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Hot Springs County School District’s Board of Trustees met on Tuesday evening for their April meeting, addressing several items of interest. One of those items was staffing recommendations for the coming year. The board accepted a resignation notice from Jill Strenger as a special education teacher at the end of this year and the resignation of Holly Mickelson as an elementary teacher. Jerry Bowman has tendered his resignation as Transportation Director, effective June 30. Justin Smith and A...
Performers with Butte Magic showed off a little fire eating during lunch time at the Senior Center last week. In addition to the flaming performance, they swallowed swords and performed a number of other magic tricks to entertain the diners....
Susan Linko not only enjoyed a delicious treat from Storyteller on Saturday, part of the price went to help breast cancer through the Cups for Cups event. Storyteller was one of dozens of coffee shops across Wyoming who participated in the fundraiser....
Hot Springs County was extremely lucky the fire at the Hot Springs County Museum and Cultural Center a couple of weeks ago not only put itself out, but was contained to the kitchen area. As it is, the museum is expected to remain closed for approximately three more weeks as the clean up continues. Varney Clean Care has been at the museum every day since the fire, extracting the water from the carpeting, using ion blowers in an attempt to eliminate the smoke smell and painting and repairing....
The Hot Springs County Commissioners had a relatively short meeting on Tuesday afternoon and signed a new letter of engagement with Koerwitz, Michel, Wright and Associates for accounting services for the coming year. The agreement is unchanged from last year, including doing the county audit. The commissioners signed the agreement, not to exceed $23,700. For several months there has been ongoing discussion regarding water quality and availability among various county water users. On Tuesday,...
Marcia Nelson, right. chats with photographer Audrey Philips about her display at last Friday's ArtStroll in downtown Thermopolis....
Asher Hass was very busy in the kitchen at the Pre-K Academy open house last week....
Mass shootings, school shootings in particular, seem to have become an almost weekly occurrence in the United States. Parents and citizens are calling out for more security in our schools and the school districts are doing all they can, as quickly as they can, to provide that additional level of security. Hot Springs County School District is currently working on a single point of entry system in all three schools that includes a ‘buzz in-buzz out’ area at each main entrance. According to Sup...
I finally finished a project last weekend that has taken me literally two years to accomplish. I now have a “Heritage Wall” in my home filled with a panoramic photo of Gebo surrounded by photos of my Burnell and Stewart relatives. Its good, sometimes, to remember where you came from. While going through the old family album to pick out the photos I wanted to use I found a photo of my grandfather with his first car near the tunnels in the canyon. Although in his 20s, the photo brought back mem...
A case that has been going on for over a year in District Court finally came to a conclusion on Monday as Lola Vialpando was sentenced to one year in county jail and 10 years of supervised probation by judge Robert Skar. Vialpando was charged with 21 felony counts of forgery, theft and larceny along with two misdemeanor counts of larceny in November of 2016. The charges stem from as far back as December, 2010, with Vialpando forging check’s using her employer’s name, Kevin Smith, owner of Smi...
Although the official cause of the fire last Friday morning at the Hot Springs County Museum and Cultural Center has not been released by fire authorities, the commissioners heard some of the details of the fire from maintenance supervisor Anthony Fruciano. Fruciano said the fire department's initial assumption is that it was a chemical fire that started under the sink in the breakroom just to the right of the building's entrance. What combination of chemicals was under the sink is still to be...
Music students at Thermopolis Middle School and Hot Springs County High School have been busily preparing for a pair of concerts for this spring. The middle school will be having a Spring Fling Showcase on Tuesday, April 10 at 7 p.m., featuring performances by the fifth grade band, sixth grade band, the mixed seventh and eighth grade band and the seventh and eighth grade mixed choir. “The fifth and sixth grade bands have been working hard on their skill development and have prepared songs t...
