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Fishing with donuts
Hanna Agricultural Resource Team (HART) met at 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 27 at the Hanna Market to discuss the Christmas party the group will be sponsoring from 2-4 p.m. on Dec. 22. The event will happen at...
District wool winners head to State
Five contestants competed in the Carbon County Make It With Wool (MIWW) district competition held at the Jeffery Center in Rawlins, on Sunday, Nov. 4. Winners were announced at the end of the fashion...
Healthcare meeting announced
The Healthcare Sustainability Project Subcommittee (HSPS) will be holding their monthly public meeting at 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 12 at the Platte Valley Community Center Great Hall. An email from HSPS board member George Haigh stated that the meeting... Full story
Unemployment down slightly
The Wyoming Department of Workforce Services (DWS) released its October report on unemployment claims recently, placing Wyoming unemployment at 4.1 percent, putting it at the same percentage as...
Wyoming mourns passing of 41st president
George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st President of the United States, passed away at his home in Houston, Texas at the age of 94 on Nov. 30, 2018. Bush’s death comes just over six months after the...
Saratoga Council hears a wide range of topics
All current members of the Saratoga Town Council were present at 6 p.m on Nov. 20 at the Saratoga Town Hall for the regularly scheduled meeting. The agenda and minutes for the Nov. 6 meeting were...
Back into $1,000
The Saratoga/Platte Valley Chamber of Commerce has begun selling tickets for the annual Reverse Drawing. Tickets are $10 each and only 300 are sold. Unlike the usual raffle procedure, the very last ticket drawn is the grand prize winner in this...
A tree that brings smiles
The 2018 Giving Tree, a project of the Valley Service Organization (VSO), is still up at Town and Country Realty, but it won't be there for much longer. There is still time for people with kind...
Variances, RVs and a Memorandum
The Saratoga Planning Commission met at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday and prefaced their meeting with two public hearings for setback variances. Public Hearings The first hearing was opened for a 20 foot...
Terminal termination?
At the regularly scheduled meeting of the Saratoga Airport Board at 1 p.m. on Nov. 14 at Saratoga Town Hall, the members of the board discussed further details regarding the removal of asbestos and...
Gallons gained, lethality lessened
The Hanna Town Council met at 6 p.m. on Nov. 13 at the Hanna Town Hall and, with the exception of amending the agenda under new business, the beginning of the meeting was routine. The financials, the...
CCCOG gets project bids for tax
The Carbon County Council of Governments (CCCOG) met at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 14 at the Jeffery Center in Rawlins. Steve Nicholson, the chairman, Kenda Colman, vice chairman and Morgan Irene, secretary/tr...
Amps and bean bags
Alan Youngberg, from Prairie Dog Electric, was on hand to set up the new backup generator for the Hanna Marshall building. The generator was purchased through a Homeland Security grant of $14,500....
Moving forward despite risks
At a meeting Wednesday night at the Platte Valley Community Center, about 35 people showed up with questions about the Platte Valley Clinic and its future. The Healthcare Sustainability Project...
Republican women disband
On July 11, 1940, the organization of the Platte Valley Republican Women (PVRW) was announced in the Saratoga Sun. The small article read, "A study club for the Republican women of the Platte Valley...
6th penny projects
Contention was visible between Encampment Mayor Greg Salisbury and council member Bill Craig during the regularly scheduled meeting of the Encampment Town Council at 7 p.m. on Nov. 8 at Encampment Tow...
Projects, police & physicians
The Saratoga Town Council met at 6 p.m. on Tues. at the Saratoga Town Hall in a fairly fast meeting. In attendance on the council were mayor Ed Glode and council members Will Faust, Richard Raymer...
Lack of trash talk
The monthly meeting of the Upper North Platte River Solid Waste Disposal District (UPRSWDD) at 7 p.m. on Nov. 7 failed to take place. Members Sue Jones and Leroy Stephenson were unable to attend,...
The tank rolls
Proposed projects for the 2019 Specific Purpose Tax (6th penny tax) topped the discussion during the regularly scheduled meeting of the Riverside Town Council at 6 p.m. on Nov. 8 at Riverside Town...
Poached moose
According to a recent press release from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD), the body of a cow moose was recently discovered around Jack Creek on Oct. 26. By the time the body was discovered by Laramie/Glendo WGFD Game Warden Becca Lutz,...
Riding the stage
Friends of the Saratoga Library invite all interested persons to "hop aboard the stage coach rolling through the Upper North Platte River Valley" at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, in the Saratoga Branch...
Clinic is back
The Platte Valley Medical Clinic is open again after a brief closure. Dr. Bryan Kaiser signed a Termination of Lease agreement with the town on Oct. 31 which paved the way for Health Management... Full story
Giving Med Bow a bone
Rocky Mountain Power and Sinclair Wyoming Refining Company (SWRC) had representatives at the Medicine Bow Museum at 11 a.m. on Monday to present Sharon Biamon, Medicine Bow Museum director with...
Towns express desire for 5th penny
The 5th Penny Tax is coming up for approval by voters on election day. The Sun reached out to many of the municipalities to find out how the tax effects each community. Encampment "In Encampment the... Full story
Monumental restoration
Carbon County School District No. 2 has given the Hanna Basin Historical Society (HBHS), a non-profit corporation, permission to assume management of the World War I Monument situated on school...