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The Environmental Protection Agency held public sessions on its regulations for carbon emissions for new coal-fired plants and not one session was scheduled in the top 10 coal producing states, including Wyoming. On Sept. 20, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed what U.S. Representative Cynthia Lummis called severe regulations on carbon emissions from new coal-fired power plants. Lummis joined several House of Representative colleagues in introducing the Ensure Reliable and Affordable...
Richard A. Williams, 85, of Encampment, left this earth Nov. 7, 2013 while living at his daughter’s home in Cheyenne. He was born July 7, 1928 in Laramie to Evan John and Bessie Stewart Williams and spent his early years in several locations in the Medicine Bows where his father was a forest ranger. He had a love for Wyoming and after traveling the world over while serving our country in the United States Air Force, he was living in the south where his wife was from. Richard returned to Encampment in 2002. While living in Encampment the past 1...
Jessie F. “Nonnie” Covey, 87, died Nov. 3, 2013, in Rawlins. Memorial services took place Wednesday at the Wamsutter Baptist Church. Allen Shelton officiated. Nonnie was born March 25, 1926 in Nettleton, Ark., to parents Pearl (Hudson) and D.H. Fielder. She was married to Lloyd “Red” Covey in Reno, Nev., on April 14, 1944. She worked for many years at the Senior Center in Fairfield, Calif., where she took great pride in caring for others. She enjoyed gardening, fishing cooking for large family gatherings and loving and looking after her fam...
Voices of the Valley (VOV) pitched a $50,000 grant idea to the Saratoga Town Council, an idea the council voted to pursue. The grant, if awarded, will pay for a comprehensive master plan for the town of Saratoga, replacing a plan that was adopted in the 1970s. “It’s a conventional zoning code from the 70s, and it seemed to me parts of it were taken from New York, and how does that apply to the vision that the folks from Wyoming have for their community?,” said Michael Haak, a planner that is cu...
Did you thank a veteran Monday? There were plenty of opportunities with Veterans Day services held all over the Platte Valley. When I was growing up, we didn’t have assemblies for Veterans Day at the schools I attended. Saratoga Elementary School, Saratoga Middle/High School and Encampment School all host Veterans Day assemblies. It is a good reminder for the students that everyday people in their schools and community have served their country. Monday was no exception as Veterans were h...
Coal-fired plants are being threatened. The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants. There is one major problem with this proposal. The technology to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to the standards the EPA has proposed does not exist and working power plants would have to shut down. The coal units still have significant remaining useful life and pollution reduction were installed when the units were built. Billions have been spent on pollution-control upgrades to meet current...
Town-leased dumpsters may be off limits for residential use, according to conversations in the Nov. 5 Saratoga Town Council meeting. According to Carbon County Commissioner Sue Jones, who also serves on the landfill board and is co-owner of Sunrise Sanitation Services, others depositing garbage in town-or-business dumpsters in Saratoga is a "real problem". Mayor John Zeiger said he had heard concerns about the Saratoga Municipal Pool dumpsters specifically, and how that area looked with so much...
Wyoming Game and Fish is affecting my life personally. When I was between the ages of 5 and 6 my dad and I would take drives along a county road and admire hundreds of deer that we would see any given evening. To this day I often take the very same drive at the very same time of day and will not see a single deer. I am another person that immediately points my finger at the Game and Fish. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department should be fixing the problem that has resulted in a low deer population. According to a phone survey conducted by the Wyo...
There is a “disease” out there. It is infecting the young, the adults, and even the elderly. The “disease” is obesity. I should not call obesity a disease; it is a problem, but not a disease. We claim obesity is a disease because we want to say “I am infected with obesity,” when in all honesty we have made the choice to be lazy, to not exercise, and to not eat healthy foods. There are different body types for every individual body. Now, I say individual bodies because every body is very different. Some have a high metabolism, others not...
A wreck about 18 miles north of Saratoga Monday looks like a game of "Pick Up Stix" after a tractor-trailer hauling lumber rolled on east side of Highway 130 because of strong winds. The driver, Timothy Woodward from Michigan, was carrying lumber from Saratoga Forest Management to Grand Island, Neb., and suffered only minor injuries. The Saratoga Volunteer Fire Department and a Wyoming Highway Patrolman were on clean up duty....
Carbon County residents interested in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) can soon learn more about who can be helped and affected by the program. On behalf of Wyoming Senior Citizens Inc., two Carbon County presentations on the ACA will take place. The Platte Valley presentation is at 11 a.m. on Nov. 22, at Saratoga’s Carbon County Library (503 W. Elm in Saratoga). An earlier presentation is at 1 p.m. on Nov. 21, at Rawlins’ Carbon County Library (215 W. Buffalo in Rawlins). Wyoming Senior Cit...