During an all-school assembly in the auditorium on Monday, Hot Springs County School District Number 1 announced middle school educator Aimee Kay as the Teacher of the Year. Kay has served the district's students for 23 years, currently teaching science and coaching volleyball. She is also an EMT with Mortimore Ambulance Service and volunteers with the People for People program. Superintendent Dustin Hunt had this to say about Kay: "Before I announce this year's teacher of the year, I want to...
According to high school golf coach Jacob Smith, spring golf is looking promising. For the first time, eighth grade golfers will be allowed to practice and compete at tournaments with middle school divisions this year. “This is really huge for the golf team,” Smith said, “because we start practice so early that without some prior contact and work, the freshman season could be a loss. If a freshman wants to come out for the team and waits until school starts, then they have missed 2/3 of our f...
Patti Tonn receives congratulations and a fond farewell from Postmaster Susan Linko on her 24 years of service to the post office. Tonn has retired and will be spending some time in Phoenix with her children....
State Representative Nathan Winters has announced his candidacy for the position of Wyoming State Auditor. Winters said he is running for the office because he can bring vision and a plan for action to the office that will help Wyoming’s taxpayers while keeping government small and close to the people. “The auditor’s office should promote transparency and government accountability while increasing efficiency and constituent service,” he said. “That is where I intend to focus my attention...
A good crowd attended the 97th Annual Chamber of Commerce Banquet on Saturday night at the Hot Springs County Fairgrounds. "An Evening with the Stars" included dinner, entertainment by local musician Eric Kay, a raffle, guest speaker and the awards for Business of the Year, Non-profit of the Year and Citizen of the Year. Chamber Director MeriAnn Rush said they sold 163 tickets for the banquet, but at press time they were still compiling figures to come up with final numbers on how much was...
Jillian Kyle, Adriana Rivera, Dazzlyn Hunt and Chase Herring had a 'ball' at the Student Health Fair last Friday at Thermopolis Middle School....
The Wyoming Division of State Parks, Historic Sites and Trails released the visitation numbers for this past year for Hot Springs State Park along with all the other parks in the system. Hot Springs State Park has the highest visitor use of all the parks in the state’s system, garnering over 1.8 million visitors last year. While that is a six percent drop from 2016, it is a two percent increase over the five year average. Glendo State Park comes in a very distant second with just under 3...
The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation will be holding their annual Big Horn Basin Chapter Foundation Banquet on Saturday, April 7 at the Hot Springs County Fairgrounds. Doors for the event will open at 5 p.m. and there will be entertainment, games and fun for the entire family. If you purchase your tickets by March 30, you will be entered into a drawing to win a raffle ticket package worth $500. Purchase your tickets online, and you will get an extra chance at the raffle ticket package. You will...
As we go through life there are often certain times or certain images that stick in our memories. As we approach Easter this Sunday, I look back on all the Easters I spent growing up here in Thermopolis and have to laugh at a few of those memories. As an only child, for some reason my family thought it would be cute for my mother and I to have matching outfits every Easter, and to be honest, sometimes it was OK. I vividly remember one Easter, I was probably four or five-years old, when mom and I...
Reading is a fundamental building block for all aspects of life, from work to play to school, and the Children’s Resource Center (CRC) in Thermopolis has made great strides in seeing that children of all ages have books to read. The Dolly Parton Imagination Library program was initiated in Hot Springs County in 2011 by CRC. The program delivers an age appropriate book to a child, for free, every month until they reach the age of five. Since then, 178 children have graduated from the I...
Elementary students from throughout the Big Horn Basin gathered Saturday in Thermopolis for a student music festival. The groups put on a wonderful mixed-student concert in the auditorium that afternoon....
The change in leadership and structure at Hot Springs County High School has been a bit confusing and sometimes frustrating for students and parents, however, those changes have created some excellent outcomes. The most dramatic changes have come in the form of student grades. During the first semester of the 2016-2017 school year, 41% of the student body had D or F grades. That amounted to 211 D and F grades among students. During the first semester of this year, 2017-208, that number has dropp...
Auctioneer John Gerrels walks a fine cookie jar up and down the aisle at the Cookie Jar Auction Fundraiser for Tracy Loughlin....
