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The Lady Bobcat volleyball team ended their season at Regionals in Torrington last weekend after a pair of losses. "Unfortunately, our varsity season did not end the way we wanted it to," said coach Shannon Hill, "but we can use our losses as a learning experience on the season." The Lady Cats had their opening matches Friday against Torrington, who had home court advantage as well as the hometown crowd, and lost to the Lady Trailblazers 25-15, 25-19 and 25-10. On Saturday, they needed a win...
Thermopolis Middle School girls basketball kicked off their season with a complete nail-biter against Lander last week, going into double overtime for the A team. Head coach Ginger Ward said the girls fell 18-20, but they took care of the ball extremely well with very few turnovers. Ward said Ruthanne Johnson was the top rebounder for the game and Brookly May and Brooklyn Cooley came in and gave the starters some valuable rest throughout the match. She added Lexi Overfield may have played the...
The most familiar face at Hot Springs County Public Health will be retiring on Monday after 35 years, Marie McDougall. McDougall began her career with Public Health in Lander before she and her late husband, Alex, moved to Thermopolis. Add that to her time here and she has 37 years in the Public Health arena. When asked what the most challenging part of being the director in Hot Springs County has been, McDougall said it has just been in the last few years – the change in administration, g...
by Cindy Glasson Teachers, parents and community members gathered Tuesday night for a Candidates Forum featuring the six people who are vying for three seats on the School Board. Kendi Heinze, Daniel Pebbles, Sherman Skelton, Jennifer Axtell, Rick Englebrecht and Ronda Freel were on hand to answer a series of questions created by the Wyoming Board of Education. Each of the candidates were given the time to introduce themselves and give their reasons for running for one of the open seats....
Kids of all ages spent their morning last Saturday picking and carving or decorating pumpkins, courtesy of Mack's Market. Dozens of pumpkins of all shapes and sizes were available for them to pull out the creative juices and start cutting....
The Hot Springs Board of County Commissioners met on Tuesday afternoon and discussed an application for supplemental funding for an apron expansion project at the airport. In talking with TO Engineers, the commissioners learned chances of getting the grant look to be about 50/50 at this time, but more money is coming down in the next three years. The grant would be a 100 percent grant amounting to about $3 million, however, that is one of the smaller projects WYDOT and the FAA are looking at,...
Halloween marks the start of the holiday season, from Thanksgiving through New Year’s Eve, with lots of food and family time. Holiday dinners with family were huge when I was growing up. My grandmother hosted them all in our house on Fifth Street, getting up at the crack of dawn to get things cooking. My job was to set the table and then sit with grandpa to wach the parades on TV. Just the scent of my grandmother’s rolls baking in the oven were enough to fill the whole house with that fee...
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...
The Hot Springs County School District’s Board of Trustees met on Tuesday night and heard a report from the Ralph Witters Elementary (RWE) fourth grade team. RWE principal, Catelyn Deromedi, learned about a new system during a conference she attended called the “15 Day Challenge”, and turned that information over to the fourth grade teaching team, asking them to give it a try. The teachers took the information and ran with it. The challenge had them identifying the essential standards for fourt...
Shortly before 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 10, firefighters respond to a jackknifed truck just north of Black Mountain Road. Though the accident delayed traffic a bit, the driver was reported as fine....
Hot Springs County High School’s Lady Bobcat volleyball team pushed the Newcastle Dogies to five games on Friday night before securing the win. The Lady Cats lost the first two games, 20-25 and 21-25, but rallied back to win the next three, 25-15, 25-18 and 15-13 to take the match. “I was very proud of the girls for not giving up and letting down,” coach Shannon Hill said. “They have shown a lot of fight this year and they proved again that they have the will and the want to win matches...
Hot Springs County's Special Olympics team did very well at both the Area 1 games and the state competition last week in Casper. Lauri Olsen coaches the team with a lot of help from her husband, Tom, who said this is one of the largest teams they've had in a long time, with three athletes from the Hot Springs County School District as well as six adult athletes. They competed in bowling in Area 1, which consists of Worland, Powell, Cody, Lander, Riverton and Thermopolis, coming away with two...
Monday night saw a candidates forum at the Thermopolis Middle School Commons, with general election candidates at the federal, state, county and town level provided two minutes to speak about themselves, though there was also time before and after the forum to visit with each individual. Hot Springs County Attorney Two attorneys are vying for the Hot Springs County Attorney's seat, incumbent Jerry Williams and newcomer, Jill Logan. Jill Logan - A University of Wyoming graduate with a bachelor's...
