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Articles from the October 25, 2018 edition


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  • Hospital joins basin partnership

    Mark Dykes, Editor|Oct 25, 2018

    Last week, Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital CEO, Margie Molitor, attended the inaugural meeting of the Big Horn Basin Healthcare Partnership. The meeting was initiated by Amy Quick, Northwest Regional Director for the Wyoming Business Council. Molitor explained this partnership is designed for basin hospitals to come together and discuss the issues they have in common. At this first meeting, she said, there were people from Hot Springs, Big Horn, Park and Washakie counties, representing...

  • Halloween safety tips to keep in mind

    Oct 25, 2018

    Kids and adults alike love Halloween and everything that goes with it, from scary, creepy or super creative costumes to trick or treating and haunted houses, but there are some safety tips to keep in mind while you’re out having fun. Did you know on Halloween children are twice as likely to be hit by a car and killed than any other day of the year? According to the National Safety Council, 3,700 children died in vehicle related accidents in October, 2017, most of which occurred on Halloween. That doesn’t mean you should keep your little gho... Full story

  • Electrofishing sees increased numbers

    Mark Dykes, Editor|Oct 25, 2018

    Wyoming Game and fish staff were in town to do a fishing survey along the Bighorn River, from where the highway crosses the river to the island behind the WYDOT building, Oct. 15-18. Helping them out for a couple days were 10 students in the Hot Springs County 4-H Sport Fishing Club. Joel Farber, a leader with the 4-H club, noted the surveyors stopped at least a half dozen times on this section of the river, and utilized a technique known as electrofishing to subdue the fish. Electrofishing...