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At the July 1 Saratoga town council meeting, Richard Rideout, an attorney representing the town Saratoga, announced the three pending actions between the town and Saratoga resident Randy Stevens have been consolidated for trial. Stevens said in an interview Monday the trial had been moved to January of 2015, in hopes of the town of Saratoga and Stevens coming to an agreement before the court hearing. The legal battle between the two parties has been ongoing for more than a half-decade. It...
A program of spraying is intended to quell the mosquito population, provide relief from those biting buggers, and hopefully prevent cases of West Nile disease around the Valley. However, the Platte Valley is a natural ecosystem where every creature fulfills a role, and trying to manipulate that ecosystem can have negative consequences, right? Maybe not. And what about health hazards to humans? The answer seems to be that there is no need to worry. The greatest exposure to the insecticides seems...
Fence heights in front yards became a major issue of discussion at the July 8 Saratoga Planning Commission meeting. A debate which started at the April meeting, planning commission members have been discussing setting limits to fence height in front yards. Some concerns brought up were high fence with low visibility would restrict the view of a driver pulling into the roadway and could result in car wrecks. According to town of Saratoga engineer Chuck Bartlett, the current fencing ordinance...
Town of Saratoga engineer Chuck Bartlett clarified the Stantec report posted on the town’s website was not the complete report. Bartlett said the report only covered geomorphology, and there would be a full report available Friday. There will be a meeting public on the preliminary findings during the first part of August. An exact meeting time and date has not been set, Bartlett said....
Saratoga’s next blood drive with United Blood Services is on Tuesday, July 22 from noon to 5:30 pm at St. Ann’s Parish Hall. The drive is sponsored by the Knights of Columbus and will include a slice of fresh, home baked pie for all donors. Summertime activities are no fun if someone you love is in the hospital and there is no blood on the shelf. Here, in the southern part of Wyoming, it takes 500 people a week to donate blood to serve the 14 area hospitals. One out of every three people will need blood during their lives but only one in 20...
The class of 1994 is hosting its 20-year class reunion this weekend. Carl Beach said the class will meet for drinks at the Saratoga Resort & Spa at 7 p.m. Friday. Alumni of Saratoga High School from other years are invited to attend Friday night. On Saturday, the class will meet at 10 a.m., at Kathy Glode Park for a barbecue and tour Saratoga Middle/High School at 2 p.m. At 6 p.m., the class will meet at the Hotel Wolf for dinner....
The American Legion Post No. 54 is rededicating the Khe Sanh West to the east of Lollypops, July 26, Deb Clark, American Legion adjutant, said. The ceremony will begin at 1 p.m., and is followed by a flag retirement ceremony. Clark said citizens who would like to have their American flag retired at the ceremony can being the flags to the ceremony or drop them off at the American Legion Post Home. According to The United States Flag Code, “The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem of display, should be d...
Spring cleaning has come late for me this year. I normally try to do this during the appointed time of year, but if you recall spring this year was a rainy and extremely windy one. I know that some folks have managed to be on top of the spring cleaning thing because of the abundance of garage sales we have already had. Garage and yard sales, I would think, are a pretty good indicator of the whole spring cleanup in general. When I get around to the pre-summer flushout I like to throw everything...
Editor: A few days ago I was riding into your area. The day was nice when we left Walden, but as we bicycled along the weather began to fade into gloom. My friend was about a mile ahead of me. A stronger cyclist, she usually gets to our destination 30 minutes before I do. As the wind howled, the dust flew and then the rain started, I realized I wasn’t going to bicycle any further. By then, I was still at least 3 miles from town. I was pushing my bike along the highway, looking for a flat spot to get off on. I was also becoming very scared. H...
Dear Mayor and Council Members: 70 years ago I watched the first Power Plant construction occur across from my home on West Bridge Street. The Town Fathers invited and welcomed the non-profit Co-Operative Company composed of the citizens of Saratoga to invest and construct this power plant so we would have dependable electric lights and power and retire the candles and coal-oil Kerosene lanterns. By intent & implication, if not actually documented in old Town government minutes, this locally owned Co-Operative was invited to and granted the rig...
Sawyer Brown, an award-winning and chart-topping country band, will play at the Platte Valley Community Center on Sunday, July 20. The show will be this year’s Valley Strong benefit concert presented by Brush Creek Ranch and the proceeds will go to over 20 local non-profit organizations. The concert is nearly sold out, and both ticket sales as well as interest in non-profits has increased since last year’s concert. “We appreciate the community’s support and are encouraged by the ticket sales,...
