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The Saratoga Panthers boys track team came home with second place at state last year. “I hope the feeling they got last year with their second place finish will spur each and every one of them to have even greater expectations this year,” Panthers’ head coach Rex Hohnholt said. With four returning seniors, the team who were state qualifiers last year followed by returning sophomores and juniors, the team has a lot of experienced athletes, Hohnholt said. Jake Fourman finished second with the 4...
The Encampment athletes will have until Thursday to continue their conditioning. The next track meet is at Wind River. The Natrona County Invite was cancelled Friday after Casper received six inches of snow, Encampment High School head track coach Kegan Willford said. Willford is used to Wyoming’s unpredictable weather, he said, but it does put a lot of pressure on the athletes. Three years ago, nearly every meet was cancelled because of inclement weather and the track team had to qualify for s...
Gov. Matt Mead took a chainsaw to the ribbon Friday afternoon during the Saratoga Forest Management Sawmill’s ribbon cutting. The backdrop for the ribbon cutting was a stack of beetle-killed logs. Before the ribbon cutting ceremony, Mead toured the mill with sawmill owner Gary Ervin, sawmill partner Clint George and Scott Williams, the sawmill’s operation manager. Also on the tour were Wyoming Senate District 11 Larry Hicks, BLM Assistant Field Manager of Resources Tim Novotvy, Saratoga May...
This week the nation celebrates the industry that feeds the world—the agricultural industry. Being a city girl who has lived in Wyoming for 25 years, I have lived in this rural state longer than I lived in Iowa. While Iowa is considered a rural state, I was not a rural girl. Since living in Wyoming, I have learned to cut and wrap beef, feed chickens, pluck chickens, feed pigs, buck bales of hay and ride a horse. My education in Wyoming agriculture grows every year. My husband grew up in the c...
Suicide is the second leading cause of death for Wyoming youth, according to Keith Holte, Chronic Disease and Substance Abuse Prevention Unit chief with the Wyoming Department of Health. “Unfortunately, Wyoming has a serious suicide problem,” Holte said in a press release from the Wyoming Department of Health. “It’s a tough reality confirmed by three decades of statistics that place our state among those with the highest per-capita suicide rates. More than 38,000 people in the United States...
Chauncey Neville joined the 2 percent of the Boy Scouts of America who earned their Eagle Scout on March 2. The percentage is higher in Saratoga, according to Boy Scout leader Gene Smith. More than nine boys have earned their Eagle Scout in the last 10 years, Smith said. With only four boys left in Troop 153, all of them are working toward their Eagle Scout. Three of those members of the troop participated in Neville’s Court of Honor at the Platte Valley Community Center (PVCC) gym. Gene S...
For the past several months, Voices of the Valley (VOV) has been going through a transitional period, according to KayCee Alameda, the VOV coordinator and project manager for Sonoran Institute. VOV was formed in 2010 to facilitate community dialogue, Alameda said. During that time it was a collaboration of non-profit organizations. The program is now operated through a group of volunteer residents who live in the Platte Valley. The mission statement is as follows: “Voices of the Valley is a t...
Bruce Boe, director of meteorology with the Weather Modification Project shared good news with the Upper Platte Valley Water Users Association Wednesday afternoon. He predicted more snow in March for the Sierra Madre and Medicine Bow Ranges. Last year, the snow stopped in March. That, combined with an early runoff, left the Platte Valley in one of its driest summers in history. “That is the best news I have heard in a while,” Joe Glode said to Boe after his presentation. Boe explained the weathe...
Gary and Mary Jacobsen, owners of Doggett Greenhouse, want to be the business of the year every year in the eyes of their customers. When they were recognized as Business of the Year by the Saratoga/Platte Valley Chamber of Commerce through a vote of their business peers, they were really surprised. “Every year is competitive,” Gary said of the Business of the Year competition. “We have a lot to choose from.” This year, nine businesses competed for the award. The Jacobsens got into the greenho...
By Liz Wood Brenda Ostendorf calls him the Jim Carrey of Hanna-Elk Mountain-Medicine Bow (HEM) High School. “He does a great impersonation of Smeagol from Lord of the Rings,” Ostendorf said. That talent has earned Dakota Trump a place in the Wyoming Art Council’s Poetry Out Loud competition. Trump, a sophomore at HEM said he learned about Poetry Out Loud from Ostendorf, his English teacher. Ostendorf played a video of students who had competed in years past and asked if any of her stude...
Town of Saratoga Councilman Steve Wilcoxson told the audience at the Saratoga Town Council meeting last Tuesday he wanted to clarify a misconception in town about the SSG Tyler Pickett Park. Wilcoxson said the the town has purchased the land, but the American Legion and its volunteers are responsible for the park itself. Wilcoxson said several people are involved in raising money and Carrie Craig has volunteered to write grants for the park, but that the town has never promised to build the...
The Carbon County School District 2 (CCSD 2) Board of Trustees appointed four of its board members to the new Board of Cooperative Education Services (BOCES) Wednesday at its monthly meeting. Tanya Bartholomew, Diane Berger, Joe Gaspari and Bob Patton will serve on the BOCES board. Thursday, Bob Gates said Western Wyoming Community College (WWCC) will appoint a board member. Once the BOCES is formed, Gates said the school will be able to teach concurrent classes to the CCSD 2 students....
