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With school back in session, the People for People Backpack program is ready to kick off another year of helping fight hunger for the school children in Hot Springs County. The program is aimed toward helping children who may not have enough to eat over the weekend by providing bags of food the children can easily prepare for themselves or their siblings on Fridays as they leave school. Once each month, Food Bank of the Rockies makes a stop in Thermopolis at the Episcopal Church to drop off...
Rarely in life are we blessed with truly “tingly” moments. Not those hair raising moments, but the ones that are breathtaking. I know some folks around here couldn’t understand what all the “hub-bub” was about, why people were coming across vast oceans to our little town to see an eclipse. For some, it was going to be an inconvenience they didn’t want to deal with. We’re pretty set in our ways and having that many people coming to town was a bit scary for some. I can’t tell you how many times...
New high school freshmen had a good rolling start on Tuesday with the help of some mentors from the upper class. Lots of teamwork, learning and fun was the highlight of the day....
The Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) has several projects in mind over the next five years for Hot Springs County. Using funding from the State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP), WYDOT is able to do capital improvement project state wide. Determining which projects are most needed comes down to input from the public, engineers, the Wyoming Transportation Commission and WYDOT. In 2018, East River Road will be seeing 4.3 miles of new guardrail installed and WY 20-789, Thermopol...
Visitors to Thermopolis for the eclipse used some home-grown ingenuity when it came to photographing the event. People came together to fill parks, downtown and surrounding areas to view the once in a lifetime event....
Monday, Aug. 21 is just around the corner and we’re getting more and more excited about the solar eclipse and the thousands of people coming to Thermopolis and Wyoming to view it. What, really, is a solar eclipse? Well, sometimes when the moon orbits the Earth, it moves between the sun and the Earth. When this happens, the moon blocks the light of the sun from reaching Earth. This is known as a solar eclipse. Total solar eclipses are only visible from a small area of Earth. Those lucky ones w...
The Wyoming Dinosaur Center will be hosting a series of films and lectures this weekend, Aug. 19 and 20 at the school’s auditorium. All of the events are free to the public. On Saturday, at 10:15 a.m., learn all about “Solar Superstorms” through a major production that takes viewers into the tangle of magnetic fields and super hot plasma that vents the sun’s rage in dramatic flares, violent solar tornadoes, and the largest eruptions in the solar system – coronal mass ejections. The show will...
Lady Bobcat volleyball got underway with their first practice on Monday under new head coach Shannon Hill. Hill said there are 25 girls out for volleyball this year with 10 of them being freshman and seven seniors to lead the way. "We are really looking forward to this year's season and being competitive within our conference," Hill said. "We have some young girls throughout our program with some great potential and we have some solid seniors returning for us this year with varsity experience."...
Hot Springs County High School’s golf team began their practices last week, gearing up for their fall season. Two members of the team went to Powell for their Invitational on Thursday and Friday of last week – returning State Champion Hudson Roling and Cade McLean. Roling scored a 73 the first day of play followed by a 76 the second day. This put him in second place for the tournament. McLean shot a 99 the first day and a little better, 91, on the second day. “It wasn’t a bad tournam...
If you've driven up or down Arapahoe Street, you may have noticed a section of lattice with ribbons tied to it in the yard of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church and asked yourself what it could possibly be. It is known as a Prayer Fence. The church put the fence up as a non-denominational way for people of any and all religions to offer their prayers for anything from help to guidance or thanksgiving. Prayer fences are popping up across the country and everyone is welcome to tie a ribbon of prayer to...
Parents love it – children dread it – its back to school time at Hot Springs County School District #1. Classes will begin at Ralph Witters Elementary (RWE), Thermopolis Middle School (TMS) and Hot Springs County High School on Wed., Aug. 23. High school freshmen will have a “rolling start” on Tues., Aug. 22. They will check in between 8 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. with their first day ending at 3 p.m. The rolling start, which began a couple of years ago, gives freshmen an extra day to get acquain...
In order to take some of the strain off the 9-1-1 system for Hot Springs County during the upcoming solar eclipse, a special hotline number has been created for people to call with questions that are non-emergency related. With the influx of visitors expected up to a week before the eclipse, Emergency Management Coordinator Bill Gordon thought a hotline number would be a good idea to redirect those just looking for information away from the emergency number, freeing up dispatchers to handle...
