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Hangar leases and landing fees were the top topics of discussion during the regularly scheduled meeting of the Saratoga Airport Board at 1 p.m. on Sept. 12 at the Saratoga Town Hall and was attended by multiple hangar owners. The perpetual issue of hangar leases has been one discussed over several years and by multiple incarnations of the board. It was noted by town council member Richard Raymer, who represents the town on the airport board, at the Aug. 7 town council meeting that current fixed...
The Corbett Medical Foundation (Foundation), named for former Valley doctor Ray A. Corbett, was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) in September of 1993 and set their bylaws in January of 1994. The Foundation was started to remove both fund raising and dispersement burdens from the governing body of the Town of Saratoga. Mission Statement Generally stated, the mission statement of the Foundation was set to respond to the critical medical needs of the Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) area....
Rae Gill, 79, passed away at the Platte County Memorial Hospital in Wheatland, Wyo. on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018. Rae was born Monday, Sept. 26, 1938 in Sheffield, England, the daughter of Charles and Edith (Nicholas) MacMillan. Her family, mother, father and brother immigrated from Scotland to America in 1947 and made their new home in Laramie, Wyo. On Sept. 11, 1965 she married Robbie Gill in Cheyenne, Wyo. and moved to Rawlins, Wyo. where she was a hair stylist for twenty years. In 1981 they... Full story
Kelten Harrison Talbott rode into his last sunset on Sept. 12, 2018. Kelten, was born March 26th, 1992 to Dean and Cindy Talbott. He was the youngest of three children. Kelten started school in Encampment and graduated high school at Lone Star Undivided in Colorado. He attended Sterling College for one year. He loved "Cowboy'n" and spent the next six years working his and his dad's cows, helping out fellow ranchers, working in remote cow camps, and riding feedlots. He was dedicated to the... Full story
The September meeting of the Encampment Town Council at 7 p.m. on Sept. 13 at the Encampment Town Hall was relatively short, a total of 40 minutes, with the exception of the executive session entered into near the end of the meeting. During the regularly scheduled meeting, members of the town council approved a new representative on the Upper Platte River Solid Waste Disposal District (UPRSWDD), made a decision concerning Encampment’s Economic Development Corporation (EDC) account and d...
Ordinance 847, written to regulate mobile home parks within Saratoga, came back before the Saratoga Planning Commission during their regularly scheduled meeting at 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 11 at the Saratoga Town Hall. The ordinance, which rewrites several sections of Title 18, came back to the planning commission following the Saratoga Town Council meeting on Sept. 4 (Front page, Sept. 12, 2018 Saratoga Sun, “Dirt, doctor discussed”). The commission also discussed making changes to 15.04.100 of the m...
Valley residents were witness to a huge pillar of smoke rising from beyond Battle Pass on Sunday as the newly begun Ryan Fire grew to consume 1,832 acres. The fire, which was reported late Saturday night, began in Jackson County, Colo. in the “extreme northern tip of the Mount Zerkel Wilderness, Routt National Forest” according to a press release from United States Forest Service media contact Aaron Voos. Since being reported, the fire moved towards the northeast and crossed the Colorado/Wyoming border into southern Carbon County. Acc...
When I was pretty young, my stepbrother got his draft notice and my stepmother was freaked. She was even talking about sending him to Canada. The Vietnam War was going on and she didn’t want her child going off to that war. My father served in the Korean War as a jet fighter pilot and didn’t talk about his time over there much. I know he wasn’t wild about bombing bridges from one conversation we had when I was older. Still, he wasn’t happy about the talk of his stepson going to Canada to avoi...
Dear Editor, The Saratoga/Chamber of Commerce has benefited from the 2 percent lodging tax administered by the Carbon County Visitors Council’s marketing grant program: Last year, over 180 visitor and relocation packets were sent by the chamber. The $6 postage cost per packet was reimbursed by the CCVC. Marketing and advertising costs of $8000 were reimbursed by the CCVC for the Steinley Cup Brewfest, Saratoga Lake Ice Fishing Derby and Encampment’s Copper Days Festival. The estimated impact of the 1,600 people attending these three events is...
