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Phil Welsh’s military career spans from 1974 to 2010, serving in Vietnam to an assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan. Welsh joined the Navy at the age of 18 after living in Durango, Colorado all of his life. He had always had an interest in the Navy and worked on a destroyer. During that time, he was deployed to Vietnam. He served for four years and then got out. Thirteen years later, he joined the Utah Air National Guard during Operation Desert Storm.. He had talked to the U.S. Army, but they w...
The American Legion was formed in 1919 and is the largest veterans’ organization in the United States. American Legion Post 54 is located at 403 E. Bridge Avenue in Saratoga and hosts an annual Veterans’ Day Dinner at their post. James Olguin is the commander and Joe Parsons is the adjutant of the post. The American Legion is also known as the Angus England Post 54 and was named after Saratoga resident and World War I sharpshooter Richard Angus England. The local post began the fundraiser for...
The Veterans of Foreign Service and the National Society of the Army of Philippines asfounded in 1899. They were organized to secure rights and benefits for veterans of the Spanish-American War in 1898 and the Philippines War (1899-1902). The two organizations merged in 1914, creating the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (VFW) according to their website at vfw.org. The Platte Valley Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6125 is the last active VFW in Carbon County. In the past, Carbon...
It has been nearly a decade since the Platte Valley Trout Unlimited has sponsored wounded veterans to a fishing retreat in the Valley. That is changing thanks to an effort of several volunteer groups in the Encampment. Ian McCleary, the Wyoming Trout Unlimited State Coordinator and Secretary of Mother Mountain Anglers along with Leslie McClinskey, the Encampment K-12 Language Arts Teacher and National Honor Society sponsor teamed up this summer to bring back the Wounded Warrior Event. Current...
Schools in the Carbon County School District No. 2 are holding Veteran Day assemblies. Encampment K-12 is holding a Veterans Day assembly November 11, 2024 at 12:30 p.m. The National Honor Society will be collecting retired flags for the Veterans of Foreign Post 6125 disposal. Visitors need to sign in at the office before going to the main gym for the program. Saratoga Middle High School is hosting a Veterans Day assembly November 11 at 9:30 a.m. and the Saratoga Elementary School has been...
The Encampment Lady Tigers are going to State Regionals as a 3rd seed in the Southwest Conference. With a record of 5-4 in the conference and 9-7 overall, the girls have a chance to get a spot in the state bracket, but they will have to get past the Burlington Lady Huskies first. The top four teams of the 1A West Regionals go to the state championship in Casper, November 8-10. The 1A West Conference is held in Lander and Encampment will play the Lady Huskies (7-2) (15-9) at 2:30 p.m. on Friday....
I have never been a very creative person. I do not do crafts or artwork that require drawing or painting, even though I have tried. It all comes out abstract. In elementary school, I had an art teacher that was more interested in the final product than the process and I never developed an interest in art. For those of you who know me, know I am a professional photographer and love taking photos of nature. I always say my husband is the true artist, as he creates his art and I just take pictures...
It has been said art is in the eye of the beholder. Nowhere was this more evident than during the recent visit by the University of Wyoming’s Ann Simpson Artmobile (Artmobile) to Saratoga. Saratoga Art Teacher Noel Shepard’s elementary art classes were introduced to the Artmobile Oct. 23 at the Platte Valley Community Center. The first graders sat down to listen to a story read by Sarita Talusani Keller, the Artmobile Educator. The students were given clipboards, paper and pencils and asked to...
As students are in their classes in the Saratoga Elementary School, an angel is secretly at work. Thursday morning, paraprofessional Valerie Larscheid had 21 paper bags lined up on a table. She was filling them with single serving items to provide breakfast and lunch for the students for the three-day weekend as there was no school on Friday. During lunch, she puts the bags in the students’ backpacks. What started as a program sponsored by Walmart in 2014 has become a community effort at the S...
Several students were recognized at the Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) Board of Trustees meeting Monday night for their sportsmanship during games by the Wyoming High School Athletic Association (WHSAA). CCSD2 Superintendent Darrin Jennings told the school board of trustees he received the letters from the WHSAA and believed they should be recognized publicly. Josie Little, who attends Saratoga Middle High School (SMHS), was recognized by a referee during the Farson-Eden volleyball...
The Encampment K-12 gym was filled with a raucous roar as Valley residents cheered on their favorite team: either the Encampment Lady Tigers or the Saratoga Lady Panthers. They all had good reason to cheer as the fight for the top valley team went to five sets. The Lady Tigers came out of the match victorious, but it wasn’t without some swipes from the Lady Panthers. 1st Set The first set began with the Tigers and Panthers tied at 4, foreshadowing how the fifth set would play out. Both teams h...
The Encampment Lady Tigers pulled out two wins and one loss last week. Even with the loss against Cokeville, the Lady Tigers walked off the court Saturday afternoon knowing one thing—Cokeville can be beat. Encampment vs. HEM On October 15, the Lady Tigers (4-3) won three sets against the Hanna-Elk Mountain-Medicine Bow (HEM) Lady Miners (1-8) at Hanna. While the Lady Miners are not in the same conference as the Lady Tigers, they both in Carbon County School District No.2. HEM has had a tough y...
The Northwest Conference team of Burlington’s Lady Huskies are undefeated in their conference this season with a record of 7-0, and the Encampment Lady Tigers (3-3) got a taste of going up against this team Oct. 12 at the Kaycee Tournament. The Lady Tigers took a few licks from the Huskies, but the opposing team had to do it in three sets. The Lady Tigers fell in the first set 18-25, but came back to beat the Lady Huskies in the second set 25-20. The third set ended with a score of 10-15. The H...
