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One of the best things about living in Wyoming is the access parents have to quality schools to ensure their children are getting the best education possible. Its hard sometimes, to know exactly where to look if you’re curious about your own school’s “report card” on education, but the Wyoming Department of Education has created a website to make that job a little easier. At wyomingmeasuresup.com, parents, teachers and others can access information about different schools and school distric...
I’m proud to say, I’m not a quitter. That’s why you won’t hear me say anything about New Year’s resolutions. Why start something I know I’ll never finish? Let’s face it, I love my chips, sweet tea and chocolate way too much to give them up for a measly 10 pounds. There would have to be something really serious involved for me to pass on cheesecake, too. I suppose I could vow to do something simple that doesn’t include depriving myself, like reading a book a week for the year. Fifty-two books...
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him to fish and he’ll probably be ice fishing all winter. Yes, ice fishing season is upon us and the ice at Boysen Reservoir is reported as being good to go at about 10 inches in some areas. Of course, as always, watch for thin ice and pressure ridges when you get out on the ice. Ice seldom freezes uniformly, so it may be a foot thick in one location and just a few inches thick just a few feet away. And new ice is usually stronger than old i...
The Hot Springs County Land Use Planning Commission heard a request for a land use change from Howard and Belenda Willson at their meeting on Wed., Dec. 19, asking for a 15-acre parcel of their property be changed from agricultural to industrial. Presented as the “Willson Third Land Use Change,” the acreage in question has been industrial previously, then changed back to agricultural, making this the third requested change for the same plot. In 2014, the Willsons were granted a 10-acre land use...
Santa was on hand Saturday at Mack's Market to greet all the good little boys and girls (and adults) as they did their last minute shopping for Christmas dinner....
Freshman Kamry Bowman keeps the ball just out of reach as the freshman Lady Bobcats beat Lander on Tuesday, Dec. 18 31-28. Bronwyn Dobbins led the scoring with 12, followed by Julie Johnson with 10. Top rebounder was Layne Myers with eight....
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...
Roedy Farrell came out the middle school champion at 135 lbs. on Saturday during the WAMA State Wrestling meet....
The Hot Springs County School District’s Board of Trustees met on Tuesday and as their first order of business, elected new board officers and distributed the various committees amongst the board. The officers for the coming year actually remained the same as last year with Clay VanAntwerp continuing as board chair, Jennifer Axtell stays on as vice-chair, the clerk remains Joe Martinez and board treasurer is Nichole Weyer. In other business, the board approved a bus stop off of 393 Highway 1...
The Hot Springs County Commissioners met on Tuesday afternoon with Ed Luhm, the incoming magistrate for Hot Springs County, parts of Park County and Washakie County. Luhm, an attorney out of Worland, wanted to assure the commissioners he plans on advocating for a full-time magistrate for Hot Springs County. He will have a large area to cover and does not feel the rights of those arrested will be served fairly if he is not able to get to Thermopolis in a speedy manner. His feeling is the...
Thermopolis Middle School held their Christmas concert in the auditorium last Thursday, playing a variety of tunes to set the mood for the holidays. Here, l-r, Alyssa Warman, Jayssie Owsley and Sharon Burgess add their talent to the fifth grade band's performance....
In just a few days, Santa will be making his annual trek around the globe and boys and girls everywhere will be leaving milk and cookies beside the tree before drifting off, dreaming of what they will find in the morning. While we all remember at least one special Christmas as a child, as we grow older our lists become shorter and our understanding of the season becomes more clear. I remember being under foot helping my grandmother make fudge and divinity, little sugar candies with walnuts,...
In Wyoming we’re still very fortunate that live trees abound for us to cut for Christmas and the permits to cut are fairly cheap, but what do you do with that live tree after the holidays? While the Town of Thermopolis doesn’t have an actual tree pick up, they can be left beside your dumpster, but they are not a priority for pick up, so they may still be there for a while. If you don’t want to just trash that Christmas treasure, there are a number of useful things you can use it for. Pine needl...
