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The Wounded Warrior Event is intended to make a difference in a military veteran's life, co-founder Tony Seahorn said. It made a difference in Randall Steiger's life. Last year, Steiger attended his first Wounded Warrior Event. Steiger is an Army veteran of the Iraq war. It was the first time he ever caught a fish. "I was hooked," Steiger said. He went on to catch around 10 fish. He caught three at Tom Arthur's pond, then seven more on the Platte River the next day. When...
Sunday morning, Encampment and Riverside volunteers worked together planting trees along WY Highway 70. The Encampment/Riverside Tree Beautification project was organized by Lee Ann Stephenson, after she noticed that the trees along Highway 70 had died. Stephenson who often walks along Highway 70 from Riverside to Encampment enjoys the bluebirds that fly in the area and wanted to improve their habitat and beautify the area along the highway. Trees had been planted in 1989 for...
A handful of representatives from the Platte Valley non-profit organizations attended a meeting sponsored by Brush Creek Ranch on June 17 at the Platte Valley Community Center. Michael Williams, with Brush Creek Ranch announced that Valley Strong, a non-profit organization is bringing Sawyer Brown to Saratoga to perform at 8 p.m., July 20 at the PVCC and that local non-profit organizations will benefit from any tickets sales they make. Williams explained three tiers of ticket...
DKRW Advanced Fuels LLC, the parent company for Medicine Bow Fuel and Power LLC will be making a presentation from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday night at Medicine Bow Community Center in Medicine Bow. The purpose of the meeting to update the public on progress of the time line for the coal-to-liquefaction plant near Elk Mountain. The public meeting will include “a timeline with critical path key dates and significant events leading to the recommencement of construction for the p...
Skyler Petit, a 23-year-old from Denver, earned the title of Rocky Mountain All-Around Lumberjack at this past weekend's Woodchoppers Jamboree. This is Petit's first year to win the overall championship at the Encampment competition. He has been competing since he was 10 years old, and travels Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico competing in different events. Petit's parents have been competing for 21 years and have been coming to the event since he was 2 years old. "I started...
My son Josh got married earlier this month. I didn’t think there was too much to planning a small wedding. My husband and I offered to help where we could, and we were happy to be able to do it. My husband and I eloped to Esbjerg, Denmark, so we never had a real wedding. It was called the Darling Denmark Tour. It sounds romantic, but is wasn’t. We checked in on Sunday, registered on Monday, toured the city for three days and got married on Thursday. We said our vows so fas...
Have you ever wondered what it was like to grow up in the 1930s and 40s in and around Encampment? The answer is in the new display at the Grand Encampment Museum (GEM) "Encampment Journeys". Students from Encampment School interviewed several residents, including Dick Barkhurst, Dick Blake, Bob Herring, Betty Merrill, Kate Moon, Charlotte Kraft and Jack James about growing up in the Platte Valley. The project was part of the Smithsonian Institutes "Journeys" program, which is...
Friday morning, the Army Corp of Engineers inspected the Hadsell Slough and told Elk Mountain Mayor Morgan Irene and Public Works Director Gary Martinez he expected the slough to raise a foot overnight. Elk Mountain is surrounded by water, with the Medicine Bow River on the east side of the town and the slough on the west side. Four critical areas were identified, and Martinez was informed that the National Guard stationed in Saratoga would be sending troops to help with the...
At the Carbon County Saratoga Joint Power Impact Board (Water and Sewer) meeting May 13, Scott Reiman with Reiman Construction told the board members he was “kind of shocked” at the email he read earlier in the day that the town of Saratoga was holding back the retainage fee for the water meter project in 2009. He said he had not seen the email until May 13, and was not aware that it had reached the point to involve attorneys. The discussion intensified as the board mem...
After the meet and greet on May 10, the Saratoga Sun asked U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi questions about local and national issues. Health Care Since serving in office, Sen. Mike Enzi has sponsored 100 bills, some of which has been signed by the three sitting presidents, since Enzi has been in the Senate. Most of the bills were done when Enzi was chairman, a position he hopes to hold again. "You're really in charge of what your committee does when you are chairman, it is tremendous...
A sea of white Navy uniforms filled the Navy Marine Stadium in Annapolis, Md., in preparation for graduation of the Class of 2014 Naval Academy. Midshipmen were there to watch their upper classmate's graduation and commission. Saratoga High School graduate Wyatt Hill was among those receiving their commissions. The weather, which is usually raining and cold on commissioning day, was warm and the sky was a clear blue as the stadium filled with guests, parents and friends of...
U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi (R) hosted a meet and greet at the Platte Valley Community Center on May 10 after touring the Saratoga Forest Management sawmill. More than 20 people attended the meet-and-greet to hear what Enzi had to say. He was introduced by Loren “Teense” Willford, Enzi’s Carbon County Campaign Chairman. In the time that Enzi has been in office in Washington D.C., he has had over 100 bills passed, including seven bills that have been passed since President Barack Obama...
