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Top-ranked Encampment High School girls' volleyball team continued its undefeated streak this weekend by beating two groups of Panthers; one from neighboring Saratoga and the other from distant Cokeville. The Lady Tigers traveled to the Panther den in Saratoga Friday to face off against the Saratoga Panthers on their home turf during Saratoga's homecoming week when spirits were high. Saratoga, who got off to a rocky start earlier in the season, impressed Encampment's coach, Robin O'Leary, with...
Saratoga High School cross- country returned home after a successful outing at the Ft. Bridger Invitational in Fort Bridger, Thursday. Middle School Boys performed well, with three runners finishing the 2.2 mile run in the top 10. Gavin Bartlett completed the run in 13:19, good for third place. Grant Bartlett turned in a fifth place performance with a 13:18 run and Grady Bartlett’s 13:36 time was good for seventh place. The varsity boys team had two runners with top 10 finishes in the 5 kilometer event. Jeremy Detterer finished the run in 18:10...
A tax on energy generated by wind that was proposed earlier in the year by the Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Revenue Committee (JRC) was nixed Thursday, removing uncertainty for the builder of the Chokecherry/Sierra Madre windfarm in Carbon County. When the tax was originally proposed by the JRC, Power Company of Wyoming (PCW), the builder of the windfarm, said such a tax would put the project in jeopardy. Kara Choquette, Communications Director for the company told Carbon County lawmakers in a May meeting that were the tax to be levied, the c...
A new daycare and preschool will be opening in Saratoga, offering much needed childcare options to residents. The center, Tomorrow’s Promise, will open at 1012 W. Bridge Avenue in Saratoga Oct. 1, according to the campus director, Priscilla Schmidt. The center will offer daycare options as well as preschool education. The center will offer immersion courses in English, Spanish and American Sign Language. The lack of childcare options has been an issue in the town for some time, with the issue having been discussed at length in town council m...
Following an anonymous email threat, Carbon County School District #2 placed all schools in the district on lockout status Thursday. Jim Copeland, CCSD #2 superintendent of schools, said the district received an alert from the Wyoming Department of Homeland Security advising them of an anonymous threat made by email. The anonymous email said “Wyoming was being turned to dust” and then went on to issue threats against a large number of public buildings in the state. The threat was signed “Archangel Michael,” according to Copeland. The school...
An emergency drill will be held at Encampment K-12 school at 9:45, Oct. 3. Police and other first responders will be at the school to conduct the drill. According to documentation on the school’s website, the school has recently updated its emergency management plan to the standard response protocol. Because of this update, the school has decided to conduct a drill to practice the standard response protocol with law enforcement personnel and first responders. Carbon County Sheriff’s Department, Encampment Volunteer Fire Department and the Enc...
As the season nears the halfway point, The Encampment Tigers Volleyball team vanquished two more rivals last week-including the second ranked team in the conference-cementing the team in first place in the 1A Southwest Conference. The Encampment netters soundly defeated Hanna Thursday on the Miners' home court, then defeated second-ranked Farson-Eden Friday at home. The defending state champions swept both of their competitors in three sets last week, continuing to show its dominance this...
Saratoga Panther cross-country runners did not let a cold and rainy day deter them from running in the Shana Ward Memorial Invitational held at the Saratoga Resort and Spa Friday. Several hundred runners from around the region traveled to Saratoga to compete at the invitational. Despite the poor weather, teams still ran the course that had been mapped out across the resort's golf course, and Saratoga runners performed well at home. The varsity boy runners ran the 5K, and saw Reid Schroeder...
Encampment High School girls' varsity volleyball team extended its undefeated winning streak with two matches over the weekend. The team faced off at home against the Hanna-Elk Mountain-Medicine Bow (HEM) Miners on Friday at 4 p.m., taking the match in three sets. Saturday, the Tigers hosted the Lady Longhorns of Rock River High School, handily defeating Rock River in three sets to take the match. Both visiting teams were under duress because of injuries and illnesses, Robin O'Leary, coach of...
A new anonymous and secured drop box at the Saratoga Police Department now gives Valley residents the ability to dispose of unwanted prescription drugs in a safe and environmentally sound way. The box, located in the lobby of the police department allows residents to dispose of unwanted, unneeded and expired prescription drugs so that they can be safely disposed of, according to Robert Bifano, acting chief of police for Saratoga. By giving members of the public a safe and anonymous way to...
The Saratoga Middle/High School Cross Country Team returns home after two weekends spent running in Colorado to host the Saratoga Invitational on Friday. Last Friday’s performance at the John Martin Invite in Fort Collins saw improvement from many runners, Rex Hohnholt, the team’s coach, said. “We had a hard week of practice this (last) week,” Hohnholt said. ‘When I saw how they competed I was very proud.” The team had taken things easy the last couple week in light of the work they did training, Hohnholt said. The team backed off a bit durin...
Following an anonymous email threat, Carbon County School District #2 placed all schools in the district on lockout status. Jim Copeland, CCSD #2 superintendent of schools, said that school will be dismissed on time, buses will run on schedule and parents will be allowed to pick up their children as usual. After school athletics and activities will not be interrupted, Copeland said. Copeland said the district received an alert from the Wyoming Department of Homeland Security advising them of an anonymous threat made by email. The anonymous...
