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Joe Gaspari, owner of HiTech Auto in Saratoga, rode his custom 1976 Harley Davidson FX to the 75th Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and came home a winner. Gaspari said he read an article in "American Iron" magazine about their Indian Motorcycle & Classic American Iron Show for pre-1984 bikes, which had no entry fee. He decided to enter and ended up winning the Custom Class in the show. The type of Harley Gaspari rides is known as a shovelhead because of the shape of the cylinder heads on top of the eng...
Get your boogie on all day Aug. 29 with the Ryan Park Volunteer Fire Department (VFD). The Teense Willford Band will be playing during the 20th annual auction in support of the all volunteer department. Willford will also be auctioneer during the 2-6 p.m. live auction which includes a chili dinner with “all the fixin’s,” according to Carol Beach. After the auction there will be a dance from 6-10 p.m. with Harley and the V-Twins. The auction, which funds equipment, training and community servi...
Two public meetings will be held this week so that citizens can voice their opinions on opening Battle Highway, Wyoming Highway 70, by May 1. The first meeting will be in Encampment on Aug. 19 and the second will be at the Valley Community Center in Baggs on Aug. 20. John Farr, President of the Battle Pass Scenic Byway Alliance, is encouraging citizens to come and share their thoughts on opening the pass earlier or possibly even keeping it open all year with Wyoming Department of Transportation...
A sealcoat and striping of the taxiways and ramp at Shively Field was completed last week and airport manager Kim Lorenzen said that the contractor performed exceptionally well. The sealcoat project is part of WYDOT’s maintenance program for Wyoming airports. A small grass fire was ignited by a broken low-voltage lamp on the runway at Shively Field late in the night on July 26. The fire was called in at 11:13 p.m and Saratoga fire crews responded, dousing the fire within minutes. Lorenzen s...
Councilperson Margaret Weber told the rest of the Riverside town council last Thursday that all plans are in place for Riverside Party Day 2015. J. Shogren Shanghai’d will provide music for the day’s festivities and Weber plans on having food for 200 people to be served at 4 p.m. John Farr presented information to the council on Thursday about opening WYO 70, Battle Highway, by May 1, or possibly keeping it open year round. The council voted to write a letter in support of the effort which the...
The town of Encampment Parks Department reported to the town council last Thursday that the new sand volleyball court in Grandview Park is essentially complete. The parks department would like to bring in two more loads of sand to fill up the court but local residents have already been seen using the new court. The council also approved the first reading of a zoning change in the town’s business district along Wyoming Highway 70 to Business-2. This would mean moving away from residential d...
"Once we get done with (the biodome project) we will have the most updated and advanced sewer system in the state," mayor Leroy Stephenson said at the Riverside Town Council meeting last Thursday. Ten biodomes, structures that help process solid waste and aerate wastewater lagoons, arrived from Utah Aug. 3 and another 10 arrived Aug. 16. The addition of the biodomes to the aeration systems, ultrasonic system and ultraviolet light treatment system already in place makes for the most...
At the Aug. 5 Carbon County Commissioners meeting the application by landowners Charles (Ken) and Kimberly Thyne for a zoning change to their property along Wyoming Highway 130 was approved. The zoning change changes the properties status from ranching, agriculture and mining (RAM) to Highway Commercial (C-2). The property is the location of the Ten Mile Inn on Wyoming Highway 130. According to evidence presented to the commissioners the RAM zoning was the result of both clerical mistakes and...
On a recent trip to Laramie for supplies for his North Park, Colo. ranch Michael Martin Murphy noticed "Cowboy Culture" signs around town and he thought to himself, "Man, I moved to the right place." Murphey will be performing a benefit concert for the Battle Pass Scenic Byway Aug. 28 at the Platte Valley Community Center. The show will be a storytelling oriented, solo acoustic performance featuring a retrospective of Murphey's songwriting over the years. Murphey said the first half of the show...
Breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week. "We want to be able to feed you on a regular basis," Stacy Wilder, co-owner of the newly opened Drifter's Eatery, said. In order to make that happen Wilder and her daughter/co-owner Keeli Hamann are opening the restaurant from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and staying open until 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Wilder and Hamann said they will add hours during hunting season and when there are events in town. After closing Stumpy's, a...
On a perfect Wyoming morning a red-shirted Wyoming Game Wardens Association Honor Guard performed a 21-gun salute and sounded Taps in memory of two Deputy Game Wardens who lost their lives in the line of duty 70 years ago. About 60 people were in attendance Saturday morning at a ceremony honoring Saratoga Deputy Game Warden Don Simpson and Rawlins Deputy Game Warden William Lakanen. Simpson and Lakanen were killed by Johann Malten, a miner and trapper living near Divide Peak in the Sierra...
Community Builder's Inc., (CBI), the company hired to create the new Saratoga Comprehensive Master Plan, and their subcontractors introduced themselves to the town on Wednesday. In the morning the group toured the town and in the afternoon a scoping meeting and public open house were held at the community center. Bobbe Fitzhugh, Principal Consultant with CBI led the meetings, explained the roles of the contractors and goals for the master plan. According to CBI, "A comprehensive plan, often...
On Saturday 25 participants shared the twisted tale of murder in the Sierra Madres. The events of Oct. 31, 1945 were discussed throughout the day-long Saratoga Historical and Cultural Association trek that began with a memorial to two fallen Game Wardens and ended at the site of the murders. As the group moved from honoring Bill Lakanen, Rawlins Deputy Game Warden, and Don Simpson, Saratoga Deputy Game Warden, discussion turned toward motives for Johann Malten to commit the murders and whether...