The Riverside Town Council met Thursday night and discussed the numerous problems they have been having with mosquito spraying and fogging this year as well as other important topics. “If it wasn’t for bad luck, we wouldn’t have any luck at all,” said Town Clerk Jana Cook about mosquito control efforts this year. The fogger truck has been experiencing mechanical difficulties and there have been issues with both fueling of the plane and being able to fly on days without too much wind. Lengthy...
At the Town of Encampment council meeting Thursday night, the big news was the approval of a retail liquor license for D’s Bar and Grill. The license was approved and the town should have a new eatery and drinking establishment soon. Gary White expressed concern over the need for himself and others that have to use treated water to maintain their lawns, trees and gardens. His property sits too high to utilize the Encampment ditch, but he doesn’t want to see the ditch shut down because peo...
Encampment will once again host Cowboys and Cowgirls from all over the West with the Grand Encampment Cowboy Gathering (GECB) this weekend. Now in its 12th year, audiences will be treated to a mixture of cowboy culture, including Dutch-oven cooking, a stick-horse rodeo and cowboy music and poetry. “There will be music continuously going throughout the day,” Steve Moulton, president of the GECB outfit, said. The events begin Friday with an open mic at 7 p.m. on July 18 at Grand View Park. Thi...
Saratoga area native and life-long rancher Ken Olson has been selected as this year's Grand Encampment Cowboy Gathering (GECB) Outfit Carbon County Pioneer. He will be honored during intermission of the Cowboy Poetry and Music show Saturday night in the Grand Encampment Opera House. The event begins in Encampment this weekend. Ken was born Dec. 2, 1932 on the 4 Bar ranch (now owned by the Kerbs family) west of Saratoga and lived there with his parents, Swan and Margaret Olson and younger sister...
Editor’s note: This is the last in a series of stories about Michelle McWain. She is a wife, a mother, a Carbon County School District No. 2 employee and a breast cancer survivor. Michelle’s McWain’s hair was gone. Her breasts had been removed. She had lost 30 pounds. Breast cancer took many things from Michelle. But for everything she lost, she gained even more. When Michelle was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2012, her life had instantly changed. She spent days driving back and forth from tre...
Stuart Domingue was the only bull rider who managed eight seconds and a score of 74 among the nine bull riders who competed at the Platte River Rodeo. Domingue, of Casper, won the Vaun Savage buckle at this past week's rodeo for his bull ride and has been bull riding since he was 12 years old. "It's something that kind of grabbed a hold of me," Domingue said of his bull riding career. He started with the Western Junior Rodeo Association. In 2011 he joined the Professional Bull Riders. He joined...
Chris Irwin, internationally renowned horseman and best selling author, will be presenting a free public demonstration of his innovative approach to horsemanship at Buck Springs Arena starting at 9 a.m. on July 19, followed by a clinic at Blackhall Mountain Ranch in Encampment on July 20 and 21. The demonstration and clinic will focus on natural horsemanship and the emerging industry of horses being worked with in therapeutic and personal coaching programs. It was while discovering how to work with and transform the primal and volatile nature...
Since crossing the Wyoming state line, there has been a “Head wind right from the start,” said Timothy Williamson. No surprise to Wyoming residents. It has taken him six days to pedal his 100 plus pounds of bicycle, gear, and dog to Walcott, and he hopes to make it out of Wyoming in another week or so. It’s a long journey for Williamson who left Florida in late April and hopes to arrive in Spokane, Wash., in September, making his way with his dog Milo. Williamson used to be a long-...
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The University of Wyoming accorded degrees upon 8 students from Carbon County School District No. 2 at the completion of the 2014 spring semester. Degrees were awarded to: Encampment Danial C. Barkhurst - Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Christina Elise Pantle - Bachelor of Arts Medicine Bow Trevor W. Strauch - Bachelor of Science Saratoga Thomas S. Bokelman - Bachelor of Arts Russell Devon Burton - Bachelor of Science Maegen Ruth Fields - Bachelor of Arts Heidi L. Lehr - Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering Walcott Mindy...
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The Valley Service Organization (VSO) has scheduled three pre-primary election candidate forums in Saratoga. Three forums were scheduled because of the number of candidates running in the Aug. 19, 2014 primaries, according to Sue Jones, VSO chairman for the event. On July 23 at 6 p.m, The Carbon County candidates include those who are running for sheriff, incumbent Jerry Colson and challenger Jared Frakes; clerk of district court include incumbent Deborah Olson and challenger Mara Sanger; county commission candidates are incumbents John...