Riverside Town Council met at town hall Thursday to deal with town business and to hear from Jacob Mickelsen director of the Carbon County Library System (CCLS) about funding for the Encampment/Riverside branch library. Mickelsen appeared before the council to inform members that the library system had established a system that would allow donors to make contributions to individual branch libraries with all money earmarked for a particular branch to be used there only. The council also made a determination to not fill a seat that became...
The Encampment Town Council met Thursday at town hall to deal with routine matters and voted to donate funds to keep the town’s library open for an additional hour per week. The council was visited by Jacob Mickelsen, Director of the Carbon County Library System, who ensured the council that money donated to a particular library would only be used to fund operations at that library. The town also voted to support a resolution urging the state legislature to not raise taxes on wind power generated in the state. Mickelsen visited the E...
The Encampment School volleyball team put in another strong performance over the weekend at Hanna Saturday keeping the team’s undefeated streak alive. The varsity team defeated rivals from Rock River, Lingle, Guernsey, Kaycee and Glendo. Over the course of ten games, the team won all sets and all matches. While there were a couple close calls for the Tigers in two games when the team only won by two points, the team handily defeated their opponents in the other 8 games. One of the close games was against Rock River. The team played against R...
Saratoga High School’s cross country team crossed a lot of country this past weekend on the way to the Liberty Bell Invite in Littleton, Colo. The team fielded 11 runners in the varsity boys’ competition, and two runners in the varsity girls’ field. Varsity boys saw two athletes finish in the top 20, with Reid Schroeder turning in a tenth place finish with a time of 17:24, while Ben Fairbanks came in 15th place with a time of 17:54. Saratoga’s girls came in 26th and 139th in a field of 157 runners. Katie Loose earned a 26th place finish...
Bob Keel, 31, may be a self-described "adrenaline junkie" who loves the fast-paced action of the night shift at an urban Emergency Room, but that has not stopped him from becoming the newest healthcare provider at Platte Valley Medical Center in Saratoga. Even though he enjoys an adrenaline rush, he's also a family man who grew up in a small town, and the allure of hanging up his ER scrubs in favor of a more bucolic life in the Valley was too much to pass up. The newly-minted physician's...
A new program run by the Carbon County Sheriff’s Department will help residents quickly find loved ones that wander off. The program, Project Lifesaver, provides tracking bracelets to people with Down’s Syndrome, Alzheimer’s disease, brain injuries or other similar cognitive disorders who may wander off and become lost, according to a press release issued by the sheriff’s department. The bracelet emits a signal every second, 24 hours per day according to the release by the sheriff’s department. Once the department is notified that a person has...
The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) has released a draft travel management plan for the Medicine Bow National forest, and will be seeking public input about the draft plan until September 6. Issuing the draft plan moves the USFS closer to putting to bed a contentious debate that began about 18 months ago with the release of a proposed action. Under that action, the USFS outlined roads it was considering closing, decommissioning, or of which it was considering changing designation. “We knew there would be some parts of it that would draw a lot of att...
Editor’s note: The Saratoga Sun initially broke an abbreviated version of this story on our website Wednesday. A police chase that began in Nebraska ended in a foot pursuit on I-80 at Walcott Junction Wednesday. Troy Douglas, 23, Of Nashville, Tennessee, was arrested after leading police on a chase, disabling his car and pointing a gun at an officer before attempting to flee on foot. According to David Wagener of Wyoming Highway Patrol, the chase began early Wednesday morning in Nebraska. Nebras...
For Hank Morris, 37, a new resident to Saratoga and new real estate agent at Town & Country Realty in Saratoga, first impressions mean a lot. Though his path to living in Saratoga may have been a bit circuitous, but he is glad he finally has the opportunity to live and work in the Valley. He's been selling real estate since 2012 in Texas and Arkansas, and just three weeks ago moved to Saratoga with his wife Jessie, and two children, 6-year-old Sam and 3-year-old Maggie, to continue his career...
Wyoming continues to see unemployment rates that are significantly higher than this time last year and markedly higher than the national average, according to figures released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Wyoming is one of three states in the nation that saw a statistically significant increase in unemployment rate between July 2015 and July 2016. Of those three states, Wyoming's unemployment increase was the highest, increasing 1.4 points from 4.3 percent in July 2015...
The Saratoga Water and Sewer Joint Powers Board (sewer board) met Wednesday to deal with routine business, but the long-running issue of the sewer line running under Hwy 30 that is causing issues for local business owners became murkier as Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) waded into the fray. The sewer line that serves Happy Tails Dog Boarding and the Saratoga Feed Store has been problematic for months, with complaints to the board going as far back as March. According Pam Waldner, owner of Happy Tails, the sewer line backs up...
Saratoga Elementary School (SES) students returning to school next week will get to enjoy a newly-renovated playground, and staff at the school will enjoy no more headaches any time it rains. The playground at the school received a makeover during the summer. Students will get a new, high tech rubberized ground covering and colorful games and educational designs baked onto the pavement. Faculty and staff will no longer have to deal with water running on the floor of the building when there is rain. According to Dave Rangitsch, Principal of...
A Rawlins volunteer firefighter was injured Saturday during the demolition derby held at the Carbon County fair after a car competing in the event crashed over a dirt berm and tore through a gate. The firefighter received a large laceration on her arm after it was caught between a gate and the back of a truck she was sitting near, according to acting fire chief John Rutherford. The injury was not life threatening, he said. The injured firefighter was transported to Memorial Hospital of Carbon...