*Editor’s Note: This is the final story in a series about the LaVA project in the Medicine Bow National Forest* Matt Schweich, Landscape Vegetation Analysis (LaVA) Implementation Coordinator for the United States Forest Service (USFS), invited the public to follow him on a field trip September 25 to monitor the status of fire mitigation areas adjacent to Joe’s Park in the Sierra Madre Mountains. Employees of the USFS and other entities met at the USFS District Office in Saratoga at 10 a.m. bef...
This week, the final series of a story on fire mitigation runs and I hope you have read them. If not, take the time to go back to the last three issues and read them. I learned so much, and thought it was important to pass on to our readers in the Saratoga Sun. I got to know people I haven’t met before and watch them as they talk about doing jobs they love. It is not easy being in a public job where you are criticized no matter what you do. The amount of work, planning and executing a plan to t...
It proved to be a difficult home match for the Encampment Tigers as they hosted the No. 1 ranked Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) Lady Rattlers on October 4. The scores of 13-25, 17-25 and 14-25 showed how much stronger the Lady Rattlers were going against Encampment. Across all three matches, LSRV seemed to dance across the floor in their defense and the Tigers just couldn’t seem to catch a break. According to Janice Peterson, Lady Tigers Head Coach, the Rattlers know their weak points. LSRV t...
*Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of stories about the Sierra Madre Fire Mitigation meeting held September 9.* Chris Otto, Fire Management Specialist with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), was at the Sierra Madre Fire Mitigation meeting on September 9 to explain the BLM’s role in fire mitigation. Otto explained there is not a lot of timber relative to the United States Forest Service (USFS) lands on BLM land, but they have had two commercial timber sales in the Encampment Riv...
The Encampment Lady Tigers are getting closer to their goal - make it to state volleyball. The team played three rivals on the road last week and proved they fight for the wins. Their only loss was to the Cokeville Panthers, a strong southeast conference opponent. Friday night, the Tigers fell to the Panthers 23-25, 15-25, 18-25. Despite the loss, Savannah Fagan had 12 digs and Kyenna Jackson scored with 50 percent of her kills. “We played Cokeville tough the first set although our hitting wasn'...
This year’s Platte Valley Hay Bale contest is being dubbed the Fab Fifteen by the Platte Valley Arts Council board. “I am very excited to see so many newcomers join in this friendly competition,” said Mary Martin, the Chairperson of Platte Valley Hale Bale contest. In its eighth year, the competition exploded to 14 entries, many of them signing up just a few days ahead of the deadline. It is the most entries to date, Martin said. Martin is on the board of the Platte Valley Arts Council (PVAC...
When Bergen Love shot his first sage grouse, he was whooping and hollering. He was that excited. Bergen is 10 years old and this year was the first year he could hunt birds. Friday night he was hoping to get another sage grouse. His grandfather, Wildon Ward, was 10 years old when he hunted his first sage grouse and Ward is thrilled to pass on the family tradition. Bergen seems to have inherited his grandfather’s love for all things outdoors, as he is climbing over tree roots and running a...
*Editor’s Note: This is the second story in a series about fire mitigation in the Sierra Madre Mountains.* Since 2018, the United States Forest Service (USFS) has been working on the Medicine Bow Landscape Vegetation Analysis (LaVA), which includes most of the Snowy Range and the Sierra Madre Range. The effort is to mitigate fires burning at a high heat intensity when and if a forest fire begins in the Medicine Bow National Forest (MBNF). This is a formidable task, since LaVA includes v...
After six months of planning, the Sewer Lagoon Project - Phase 2 for the town of Encampment is getting closer to a design. Jon Nelson, with North Fork Engineering, proposed a design review workshop for the Phase - 2 project to the Encampment Town Council September 12, as the deadline to submit the design to the Department of Environmental Quality is November 22 The town council voted to hold an hour-and-one-half hour workshop on Oct. 10 at 5:30 p.m. The design, while it has taken time, is right...
It was a cold and blustery day when the 41 students from Encampment’s kindergarten through third grade got off the bus at Lewis Lake in the Snowy Range. Rayna Greenwood, the third-grade teacher, had all the students gather at a picnic table to be divided into groups. The goal for September 18 included doing environmental artwork inspired by Andy Goldsworthy, a scavenger hunt and the study of rocks and minerals, led by Justin Stern, the education coordinator and resource specialist with the S...
The Saratoga Lady Panthers (1-2) gave the Encampment Lady Tigers (2-1) a run for their money September 17 in the Saratoga gym. The match went to four sets with the Lady Tigers coming out on top with three set wins, but not without a lot of work to get past the Lady Panthers defense. The conference match was the third southwest conference match for both teams and the Tigers walked away with 21-25, 25-22, 20-25 and 20-25 scores. "The girls have grown tremendously already this season. As a...
The Saratoga Lady Panthers came home with three wins from the Thermopolis Invite this past weekend. The Panthers’ only loss was to the 2A Southwest Conference Rocky Mountain Lady Grizzlies. Friday the Panthers played a two-set match against 1A Northwest conference Burlington Lady Huskies and won 25-23, 27-25. The Huskies currently lead their conference 4-0, so this was a huge win for the Lady Panthers. Addie Collins had 22 attempts at kills while Josie Little had 19 attempts. Cassidy Herring h...