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The Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) Rattler High School football team went to Rock Springs to play the Rock Springs High School (RSHS) Tiger JV football team in a non-conference game. It was a game, the Rattlers got a chance to give their younger players an opportunity to get some experience on the field.Rattler head coach Jack Cobb said in the 1st quarter he played his starters and in the 2nd quarter he started putting in some of the players of his JV team.“I mixed them in with the varsity f...
A National Geographic article I read recently, on how greater intelligence is being attributed to animals, got me thinking about how smart my pets have been. I have had a lot of pets over the years, but there have also been times in my life, when I had none. Anyway, the article made me go through my life and review my different pets and see how much merit this article had. My first pet was Tippy, a collie pup my dad bought for me, pretty much, right after I was born. He got bigger faster...
Logan Wright Head Coach of the Saratoga High School football team had no illusions about the latter half of his schedule. Last week he faced Pine Bluffs, the number one seed in 9-man East Conference. This week the Panthers had to take on the Southeast Cyclones, who are the number two seed and have not lost a game in the conference. Saratoga put up a fight, but Southeast overpowered the Panthers. "Every game has a turning point, whether it is early or late," Wright said. "We had a huge momentum...
The Dubois Rams came to the Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School football field and decided to send a message they were in the hunt to the State Championship. Currently they are the number two seed in the South Conference of 6-man. Number one is Little Snake River Valley which they have to this year. HEM, a team with many young players, is rebuilding and making strides, but was unfortunate to meet a team with a message to send. This does not mean the Rams ran up the score to...
The Farson-Eden Pronghorns got a taste of their own medicine after they beat a young Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) that they kept scoreless and ran up the points last week. This week, the Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) High School football team beat Farson 63 to 0. The Rattlers are undefeated and have clinched home field advantage for the playoffs. “Farson has some talent, so we had to play,” Jack Cobb, the head coach for LSRV said. “We were able to get some good time for our varsi...
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School volleyball team met a lot of opponents this past week, but were not quite able to take a win. “Last weekend came after we had a long week,” Head coach for the Lady Miners Hannah Williams said. “ We traveled all three days on top of it being a five day school week.” During the week the Lady Miners played, Williams said the HEM team was looking for ways to improve on their record of 1-15. October 13, the Lady Miners played away at Wyoming Ind...
The Medicine Bow Town Council met Monday October 10 at the Medicine Bow Community Hall.A recent purchase of a vehicle for the police department had tax attached to it. Mayor Sharon Biamon asked if the taxes could be reimbursed since the town was tax exempt. Karen Heath, Town Clerk, said she would contact Carbon County regarding the town’s options.Dave Worthington and his wife Tasha came before the Council to ask forgiveness on several properties which had liens on them. They were also r...
When Steve Priest, the former principal of Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow, (HEM) High School indicated his last day would be in late September, a committee was created to recommend to the Carbon County School District No 2 (CCSD2) board a candidate(s). On Thursday night, the efforts of this committee bore fruit. The committee was made up of 17 individuals, including two students from HEM and they narrowed the candidates down to one. Eli Hobbs. Hobbs was not only to be interviewed by the...
Scott and Michelle McIlvane, owners of the Lazy River Cantina, are excited to be one of two places offering an opportunity to play keno, which debuted October 6. Keno is a lottery-like gambling game often played at casinos, bars, convenience stores and venues that offer some form of legalized gambling. It can also be provided as a game in some state lotteries. In the classic game, players choose numbers ranging from one through 80. After all the players make their wagers, 20 numbers are drawn...
The Little Snake River Valley Rattler (LSRV) High School football team went to Encampment Saturday to face the Tigers and keep their lead in the conference. "Any time you play the number one team in the state, you always look to use it as a measuring stick to see where your team stacks up against them," Tiger Head Coach Kegan Wilford said. "Snake River has a lot of great athletes and football players." Head Coach for the Rattlers, Jack Cobb had positive comments about going up against...
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow, Elk Mountain (HEM) Miner High School football team would probably like to put last Saturday’s game behind them quickly because their Farson-Eden kept coming at the young Miner team, even after it was apparent the Pronghorns had won the game. The final score was 83 to 6. “It was a hard loss,” Miner head coach Zack Scott said. “ We will continue to work on the things we need to.” There were a few bright moments for the team, including the pass from Howard Ba...
Saratoga Panther High School football team faced the number one ranked team in their conference and although there were things that made Panther Head Coach Logan Wright happy with the game, he knows the team is capable of performing better than they did on Friday where they lost 57 to 12. The 1st quarter went entirely Pine Bluff's way. They scored 21 points while the Panthers did not score. The 2nd quarter was a different story. The Panthers got two touchdowns against a defense which doesn't giv...
It has been a year of adjustment for the Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School Lady Miner volleyball team as a young, small team goes out on the courts each week. This past week, HEM played a lot of games and had their first victory. On Tuesday, the Lady Miners played the Encampment Lady Tigers. The games were close with the Tigers winning the first and second sets 27 to 25 and 25 to 17. The Lady Miners took the next set 25 to 18. The last set went into the Lady Tiger 25 to 22....
