Jacoby Funeral Home is pleased to announce that Joseph "Joey" Casada of Casper, Wyoming will be the new managing funeral director in Rawlins beginning April 1st.

After nearly three decades cutting the hair of Carbon County residents, Jamie Campbell, owner of Jamie's Clip & Curl, is handing over her scissors.
Campbell has strong roots in the county. Raised on a Valley ranch and a graduate of Platte Valley High School (now Saratoga Middle High School), the fourth-generation resident attended the University of Wyoming.

Health orders in response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) are lifting this week and, slowly, businesses are seeing signs of getting back to normal.
Christine Neel, owner of the Elk Mountain Hotel in the bucolic town the hotel is named after, is happy to see the progress.

Will Faust, chairman of the Platte Valley Healthcare Project (PVHP) and Laura Bucholz, liaison from the Corbett Medical Foundation, will give the keynote address at the Saratoga/Platte Valley Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner on Thursday, March 18.
Faust and Bucholz will be giving Chamber and audience members a recap of the North Platte Valley Medical Center project to date as well as plans for its completion in the coming year.

The Platte Valley Community Center (PVCC) will soon be host to a multi-day event for the benefit of Valley businesses. The inaugural Platte Valley Regional Business Expo will be held at the PVCC and is a joint venture between the Carbon County Economic Development Corporation, the Saratoga/Platte Valley Chamber of Commerce, the Rawlins Chamber of Commerce and the PVCC.

If you were making a list of the largest private employers in the North Platte Valley, there’s a surprising one you may have overlooked: the Saratoga Care Center.
When the Platte Valley Healthcare Project (PVHP) took over ownership of the Center recently, they learned, among other things, that it has 45 full- and part-time employees.