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You can almost smell the scent of fall in the air, the perfect time to start preparing your lawn and garden for winter. Taking care of your garden beds now will make your work in the spring more simple, allowing you to really enjoy planting time again. One of the first things to do is clean up all of the rotting and finished plants. Clear these out along with any straggling weeds, especially those that are invasive, to give your ground a fresh start for spring. Fall is the perfect time to prep your soil for spring, adding compost and other nutr...
Briar Lahoe pours a cool drink to customer Mayor Mike Chimenti while staying out the heat at their lemonade stand at Bicentennial Park.... Full story
A very smooth putt sits right on the edge of the cup before dropping in during the Hospital Foundation Golf Tournament last Saturday....
Shelley Deromedi explains the voting process to a voter during the Primary Election on Tuesday....
by Amber Geis More questions than answers. That's what retired archeologist Danny Walker has come up with after excavating an 12 by 12 foot hole last week at Legend Rock Petroglyph Site. The newest exploratory dig is a culmination of decades of research to uncover the puzzle left behind thousands of years ago by early inhabitants. In 1988, a team from the Wyoming Archeological Office headed by Walker set out in search of artifacts at Legend Rock in order to preserve resources prior to...
Hot Springs State Park was packed with visitors and locals over the weekend taking in the sun and fun....
How about a whole new way to spend your Friday night? Friday, September 11 the Hot Springs County High School Cross Country team will be holding a 5k Glow Run as a fundraiser for their upcoming season. Starting at 8 p.m. from the high school parking lot directly across from the Chamber of Commerce, participants will receive a glow in the dark t-shirt and two glow sticks. Additional fun glow stick pieces, like rings and sunglasses, will also be for sale for a dollar per item. Cost for the run will be $20 if you would like a t-shirt and just $10...
Visitors to Hot Springs State Park enjoyed taking pictures of the buffalo from the safety of their vehicles....
The Thermopolis Demolition Derby fired up the fairgrounds on Saturday. The results for cars are First Place Travis Long $3,000, Second Place Dusty Watts $2,000 and Third Place Luke Mead $1,000 and Mad Dog $500. For trucks First Place Blake Williams $1,000 and Second Place Trevor Stimpson $500. For more photos see page B8....
Douglas Nelson displays baked goods and vegetables to Bert Markillie during the Saturday Farmers Market....
Not much more than a year ago Dusty Lewis and Wade Lippincott were sitting in Lewis's shop and said they should start a nonprofit organization with the vision of developing trails for the Thermopolis and Hot Springs County area to bring in more tourism and outdoor recreation. Since then, their efforts have snowballed into a greater increase of success and community support with their nonprofit Hot City Alliance. Hot City Alliance held an open house on August 3 seeking community input on what...
Just about a year ago, Hyrum Rich left his home to stay in Aguascalientes, Mexico as part of the Rotary Youth Exchange Program. Originally, he was to stay there for 10 months, both going to school and traveling the country, however, COVID-19 brought him home before the end of his stay. Rich said Rotary itself did not tell him he needed to return to the U.S., but as he started seeing more and more flights being cancelled he decided he’d better come home rather than get stuck so far away during a world-wide pandemic. That didn’t stop him fro...
Rebekah Ready and Aubrey Kauffman both from Colorado enjoyed the afternoon thunderstorm at the Hot Springs State Park Pavillion just before the Acoustic Jam played....
Jane Norskog, grandmother of Roberta Hough and Ally Hough all try to stay cool in the Hot Springs State Park Fountain....
The audience really turnout for the Thermopolis Demolition Derby was huge. All tickets allowed were sold out. Masonic Lodge volunteers took tickets and donations for their remodeling. Many vendors came to sell their food and drinks. It was an all around community event....
Ag Olympics tested the best of the teams during the HSC Fair. Five six-man teams participated in several ag related events which included hay bale rolling, wheel barrow race, sheep herding on bicycles and the tire roll relay. With the cancellation of the annual pig wrestling, the Thermopolis FFA Alumni opted to bring back Ag Olympics to fill the Tuesday night slot at fair. The winners of the fun, fast paced event was the Buffalo Creek Renegades....
The 2020 Junior Livestock Auction and Blue Ribbon Bake Sale at the Hot Springs County Fairgrounds on Friday night was a huge success, with total sales amounting to $180,195.25, up from $123,146 last year. Along with sheep, swine and beef, there were baked goods that went on the auction block, too. Twenty-two head of beef came through the ring this year, three more than went up for auction last year. On average, the price per head was $5,776.25, up from $4,000 last year. This year's total...
Entries and viewers filled the streets for the Pageant Days Parade last Saturday. Specialty Towing employee Jake Yeaman passed out candy to those lining the streets. The overall winner of the $100 in Chamber Bucks was Tumbleweed Propane. The judges also named the Thermopolis Volunteer Fire Department entry the oldest, the Patriot Guard Riders the most patriotic and Ryan Brothers Trucking the longest....
With the start of school just around the corner, it is time once again for the People for People Backpack program to get rolling. The program is a group of volunteers in the community dedicated to stopping hunger for local children by filling backpacks with food that are distributed on Friday’s so they have something to eat over the weekend. Many of our youngsters depend on the school lunch program to get their nutrition, and the backpack program ensures there are simple things the students can fix themselves to eat. This summer was the f...
Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital Foundation, Inc. is bringing back its Annual Golf Tournament. For many years, the Foundation hosted an annual golf outing at Thermopolis Golf Course, to raise awareness of the Foundation’s Mission to support Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital. The Foundation has scheduled a reprise of this fun event for Saturday, August 15, 2020. The Tournament will be a 4-person scramble event, with a shotgun start, commencing at 9 a.m. Details on the event are posted on the Foundation’s Facebook page, and can be obt...
The Thermopolis Demolition Derby will blast off at 6 p.m. Saturday, August 8 at Hot Springs County Fairgrounds. Tickets are $15 each, with 5 and under getting in for free. There is a limited number of tickets available. Tickets can be purchased at Kirby Creek Mercantile, Thermopolis CarQuest and online at 2020thermopderby. eventbrite.com. For more information, contact Bradyn Harvey at 921-0089....
Hunter education graduates are invited to attend the local Youth Hunter Education Challenge (YHEC) on Saturday, August 15 at the Bob Milek Memorial Range eight miles west of Thermopolis on Highway 120. For participants to be eligible, they must have completed hunter education and have their card. Please register as soon as possible by contacting Cynthia Garbin at 921-8304. There are two divisions, junior and senior. Those in the junior division must be 14 years of age or under on or before Aug. 1. For the senior division, participants must be...
Moon Yakovich shows off her gardening talents after she was named the best garden for the month of July by Red Dirt Master Gardeners....
Another Hot Springs County Fair is in the books and the results are coming in. Large animal show results include: Beef Open class; crossbred feeder steer - Hannah Ward Breeding; English breed, Jr. bull calf - Rylee Agar Breeding; any other English breed, spring yearling heifer- Paisley Logan Breeding; any other English breed, summer yearling heifer - Logann Farrell Grand Champion any other English breed - Paisley Logan Reserve Champion any other English breed - Logann Farrell Breeding; Black Ang...
Barb Kissel and Dave Eckley were a few that lined up to start sampling the chili at the Thermopolis FFA Alumni's Chili Cook-Off during fair. Mandy Wilson and Cassie Owsley, on the right, were just two of the eight cooks that participated in the annual event that precedes the beef show. The winners were Travis Winger (red chili), Katie Jones (green chili) and Greg Willson (green chili) for People's Choice. Proceeds of the event go to help fund the local FFA chapter....
