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During a ceremony held before a scheduled speaker at the Platte Valley Community Center Wednesday, the Encampment Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) recognized and awarded their youth scholarship competition winners. Though the students entered the scholarship contests, they had no idea who won or what they were going to be awarded that day. So the students, there for another assembly, were surprised to be pulled up to the PVCC theater stage to receive awards and money. But there was a special tribu...
Anyone in Wyoming will tell you if you ask that life in a remote, rural state requires a fair bit of self-sufficiency, and Wyomingites pride themselves on it. But another thing you’ll hear is that no one person can do everything alone, and neighbors helping neighbors is one of the great characteristics of the state. And a recent study by WalletHub, a Washington, D.C. based consumer finance firm, confirms what a lot of people in Wyoming already knew; people in the Equality State give a lot to help out others, both in terms of money and time. A...
eff Neimark, Hanna Marshal, got happy holiday news from the U.S. Department of Justice, (DOJ). The Hanna Marshals Office was approved by the DOJ for a Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) award of one officer position. This comes from the 2017 COPS hiring program where a large part of a new deputy’s salary and benefits are covered by the DOJ. The estimated funds to be awarded to the Hanna Marshals Office over the three year award time frame is $125,000. The local funds match is $120,590. This award will allow reimbursement of wages a...
In the spirit of the holidays and the Small Business Saturday initiative, Encampment and Riverside are hosting a “Shop Local” Day on Saturday, December 9. All the planning has been done, just follow this itinerary for a pleasurable shopping experience in beautiful Encampment and Riverside. You can start in either town, but just make sure you hit every shop or restaurant at least once. Riverside Riverside Garage is offering a chance to win $100! Just stop in, say “howdy” to owners Dana or Rocky and pick up a ticket to enter. You don’t need to be...
The holiday season has started. This past Thanksgiving, I realized I was enjoying this holiday again. It has taken me four years, which is about the same time I stopped living overseas. Thanksgiving was probably the toughest holiday to celebrate for many reasons when I lived out of the country. When I had a restaurant in Taiwan, because we marketed as American style cuisine, we were packed during this time. It was all hands on deck for two-to-possibly-three seatings, serving a couple hundred dinners. That sort of volume had me doing everything:...
The Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame (WCHF) has inducted 195 people since 2014, 184 men and 11 women. Beginning Dec. 1, 2017, nominations are open for the Class of 2018. The nomination window on the WCHF website will continue to accept nominees until Feb. 28, 2018. Everyone is encouraged to nominate worthy individuals who represent the true cowboy heritage of Wyoming, men and women who have spent their lives with horses and cattle, pursuing and perpetuating the livestock industry that makes Wyoming great. Only people who have been correctly...
The Wyoming Mountain Mensa chapter of American Mensa has scholarships available for students living in Wyoming. The scholarships for the 2018 competition, ranging in value from $500-$1,000, are awarded by the Mensa Education & Research Foundation scholarship program. All scholarship awards are based on a 550-word essay submitted online by the applicant, which describes the applicant’s career, vocational, or academic goal toward which the scholarship is to provide aid. Entries will be judged and awarded at three levels: local, regional, and n...
Saratoga resident Dawn Webster wanted a town Christmas tree. Talking the idea around, Rich Keely suggested to use one of the live trees around town instead of cutting one down. Looking at the trees near town hall offered no clear candidates, then she saw the large fir in the American Legion's Khe Sanh West park downtown. Webster then got in contact with Saratoga mayor Ed Glode who called the American Legion and got approval to use the tree in the park. Next, Webster worked with Glode to find...
After the first four months of Wyoming’s fiscal year 2017 elapsed, figures published by the state show some uptick in economic activity in the state thanks in part to a pickup in the oil and gas sectors. Other sectors of the economy have not fared as well, however. Oil prices surged in November, increasing from $51.56 per barrel for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) to an average price of $56.57 per barrel, an almost 10 percent increase over the month. In November 2016, the price for a barrel of WTI was at $45.66. Natural gas prices also were on t...
Nationally Recognized speaker Victor Woods was at the Platte Valley Community Center Wednesday to bring his "never give up" message to Saratoga sixth to 12th grade students in attendance in the theater. Woods, who has spoken at colleges, businesses, schools, juvenile detention centers, prisons and other organizations across America, used humor and pointed situations to tell his history of crime and redemption. The speaker illustrated his grim early history from being arrested for armed robbery...
South Central Wyoming Emergency Medical Services, or SCWEMS, will be holding an EMT class at the beginning of 2018 to train new paramedics to serve their neighbors in the Platte River Valley and northern Carbon County. The class is scheduled to begin Jan. 2, according to Heidi Sifford, Ambulance Director at SCWEMS. The class will be the only one offered in Carbon County this year, Sifford said. There is a maximum of 20 students who can take the class this year, Sifford said. The class will meet for four months, getting together Tuesday and...
Amy and Madison (Maddy) Campbell are twins in the ninth grade at Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) Jr./Sr. High School. Shane and Conor McGraw are another set of twins at HEM in the 10th grade. There are physical differences in both sets, but to be able to tell who is who, however, can be tricky for someone who doesn't know them well. Amy is the oldest of the Campbell twins by 17 minutes. She is also a couple of inches taller than Maddy. The girls admit they both have loved sports from a...
Saratoga held its annual Christmas parade Saturday. Afterward, children of all ages went to the PVCC to have hot dogs and chili and visit Mr. and Mrs. Claus at the Valley Service Organization's Winter Wonderland... 
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