Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
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The Encampment Tigers boys and girls basketball finished the preseason Carbon County Classic with only one loss out of six total games in the Tigers Den of Encampment K-12 last weekend. The boys finished undefeated and played hard on both sides of the ball this weekend, which allowed them to compete with some talented teams, according to head coach Duane Gilbert. “To me being undefeated doesn’t mean anything at this point and time,” Gilbert said. “Winning is always nice but his time of year is...
While winter weather settles in, there is still a chance to get a fly fishing fix at Trout Unlimited’s speaker series on the first Monday of the month. Anglers learned tricks and tips to tying three prominent Platte Valley macroinvertebrates from Trout Unlimited Wyoming Coordinator Ian McCreary at a corner table in The Malt on December 2. “Ugly flys catch fish,” McCreary said while winding thread around a frenchie fly, “pretty flys catch anglers.” The series is open to all levels — whether a s...
The 2024 Valley Service Organization (VSO) Giving Tree is tagless, just ten days after going up in the front window of Town and Country Realty in Saratoga. The annual project is organized by the VSO and designed to ensure all Valley children have a chance to enjoy a Merry Christmas regardless of their economic circumstances, according to Project Chairman Micki Hall. There is no set number of tags. The amount is based on the needs of the community. “There were a lot of tags this year,” acc...
Mary Martin has been called the Encampment Tigers Superfan – a title she believes is about being there for the kids. “We don’t have a booster club, so I’m the booster club,” Martin said. “I make their locker posters, make sure they know they’re appreciated for taking that extra effort of sports in addition to studies. I’m there cheering them on at games, but also there when they’re singing songs.” She feels lucky that multiple principals have embraced her as Encampment Tiger documentarian and sh...
I'm Elliott Deins. A born-and-raised Floridian, Navy veteran, recent University of Oregon graduate and the new reporter at the Saratoga Sun. After a childhood of fishing, boating and diving around the Gulf Coast of Florida, I attempted community college. After seeing my terrible grades six weeks into my first semester, I enlisted into the Navy serving five years as an infantry corpsman. In 2018, I deployed as part of a Marine Expeditionary Unit - spending six months squeezed on a ship floating...
Four players from the Encampment Tigers’ six-man football team were selected to the 1A All-Conference honors, two were selected to the All-State team. After a seven win season and a thrilling triple-overtime loss to the Burlington Huskies in the state semifinals last month — Korbyn Barkhurst, Gunner Knotwell, Tyrel Brown and Brian Smith earned 2024 all-conference selections by the Wyoming Coaches Association. Barkhurst and Knotwell were elected to the All-State team. This is the second con...