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Jim Copeland, of Fleming, Colo., will be the new superintendent of Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD#2) effective July 1. On the night of March 13, the CCSD#2 Board of Trustees took action and offered Jim Copeland a two-year contract. CCSD#2 Board Chairman Diana Berger said that the board was very pleased with all of the finalists. However, she said that Copeland was selected because he shared a similar vision with the board. "We just felt like he was the right fit," Berger said. After...
Judith Kay Hennek, 59, of Saratoga, died Feb. 19, 2014 at the Memorial Hospital of Carbon County in Rawlins. Judi was born in Fort Collins, Colo. Oct. 23, 1954 to John Neergaard and Janet Tenner-Neergaard. She grew up in Fort Collins and graduated from Fort Collins High School. Judi is survived by her father, John Neergaard, and special friend, Lilli Ault, of Loveland, Colo.; brother John (Karen) Neergaard, Jr., of Saratoga; niece Hayley (Brian) Black, of Preston, Idaho; niece Nikki (Jeremy) Capellan, of Winnemucca, Nevada and nephew Garrett...
Marcella Aden Jewell, 87, of Denver, passed away on March 14, 2014. Marcella was born in Rawlins on Sept. 27, 1926, to Lloyd and Mary Aden, of Saratoga. She grew up on the family ranch outside of Saratoga, but spent much of her time with her grandmother, Anna Paulson, in Saratoga. She graduated from Saratoga High School in 1944 and continued her education at Stephens College in Columbia, Mo. In 1945, she moved to Denver where she was employed by Western Airlines at the Reservation Desk in the...
The Rawlins-Carbon County Chamber of Commerce urges those taking, giving or handling money to pay attention to possible counterfeit $50 bills circulating in the area. According to the Rawlins Chamber, there has been a case of counterfeit $50 bills circulating in Rawlins. The counterfeit bill looks like the newer $50 bill with the American Flag on the front. On March 6, the Bank of Commerce contacted the Sheriff’s office regarding a number of bills that were brought into the bank by various b...
Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD#2) Board of Trustees had a productive evening at their March 17 regular scheduled meeting. Saratoga Police Chief Tom Knickerbocker discussed the possibility of renewing the contract to place a resource officer at Saratoga Middle/High School (SMHS). The current contract, which expires January 2015, keeps a Saratoga Police officer at SMHS for a minimum of 70 percent of the time during a given shift. Knickerbocker asked if CCSD#2 would pay 25 percent of...
I grew up in a family of volunteers. My mom and dad volunteered for different clubs, depending on what my siblings and I were involved in during our school years. It wasn’t easy, because my siblings and I were all in different schools at one time or another. My grandma was always volunteering for Easter Seals, working with children with disabilities. When I was a young girl I would stay for a week during the summer time and go with her. Watching members of my family volunteer made an i... Full story
Letter to editor: Mike of‚“DUNN in the SUN”: Great column defending and supporting teachers. As usual I have to add my two cents worth which relates to your situation. Years ago, back when I was a newspaper reporter, I was covering the local school board meeting and giving a member of the board a bad time. After reciting the statement, “Those who can’t do, teach,” I added, “and those who can’t teach become administrators, and those who strike out as superintendents get elected to the school board.” The former ranch hand, school teacher an... Full story
Editor: Mr. Cole of Encampment wrote a good letter which was published in The Sun last week. However one could possibly infer that Cindy Hill was helpful in implementing the constitutional awareness program in the Encampment High School. That was not the case. Most of the credit for implementation that goes to the principal and the history teacher in Encampment and to Mr. Hymas himself. We have a great many public officials, both elected and unelected, that swear an oath to uphold the constitution but, in fact, have little or no understanding... Full story
Editor: Kudos to Barry Cole! Some great questions for prospective supers. Here is one more, are you aware that Article 7 Sec. 11 of the Wy. St. Constitution forbids the legislature and superintendent of public instruction from prescribing text books for school instruction? Further, where does that authority then lie? Rusty Rogers Saratoga, WY.... Full story
The recent proposal to dump effluent into the North Platte River has stirred up controversy in the Platte Valley. On March 6, the Town of Saratoga, Carbon County Impact Joint Powers Board (Water and Sewer board) stated that they could no longer dump effluent into Hot Slough Creek due to a change in water classification. Instead, the town will have to install a transmission line into the North Platte River. The project is projected to cost the town over one million dollars. Town Engineer Chuck...
The Encampment Town Council approved $50 for Encampment’s Jr./Sr. Prom for their March 29 post-prom activities. Council member Doreen Harvey said 2014 was a productive year for the Sierra Madre Winter Carnival. She said a new chairperson for the three-day winter festival, which has been going strong locally since 1988, would need to be put into place this summer. “They wound up with a $57.93 surplus budget after all the events, and we had great participation,” Harvey said. “Susan Munson is resi...