Dr. Jeb Schenck shows Audrey Philips a little trick with her lens during his workshop on shooting the eclipse....
Those who have been collecting the Main Street Thermopolis Christmas ornaments will be excited to know the newest ornament has arrived. This year, the limited edition ornament will feature the building housing the Messenger Law Offices. They will be for sale, soon, for the same amount as last year, $30 per ornament. Any businesses that decide to carry the seasonal ornament will get a slight discount per ornament. The Main Street committee went through their time line for projects and such for...
Will Ward chases after Lexi Overfield during the Kidz Water Gamez at the Hot Springs County Fair....
The rock slides in Wind River Canyon this spring and into part of summer are one of the top priorities for the Wyoming Department of Transportation according to the state director, Bill Panos, who met with the county commissioners on Tuesday. Panos said this was the first year they had brought in the state’s geology department to take a look at the canyon walls, even before the slides started happening, to get a better idea of where they may occur. Fortunately, they were already in the area w...
By now, most everyone understands that Boysen Reservoir and the Wind and Big Horn Rivers were full and fast for the past two months. Several river rescues were required during that time, ruining the chance of floating the river for most. What we didn’t realize at the time, however, was the water flows this summer have broken a 50-year old record. The record was first set in 1967 when 1.3 million acre feet of water flowed into the reservoir. As of Wed., July 26, 1.67 million acre feet flowed i...
Kristen Norris stops to look at just some of the things available at last Saturday's Farmer's Market. There were veggies galore, soaps, breads, jewelry and jams, all waiting to be taken home to enjoy....
Logan Stewart proudly trots his Corgi, Wally, around the arena during the Hot Springs County Fair's dog show on Monday night....
A couple of unexpected mishaps with the sheriff’s department needed explained to the commissioners at their meeting last week, mishaps that will hopefully be covered by insurance. A new truck purchased by the sheriff’s office was recently hit while it was parked, culminating in over $5,000 worth of damage. The commissioners gave the go-ahead to have the repairs done with any monies over the insurance amount to be covered out of the department’s repair budget. The second issue is a jet ski used...
Emergency Management Coordinator Bill Gordon began Monday night’s final public meeting before the eclipse by saying we’re pretty much going to be outnumbered. “A whole lot of people from around the planet want to see this,” he said. “We’re probably going to be outnumbered, but the hospital, police and fire have done everything they can to be prepared.” Gordon went on to let folks know the ins and outs of allowing people to camp or use their property short term. If you have rented out your home...
The Hot Springs County Fair for 2017 is just around the corner, filled with so many events everyone is sure to find something to do. Open class building exhibits will enter at the fair building on Mon., July 31 from 6 - 8 p.m. and Tues., August 1 from 8 a.m. til 11 a.m. Saturday, July 29 will feature the peewee horse show along with the 4-H and FFA youth horse show, starting at 8 a.m. Things start moving on Monday July 31 with the dog show held that evening starting at 6 p.m. 4-H building exhibi...
I know the kids are going to hate hearing this, but its just four more weeks til school starts! Most summer vacations have been taken and now its just the slow, hot move toward that first day of school. As a kid, I really looked forward to that first day of school. I grew up in a neighborhood with no other kids for blocks, so most of my summer was spent at the library, reading books or practicing my cursive writing. My grandmother would pick an article out of the paper every day to have me...
This past Saturday, Thermopolis Bobcat Lizzy Lofink had the opportunity to play in the All-Star basketball game in Thunderbird Gym at Casper College. Lofink was chosen for the honor during state when all the coaches from across the state convened to pick this year's North and South teams. Her coach, Cory Sova, was also chosen to coach the North team, his fourth time on the sidelines. The basketball and volleyball teams meet at Casper College and each girl is assigned a dorm room and a roommate...
The group organizing everything for the upcoming eclipse in August held their monthly meeting last week, going over a few details. The IT Department for the county has created a hotline number that will be available during the period just before, during and just after the eclipse. The hotline will allow people to call with non-emergent questions such as where to get a tire repaired or what time a particular event begins. Of course, emergencies will be forwarded to 9-1-1, but having the hotline...
