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As things were too close to call at the Mangeant male beauty pageant at Hot Springs County High School, senior Logan Meier and junior Jeffery VanAntwerp had a dance-off to determine the winner, which was ultimately the junior class....
Over the weekend, two Thermopolis residents were inducted into the Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame during a ceremony in Laramie. Carl Obe Dockery was born on Owl Creek in 1936 and raised there by parents Clifford and Edna. During his childhood, he said, much of time was spent going places with horses, except for the quarter-mile trip to school, which he walked. The family ranch had 15-20 mares at the time, as well as some saddle horses. The main trip they took was going up the creek to pick buffalo...
On Friday and Satruday, Thermopolis will again be home to veterans from across the state and country for the 2017 Hunting with Heroes event. This year, the number of participants is up slightly to 11, compared to 10 in 2016. Check in will be Friday, Sept. 29, beginning at 12 p.m. at the VFW. There will be a food and bar available, as well as time for visiting. Lifetime VFW member Jeff Strong said all of the hunters might not be at the VFW at the same time, as they will also be able to go out to...
Autoharp virtuoso Adam Miller shares songs with Thermopolis Middle School students. Miller also spoke about the old tradition of passing songs along by mouth....
Last week, several Thermopolis residents traveled to Laramie for the three-day Wyoming Working Together conference, presented by the Wyoming Economic Development Association, the Wyoming State Chamber of Commerce and the Wyoming Business Council/Main Street. Attending were Phillip and Shurie Scheel, Meri Ann Rush, Amanda Moeller and Howie Samelson. The conference began with an “enlightening” tour, Moeller said, put on by Main Street. Among the stops on the tour was the business park and the dow...
Saturday at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Pastor Sam Needham and Pastor Jais Tinglund of Grace Lutheran Church in Greybull celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation....
The cross country team kept up its speed last Thursday at the Warrior Invite in Worland, with three high school girls making the top 10. McKenna Bomengen placed third with 20:22, Olivia Weyer placed seventh with 20:56 and Tahja Hunt placed 10th with 21:09. Coach Stephanie Metz noted the middle school girls did awesome, also with three in the top 10 -Dazlynn Hunt at second with 12:40, Jayda Griffin at seventh with 13:18 and Hallie Martinez at 10th with 13:40. Metz noted at this meet they ran JV...
During the Tuesday evening meeting of the Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees, Dr. Jason Weyer reported the big day — Oct. 1 — is coming up with regard to Title 25 patients. Starting that day, the hospital will no longer accept Title 25 patients as the hospital is not an appropriate facility for that. He further added the hospital will make sure such patients are medically stable, but will not be the accepting facility. Weyer explained Title 25 is the statute that people who...
Adley Coyne helps take down a Cloud Peak Cougar during Saturday's middle school football game. The Bobcats saw a 40-8 victory over Cloud Peak, as well as a 20-14 win over Worland on Sept. 21. The boys will take on Lovell Sept. 30....
A project around town certainly getting a lot of attention is the destruction of the former Maverik store and preparation of the area for the new store. Of course, it's kind of hard to miss the machines and crews working inside the fenced area on Sixth Street. Though a projected date for opening the new store was sometime in the first week of November, Chief Marketing Officer Aaron Simpson said construction is on track to finish on Nov. 28 and the store would likely open Nov. 29. Of course,...
According to information from the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, on average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States. During a year, this equates to more than 10 million women and men. One in three women and one in four men have been victims of some form of physical violence by an intimate partner within their lifetime. One in four women and one in seven men have been victims of severe physical violence by an intimate partner i...
Charlene Harvey, left, visits with Mikki Martinez and Celeste Waugh during the Hot Springs County Senior Center's Mardi Gras celebration on Saturday....
At the Thermopolis Town Council meeting Tuesday evening, council approved providing a letter of support of the Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees’ application for $1.5 million in SLIB funds for the hospital addition and renovation. Representing the hospital board were Dan Herdt and Melissa Johnson. Herdt noted there are two times a year when SLIB funds can be applied for, and they’re in a bit of a rush to get the application in to Cheyenne. It’s hoped the SLIB board will...
During the Tuesday meeting of Hot Springs Travel and Tourism a motion passed 4-1, with Rick Tudor voting “no,” to approve a contract with Young Strategies Inc., for firm representative Berkeley Young to have a conference with board members at the Governor’s Conference in Cheyenne Feb. 25- 27. The motion included a contingency that money be obtained through the Technical Assistance Co-op Program offered through the Wyoming Office of Tourism. The program would provide 50 percent matching up to $5...