Discussion became animated at the March 11 Planning Commission meeting when Chairman Rory Grubb threatened board member and town of Saratoga Councilman Steve Wilcoxson to remove from the meeting by the police department if he did not come to order. Wilcoxson was insisting that the planning commission follow the letter of the law in the current ordinance about home-owned business. Grubb said that Wilcoxson was not comparing "apples to apples" in his argument, and that in light of a new ordinance...
At their March 12 meeting, the Saratoga Airport Board heard from Saratoga Middle/High School student Milo Hunter. Hunter is currently working on his Eagle Scout project and proposed building and painting a sign for Shively Airfield. “The reason why I chose to do the sign is so that wealthier people who fly in and see the sign would want to come back more often,” Hunter said. Hunter requested that the board provide him enough money to complete the project. Though Hunter was not able to pro...
Leak found in residential area The Saratoga Carbon County Impact Joints Powers Board (Water and Sewer) is still uneasy about paying the $182,000 retainage to Reiman Corporation three years after the meter replacement took place. Ken Schwerdt, an engineer with PMPC, said he and Paul McCarthy reviewed the contract and cannot find a reason to not pay the retainage. Richard Raymer, a member of the Water and Sewer Board, said his biggest concern is that there has not been a 24-hour period that the...
The five-year study investigating the impact of seeding storm clouds in the Snowy Range and Sierra Madre Mountains will come to an end next month. During the Upper North Platte Valley Water Users Association’s annual meeting last week, Barry Lawrence, project manager for the Wyoming Water Development Commission, said the study would end April 30. “This was our final year of the project, and we can expect to get final report to the state by Dec. 31,” Lawrence said. Around 60 people, including ran...
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With hopes of bringing more recreational activities to Rick Martin Memorial Park, the Riverside Town Council discussed adding a disc golf course at last Thursday’s meeting. To get a better feel for how a disc golf course works, council member Karran Bedwell said she studied different courses in the surrounding area. “I did research on the disc golf, and Washington Park in Rawlins has a disc course,” she said. “They have nine baskets and nine tees, and the one in Craig has six. I think there’s...
Education does not end with formal school, and with her new job as Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) coordinator at Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD#2), Melissa Donough's goal is to insure that everyone in the community has an opportunity to continue their learning. As BOCES coordinator, her goal is to provide the public with the materials and access to educational opportunities. "It's an entity that we want to expand educational opportunities for all of the district,...
A 2009 Saratoga High School graduate, Hayden Hohnholt is juggling competitive running with his love of teaching and working with kids. Hohnholt, who runs both track and cross-country while at Concordia University, most recently ran the 3K in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Indoor Championships, which took place March 6-8 in Geneva, Ohio. "I got ninth place out of 15 runners in the in 3K, but you had to be in the top 8 to get All-American, so I was one off," Hohnholt...
With more than 30 athletes competing this year, the Saratoga High School Track and Field Team is preparing to make another big impact at state. Last year the team boasted six all-state placers, and three are back hoping to repeat history for 2014. They include Ben Falk, who placed for the 400 meter dash (second place at state) and 1600 meter relay (first place at state); Rodrigo Escobedo, who placed for the 1600 meter relay and 3200 meter relay (first place in both relays at state); and Cameron...
Encampment's 2014 track team may be fairly young and low in numbers, but its athletes are big in heart and determination. The new young team currently has seven athletes, consisting of one freshmen, five sophomores and only one senior. KeeGan Johnson, Garrett Dale and Guy Erickson make up the boys, while Alyssa Barkhurst, Randa Sorensen, McKenzie Powell and Karie Russell round out the girls' side of the team. Dale is the team's only senior, and Johnson and Barkhurst, who both went to state last...
Saratoga’s Thatcher Spiering took home a first-place medal from USA Wrestling’s Junior State Greco-Roman/Freestyle Championships in Douglas. The tournament March 7-8 qualified the first-place wrestler in the Freestyle division to be part of the Wyoming Cultural Exchange Team, which travels to Berlin, Germany this year. Wrestlers from across Wyoming were present for the event, which featured both Greco-Roman and Freestyle wrestling, and Spiering and Thomas Ingleby were the two from Saratoga to...
For the second time in two years, the Carbon County School District No. 2 Speech and Debate Team took home a 1A/2A State Champion Trophy from last weekend's 2014 Wyoming State High School Speech and Debate Tournament. The team took first place overall out of eight 1A and 2A teams at the event, which took place Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Western Wyoming Community College in Rock Springs. The state tournament consisted of 31 teams and 353 competitors, and featured around 90 coaches and...
Saratoga police has reported that all three cars have been recovered from the March 6 car thefts. Saratoga police chief Tom Knickerbocker said that two of the suspects have been identified. The Rawlins police department has arrested one of the suspects who is now in custody. Saratoga Police are still looking for information on two of the suspects. For any information, please call the Saratoga Police Department at 307-326-8316...