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Hot Springs County High School's Lady Cats basketball team took on Powell at home last Friday night, dropping the game in a heart breaking overtime to the Lady Panthers, 51-47. "The girls played extremely well for the night," coach Matt McPhie said. "Powell is a team they had lost to by nearly 30 points earlier in the season. We trailed by as many as eight points in the third quarter, but the girls played tough defense and hit some critical shots down the stretch to force the overtime. "We misse...
Last weekend the Bobcats went up against Powell Friday night with a 57-43 loss, and against Lovell Saturday with a 58-33 loss. Coach Shane Corpening said the boys got off to an extremely slow start against Powell, missing at least three or four layups in the first quarter, and only making four points while giving up 14. "A slow start really hurt us in that game because the rest of the game the scoring was pretty balanced. The scoring was even the second quarter, they outscored us by six in the...
Thursday and Friday Bobcat wrestlers proved the sports adage that the scoreboard doesn’t always tell the whole story of any contest. Visiting Worland on Thursday, the Bobcats spotted the Warriors 18 points in forfeits and the scoreboard said Worland 40, Thermopolis 30. Friday saw a similar result against the Glenrock Herders. After spotting the Herders a 12-point advantage, the Bobcats were unable to cut into that lead and finished 12 points down at 48-36. Winning Bobcats against Worland were Wyatt McDermott (6-4), Jeff VanAntwerp (10-8), Jon H...
Last weekend, members of the Thermopolis Wrestling Club competed at the Bearcat Brawl in Douglas, wrestling in Greco and Freestyle Feb. 9 and in Folkstyle Feb. 10. Freestyle In Intermediate 63 Dyllan Myers placed second and scored five team points. In Intermediate 84 Cannon Boren placed first and scored six team points. In Novice 86 Colter Price placed second and scored five team points. In Schoolboy/girl 90 Dalton Price placed third and scored four team points. In Girls Intermediate 52-68 Briar Lahoe placed first and has scored six team...
The Thermopolis Bobcat Speech and Debate team had a stellar weekend at the Jackson Invitational, coming home with first place in 1A-2A. Along with their first place trophy, the team brought home eight individual awards. Junior Hannah Hu took first place with her original oratory as well as fourth place with her informative. All four of the team’s duets broke into semi-finals with two moving on to finals. Tyler Kay and Breeze Petty took sixth in duet with Ashley Brawley and Kris Lahoe placing third. Three of the team’s drama pieces brought hom...
The middle school boys basketball teams had plenty of court time this past week, starting off with games against Worland Feb. 5 that resulted in a 56-29 loss for the 8th grade A team and a 33-16 loss for the B squad. “As one of the top teams,” Shaffer said, “last time we met Worland we struggled scoring and gave up many layups based on turnovers. This time we played much better on the offense end scoring double of what we did when we first met them. We have really worked on ball movement and attacking the offense rebounds, and I think our l...
Jennifer Fisher and her daughter Peyton create their masterpieces during a painting fundraiser for the HSCHS senior graduation party....
The Riverton Workforce Center, a local office of the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services, has scheduled a Thermopolis services day on Tuesday, Feb. 19 at Hot Springs County Library. A representative will be available to help job seekers and employers at the library from 10 a.m. until noon, and from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. The representative can help people register on the Wyoming Dept. of Workforce Services website, wyomingatwork.com, navigate the site or update contact information and work history. Help can be given to create a resume...
Hot Springs Dance LLC is hosting a father/daughter and mother/son dance at the Community Hall at 244 North Sixth on Friday, Feb. 15 from 5-8 p.m. The cost for the dance is $10 per couple and $5 per each additional child. This includes corsages for the girls, a professional photo, dinner and dessert, as well as dancing with a professional DJ. Attire for the dance is formal/semi formal. The money raised from the event goes towards scholarships for dance students. Hot Springs Dance currently has eight children covered fully by scholarship funds...
Belinda Dougherty of Ten Sleep shows off her paintings during the Second Friday ArtStroll in downtown Thermopolis...
Wyoming has had quite a year with its grizzly population and the on-again, off-again management hunt. Right here in Hot Springs County we had three separate instances of grizzly activity during September of 2018. On September 4, a grizzly was removed from the area due to multiple cattle kills. Just three days later, on September 7, another was removed from the Lost Lake area for killing cattle and the bear was taken to Teton County. Five days later, on September 12, yet another grizzly was...
On Feb. 4th the High School Jazz Band, also known as The Jazz Cat Big Band performed at the Kinser Jazz Festival at Casper College. The band had two clinics after their performance with Dr. Scott Turpen from the University of Wyoming and Dr. Lynn Baker from the Lamont School of Music at Denver University. The band received both Superior and Excellent ratings for their performance. On Feb. 9 20 Middle School students performed in the Showalter Festival at Northwest College in Powell. They received 11 Superior and 5 Excellent Ratings (adding...
Liam Bohleen gets a close up view of a package in the school district mail room. This week, Pre-K Academy students mailed out special valentines and took a tour of the school mail facilities....
