Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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THERMOPOLIS - The Wyoming Wild Bunch women's bowling team traveled to Las Vegas for the Women's National Championship and earned the tournament's top prize While the purpose was bowling, team members, and mostly Thermopolis residents, Hope Mead, Shawna Baumeister (who moved to Stillwater, Oklahoma in the summer), Jessica Slagle and Ella Parker wanted to have fun during their trip to Las Vegas. "We flew into Vegas, then drove to California and spent two days there before the competition," said...
WORLAND – Four parents attended the Standard Protocol Response (SPR) meeting last Thursday evening at East Side Elementary School. Principal Kenneth Dietz said the protocol is an action-based program and “is a classroom response for students and teachers in respect to an incident, intruder or threat at the school.” He added. “The (protocol) unifies code language for all school and law enforcement.” Following a short video on SPR and its origins, Dietz went over the four actions students experience with this protocol. SPR is founded on four a...
WORLAND – Janet's Boutique which originally started as The Hazel Shop in a very small building with minimal retail space has come a long way in the 30 years that Janet Snyder has owned it. "I bought the store from a lady in August of 1986, who had had it for, at that point and time, over 10 years and she bought it from another lady that had had it, gosh I don't know how long and a lady before that from Greybull is the one who started it, at that time it was named The Hazel Shop," Snyder stated....
THERMOPOLIS – Hot Springs County voters will determine the future of the Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital on Nov. 8, with the ability to vote on creating a hospital district, financed with a series of tax increases, or to allow the hospital to continue in its current model. Faced with state budget and Medicare and Medicaid cuts, some fear the hospital cannot maintain at it’s current level, and when allowed three years ago, formed a political action committee to form a hospital district. Tobi Johanson, a Thermopolis resident and member of...
THERMOPOLIS — Traffic delays are scheduled to begin Tuesday, Oct. 18, on U.S. 20/Wyoming 789 through Wind River Canyon as a Cowley (Wyo.) contractor begins rock scaling, cleaning culverts, reshaping ditches and other work related to the Memorial Day weekend flooding and mud slides of 2015. Wilson Brothers Construction, Inc., of Cowley is the prime contractor on the $840,000 project. The work within Wind River Canyon will take place between mileposts 116.80 (near the tunnels) and 126.82 (about six miles south of Thermopolis). All work is d...
The Bureau of Land Management Worland Field Office advises travelers on roads crossing public land to use caution as heavy precipitation has caused road damage and washouts. Fifteenmile Road (BLM Road 1429) was severely undercut by a swollen Fifteenmile Creek during the recent storms. Barricades have been placed around the washout, approximately three miles from the start of the road, and motorists are advised to proceed carefully. “There may be other roads with similar damage so travel safely and turn around if in doubt about a road’s sta...
CHEYENNE (AP) — Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead says he expects state lawmakers won’t have to make more substantial cuts to state spending when they convene early next year. Declining revenues forced Mead to cut $250 million from the state’s two-year, $3 billion general fund budget that started in July. Mead says cutting state agencies much more would force state employee layoffs. Updated revenue projections are due later this month. Mead says he doesn’t expect to see much change from this summer’s projections. Wyoming relies heavily on energy pr...
LARAMIE — The Wyoming County Commissioners Association (WCCA) recently presented the 2016 WCCA Legislator of the Year award to Rep. Mike Greear from House district 27 at their annual fall banquet. During his time on the Joint Appropriations Committee, Rep. Greear has proven himself to be a workhorse – taking the time necessary to fully understand the complex budget. Rep. Greear clearly values the work of local governments, and his dedication, work ethic, and all around good humor have made him a valuable member of the House of Rep...
Dorothy Wilhelmine Schweighart Brunk, 96, formerly of Thermopolis, Wyoming, died Monday, October 03, 2016 in Aurora, OH. Dorothy lived the first 85 years of her life in Washakie and Hot Springs Counties, Wyoming involved with ranching, family, and community volunteerism. In 2005, she moved to Ohio to be near her family. She was born on February 3, 1920, at the homestead home of her parents, Charles and Wilhelmine Schweighart of Cottonwood Creek, near Winchester, Wyoming. Dot, as she was affectionately called, was the third child in a family of... Full story
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