On Jan. 21 at 4 p.m. at the Medicine Bow Elementary School (MBE) there was a ceremony presented by students and staff of the school honoring a bell that started ringing students to come to school 93 years ago.
"It was really good," Traci Schneider, principal of MBE, Hanna Elementary and Elk Mountain Elementary said of the ceremony.

Carbon County School District (CCSD) No. 2, at last count, had 607 students enrolled in seven schools. Of those, approximately 247 students, or 41 percent, receive free or reduced lunches at school. The program, which is federally funded, is at risk of disappearing due to the partial government shutdown that recently surpassed the one month mark.

Last February, students from Encampment K-12 School aided the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) in collaring five sheep of the Encampment River herd with Global Position System (GPS) collars under the guidance of Jordan Seitz, Encampment 6th grade classroom teacher and 8th grade Earth Science teacher, along with Saratoga Wildlife Biologist Will Schultz and Habitat Biologist Katie Cheesbrough.

On Thursday, Nov., 8th, Encampment K-12 held an incredible Veterans Day Assembly. With many local Platte Valley Veterans making an appearance. In preparation of the assembly, Encampment National Honor Society students assigned a Veteran to each grade K-6. Each class introduced their veteran to the school and presented them with a gift.

Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School was the site for the Eighth Annual National Honor Society (NHS) Veterans Celebration that started at 8 a.m. on Friday morning. The celebration started with a hearty breakfast of pancakes, biscuits and gravy, fruit and other morning-oriented edibles and beverages.

It was standing room only during the rescheduled meeting of the Carbon County School District (CCSD) No. 2 Board of Trustees at 4 p.m. on Nov. 13 at Encampment K-12 School as the board heard a presentation from Encampment students in regards to a proposal for a six-man football team next school year.