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The National Weather Service (NWS) Cheyenne issued a Fire Weather Watch for Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. due to wind gusts of 30-35 miles per hour and dry conditions. According to an email from Gerry Claycomb at NWS Cheyenne, the conditions will continue late into the week “on a daily basis as the low pressure system that is causing the winds is slow to move through Montana.” This will “create favorable conditions for rapid fire growth if one were to start,” said Chris Hammer, meteoro...
“I’m pretty sure we’re not going to make AYP (adequate yearly progress),” Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD#2) Jim Copeland said of the district’s general failure to make AYP. This is less of a problem with the actual schools, according to test scores that are mostly above the state averages, but rather with inconsistencies between the Wyoming Department of Education (WDE) and the U.S.Department of Education. Dicky Shanor, WDE Chief of Staff, explained that the waivers that free most...
The Saratoga Lady Panthers varsity volleyball squad started the season with a good record at the tournament (5-1 overall). They faced Little Snake River, Big Piney, Guernsey-Sunrise, St. Stephens, Wyoming Indian and Laramie. While they lost to Little Snake River (whom they will not play again), the team performed well overall. "It was good to just see them get out and see them compete a little bit and kind of find out where everybody's at, what positions everybody's playing, if that's going to...
The Saratoga Panthers cross-country team showed improvement from their times last year at their first meet, the Green River Invitational, on Friday. “Generally speaking, we ran a lot faster this year than we did at the same course last year,” Coach Rex Hohnholt said. “All of them … we’re talking a minute, minute-and-a-half faster.” Hohnholt explained that the conditions were not favorable—hot, with no breeze—so he was “pleasantly surprised.” According to Hohnholt, this is the first time that...
It is possible that schools in Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD#2) will not achieve Safe Harbor status. Superintendent Jim Copeland warned the CCSD#2 Board of Trustees that letters may need to be sent out regarding CCSD#2’s federal status. In this case, schools will not be considered as making adequate yearly progress (AYP) under No Child Left Behind regulations. Copeland explained that Wyoming did not get the waiver that other states received from the government, resulting in most W...
Saratoga Police Chief Tom Knickerbocker presented a formal resolution on anti-marijuana education to the Saratoga Town Council on Aug. 18. The resolution was “in support of the Wyoming Association of Sheriffs and Chiefs of police and our local law enforcement agencies to get local citizens informed about the harmful health effects and negative social consequences of marijuana.” The resolution was questioned by councilpersons Will Faust and Judy Welton because of its vague nature as well as its...
Chris Irwin believes that interacting with a horse on a personal level takes labor and effort, but that the rewards are great if the time is put in. Irwin, who says his passion for horsemanship began when he was a 19-year-old that happened to end up at a race track, hopes to show spectators and participants what happens when you work with horses the way they want to be worked with. Irwin will be returning to Encampment Aug. 29-31 for the second year to provide a horsemanship clinic. Irwin says...
Chef Linda Pashcke has studied the culinary arts from Oregon to Florence, Italy and has returned to Saratoga to share her knowledge as a personal chef. She focuses on seasonal and fresh, provides nutritional breakdowns of all of her recipes and has experience with special dietary needs. Recently obtaining her diploma from the Oregon Culinary Institute, Pashcke also has a degree in hospitality from New Mexico State University. While getting her bachelor's degree, Pashcke was able to study abroad...
Mayor Ed Glode does not believe the resolution presented by the Saratoga Police Department on the legalization of marijuana will come up again after the Aug. 18 Saratoga Town Council meeting. Glode agreed with the sentiments councilperson Will Faust made about whether legalization of marijuana is currently a town issue. “It’s a federal issue. I don’t even know why they’re debating it at the state level,” Glode said. “Like Judy said, it does kind of take a side instead of being neutral abo...
The Platte Valley experienced a power outage Friday for approximately four hours because of problems with weather. Russell Waldner, General Manager of Carbon Power & Light, provided the official outage time from 2:36 p.m. until 6:22 p.m. “Lightning opened the circuit switcher,” Waldner said. “Basically, what the circuit switcher does is protect the transformer and anything in the substation from failing.” According to Waldner, when Carbon Power & Light was reviewing the codes during the outage,...
Three simultaneous lightning strikes caused three wildland fires Saturday—one at Brush Creek, another at the One Bar Eleven Ranch and the last off of Carbon County Road 660. “We had to divide and conquer here,” Homer Beach, Ryan Park Volunteer Fire Chief said. “Ryan Park took the Brush Creek one, Saratoga took One Bar Eleven and I think some Saratoga people and Encampment took the one off of County Road 660.” Several days before on Aug. 12, One Bar Eleven experienced another fire when a hay bal...