Nine Platte Valley student athletes received All-State or All-Conference recognition for their 2013 fall sports season performance. Athletes who received All-State included Saratoga High School cross country runners Cameron Collamer and Ben Falk, Saratoga High School golfer Braxton Schwartzkopf and Encampment High School volleyball player Alyssa Barkhurst. All-conference placers consisted of Barkhurst, Jenny Morgan and Sierra Loftice, of the Encampment volleyball team. The Saratoga Lady...
As a natural helper and sports enthusiast, Hanna-Elk Mountain-Medicine Bow graduate and athletic trainer Sonnie (Palm) Neiman is making sure injured high school student athletes get back on the field right away. Neiman, who graduated from HEM High School in 2003, is now a certified athletic trainer for the three high schools in Hulett, Sundance and Upton. She moved to Hulett three years ago to work around student athletes, with hopes of getting the injured back to their healthy, physically...
When parishioners quit coming to church because they couldn't hear the sermons, the memorial committee of the Encampment Presbyterian Church knew they had to take action. Thanks to memorial donations between 2006 and 2013, the church now has wireless headphones to enable hearing-impaired people to hear sermons. Bill Mansperger uses it during church services. "It definitely helps me hear every Sunday," Bill said. When he comes to church on Sunday morning, the headphones are the first thing he...
Reprint of this story from the November 13, 1903 issue of The Grand Encampment Herald brought to you courtesy of Grandma’s Cabin, Encampment, Wyoming. Preserving History - Serving the Community. BUFFALO BILL IN CAMP “How can I drive tunnels at Grand Encampment and build canals at Cody, if I do not keep the old show going?” said the world renowned Buffalo Bill to the Herald Monday at the Wyoming House in Grand Encampment. “It takes capital to build up Wyoming, and we have to keep the ball rolling.” “I have been just two weeks coming home from E...
Hi, everybody! Well it appears winter is here and so is the awful time change. I hope I’m not the only one who has trouble adjusting to it. We had a great birthday and anniversary dinner Oct. 18, and would like to thank Debbie Easterling, Janet Zahn, and JR Hensley for the great entertainment. Our flea market and chili and pie lunch was well attended since we had such cooperative weather. Sue Holle of Lincoln, Neb., was the winner of our Sunflowers quilt. She and some friends were visiting the friends’ relatives in the area and visited the Gra...
At Deseret Health and Rehab, residents enjoyed many activities throughout the week. The Activity Department offers a wide variety of activities each week to meet the residents’ interests, as well as the physical, mental and psychological well-being of each resident. Games throughout the week provided fun and laughter. On Sunday afternoon, three residents played Dominoes with Charlotte Gibbons winning. On Monday afternoon, five residents played Crazy Eights with Dora Martin winning. On Wednesday afternoon, nine residents played Bingo, and on F...
There were not enough people to play Bingo this week. There were three tables for Duplicate Bridge on Monday. High winners were Barb Wise and Gertrude Herold. It is nice to have Jane back with us. However, it has been fun to have Ed and Sandy here to help us. Leo Yocum was here to drive the bus one day and June went with him to run the meals in. So we did just fine after all. Dick Ament and Willis Greenwood were here on Friday with poppies for Veterans Day. It is always nice to have them here. Dick had been under the weather, but is upright...
Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD 2) implemented a new online forum, which can be found on its website. The new forum allows community members, teachers, administrators and others interested in CCSD 2 to provide feedback on a list of topics. "We have to have some kind of avenue where we can put out an idea and collect input on that idea," said Superintendent Bob Gates. The open forum currently has five topics: activities, student attendance, food services, gifted and talented education,...
Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD 2) wants to give its attendance policy more teeth. CCSD 2 and Carbon County School District 1 administrators met with the Carbon County Attorney’s Office Nov. 6 to discuss possibly changing policy regarding student attendance. The current CCSD 2 policy states administrators will send a letter addressed to a student on the seventh day of that student’s absence. Another letter will be sent on the 15th day, Gates said. On the 20th day, Gates and the pri...
The eighth annual Blackhawk Children's Art Show is getting new stars come Dec. 11. For the past seven years, the Blackhawk Art Gallery hosted the Children's Art Show, with proceeds benefitting either Encampment School or Saratoga Middle/High School. This year, the proceeds will go to benefit other art programs in the Platte Valley. "We realized there are other entities that could use the money too, so we decided to work with Big Brothers Big Sisters, and we are also going to work with the...
Editor’s note: Read more about the superintendent search for CCSD 2 in a future edition of the Saratoga Sun. The search for a new superintendent for Carbon County School District No. 2 will need plenty of feedback from the community, according to board members. The CCSD 2 Board of Trustees spoke with Executive Director of the Wyoming School Board Association Mark Higdon in a teleconference Tuesday to explore the option of using the Association in a search for a new superintendent. Higdon p...
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