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Fugitive recovery agents, more popularly known as "bounty-hunters" were in Saratoga two weeks ago looking for what they call a "skip" at the Saratoga Forest Management (Saratoga Mill). The skip, Nate Horn, who had moved from Port Angeles, Wash., to Saratoga in November to work at Saratoga Mill. Unfortunately, Horn had some unfinished business back in Washington where he'd been arrested for a suspended license charge. Horn's fiancé had signed a bond agreement with A-Plus Bail Bonds so that he... Full story
The Encampment Tigers track and field team headed to Big Piney where they competed in the Pete Olsen Memorial on Friday. The Boy’s team placed 12th overall with 9 points. Gage Bartlett took fifth place in the 3200-meter run with a time of 12 minutes and 23.59 seconds that gave the boy’s team four of its nine points. The girl’s team placed 11th overall with 19 points that included sophomore McKenzie Powell’s second-place finish in the 400-meter run with a time of 1:03.04, and her fifth place f...
The Upper Platte River Solid Waste Disposal District (Landfill Board) met for a special meeting on Wednesday to discuss and vote on a new site location for the Transfer station. The original site just North of the recycle building became untenable after a geotech analysis revealed that there were several old trash pits in the area. This is contrary to the old maps PMPC had used to originally survey the location. The new site located due South of the construction pit, will have to incur some...
The Platte Valley got a dose of culture when Linda Perue held a silk scarf art class at the Saratoga Library and Pam Kraft held a class on silk painting at the Red Wagon in Encampment. Perue showed her students how to trace and color patterns on white silk scarves that, according to Perue, "can make very nice, personal and inexpensive gifts." Pam Kraft's silk painting class was a little more involved. Kraft feels silk painting is more of a fine art than a craft and had her students first paint... Full story
"Absaroka" is a visually rich period piece that takes place in the Wyoming territories in 1881. The story follows two cowboys, Lucius Blackledge and Howard Prescott, who come upon a ransacked wagon on their way to town. When they find the owner of the wagon just before he dies from a mortal gunshot wound, the two cow punchers decide to hunt down the men responsible and save the dead man's wife and daughter from the ruthless outlaws that kidnapped them. Patrick Mignano's film series is named afte...
If you were driving down the street in Saratoga on Friday afternoon you may have noticed a distinct lack of street traffic. That is because nearly everyone who was able, had their eyes glued to a television set from about noon to 2 p.m. to watch the University of Wyoming Cowboys face off against the Northern Iowa Panthers in the NCAA tournament more popularly known as March Madness. A sizable crowd gathered at the Hotel Wolf, as well as anywhere else that had TV or radio to watch or listen to...
The pool chalk will be flying this weekend when the Wyoming Open Pool Tournament, sponsored by Andy Billiard Cloth, returns to the Saratoga starting this Friday and continuing through to a final redraw and live Calcutta on Saturday night at the Platte Valley Community Center. There are four divisions in the tournament so that everyone has a place to play, according to organizer Ed Glode. Sportsman is designed for local beginners while Classic is a step up to include intermediate players. The...
Coach Kegan Wilford was proud of the Tigers track and field team’s first outing at the Glen Legler Memorial meet at Natrona last Saturday. Schools from Kelly Walsh, Big Piney, Buffalo, Dubois, Glenrock, Lander, Rawlins, Riverton, Rock Springs, Sheridan, Torrington and Wright attended the event. Freshman Gage Bartlett scored the only point for the boy’s team with his eighth place finish in the boys’ 3200 meter run with a time of 12 minutes 28.33 seconds. Sophomore McKenzie Powell led the girls...
A small grass fire broke out at Kelley Land and Cattle Company on Monday. At 1:22 p.m., a passerby called 911 and reported they saw smoke, according to the Saratoga Police Department. The Saratoga Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched. The fire was apparently started by barrels of old logs from a controlled burn on the property last week that got whipped up by the wind, according to Kelley Landy and Cattle Company's ranch manager Mike Crimmins. "We were working up on a ditch when we saw... Full story
It’s a milestone for Wyoming ranchers when the first grazing district in Wyoming celebrates its 80th anniversary this week. The Taylor Grazing Act of 1934 was signed by President Roosevelt and was intended to “stop injury to the public grazing lands [excluding Alaska] by preventing overgrazing and soil deterioration; to provide for their orderly use, improvement, and development; [and] to stabilize the livestock industry dependent upon the public range,” according to the Bureau of Land Manag...
At Wednesday's Saratoga/Carbon County Impact Joint Powers Board (Water and Sewer Board) Chuck Bartlett proposed a new sewer line be put in the alleyway south of Saratoga Avenue between 10th Street and 11th Street. The new sewer line will flow east to replace the old one that currently flows west to the 6th Street junction. Bartlett feels that the reversed flow will help workers so that they don't have to pump the sewage around them while they are working, but will be better for the residents...
