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Hanna Fire Chief Mark Kostovny gave a report to Hanna Town Council on March 8. "I just thought it would be good for you to know who is helping us and what it takes to be a volunteer firefighter," Kostovny told the council. "There are a lot of elements going on to keep a volunteer fire department going." Kostovny said the Hanna Volunteer Fire Department (HVFD) answered 122 calls in 2021. As of March 12, there have been 32 calls this year. "In 2021 we spent 1,071 hours on total fire call time, 474...
The Hanna Town Council met on March 8 for its regularly scheduled meeting. Mayor Lois Buchanan was not present. Mayor Pro-Tem Sammy Sikes ran the meeting. All other council members were present. After the approval of the agenda, John Van Winkle was sworn in as the new Hanna deputy marshal. "Welcome aboard," Sikes said. "Good to have you." Craig Kopasz, Engineering Associates, said he was working with Public Works Director Larry Korkow in anticipation of putting in the new water line. He said thr...
The Medicine Bow Town Council met on February 15 at the Community Hall, rescheduled from February 14. Those present were Mayor Sharon Biamon and Councilmembers Lucinda Schofield, Cynthia Chace, Sharon Kahl, and Dawndee Yocom. Others present were Town Clerk/Treasurer Karen Heath, Public Works Director Hayden Bricker, Town Marshal David Redding, Town Attorney Robert Piper, and Fire Chief Robert Maddox. The minutes from the regular meeting on January 10, 2022, and special meetings on January 13...
I found out Tuesday morning I was an orphan. The last of my four parents had passed away quietly at 5:45 a.m. Although I had been warned by a nurse the day before my stepfather’s end was possibly approaching, I was positive he would rally as he has done before. I was reinforced in my belief all would be fine when my sister, Michelle, saw him on Monday and talked to him for about an hour. My stepfather, Stuart, has been in my life since I was little over 5 years old when both my parents remarried...
The Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) Rattlers started out at the Regionals beating a tough Meeteetse Longhorn team. “They jumped out on top in the 1st quarter 15-4 and I think the Rattler fans thought it has been a good run, but it is done,” Head Coach Jack Cobb said. “I challenged the boys going into the 2nd quarter to step up on defense and by half-time we were up, 17-15.” Cobb said the Rattlers played great defense the last three quarters, keeping the Longhorns from scoring more than eight p...
Robert Riddle, head coach of the Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) miner wrestlers, left the State Tournament pleased with the outcome. “Tom (Wagner) ended up placing 5th in the 145 division,” Riddle said. “He did really well. He lost to the kid who ended up taking 1st place. Tom wrestled that kid really tough. He just didn’t quite have the experience this boy did and there were moves Tom hadn’t seen before and didn’t know how to get out of them.” There was also a tough break for Mac...
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) Lady Miner won their pigtail against Guernsey/Sunrise Lady Vikings on February 22, 46-16, in a game which showed the Lady Miners deserved to go to the 1A East Regional Tournament. Their first game on February 25 was against the No. 1 Northeast Upton Lady Bobcats. The Lady Miners’ six players did their best and played their hearts out according to Head Coach Jackie Jones, but came up short against this powerful team. The Lady Miners lost 62-19. The seco...
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) Miners played their last game of the season on February 22 in a pigtail game against the Rock River Longhorns, a team they lost to by three points and a team they beat by three points earlier in the season. The game was decided by three points, but not in the Miners favor. The score ended 39-36. Head Coach Cliff Jones wasn’t unhappy with how the season ended for his five man team. “It was a game that we could not quite reach the win, but it was a good...
Prior to their rescheduled February 15 meeting, the Hanna Town Council meeting held a special meeting for the presentation of the preliminary design of the Hanna Old Town Water System Rehab Phase 2 Project. Craig Kopasz of Engineering Associates gave the presentation. All council members were present as was Mayor Lois Buchanan. Kopasz went over the funding and costs that are estimated, but acknowledged there were still some approvals from agencies that were needed before firm numbers could be pu...
Carbon County School District No 2 (CCSD2) Superintendent candidate Noel Manning came to the Hanna Recreation Center to take questions from community members of the north part of Carbon County even though the weather was challenging to get around on Wednesday when the event started. The audience was a mix of adults and students. Hanna Elementary School 6th grade teacher Jackie Jones moderated. Manning gave the audience information on his professional and personal background. Currently he is the...
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) Miners faced two opponents who were not scared to run their press all game long against the team of five. Head Coach Cliff Jones has no issue with a team who will run up scores. With five players he reiterates, the season is not based on win or losses but on how well the Miners improve week to week. The first game of the week was on February 18 against the Guernsey-Sunrise Vikings. "The game against Guernsey was not one of our best played games and...
The Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) Rattlers did exactly what head coach Jack Cobb wanted them to do. The Rattlers faced three conference teams that are all extremely tough and his team came away with two wins. "Even my loss made me happy," Cobb said. "I think the boys overall did well against a team that is number one in the conference and arguably playing some of its best basketball right now." Cobb is talking about the Saratoga Panthers. Before the Rattlers faced Saratoga, LSRV faced...
