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On March 13, at the Hot Springs County School District #1 Board of Trustees meeting, Superintendent Dustin Hunt submitted his resignation, ending his employment on June 30, 2025. During the business, Vice Chair Marshall Keller made the motion to accept the letter of resignation, Trustee Jean Skelton, seconded. The board voted and passed the approval to accept the resignation. Trustee Jennifer Axtell did not vote, and Trustees Sherman Skelton and Nichole Weyer were absent. Additionally, Trustee Axtell motioned that the board hire the Wyoming...
The Hot Springs County School District #1 held their Community Stakeholder Meeting on March 11 at the Administration Building. This meeting was open to the public, but no public comments are allowed. However, guests are invited from various members of the public to hold a discussion. Some of those guests included two school board members, the superintendent, a retired teacher, and several others. This month’s discussion was about school board responsibilities and superintendent r...
Chairman John R. Winter, House District 28 Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Committee provided the following information on his views of the 2025 Wyoming Legislative Session. Winter states, “The Wyoming House of Representatives, along with the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, worked hard this year to support several bills that really affect the people of the State. This Session was one of the busiest and complicated mostly because of the Governor’s proposed $692 Million supplemental budget. After the House reduced and approved a b...
The Starpower Regional Dance Competition was held on March 1-2 in Gillette at the Cam-Plex Center. Members of Hot Springs Dance LLC competed with all their pieces choreographed by Tess Williams, owner and artistic director. Skylar Lippincott performed in "Not About Angels." She earned overall first place level 2 solos (of 10+ routines) and was chosen for the Orlando, Florida Power Pak dance convention as an invite only participant. For the piece "Brave", Skylar Lippincott, Kaylee Bazzle, Kyle...
Tom and Jessie Ream's Double R Store located at 901 Shoshoni Street is open for the 2025 season. They originally started the business as a trial run on August 1 of last year and closed down at the end of October. Now they are open for their first full season as of March 13. The Double R Store serves as a sandwich shop and a supply store for fishermen getting on the river. This type of business was originally their wish, but Jessie said, "We couldn't find anybody to do it, so we did it ourselves....
The Learning Center will host the second of three meetings, Local Government 101, on Monday March 31 at 6-7:30 p.m at the County Annex, 327 Arapahoe. This event is “How Does Our County Government Function?” This month’s class will feature County Commissioner Tom Ryan, County Administrator Connie Guntly and County Clerk Becky Kersten. Previously on February 24, the Learning Center hosted Local Government 101 to discuss how the town government functions. It was very well attended and Dr. John Anderson gave an introduction where he discu...
Ralph Witters Elementary kindergarten registration opens March 24. This is for kindergarten only and done online. Step 1: Log on to rwe.hotsprings1.org under student/parent table and click student registration. Step 2: Click on Pre-registration form. Step 3: One Pre-registration has been submitted, you will receive an email within a couple days with the username and password needed to complete the full registration process. Please contact the RWE office with any questions at 864-6561. School calendar meetings Hot Springs County School District...
During the Monday, March 17 meeting of the Hot Springs County Republican Party, elections were held for new officers. Joe Martinez was elected Chairman, Vice Chairman is Clay VanAntwerp, Treasurer is Jean Skelton, Secretary is Meri Ann Dorman, State Committeeman is Phillip Scheel and State Committeewoman Cheryl Aguiar. The HSC Republican Party meets the 3rd Monday of each month at the County Annex Building at 6:30 p.m. This information was submitted by newly elected secretary Dorman....
Lenten Fish Fry The Knights of Columbus are hosting their annual Lenten Fish Fry on three Fridays, March 21, 28 and April 4 from 5-7 p.m. in the St. Francis Church Parish Hall. All are welcome. Adult tickets are $15 and children under 14 are $5. Risen Son Christian School fundraiser Pasta with a Purpose, a spaghetti dinner and auction fundraiser, will be held Friday, April 25 beginning at 5:30 p.m. at the Hot Springs County Fair Builiding. To volunteer to help witht he event or to make a donation, contact Shailee Harvey at (307) 921-8069 or...
The Hot Springs County High School Speech and Debate Team's long and impressive 2024-2025 season closed with a third place trophy finish in 1A/2A at the Wyoming Speech and Debate Tournament at Cheyenne South High School in Cheyenne on March 13, 14, and 15. This year's large tournament included 34 schools in attendance with over 470 individual entries. The tournament culminated nearly six months of competition that started back in October 2024. In the season-ending competition, five Bobcats...
By Mike Koshmrl, WyoFile.com, via WNE The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which is under a January 2026 court-ordered deadline to make a decision, is now giving the public until May 16 to share views on a proposal to keep bruins listed as ‘threatened’ throughout their Lower 48 range. More than 47,000 people, organizations and agencies have taken the time to send in their thoughts on federal wildlife managers’ Biden-era proposal to continue classifying grizzly bears as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act. It’s a decision that attrac...
Amid reports that Hot Springs County School District (HSCSD) #1 Superintendent Dustin Hunt has been interviewing for jobs with a new district, a hand full of people spoke at the February board meeting to show support for Hunt. Reports from two different sources indicate that Hunt received an interview with Big Horn County School District #2 and that the RE-1 Valley School Board, located in Logan County, Colorado, has selected Hunt as their new superintendent. As of the February HSCSD board meeting, no announcement had been made regarding Hunt’s...
by Katie Klingsporn, Maggie Mullen, Andrew Graham, Angus M. Thuermer Jr., Mike Koshmrl and Dustin Bleizeffer, WyoFile.com, via WNE By any measure, the Wyoming Legislature just completed a transformative session. In the House, the hard-line Freedom Caucus took control of a statehouse chamber for the first time in the U.S. In the Senate, leadership stunned observers when they decided the upper chamber would not pass a supplemental budget — another first for Wyoming. During the 37-day session, lawmakers adopted a string of measures that could d...
