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Council members discussed town cleanup and a potential new visitor’s center in Rawlins at Riverside’s town council meeting Thursday evening. Early in the meeting, the council discussed four bids that were submitted to buy a shed located at Rick Martin Memorial Park. The council approved Ken Campbell’s bid for the shed, which was for $327, more three other lower bids of $300, $111 and $101. The council also approved a bid for the electrical work in the new shop at Rick Martin Memorial Park,...
Plans for a new Carbon County visitor’s center in Rawlins were discussed at the Encampment Town Council meeting Thursday evening. Jim McKinney, chairman of the Carbon County Visitors Council, told council members, CCVC wanted to apply for a Wyoming Business Council Business Ready Community Planning Grant, which would go toward the new visitor’s center in Rawlins. The grant amount is $25,000. McKinney said the proposed site for the visitor’s center is the guard’s quarters at the Wyoming Frontie...
Local writer Josh Wood spent an entire day at HEM High School as the artist-in-residence Sept. 25, sharing inspiration and words of wisdom with aspiring student authors. Wood, who is from Saratoga, met with HEM English teacher Brenda Ostendorf’s students for a whole school day, where time was spent chatting about the book or story writing process and what students were writing, or had already written, at the time. Wood had spoken at HEM’s “literary dinners” before, and was excited to meet mo...
The Saratoga Varsity Lady Panthers achieved their winning 2013 Homecoming volleyball game Friday, taking down rival Encampment’s Lady Tigers with four games in packed Panther territory. Fans from Saratoga and Encampment flooded the gym to cheer on their teams, and eventually witness the 2A Lady Panthers (15-7, 4-1) take in match-winning scores of 15-25, 25-23, 25-21 and 25-21. The 1A Lady Tigers (14-5-1, 5-1) looked like they might own the match at the start, with a 10-point win in the first g...
With two competitions left, the Saratoga Middle School volleyball team fought hard during their weekend games against Little Snake River and Walden. The Panther A team lost Saturday’s match against Little Snake River, with 13-25 and 17-25, but the B team won with 19-25, 25-11 and 25-16. On Friday, the A team won 25-21 and 25-13 against Walden, while in earlier games, the B team lost 4-25 and 20-25 and the C team won 25-12 and 25-21. “The girls did a good job and really improved on def...
The Saratoga High School Panthers underwent a tough Homecoming loss in football Monday, suffering a close 26-40 takedown by the Kaycee Buckaroos. The Panthers did come close to leading in the second half after Tate Stinson made his second touchdown of the game, followed by a successful PAT kick from Rodrigo Escobedo. This brought the score to 34-26, Kaycee’s lead, and the Panthers still had time to catch up or take over in the fourth quarter. With less than six minutes left in the game, coach S...
Senior Cameron Collamer nearly won it all in the high school boys division at the Lyman Cross-Country Invite last Thursday. Collamer secured his second place out of the high school boys with a time of 19:53. Showing improvement from the previous week, a total of six Saratoga runners managed to make the Top 10, doubling the team amount secured at the Saratoga Invite Sept. 27. Coach Rex Hohnholt said he felt the kids hit their stride during the weekday race. “I don’t think the times are ref...
One person’s old used book can be another person’s treasure at the Saratoga Friends of the Library-sponsored Fall Book Sale this week. The book sale is open to all and runs until Oct. 4. Ruth Hackett, Saratoga Library Branch Manager, said people can donate books for the sale, and all prices and sales are determined by donation. She said the money from the book sales will be used toward library equipment and programs. “We’ll take pretty much all books, except for things like old encyclopedias or...
Week after week I continue to be inspired by these young Platte Valley athletes, whether it be those who participated in football, volleyball, cross-country running or golf. I am always impressed by how they can win so many games, and be so physically active for long periods of time without shutting down from sheer tiredness. Before I moved to Saratoga, I was the complete opposite of these kids. I was kind of lazy and didn’t exercise or eat healthy like I should have. Being the food-loving guy I... Full story
Efforts from Saratoga’s 2013 Race for the Cure aided in taking another step forward in finding a cure for cancer last week. Two representatives from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation met at Platte River Pizza Co. Thursday to receive a contribution of $7,600, raised and given on behalf of the Saratoga Middle/High School’s SkillsUSA chapter. SkillsUSA helped coordinate Saratoga’s second annual Race for the Cure, which generated part of the money going toward the Susan G. Komen for the C...
A good time was had by all at the Platte Valley Chapter of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation’s (RMEF) 22nd annual Big Game Banquet and Auction held Saturday at the Platte Valley Community Center. According to the RMEF, its mission is “to ensure the future of elk, other wildlife, their habitat and our hunting heritage.” Jill Tonn, Western Wyoming Senior Regional Director, said RMEF members from all over the Mountain West attend the Platte Valley banquet and auction each year. “In additio...
The Saratoga High School girls volleyball team celebrated a victorious playing streak last weekend, scoring two winning matches that both featured three-game takedowns. The Lady Panthers (14,7) (4,1) stomped Lusk’s Lady Tigers 25-13, 25-17 and 26-24 in a home match Saturday, after a triumph of 25-10, 25-13 and 25-16 over Wyoming Indian the day before. Coach Shayley Love said she has noticed her team is really starting to gel on the court. “Our girls are coming together right now, and I rea...
owed what they were made of once again winning three against Rock River Friday evening. The Tigers defeated the Lady Longhorns with scores of 25-20, 25-19, 25-27 and 26-24, after beating them with one formal game and one tournament game earlier in 2013. Friday’s match looked to be all Tigers during the first two games, until Rock River bounced back with a winning third game and close call in winning the fourth. Coach Robin O’Leary said her girls won the match by staying focused, even with the...
