Six months since the Platte Valley Healthcare Project (PVHP) first introduced the Valley to accounting firm BKD, partners Joe Watt and Eric Lopata returned to present projected feasibility numbers...

The Saratoga Airport Advisory Board held their last monthly meeting on Aug. 14 as they make the transition from meeting monthly to meeting quarterly. Along with making that decision, the advisory...

The long search for a zoning officer may finally be coming to an end for the Town of Saratoga. During the Aug. 13 meeting of the Saratoga Planning Commission, two prospective candidates were in the...

While discussion of projected numbers took up the majority of the public meeting with the Platte Valley Healthcare Project (PVHP) committee on Aug. 14, the group also presented conceptual drawings...

The Hanna Town Council met at 6 p.m. on Tuesday at the Hanna Town Hall with three council members in attendance. Council member Traci Fowler was absent. Mayor Lois Buchanan was present. Before the...

There are new wind projects being slated to come to northern Carbon County that will have impact on several municipalities. The Lucky Star Wind Energy Project (Lucky Star) will be operating on 78,292...

The Upper Platte River Solid Waste Disposal District (UPRSWDD) addressed their pursuit of consolidated billing during their Aug. 7 meeting in Saratoga as they listened to a proposal from Alysson...

The Encampment Town Council met at 7 p.m. on Thursday with all council members present with the exception of Bill Craig. Mayor Greg Salisbury and Doreen Harvey Town Clerk/Treasurer were also in attend...

The Riverside Town Council met at 6 p.m. on Thursday at the Riverside Town Hall where all current council members were in attendance. Mayor Leroy Stephenson and Town Clerk/Treasurer Jan Cook were...

Nearly four months since first appearing before the Saratoga Town Council, Bob Quist, interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Memorial Hospital of Carbon County (MHCC), returned for the Aug. 6...

The Carbon County Council of Governments (CCCOG) met at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the Valley Community Center in Baggs. As might be expected, there was strong representation from the towns of Baggs...

Though the current location of American Legion Post 54 “just across the bridge” has been a fixture since 1991, the Post itself has held a location in Saratoga for 98 years and it turns 100 this...

At approximately 2 a.m. on July 28, officers from the Saratoga Police Department responded to a call of a possible attempted suicide at 204 West Main. Upon arriving, the officers located Saratoga...

On July 26, Memorial Hospital of Carbon County (MHCC) announced in a press release that the MHCC Board of Trustees had unanimously approved a decision to “begin the process of acquiring or...

The Medicine Bow Town Council met at 7 p.m. on July 8 at the Medicine Bow Community Hall with President of the Council Karla Denzen presiding due to Mayor Kevin Colman being absent. Council member...

Mayor Kevin Colman called a special meeting to order at 6:00 p.m. on July 15 at the Medicine Bow Community Hall with council members, Karla Denzin, Sharon Biamon, John Cowdin, and Trevor Strauch...

The purpose of federally mandated emergency exercises, like the one held at the Saratoga Care Center on July 12, is to allow multiple agencies to train together and find deficiencies in local emergenc...

The July 16 meeting of the Saratoga Town Council proceeded without Mayor John Zeiger in attendance and Councilmember Steve Wilcoxson serving as Mayor Pro-Tem. The Saratoga Sun asked about Zeiger’s a...

The newly renamed Platte Valley Healthcare Project (PVHP-formerly the Healthcare Sustainability Project Subcommittee) held their monthly meeting 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 17 in the Platte Valley...

The group met to plan a bombing. Picking an experienced shooter was also added to the blueprint. No, the scene was not a surly group of terrorists meeting in an abandoned warehouse-but a gathering...

As the Town of Saratoga enters month four without a permanent planning and zoning officer, the three member Saratoga Planning Commission spent a large portion of their July 9 meeting discussing how...

During their regularly scheduled meeting on July 10, the Carbon County Impact Joint Powers Board (CCIJPB) was presented with a conundrum in the form of Saratoga resident Mark Jones, who was nearing...

While it appeared, upon its creation, that the Saratoga Airport Advisory Board was having a problem filling the open seats, the July 10 meeting showed that it now has the opposite problem. Following...

The Riverside Town Council met at 6 p.m. on Thursday at the Riverside Town Hall with council member Fred Lorenz absent. The meeting started with a public hearing for a liquor license application for...

All council members were in attendance at the Hanna Town Council held at 6 p.m. on July 9 at the Hanna Town Hall. Mayor Lois Buchanan was not present due to illness. Council member Bob Patton was mayo...