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Students at Hot Springs County High School get class schedules and locker assignments, prior to the first day of classes....
The Red Dirt Master Gardeners' Garden of the Month for August is the flower and vegetable beds at the Northwest BOCES cottages. Kids in the program worked to cultivate colorful blooms and crops including cucumbers, zucchini, carrots, tomatoes and corn....
On Friday, the Thermopolis Cross Country teams traveled to Casper Mountain for the Kelly Walsh Invite, their season opener. The event saw senior Jules Ward take 10th place, with a time of 21:21, and Coach Brenna Abel stated the middle school girls team took third place, did a great job and are getting into shape. “Our CC kids did a great job with a mountain run,” Abel stated. “We had not attended in the past and it was a new course for the team. The competition was primarily 4A schools. The a...
Some people run for fun, others for sport, but a dozen women recently took on the Grand Teton Relay, a 180-mile race that started 5:30 a.m. Aug. 19 in Ashton, Idaho and ended at 5:30 Aug. 20 p.m. in Teton Village, Wyo. Sabrina Stuckey said Jacque Griffin mentioned the idea to some folks. In March, Stuckey told her, "If we're going to do this, we've got to start right now," as there is a lot of planning involved. The two started getting women together, and had a team, but people slowly started...
Lola Vialpando, 34, is currently charged with 13 counts related to forgery and thefts that resulted in a $157,593.24 loss. According to court documents, Vialpando faces 10 counts of felony forgery, one count of felony larceny and two counts of felony theft. Affidavits of probable cause allege that, during Vialpando’s employment with Smith Oil Field Services, Inc., between Jan. 1 and Aug. 1 she issued 10 checks drawn upon an account belonging to the company in the total amount of $14,056. She signed each with the name of Kevin Smith, the a...
The Hot Springs County Sheriff’s Office and Thermopolis Police Department teamed up Monday at about 7:50 p.m. to stop a driver coming into town at over 100 miles per hour. Sheriff Lou Falgoust said Deputy Daniel Eggli clocked a red 2005 Toyota Corolla travelling 109 mph at mile marker 1 on Highway 120, and turned around to give pursuit. The deputy further requested assistance in stopping the vehicle. Falgoust noted, however, this was not a pursuit case. They simply wanted to get the vehicle stopped, and with the assistance of Police Officer K... Full story
Some might do construction simply as a hobby or as their profession, but for Anthony Vargas and Rojelio "Ro" Dominguez, the work means much more. The two started Abel Construction Aug. 1, and Vargas said they began after he felt Jesus calling him to do the work. Dominguez said he was in church when he had a feeling like his questions would be answered if he helped Vargas. The two knew each other for a couple years before. Vargas explained their name "Abel Construction," is two-fold, as it...
I’ve never been one to play sports, at least for a school team. My athletic experience in my younger years consisted of playing soccer for the local YMCA, and a bit of roller hockey at the local rink and baseball games in the street with the neighborhood kids — we were fortunate to live on one of those streets that didn’t see much traffic, and the drivers who did were mostly courteous enough to wait for us to finish a play before getting too impatient. During middle school and high schoo...
The Gottsche Rehab Center recently announced the hiring of full-time speech therapist Raegan Stanley CCC-SLP to Thermopolis. Stanley officially began Aug. 1. Though hailing from Pennsylvania, she noted she spent the summer as a wrangler on a dude ranch, and she is both familiar with and a fan of the Western culture. Having a cleft lip and palate as a child, Stanley said she went through about 10 years of speech therapy, which definitely had an influence in her becoming a speech therapist. She's...
Though Xavian Vargas hit the dunk tank target with a ball, the seat did not release, so he took matters into his own hands to drench Student Council President Maddie Stam during the back-to-school carnival at Thermopolis Middle School....
Those who are interested in becoming more active with the library are invited to join the Friends of the Library. The group has a meeting beginning at 6 p.m. Sept. 1, as well as a potluck dinner, at the Hot Springs County Library, and new members are welcome. Secretary Cindy Toth said the Friends of the Library raise money to promote the library, and purchase items that the library’s budget doesn’t cover. Some examples have included a bench, a podium, a computer, a projector, coat racks and an...
The Hot Springs County High School football team will take to the field this Friday, with a scrimmage at Lander. The season will officially open Sept. 2. Coach Matt McPhie said the team had a solid week last week, with eight practices, and the most positive things he sees is the players' attitude and work ethic. He noted they are working together, and pulling for each other. There are also a lot of things that need work, McPhie said, as there have been things done here, such as not having an int...
This season, 17 high school and middle school students will run their hearts out as they represent Thermopolis Cross Country. The Hot Springs County High School team will include seniors Liz Rhodes, Stacy Lewis and Jules Ward, and freshmen Erica Meier, Tahja Hunt, Kenna Bomengen, Olivia Weyer and Aime Robinson for the girls team and Sophomore Sean Miller for the boys. Thermopolis Middle School has eighth-graders Emme Norsworthy, Jasmine Collins, Dayna Sandburg and Ryan Miller, seventh-graders...