The Lady Bobcat basketball team had a very successful weekend in Burlington with both the JV and varsity teams coming away with wins. Coach Matt McPhie said the varsity girls played very tough defense, forcing 29 turnovers and playing at a high level defensively. The Lady Cats held Burlington to single digits in each of the four quarters with a final score of 45-24. Leading the team in rebounds was Kaylee DeVries, pulling down five, including two offensive rebounds. She also led the team with...
After nearly 40 years of service to Thermopolis and Hot Springs County, a very familiar face is celebrating his retirement this week. John Lumley began working for the Thermopolis Police Department in 1979, working as a dispatcher. By the next year, 1980, he was hired by Sheriff Walt Harvey to work cases with his office until Harvey was defeated in the election of 1982. Lumley was retained by the winner of that race, DeLoyd Quarbeg, and remained as an investigator for the next eight years. When...
Sixth grader, Trenton Bledsoe, tries his hand at the standing chimes during the Thermopolis Middle School Concert....
The Lady Cat basketball team opened up season play this past weekend at the Coal Miner Classic in Wright. The Varsity team had three contests, losing to Big Horn in the opener 49-25. “The girls struggled from the field and more specifically, they had difficulties protecting the basketball,” head coach Matt McPhie said. “The team settled down in the second half and played better basketball.” The team was led in scoring by Ashley McPhie with 10 points and McKenna Bomengen led the way rebound...
The competition was intense at the Lights On Family Game Night at the middle school Tuesday....
As students returned from their Thanksgiving break their parents were informed of a new system being used district-wide that added a new level to the security at each of the buildings. The Raptor Visitor Management System allows the schools to better screen visitors, contractors and volunteers at the various buildings. A form of identification, such as a driver’s license, is scanned or manually entered into the system and Raptor will check to ensure no registered sex offenders are entering t...
The Hot Springs County High School Drama Team took first place in 2A at the State Drama Festival this past weekend in Rock Springs. Twenty-four students traveled and competed against students from around the state of Wyoming. In addition to the first place award, they also had six students receive All-State Medals and 19 students receive Honorable Mention awards. The six students that received All-State Medals and a Superior rating are: Ben Manning (Stage Management), Breeze Petty (Stage...
The National Weather Service presented Chamber of Commerce Director, MeriAnn Rush, with a special award at Tuesday’s county commissioner’s meeting. During his portion of the meeting, Emergency Management Coordinator, Bill Gordon, read portions of the report he sent to the National Weather Service in Riverton after the strong storm that passed through the county the night of the Demolition Derby at the fairgrounds. Gordon recalled receiving a message from Tim Trautman with the weather ser...
Granted, we’re still a few weeks away from Christmas, but so far I’ve been really lucky in regards to my Christmas tree and my...cats. You’ve probably seen videos of nefarious fur balls eating ornaments, gnawing their way through light strings and even knocking the entire holiday beauty to the ground. I’ve had cats through the years who have done just that. “Fish” (yes, the cat was named Fish) was notorious for climbing up the center of the tree and peeking out at me from between the branche...
Its beautiful to watch from inside your home as that white stuff piles up outside, but its a real pain once it starts to melt, especially if your home isn’t fully prepared. The Independent Record, along with other folks across town, discovered the hard way that we need to have our roof replaced when streams of water began coming through the roof, leaving us with a plethora of puddles and a mad scramble to cover our electronics to prevent anything shorting out or causing a fire. Since we’re jus...
The crews in Hot Springs State Park were a bit surprised to find a new baby buffalo calf in the T-Hill pasture on Thanksgiving. Normally, buffalo calves and other young critters are born in the spring, some as late as June, but this little fellow was way behind the others. According to Park Superintendent Kevin Skates, this particular buffalo typically has a late cycle and has given birth later than the others, one on 9-11 and even one in October, but never this late. Skates says mama and baby...
Emergency Management Coordinator Bill Gordon let the Hot Springs County Commissioners know there is a problem with hospital employees hearing the pages that come through dispatch. Apparently, the repeater between the hospital and dispatch is out of service and they aren’t really sure how long it has been that way. The hospital has been using cell phones to talk back and forth between the ambulance crew and the emergency room in order to be prepared if victims are being brought in. Until the r...
