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Hot Springs Dance LLC is hosting a father/daughter and mother/son dance at the Community Hall at 244 North Sixth on Friday, Feb. 15 from 5-8 p.m. The cost for the dance is $10 per couple and $5 per each additional child. This includes corsages for the girls, a professional photo, dinner and dessert, as well as dancing with a professional DJ. Attire for the dance is formal/semi formal. The money raised from the event goes towards scholarships for dance students. Hot Springs Dance currently has eight children covered fully by scholarship funds...
Belinda Dougherty of Ten Sleep shows off her paintings during the Second Friday ArtStroll in downtown Thermopolis...
On Feb. 4th the High School Jazz Band, also known as The Jazz Cat Big Band performed at the Kinser Jazz Festival at Casper College. The band had two clinics after their performance with Dr. Scott Turpen from the University of Wyoming and Dr. Lynn Baker from the Lamont School of Music at Denver University. The band received both Superior and Excellent ratings for their performance. On Feb. 9 20 Middle School students performed in the Showalter Festival at Northwest College in Powell. They received 11 Superior and 5 Excellent Ratings (adding...
Liam Bohleen gets a close up view of a package in the school district mail room. This week, Pre-K Academy students mailed out special valentines and took a tour of the school mail facilities....
Last week, kindergarten teacher Ashley Cleare showed off her new hairstyle to her class. Though typically sporting dark brown hair past her shoulders, Cleare had a look on Wednesday, Jan. 30 that definitely turned some heads as she rocked a partially shaved head and rainbow colors, as voted on by her students. New to the kindergarten team this year, Cleare grew up and graduated high school in Spring Creek, Nev., then attended college at Dickinson State University in Dickinson, N.D., where she... Full story
The Smoking Waters Art Guild invites you to come stroll with sweethearts and friends as the Second Friday ArtStroll/Still Strolling Saturday in downtown Thermopolis takes place Friday, February 8 from 5 p.m.-8 p.m. and Saturday, February 9 from around 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Host business, The Hot Springs County Museum and Cultural Center, will be abuzz on Friday night when the Hot Springs County Bobcat Robotics Teams show off their projects. The Alumninati Team is made up of mostly seniors and the Fist Full of Axles Team is made up mostly of freshmen...
Kids Need to Read (KNTR) will be arriving at Hot Springs County Library in June with Grow Your Library, an inspiring library donation program led by KNTR Board Member Gary Mlodzik and his wife Tina. Inspired by the Mlodzik's shared love of reading, family, and public libraries, this program delivers free books and story time to local libraries and children during the couple's travels. "I developed the Grow Your Library program to introduce a giving culture in the youth we meet at literacy events... Full story
The Hot Springs County Rec Department has started registration for Start Smart Sports, including basketball, soccer and baseball. Registration for basketball runs through Feb. 25. For soccer, the registration ends April 1 and for Baseball, registration needs to be done by May 13. There is a $15 registration fee for all three sports. The program is for all kids from three to five-years old and is a non-competitive, one on one with the child’s parent, which focuses on developing fundamentals of each sport to teach the basics. Parent p...
The 11th annual Ice Fishing Derby at Meeteetse will by Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 9 and 10, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day, at the Upper and Lower Sunshine Reservoirs. Sponsored by the Meeteetse Visitor Center, the event allows for up to 100 teams with a maximum of three people per team. The cost is $75 per team, and registration must be complete by Feb. 9. Applications are available online at meeteetsewy.com/events-calendar/applications-forms, and can be turned in at the visitor center or emailed to office@meeteetsewy.com Reports are that the ice...
The Hot Springs County Library Book Club will be meeting on Thursday, Feb. 21 at 6 p.m. The book they will be discussing is Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gul...
Daisy Torres and Jolan Sikes stop by the Thermopolis-Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce Monday for some refreshments served up by chamber board member Deb Tudor in recognition of the chamber's centennial this year....
The Hot Springs County Library invites the community to come out for Dinner and a Movie on Valentine’s Day, Thursday, Feb. 14 from 6-7:30 p.m. This month, the movie will be It Happened One Night, directed by Frank Capra and released in 1934. Opposites attract with magnetic force in this romantic road-trip delight from Frank Capra, about a spoiled runaway socialite (Claudette Colbert) and a roguish man-of-the-people reporter (Clark Gable) who is determined to get the scoop on her scandalous disappearance. The first film to accomplish the very r...
