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Riverside town council met Thursday at 6 to conduct routine business and issue a liquor license transfer to the new owner of the Bear Trap. Neighboring Encampment’s Town Council met a little later, and conducted its monthly meeting in what one member described as “record time.” The Riverside council members spent some time planning and coordinating setup for the town’s annual Party Day, which was held Saturday. The Riverside council members also moved through routine town business such as approving payment of bills. The Riverside council...
8:30 p.m. Aug. 17 A police chase that began in Nebraska ended in a foot pursuit on I-80 at Walcott Junction Wednesday. Troy Douglas, 23, Of Nashville, Tenn., was arrested after leading police on a chase, disabling his car and pointing a gun at an officer before attempting to flee on foot. According to David Wagener of Wyoming Highway Patrol, the chase began early Wednesday morning in Nebraska. Nebraska police chased the suspect, but quit the pursuit when the suspect fled into Wyoming. The Nebras...
Spur Outfitters will be holding firearms training classes for members of the public August 13-21 at the Silver Spur Ranch south of Saratoga. The trainings are intended to foster gun safety, safe shooting habits and to give the public an opportunity to train for self-defense shooting, John Russo, one of the instructors leading the training sessions, said. The class will offer some shooters an opportunity to learn a new way of shooting that they may not be familiar with, Russo said, and it will ensure that people learn defensive training in a...
A modest crowd showed up Saturday at the Whistle Pig Saloon on Saratoga’s South Side for a fundraiser to benefit the Saratoga Volunteer Fire Department. The event was hosted by the Whistle Pig, and culminated in an auction of items donated by local businesses and individuals. There was also a 50/50 raffle with half going to the fire department and the other half going to the winning ticket purchaser. The auction was led by Teense Willford who encouraged—and often cajoled—bar patrons into purchasing items. “If you want firefighters to come wh...
Wednesday’s meeting of the Saratoga Water and Sewer Joint Powers Board (sewer board) was dominated by talk of sewage problems facing two local businesses on the north end of town and whether the town or the property owners are responsible. Happy Tails dog boarding and Saratoga Feed have had consistent problems with sewage backing up on their property since earlier in the year, and the owner of at least one of the businesses, Happy Tails, is frustrated with the situation and what she sees as the town dragging its feet to fix a sewer line o...
The Encampment Town Council meeting Thursday wound up going to the dogs, with two-thirds of the hour-long meeting being devoted to issues surrounding packs of unattended dogs running amok in the town. Council members and local residents debated how to deal with the problem of the loose dogs after a local resident, Shawn Frink, told the council his girlfriend was bitten on the leg while outside. The animal ultimately was put down by the Carbon County Sheriff’s department. Frink and other residents, as well as some members of the town council e...
Riverside Town Council met on Thursday to iron out some housekeeping issues in the small town, and very quickly worked though the agenda. After sorting out issues with a lawnmower the town purchased that was not shipped with needed parts by the dealer, the town council voted to accept a food bid for the Riverside Party Days from the Bear Trap restaurant, the only supplier who bid. Margaret Weber, owner of the Bear Trap and council member, abstained from the vote. The board also discussed aerial spraying for mosquitos. Earlier in the month, the...
At its monthly meeting Wednesday, the board of directors of the Upper Platte River Solid Waste Disposal Districts (Landfill board), selected a contractor for the construction of the new solid waste transfer station. The board selected Savery Creek Enterprises to construct the transfer station. Savery Creek’s estimate was not the lowest received by the board, but Craig Kopasz, an engineer for Engineering Associates and a consultant to the board, told the board that the other lower bid was too low, saying some items like the concrete cost were n...
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its latest unemployment figures Friday that showed an increase in payrolls that offset a disappointing performance in May, but the impact on Wyoming is unclear. Nationwide, nonfarm payroll increased by 287,000 in June, a far better performance than May’s anemic job creation numbers of 16,000. The biggest increases in employment were in the leisure and hospitality, health care and social assistance and financial services sectors. Mining, including oil and gas extraction, has the highest u...
A proposed coal liquefaction plant south of Medicine Bow is no more, according to an email sent to the Wyoming Industrial Siting Council (ISC) by the project’s proponent, Houston-based DKRW, Inc. The beleaguered project met its end after DKRW decided market conditions were not favorable to continue construction of the coal-liquefaction plant which would have turned coal into gasoline using a series of chemical reactions called the Fischer-Tropsch process that was developed in Germany in the 1920s. Coal liquefaction has been used successfully i...
