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Leading the way for the Hot Springs County High School Reunion car parade is Dick Howe. Reunion attendees had individual class gatherings and were treated to a dance on Saturday evening and a picnic on Sunday. See page 9 for reunion group pictures....
At the first monthly meeting for July, the Thermopolis Town Council voted and approved catering permits for the month. Town engineer Anthony Barnett reported that he worked with Assistant to Mayor Fred Crosby and Town Clerk / Treasurer Tracy Van Heule to pick dates to advertise for the chip seal project to request bids starting July 29. They will have it ready to present to the town council for an award on August 3. Barnett also reported that cell nine at the landfill is almost full. Director...
by Angus M. Thuermer Jr., WyoFile.com Wyoming Game and Fish commissioners backed agency staff last week and approved compensation for trophy game damage to stock that amounted to $388,696 less than two ranchers claimed. With one dissenting vote in the two separate cases, the appointed citizen commission approved $71,339 to Josh Longwell of HD Ranch and $11,626 to Christian Peterson of Crandall Creek Ranch. Longwell claimed $322,685 in stock and other losses to grizzly bears and mountain lions; Peterson claimed $128,857 for losses to grizzlies a...
The Hot Springs County School District Board of Trustees unanimously approved the district’s proposed budget for 2021 to 2022 on July 15, after Chauncy Johnson, business manager for the district summed up the past year as “a challenge like none of us has ever really seen.” Johnson pointed out the number of school districts across the country that were not able to provide the same services to their students as the Hot Springs County School District. He credited the district’s staff for this feat, before crediting the board with already approvi...
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. Sheriff’s Office Tuesday, July 13 3:50 p.m. Report of a citizen assist where a vehicle was broken down north of town. The deputy was unable to locate it. Wednesday, July 14 10:37 p.m. Report of suspicious activity involvin...
Scott Werbelow, left, author of Son of a Poacher: Wyoming Game Warden in the Making, greets Mike Laustrup during a book signing for his first book. Werbelow is working on his second book....
Noted author Bill Betenson will talk about his famous great uncle, Butch Cassidy, and his newest book, Butch Cassidy: The Wyoming Years at the Hot Springs County Museum on Saturday, July 24 at 2 p.m. Bill Betenson is the great-grandson of Butch Cassidy’s younger sister Lula. He inherited his great-grandmother’s archives and her interest in setting the record straight. In his latest book, he focuses on Butch’s exploits in Wyoming and tries to unravel the sometimes conflicting information with care and honesty. Betenson refutes a number of other...
There will be a benefit for the Thermopolis VFW on Saturday, July 31 at the Hot Springs County High School, 231 Park Street. It’s called “2021 Kilos for Veterans Powerlifting Meet.” The weigh in will be at 7 a.m. and lifting starts at 9 a.m. The categories are Full Power, Bench Only, Raw and Raw with Wraps and Equipped. The event is open to anyone aged eight years old and up. Open Registration for the event is at https://liftingcast.com/meets/mtc81kgotx5c/registration. Registration for veterans and active duty only is at https...
Romancing the West comes to Hot Springs State Park for Sounds of Summer on Sunday, July 25th at 7:30 pm. Singer/songwriter Christina Lynn Martin and Cowboy Poet and Balladeer Butch Martin co-produce and perform in the time traveling documentary concert telling the human story of over 250 years of the people of the American West through their trials, tribulations and triumphs and celebrating their diverse cultures, lives and legacy’s. The story of Western Expansionism ranch history is told in historic photographs, rare film, video, live p...
The end of July and into August is packed with events in Hot Springs County. An event coming up the first weekend of August is the Gift of the Waters Pageant. The pageant celebrates a very important gift for Hot Springs County and past, present and future community members. In case you are one of the several residents who may not be familiar with the reason for the pageant, the following is taken from the pageant program and explains the history of the Big Spring and the reason for the Gift of the Waters Pageant. by Jessie L. Duhig Moccasined...
