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A new business has sprung up in Thermopolis, Wild Flower Services, LLC, a commercial cleaning and lawn service business. Amanda Moeller, owner of Wild Flower Services said, “Starting another company was not something that occurred to me immediately. I attend so many meetings and community gatherings each year and there is often a common thread - clean up.” After seeing the overgrown yards on vacant properties listed for sale around the eclipse weekend, she decided that perhaps she should sta...
"Buffalo Bill" Boycott and "Dr. Jo" entertained students at Ralph Witters Elementary last week with a western history lesson filled with songs of old....
The Hot Springs County High School Drama Club is presenting their Fall Showcase this week, with your final chances to see it tonight (Thursday) and Friday night at 7 p.m. in the High School Auditorium. The students are presenting their design and performance pieces for State Drama Competition. The designs will be displayed in the auditorium lobby for audience members to look at before and after the performances. “The rules for State Drama have changed this year by aligning with the I...
Tawna McQueen and Tracy Linko helped the Chamber of Commerce as they decorated Bicentennial Park for the Holidays....
Middle school girls basketball is keeping very busy with games in Shoshoni, Riverton and Lander this past week. The eighth graders took on Shoshoni last Thursday, winning a tight one, 19-17. “I am super pleased with the girls’ ability to come back from a deficit,” coach Ginger Ward said, “using defense and hard work, to slip in a victory. The importance of learning how to win cannot be underestimated and the girls tasted that sweetness.” Kamry Bowman, Mariah Brooks, and Hallie Martinez...
A brave group of runners participated in the annual Turkey Trot at the high school. Proceeds from the run go to high school activities and donated food will be distributed to the community....
The Silver Tip String band entertained those attending the Second Friday ArtStroll downtown on Friday evening....
Thermopolis Middle School students presented a program last Friday honoring local veterans....
Due to incorrect information provided to the Independent Record regarding water quality through the South Thermopolis Water and Sewer District, the article running in this week’s paper indicates the water quality is much worse than it actually is. Original information given to the newspaper as well as distributed to the water district members shows milligrams per liter rather than micrograms per liter, making the numbers 81.025 milligrams per liter when it should have been listed as .081 m...
Thirty-one people attended a special Title 25 meeting on Monday night to discuss the hospital’s stand on Title 25 patients and what can be done to eleviate the problem. The issue arose a couple of weeks ago when the hospital board informed the county commissioners they would no longer hold Title 25 patients at the hospital once they were medically stable due to safety concerns for staff and other patients. Once they are stable, the hospital wanted the patients moved to another facility. Among t...
The Hot Springs County High School Drama Club will be presenting their Fall Showcase this coming week, Nov. 14, 16, and 17 at 7 p.m. in the High School Auditorium. The students are presenting their design and performance pieces for State Drama Competition. The designs will be displayed in the auditorium lobby for audience members to look at before and after the performances. “The rules for State Drama have changed this year by aligning with the International Thespian Festival rules,” said dir...
The Lady Bobcat volleyball team finished their 2017 season with an up and down trip to the Regional Tournament in Newcastle. The girls played Douglas first, and according to coach Shannon Hill, it was the best they have played against the Lady Bearcats. They came in ready to compete, which Hill said is a positive sign at the end of the season. Unfortunately, the girls dropped three to Douglas, 14-25. 19-25 and 18-25. Mary Ryan racked up three kills and an ace during play and Emmie Coyne had...
Thermopolis Middle School's seventh and eighth grade basketball teams have been busy this past weekend, playing against Worland, Lovell, Cody and Powell. Eighth grade coach Ginger Ward said Worland's A team outscored the girls 7-29 in the first game. Cadence Steadman, who has never played organized basketball before, came on strong, pulling in five rebounds along with Mariah Brooks. "These girls soak up what we are teaching at practice and try to remember it during the game," Ward said. While...
