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Though last Friday’s football game against Mountain View wound up with a 31-8 loss for the Bobcats, Coach Matthew McPhie is proud of the young men and the effort they put in against the defending state champ team. McPhie pointed out that just a few years back Thermopolis had a 45-0 loss against Mountain View, so they are definitely improving. The bobcats did well in the first half, McPhie said, keeping it a close, 7-2 game, though a costly turnover on the five-yard line kept them from taking t...
The Thermopolis Middle School football team had a bit of a rough start to the season, coach Shane Corpening said, with their first two games resulting in 40-point losses to Shoshoni and Lander. "After that," the coach said, "I felt like we had a turning point in our season, a complete 180-degree turnaround. We've been a different team." Part of that, he said, is having Roedy Farrell back and healthy to help the team. The Bobcats saw victory against Rocky Mountain on Saturday, Sept. 15, and most...
Thermopolis Middle School seventh and eighth grade volleyball teams are getting a lot of court time for both the A and B teams. Head coach Aimee Kay said the teams are continuing to work on a complicated system. “We are improving on transitioning from offense to defense,” she said. “My hope is that having a solid understanding of these concepts and skills will set them up for an easier transition to the high school level of play.” Kay added their serves are still a struggle and they don’t get a...
Several riders from Hot Springs County travelled to the Sweetwater Events Complex in Rock Springs for the Wyoming NBHA Finals, Sept. 22 and 23. The riders did well, with many placing in the top 10 — even the top 5 — in their divisions over the two-day event and Mesa Allen winning the Youth 2D division on Saturday with a time of 16.906. Additional results for Youth are: Saturday, 1D Kaitlyn Schmuck third, 16.428; Schmuck fifth, 16.522 Sunday, 1D Allen third, 16.127; Schmuck fourth, 16.220; Schmuck sixth, 16.279 Sunday, 2D Allen fifth, 17....
Saturday at Gottsche Rehab and Wellness, an awning is lowered over the entryway. Renovations to the facility include revised parking areas as well....
During Tuesday night’s meeting of the Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees, CEO Margie Molitor announced news from the USDA. The hospital had applied for a USDA loan of over $21 million for the renovation and expansion, and Molitor informed the board that the money had been approved. Following an executive session, the board approved to move forward with the paperwork for the loan, meaning it is now obligated. Molitor explained the $21,346,000 being obligated means it's l...
Hot Springs County was one of the top three counties in the state to see a significant drop in unemployment in July, dropping from 3.9 percent to 3.3 percent. Teton County saw a drop from 2.4 percent to 1.9 percent, primarily due to seasonal workers filling open positions in the leisure and hospitality industries. Park County also dropped, going from 3.8 percent to 3.3 percent. From June to July, most counties followed their normal seasonal pattern and showed lower unemployment rates. The overall labor force in Wyoming, however, fell by 5,984...
You can almost smell the scent of fall in the air, the perfect time to start preparing your lawn and garden for winter. Taking care of your garden beds now will make your work in the spring more simple, allowing you to really enjoy planting time again. One of the first things to do is clean up all of the rotting and finished plants. Clear these out along with any straggling weeds, especially those that are invasive, to give your ground a fresh start for spring. Fall is the perfect time to prep your soil for spring, adding compost and other nutr...
Tuesday, Oct. 2 marks the final day the Honorable Judge Robert E. Skar will serve as a District Judge of the Fifth Judicial District. Skar announced his retirement in June, and earlier this month Governor Matthew Mead chose to appoint Bobbi Overfield to fill the vacancy. Overfield will see cases in Hot Springs District Court Oct. 15, with her official robing ceremony set for Thursday, Nov. 8 at 3 p.m. This year also marks Skar's 40th as a practicing attorney, having earned his Juris Doctorate...
The Lights On Afterschool program through the Hot Springs County School District just finished an excellent 2017-2018 year and are already in full swing for another successful year. According to program coordinator Elisa Daniels, 266 children were enrolled in the programs at the schools last year with 238 of those coming on a regular, sometimes daily, basis. There were 109 in the Ralph Witters Elementary (RWE) program, 97 at the middle school, 17 at the high school (robotics) and even 15 little ones in the Pre-K program. When it came to family...
Last Wednesday, the Makerspace area of Thermopolis Middle School looked more like a studio for a cooking show, as Brailee DeVries and Brody Sorensen worked alongside Pam Jensen of King Arthur's Flour, for the company's Bake for Good Kids program. Though only two students did the work, a camera trained on their workstation gave fifth and sixth graders an up close look as they measured, mixed and kneaded. Teacher Becky Martinez explained each student received their own bag of the ingredients for...
Saturday marked the final day of the 2018 Farmer’s Market, a staple each Saturday for the past eight years. Sonja Becker, organizer of the weekly market, said this year’s market season started out very strong with a really good turn out by shoppers. “We are always happy to see new faces coming by,” she said, “as well as those who join us every year and every week to do much of their shopping.” The market had between nine and 13 vendors each week, which Becker says is a little down from last year, but it was consistent with previous years. “We...
Wyoming and Hot Springs County has seen some West Nile Virus activity this season, especially equine and avian cases. Hot Springs County was one of the counties where pools which were tested were found to have positive results for mosquitoes carrying the virus. Other counties included Fremont, Goshen and Natrona Counties. There have been no fatalities reported, but Fremont County did report two positive human cases. Campbell, Johnson and Natrona Counties all reported single cases of the virus in birds, and there have been a total of nine...
Hot Springs County Emergency Management, with cooperation from several agencies, conducted a disaster drill last Saturday in front of the Chamber of Commerce. The drill, which started shortly after 9 a.m., was the reconstruction of a wreck that included a semi-truck carrying guthion, a nerve agent used in pesticides with similar properties to the deadly serin compound. Volunteer actors, including nine students from the high school drama club and four adults, portrayed victims in several...
