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The Hot Springs County Board of Commissioners meeting Tuesday began laying the final groundwork for the new Hot Springs County Airport opening, planned for November 7. The three-hour meeting was dedicated to reviewing final steps for the completion of the airport, and featured discussions about the third and final coat of seal and paint on the runway, which will occur on September 21-22, fuel tank procurement, updates on the SRE building, and the possibility of renting a fuel truck from a nearby...
With skillful execution of parliamentary procedure, the Thermopolis Town Council meeting was started. The agenda was approved with one change. A catering permit for Shorty’s Saloon for Octobrewfest to serve alcohol on the main street was granted. Alex McLean requested an application to close the street at the stoplight for the Homecoming Parade. The town needed to sign off on the parade to be able to turn around at the stoplight. Mayor Mike Mortimore signed the application so it can be passed o... Full story
The third and final public meeting regarding the upcoming Hot Springs State Park Master Plan Draft sparked passionate debate between Thermopolis residents on Monday night. The meeting, held at the Thermopolis Fire Hall, was attended by tens of Hot Springs County residents and was the last public forum in which invested members of the community could gather to voice their opinion regarding the formation of the first Hot Springs Master Plan in nearly three decades. This Master Plan, when eventuall...
Students and family members enjoyed games and ice cream at the Head Start social Sept. 10. Left to right. Briar, Vinnie, Abigail and James take their turn playing with a parachute....
The wild fires are getting closer to home. On Wednesday, Sept. 9, 70 acres of grass and sagebrush burned at the Jones Creek Basin on Copper Mountain. The fire was quickly under control as several special equipped aircraft left from Casper to fight the fire. These S.E.A.T (single engine air tanker) dumped an estimated 10,000 gallons of slurry onto the fire. Thermopolis's own volunteer fire fighters contributed five engines and the BLM added two more to the fight one from Worland the other from...
Thermopolis Volunteer Fireman Brandon Blakesley sprays water on a smoldering tree stump during a grass fire on South 5th Street. The fire department responded in full force to quickly contain the fire as the wind fueled the fire....
A new counseling and consultation office, run by a longtime Hot Springs County resident, has opened in Thermopolis. Catherine Crumpler, who has worked in the mental health field for almost 30 years, has recently begun taking consultations at her 6th Street office. Crumpler, who has worked in Thermopolis as a mental health professional for over 17 years, says she has so far experienced "nothing but positive support" during the process of opening her own office. Crumpler says she has loved her...
A Wyoming veterans service officer from the Wyoming Veterans Commission will conduct community outreach services in Thermopolis Thursday, Sept. 24 at the Hot Springs County Museum from noon-2 p.m. Brad Cline is available to meet with veterans and their families to discuss state and federal veterans’ benefits, Department of Veterans Affairs claims, or VA healthcare. Cline can also help veterans and their families apply for benefits, file claims or request healthcare. His office is staffed in Cody, at 1026 Blackburn Ave., Suite 1. Cline can be r...
A representative from the Riverton Workforce Center, a local office of the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services, will be available Tuesday, Sept. 22 at Hot Springs County Library from 10-noon and from 1:30-3:30 p.m. The Riverton office of the Department of Workforce Services is also available by phone at 307-856-9231 or on their website at http://wyomingworkforce.org....
New Orleans singer songwriter Kerry Grombacher explains to the English III class about inspiration and structure to create a good song....
U.S. Constitution Week is the commemoration of America’s most important document. It is celebrated annually during the week of Sept. 17-23. The week is kicked off by Constitution Day Sept. 17. On that day in 1787, the U.S. Constitution was signed by 39 men who changed the course of history. Thermopolis Middle School fifth grade teacher Jessie Rode asked her students to write a short paragraph about what the Constitution means to them. TMS fifth graders recently started a unit to learn about the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution is the law. I...
As a senior citizen with steadily declining health, I'm forced to think about my own mortality. Last week's newspaper stated Wyoming as having “one of the nation's highest rates of suicide, often leading the U.S.” You know what else we lead the country in? Elderly. According to the WY Dept. of Health: Aging Division, “it is projected that by the year 2020, WY will have the highest proportion of people between the ages of 65-74 in the U.S WY population is aging fast intensified as the baby-boomer cohort reaches retirement at an annual rate inc...
Through years of attendance to State Park facilities, we have been impressed with the staff that we have met in these facilities. Friends, family and guests have come to our State Park and have been very impressed with the appearance of the grounds and efficiency of the workers there. A personal thank you is given to the employees of these Parks. My wife and I, and others in our community, have attended a number of meetings in regard to the Hot Springs State Park and the formation of a 20 year master plan. In many of these meetings we have...
On Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015 there was a range fire on Copper Mountain. It was not known how the fire started but the from the time 911 was call the Thermopolis Volunteer fire fighters and BLM fire fighters arrived on Copper Mountain it seemed like a very short time. Their teams went right to work and had the fire contained within a couple of hours. The wind stayed calm and the borate bomber was able to keep the fire from really getting out of hand. We would like to thank all the men that were involved, their fast response and for keeping the...
Harry and the “Just Say No PAC” pretty well summed up their stance in the opening paragraph of Harry Hughes’ letter to the editor in the Sept. 10 Independent Record. They would like a hospital in our community, they just don't want to have to help pay for it. In fact, one of their group said that very thing at a hospital board meeting. That is their interpretation of “The Wyoming Way” as near as I can tell. As someone who was born in, raised in and lived nearly my whole life in Wyoming that interpretation is frankly kind of embarrass...
An anonymous artist drew the Twin Towers along with the message "We Remembered" during the ArtStroll on the 14th anniversary of the September 11 attacks....
Several new teachers joined the Hot Springs County School District for the 2015-16 school year. Thomas Koehler Thomas Koehler, who is starting his first year as an Industrial Arts teacher at Hot Springs County High School, has nine years' teaching experience and a strong background in construction, welding, drafting, and machining. He moved to Thermopolis with his wife, who teaches third grade at RWE. His favorite aspect of teaching is being able to expose students to every opportunity they...
What if your family was living a busy and involved life, as respected members of the community, businessmen, civic leaders, homeowners, children active in schools. Then suddenly, overnight, everything is turned upside down. You are given a few days to pack what can be carried in a suitcase, rounded up by military guards, and removed from your home to a remote area where you must make a new life surrounded by barbed wire fences, guards in towers watching 24 hours a day. It happened to nine-year-old Sam Mihara in 1942, then living in San...
Children in grades kindergarten through 4th grade are invited to Wednesday Fellowship at Federated Community Church located at the corner of Sixth and Big Horn St. from 4-5 p.m. every Wednesday. Pick up is available at Ralph Witters Elementary. Youth Pizza Fellowship is available every Wednesday starting at 6:15 p.m. at the Federated Community Church for students in fifth through 12 grade. For more information about either event, call 921-9863....
Jim and Peggy Kirsch recently met with U.S. Senator John Barrasso in his Washington, D.C. office. The couple visited the nation's capital with the Foster Grandparents of Wyoming organization....
Opening the Travel and Tourism meeting on a positive note, Amanda Moeller reported that it was a record month for the tax deposit with an 18% increase over last year. This is the highest deposit in four years. She mentioned during the Craft Fair one of the venders had trouble finding a place to stay due to the local motels being booked up. With efforts to combine the Craft Fair, Folk Festival and Gift of the Waters was quite successful and if all the motels were booked then something was done...
The annual WYO Quarter Horse Fall Sale saw 98 horses sold to 15 different states and three horses sold to Peru on Saturday. Carole Smith, co-owner of the WYO Ranch, said this Fall's sale was "a good sale," and about "on par with last year's Fall sale." 30 geldings, 35 two-year-olds, eight yearlings, and 25 weanlings were sold. The average price of the geldings was $13,425, the two-year-olds $5,212.86, the yearlings $1,131.21, and the weanlings $894. The high selling horse, a 6 year-old buckskin...
An Interactive Health Fair for Seniors will be held Thursday, Sept. 24 from 8:30-11 a.m. at Hot Springs County Senior Center at 206 Senior Avenue. A sensible nutrition demonstration, dining with diabetes class signups, A1C testing and foot checks by the Public Health Nurse, blood pressure checks, ionic foot baths by Natural Health Solutions, fall prevention and senior fitness demonstrations by Gottsche and flu shots through Shopko will be available during the health fair. Representatives from Paintbrush Dental and Wyoming Cancer Resource...
“A Rambling Stretch,” a concert of contemporary jazz music inspired by the beauty of the Cowboy State and its landscape by composer and Wyoming native Tyler Gilmore, will visit Thermopolis Wednesday, Sept. 23. The performance will be at the Hot Springs County School Auditorium at 7 p.m. Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and students are free. In the performances, Gilmore explores Wyoming’s landscapes and people with the accompaniment of a 12-piece jazz chamber ensemble. The origins of Gilmore’s music composition can be traced back to...
The Hot Springs County High School Lady Bobcats ended last weekend's Big Horn Invitational with mixed results. During two set pool play on Friday, the ever-improving Lady Cats split sets with both Burns and Tongue River before losing both games to Shoshoni. After their performance on Friday, the Lady Cats drew a fifth seed on Saturday and squared off against Tongue River, Riverside, and Lusk. Saturday's results compared favorably with Friday's, as the Lady Cats lost to Tongue River in three... Full story
