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The Friends of the Library will be holding their annual fall book sale on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 19-20 at the armory. Table upon table will be filled with books of all kinds, including children’s books, ready to go home with you for your winter reading when the snow flies. The sale will run from 5-7 p.m. on Friday and then again on Saturday, from 8 a.m.-noon. Saturday will also feature a bake sale. If you have books you would like to donate to the sale you may drop them off at the armory any time between now and the first day of the sale. I...
Thermopolis was fortunate this past weekend to host the Hunting with Heroes Wyoming, an organization dedicated to giving back to our disabled veterans. The group works with state agencies, local landowners and many, many volunteers to provide hunting opportunities to our veterans from across the country who are at least 50 percent disabled. They partner with the Wyoming Game and Fish to receive donated game licenses and Hunting with Heroes matches a veteran up with a license, guide, rifles and... Full story
This year, the Hot Springs County Pioneer Association, also known as the Pioneers, took on a project to engage the community in an effort to document family histories. The Pioneers previously published “Hot Springs County Memories from the Past” in 1996, as well as a supplement to that work in 1998. However, there have been at least two generations who have lived here for which there is no documentation, so the pioneers began soliciting family histories, in story form. Though the initial deadline for histories to be submitted was July 31, the...
This October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a time to raise awareness about a disease that affects one in eight American women some time in their lifetime. In 2018 alone, an estimated 266,120 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed along with 63,960 new cases of non-invasive breast cancer. Breast cancers can start in different parts of the breast, but most begin in the ducts that carry milk to the nipple. Some start in the glands that make the breast milk, but there are also other types that are less common....
Marion Godley of Whitby, North Yorkshire, England visits with author Craig Johnson during a book signing on Tuesday, Sept. 25. Johnson's Longmire Mystery series is quite popular and people lined up to meet him and get their books signed....
In the course of our lives, some may have watched as people — whether they know them or not — have been placed in handcuffs, led into a police officer or deputy’s vehicle and hauled off to jail. But what happens from there may not be as familiar. Sergeant Detention Administrator Beth Price explained when suspects are arrested they are taken to a secure area along with the arresting officer. At that point, they are medically assessed and searched, even if the officer conducted a search prior...
As the weather gets chillier we start to think about the flu and what this year’s season will bring. Should I get vaccinated? The Centers for Disease Control (CDC), recommends an annual flu shot for everyone six-months old and older. This year, the vaccines have been updated to better match circulating viruses. Both the B/Victoria component and the influenza A(H3N2) component were updated to fit the strains the CDC expects to be most common. Other strains the vaccine will fight against are t...
A few shots of Homecoming activities....
