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For many students, the graduation ceremony is arguably one of the most important events of their high school career. Under normal circumstances, the planning and execution of the event can be frustrating for students, staff and parents. For Wyoming and Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2), circumstances have not been normal since March. With each extension of public health orders issued by Governor Mark Gordon and State Health Officer Alexia Harrist, questions arose as to how schools...
*UPDATE* On Tuesday evening, an 8th positive case of novel coronavirus was added to Carbon County's total count. The confirmed case is an adult male over the age of 30 who tested positive in Laramie County. Laramie County Public Health notified local health officials of the confirmed case. According to Jacquelin Wells, public information officer for the Carbon County COVID-19 Incident Management Team, the individual was in Carbon County recently, showed no symptoms and is being considered a... Full story
Ellen was born on April 23, 1947 and raised in Laramie, Wyoming. At the age of 73, she passed away in Casper, Wyoming on April 29, 2020. She loved the time she spent as a child at her family cabin in Albany. Ellen married the love of her life, Orville Burgess, on June 8, 1964 in Laramie. They spent the first couple years of marriage working on various ranches around Saratoga. In 1967 they moved to Rawlins, where they lived for 26 years and had their two boys, Wesley and Jack. In 1993 they... Full story
Following the arrest of two persons of interest connected to the body found in a vehicle on Carbon County Road 215, a 19-year-old and a 17-year-old could each face up to 20 years in prison in Wyoming if convicted on two felony charges. In documents released to the Saratoga Sun on Monday from the Circuit Court of Rawlins, 17-year-old Marcos Estaban Garza-Calderon and 19-year-old Jose Antonio Ramos are being charged with concealing a felony and conspiracy to conceal a felony. Each charge brings a...
The Hanna Town Council had its meeting a little after 6 p.m. on May 12 at the Hanna Town Hall. Prior to the meeting, a public hearing was held for the renewal of liquor licenses for the 2020-2021 year. The were few people in the audience and no person had any comment. The meeting was attended by council members Bob Patton, Sammy Sikes and Linda Schisel, who called in. Council member Tracy Fowler was absent. Mayor Lois Buchanan was present as were town clerk Ann Calvert and town treasure Pam Paul...
I have no illusions that life is going to go back to normal any time soon. Wyoming, the United States and the world, can start opening businesses that have been closed, but it doesn’t take away that there is probably going to be an element of caution as we start venturing out. I saw this happen when SARS hit Taiwan. Life did go back to normal for the most part but it was a process. The same is happening in Carbon County for me. I have done a few in person interviews in the past couple weeks, ver... Full story
Dear Editor, Time to get involved folks! This is a call to the voices of all Carbon County residents to provide input based on your personal expertise, knowledge, experience and desire to develop the Natural Resources Management Plan for Carbon County. This plan will be the product of a non-partisan committee. Why is this important? Because without a plan for our county, the Federal Government can step in and dictate to use how to use our resources! We chose to live here, in good part, due to these unique, limited and irreplaceable resources....
The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust recently announced a multimillion-dollar effort to save the lives of COVID-19 patients and protect the frontline healthcare workers caring for them. The grant will fund the purchase of six LUCAS mechanical chest compression devices for Memorial Hospital of Carbon County. A total of $4,711,481 in funding will be distributed across five upper-midwestern states to pay for 367 LUCAS mechanical CPR devices to be deployed to hospitals caring for patients during the pandemic and beyond. “These d...
Members of Carbon Power & Light Inc. in 2020 will be eligible to receive electric services under a new rebate program that will extend significant benefits for line extension costs, the cooperative announced today. At its May 11 meeting, Carbon Power & Light’s board of directors approved the new electric service rebate program for 2020, applicable to the first 100 permanent new electric services installed this year. Upon completion of the new services, members would be eligible for up to $10,000 in rebates toward their line extension costs. ...
The Platte Valley Healthcare Project (PVHP), through its architect HGFA Architects of Billings, MT, has submitted final plans and drawings for the North Platte Valley Medical Center (NPVMC) to the Wyoming Department of Health. NPVMC will be a 25-bed Critical Access Hospital in Saratoga and will be built under a USDA program to bring healthcare facilities to rural areas of the country. “This is a big step in the approval process and a must-have for our final submission to the USDA,” said Mike Burke, president of HGFA. “We’re very pleased...
