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Garrett Detterer keeps watch as V Ranch moves first calf heifers along the edge of Highway 20 North. They were moving them from winter pasture to the home place to begin calving....
At the Thermopolis Town Council meeting on February 16, treasurer Tracey Van Heule presented a resolution for a budget adjustment for some unanticipated revenues and expenditures. One key element to the adjustment was from police chief Julie Mathews who was able to receive a grant from Homeland Security for $134,884.78. This money went to provide the department with new portable radios and upgrade the second console in the dispatch office. There were some other small revenue items such as from t...
At the Hot Springs County Commissioners meeting on February 16, the commissioners voted and approved the COVID Charitable Organization Funding Requests for HOPE Agency, Sleep in Heavenly Peace, HSC 4-H, Gottsche Foundation, H Diamond W, Hunting With Heroes, Friends of the Library and the VFW. Chairman Tom Ryan added to the requests that they send a letter for their awards that they are relying on them that their application with the state is correct and that they would be responsible for...
CHEYENNE - According to Wyoming Department of Health data, 77 older Hot Springs County residents risk losing services through The Wyoming Home Services Program without a funding commitment for the program from the Wyoming Legislature in March’s session. Statewide, nearly 2,000 residents may lose their home services through the Wyoming Home Services Program without continued funding for the program. The Home Services program provides help with activities of daily living such as bathing and dressing for those who are in danger of requiring i...
A fisherman enjoys fishing in the Bighorn River in Hot Springs State Park on a snowy February Day....
Hot Springs County residents who currently have certain health conditions may now pre-register on the COVID-19 vaccine waiting list. The Wyoming Department of Health has created detailed screening questions to define “medical conditions” as they apply to the COVID vaccination program. County Health offices are required to abide by these definitions. If your condition is not listed below you will not qualify at this time. If you can answer YES to one or more of these four questions you are now eligible to pre-register for vaccination. Do you...
On the Record policy It is the Thermopolis Independent Record’s policy that all people arrested or cited under the “Accidents,” “Sheriff’s office” or “Police department” in the On the Record section are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. We print the names of all people upon their initial arrest Highway Patrol Saturday, February 20 Time Unknown. Justin Dale Green, 40, was arrested on a warrant from Campbell County. Sheriff’s Office Monday, February 15 2:05 p.m. Report of an agency assist where the Highway Patrol ca...
Emergency crews and tow truck crews have been kept busy recently with two difference roll over vehicle accidents. Top, a Hot Springs State Park truck was retrieved Feb. 17 after it went off the side of the road near Smokey Row Cemetery. The driver was taken to Hot Springs Health were he was treated and released. No citations were issued. Bottom, one person was injured during a roll over near the entrance to TV Draw on East River Road. The driver had to be extricated from the vehicle. They were...
Two hungry Canadian Geese dive into the Bighorn River in search of dinner....
The Bureau of Land Management Wind River/Bighorn Basin District tentatively plans to conduct five prescribed fire projects within the Cody and Worland field office areas this spring as part of the BLM’s commitment to keeping public landscapes healthy and productive. The prescribed fire projects may be conducted March through May, and only when weather conditions and fuel moisture conditions are favorable for a safe and effective burn. Smoke may be visible at times during the operations. “These projects are designed for overall improvements to...
T-O Engineers invite the public to attend the second meeting for the Hot Springs County New Airport Master Plan Thursday, February 25 at 6 p.m. at the County Annex Meeting Room, 117 N. 4th Street in Thermopolis. An inventory of the new Hot Springs County Airport’s airside and landside facilities will be presented. The inventory identifies the physical environment of the airport, such as soils and terrain and includes documentation of all major airport components, structures and pavements. T-O Engineers said, “Identifying future aviation dem...
Bureau of Reclamation’s February forecast of the April through July runoff predicted for the Bighorn River Basin is as follows: • Bighorn Lake - Bighorn River April through July inflow to Bighorn Lake is forecast to be approximately 711,000 acre-feet (af), which is 56% of the 30-year average of 1,262,200 af. • Buffalo Bill Reservoir - Shoshone River April through July inflow to Buffalo Bill Reservoir is forecast at 650,000 af, which is 87% of the 30-year average of 749,000 af. • Boysen Reservoir - Wind River April through July inflow to Boys...
Jana Oliver of Thermopolis Eye Care was recently awarded the Wyoming Paraoptometric of the Year Award. Oliver is the office manager and as a para her job is to help the doctor do optician work, ordering glasses and contacts, or lab work. The award is voted on by the doctors in Wyoming. Dr. Dana McDermott and a couple of doctors in Gillette optometric put Oliver in as a nomination three years ago and she received it this year. The Paraoptometric Award qualifications are looking for people who...
by Steven R. Peck, Publisher Riverton Ranger, Feb. 18 The cold-weather emergency in Texas is more than a typical case of warm-weather residents shivering when the temperature drops into the 40s. What’s happening there would be cold for Wyoming, too. But it would be pretty ordinary weather, and it sure wouldn’t paralyze us. If there’s one moral to the story from the bursting pipes, frozen infrastructure and widespread power and water outages that are now stretching into their fifth day in that huge state, it’s this: Hope for the best, but pre...
