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The Upper Valley Search and Rescue sold 261 poker hands Sunday at the 16th Annual Ben Romios Memorial Poker Run. A total of $2,610 was brought in from the hands, in addition to other money that was donated toward the event. Six prize money gifts were given to three high winners and three low winners. Try Knotwell had the highest hand, winning $675 with three "10s". Anthony Rakness had the second highest hand, winning $400, and Menphis Smith-Moon had the third highest hand,...
The Lady Tigers are ready to rumble at regionals this weekend in Lander. With Friday’s 29-41 loss against Little Snake River, Encampment ended their regular season 9-12 overall and 3-5 for conference. Even with more losses than wins, the Lady Tigers still rank third in the 1A Southwest Conference. Leading the way in their conference are Little Snake River and Cokeville. Head coach Amy Clay said she thought her girls played well against the top-ranked Lady Rattlers. “We pla...
Even after Friday’s upset against Little Snake River, the Encampment Tigers are still heading into regionals as a third-place team in the 1A Southwest Conference. With 15-6 overall and a conference record of 5-2, the Tigers currently trail behind Little Snake River and Cokeville within their 1A conference. Encampment lost 47-58 against the Rattlers Friday, in what was the Tigers’ last regular game before regionals. Head coach Clint Bromley said this week’s regional tournament...
After placing six in the top 10 at regionals, the Saratoga wrestling team is ready to combat more competitors at this weekend’s 2014 Wyoming High School State Wrestling Meet. Out of the nine Panthers who competed at regionals, Thatcher Spiering placed first; Hunter Mason, Chaze Wiant and Jacob Wells earned second; Thomas Ingleby took third; and Bradley Bifano grabbed fourth. The team overall took fifth place out of nine teams participating. “Overall I’m pleased that we place...
Three Hanna-Elk-Mountain-Medicine Bow Middle/High School student poets achieved top placements at their school's Poetry Out Loud Competition last month. Junior Dakota Trump received first place, sophomore Maggie Johnson placed second and senior Aleck Freeman place third at the competition, which took place at HEM Middle/High School Jan. 24. According to its website, Poetry Out Loud is a national arts education program that encourages the study of great poetry, by offering a dy...
Saratoga’s Lady Panthers ended their 2013-14 varsity basketball season Monday with a 42-69 loss against Lusk's Lady Tigers. Head coach Matt Love said he thought his girls shot the ball well during the pigtail game at Lusk, which determined if Saratoga would go to regionals. The Lady Panthers also lost 37-49 in Friday’s game against Hanna-Elk Mountain-Medicine Bow’s Lady Miners. Counting both of those games, the Lady Panthers ended with a 6-17 overall record, and unfor...
The Encampment Tigers mauled the Hanna-Elk Mountain-Medicine Bow Miners Friday night at their home court with a score of 60-46. The Tigers and Miners kept pace with each other through most of the first quarter, before the Tigers started to outscore the Miners. It was a good game for Guy Erickson, who hit most of his 3-pointers, and Luke Pantle led on the inside scoring and made some 3-pointers of his own. Early in the second quarter the Tigers had a 9-point lead and kept the...
The Encampment Lady Tigers' last home game of the season was quite an emotional roller coaster, after fans watched them take a 38-42 double overtime hit from Hanna-Elk Mountain-Medicine Bow's Lady Miners. The game really got kicking in the second half, when the Lady Tigers held a lead against the Lady Miners through the third quarter, thanks to outside shots from Jennifer Morgan and Konnar Knotwell. However, the Lady Miners continued to box out the Lady Tigers, forcing them...
A game that remained a tied game through much of the first quarter turned ugly for the Lady Panthers Saturday afternoon against the Burns' Lady Broncs. By the middle of the second quarter the Lady Broncs were playing aggressively and outscored the Lady Panthers by 12 points. Haley Soles seemed to take a lot of the aggression, with a slap in the face during a block and tripping through the Broncs defense whenever she had the ball. The Lady Panthers fought for the ball and...
The search for enough Certified Nursing Assistants to well-equip nursing homes, hospitals and other medical facilities is still an ongoing battle, even in the Platte Valley. Merlynn Hoopes, RN, program director and instructor of the CNA class, said she has always seen a need for more CNAs in the nearly 50 years she has spent in nursing. Hoopes began her work in nursing in 1966, and said she has loved it ever since. "I love every aspect of nursing, and that's what it takes to m...
With warmer weather coming soon, council members were planning for park maintenance and summer events at last Thursday’s Riverside Town Council meeting. Riverside Town Clerk Jan Cook said she submitted a $5,500 recreation board grant request, which would go toward park maintenance and Riverside Party Day expenses. The Riverside Party Day is held annually in August at Rick Martin Memorial Park. “A total of $3,500 of it is for the park maintenance person’s salary, and $2,00...
Last weekend was a big triumph for the Saratoga Panther wrestlers, who earned two individual first-placements and a third-place team win at the Carbon County Invite. Head coach Jared Mason said he was proud to see the Panthers make the top-three out of 17 teams at the tourney, which took place Friday and Saturday at Hanna-Elk Mountain-Medicine Bow Middle/High School. "Finishing third out of 17 teams at the Carbon County Invitational, the Panthers are wrestling well as they...
Saratoga's Panthers wrapped up their season conference play nicely with a 66-57 snuff over the Burns Broncs. Saturday's win over Burns was not only a good way to end Saratoga's regular conference play, they bounced back after Friday's 54-66 conference loss against Lusk. The Panthers also took their vengeance Saturday, as they had previously lost 35-59 against the Broncs in January. "Burns is a pretty good team, and we had to do our best job to get that win," said head coach...