The Saratoga Master Planning Committee is soliciting proposals for professional services to assist the governing body in updating the town’s Master Plan, according to the Request for Qualifications (RFQ) submitted at Wednesday’s Master Plan Committee meeting. The goal of the process is to develop a Master Plan for the town of Saratoga for the next 20 years. The RFQ will assist the committee on the updated plan in considering its policy decisions, land use planning, zoning ordinance mod...
The Encampment Town Council voted unanimously to end the lease agreement with Thompson Logging for the Encampment Mill and to pay them $50,000 for the equipment upgrades made to the Encampment Mill during Thompson Logging’s time there. The council also voted to withhold $5,000 until Thompson Logging is able to remove the leftover lumber left on the property from their operations there. Josh Saier and Joe Morrison of the Sierra Madre Muzzle-Loaders (SMML) spoke to the council about the g...
Liz Swynarczuk was sworn into office at Thursday’s town council meeting in Riverside. The council discussed the State Land and Investment Board grant, putting out for bids to have the flooring in the Riverside Town Hall Meeting Room replaced, and Mayor Leroy Stephenson shared his experiences at the RiskMAP meeting, which was reported in the March 11 edition of the Saratoga Sun. The council also heard from Stacy Crimmins, of the Platte Valley Chamber of Commerce, who informed the council m...
Saratoga's Hunter Mason was awarded the The Best Committee and the McMurry Foundation "Wyoming Student Leaders Scholarship" March 7 in Casper. The scholarship is given to one boy and one girl from each class that was outstanding in athletics, academics as well as being a leader in the classroom and community. Mason was ranked first in his class with a perfect 4.0 grade point average, took All-Conference in track, Academic All-State in wrestling, and was also a four-year letter winner in cross...
The Encampment Tigers Track and Field team is off and running toward their 2015 season with 21 students coming out for track this year. That is the most that coach Kegan Willford has seen in his time there. " We've had 15-16 come out before but we've never had this many kids come out for track," said Willford. Alyssa Barkhurst is returning as a junior. She was state champion last year in the long jump and broke the school record with 16 feet 2 1/2 inches. Barkhurst placed third in the 100-meter...
As the Platte Valley gets ready to celebrate National Agriculture Week, I took some time to educate myself with the deeply held and longstanding agricultural history and traditions that are part of the very fabric of this Valley. My first stop was at the Saratoga Museum where director Virginia Parker showed me the mock-up of the interior of a typical pioneer homestead. Parker pointed out that one of the earliest ranchers in the Saratoga area was the Walck Ranch which was homesteaded in 1887 by D...
Leonard Nimoy, who famously played Spock in the original Star Trek, passed away last week at 83, then only a few days afterwards we almost lost Harrison Ford in a plane crash. I am at the age now when the heroes we grew up with start to leave us. We look around at the celebrities today and often wonder what there is to celebrate. Why should we be impressed with them when they get into drunken trouble on camera or strut around half naked on television? For the most part we are right not to. To...
Front-woman Alysia Kraft recalls the name of her band, Patti Fiasco coming from a take on a nickname of sorts she got whenever she would get in trouble as a kid. "My mom's younger sister's name was Patti and when (mom) would yell at me for getting in trouble she would slip up and yell, 'Patti!'," Kraft said. According to the band's website pattifiasco.net, Kraft and company got together after a 2008 open-mic night when they decided they wanted to write and play music full time. One of their...
I bumped into C.J. Box the other day as he was passing through town on his way to begin his latest book tour for his 15th Joe Pickett novel titled, "Endangered". Of course, I had to take the opportunity to ask him a few questions about himself, Joe Pickett and the Valley that helped to inspire both. The following conversation took place between this cub reporter and former Saratoga Sun reporter C.J. Box as the current New York Times best-selling author was heading out to appearances and books... Full story
Parents of students at the Encampment K-12 School received a letter last week informing them of a case of bacterial meningitis contracted by a school employee. In a letter to the school from Dr. Dean Bartholomew of the Platte Valley Medical Clinic, parents were assured, “...we will NOT need to treat those who were in contact the employee prophylactically with antibiotics at this time.” According to Dr. Bartholomew, it is important to note that the severity of meningitis depends on the type of...
The Seuss was loose at the Encampment School on Thursday when teachers and students celebrated the famed children’s author and his birthday a few days early. National Read Across America Day (Dr. Seuss day) is a national day to honor the late author and his contributions to children’s literature and literacy. Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) was born March 2, 1904 in Springfield Mass. He wrote 48 books, including some for adults, according to history.com. Several of his works have been adapted for...
The Saratoga Lions Club is hosting the 35th annual Donald E. Erickson Memorial Chariot Races the state championships in Saratoga this year. The annual event is a Platte River Valley tradition that, according to organizer Joe Glode, dates back to the late 70s and early 80s when the coal mines started to shut down and members of the Saratoga Community were faced with the challenge to find something to liven up the community through the long winter months. Chariot racing has been a winter staple... Full story