...
Two for foreign exchange students are attending Hot Springs County High School. They are both living with Dale and Ciley Andreen. Ketaelyn Freitas The world is a big place; it has gotten somewhat smaller through things like television, cellular phones, and Internet. Through those methods we can experience different cultures and see new places that we have never seen before. Sometimes people are lucky enough to experience new cultures first hand. Ketaelyn Freitas is one such person. She has...
The Hot Springs County High School Bobcat football team ended their season on Friday with a 14-28 loss to powerhouse Lovell in the first round of the regional playoffs. "The boys played a great game," said coach Rob Anderson. "We started out really strong with the score tied 14-14 at half," but Lovell managed to go into the second half with all the momentum. "Lovell came out in the second half and controlled the ball and the clock," said Anderson. Lovell was able to add two scores in the second...
The Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital has ordered a new fetal heart monitor, a critical piece of equipment to help save the lives of babies in Hot Springs County. The process of acquiring a new fetal heart monitor started about a year ago in Oct. 2014, when the Hospital Foundation Board challenged the Thermopolis community to raise half of the $30,000 price tag. A year later, over $17,000 had been raised, exceeding the $15,000 goal. Over the last year, there have been a number of events...
A number of exciting moves toward the future were made during a busy Main Street Thermopolis meeting on Oct. 22. The meeting opened with discussion about the Main Street Thermopolis ornaments, which depict the Klink Building and are the first of the group’s yearly ornament series, which will feature local historical treasures. A total of 75 ornaments were ordered. About 35 of them have sold so far, and Main Street members will approach local businesses in the hopes that they will purchase and s...
An appreciation dinner for police officers, firemen and first responders will be held Sunday, Nov. 1 at 5 p.m. at the VFW on Broadway Street. Organizers ask that first responders, police, sheriffs deputies, firemen and their spouses arrive for dinner. Community members are invited to join the festivities at 6 p.m. and are encouraged to reach out to Jessica Slagle at 921-9765 with stories of how brave first responders, police officers, or firemen have impacted their lives. “With everything g...
Dusky Getzfreid and her family have been left homeless and without possessions this week after their family home in Greybull went up in flames. Getzfreid said her house and all family’s possessions and vehicles were lost in the fire. The family has been put in an even more difficult position; without insurance, the police will not investigate the fire and none of the family’s possessions will be replaced. “When I woke up, one room was on fire,” said Xamyka Getzfreid, who was present when th...
