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The Saratoga Resort and Spa is pleased to welcome PGA professional Matt Daubner as its golf shop’s new retail store manager and golf instructor. Daubner is originally from Michigan, and throughout his career he has worked at golf courses and pro shops for various country clubs, resorts, and public facilities throughout the nation. He has been able to work at different golf facilities in Michigan, Florida, New York, and the U.S Virgin Islands. Daubner’s extensive resume has included pro shop ret...
an effort to help the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD), a large number of volunteers gathered in Saratoga April 6 to retrieve abandoned mule deer radio-collars across the Platte Valley. Nearly 30 volunteers, coming from as far east as Laramie and as far west as Kemmerer, donated their time Saturday morning to gather abandoned GPS radio-collars, which were placed on 50 local mule deer does from the Platte Valley herd. The electronic tracking radio-collars were fitted on deer by the WGFD...
The Encampment Town Council discussed the “Cow Pie Open” golf tournament and Encampment Emergency Water Connection Project at its most recent town council meeting last week. Jim McKinney spoke with the council about financial support for the the 18th annual Encampment/Riverside Cow Pie Open on June 1. The local golf tourney takes place at a cow pasture, and buckets serving as course holes are set in the ground 140 yards apart from each other. The event features a barbecue, custom-made shi...
I’ll admit, Wyoming was never a state I thought I’d eventually live in. When I was younger, I always thought of the place as a large, deserted piece of land with multiple tiny and isolated towns placed randomly across the state limits. The thought of there being so many small towns spread far apart from one another with no big cities close by seemed too painful for me to bear. I thought I might be able to live in a bigger Wyoming city like Cheyenne or Casper, but I never thought I could liv...
The Riverside Town Council discussed the Zephyr Power Transmission Project and its open house on Wednesday. The project, proposed by Duke-American Transmission Company, is designed to connect high-quality renewable wind energy resources in Wyoming to communities in the southwestern United States. The approximately 850-mile transmission line would run from the planned Pathfinder Wind Development, near Chugwater, Wyo., to the Eldorado Valley, just south of Las Vegas. The project includes at least...
With their first golf match coming up soon, Saratoga High School students have been fortunate enough to practice drives and putts with PGA professional Matt Daubner, serving as the team’s new head golf coach. Daubner, a Michigan native who moved to Saratoga, also serves as the new retail store manager and golf instructor at the Saratoga Resort and Spa. As a long-time golf instructor who enjoys working with all people, Daubner jumped at the chance to work with teenage golfers when their season b...
Saratoga High School’s track team featured two first-place victories at the Wind River Invitational March 28. The event took place at Pavillion’s Wind River High School, where Ben Gates proved to be the highest individual scorer for team, placing first in the 800-meter run. Gates’ quick running time of two minutes and 3.92 seconds qualified him for the Wyoming State Track and Field Championships. For the school’s highest team placement at the meet, Rodrigo Escobedo, Ben Falk, Luke Linberry and G...
Pool enthusiasts from across the globe participated in the sixth annual Wyoming Open pool tournament at the Platte Valley Community Center March 29 through 31. The event, produced by E.J. Glode and co-promoted by the Illinois-headquartered Dragon Promotions, featured some of the world’s greatest pool players. United States’ No. 1-ranked Shane Van Boening from South Dakota went undefeated to win the Wyoming Open, beating Hawaii’s “Rocket” Rodney Morris in the “8-Ball Bar Table” event in the Maste...
Three of Encampment High School’s track team boys members received top five placements at Saturday’s Guernsey Viking Invite, the team’s second meet of the 2013 season. Kyle Wessel was Encampment’s highest scorer of the meet, achieving third place in both the triple jump and 300-meter hurdles, and fourth place in the 110-meter hurdles. Not too far behind were Waddie Love, who grabbed fourth place in the discus; and Lucas Jarrett, who secured fifth place in the shot put. All together, the Tigers...
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department seeks volunteers to assist in retrieving mule deer radio-collars in the Platte Valley herd unit this Saturday. In January of 2011, 50 mule deer does in the Platte Valley herd unit were fitted with GPS radio-collars, so researchers could learn about their seasonal movements. The radio-collars were programmed to fall off Monday, April 1, and need to be collected from the field so researchers can download information stored inside. Volunteers should meet at 8... Full story