David Hansen and Frank Toth recently competed in the Unified Golf program of the Wyoming Special Olympics in Casper on Aug. 19. The duo shot a score of 46 — with alternating shots — to win Division I by 12 strokes. Unified sports are dedicated to promoting social inclusion through shared training and competitions. Through the program, people with and without intellectual disabilities are joined on the same team, though they have similar age and ability. Unified Golf began in 2004, and Toth and...
As classes officially are underway today, there's certainly going to be an increase in traffic to and from school buildings due to licensed high school drivers and, of course, school buses. It's important to keep eyes on the road and be cautious of other drivers, but also signs denoting school zones. Trooper Regina Schulmeister with the Wyoming Highway Patrol said passing a school bus while it has its stop arm extended and red lights flashing - to allow students time to get on and off - is a...
Tuesday evening, the Thermopolis Town Council approved a bar and grill license for Jennifer and Clyde “Binky” Fisher. Prior to approving the license, there was a brief public hearing with no public comment. Jennifer explained the closing date of the sale on the building they’re buying — current home of the One Eyed Buffalo — was dependent on their obtaining the license. She further explained the license is not a transfer, but a new license, as the current license is for a restaurant and would no...
On Aug. 8, a fire was sparked 19 miles south/southwest of Meeteetse. Dubbed the Twin Lakes Fire, it has since grown to nearly 1,300 acres - 93 of which are private land in Hot Springs County - as of Tuesday afternoon. The fire is on acreage in Park County, Hot Springs County and in the Wind River/Bighorn Basin District. As of Wednesday morning, the fire was 40 percent contained, and the Hot Springs County Volunteer Fire Department has been part of that effort. Chief Mark Collins noted there...
At Tuesday’s meeting of Hot Springs Travel & Tourism, Director Amanda Moeller reported the lodging tax receipts were a bit gloomy, noting they were down nine percent compared to last year at this time — $15,796.18 compared to $17,376.97, though this fiscal year’s receipts are still better than the $14,582.17 seen at this time during the 2013-14 fiscal year. Moeller presented a recent article that stated Sturgis vehicle counts were down 40 percent, which is a contributing factor to the lower...
It will be car-on-car action at the Hot Springs County Fairgrounds, at the annual demolition derby Saturday, Aug. 20. Gates will open for cars from 12-4 p.m., with a driver’s meeting at 5 p.m. Those competing will have to pay a fee of $75, which includes entry and up to two pit crew members. The main event gets underway at 6 p.m., starting with a contest for the prettiest vehicle, voted by the crowd. In the derby for full-size vehicles, grand prize is $3,000, followed by a $1,000 second p...
A benefit for Carllena Farman is scheduled at the Smoking Waters Pavillion for Sunday, Aug. 21, beginning at 1 p.m. Farman served in the United States Army from 1981-89, and was honorably discharged as a Specialist E4. She recently underwent triple bypass open-heart surgery in Denver and returned to her Thermopolis home. However, she could lose that home as she has no regular income. Proceeds from the benefit will go to help Farman with monthly expenses. There will be a hamburger goulash meal...
Thursday evening at the Thermopolis-Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce Board Meeting, Barb Heinze announced at this point there is no People of the Earth Days in the works for 2017. The event has been done annually for the past three years. Heinze said there have been efforts made to advertise the event as much as possible. She pointed out attendance was up the second year but down this year, and noted Michael and Kathy Gear approached her and Chamber Executive Director Meri Ann Rush, and said they...
Last week, Northwest Wyoming Board of Cooperative Education Services (NWBOCES) Administrative Director Carolyn Conner was honored at the Week of Academic Vision and Excellence (WAVE) Conference in Cheyenne as the 2016 Special Education Director of the Year. Though the administrative director since 2001, Conner has been with NWBOCES and Big Horn Basin Children's Center for 32 years, and started as a school social worker. In that first position, she explained, she worked a lot with parents,...
It being my first year living in Thermopolis, I’ve been greeted with plenty of firsts, and this past weekend I saw my first Gift of the Waters pageant and Big Horn Basin Folk Festival. Beginning in the early hours of Saturday morning, it was interesting to watch a unique community spring up among the grass, one that harkened back to the old bazaar days, with booths selling crafts, food and other merchandise — the cinnamon rolls were particularly tasty — while still others gave live demon...
The Thermopolis Town Council met in a work session July 19 to discuss the Thermopolis Landfill. In addition to Mayor Mike Mortimore and the Council, those present included Assistant to the Mayor/Codes Administrative Assistant Fred Crosby, Clerk/Treasurer Tracy Van Heule, Public Work Director Ernie Slagle, Landfill Lead Man Buck Clouse, Police Chief Steve Shay, Town Engineers Heath Overfield and Anthony Barnett, and Department of Environmental Quality Representatives Carol Stark, Dale Anderson...
People are encouraged to get some dancing shoes and check out the John Roberts Y Pan Blanco concert Monday, Aug. 15, at 7 p.m. at the Hot Springs State Park pavilion. Roberts began playing the piano at the age of 5 while living on an isolated ranch in Southeastern Montana. There was no TV, but there was a piano. At age 11, he picked up trombone to play in the grade school band. After graduating in 1996 from Montana State University-Billings with a BA in Music Performance, he moved to Los...