In District Court on Monday afternoon, a sentencing was continued in a case against Justin Spence. Following a three-day trial in late April, Spence was found guilty of incest, which states he molested a juvenile on July 4 or 5, 2014. Though Spence was scheduled for sentencing on Monday his attorney, Travis Smith, argued there was a delay in getting the pre-sentence investigation (PSI) to his client. This delay, he said, meant Spence has not had the PSI in his possession for at least 10 days as...
Larry Bentley was recently selected to receive the Wyoming Department of Agriculture’s (WDA) Friend of Agriculture Award. The award is given to a person or group who has gone above and beyond to promote sustainable agriculture in Wyoming. The recipient has worked with the Department of Agriculture, particularly the Natural Resources & Policy Division (NR&P), and demonstrated expertise and passion for agricultural values. According to a letter from WDA Director Doug Miyamoto, staff chose to r...
The Cross Country team saw some great finishes at the Lander Invite on Sept. 14, with McKenna Bomengen placing first with a time of 21:53.59, Tahja Hunt placing sixth with 22:45.19 and Olivia Weyer placing 11th with 23:53.91. Dayna Sandberg placed 10th for JV with a time of 26:54.25. Coach Stephanie Metz said the course was the team’s first time running a golf course, and she was excited to see how well they ran it because the next two meets are also golf courses. “We’ve not run in that type...
Bobcat Football will have their first game of the 2A conference when they head to Wheatland this Friday, after a 12-0 loss against Lander Sept. 15. Of the Lander game, Coach Matt McPhie said the Bobcats seemed to struggle everywhere. Watching film from the game, he said, there’s a lot of areas the boys could do better. They didn’t handle the ball well, for instance, and put on the ground a lot. While weather was a factor, McPhie said it was something both teams had to deal with and Lander cam...
Spartan races are a series of national and international obstacle races, with distances varying from three miles to half and full marathons. With no real set path outlined, competitors put themselves to the test as they run across rough terrain, up incredible elevations and obstacles that leave them wet, muddy, bruised and bleeding by the time they cross the finish line. Though one of these races is grueling enough, some go for three in a year, competing at the three events of Sprint, Super and...
During Thursday night’s meeting of the Thermopolis-Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce, board members looked at possible fundraisers for the fall and winter season. A vacation getaway awarded via raffle was a popular idea, and one that has been done in the past. Greg Willson said it could be done one of two ways, either one large grand prize or first, second and third place trips. Initial location ideas for the trips included Jackson, Las Vegas or Deadwood, S.D. However, upon further discussion m...
Saturday night, the Days Inn was the site for the 10th annual Friends of the NRA Banquet. Though the number of attendees was down, with about 115 attending compared to 130 and even up to more than 160 in previous years, Cynthia Garbin said the crowd was plenty enthusiastic. Garbin said people really seemed to enjoy themselves and the live auction went really well this year. The gun of the year, a Daniel Defense M4 Carbine, went for $1,400, and there were several nice pieces that everyone was rea...
Though there isn’t much that’s visible in terms of progress, a couple town projects are still moving forward. Among them is a water line rehabilitation, done in three phases. Phase 1 goes from the water treatment plant along south Fifth and Seventh streets; Phase 2 involves Hot Springs State Park and Phase 3 involves Valley View Drive from the Cedar Ridge pump station Town Engineer Anthony Barnett said, with regard to the water line rehabilitation project, there was a meeting with the Hot Spr...
The Hot Springs Greater Learning Foundation is bringing two music-based programs to Thermopolis this next week. The Piatigorsky Foundation is sending American Soprano Katharine Dain, and keyboardist and conductor Jeffrey Grossman. The pair will conduct a workshop at the Hot Springs County High School band room, beginning at 9:20 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 20, followed by a presentation at the Pioneer Home beginning at 2 p.m. Dain has been praised for “thrilling” and “heart-piercing” performances,...
Thermopolis Middle School teacher Kristin Ryan was recently awarded a $2,000 Unsung Hero Grant from Voya Financial. The firm awards grants to K-12 educators nationwide in honor of their innovative teaching methods, creative educational projects and ability to positively influence their students. Ryan's idea, "TMS Living Wax Museum," which was held May 2 at the school, brought history through about 100 seventh and eighth grade students dressed up as national and local historical figures. People...
It can take a significant event for us to remember where we were and exactly what we were doing at a given time. For those born in the early 2000's and before, that came in the form of planes crashed into the World Trade Center. For myself, I remember going about my normal routine in college until I passed by the television in the cafeteria and wondered at what I was seeing. It was a sentiment expressed by my classmates, friends, family who called, and personally the reality of it didn't really...
