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This month, Broadway will have a new look as the Thermopolis Print Zone moves from its current location at 521 Broadway, going a few doors west to the WOW Store. Print Zone owner Howie Samelson said he purchased the building and the business, with the sale finalized on July 1. He did it for two reasons, he said. One was because his business is growing and he needed more space. The second is that there is a need for a business in town to “pick up some of the slack with Shopko closing.” As par...
Later this month, junior Hyrum Rich will be leaving Thermopolis for a 10-month stay at Aguascalientes, Mexico - also named for its hot springs - through the Rotary Youth Exchange program. Rich noted this is the first such exchange in several years for the local chapter of Rotary International. Through the program, he explained, students are selected from Wyoming, Colorado and Idaho, and put in something of a "mixing pot." From that pot the students are sent to different countries; those...
During their meeting last Thursday, July 11, the Thermopolis-Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce spoke about the chamber’s eliminated seat from the Economic Development Company. Chamber Executive Director Meri-Ann Rush said the EDC board has gone from seven seats to four. Chamber board member Phil Scheel said the supporter member seats — of which the chamber was one — had been eliminated. Scheel also expressed concern that the EDC could be gone within two years due to financial issues and lack...
A tree near the Big Spring gets cut down to size as part of the work being done in Hot Springs State Park this summer....
When it comes to enjoying one of the town's most well known features - the hot springs - those with conditions that require them to be on oxygen are at something of a disadvantage. They're often confined to only dipping their feet in, or staying near the side of the pool so as to keep their oxygen tanks dry. During the Big Horn Basin Folk Festival on Saturday, Aug. 3, Milton Schenk will give a demonstration at Hellie's TePee Pools on a device that could give oxygen users a lot more freedom in...
The Thermopolis Church of Christ recently hosted a youth group to help with cleaning up the downtown. The group arrived in town Saturday and helped senior residents with project before heading downtown where they removed weeds....
For several hours beginning Tuesday morning, many people had to forego communicating via landline phones or sending out email, as a cut communication line interrupted phone and internet services not just for Thermopolis, but all over the Big Horn Basin. According to Becky Dooley, the vice president and general manager of RT Communications, the interruption came when crews were on a routine wreck out of an abandoned aerial copper facility. She explained that since the company is switching over...
Fireworks in a multitude of colors ignite from the top of T Hill, set off by members of the Thermopolis Volunteer Fire Department. Prior to the start of the show, residents set off their own caches at the designated area by the skate park and at other locations around town....
Monday afternoon in Hot Springs District Court, Christopher Martin pleaded not guilty to felony charges of conspiracy to deliver methamphetamine and delivery of methamphetamine. The charges are from a Feb. 17 incident as the result of a controlled buy, during which .6 grams of substance that tested presumptive positive for meth was exchanged. Though no date has been set, trial in Martin’s case is expected to take three days. He is currently out on a $5,000 cash bond or acceptable bail bond, t...
Several electrical lines were broken Monday morning after being struck by a raised bucket truck....
Hitting bookstores next month in the United Kingdom will be "Lord of Secrets," written by Breanna Teintze. Born in Thermopolis, Teintze lived here until she was about 11 to 12 years old. The area still feels like home, she said, and the red dirt and sagebrush settings tends to show up in her writing. When she was younger, she explained, her father's job moved and so did she. Also, her husband works for a cement plant and tends to move around. Writing is "just kind of something I've done my...
What a crazy couple weeks it’s been. Golf ball and pea size hail, fireworks, changes on the horizon for Hot Springs State Park, and losing phone and internet services. It’s enough to make you want to pull your hair out and second guess where you decided to live. But, in the chaos — the good and the bad — it’s good to see the response Thermopolis gives. There’s been plenty of praise for our fire department, not only for the show they put on but for their continued efforts to promote fire safety...
Among the regular faces at the Hot Springs County Senior Center is Mike Kelley, who not only stops by for lunch or to visit, but has helped in various capacities. Kelley and his wife Joyce, who has passed away, moved to Thermopolis in 2001. Kelley has worked for several phone companies including Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph, U.S. West and Qwest, retiring from the work in 1990. It was that work that brought him to Thermopolis. As he explained, Kelley hired on in 1959 in Colorado, and...