The sweet sounds of the fiddle brought the melody together last Friday night during the Bluegrass Jam at Exxon Southside....
Will Ward leads his steer from the chute after fair board member Arnold Pennoyer tagged it on Sunday. The 4-H and FFA youth of Hot Springs County were required to bring their steers in to be weighed and tagged with a Wyoming State Fair RFID (radio-frequency identification) tag in order for them to be able to show and sell their animals at county fair. This is the first year state fair will be using the electronic ID tags....
Wearing some numerical head gear, Ralph Witters Elementary Principal Catelyn Deromedi helps celebrate the 100th day of school....
Logan Sullivan shows his Pomsky - Pomeranian and Husky - named Zoe to classmates during a special pajama party day for Ralph Witters Elementary first grade students....
The second Champion for Children in Hot Springs County School District #1 was chosen recently, Brandon Deromedi. Deromedi will join three other Champions this year for a chance to be named Teacher of the Year for the 2018-2019 school year. A member of the district's outstanding PE/Health Department, Deromedi is also the District's Activities Director, District Trainer and shares time at the high school and the middle school. A 2003 graduate of Worland High School, Deromedi received his...
Several desserts were auctioned off Sunday evening at the VFW, with proceeds of about $4,100 from the auction and walking taco dinner going to the Class of 2019's graduation party....
This past weekend, Robotics teams No. 4273, Aluminati, and No. 7238, Fistful of Axles, competed at the Montana State Championship in Bozeman. Coach London Jenks said both teams experienced some robot problems — some mechanical, some programming — but the older students team, Aluminati, came away with a 3-2 record and 18th place and the younger Axles team had a 2-3 record and placed 24th. Jenks noted there were 33 teams at the competition. The teams also took home some second place awards, Alu...
Forget about the sugar and the calories, when it comes to Valentine’s Day, all of those things go out the window. True chocolate lovers will be found at the Hot Springs County Library on Saturday, Feb. 9 for the Chocolate Lover’s Event, sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Starting at 11 a.m. pay just $5 at the door and fill your dessert plate with all kinds of decadent chocolate goodies. All proceeds from the Chocolate Lover’s Event will benefit the Hot Springs County Library....
The Hot Springs County Historical Society will meet at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 9 at the Hot Springs County Museum. The program will be “Petrified Wood in the Absaroka Range,” presented by Larry Amundson. This presentation will describe prehistoric high altitude camping and tool making sites in the southern Absaroka Range. Human occupation in these remote portions of the Washakie Wilderness is evidenced by the presence of surface lithic flakes created during tool production using petrified wood. Amundson’s exploration of the region comme...
The 2019 ice fishing derby at Boysen Reservoir this past weekend saw 320 entrants, falling just two short from the previous year. Fishers competed in categories of trout, perch, crappie, walleye and ling, vying for the biggest catch in each. In cases where several people had the same weight, earliest weigh-in times determined placings. Catches, in order of finish with weight in pounds were: Trout — Joshua Lackey, 5.01; Garrett Aldrich, 4:15; Chance Marquette, 4.10; Kelly Britain, 4.01; Kaitlyn Aldrich, 3.15; Brianna Thompson, 3.15; Ronnie S...
Jonah Needham answers a question during the Thermopolis Middle School Geography Bee on Jan. 24. After several rounds of questions about various countries and those who live there, Needham emerged the winner....
The Challenge of the Books was held at the armory last Wednesday with students from Thermopolis Middle School taking fifth with their record and third with their points. Challenge of the Books is a contest for middle school students who love to read and they are expecting to host about seven other schools for the competition. A list of 12 books, which come from the Soaring Eagle and Indian Paintbrush nominee lists, are given to the children to read each August. The students then read each of the books with an emphasis on remembering the...
Heidi Hunt keeps track of brothers Maximus and Davien Martinez while Jameson Dennis remains frozen during a game of "podball," a dodgeball variation....