Its here! That smell of fall is here! You can step outside in the morning and the air actually smells different. There is no way you can escape the constant barrage of pumpkin spiced everything, either. Who decided we need pumpkin spice yogurt pretzels? Pumpkin spiced smoothies don’t really sound appealing to me, nor does pumpkin spice Jell-O. Non-alcoholic pumpkin spice sparkling juice? You can also find pumpkin spiced kettle corn, moonshine and salsa. I kid you not. Now that’s not to say I don...
Thermopolis FFA Alumni, friends and family gathered at the Hot Springs County Fair Building on Saturday night to honor AG Citizens and AG Businesses of the Year during the Harvest Moon Ball. After dinner the AG Citizen awards were presented to Jim Dowdy and Verne Lofink, while the AG Businesses which were honored were Thermopolis Hardware (Dennis and Karen Sinclair) and the Glade Edwards Foundation. Jim Dowdy - Jim and Nellie Dowdy operated a feedlot North of town for over 30 years. During that...
The Thermopolis Airport had a small hand in helping with the fires near Dubois as FBO Nate Messenger reported to the county commissioners on Tuesday that one of the planes fighting the fires fueled up at our airport. Messenger said the fuel truck the pilot was expecting was about five hours behind schedule and he needed to get on scene as quickly as possible and chose our airport to refuel before heading back to the fire. As the crow flies, our airport is just 40 miles from the fire scene, so...
The Wyoming Department of Education recently released the Wyoming Test of Proficiency and Progress (WY-TOPP) results for all schools within Wyoming. Stat Superintendent of Public Instruction, Jillian Balow said, “We went from a paper and pencil, multiple-choice-only test that provided limited useful information to teachers, to an adaptable, interactive, online assessment that gives teachers data that can be used to inform instruction. “I’m so proud of the teachers, principals, tech direc...
The 5th Annual Octobrewfest is on its way, next Saturday, October 6 in downtown Thermopolis. This year looks to be better than ever with things kicking off at 11 a.m. with more than 10 microbrews coming for you to try. Buy a mug for $25 and you’ll be able to sample brews from not only our local One Eyed Buffalo but Cowboy Brewing, Co., Black Tooth Brewery (Sheridan), Lander Brewing, Melvin Brewing (Alpine), Snake River Brewing (Jackson), WYold West, Wind River Brewing (Pinedale), TenSleep B...
FFA members served their annual steak dinner to about 300 people on Friday night before the Homecoming game. Kadence Bowman was at the end of the line to make sure everyone got the sauces they needed to make dinner perfect....
Danni Jo Pebbles and Tatum Vialpando leap for the block during their home tourney last weekend. Information about the games was not available from the coach at press time....
Thermopolis Nerf held an afternoon of fun and games in the State Park last Saturday. Kids of all ages, and a few adults, had a great time chasing each other around and shooting each other with foam darts....
Thermopolis was fortunate this past weekend to host the Hunting with Heroes Wyoming, an organization dedicated to giving back to our disabled veterans. The group works with state agencies, local landowners and many, many volunteers to provide hunting opportunities to our veterans from across the country who are at least 50 percent disabled. They partner with the Wyoming Game and Fish to receive donated game licenses and Hunting with Heroes matches a veteran up with a license, guide, rifles and...
As the weather gets chillier we start to think about the flu and what this year’s season will bring. Should I get vaccinated? The Centers for Disease Control (CDC), recommends an annual flu shot for everyone six-months old and older. This year, the vaccines have been updated to better match circulating viruses. Both the B/Victoria component and the influenza A(H3N2) component were updated to fit the strains the CDC expects to be most common. Other strains the vaccine will fight against are t...
Winners of the Homecoming "Mangeant", juniors Riley Shaffer and Tyler Kay, showed off their best assets on Monday. The pair recreated a dance scene from Dirty Dancing, complete with stunt doubles for the lift, and made it very clear they were promoting world peace and saving the polar bears during the interview portion of the pageant. All of the classes participated in what has become one of the funnier events during Homecoming. Tonight (Thursday) will see the boy's Buff Puff volleyball games...
Maintenance supervisor Jere Apland reported to the school board last week on the summer maintenance his crew completed. At Ralph Witters Elementary (RWE) they finished the last of the carpet and linoleum replacement on the south end of the building. Apland added next summer will see new flooring in the kitchen and some patching of various spots on the roof. They are systematically replacing carpeting and doing some painting at the middle school. The classrooms should all be finished with their...