The Brush Creek/Hayden Ranger District hosted and open house at the Platte Valley Community Center Thursday night to present maps and three alternatives for the proposed West Side Snowy Range Travel Management Plan. Open houses were held earlier in Elk Mountain and Rawlins. While attendance was poor in Elk Mountain, seven people, and Rawlins, about one dozen citizens, 35 people came to view maps and a road by road breakdown of the travel management plan alternatives in Saratoga. Dave Gloss,...
According to the Natrona County Sheriff’s Department nine people driving across the reservoir fell through the ice at Pathfinder during the “HAWG” ice fishing derby Jan 24. According to Sgt. John Harlin three Polaris RZRs and two ATVs were reported to have gone through the ice. The were no injuries and everyone either self-rescued or received help from other fishermen. Harlin said that high winds and warmer temperatures the night of Jan. 23 caused a series of fissures and pressure ridges on th...
Saratoga Chief of Police Tom Knickerbocker reports the new patrol officer and part-time dispatcher have been hired pending the finalization of Department of Criminal Investigation (DCI) vetting process. “They’ve both actually been hired,” said Knickerbocker. Knickerbocker said that both candidates, Cindy Talbott as part-time dispatcher and Bobby Chitwood as part-time patrol officer have passed their pre-requirements from Peace Officer Standards and Training Board (POST) which includes a physiolo...
A new understanding of what the town of Saratoga can do to the Platte River and finishing Tyler Pickett Park topped the matters Ed Glode talked to the Saratoga Sun about on Friday. According to Glode the town has already inspected two main gravel bars in the North Platte River within town limits. One is near the Bridge Avenue bridge and the other is above the Highway 130 bridge. Glode, town engineer Chuck Bartlett and Carbon County Emergency Management Coordinator John Zeiger went to Cheyenne...
With one minute and 34 seconds left in the fourth quarter, Lady Tiger Courtney James drained a 3-pointer to put Encampment up 38-35 leading the way to a 40-35 victory. Friday's girls varsity basketball game between Encampment (1-2, 1A Southwest conference, 10-6 overall) and the 1A Southeast top-ranked Hanna-Elk Mountain-Medicine Bow (HEM) Lady Miners (11-4) proved to be a back and forth battle of wills. The Lady Tigers started off slow and were down by 8 points before their first score with...
The Encampment Tigers clearly negated the foundation of the Hanna-Elk Mountain-Medicine Bow (HEM) Miners in Friday's 70-37 victory. Head coach Clint Bromley said that HEM (5-10, bottom of the 1A Southeast conference) started the game in a triangle and 2 defense and it took the Tigers (1-2, 1A Southwest conference, 13-3 overall) a little while to solve that problem. The teams stayed within 2 points of each other through the first quarter, trading the lead a couple of times until a buzzer-beating...
With at least three snowmobile emergencies last week, it seems a reminder of snow machining safety is in order for residents of the Valley and its visitors. With all three accidents apparently being the result of inexperience or overconfidence the Saratoga Sun is providing these basic safety tips. An emergency incident occurred in which local search and rescue was sent to the Ryan Park area for a Colo. couple who had rented a snowmobile and sent out a SPOT satellite based distress call. Based...
Councilman Will Faust ran on a platform of clearing up the town of Saratoga financial reports for its citizens. At a recent town council meeting Faust could be heard discussing his ideas on how to present public reports of town finances with Town Clerk Suzie Cox. In an interview with the Saratoga Sun Faust said financial transparency is “paramount to anybody dealing with public funds.” He said he wants anybody to be able to read through the town audit and have a rough overview of the town fin...
At a well-attended Saratoga Town Council meeting the most contentious topics were the hiring of a new part-time police dispatcher, part-time patrol officer and the wording of Ordinance 829. According to Chief of Police Knickerbocker, there has been significant overtime pay due to Saratoga police dispatchers and patrol officers over the last couple of years. Discussing dispatchers Knickerbocker said to the town council, “As you are aware, right now, we are paying dispatchers 20 hours overtime p...
Wyoming's leading scorer in boys basketball, Rock River's C. J. Smith, was held to only 10 points by the Encampment Tigers in their 63-17 win Saturday. Smith put up 44 points last week against Meeteetse and has a season average of 28.7 points per game. For the second time this season the Encampment boys varsity basketball squad (1-2, 1A Southwest Conference, 12-3 overall) crushed Rock River (6-8), more than doubling the Longhorns score. In their previous matchup in December the Tigers beat the...
In the opening game at Encampment on Saturday the Lady Tigers easily took down Rock River, 55-24. The non-conference win was a psychological boost for the 1-2, 1A Southwest Conference, 9-6 overall Lady Tigers. "We needed this one, we've struggled a little bit, so we really needed this one," coach Amy Clay said after the game. The Lady Tigers took command of the game early and never looked back. Encampment was up by 10 at the end of the first quarter and only increased that lead. As the result...
Editor’s note: Two of the questions asked in this interview are from anonymous readers. We encourage you to submit more questions to [email protected]. To contact Mayor Glode directly, call his new phone number at 307-329-3313. By Erik Gantt [email protected] Mayor Glode attended the Wyoming Association of Municipalities Winter Workshop along with councilman Richard Raymer this week. Glode and Raymer went to several workshops on governmental policy and rules. Glode attended w...