Merlynn Hoopes was elected president of the Valley Service Organization (VSO) at the organizations first meeting of the 2018-19 club year Thursday, Sept. 13 held in the back room of the Hotel Wolf. Other officers elected were Kassey Westring,vice president; Sue Jones, treasurer; and Carol Sherrod, secretary. In other business, the members started planning for VSO’s upcoming projects including general election candidate forums in October, the Christmas Giving Tree, Winter Wonderland, Christmas decorating contest and more. Project chairman T...
The Encampment Lady Tigers had another rough weekend as they lost two of their three scheduled games, with those two losses being to conference foes the Farson-Eden Lady Pronghorns (19-25, 23-25, 25-20, 25-20, 6-15) and the Cokeville Lady Panthers (13-25, 17-25, 13-25) on Saturday. The night before, the Lady Tigers traveled to Rock River where they beat the Lady Longhorns in three sets (25-13, 25-20, 25-21). Despite the two conference losses, the scores do not fully show the progress the young...
The Saratoga Lady Panthers suffered their first conference loss of the season against their counterparts from Cokeville (8-25, 18-25, 14-25), but were victorious against the North Park Lady Wildcats (25-14, 24-26, 25-19, 17-25, 15-10) on Tuesday, Sept. 11 and another conference rival, the Farson-Eden Lady Pronghorns (17-25, 25-16, 25-18, 25-22), on Saturday. "I was proud of the girls' performance this past week," said Shayley Love, head coach of the Lady Panthers. "With Homecoming, sometimes it...
When asked how he felt when the score was tied at 52 to 52 with 57 seconds left, Logan Wright, Saratoga head football coach, said he was not worried. "I was confident we would get the ball down the field and win," Wright said with a smile. He was justified because in 27 seconds the Panthers got down the field and scored against the Riverside Rebels who were visiting. The Rebels made a gallant attempt to come back one more time, but time ran out and the Panthers won their homecoming game. It is...
The long distance runners of Saratoga Middle/High School returned to Colorado over the weekend to compete in the John Martin Invitational in Fort Collins on Friday, Sept. 14. Runners Kaitlyn Campbell and Shianne Baker competed in the women's junior varsity race instead of the varsity. Campbell placed 100th out of 170 runners and Baker placed 130th. The men's varsity saw a shake-up this weekend as Jarom Herring, who usually leads the Panther sprinters, was outran by Joey Gonzales and Logan...
HEM vs Rock River The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School Lady Miners volleyball team played Rock River High School Lady Longhorns on Sept. 11 at 6 p.m. at HEM. Last year the Lady Longhorns beat the Lady Miners and the crowd had many supporters for Rock River hoping to see a repeat. The Lady Miners took control for the first two games beating the Lady Longhorns 25-16, 25-18 but the third game went to Rock River. "The third game, Rock River sort of stunned us with their...
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School football team met Hulett Red Devils at Midwest at 1 p.m. on Sept 15. The teams picked this high school for it being equidistant to each school. The Miners came out on top for the third time in a row, but Zach Scott, head coach for the football team said Hulett was not a pushover although the score was 46-14. “Hulett was an athletic hard hitting opponent and this was a game we needed at this stage in the season,” Scott said. “A true measu...
The September meeting of the Carbon County Impact Joint Powers Board (CCIJPB) was a somber one, taking place just a week after the untimely passing of JPB Chairman Donnie Price. Beginning shortly after 6 p.m. on Sept. 12 at the Saratoga Town Hall, vice-chairman Craig Kopasz lead the meeting after saying a few words about Price. “First off, I want to say something about Donnie. It was just a horrible accident and, honestly, it’s just awful. I know a lot of people here were close with him and he...