At the March Thermopolis-Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce board meeting, they were unable to form a quorum, therefore no formal actions were taken, but they did report on various subjects. Chamber CEO Meri Ann Dorman said regarding the State/Local Civic Bee that they received above the required 20 qualifying essays and that the Thermopolis region beat out Cheyenne and Casper. Dorman added that Thermopolis Middle School is incorporating the bee and essay writing as part of their curriculum. Dorman and the board also discussed the coming Chamber...
On March 11, the Hot Springs County Commissioners held a special meeting and executive session regarding litigation. After reconvening from executive session, Chairman Tom Ryan said that no action was taken during the executive session. The commissioners then voted and passed the approval to engage with an outside law firm named Lonabaugh and Riggs LLP from Sheridan to represent the commissioners for the suit filed by Martin G. Oravec and Gary A. Frazier for a Petition for Review of Agency Action. Chairman Ryan also said that in the coming...
The Hot Springs County Prevention Coalition will provide Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training at their Suicide Prevention Workshop on March 26-27 at 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. (both days. They invite the public to join them for free and to increase your knowledge about suicide, learn skills to reach out, and increase your confidence to help save a life. Be an active part of the community’s plan to prevent suicide. Snacks and lunch will be provided both days. The workshop is free, however, p...
Thermopolis-Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce is hosting a night of music as Bryan Elijah Smith takes stage in a live performance at William H. Malloy Auditorium on Friday, March 14 starting at 7 p.m.. This concert promises to be an electrifying experience for fans of all ages. A singer-songwriter based out of Virginia performing in Wyoming for the very first time Smith is an international award-winning American singer-songwriter. The song “In Through the Dark” appears in the hit Netflix series Virgin River and it subsequently received a 202...
At the February 25 Hot Springs Health board meeting held at the conference room, Dr. Mattson Mathey gave the medical staff report and said that several of their doctors were “Doc of the Day” at the legislative session in Cheyenne, a program hosted by the Wyoming Medical Society. The doctors are available throughout the entirety of the day to answer any medical questions related to policy discussion and to provide any medical attention to anybody needing it. In fact, they responded to a sta...
Lenten Fish Fry The Knights of Columbus are hosting their annual Lenten Fish Fry on three Fridays, March 21, 28 and April 4 from 5-7 p.m. in the St. Francis Church Parish Hall. All are welcome. Adult tickets are $15 and children under 14 are $5. Red Dirt Master Gardeners events Community Garden sign up will be held on March 22 at the Hot Springs County Library from 10 a.m.-noon. A plant swap will be held at the same time and place. Caring for caregivers retreat The University of Wyoming Extension is hosting a free Caring for Caregivers...
Aidan Freeman has been named to the 2024 fall semester University of Wyoming President’s Honor Roll Jayci Basse, Lee Alan Grimm, Seth Needham, Emme C. Norsworthy, Sydney Shaffer and Morgan Tilly Slover were named to the University of Wyoming 2024 fall semester academic Dean’s or Dean’s Freshman Honor Roll. University of Wyoming fall semester graduates included Lee Alan Grimm with a Bachelor of Science degree....
Last week, the FFA District Speech Competition was held in Thermopolis. Ryan Axtell, left, and Izzie Hetzel both gave their speeches, extemporaneously and prepared, and moved onto Regionals. Mac McCumber also moved onto Regionals. On March 10 at the Regional competition, Axtell won Extemp and will be moving onto the State competition. Hetzel and McCumber placed fourth....
Martin G. Oravec and Gary A. Frazier (Petitioners), by and through their counsel, Parsons Behle & Latimer, have submitted a Petition for Review of Agency Action concerning actions taken by the Board of County Commissioners of Hot Springs County (Board) through two of its newly elected members. The action is pursuant to Rule 12, W.R.A.P., and Wyo. Stat. § 16-3-114. The document was filed on March 3 in the District Court of Hot Springs County. The petition challenges the agencies action and states “The subject of this petition is well known to...
When Nathan Miller entered the Wyoming Game and Fish Department's Super Tag raffle, he didn't expect to win. Not only did Miller win, he won the ultimate prize. The 38-year-old from Thermopolis won the Super Tag Trifecta, which means Miller will have the opportunity to purchase three separate licenses for species that include: bighorn sheep, moose, elk, mountain goat, mule deer or white-tailed deer, wild bison, pronghorn, mountain lion, gray wolf and black bear. Lifetime limits and waiting...
The Thermopolis Town Council held a special meeting on February 25 to review a motion from the Hot Springs County Rural Water Joint Powers Board (HSCRWJPB) on February 20. Representing the town, Jim Jeunehomme wanted the entire council to be informed by Water Development Project Manager George Moser about their recommendation. The HSCRWJPB wanted to submit their application to the Wyoming Water Development Commission by the March 1 deadline to drill a test well at Yankee Dome. This option was one of two from Moser’s recent recommendation. The o...
The Thermopolis Jackalope Jump fundraiser to benefit Special Olympics Wyoming will be held on Friday, March 28. The event will be happening at the Hot Springs County High School, 231 Park Street. Registration will begin at 10 a.m. with the jump starting at 11 a.m. You can still register to participate at www.SOWY.org. The Jackalope Jump challenges brave Wyomingites at numerous locations around the state to “Make a Splash”. It’s a great way for everyone – individuals, organizations, and businesses – to get involved in supporting Special O...
