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A buffalo relaxes whiles soaking up some sun in Hot Springs State Park....
If you own a Nerf gun, chances are you were attending Saturday's Nerf War at the Hot Springs State Park. Dallon Basse, Carter Mascorro and Jessen Basse take cover during the opening team death match event where two teams face off until time runs out....
Members of the Thermopolis Volunteer Fire Department will be out on Labor Day at the stoplight and at 14th and Fremont with their boots out. This weekend marks the kickoff for the annual Fill the Boot fundraising campaign for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). People can stop by either of the locations to drop their contributions in the boots, beginning at 10 a.m. Monday. Fire Chief Mark Collins said the firefighters would be out until early afternoon. Last year the local campaign generated over $4,400. The MDA works to free...
The annual summer picnic hosted by the Hot Springs County Historical Society, Pioneer Association and Hot Springs County Museum is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 9 at Legend Rock. While past years have seen a gathering area with a caravan to the picnic site, those attending this year should meet at Legend Rock at 11:30 a.m., with the potluck scheduled for noon, weather permitting. Chicken and drinks will be provided, but please bring a dish — salad, veggie or dessert — to share with others, as well as your own table service, chairs, cam...
Terresa Humphries-Wadsworth has been training for some time now in preparation for her long trek across Wyoming to raise awareness and support for Suicide Prevention. Beginning in Cody tomorrow, Sept. 1, she will begin her 15-day journey to Cheyenne to raise awareness that struggle is part of the human condition and you don’t have to do it alone. And Humphries-Wadsworth won’t be doing it alone. When she told her friend Kelly Eckerdt about her plan last year, Eckerdt jumped right in, telling her...
Hot Springs County High School students and their families enjoyed dinner and a showing of "The Princess Bride" Friday night....
Opening day for small game and upland bird species begins tomorrow, Friday, Sept. 1. Wyoming Game and Fish is predicting an average to good hunting season for game birds due to the moisture conditions across the state. Also, cottontail hunting is projected to be excellent, but hunters are advised to wear rubber gloves when cleaning the animals, particularly prior to cold weather, as tularemia has been diagnosed in several areas of the state. Bird hunters can be on the look out for mourning doves, sora and virginia rail, snipe, early Canada...
This past weekend saw the 12th annual Great American Turbo Turtle Trek, the main fundraiser for the local Rotary club. Brian Yarrington won the first place prize of $1,000, with Gunner Morningstar winning the second place cash prize of $500....
NW BOCES students and staff joined together on Monday to watch the eclipse. Several visitors and community members all over the county paused to watch the amazing sight of the total eclipse, just as hundreds of thousands did across the state and country....
Mud slinging, engines revving, screaming fans – it was a typical night at Hot Springs County Fairgrounds as the Demolition Derby hit the field. After four main heats, the Herbie Derby and the Truck Derby, it came down to the final heat with Pat King, Stephen Flinn, Kyle Larson, Deven Scherf, Zack Larson, Wyatt Ramsey, Kyle McIntosh, Kurt Shaffer, Luke Mead and Chase Mead. The survivors were first place, Wyatt Ramsey; second place, Zack Larson; third place, Stephen Flinn and fourth place, D...
With school back in session, the People for People Backpack program is ready to kick off another year of helping fight hunger for the school children in Hot Springs County. The program is aimed toward helping children who may not have enough to eat over the weekend by providing bags of food the children can easily prepare for themselves or their siblings on Fridays as they leave school. Once each month, Food Bank of the Rockies makes a stop in Thermopolis at the Episcopal Church to drop off...
Hot Springs County High School is planning a special Dinner and Walk In Movie Night event for high school students and their parents on Friday, Aug. 25. The event provides and exciting way to start the school year and an opportunity to interact with staff. Dinner will be served at 7 p.m., featuring a menu of pulled pork sandwiches, Hessenthaler corn and chips. The movie will begin at 8 p.m., at the football field. The film, “The Princess Bride,” is a fairy tale adventure, told from the perspective of a grandfather reading to his grandson. It...
Jessica Lippincott and London Jenks prepare a weather balloon for launch at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center. The activity was among the happenings in Thermopolis Monday prior to the solar eclipse. Once the balloon was filled and the data collection equipment attached, those attending had an informal launch countdown....
The 16th Annual Fall WYO Quarter Horse Ranch Sale is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 9 at the Hot Springs County Fairgrounds. The sale is set to begin at 1 p.m., with a performance preview at 9 a.m. The day before, on Friday, Sept. 8, there will be a “Parade of Geldings” preview, beginning at 7 p.m. at the fairgrounds. Carole Smith noted for sale there will be 32 broke geldings, 32 started two-year-olds, eight yearlings and 27 weanlings. Smith further added the two-year-olds, yearlings and weanlings are all home raised. The sales regularly bring...
Hot Springs County High School senior Jared Little finishes a mural at Ralph Witters Elementary, where he spent his younger school years. Little feels RWE was a big part of his life and the mural is an opportunity for him to give back....
New high school freshmen had a good rolling start on Tuesday with the help of some mentors from the upper class. Lots of teamwork, learning and fun was the highlight of the day....
Erin Dyok looks to knock a frisbee into a goal during the Gottsche open house for the eclipse....
Willow Moore took advantage of the variety of cookies available during a fundraiser lunch Sunday afternoon at the Hot Springs County Senior Center....
Captured the moment the moon began to move out of the path of the sun during Monday's celestial 2017 total eclipse event....
There are still some tickets available for the 12th annual Great American Turbo Turtle Trek on Saturday, Aug. 26. The event is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m., at the Big Spring outlet stream. The trek is the main fundraiser for the local Rotary, which uses the money for projects such as scholarships, handicap accessible swings in Hot Springs State Park, helping with Christmas baskets and donating to building an outhouse at the 4-H camp. The local club has also sent Rotarians to Kenya to help with the clean water project. The turtle trek begins...
Visitors to Thermopolis for the eclipse used some home-grown ingenuity when it came to photographing the event. People came together to fill parks, downtown and surrounding areas to view the once in a lifetime event....
Violet Peterson gets to sit in the cockpit of a medical helicopter as Elizabeth Peterson takes a look at the controls, during the fly in at the Hot Springs County Airport Saturday. Visitors were treated to a pancake breakfast and observed the fliers who came in, which included helicopter and plane pilots, and even a bat or two....
A special eclipse ArtStroll takes place in downtown Thermopolis, Friday, Aug. 18, 5-8 p.m. Hosted by the Hot Springs County Museum and Cultural Center, artists will be set up Friday evening both in stores and on the sidewalks of Broadway. Artists and demonstrators continue Still Strolling Saturday during regular business hours, and some will continue to participate on Sunday. Strollers will enjoy a variety of wares for sale, on display, and in demonstrations. As explained by Stroll co-organizer Toddi Darlington, “The ArtStroll, usually held o...
The Wyoming Dinosaur Center will be hosting a series of films and lectures this weekend, Aug. 19 and 20 at the school’s auditorium. All of the events are free to the public. On Saturday, at 10:15 a.m., learn all about “Solar Superstorms” through a major production that takes viewers into the tangle of magnetic fields and super hot plasma that vents the sun’s rage in dramatic flares, violent solar tornadoes, and the largest eruptions in the solar system – coronal mass ejections. The show will...
