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Tuesday evening, the Thermopolis Town Council approved a motion, 3-2 with members Dusty Lewis and John Dorman Sr. voting “no,” a payment of $8,921.67 to Brad Basse of Jadeco for work done on the communications area of the Law Enforcement Center. The project was initially bid at around $3,324, but final costs came in at $11,776.60. At a February meeting, the council approved paying the overage of $8,452.60, with the town and Hot Springs County Commission each paying half. However, at the March 7...
Spring is in the air and thoughts turn to lazy days spent sitting in the sun reading a good book. That’s the perfect time to join the Friends of the Library spring book sale at the armory. The book sale will take place on two days, March 31, from 5 -7 p.m. and April 1, from 8 a.m. til noon. Come look over all the available titles, find your favorite author or genre and then read and relax at the “Starbooks Café....
Don’t worry about getting pranked this April Fools Day, instead, make plans to be at the V.F.W. for their semi-annual sale. The Ladies Auxiliary is offering tables for the event, $20 each or three for $50. There will be crafts, flea market items and gifts, all indoors, along with cinnamon rolls and coffee, starting at 9 a.m. To reserve your table, please call Karen at 921-1247 or Nancy at 349-2573....
Award winning singer, songwriter and cowboy poet, Ron Hughes, will be live, in concert at the Community Church this Sunday, March 26. A gifted songwriter and cowboy poet, Hughes has top 10 gospel albums to his credit along with a Christian cowboy album. A Male Horizon winner in 2001, Hughes was also Artist of the year in 2004 and male vocalist for 2005. The concert begins at 6:32 p.m. at the Community Church at Sixth and Big Horn....
"Pinky the Elephant" visited students at Ralph Witters Elementary last week. The mascot is used to help teach kids about poison prevention....
Students at Thermopolis Middle School are working to help the people of Sudan by providing funding for a well there. The inspiration for the project came after they read “A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park. The novel tells two stories. One is the fictional account of Nya, a girl in Sudan who is fetching water from a pond for her family, travelling over miles of rough terrain in searing heat to do so. The other story is non-fiction, the story of Salva Dut, who became one of the “lost boys...
The Hot Springs County Commissioners held their second meeting for March on Tuesday evening, approving a resolution for the solar eclipse in August, awarding a bid for concrete work at the new airport and discussing insulation issues in the multi-purpose building at the fairgrounds before hearing an update from New ERA Petroleum. The commissioners approved a resolution addressing land uses, a temporary easing of some aspects, from August 15, 2017 to August 31, 2017, to allow short-term rentals...
The Bureau of Reclamation at the request of, and in collaboration with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, has scheduled a flushing flow in the Wind and Big Horn Rivers downstream of Boysen Dam for Tuesday, March 28. “The Bureau of Reclamation is able to retime operations and provide the flushing flow due to the above average anticipated inflows to Boysen Reservoir, and the expectation of needing to pass excess water this spring,” Wyoming Area Manager Carlie Ronca said. “The flush will be accomplished without adversely impacting overa...
The National Weather Service (NWS) in Riverton will teach a Severe Weather Spotter training class to increase the number of weather spotters in Hot Springs County. The free, two-hour training class will be at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 30, in the County Annex Building at 117 North Fourth Street. The course describes how various severe weather phenomena develop, outlines appropriate safety actions and details procedures for identifying and reporting severe weather to the NWS. Videos and digital images from across Wyoming are shown during the...
The Hot Springs Travel and Tourism Board met Tuesday afternoon. Though there were not enough members present for a quorum, the brief meeting allowed for discussion on various topics. One of the items was the Hessenthaler billboard just south of town. Over the past couple months, this billboard has been a topic of discussion with Travel and Tourism, as well as the Thermopolis-Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce, and at this point both boards are currently gathering information as to who owns the...
Having had the wonderful experience of living in Thermopolis for the past seven years, I've taken in much of the beauty from small hikes and walks around town, but there is so much yet to see. Last weekend, on a beautifully warm Sunday afternoon, I decided to check out a hiking trail a friend suggested. It was called the Gooseberry Badlands and it was only 40 miles away. So, I grabbed my camera, a bottle of water for the 1.5-mile trail and my favorite music for the drive. The directions are stra...