On Fridays, Aubree Neville and Leland Wallace can be found at Bridge Street Bargains turning outdated furniture into works of art. Neville and Wallace volunteered at Bridge Street Bargains to raise money for Close-Up. Jack Patrick, the Close-Up advisor, recommended his students volunteer at the shop to earn money for their trip to Washington D.C. in April. Neville and Wallace have been working at the store since December and they have raised the money for their trips, but they enjoyed it so much...
The Encampment Tigers lost their chance to compete in the state championship Saturday. They lost 29-42 against Little Snake River Valley Rattlers at the 1A West Regional Boy Basketball Tournament in Lander. Thursday night, the Tigers faced Dubois Rams and lost the game 43-55. “This was a key game for us,” head coach Dan Kraft said. “I didn’t have the kids ready for low post.” Dubois has a player who is as tall as A.J. Kuster and Kyle Wessel, but bigger, Kraft said. The first half ended 14-...
The Upper Platte Valley Water Users Association is meeting Wednesday, Feb 27 at the Platte Valley Community Center at 1:30 p.m. The meeting is open to the public. Board members will have their annual business meeting and elections followed by presentations that will be of value to the public since these talks will covers many facets of water supply, usage and flow that affect the Platte Valley. Cory Toye, with Trout Unlimited and director of the Wyoming Water Project, will talk about irrigation...
Lara Gilliam’s Pretty Pennies race in the 33rd annual Donald E. Erickson Chariot Races Saturday. Gilliam finished the weekend with a time of 46.57 for both days. The time earned her a first place win in the second division....
Noel “Van” and Ella Marie Hayes celebrated their 60th anniversary at the Little America Hotel & Resort in Cheyenne, Dec. 23, 2012. The couple were married Dec. 21, 1952 at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church in Greeley, Colo. The couple met while attending college at Colorado State University (called Colorado A&M at that time). Van was approached by his fraternity brothers to take Ella Marie out. “We have a gal who is shy,” they told Van. “Will you meet her and maybe take her out?” The fraternity and...
J.R. Henslee was elected Valentine King at the Senior Center Thursday. Alice Cornell was elected as Valentine Queen. The two were escorted to their throne, given roses and a gift certificate for dinner at the Hotel Wolf. Henslee has been attending the Saratoga Senior Center for four years and Cornell has been going for six years....
Dave Shultz, of Sage Engineering in Cody, met with the Saratoga Airport Board last Wednesday to discuss recommended goals for facility requirements in preparation for the Airport Master Plan. Shultz and the board covered items including administration and finance, public utilities, land use, access, circulation, parking, perimeter/security fencing and the aviation terminal on the landside of the airport. The airside discussion included airside support facilities, taxiways, runways, visual...
A letter of resignation was submitted by Randy Raymer to the Saratoga Planning Commission at last Tuesday’s planning meeting. Raymer cited sad medical news and the need to devote attention to his family as he expressed regrets in resigning from the board. Rod Weinman, in a letter to the planning commission expressed his desire to be appointed to another term. The board voted to recommend to the Saratoga Town Council that Weinman being appointed for another term on the board. Royce Kelley was on...
Brian Lynch graduated from Encampment High School in 2008 and is now in his first year of law school at Indiana University Maurer School of Law (Maurer) in Bloomington. Lynch graduated from the University of Wyoming in May with a major in criminal justice with concentration in pre-law and a minor in philosophy. To be accepted into law school, Lynch was required to take the LSAT (Law School Admissions Test), have two or more recommendations and provide a personal statement as to why he wanted to...
Encampment freshman KeeGan Johnson is preparing for a trip overseas this summer. He will be traveling with the 228 adult and student members of the Wyoming Ambassadors of Music. The group will visit seven countries in 15 days. Johnson was nominated by his music teacher, Kara Sandlian. “I nominated everyone who was eligible,” Sandlian said. Johnson was the only student to be accepted and is the first of Sandlian’s students to be in the Ambassadors of Music program. Johnson said he thought it wo...
Improving his time on the track by 49 seconds, Wade Swingle, with his team, Deuces Wild, took home the Dave Pennock “Good Times” Trophy and the Interstate Traveling Trophy for the second year in a row from the Donald E. Erickson Memorial Chariot Races. Swingle’s team clocked 22.88 seconds on Saturday and 22.08 seconds on Sunday with a combined time of 44.96 Last year, Swingle’s team clocked 45.45 seconds combined total to earn the first place trophy last year. Jim Stoker, owner of Homestead Log...
Among a group of young outriders was a man who has been working the Chariot Races longer than the other four riders have been living. Larry Gomez has been working the Chariot Races for 33 years. He started when he was 33, and has missed only one race and that is when his brother-in-law died. Being an outrider is not an easy job. They sit in the wind, dust beating their faces, waiting for the next race. They don’t get to enjoy the hoopla going on around the track, drink a few brews, or visit w...
The Upper Valley Search & Rescue sold 258 hands Sunday at Ben Romios Memorial Poker Run. “It (the poker run) gets bigger every year,” said organizer Cory Nuhn. “We have tremendous sponsors and supporters.” With an added purse from Silver Spur Ranches, winners were able to take home a little more money. Lynn Finney had the highest hand winning $574.50. Dawn Bailey had the second highest hand winning $383.00. Jan Buford had the third highest hand, she won $287.25. Bailey Miller had the lowest...