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The Hot Springs County Barrel Racing Winter Series will wrap up with their final competition May 15 at Hot Springs County Fairgrounds. Results from April 17 include: Peewee barrels Division 1D: Taylor Malcom, 18.549; Mesa Allen, 19.019. Division 4D: Ashlynn White, 20.928l; Madalyn Moorman, 21.273; Kamryn Farrell, 21.770; Oakley Dunlevy, 24.011; Kaycee Stothart, 25.581; Dessirae Willow, 27.496. Youth barrels Division 1D: Kamryn Farrell, 16.032; Kaitlyn Schmuck, 16.433; Laney Acord, 16.462. Division 2D: Emme Norsworthy, 16.704. Division 3D:...
Thermopolis Wrestling Club wrapped up their season with the three day WAWA State Wrestling Tournament. Wrestlers competed in three styles of wrestling and the results include Greco Bantam 60 - Mack Buckner, fifth place Bantam 75 - Blevins Little, second place Folkstyle Bantam 60 - Mack Buckner, fifth place Bantam 75 - Blevins Little, first place Intermediate 103 - Mason Reese, sixth place Female Intermediate 45 - Lilly Quintanilla, first place Freestyle Bantam 45 - Lilly Quintanilla, fifth place Bantam 75 - Blevins Little, second place Female...
Several Thermopolis Middle School students took part in the track meet at Cody Saturday. Results from Cody are as follows: Girls Team: 100 Meter Dash 8th Grade Brianna DeVries - sixth, 14.96 - note: DeVries is a seventh grade student but ran as an eighth grader due to a coach's error. Dani Jo Pebbles - 22nd, 18.01 200 Meter Dash 8th Grade Sesi Jensen - first, 33.02 Olivia Weyer - second, 32.77 400 Meter Dash 8th Grade Aspen Jensen - sixth, 1:12.71 Olivia Weyer - eighth, 1:15.16 800 Meter Run 8th...
The Hot Springs County Recreation Department has suspended recycling at the armory for the time being. Recreation Director Brad Morrison said Riverton has issued a new protocol for recycling. Recyclable materials can no longer just be loaded up on a trailer every Friday and taken down. "What they are saying now is that they no longer accept glass," Morrison said. "They'll only take Type 1 and Type 2 plastics, and it has to be uncontaminated and pre-sorted." Type 1 plastics are polyethylene terep...
Hot Springs County delegates Chuck Carver, Kevin Dickey, Benge Brown and Joe Casciato visit with Senator Leland Christensen during the Wyoming Republican Convention. HSC will be represented at the National Convention by Representative Nathan Winters, Republican State Committeeman Jim Collins and Republican State Secretary Charles Curley....
Merit Energy Co. of Dallas, Texas, recently agreed to acquire all the upstream and downstream assets in Wyoming that belong to Marathon Oil Corp., Houston, for $870 million. The upstream properties, comprised primarily of waterflood developments in the Big Horn and Wind River basins, averaged 16,500 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) during the first quarter. The assets also include the 570-mile Red Butte pipeline, the only export line in the area, according to Marathon. The deal is effective Jan. 1, and is expected to close midyear....
The formation of the Lodging Tax Election Committee was referred to the Executive Committee and Hot Springs Travel and Tourism Liaison Barb Heinze, during the Thermopolis-Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce annual board meeting April 14. Chamber Vice Chair Greg Wilson said there would be a push to put the vote to renew the lodging tax on the ballot, and suggested board members be on the committee to get word out on what the tax does for the community. Hot Springs Travel and Tourism Board Director Am...
Property Notices of Assessment for Tax Year 2016 were mailed Friday, April 15 to property owners in Hot Springs County. According to Hot Springs County Assessor Shelley Deromedi, "Properties throughout Wyoming are assessed to the owner of record and valued as they existed as of January 1 each year." The Assessor's office has the statutory responsibility for determining the current fair market value of taxable property annually. The level of assessment is set by statute and the mill levy is based on budget requests from various taxing entities...
Dustin Olsen directs the Hot Springs County High School Jazz Ensemble during the pre-festival concert April 14. Also performing during the evening were the high school concert choir and concert band, intermingled with soloists and ensembles. The students will be performing at the District Music Festival in Powell Friday and Saturday....
Philip and Shurie Scheel helped to relocate a diabetic-alert dog to a loving, home with Jet Warren in Highland Ranch, Co., a suburb of Denver. Shurie said they adopted the dog - Timber - with the intent of retraining her and finding her a diabetic she could help. "We thought she should be placed back in training," she said. "Timber is a very unique dog and you can tell that just from being around her. She's a pet and a really awesome pet, but she's also more than that. You can tell that just...
Author, historian and working attorney John W. Davis, of Worland, presented his research on Tom Horn at the Hot Springs County Library on Thursday. Following the presentation, Davis signed copies of his books The Trial of Tom Horn and Wyoming Range War: The Infamous Invasion of Johnson County. "Horn is one of those people that is not admirable by any means but fascinating nonetheless," he said. "Horn did kill men - there's no doubt about it. He was a killer, but he had a remarkable amount of...
Tuesday afternoon at their regular monthly meeting, the Travel and Tourism Board took a look at the lodging tax receipts, presented by Director Amanda Moeller. Though Moeller previously presented receipts for the fiscal year beginning July 2014, she presented a revised set that does not factor in settlement money paid out. It was discovered a couple years back that some online booking companies were not paying the lodging tax. After being held accountable, these agencies paid out settlement...
Hot Springs County Extension Service is hosting a Home and Garden Workshop Thursday, April 28 from 5:30-8 p.m. in the meeting room at Big Horn Federal. A variety of presentations will be given including: fermentation, pumpkins, landscaping with native plants and gardening without a rototiller. Light refreshments will be served. Everyone is welcome....
Risen Son Christian School fourth grader Jeffrey Lewis shows off one of the many items up for bids during the spaghetti dinner and auction fundraiser Saturday. Auctioneer Shawn McWilliams is in the background and Phil Scheel is watching for bidders. The event raised $22,729, with 100 percent going to the scholarship fund. When added with new monthly tuition pledges, the scholarship fund came to $24,500 on Friday....
John Gores, the instructional facilitator for the Hot Springs County school district, will be retiring at the end of the 2015-16 school year, after a lifelong commitment to education. Gores said he came to Wyoming in Dec. 1975 chasing oil rigs to put himself through college. "I went from the oil rig to the classroom in two days," he said. "Thursday I was working out on a Parker oil rig and Monday I was Mr. Gores." He taught half a year in 1976 in Riverton before resigning in the summer of 1977...
