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The final Gymkhana event for the season was this past Saturday at the Hot Springs County Fairgrounds. Events during each Gymkhana include barrel racing, pole bending, goat tying, a flag race, dummy roping and a fun event. This month's fun event was a costume race. Results from Saturday's event are (in order of finish) Lead Line (ages 5 and under) Barrels: Tylee Agar, Corbin Dean, Casen Eckley, Scotlyn Armajo, Jillian Thomas, Kinley Postma Poles: Tylee Agar, Corbin Dean, Decker Agar, Scotlyn Armajo, Jillian Thomas, Casen Eckley Goats: Tylee...
The Christmas Baskets Program started in about 1982 at NOWCAP, moved to the Elks, then to the Episcopal Church. Business status, auditing, and oversite are now provided by the Episcopal Church. “Christmas Baskets” is a non-denominational program that serves anyone in need of the food & has people from the whole community who volunteer to help with the set-up & distribution. This year, because of the decreasing number of Scout Troops and Boy Scouts available, the High School and some Middle Sch...
This Saturday night, November 2, marks the end of Daylight Saving Time with everyone turning their clocks back one hour before going to bed. Less traumatic than the start of Daylight Saving Time, its end in the fall allows for an extra hour of sleep, even though the sun will be setting earlier. Although we’ve been under the misconception that Daylight Savings Time was started in order to give farmers an extra hour of daylight during the summer, it actually starting with something of a joking letter written by Benjamin Franklin in Paris, 1...
Get those little ghosts and goblins ready for the third annual First Responders Trunk or Treat event on Halloween night between the fire hall and the search and rescue building. From 6-8 p.m. the little ones can have safe trick or treating with the firemen, search and rescue, police, sheriff’s department, Wyoming Highway Patrol, Mortimore Ambulance Service and even the Wyoming Department of Transportation. This year the fire department has challenged all the other agencies to a pumpkin carving contest, so be sure to drop by and vote for your f...
Born in Great Falls, Mont., in 1958, George Kelly graduated from Charles M. Russell high school - whose teams were known as the Rustlers - in 1977. In the same year, he came to Thermopolis and has been here ever since. But about age 12, Kelly started doing drugs and alcohol. As to why he started, Kelly said it wasn't peer pressure but more he "just wanted to see what's happening . . . I did pretty much every drug there was." Since March 22 of 1999, he noted, he's been clean and sober. "I gave...
Competitors had a great time Saturday at the last Gymkhana of the season....
As October comes to a close, the weekend brings with it the opening of pheasant season. The season officially opens on Saturday, Nov. 3 and closes on Dec. 31, with shooting hours starting a half hour before sunrise and ending at sunset. Limit for Area 1, which Hot Springs County falls in, allows for a daily bag limit of three birds and nine in a hunter’s possession. Male pheasants only may be taken. The youth only hunt day is Saturday November 16. Only youths shall be allowed to take pheasants on this date. Youths under the age of fourteen (...
Joe Doak and the Worland Football Officials Association has ben selected by the Wyoming High School Activities Association to officiate the Class 3A first round playoff game between Jackson and Riverton. The game will be played in Riverton on Friday, Nov. 1. Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital employees Alyssa Lempka, Heather Castro, Kayla Wood and Connie Hart recently completed the Intermediate Fetal Monitoring Course. Castro, Jeri Slover, Crystal Merrill, Jennifer Paris, Bree Christiansen, Tara Henrie, Jeri Umbdenstock, Elizabeth Oliver,...
Sheriff Jerimie Kraushaar, as well as Deputy Casey Freund, stopped by Ralph Witters Elementary last week to pass out treat bags to students. In addition to some candy, students were given glow sticks and necklaces, and some Halloween safety tips....
Scenes from the 2019 Moonlight Madness...
Although there has been a merger between Wellspring Counseling and High Country Behavioral Health, clients won’t see much of a difference. The recent merger between the two companies has brought Wellspring under High Country’s umbrella along with other satellites in Afton, Evanston and Pinedale. Executive Director Allan Braaten said their clinical staff will not be changing and at this point, they won’t be bringing in anyone new. Braaten expects services to the public will remain the same, but there could be a slight change to the slidi...
Fremont County Coroner Mark Stratmoen claims Fremont County Attorney Patrick LeBrun is attempting to sabotage the proposed coroner’s inquest into the officer-involved shooting that led to the death of Anderson Antelope. LeBrun wrote a letter to the editor of The Ranger on Oct. 17 which raised several legal concerns regarding the intent and method of the public inquest. Antelope, 58, was shot by a Riverton Police Department officer Sept. 21 in front of Walmart in Riverton. Witnesses and authorities have reported that the officer, responding t...
John and Terry Kimes have quite the display set up for Halloween at their home on East Broadway. In addition to the various inflatable figures in the yard, there is also a haunted house to walk through....