The Encampment Town Council meeting was held on May 14, 2020. It was decided that, since the COVID-19 pandemic has made everything so uncertain, the dredging project would be postponed. Jon Nelson of North Fork Engineering was present to give the council a few updates and provide them with a few options for screening equipment to filter out the trash going through the lagoons. The rest of the meeting went by with extreme expediency with the council approving most agenda items including software...
On Monday May 18, 2020 several families volunteered to clean up Sandy Beach. Christy Keel organized a group of moms in effort to make the beach safer for kids since her son cut his foot on some debris on the beach. Christy said, "There is a lot of mom's around that have kids who like to come and have a play date, we just find a lot of glass, golf balls and fire wood that is left and can't be burned. It makes it really dirty and dangerous for the kids to play. Its fine to have gatherings in the...
Carbon County is slowly showing signs of coming out of the COVID-19 lockdown. The Town of Medicine Bow opened town hall to the public on May 12 after the town council voted on May 11 to do so. It doesn't mean that going into the office is as it was before the closure to the public back in March. Karen Heath said there has not been a major influx of customers since opening the past couple days. "During the closing, we put in a mail slot for people to pay their bills, but there are some residents...
A week after holding their regular meeting at the Riverside Town Hall, the Upper Platte River Solid Waste Disposal District (UPRSWDD) returned to the building on May 12 for a workshop on how to move forward with the disposal of animal carcasses following the landfill closure in Saratoga. The transfer station outside Saratoga has been operational for nearly three years. Since then, the municipal solid waste (MSW) of users of the site has been transported elsewhere while construction and...
As the 2019/2020 fiscal year comes to a close for the Upper Platte River Solid Waste Disposal District (UPRSWDD), the district board is also putting the three-year contracts for both the Saratoga and Encampment sites out for bid. For the past three years, contracts for both locations have been held by Ron Munson, owner of Evergreen Disposal. On May 12, along with discussing how the district will proceed with disposal of animal waste, the UPRSWDD looked at changes to be made to both contracts for...
Since Health Management Services (HMS) announced they were assuming management of the Corbett Medical Clinic in Saratoga in August 2018, one of the biggest concerns for Valley residents has been when a doctor would be brought to the area. While HMS, the Platte Valley Healthcare Project (PVHP) and the Corbett Medical Foundation have navigated the path to a critical access hospital, that concern had not gone unheard by any three of the organizations. "You think back to our community healthcare...
Some residents of this county might know Shelly Cooper as the Carbon County School District No. 2 Teacher of the Year. She won that honor last spring. Others might know she was a strong advocate for Medicine Bow Elementary and its community on why the school should stay open last year, although its enrollment was not high. This year, she was the teacher that had her 10 students in grades 2-6 achieve the goal of reading 500 books this year. The school year isn't over and the kids arn't done on...
While it may not have been a roaring start to a new initiative to keep the Valley clean, New BeCLEANings had a blooming start for spring on Friday morning as Leanna Jones, CEO for the Saratoga/Platte Valley Chamber of Commerce (S/PVCC), Ray and Jamie Bernal, Roger and Wanda Snell, and Kirsten Teubner set out to begin the deep cleaning of Saratoga. "At a glance, it did not look like there was an insurmountable amount of cleaning that needed to be done, just a few weeds here and there along with t...
The Airport Board meeting on Wednesday, May 13 2020 was a little over two hours long in which time, many topics were discussed but not many decisions were actually made. One thing that was decided,was how to use part of the $30,000 allocation from the CARE act, the coronavirus economic relief plan. The grant was submitted for the purpose of operation and maintenance. There is a concern with animals, such as deer, getting into the runway area. The fence surrounding the airport is in need of...
The Riverside Town Council meeting on May 14, 2020 went swiftly and orderly as ever. After the minutes were approved and the financials were passed as presented, Helen Weiland of the South Central Wyoming Emergency Medical Service informed the Council that they were the recipients of impact money from a wind energy program. The money will go toward the purchase of a new ambulance. Lee Ann Stephenson, Sierra Madre Joint Powers Board, provided an update on the meter replacement project. The SMJPB...