Lois Elaine Shinkle, 62, lifelong Thermopolis resident, passed away at the Billings Clinic on July 15, 2021. Lois was born in Thermopolis, Wyo., on May 29, 1959, the only child born to Lloyd William and Helen Nadine (Pisto) Cabre. She graduated from Thermopolis High School in 1977 and attended Casper college for a short time. She married Marshall Glenn Shinkle on November 3, 1979, in Thermopolis. To this union was born two children, Levi and Shelby. She worked for the Department of Family... Full story
Janice Dianne Steadman Wingert, 65, of Thermopolis, Wyo., passed away in her home on July 16, 2021 surrounded by her family. Jann was born March 13, 1956 in Corvallis, Ore., to James and betty Steadman. Jann grew up in Worland, Wyo., most of her younger life. Jann met Edward A. Wingert in Thermopolis, Wyo., where they later married in 1987. Ed was the love of her life for 29 years. She enjoyed bowling, camping, board games and spending time with family. She is survived by her younger brother,... Full story
Betty Jean Carroll, 79, of Orlando, Fla., passed away November 14, 2020. Born August 7, 1941, in Worland, Wyo., to Harold L Patterson II and Betty Ruth Patterson (nee Reesy), she was raised in Thermopolis, Wyo., the eldest of three children. She attended the University of Wyoming, where she obtained a Bachelor of Education degree and spent many years teaching elementary education in the Mt Diablo school district in the East Bay of San Francisco, Calif. In the later years of her career, she... Full story
Helen Nickelson Rush, 101, passed away July 10, 2021. Helen was born in Max, Neb., to Ernest Doak and Ethel Jones Doak on January 22, 1920. Helen circled the sun 101 times and gave many a hug, kiss and swat on the rear end. She was loved by so many and loved them all back. She married the love of her life, Harry Nickelson, when she was 17. We think she may have been younger. They ranched on Copper Mountain and had five children. Harry passed away on January 21, 1972. Then she married Clair... Full story
Becky Hutson won the Master Gardeners garden of the month for July. Here is her abundance of hollyhock flowers. Hutson said that the grasshoppers were not out much this year and enabled her plants to fully grow....
At the Hot Springs County Rec District Adult Softball Championship Game, it was between One Stop Sparkplugs and One Eyed Buffalo. They had split the season series 2-2, with OEB winning their games 16-13 and 13-11, while Sparkplugs won their two with scores of 19-10 and 14-11. The game that Sparkplugs won 14-11 versus OEB was the final game of the regular season, and actually had an impact on the playoff seedings, with Sparkplugs leapfrogging OEB to the #1 seed. Coming into the championship this...
by Morgan Hughes Casper Star-Tribune Via Wyoming News Exchange The state-sponsored Hathaway Scholarship for college-bound high school students received another update this legislative session, but the public will get to weigh in on how the new rules are written. The change affects students who wish to begin racking up credits toward the Hathaway scholarship before they enter the ninth grade. Previously, junior high students were limited in what credits they could earn toward the merit-based award. The changes as written remove requirements that...
Hot Springs Health (HSH) has two new disinfectant machines called Tru-D. Zack Brink from HSH's housekeeping department, Bridget Truempler, the director of nursing and Trina Slover, the director of surgical services presented Tru-D in a demonstration. Brink will clean a patient's room upon their exit where they remove the trash liners and linen because Tru-D only works on hard surfaces. Once the room is done being pre-cleaned and dried, Brink starts the machine up in the middle of the room. Its...
A Big Horn Rumble Broncs and Barrels event was held Sunday afternoon at Hot Springs County Fairgrounds. Local and area cowboys and cowgirls competed....
Wyoming Discovery Days, which takes place Saturday and Sunday, August 7 and 8 in Hot Springs State Park continues and expands on the former Big Horn Basin Folk Festival. With a theme of Wyoming Rails, Trails and Folk Tales, the Wyoming Discovery Days will celebrate Wyoming’s unique cultural heritage through stories, music, food, art, and demonstrations. There will be new demonstrators, a petting zoo, and a beer garden this year. The lineup of demonstrators showcases a multitude of talent from Wyoming’s hands-on traditions on both Saturday and S...
