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The Hot Springs County Recreation Department baseball program is underway, with a couple games already in the books. Department Director Brad Morrison said there are 76 kids, ages 3-12, out for the program this year, which is up 20 from last year. Of those out, there are 20 in the Start Smart program for three- to five-year-olds, which involves parents attending one day a week to help their kids learn baseball fundamentals like hitting, throwing and catching. Another 18 of the kids are in the...
The NBHA hosted a barrel racing competition on Sunday at Hot Springs County Fairgrounds. Results include (in order of finish): Open 1D — Bailey Gibbons 18.813, Shyla Nicholas 18.996, Maddie Fantaskey 19.198, and Nick Comes 19.209; 2D — Della Epler 19.319, Morgan Reynolds 19.359, Shyla Nicholas 19.442, and Jeri Gillett 19.494; 3D — Missy Givens 19.974, Erin Davidson 20.098, Jerri Slagle 20.120, Bobbi Zupan 20.635 and Katelyn King 20.765; 4D — Missy Givens 20.982, Jerrie Slagle 21.474, Samantha Hinders 21.669, Mackenzie Scott 22.232, Bobbi Z...
The Thermopolis Golf Course will be the site for one of the tournaments for the Wyoming Junior Golf Tour. The tournament will be Friday and Saturday, June 9-10. Players must be at least 14-years-old, but no older than 19 to participate. You may register your player online at wygolf.org/junior_tour.htm....
Soren Webber shows off a Hereford market steer during the Hot Springs Junior Livestock Show, while the animal mugs for the camera....
Recently, two grants were awarded which will benefit the Thermopolis Middle School Farm to School program. Teacher Becky Martinez said one of the grants, provided through the Wyoming Department of Agriculture and the University of Wyoming, will provide for a hoop house on the west side of the building. The hoop house is a 15-foot by 39-foot structure. Though similar to a greenhouse, Martinez explained it is different in the fact that it is made of rounded PVC pipe and heavy plastic. Though not...
The 25th Annual Hot Spot Car Rally is ready to roar into Thermopolis Father’s Day Weekend, June 17 and 18. The two-day event will feature a wide assortment of vehicles, from off-road to rat rods, muscle cars, classics, vintage and even modern muscle cars. Things kick off on Saturday morning with registration at 10 a.m., followed by the Ted Spatol Memorial poker run and the parade of cars through town at 4:30 p.m. Sunday is the Show and Shine in Hot Springs State Park where everyone can vote for their favorite car in the show. There will be m...
The Hot Springs County Pioneer Association is pleased to announce the winners of the 2107 Thompson Writing Contest. This is the sixth year of a 10-year program underwritten by Mr. J.C. Thompson, so of former Public Schools Superintendent Jessie C. Thompson, in whose memory the program was established. The contest is centered around students writing about history associated with Hot Springs County. Winners are: Ralph Witters Elementary — Kindergarten, Jaydyn Boren; first grade, Ruth Needham; second grade, Autumn Cornwell; third grade, Mercede M... Full story
The public is invited to help celebrate better hearing and speech month with Gottsche, with a free escape room on Wednesday, June 14 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. An escape room is an interactive, immersive puzzle game. People are put inside a room and, using the objects contained inside, must find their way out. Teams can consist of anywhere from one to eight people. Though locked in the room, participants will be monitored and released should an emergency situation develop. Free refreshments and prizes will be available for all participants. Call...
The appearance of a food truck at an empty lot on Sixth Street over the past couple weeks has certainly drawn some attention. The vehicle is home to The Greek Station, owned and operated by husband and wife Georgios and Karine Takos. Karine said before her husband started doing the food truck, he worked at a restaurant in San Diego, Calif., where she was also a teacher. He had previously taken the truck across the country, setting it up at concerts, events and other venues, and Karine said this...
Hayden Johnson showed 'Buster' during his presentation about hedgehogs on Monday at the HSC Extension Office. Eight youths gave presentations as part of the public speaking aspect of the 4-H program. Grand champion was Jessie Pennoyer, grand champion intermediate was Jean-Luc Willson, reserve was Owen McCumber, grand champion junior was Hayden Johnson and reserve was Summer Galovich....
For A.B. Word and Barrie Lynn Bryant, their art is more than just a creative outpouring; it's a true partnership. It's also an interesting collaboration, combining painting with woodworking. The two will have been together for 25 years in October, and though the majority of those years have seen them in Wyoming, Bryant actually started in photography, and Word in graphite portraits, though both worked in Little Rock, Arkansas. Word explained it came to a point when they grew tired of the area,...
There is nothing quite like driving through the buffalo pasture in Hot Springs State Park and having the buffalo surround your vehicle. Hot Springs State Park will now be having public tours of buffalo feedings, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, free to the public. Meet the park crew at Smokey Row Cemetery at 8 a.m. and follow them to the feeding area. Bring your cameras for some great photo opportunities! While there is no guarantee the buffalo will come to feed, you will have the chance to take pictures, up close and personal, from the...
At Tuesday’s meeting of the Hot Springs County Commissioners, they held a public hearing regarding a land use change for Cotton Farms Bed and Breakfast. The request was made by Ruth Cotton for her property north of town. Cotton converted the haymow of her barn in 2016 to contain a single apartment. The proposal is for a single guest unit within 150 feet of her residence, giving her the ability to oversee any activity at the barn. In May, the Land Use Planning Commission passed the request up to...
The Adams twins, Arin and Zoe, and Sydney Shaffer shuffle one of their pigs down the alley heading onto the scales to be weighed. The annual event for 4-H and FFA youth was Sunday evening at the fairgrounds. The youth must have their animals weighed and tagged, with a Wyoming State Fair ear tag, in order to show and sell their animals at county fair later this summer....
People from Thermopolis may already know Pete Weisbeck, have heard of someone who has had a home built by him, or he might even have built their home. However, the past several months have seen a different passion for Weisbeck – building a drift boat. Weisbeck bought the book "Drift Boats and River Dories" by Roger Fletcher a couple years back and "fell in love with it." Fletcher, he said, measured a bunch of old boats from the 1940s. "I had to study this book for two months, to find out how t...
