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The Thermopolis Gymkhana Series will host its Bucks for Buckaroos event this Saturday, March 17 at the Hot Springs County Fairgrounds, beginning at 6 p.m. There will be a chili feed as well as a silent auction. Adults are $10, and kids 12 and under are $5. There will also be a shorty team roping jackpot and a stick horse barrel jackpot with divisions of Peewee (six and under), Youth (ages 7-14) and Open (14 and older) in each. In the team roping jackpot, entry fees are $5 per man. Bring your own kid rope, and every team gets three head to run...
The Theremopolis Middle School Commons will be home to a fundraiser to help the school’s Water for South Sudan project on Tuesday, March 20 beginning at 6 p.m. The project began over a year ago in the student family groups of Jacob Strenger and Eric Kay, inspired by “A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park, which gives an account of Sudanese girl Nya and her ordeal in travelling rough terrain for miles jus to draw water for her family from a pond. The students decided to help raise the $15,000 to sponsor a well in Sudan, but there is still...
Hot Springs County School District Superintendent Dustin Hunt honors teacher Aimee Kay as the fourth and Bobcat Champion for Children. Kay joins those in the running for Teacher of the Year, which will be announced later this school year....
Saturday, March 3 was the 100th anniversary and the 106th meeting of the Big Horn Basin Master's Club, held at Malta Lodge No. 17, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Wyoming. There were 31 Masons from Basin, Powell, Cody, Shoshoni, Thermopolis and Riverton as well as guests from Casper. The Grand Master of Masons of Wyoming, Mark S. Young, also attended the meeting. The meeting opened at 10 a.m. by Dennis Wilson, master of the Malta Lodge here in Thermopolis, with business and election of...
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department will conduct six open-house meetings throughout the Bighorn Basin with one final meeting in Worland to discuss 2018 hunting season proposals for game birds and big game. During the open houses, Game and Fish personnel will be available to discuss the proposed 2018 hunting seasons for local hunt areas. Locally, the meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 21, starting at 6 p.m. in the meeting room at Big Horn Federal. The final formal meeting, during which statewide seasons may be discussed, will be held...
Emergency Management coordinator Bill Gordon attended a meeting last week in Riverton which included information on river flows from the Bureau of Reclamation’s Casper Control Center. Gordon said the bureau has determined there will be no flushing of the Wind River this year. After the high flows in 2017, the Wyoming Game and Fish requested no flushing flow be sent downstream this year. Currently, the release from Boysen Reservoir is at 2000 cubic feet per second (cfs). The bureau had to wait for the last of the ice to clear out in Big Horn C...
The Hot Springs County Speech and Debate team attended their State Tournament last weekend in Lander, coming home with a fifth place win. "This was a great weekend for this young team," coach Cindy Glasson said. "We are up against over 400 competitors at State and with a team of just 11, I think they did a bang up job." While none of the Bobcats made the main stage, they did place in a few events as 3A competitors. Reilly Russell brought home a third place medal in 3A poetry, Tyler Kay won third...
Last week, students and staff members at Hot Springs County High School challenged themselves through the Badcat Obstacle Course Race. The course took them through and around the school, as well as the Ralph Witters Elementary (RWE) playground and into Hot Springs State Park. Beginning at the northeast corner of the track at LeRoy Hayes Memorial Stadium, participants run about half a lap before climbing an A frame over the fence into the RWE playground to complete both sets of monkey bars. They...
Bring on the green this Saturday with the Shamrock Shuffle 5k to help the Bobcat Cross Country team. Entry fee for the race is $10 and participants will receive a free t-shirt. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. with the race set to begin at 9 a.m. at the Hot Springs Count High School track. Thermopolis students may run for free, but if they would like a t-shirt they will have to pay the $10 entry fee. All proceeds will go the Bobcat Cross Country team Be sure to wear your green!...
Hot Springs County High School students Jaydon Christiansen and Matthew Reynolds test out their tennis ball launching trebuchet before making modifications....
The Riverton Workforce Center, a local office of the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services, has scheduled a Thermopolis services day on the Tuesday, March 20 at Hot Springs County Library. A representative will be available to help job seekers and employers at the library from 10 a.m. until noon, and from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. The representative can help people register on the Wyoming Dept. of Workforce Services website, wyomingatwork.com, or update contact information and work history. Help can be given to create a resume or to retrieve a...
ASSE International Student Exchange Programs (ASSE), in cooperation with your community high school, is looking for local families to host boys and girls between the ages of 15 to 18 from a variety of countries: Norway, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Japan, to name a few. ASSE students are enthusiastic and excited to experience American culture while they practice their English. They also love to share their own culture and language with their host families. Host families welcome these students into their family, not as a guest, but as a family...