On January 27, President Joe Biden issued presidential Executive Order 14008, “Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.” In that order, the president directed the Secretary of the Interior to “pause new oil and natural gas leases on public lands . . . pending completion of a comprehensive review . . . of Federal oil and gas permitting and leasing practices . . .”. Two days after Biden’s order, Wyoming’s governor, Mark Gordon, responded with an order of his own. It stated that the pause “will cause immediate and considerable...
One can detect numerous fault lines in our nation’s bedrock core disciplines; educational, legal, medical, political, moral, economic and technological. This imported pandemic from Wuhan, exposed multiple chinks in our national armor. Once President Trump left office, the strongest economy in recent history, raised the boats of nearly every segment of citizens in America, plummeted during the liberty-busting COVID, further exacerbated the moment President Biden breeched the threshold of the Oval Office. Biden’s first one-hundred days will be...
Robert A. WolfEagle Sheidler, 71, passed away on February 8, 2021, at the Worland Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center. Robert was born on April 4, 1949. in Lawton, Okla., to Lester Sysco Cole and Mary Frances Walker. He was adopted at age 6 and spent the rest of his childhood in Ohio, graduating as Valedictorian of the class of 1967 from Ottowa-Glandorf, High School. His thirst for knowledge led him to find education in college classes as well as gaining knowledge of the world around him. His...
Ila June Delap, 82, passed away peacefully Tuesday, February 11, 2021, at Community Healthcare of Texas in Ft. Worth, Texas. June was born April 29, 1938, in Riverside, Calif., where she grew up and later attended Riverside Polytechnic High School, graduating in 1956. On September 6, 1956 she married Dale Giles McDonald of Heber, Utah, and they lived in several states before settling in Thermopolis, Wyo., in 1967. They later divorced 1971. June then married Gene Delap on August 10, 1977, in...
Janice Lee “Jan” Edmonds, 76, passed away at Hot Springs Health on Thursday, February 18, 2021, after a two year battle with leukemia. Born March 12, 1944, in Burlington, Iowa, she was the daughter of William and Nina (Thomas) Oshford. After high school she became a hairdresser working in various states, retiring after 36 years. On December 30, 1964 she married Lester Edmonds in Nebraska. They lived in Thermopolis until her husband’s failing health took them to New Mexico where he died in 2000. She later returned to Thermopolis. A member of Co...
Hilan Jones, 80, of Buffalo who passed away Tuesday at the Johnson County Health Care Center in Buffalo. Mr. Jones was a US Army Veteran. Private family interment for will be held by his family at a later date. Donations in Mr. Jones’ memory may be made to the Veteran’s Home of Wyoming in care of the Harness Funeral Home at 351 N. Adams in Buffalo. Online condolences may be made at www.harnessfuneralhome.com...
The Wyoming Department of Transportation reported 10 snowplow strikes over a five-day span as plows were out maintaining the roads due to wintry conditions. The strikes, which occurred from Feb. 11 through Feb. 16, bring the total number to 17 for the winter season, which runs from October through May. Some of the recent snowplow strikes occurred near Elk Mountain and Rawlins on Interstate 80 in southeast Wyoming, Interstate 25 near Cheyenne in southeast Wyoming, I-25 near Wheatland, Chugwater...
There will be a Thermopolis Community Blood Drive at the Senior Citizen’s Center on Monday, March 8 from 2 to 6:15 p.m. Call Melene Mierzejewski to make an appointment at (307) 240-1414 or online at bloodhero.com. The sponsor code is: thermopolis. COVID-19 antibody testing will be provided for all who donate. Walk-ins are welcome....
The buffalo in Hot Springs State Park work their way through the snow to graze on the grass underneath....
At the Travel and Tourism Board meeting on February 17, treasurer Matt Hughes presented the financial report. He said that all COVID money has been spent and the report is strictly non-COVID-related expenses. For the past month, they spent $19,420 and had an income of $8,409.30. This was down 24% from last year in the same month, but still in the average ballpark historically. Also, there is currently $62,543 remaining in carryover funds. Director Jackie Dorothy gave her report and said they...
The Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) wants residents to know they can take control of their heart health by keeping a check on risk factors such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and smoking. Heart disease was Wyoming’s leading cause of death in 2018 and 2019 according to the most recently available Wyoming Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data. According to BRFSS data, 78.3 percent of Wyoming adults do not lead a healthy lifestyle, meaning they have a body mass index (BMI) at or above 25, they currently smoke a...
