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The Saratoga Town Council met on at 6 p. m. on June 5 to listen to several speakers after business as usual of approving the agenda, minutes from the May 15 meeting and paying the financials. The total for bills came to $2,206,532.06. The council approved the special event application from the Chamber of Commerce for Togie Days to close East and West Bridge Street from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. on June 30, along with an open container permit pending the Fire Chief signing off on the event. The council...
Nearly two months have passed since a fire at the Saratoga Forest Management (SFM) sawmill consumed 6 million board feet of timber and threatened the surrounding community. With the fire out, and production resuming at the mill, some have raised the question as to what SFM is doing in the wake of the fire to prevent a similar event. The answer starts at the top, with owner Gary Ervin. As was reported previously in the Saratoga Sun, Ervin has plans to revamp the boiler system at SFM. With the...
By Joshua Wood On March 27, C.J. Box released "The Dissappeared," the 18th installment in the Joe Pickett series, which follows the exploits of the popular Wyoming Game and Fish warden. Newcomers and longtime fans of the series have often wondered when Pickett would get his own television show. To some it seemed only sensible considering the success of "Justified," based on books by Elmore Leonard, and "Longmire," based on the books by fellow Wyoming author Craig Johnson. Shortly before the...
A Celebration of Gary “Guerney” Innis’ Life. Military Ceremony at Saratoga Cemetery at 11 a.m. on June 23. Pot Luck to Follow at the American Legion in Saratoga.... Full story
Darlene Faye (Jennings) Van Orden, 75, was born on September 24, 1941 in Des Moines, Iowa to Edwin (Ed) and Edith Jennings. She passed peacefully on Monday, June 4, 2018 at Ivinson Memorial Hospital in Laramie. Her family moved to Half Way, Missouri in 1948 and she grew up on a farm there. She loved music as a child and she recorded her first song on a 45 record. She played sports in school and graduated Half Way High School as valedictorian of her senior class. She attended college at SMSU in Springfield, Missouri before marrying her first... Full story
The Hanna Agriculture Resource Team (HART) met at 5:30 p.m. on May 29 at the Hanna Market for their monthly gathering of members. The meeting had Jon Ostling, Hanna resident, introduce himself to the group as a candidate for Hanna mayor. Before Ostling spoke, Rose Dabbs, member of HART awarded David Freeman, a 2018 Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow High School graduate the first HART scholarship for $150. The scholarship was started this year and will be available next year. “We as a group w...
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade (the 1960s) and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.” — John F. Kennedy The Moon: Just a Phase? In the late 60s, a quarter of the world’s population watched as American astronauts sent back images...
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During the regularly scheduled meeting of the Upper Platte River Solid Waste Disposal District (UPRSWDD) at 7 p.m. on June 6 at the Saratoga Town Hall, the board discussed options for dealing with washdown water, heard two letters written by Chairman Randy Raymer addressed to the Town of Saratoga and discussed constructing a new building at the Saratoga Transfer Facility. Craig Kopaz, of Engineering Associates, brought up to the board the matter of a 2,000 gallon holding tank at the transfer sta...
In the past, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) has been focused on site-specific projects in one area with the whole process taking approximately 1 to 2 years before implementation can begin. The Landscape Vegetation Analysis (LaVA) project changes that with the use of what is called “condition-based NEPA.” This is something that Leanne Correll, the NEPA Coordinator for the Saratoga, Encampment and Rawlins Conservation District (SERCD), is excited to be a part of. “The NEPA proce...
Life can change in an instant, a fact that people can sometimes forget. Such was the case with Encampment resident Kassidy Barr as she was headed to the movies with her friend, Ember Yeary, on the evening of June 4. The Saratoga Sun reached out to Barr following the crash. Barr granted permission to the Sun to use her Facebook post and photos in filing this report. "When we woke up Ember said she felt like she got ran over by 32 Spanish bulls and I said I felt like I got hit by truck. Both are...
This weekend marks the annual Woodchoppers’ Jamboree and, with it, the events that so many people have come to enjoy; chainsaw tosses, pole climbing, ax throws and melodramatic performances. When the saws are put away and the wood chips are done flying, a long-held tradition of the weekend is to head to the Grand Encampment Opera House to watch the melodrama put on by Valley thespians. This year, residents will be seeing , “He Lured Her to the Primrose Path but He was Nipped in the Bud,” Mary...
While the Woodchoppers’ Jamboree and Rodeo is entering its 58th year, it was only in the last few decades that it had the fortune of calling the Encampment/Riverside Lions Club Arena home. As many longtime Valley residents will remember, the arena was once home to the stockyards for the Saratoga-Cow Creek rail line. In 1975, Union Pacific (UP)announced that they were abandoning the line and, in 1976, held a number of public meetings to explain the process of abandonment. Thanks to efforts by L...
On July 10, 1890 Gertrude Huntington became the first woman editor in the state of Wyoming shortly after she and her sister, Laura Huntington, had purchased the Platte Valley Lyre. Nearly 130 years after purchasing the paper, the Huntington Sisters' great-nephew, Dr. William James Toole, D.D. (Doctor of Divinity) stood in front of the former home of the Lyre, now Studio T, with his son and grandson for a photo. During their visit to the Valley, the Toole family stayed in the recently renamed...
U.S. Forest Service and Albany County fire personnel responded to a wildfire Sunday afternoon in the southern Snowy Range, Medicine Bow National Forest, which forced evacuations from multiple locations due to rapid growth. As of Sunday, 9 p.m. the Badger Creek Fire was roughly estimated at 100 acres and there is no containment. The cause of the fire is unknown and its’ origin is near Forest Road 501, and between Badger Creek and the North Fork of Pelton Creek. That location is 2 miles north of the Wyoming/Colorado state line. Multiple c...
John R. Waggener, an archivist in the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming, is the author of "Snow Chi Minh Trail: The History of Interstate 80 between Laramie and Walcott Junction." The book is published by the Wyoming State Historical Society, a nonprofit, membership-driven educational organization. The subject matter is a 77 mile stretch of road that is known to many Wyoming residents for its volatile weather conditions that makes the highway very hazardous. Waggener was at...
Saratoga Friends of the Library (FOL) is encouraging people to get down to their roots as well as look towards the skies this month. The FOL encourages residents to stop by the Saratoga Branch Library to check out the Saratoga Free Seed Library. Seeds are packaged in small amounts and may be picked up from the display cabinet in the entryway of Saratoga Branch Library at 503 West Elm Ave. during regular library hours. Entering it's third year, the project began as a suggestion by former branch m...
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