Springtime in Wyoming can create havoc on towns - and Sunday was no exception. In Encampment and Riverside a snowstorm dumped anywhere from 12 inches to 19 inches of snow and left downed trees and snowy roads throughout the two communities. Just 18 miles north of Encampment, Saratoga only received about two inches of snow, with depths of snow varying between the two ends of the Valley. By 8 a.m., the roads through Riverside and Encampment had been cleared by Wyoming...
As Encampment was digging out from a spring snowstorm, town of Saratoga employees were digging holes in the street to repair a 10 inch water main that had burst on Spring Ave. The broken part of the main, near Third Street and Spring Avenue is located between St. Ann's Church and the Platte Valley Community Center. The alleyway between Bridge and Spring Avenues looked more like a waterway, and the storm drains were so backed up that large puddles of water were showing up on...
U.S. Senator Mike Enzi received a guided tour of the Saratoga Forest Management sawmill Saturday before his meet and greet at the Platte Valley Community Center. Owner Gary Ervin, his wife Cheryl, Rollin Ervin, forester, Caroline Ervin, in charge of human resources, and Scott Williams, operations manager guided the Senator through the mill. The mill does not operate on weekends, and the tour included parts of the mill not normally shown when in operation. Ervin told Enzi 100...
It has been 108 years since Saratoga Chapter No. 12, Order of the Eastern Star (O.E.S.) has had a Worthy Grand Matron. Karlene Sjoden has filled that role for the past year. Sjoden was installed as Worthy Grand Matron in 2013 and since has been supervising and visiting chapters around the state. The last woman from Saratoga to serve as Worthy Grand Matron was Ellen J. Tilton from 1905-1906. The Saratoga Chapter was founded on March 26, 1901 according to Elva Evans. Tilton serv...
It has begun. The season where we barely have time to catch our breath before we move onto the next event. School is winding down. Seniors are getting ready for their big day and school concerts are being prepared to show off talents. In three weeks, hopefully, the pass over the Snowy Range will be open and tourists will travel over the pass into Saratoga and the Platte Valley. Every summer I tell myself I am going to take more time for myself. Every summer I fail. The good...
Quade Palm, of Medicine Bow, is the recipient of the $1,000 AGCO Dealer/Massey Ferguson scholarship funded by Shively Hardware. The scholarship, 2013-2014 National FFA Collegiate Scholarship, is awarded to a Carbon County School District No. 2 senior. Palm is a senior at Hanna-Elk Mountain-Medicine Bow Jr./Sr. High School and a member of the Bow River FFA. He plans to major in Animal Science with a career in ranching. This year, 126 sponsors have awarded 1,781 individual...
This past winter, the U.S. Energy Information Administration recorded the highest prices of propane since 1990. The price of propane has steadily increased since 1990, but this year, there were significants jumps in the price. In December 2013, the average cost of propane began to increase 10 cents per week until peaking at $4.01 per gallon. At the end of the heating season - March 17 - according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the price of propane was at $3.07...
With springtime comes testing. One test is for the preschools in the Platte Valley like ExCel, and HeadStart programs. This week, ExCel preschool is running an ad offering free developmental screening. I encourage any parent of a preschooler beginning at age one to take advantage of this screening. As a parent, I understand how protective we can be of our children. We want our children to be the smartest in the class, the fastest on the field, and way ahead of everyone...
Marshal Hill applied for an internship as a page under Wyoming's Sen. Michael Enzi, because it was the opportunity of a lifetime. "I did not want to pass it up," Hill said. Hill knew the opportunity would not come his way again, and that working as a page in Congress would look good on his resume and would give him an advantage on his application for college. "I was proud to have Marshal serve as a Senate page," Sen. Enzi said. "He represented Wyoming well and is now part of...
I grew up in a family of volunteers. My mom and dad volunteered for different clubs, depending on what my siblings and I were involved in during our school years. It wasn’t easy, because my siblings and I were all in different schools at one time or another. My grandma was always volunteering for Easter Seals, working with children with disabilities. When I was a young girl I would stay for a week during the summer time and go with her. Watching members of my family v...
Discussion became animated at the March 11 Planning Commission meeting when Chairman Rory Grubb threatened board member and town of Saratoga Councilman Steve Wilcoxson to remove from the meeting by the police department if he did not come to order. Wilcoxson was insisting that the planning commission follow the letter of the law in the current ordinance about home-owned business. Grubb said that Wilcoxson was not comparing "apples to apples" in his argument, and that in light...
Leak found in residential area The Saratoga Carbon County Impact Joints Powers Board (Water and Sewer) is still uneasy about paying the $182,000 retainage to Reiman Corporation three years after the meter replacement took place. Ken Schwerdt, an engineer with PMPC, said he and Paul McCarthy reviewed the contract and cannot find a reason to not pay the retainage. Richard Raymer, a member of the Water and Sewer Board, said his biggest concern is that there has not been a...
Officials looking to speed up EPC process DRKW Advanced Fuels, LLC has terminated their contract with Sinopec Engineering. The cancellation of the contract was announced at last Friday’s Industrial Siting Council meeting in Cheyenne. Luke Esch, Industrial Siting Administrator, told the council at its quarterly update at the March 7 meeting that he had been contacted by Wade Cline about the termination of the contract. K. Wade Cline, Executive Vice President and Construction G...