When two variable-frequency drives (VFD), which vary the frequency and voltage to an electric motor, were cooked during the July 30 scheduled power outage, it made nine total VFDs damaged by power outages at Saratoga’s water well. The Saratoga/Carbon County Impact Joint Powers Board (Water and Sewer Board) reviewed possible options to prevent these costly losses. The two damaged most recently will cost around $12,000 total, including installation. The VFDs will be sent out for analysis in order...
“Our services are progressing towards more than books in the library,” said Kim Jones, Circulation Manager Librarian at Carbon County Library System (CCLS). In addition to the 94,000 books in the CCLS collection, the library has databases and online applications and services, like e-book collections and other digital offerings. “My favorite, and the one that I use most frequently and the one that it appears most people use most frequently is 3M Cloud Library,” said Jacob Mickelsen, Saratog...
In a logic class, the professor uses the blueness of the sky to represent a truth dependent on something outside of the sentence, or a posteriori. Some analytic philosophy classes beg the students to define blue, explaining a color to a person who has never known anything. Anyway. The definition of blue does not seem to actually matter to our existence too much, but the sensation of color is a ragged part of living. I’ve read two books about the color blue; when I was in college, I read ...
A 28-year-old Matt Cisneros, of Gillette, and his 12 year old son Manuel spent two nights lost in the Medicine Bow National forest after changing paths when they encountered a black bear. The pair told deputies that they killed a snake and ate it raw, drank water from a creek and huddled together at night for warmth, according to a press release from the Carbon County Sheriff’s office. They had no food, no water, no fire making materials or warm clothing but were in relatively good condition w...
Joel Johnson, Florida based watercolor painter, remembers his roots growing up in Sinclair and will be exhibiting 30 paintings based on those memories at the Nicolaysen Art Museum and Discovery Center in Casper, Wyo. Johnson recalls seeing Spanish colonial architecture in Sinclair, skiing in Ryan Park and his father's role maintaining the skating rink. The paintings consist of architectural pieces based on the Spanish influences he saw in his hometown, according to Johnson, with landscapes of...
The Carbon County Visitors’ Council (CCVC) has reduced the number of grant sessions from four to three beginning this September. Grant sessions will take place in September, January and May going forward. “We used to do quarterly—January, April, July, and October,” Leslie Jefferson, Executive Director of Carbon County Visitors’ Council said. “We also linked in the process of when you can request funds. It used to be 120 days and now it’s 180 days.” Jefferson explained that this process reduces...
Elizabeth Wood, Publisher of the Saratoga Sun, was awarded 2015 Businessperson of the Year by the Carbon County Board of Realtors. Wood worked at CENTURY 21 Cornerstone Realty beginning in 1999. She moved on to be a journalist/columnist and ad salesperson at the Saratoga Sun, eventually becoming the General Manager in 2008 and Publisher in 2015. Wood has turned the Saratoga Sun into a major state publication respected by the Wyoming Press Association, increasing advertising revenue and creating...
Five, two-minute promotional videos will be filmed in areas throughout Carbon County. Digital Top House, a Salt Lake City based production company, has been contracted to make the videos, according to Leslie Jefferson, Executive Director of Carbon County Visitors’ Council (CCVC). According to Jefferson, the videos will serve to draw visitors interested in visiting Wyoming to the Platte Valley. “Those will be up on our website once they’re completed, hopefully by the end of this year,” Jeffers...
Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD#2) has a series of new initiatives including a learning management system, curriculum changes, a re-adoption of financial assistance for students competing in national competitions and several new technological advances. Schoology Schoology, the learning management system, will be used district-wide once implemented fully. According to former Saratoga Middle/High School Principal Larry Uhling, now District Curriculum Director and Facility Manager, when...
Cattle have been getting inside the Saratoga Landfill due, in part, to cattle guards that are not maximized for functionality. Randy Raymer arrived to the Upper Platte Valley Solid Waste Disposal District (Landfill Board) meeting on Aug. 5 with copies of an illustration that shows the pattern of cattle guards and how they could be arranged to protect the landfill. The Bureau of Land Management and Silver Spur Ranch own fences and cattle guards in the area, so the landfill board must work in...
Police Chief Tom Knickerbocker asked the Council to issue a statement saying that they support the police in advocating for the prevention of marijuana legalization. The Council discussed the option of making a formal declaration in their support of the police. Knickerbocker said that if they get a certain amount of signatures, the Wyoming Marijuana Legalization Initiative will be taken off the ballot in 2016. Knickerbocker said he will be asking other public groups in town to pledge their...
Mayor Ed Glode attended meetings last week regarding Saratoga’s master plan, to be completed by Community Builders, Inc. (CBI). Representatives working on the plan were in town last week to work on the first steps of the plan. “I think it was a great visit,” Glode said of CBI’s time in town. “We have five people helping us and I think all five of them are real good. “The early work went real well so we should get a good plan out of it,” Glode said. “I said ‘If nothing else comes out of your...