Mark your calendar for a night of great entertainment as students from across the Big Horn Basin gather to show off their talents at the Encore talent show. The show will be held on Saturday, April 7 at the auditorium, starting at 6 p.m. Auditions will be held on Saturday, March 24 at Risen Son Church beginning at 1 p.m. Cash prizes will be awarded to the top three acts in each category – elementary, middle school and high school....
One sure sign that school is nearly over for the year is the Junior Prom. This year, it is scheduled for Saturday, May 5. Of course, it is also one of the most expensive events of the year, too. That’s where the prom dress exchange comes in. Bring in gently used formal dresses, shoes or suits to donate for prom to the high school. Those going to prom can then pop in to Cortney O’Connor’s office to shop in the “closet” for free. You may bring your donations any time from now until prom....
The Knights of Columbus is currently selling tickets for a beef raffle, with the drawing to be held on April 8. Prizes awarded are for four equal portions, and tickets are available by calling 864-4169, 864-2043 or by contacting any Knights of Columbus member....
The Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) is gearing up for its first quarter, 2018 meeting, on Tuesday, March 20 at 5:30 p.m. at the firehall. They will conduct a brief meeting to handle business before breaking for dinner provided by the Thermopolis Volunteer Fire Department, followed by a training presentation by Wyoming Pipeline. This year’s pipeline training will focus specifically on Hot Springs County....
Central Bank & Trust will again host a Meet and Greet event on Thursday, March 15, beginning at 5:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome to attend, and beer and brats will be the main fare of the evening. Join the fun at 435 Arapahoe....
David Duncan reads with his daughter, Lettie, during the Dads and Daylight event at Ralph Witters Elementary. The event, as well as Moms and Muffins, invites parents to come to the school for a light breakfast. both events are put on by Lights On Afterschool....
Everyone could use a little mystery in their life and the Big Horn Basin Riders (BHBR) are going to provide you an evening with a bit of mystery and lots of fun. The Masquerade Freedom Ball will be held on Saturday, March 17, starting at 7 p.m. at the VFW, featuring a DJ from San Francisco along with baked goods, a 50/50 raffle, roses for your sweetheart and BHBR glasses and bandanas for sale. As a casual evening, you can dress up or dress down, but bring your dancing shoes. The event is being held as a fundraiser for the group to help send...
The Thermopolis-Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce is celebrating its 97th Annual Chamber Banquet on March 24. The banquet theme is “An Evening with the Stars” and the chamber will honor the 2017 Business, Citizen and Non-Profit Organization of the Year. The evening begins at 5:30 p.m. at the Hot Springs County Fair Building to the music of local, Eric Kay, during the no host social hour. Dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m., with the awards and speakers starting at 7 p.m. The evening will finish with more music from Kay. Entrees for the evening inc...
Republicans met locally on Saturday to determine who will be going to the 2018 Republican Convention as well as other business of the party. Representative Liz Cheney attended the meeting, flying in from D.C. to give the members the latest information from the Capitol. Delegates to attend the 2018 Convention include Charles Curley, Kevin Dickey (resolutions committee), Jamie George, Wyatt Agar, Nathan Winters (nominations committee) and Jim Collins (bylaws). Alternates that will be there as...
Crazy hats and hair were part of a fun week celebrating Dr. Seuss at Ralph Witters Elementary, and students brought plenty of flair to their classrooms and the cafeteria. Enjoying their lunch are, left to right, Payton Straley, Peighton Vargas and Zennin Sosa....
The Second Friday ArtStroll/StillStrollingSaturday in downtown Thermopolis, March 9 and 10, celebrates Young at HeART, artists of all ages, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. There will be students showing and selling their creations, other artists of all ages, and musicians at the businesses. StillStrollingSaturday continues Saturday during regular business hours. Many of the downtown merchants will be running specials in conjunction with the ArtStroll. In the words of Janet Langsam, the head of a regional arts organization, ArtsWestchester, “ . . . the a...
The Vespar Chapter of the Eastern Star welcomes everyone to their soup and book fundraiser on Saturday, March 10 at the Masonic Hall. The sale is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m., and homemade soups will be offered beginning at 11 a.m....
At the library inside Ralph Witters Elementary, several shelves are lined with books in open, lettered boxes. Though at first appearing like an alphabetical sorting system, the letters actually denote different reading levels for students. School principal Laurie Graves said they currently have 2,782 titles and 22,587 books in the "leveled library." Right now, Graves said, teachers are involved in benchmark testing and professional development, and the instructional level of the child...