A group of concerned citizens of Encampment and Riverside met Thursday to discuss a community approach to keeping hours at the Encampment-Riverside library in the wake of massive budget cuts to the county library system. Amidst a library system in turmoil, rocked by massive proposed budget cuts and multiple resignations of key figures, the citizens met to discuss forming a 501(c)(3) non-profit Friends of the Library organization that would raise funds for the Encampment-Riverside Branch of the Carbon County Public Library (CCPL) to keep the...
A once-popular independence day activity, Festival of the Arts, will be coming back to Saratoga this year on Independence Day weekend, allowing visitors to view and purchase art. The event will be held at the Platte Valley Community Center (PVCC) from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 2-3, and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 4. The show will include 35 pieces of juried art, and many other pieces that are not juried. Admission will be $5 per day, or a three day pass will be available for $10. "We have not had a juried...
A vintage car endurance race made its way into Rawlins on June 22, boasting unique vehicles of all kinds as they continued on their way from California to Illinois....
At the Carbon County Board of Commissioners meeting on Monday, officials from the County Attorney’s office and the Coroner’s office cited shrinking budgets and increasing workloads as a potential problem for the offices in the upcoming year. Ashley Davis of the County Attorney’s Office and Carbon County Coroner Paul Zamora spelled out the problems facing the county and the offices, and what services may be impacted by recent budget cuts by the county council. Davis said that a 21.8 percent cut in this year’s budget, combined with loss of staf...
The annual Woodchopper's Jamboree and Rodeo will be held in Encampment and Riverside, with local historians Dick Perue and Nancy Anderson as Grand Marshals of the event. This year's Jamboree will be held Saturday, June 18 and Sunday, June 19 in Encampment and Riverside, and will begin with a 9:30 a.m. parade on Saturday. Woodchopping events begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday and 9 a.m. Sunday. Rodeos will be held on both days at 1:30 p.m. at the Encampment-Riverside Lion's Club Arena. Perue, who was t...
Wednesday’s meeting of the Saratoga Water and Sewer Joint Powers Board (sewer board) saw board members stepping out from behind the council table to address their fellow board members as concerned citizens. Russell Waldner was one of the board members who took to the floor as a concerned citizen. At the sewer board’s meeting in April, the board discussed the issue of a backed up sewer line that runs under Hwy 130 that was causing issues at Saratoga Feed Store and Waldner’s business, Happy Tails Dog Boarding. At the April meeting, the counc...
Riverside Town Council passed its budget on Thursday, discussed impediments to the Chokecherry/Sierra Madre wind farm and committed $500 to the Encampment-Riverside Branch of the Carbon County Library to help offset massive cuts in library funding. The library discussion took up the bulk of the council’s time. On June 2 at a meeting of the Carbon County Library System Board (CCLSB), a budget cut of 30 percent was announced. At that meeting, the CCLSB said that the Encampment-Riverside branch would face reductions in service hours, from 20 hours...
The Encampment Town Council devoted nearly half its 34-minute meeting to the plight of the Encampment Branch Library and agreed to help fund the branch in the face of budget cuts at the county level. Facing a 30 percent budget cut this year, the Carbon County Library System Board (CCLSB) said during a meeting on June 2 that the Encampment-Riverside branch of the library would see reductions in service hours, from 20 per week to 15. Citing the frequent use the library sees, the board decided to set aside $1,000 to help fund the library,...
An across-the-board price increase of 10 percent for landfill services is coming due to a vote by the Upper Platte River Solid Waste District (Landfill Board) on Wednesday. The vote to increase fees came in the midst of the Landfill Board’s third reading and eventual passing of a new budget, one that will include the construction of a new waste transfer station and the closing of the existing landfill. Several board members suggested a new fee tier to encourage the area’s largest trash producers to recycle or otherwise pare down their tra...
Two recent meetings about the proposed Chokecherry/Sierra Madre wind farm highlighted some of the issues that may be an impediment to getting the project off the ground. On Monday, a public comment session held by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at the Platte Valley Community Center in Saratoga brought local residents’ passions to the floor as the agency discussed the issue of eagle take permits that would allow for the killing or disturbance of eagles. Another meeting May 18 at Encampment Town Hall showed some of the political resistance t...