Encampment art teacher retires

After 30 years of teaching in Carbon County, Pam Kraft is stepping down from her position as art teacher for the Encampment K-12 School.

Kraft has become quite the fixture at the school, teaching students from first grade through 12th grade for three decades. A Detroit, Mich. native, Kraft first taught art for a year-and-a-half in Gross Pointe, Mich., but said she began teaching in Encampment in 1977.

At that point in time, she only taught for one year in Encampment before moving to Phoenix, Ariz., with her husband, Dan, an Encampment native whom she married in 1978. After the couple move...