The Saratoga Panthers managed to fight off cold weather and pull through with respectable times on their home turf during Friday’s Saratoga Invitational. The invite took place at the Saratoga Golf Course, where Coach Rex Hohnholt said he was happy it didn’t start pouring rain on the competitors, who were already bundled up in warmer clothing. “It was a good meet and we had a break in the weather, thank goodness,” he said. “It was looking ugly there for a while, and even though it was chilly, o...
The young Saratoga Middle School Panthers showed drive and determination at its second home game Thursday, in which they lost 50-20 against the Rawlins Outlaws. Coach Matt Shelby said his team made up of 22 sixth-through-eighth graders started off strong, but that the second half of the game was when they slipped and let the Outlaws take over. “When we play every first half it’s always been close, but in the second half, even though we condition all the time, it seems like we just get tir...
Local carnivores won’t be asking “Where’s the beef?” at the Encampment Beef Committee’s annual community picnic. The picnic this Saturday is free and open to all meat lovers everywhere. Jerry Kraft, one of the organizers and committee members, said the provided beef hamburgers and chili will come from a 4-H steer once owned by Encampment youth Brett Miller. Kraft said attendees should also bring at least one side dish, such as a vegetable, salad or dessert, and their own place settings....
The Encampment River Riparian Restoration Project, which is helping to benefit fish, prevent land erosion and promote future growth, work is still moving forward. The idea for the project came about more than two years ago, after Christina Barrineau, Wyoming Game and Fish Aquatic Habitat Biologist, and Jeff Streeter, Trout Unlimited Project Manager, noticed an unstable, degraded portion of the Encampment River just downstream from Riverside that was unsuitable for fish habitat. The two then...
Encampment Lady Tigers swiped three wins out of four games from the Saratoga Lady Panthers Sept. 17. The Panthers won the first match 25-21, but the Tigers fought back hard and won the following three games with 25-17, 25-16 and 25-19. Coach Robin O’Leary said she knew her girls were equipped for winning the whole game, even after a first-match win from Saratoga. “I knew my girls were capable of winning, but I knew it wouldn’t be easy and it definitely wasn’t a guarantee,” she said. “Saratoga...
Closing out the 2013 Saratoga High School fall golf season, six players are happily swinging their clubs toward this weekend’s State Tournament in Sundance. Braxton Schwartzkopf, Guy Erickson, Chaze Wiant, Hazer Hinkle, Harley Klemola and Peyten Fisher will round out the five heading to the State Tournament, which takes place Thursday and Friday in Sundance. All scored below 150 on each day they played at the team’s Lusk Invitational last Friday and Saturday, and Schwartzkopf and Klemola bot...
The Saratoga High School Varsity Panthers had their first loss of the season against Midwest’s Oilers Friday evening, after two victories with strong leads. The Panthers’ 70-12 loss against the Oilers was quite unexpected, after winning 58-12 and 62-22 for their first two games of the season. Assistant coach Josh Sandlian said there were some positives throughout the game, but that unexpected injuries and lack of focus on football basics slowed the Panthers down in the first half. “We were...
Interested members of the public became more informed on a key environmental assessment (EA) for the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre (CCSM) Wind Energy Project Monday at the Platte Valley Community Center. The site-specific scoping meeting provided an opportunity for the public and interested parties to ask questions one-on-one with Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Power Company of Wyoming (PCW) specialists, view maps and posters detailing the site-specific phases of the CCSM project, and...
Completion of the local Emergency Water Supply Project was announced during the Town of Encampment’s regular Thursday council meeting. Ken Schwerdt of PMPC gave an update on the finished project, which was completed the first week in September. “The guys wrapped that up last week, and Friday morning we did a walk-through on it,” he said. “They were within their contract time, so there’s no issue there. It went pretty smooth, but we did end up doing more rock excavation than I estimated...
With a sharp rise in recent whopping cough cases reported to the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH), Wyoming’s state health officer is encouraging awareness and vaccination to help protect vulnerable residents from the disease. A total of 63 cases of pertussis, also known as whopping cough, have been reported to WDH so far this year. This is compared to a total of 58 in 2012, but only 13 in 2011 and 14 in 2010. “Wyoming’s level of pertussis activity right now is certainly a cause for conce...
The Saratoga High School Panthers broke out another 40-or-more-point win Friday evening, crushing Wyoming Indian’s Chiefs 62-22. The home-game triumph was another impressive, wide-lead addition to the 2013 Panther record, after their first-game win of 58-12 over Little Snake River. Fans could tell Friday’s battle against the Chiefs was already Panther-owned by the end of the first quarter, since by that point they were already up 24-0 from the aid of Tate Stinson’s three touchdowns. Rodri...
The Encampment High School Lady Tigers clawed their way to the very top Saturday, taking first place out of six teams at HEM’s 1A Volleyball Invitational. The girls won all the matches of each game they played with the exception of one, which was against Lingle-Ft. Laramie. In that game they lost a match 23-25, but won their first match 25-17. For the championship-winning matchup, the Lady Tigers ripped into Farson-Eden 25-23 and 27-26, after already beating them twice in a game from the same to...