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The Encampment Town Council held their regularly scheduled meeting on April 14 with Mayor Greg Salisbury in attendance along with council members Bill Craig, Shannon Fagan-Craig and Gary Stull. Town Clerk/Treasurer Doreen Harvey went over the financials and, when she finished, the council approved paying the bills. Loretta Hansen and Dawndette Spaulding came before the council and asked the Town to endorse a proclamation acknowledging National Crime Victims Rights Week. Hansen said the program...
The Medicine Bow Town Council held their regularly monthly scheduled meeting on April 11 at the Medicine Bow Community Hall. Mayor Sharon Biamon was present along with council members Cindy Chace, Sharon Kahl and Dawndee Yocum. Councilmember Lucy Schofield was absent. The council listened to Town Clerk/Treasurer Karen Heath review the financials. The total to pay out was $151,884.65, which the council approved. The meeting went into a public hearing at 7:12 p.m. for a resolution amending the...
Glen Maurice Parker, 91 of Columbus Junction, Iowa, formerly of Saratoga Wyoming, died Sunday, April 24, at his home. His body has been cremated and private services will be held at a later date. Glen was born April 16, 1931, at Ft. Washakie, Wy, the son of Clarence Leslie and Mary Margaret (Powell) Parker. He was a graduate of Fremont County Vocational High School in Lander, Wyoming. He was united in marriage to Charlene Pelham, whom he later divorced. He served with the US Army in Korea for 21 months and was a life member of the American... Full story
Dr. William “Bill” T. Ward passed away at the age of 89 at his beloved home in Saratoga, Wyoming on April 16, 2022. Bill was born in Washington, D.C. on December 17, 1932 and raised in Illinois, Maryland, Colorado and, most fondly, Wyoming. He graduated from the University of Maryland at College Park and went on to the University of Maryland Medical School in Baltimore. In his quest to return to the West, he completed his radiology residency at the University of Colorado Medical Center. Bil... Full story
"This is the landing page and I kept the website simple," Saratoga Museum Director Dana Davis said. "I made it simple purposely because a lot of people will be looking at it from their phone." To view the new website, Davis has launched it under saratogamuseumwy.com. Davis designed the site so viewers could quickly learn about the museum and its history on one drop down. The other drop down on the landing page titled more gives information about events, the gift shop, memberships, contact info...
Nothing has prepared for me to see pictures of Shanghai, the city I lived in for five years, in a lockdown state which have been showing up the past couple weeks on different news outlets. One in particular hit home on how bad the lockdown is for the residents, was a pic of a major road artery from an aerial view which is deserted. When I lived there about seven years ago, these same roads were almost parking lots due to the heavy traffic. The picture I saw the other day from BBC, showed...
The Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) Rattlers doubled their track meets over the weekend, with one in Wyoming and one in Colorado. LSRV first travelled to Rawlins on Friday to compete in the Nancy Steinberg Invite before traveling south to Rangely, Colorado on Saturday. The Rattlers track and field team had student athletes pre-qualify for the State Track and Field Meet in both meets in different events. “We had a smaller group in Rawlins due to the art symposium,” said Head Coach Norman Yoa...
by Mike Armstrong The Saratoga Panther’s track and field team competed in the Nancy Steinberg Invite in Rawlins, coming in 2nd in both boys and girls events as they competed against seven schools, with five from Carbon County including Saratoga. Not only were there were some surprising placings, but a nearly 20 year school record was broken over the weekend. Head Coach Rex Hohnholt was pleased with how the Panthers did in Rawlins. “This was a good meet, because it has been a frustrating sea...
Mother Nature was kind as far as temperatures went for Friday's Nancy Steinberg Track and Field Invite in Rawlins, but she still tested the athletes with strong wind conditions. "The conditions were challenging for our kids as they went for times," Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) Miner Head Coach Jackie Jones observed. "But the conditions are the same for every athlete. Weather is almost always a factor at events like this." Avery Scott came in 2nd in the 100 meter dash with a time of...
The Encampment Tiger track team traveled north to Rawlins on Friday for the Nancy Steinberg Invite. After the previous week of canceled meets, the Tigers seemed hungry for results. Encampment returned home with pre-qualifying scores, personal bests and a new school record. "It was good to get a track meet this week after last week's meet was canceled. We had a lot of personal bests and a couple of more athletes pre-qualified for state. It was great to see Quade break our school record in the sho...