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) Lady Miner basketball team went to Guernsey-Sunrise in a conference contest on February 18 and came out on top by a resounding 32 points. The Lady Miners beat the Guernsey Lady Vikings 53-21. "We had a great all around game to be quite honest," said Head Coach Jackie Jones. "We had three girls in double figures which hasn't happened for us this season." Jones had praise for all the girls on the six player squad. She said it was a true team effort and w...
“Regionals went very well. I was very pleased with our outcome,” Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School wrestling head coach Robert Riddle said. “We had four of our five wrestlers qualify for State.” The HEM wrestler who didn’t make it was Howard Bame who is in the extremely tough weight class of 132. Bame has been out for almost all the season for injury and has only been back the last two weeks. “Howard had only had three or four matches before going into regionals so he was a bi...
The Riverside Town Council met on February 10 at the Riverside Town Hall. In attendance were mayor pro tem Ed Golden, council members Fred Lorenz, Mark Helwick, and Town/treasurer Jan Cook. The council meeting ended up breaking a record set by Lorenz when he was mayor pro term some time back. The record for the quickest meeting then was 17 minutes. It didn’t take long for the agenda and minutes from the January 13 regular meeting. Four minutes into the meeting, the financials were approved. C...
One of the hardest things for me to do right now is read the news coming out of China. I cannot believe a country that was turning into a world partner has taken the opposite road. About a decade ago, I lived in China. Suzhou, Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzen were all my residences at one time and it afforded me the opportunity to see the Chinese people turn these cities into world class destinations. It was 2009 and my first time living in China was in Suzhou. It has a populaton of 8 million and...
The Encampment Town Council met on February 10 at the Encampment Town Hall. Present were Mayor Greg Salisbury and council members Stan Banach and Gary Stull. Council members Shannon Fagan-Craig and Bill Craig were not present. There were no amendments to the agenda, which was quickly approved along with the minutes of the January 13 regular meeting. Town Clerk/Treasurer Doreen Harvey went over the financials which came to a total of $82,088.42. The Council approved paying the total amount....
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) Miners played the Wheatland Bulldogs sophomore basketball team on February 8 and won 47-28. “The kids played well against Wheatland,” Head Coach Cliff Jones said. “This year our goal has been to show improvement when we meet a team a second time. Generally they send a more competitive team to us if we win the first time and if we lose, they adjust their team to be more competitive that way.” Jones said, in the first half, the Bulldogs were right w...
The Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) Rattlers went to Colorado over the past weekend to face two 2A Colorado teams. Head Coach Jack Cobb said these teams tested his boys in a positive way, getting them ready for the race in the Southwest Conference where one excellent team will be left behind when going to regionals The race just got tighter as Encampment beat Cokeville over the weekend raising LSRV to the number two spot, right behind Saratoga. Cokeville beat Saratoga earlier and is now tied...
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) Miner wrestling team went to Saratoga on February 10 to face 13 teams. “The kids wrestled really tough and showed me some good things,” Head Coach Robert Riddle said. “We just didn’t go quite as far as I would have liked.” Riddle said only Anthony Solaas didn’t have a win at the the invite. “Anthony is wrestling 106 and he is 8 pounds lighter than that,” Riddle said. “That almost 10 pounds of difference in that weight class is really hard. Anthony giv...
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) Lady Miners went to Wheatland on February 8 to play the Wheatland sophomores Lady Bulldogs. The game went well for the Lady Miners as they got out on top and didn’t look back. Currently, the Lady Miners have only six players. “All the girls did really well and played hard,” Head coach for the Lady Miners said. “Hanna Gonzales did some good outside shooting that we missed when she was out on Saturday against our game against Lingle/Ft. Laramie...
Carey Lake is the nurse practitioner at the Medicine Bow Clinic. He is a relatively new face having taken over about three months ago. Lake is also the Hanna representative of South Central Wyoming Emergency Medical Services (SCWEMS) and chairman. He has lived in Hanna for a few years, but he was born and raised in Kentucky and Indiana. "I am a hillbilly," Lake said. "I am really from the hill areas of Kentucky." After graduating, Lake studied electronics before going into the Air Force and was...
Craig Conrad, an author and motivational speaker, came to Hanna on February 2 to speak to the entire student body at Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) Junior/Senior High. Then on February 3, Conrad went to Hanna Elementary to talk to the youngsters. Later that evening, a community dinner was held at HEM with Conrad speaking afterwards. Students who had heard Conrad speak before were in attendance with their families. HEM freshman Cody Priest enjoyed when Conrad spoke before. "I liked when...
The Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) Rattler High School basketball faced two tough conference opponents this weekend winning the first, and losing the second. On Friday the Rattlers went on the Road to face the Farson-Eden Pronghorns. Head coach Rattler Jack Cobb knew it was very possible to lose both games and was happy to see his team do some good things on Friday. “In this conference, if you don’t show up one night, you are going to get beat. It is hard enough to win even when things are...
A valley in the Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) Miner team was hit this week when the boys played the Midwest Oilers on January 31 in a makeup game. Head coach Cliff Jones said the Oilers played stronger than expected, but more importantly,he felt the team had taken a step backward. "This season it has never been about a win or loss record, it has been setting goals, achieving them and then setting the bar higher for the next game," Jones said. "If it was only about a win/loss record...