The Hot Springs County Commissioners held their first November meeting on Tuesday, hearing reports from most of the departments. Nate Messenger, FBO at Hot Springs County Airport told the commissioners the month of October was a little slow on the fuel sales side of things, but there were a few more actual operations. He had to call in the service tech for the AWAS transmitter system as it had failed for the third time in October. Messenger said the tech added additional grounding to the...
A decades-old mystery that captured the attention of Hot Springs County as well as the entire country has finally come to a close with the identification of skeletal remains found in a trunk in 1992. Through advances in DNA research, the remains were finally identified last week as belonging to Joseph J. Mulvaney, born January 3, 1923 in Illinois. From the beginning It was the spring of 1992 when Newell Sessions used a cutting torch to remove the lock from a trunk left on his property several ye...
The middle school girl's basketball team is off to a good start this season under head coach Ginger Ward. The girls had their first three games at home, playing Thursday against Lander and then a pair of games against Meeteetse and Riverton on Friday. "The team did an exceptional job blocking out with Mariah Brooks leading the team in rebounds," Ward said of the Lander A game. "Probably one of the best team efforts in this area I have seen." Ward said they will continue to work in this area...
Members of Hot Springs County High School's FFA program returned over the weekend from the 90th Annual FFA National Convention in Indianapolis. While chapter members have gone to the convention in the past, this year was a special one since they were taking their booth to add to the Hall of States. They won the state competition with their booth, allowing them the opportunity to present it in competition on the n ational level. "The expo hall was ginormous," FFA sponsor Britton VanHeule said....
School District transportation director Jerry Bowman, with the help of Buster the Bus, took students at Ralph Witters Elementary through bus safety tips last week. Buster is a remote controlled bus on loan from WYDOT for schools to use during Bus Safety Week, complete with flashing lights, blinking eyes and a microphone that allows Bowman to give instructions through the bus....
Firemen responded to a haystack fire at the Wallingford residence last Thursday on Skelton Road, north of town. Along with over 60 tons of hay lost, the family also lost a camper and a horse trailer in the hours-long blaze....
Children of all ages found just the pumpkin they were looking for last Friday and Saturday at Sheriff Lou's Pumpkin Patch in front of the Law Enforcement Center....
Students and families at the Lights On Celebration had a slimy good time with hands on experiments, Jack-o-lantern volcanoes and yummy treats last Thursday....
Lady Bobcat volleyball had a pair of tough matches last weekend, dropping three against Douglas on Friday and three against Buffalo on Saturday. “We had some tough matches this weekend,” coach Shannon Hill said. “Douglas is a very tough team with a really good offense. We needed to step up our play and just didn’t quite get there.” Against the Lady Bearcats, Mary Ryan posted five kills and one block in the 25-15, 25-9, 25-13 losses. In Buffalo, Hill said the girls would dig themselves into a ho...
These days you can’t turn on the evening news, read a newspaper, magazine or surf the internet without witnessing some kind of tragedy, from earthquakes and hurricanes to mass shootings. Here, in Thermopolis, we are insulated from a lot of the outside world, safe and secure in our small town where we know our neighbors. But that doesn’t mean we are immune to tragedy. Four local women, along with two of their friends, found that out first hand on Sunday, Oct. 1 as a gunman opened fire on the Rout...
The Hot Springs County Commissioners have a big decision ahead of them in regards to what to do about the roof on the Hot Springs County Fairground’s multi-purpose building. Thane Magelky with Malone Belton Abel, P.C. provided a draft report on the condition of the roof and presented a few options to the commissioners for repair or replacement. Magelky has done a thorough inspection of the entire building, along with the metal roof, specifically looking at the source and cause of moisture d...
I absolutely love fall. Its like suddenly, you walk outside and there is a completely different scent in the air -- the scent of leaves getting ready to fall. Of course, that means pulling out the sweaters, but by three o'clock, you're so hot you wish you'd worn a t shirt instead. Folks are starting to fire up their wood stoves and fireplaces in the evenings, adding the scent of burning wood to air, too. Don't forget about pumpkin patches and the fun that can be had running through the field...