Platte Valley elementary students witnessed a rousing outdoor lesson in cloud seeding last week, with help from the Saratoga-Encampment-Rawlins Conservation District's (SERCD) Natural Resource Education Program. The field days were organized in part of SERCD and lesson presenters included meteorologists Dan Gilbert and Brad Waller, both of the Fargo, N.D.-based Weather Modification Incorporated (WMI). For each day throughout Feb. 10-13, the two presented part of their cloud...
Talk of the upcoming Sierra Madre Muzzleloaders Mountainman Rendezvous Thursday evening got Encampment Town Council members excited for summer. Josh Saier, President of the Sierra Madre Muzzleloaders Rifle Club, asked the council Thursday for use of the land near the Grand Encampment Museum (GEM), and a regular contribution for the Mountainman Rendezvous. The American Old West-style shooting and throwing competition would take place July 25-27 this year. Council members...
Encampment High School sophomore basketball player KeeGan Johnson is hoping to represent Wyoming this summer, at one of the 2014 Down Under Sports tournaments in Australia. The Utah-based Down Under Sports, which celebrates 25 years this year, hosts international events in Australia, New Zealand or Hawaii, where students from high schools all over the world participate in sports during the summer. Student athletes compete for a week in one specific sport, such as basketball,... Full story
Carbon County residents interested in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) can learn more about who can be helped and affected by the program. Wyoming Senior Citizens Inc., will host a presentation on the ACA at 2 p.m. Friday, at Saratoga’s Carbon County Library branch, 503 W. Elm St. in Saratoga. Lee Harden, Navigation Coordinator for Wyoming Senior Citizens Inc., said the meeting will feature a non-partisan, unbiased presentation on the ACA, also known as Obamacare, including t... Full story
The town of Saratoga will surely gain an economic boost during the 34th annual Donald E. Erickson Chariot Races this weekend. Saratoga resident Rosemary Erickson said she was excited for another year of busyness during the big racing event, which was named after her husband, Don, who passed away in 1980. She said Don was very well-known in the community before his passing. “We moved here in 1970 and had a corner drug store, and Don was active in the business community,” Eri...
Middle school wrestlers from across Carbon County showed their strength to a home crowd at the Saratoga Middle School Quadrangular last Thursday. The young wrestlers from Saratoga, HEM and Rawlins competed at the Platte Valley Community Center gym in a free-for-all setting, with no specific weight classes or placings assigned. Two female wrestlers, HEM's Freddie Wagner and Rawlins' Juliet Surber, also stepped out to prove they could compete with the boys. The Saratoga Middle S...
The Saratoga wrestling team beat four out of five teams at the Southeast Team Duals in Yoder Saturday. The Panthers faced off against teams from Lusk, Hay Springs, Neb., Bayard, Neb., Burns and Southeast. Individually, Daynon Mowry, Thomas Ingleby and Tate Stinson all ended the tournament with five wins and no losses in their respective weight classes. Sixteen teams were divided into four pools to begin wrestling, and Saratoga was in Pool C with Lusk, Hay Springs and Bayard....
Nearing the end of their season, Saratoga’s Lady Panthers took in two conference losses last weekend against Pine Bluffs and Southeast. Saratoga now has a 6-13 overall record, and the team has not won a conference game yet. Friday was when Saratoga received the 31-65 sting from the Lady Hornets. “Very simple, they played very well and we did not,” said head coach Matt Love. “We played hard though, just couldn’t get any shots to drop and we got in early foul trouble, then it g...
Results from the Saratoga USA Wrestling Club’s Cowboy Kids Laramie Invite are shown below. The tournament took place Feb. 8, and names, divisions with weight classes, records and placements are included. Folkstyle wrestling Ace Arnold - Pee Wee 34-35 lbs, 1-3 record, fourth place Jace Westring - Pee Wee 40-42, 3-1, second place Kannon Gilbert - Pee Wee 43-44, 2-1, second place Brian Smith - Bantam 45, 4-2, fifth place Allyster Ingraham - Bantam 45, 3-1, second place Baylin S...
Last weekend was a tough stretch of games for Encampment’s Lady Tigers, squeaking by Farson-Eden Saturday and falling to Cokeville the next day. Head coach Amy Clay said Friday’s 36-35 conference victory over the Lady Pronghorns was a battle from the opening tip, which was a far cry from when the Lady Tigers pummeled them 48-31 in January. “We were tied at 17 at the end of two, and we scored 13 in the second and 12 in the fourth,” she said. “We shot a season best 48 percent f...
The Saratoga Panthers gave their season record a boost with a 67-50 conference victory over Southeast’s Cyclones last Saturday in Laramie. Both teams were stranded in Laramie by the snow storm and made the best of a bad situation by playing Saratoga’s home game at Laramie High School. Saturday’s triumph was a much welcome comeback for the Panthers, after they got stung 53-67 by the Pine Bluffs Hornets Friday, and previously lost 53-57 in their January game against South...
The Encampment Tigers experienced mixed emotions last weekend, succumbing to a big loss against Cokeville after an oh-so-close squeak past Farson-Eden. Friday’s conference game, in which Encampment won 52-50, was quite the change of pace for Farson-Eden this time around. The Tigers trampled the Tigers 71-46 only one month earlier. “We had a good first half that enabled us to win the ball game,” said head coach Clint Bromley. “Luke Pantle had 23 points, five rebounds and thr...