Several University of Illinois students stopped overnight in Thermopolis on July 2 and 3, during a break in their coast-to-coast ride for the 2019 Illini 4000. Among the riders is Viraat Goel, who noted everyone is a student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The group is in its 13th year, and they raise money for cancer research and patient services. Though a student organization, Goel pointed out they are federally incorporated as a 501c3 non-profit, meaning all donations are t...
Chrysta Richards gets Mary Wojciechowski set to donate blood, Monday afternoon at the Hot Springs County Senior Center. The blood drive saw 23 donors, four of which were walk-ins, and 25 units donated....
The bright blue summer sky dimmed quickly, shortly after 1:30 p.m. Monday afternoon. As the town sirens sounded and a rapid series of alerts was issued across radio and cell networks, it was clear that this particular thunderstorm wasn't just going to skirt around the town and was gunning for Thermopolis. Winds estimated at 50-60 miles per hour and a severe temperature drop were the first signs of the storm's arrival. Warnings advised people to remain indoors, which of course sparked a natural...
During some of the summer events in town, security will look a bit different with Thermopolis Police Officer Bobbi Byrd on horseback. Byrd explained when she lived in Tennessee, she had a close friend in law enforcement who did the mounted patrol. "It sort of perked my interest, watching him do that." She and Officer Ken Smith went to a class last year and got certified on their horses, then kept going. In June, Byrd finished her 2019 certification during a weeklong training in Riverton. The...
Monday night the Thermopolis Town Council approved a bid from Dave Loden Construction, in the amount of $82,885, for a new roof on the old fire hall, with the condition that the completion date be extended from Oct. 30 to Nov. 30, though in a letter to the council Erick Loden stated he is 90 percent sure he can have it done before Oct. 30. Also during their meeting, council approved a bar and grill liquor license for the property at 942 Shoshoni Street, most recently known as the Raptors...
Following a two-day trial last week, Raymond W. DeVries Sr. was found guilty of five misdemeanor counts of theft and one misdemeanor count of criminal trespassing. The charges are from an Aug. 30, 2018 incident in which DeVries brought onto the property of Linsey Brooks a truck and forklift, marked to his company, with the purpose of taking five large landscaping rocks. During removal of the rocks, one of them cracked and a portion of it was left on Brooks’ property. Brooks’ pasture was als...
Those who stop in at the Hot Springs County Senior Center on a Friday might spot Mary Jo Mason off of the main dining area, providing blood pressure readings. "I come every Friday," Mason said, "and I'm here from 10 until noon." She described the center as "the neatest place. The food is good and the people are wonderful. They have all kinds of events." Born in Arlington, Texas, Mason moved to Thermopolis in 1991. She had a portrait studio here - Picture This Photography - for seven years, and...
The Red Dirt Master Gardeners' Garden of the Month for June is at the home of Ruth Clare Johnson. Among the blooms at the house there are lilies, piennes, blue allium and even a few poinsettias...
June 23-28, Jeff Clark, Will Clark and Remington Ferree, along with Dillon Romero of Cody, took aim at the 4-H Shooting Sports National Championships in Grand Island, Neb. Participants can only compete once in their career in a particular discipline, Kari Ferree said, and the boys competed in shotgun, with her husband Charlie coaching. They were selected by the state 4-H, Ferree said, and they had to fill out applications including whether they shot at the state shoot and how they did, and essay...
During their June 25 meeting, the Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees reviewed and approved the 2019 Community Health Needs Assessment, presented by Miranda Nelson, a social worker with the hospital. Nelson noted the assessment involved a lot of collaboration with the community and the Hot Springs County Community Prevention Coalition. The assessment is required every three years, and the last was done in 2016. The full assessment will be available via the hospital’s website....
A line of cars sits west of town as drivers wait for the pilot car to lead them through the area being chip sealed on Highway 120. The stretch of road being sealed is 32 miles and the work is expected to be done by mid-July....
by Mark Dykes Independence Day is one of several days throughout the year where we have the time to reflect on what it means to be an American, the freedom we enjoy and the soldiers who made that freedom possible. Jeff Strong enlisted in the United States Air Force in January of 1971. The first three quarters of the year, he said, were various kinds of training at locations including Sheppard Air Force Base, Brooks Airfield and Lackland Air Force, undergoing jet engine training and helicopter...
