News and sports reporter, Thermopolis, Wyo.

From JJobs:

http://www.journalismjobs.com/Job_Listing.cfm?JobID=635388

Company: Independent Record
Position: Award-winning opportunity.
Location: Thermopolis, Wyoming
Job Status: Full-time
Salary: $25,000 to $30,000

Description:
Come live and work in a place with endless recreational opportunities, including the world's largest hot spring. Great opportunity to cover news and sports for an established award-winning weekly newspaper with outstanding, dedicated staff in affordable resort community in ideal climate of west-central Wyoming. Photography skills a plus. Live in a state with no income tax, low property and other taxes. Contact Keith E. Domke, publisher, news@thermopir.com or Thermopolis Hot Springs Independent Record, P.O. Box 31, Thermopolis WY 82443.

 

To quote from spnited ... MOFNW. Beautiful country, though. If you don't need to be within an hour's drive of the nearest multiplex cinema or Wally World and like the outdoors, you might like Thermop.

Paper looks like this:



Keith Domke used to be the editor of the Riverton paper, which just bought majority interest in the Thermop paper after the former editor/publisher/majority owner retired and sold his shares to the Peck family. Steve Peck's good people; his late father owned the Riverton paper for many years and Steve literally grew up working there.

 

The city of heat?

 

Hot springs.

Thermopolis won the 2A state football title by a 22-20 score this fall; it's 3A in everything else. It used to be Hot Springs County High School, but (like several other "FILLINTHEBLANK County" high schools in Wyoming) everybody, including the media, referred to it by the city.

Despite its location in the central western portion of the state, it's in the East Conference for most sports. Wait 'till you see the road trips. ;D

 

Boy, that's a really ugly layout for A-1.

Thermop is centrally located in the state, on the northeast corner of the Wind River Indian Reservation and looks to be 2-3 hours from Casper (to the southwest) and Cody-Yellowstone (to the northwest).

Gorgeous country with tons of outdoors things to do. You'll freeze your ass off in winter, too.

 

That seems like a lot of money for a paper that looks like that in a location like that.

 

I've seen worse.

 

The placement of Christmas photo next to mining story is especially nice.

But hey, you can't beat Helvetica.

 

Thermop has one of my favorite local commercials of all time:

"Wyoming on has a rhinoceros. He hangs around Thermopolis. Not a metropolis, but they got a great Days Inn. I know this sounds preposterous. They've even got a hippopotamus. Come check out Thermopolis. They've got a great Days Inn."

 

Thermop's Days Inn is inside Hot Springs State Park. It might be the nicest Days Inn in the entire chain.

Whoever gets this job will be able to make regular short road trips south to the town of Shoshoni for milkshakes from Yellowstone Drug. I'm jealous.

 

Don't forget the rodeo. If you get this one, you'll be covering a lot of rodeo. A lot of GREAT rodeo, but a lot of rodeo.

 

Probably not as much as you might think. Only one PRCA rodeo a year there, best I can tell (the Thermopolis Cowboy Rendezvous in late June) along with a high school rodeo in early spring.