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Editor’s note: Two of the questions asked in this interview are from anonymous readers. We encourage you to submit more questions to [email protected]. To contact Mayor Glode directly, call his new phone number at 307-329-3313. By Erik Gantt [email protected] Mayor Glode attended the Wyoming Association of Municipalities Winter Workshop along with councilman Richard Raymer this week. Glode and Raymer went to several workshops on governmental policy and rules. Glode attended w...
Editor’s note: We are beginning a weekly dialogue with new Saratoga Mayor Ed Glode, this is intended to become a weekly series of questions and answers. Glode said he was impressed with the turnout at his first council meeting as mayor. “It was a very positive result on the attendance, and we would like to see the room full every town council meeting,” Glode said. He added that one of his goals with the new council is to keep the operations of the town open to the public, and public atten...
The filing period for the Carbon County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees expired Monday. Jim Hinkle filed for the unexpired term of Area 2. Hinkle was appointed after Greg Bartlett resigned. Incumbent Diana Berger has also filed for Area 2. Incumbent Tonya Bartholomew has filed for Area 3. KayCee Alameda and James Sewell have filed for Area 4, which is an at large position. All of these candidates live in or near Saratoga. Linda Crane, of Elk Mountain, has filed for area 1. These names will be included on the general election ballot on...
On Jan. 21 the Carbon County Republican Party met to select three applicants to be considered for the Carbon County Commissioners seat left vacant by Jerry Paxton. Paxton resigned his commission seat to fulfill his duties as House District 47 Representative. Carbon County Republican Party Chairman Mike Kelley said they had received eight applicants and went through several rounds to select the three finalists, John Johnson, of Elk Mountain; Ron Platt, of Encampment and Matt Feldmann, Dixon. The...
Members of the public applauded after Councilman Steve Wilcoxson read from two letters at the Saratoga Town Council meeting Tuesday. The first was one he had written to the Planning Commission to apologize for his behavior at its Dec. 11 meeting. In that letter, Wilcoxson also said the board was not equally enforcing the zoning regulations of the town of Saratoga and the zoning ordinances should be changed to reflect what has long been allowed. Wilcoxson wanted to read his letter publicly at...
It can be hard for a conservative guy to support raising taxes, but that is what freshman representative for House District 47, Jerry Paxton, did when he voted for the 10-cent gas tax. “When I first looked at it, I wasn’t crazy about it,” Paxton said. But Paxton did some research and discovered he could support the tax based on what he found out. Paxton said Wyoming has pulled around a quarter of a billion dollars out of the general fund over the past three years to supplement road maintenance,...