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The Smokin’ Waters Golf Tournament is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 10 at the Thermopolis Golf Course. All proceeds from the event benefit local 4-H youth and programs. The fun kicks off at 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. with a shotgun start. Four person teams will play an 18 hole scrammble. Top prizes include $25,000 for a hole in one on hole 8, a $1,000 putting contest and $8,000 in cash and prizes will be paid to the top three teams gross and net. There will be a discounted practice round on Friday night. The entry fee is $100 per player and includes g...
The Red Dirt Master Gardeners' Garden of the Month for August is the flower and vegetable beds at the Northwest BOCES cottages. Kids in the program worked to cultivate colorful blooms and crops including cucumbers, zucchini, carrots, tomatoes and corn....
On Friday, the Thermopolis Cross Country teams traveled to Casper Mountain for the Kelly Walsh Invite, their season opener. The event saw senior Jules Ward take 10th place, with a time of 21:21, and Coach Brenna Abel stated the middle school girls team took third place, did a great job and are getting into shape. “Our CC kids did a great job with a mountain run,” Abel stated. “We had not attended in the past and it was a new course for the team. The competition was primarily 4A schools. The a...
Hot Springs County High School Junior Varsity and Varsity Volleyball teams played in Douglas Friday and Saturday. Freshmen played in Powell. Junior Varsity began pool play with Buffalo's Junior Varsity and ended up splitting with them 23-21 and 18-21. Varsity began Friday's pool play with a tough Douglas team and ended up dropping both to them. "Douglas is a very good team with a lot of height and strong hitters," Hot Springs High School Head Volleyball Coach Shannon Hill said. "This was a... Full story
The Bobcat golfers are getting into the season playing at the Cody Invite Aug. 25 and 26. Coach Jake Smith said Hudson Roling finished second overall, Kaili Johansen set two personal records and almost every golfer improved from day 1 to day 2. "We aren't scoring as well as we would like yet, but we are getting there," Smith said. Scores for the Cody Invite are as follows: Thermopolis Boys Hudson Roling: Day 1 – 80; Day 2 – 74; Total – 154 Caleb DeCroo: Day 1 – 86; Day 2 – 86; Total – 172 Jak...
The Hot Springs County High School football team was beat 46-0 in a shortened scrimmage at Lander on Friday. Coach Matthew McPhie stated "the boys played hard and it was a good learning experience, as our team was able to review the film and see what we need to clean up. I'm excited about the improvement process that we are undertaking. We've got a great challenge with Greybull on the road this weekend." The game is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. Friday. McPhie further added areas that need...
Some people run for fun, others for sport, but a dozen women recently took on the Grand Teton Relay, a 180-mile race that started 5:30 a.m. Aug. 19 in Ashton, Idaho and ended at 5:30 Aug. 20 p.m. in Teton Village, Wyo. Sabrina Stuckey said Jacque Griffin mentioned the idea to some folks. In March, Stuckey told her, "If we're going to do this, we've got to start right now," as there is a lot of planning involved. The two started getting women together, and had a team, but people slowly started...
Several Hot Springs County youths made a strong showing at the Wyoming State Fair Aug. 13-20 in Douglas. 4-H Strite Daniels outperformed others in his class to bring home the overall grand champion 4-H senior beef showmanship award. He also had the division 2 grand champion market beef, first place in class breeding heifer and fifth in class in the Maine Anjou show. Jessie Pennoyer placed third in class in the Hereford Association Breeding Show and fifth in class in youth breeding heifer. She...
The Thermopolis Independent Record will be doing stories over the next few weeks on the new staff and teachers in Hot Springs County School District. This week we start with Chauncy Johnson and Brenna Huckfeldt. Chauncy Johnson has taken on the position of Business Manager for the Hot Springs County School District. Originally from Sheridan, Johnson said he used to spend summers working on his grandfather's ranch west of Thermopolis. His mother also graduated from Hot Springs County High...
September 1 marks the opening for a variety of small game and upland bird species hunting seasons in Wyoming. Bird hunters can look forward to setting out for mourning dove; sora and virginia rail; snipe; early Canada goose; blue, ruffed and sharp-tailed grouse; and in some areas, sandhill crane. Small game hunters can pursue cottontail rabbit, snowshoe hare; and red, gray and fox squirrel. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department forecasts an average to good hunting season for upland game birds due to moisture conditions across the state....
Brenna Huckfeldt has taken over as the school nurse for the Hot Springs County School District. Huckfeldt was born and raised in Denver. She attended the University of Northern Colorado for two years before she transferred to the University of Wyoming. In 2007, she graduated with a degree in kinesiology and health promotion with an emphasis on exercise physiology. After graduating, Huckfeldt said she started nursing school in the fall and graduated in 2009. She spent her first year after...