Logan Wright, Head Coach of the Saratoga High School football team had a good feeling his Panther team would do well against the Panther team from Wright, Wyoming, last week. He also knew the other Panthers wanted to win badly and it would be a tough game. He was right. The game was a defensive showdown. Neither team scored a touchdown. However, two safeties were scored by the Saratoga Panthers. It didn't add up to a lot of points, but it was enough to win. "It has been since 1960 that there...
When Danny Burau opened his restaurant half a decade ago, he knew he was taking a risk. He wanted to have a place that made all its food on premise and be open seven days a week. Burau explained how he wanted Firewater Public House (Firewater) to be known when a customer went to the restaurant's website. "Firewater Public House is a community pub offering high quality comfort food and a unique whiskey selection. Perfectly set next to the North Platte River in Saratoga, Wyoming, Firewater is...
Not to jinx myself, but I have been pretty lucky with this whole aging thing. I recently completed lifeguard certification and this body surprised me by being up to the physical aspects of the test. The written part on lifeguarding and CPR was not easy and I was happy to pass it. However, I really didn’t know if I was going to be able to do all the physical tests in the time required. Swimming laps was the one part of the test I was confident in. I was worried aoubt swimming from the shallow e...
The Hanna Agricultural Resource Team (HART) has been getting ready for the change of seasons. On September 24, the organization had their last barbeque for the summer. It actually was in the Hanna Hometown Market because weather was threatening to drown anything outdoors. HART is a garden group in Hanna that not only runs a community garden compound behind the Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School; the group has gotten together at least every other weekend and has a barbeque...
"We had a great game," Hanna, Elk Mountain (HEM) Miner High School football head coach Zack Scott said. "We played well on both sides of the ball and really applied what we have been working on in practice." The Miners faced the Midwest Oilers on September 30 and played their best football game since the season started. The young HEM team showed it had rebounded from the tough loss against Encampment the week before where they were not able to put up any points against the Tigers who won 70-0....
The Encampment Tiger High School football team took no prisoners against the Kaycee Buckaroo football team. They allowed Kaycee 6 points in the 2nd quarter, but that was it. The Tigers went to score 71 points making the game 71-6. The Tigers looked like they had the game in control from the beginning when Quade Jordan raced 38 yards for a touchdown. Kahan Pickett got the conversion and the score was 8 to 0. The Tigers were not done scoring the 1st quarter. Bristin Sifford got a 14 yard pass...
The Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) Rattler High School football team went up against the Hulett Devils in Midwest last Saturday and won in the usual manner. Big. The score was 52 to 0. Rattlers Head Coach, Jack Cobb, was pleased–not only with the game–but also that the Rattlers and Devils finished before a torrential rainstorm hit. “Hulett is a good team with some physical size and I challenged the boys to come out and take care of business,” Cobb said. “And they did just that.” The Rattler...
Saratoga Hot Springs Resort and Spa owner Dr. Michael (Doc) Janssen was reading about a Saratoga Town Council meeting when he learned the town did not have a budget for the police armor Chief Ken Lehr had requested. "I like to read what is going on in the community and the paper gives me a good overview," Janssen said. "I caught a story that the police chief had come to a meeting at the town council and was in need of body armor. I saw that, because the town did not have it in their budget, they...
The Carbon County Economic Development Corporation (CCEDC) had their annual review meeting at the historic Sinclair (Parco) Theater. There was food and drink before which allowed guests to mingle before the meeting got underway. CCEDC President, Copper France, started the meeting by talking about the past year of the CCEDC on the theater stage. He thanked the investors of the organization first. "The people we have to rely on to keep this organization solvent are so important and I would like to...
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School volleyball team went to the Lusk tournament this past weekend and got an opportunity to play some strong teams. Unfortunately, the Lady Miners had to leave the tournament without any wins. The first set against the Niobrara County Lady Tigers was close. The Lady Miners kept it close, losing 25-17. The next set went about the same. The Lady Tigers won 25-14. Lingle-Ft. Laramie Lady Doggers got ahead of the Lady Miners and didn’t look back i...
Head coach for the Saratoga Panther football has said all season long his team this year was one of the best teams he has coached. The first team they faced in Wind River is one of best teams having gone 4-0 thus far. Wright knew his team did well but in the end, the Panthers lost. Moorcroft the Panthers beat handily. The last game against Niobrara County was a bit of a disappointment to Wright, because he thought the Panthers were capable of beating the Tigers, but the game didn't turn out...
The Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) Rattler High School football team went to Green River this past weekend to play Green River Wolves’ JV team. The Rattlers did well winning 52-19. Head coach for LSRV, Jack Cobb was pleased how his team snagged another win for the season. “Another good win for the Rattlers and the JV got almost three full quarters of playing time which was nice again,” Cobb said. “The starters came out and played excellent on offense and defense, and it was a great game fo...