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“This is just my opinion, and there are certainly contenders which might prove me wrong, but I believe the top four teams in 1A basketball right now are Burlington, Saratoga, Southeast and Upton,” Cliff Jones, the head coach for Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) Miner boys basketball team said. “The season thus far, we will have played three out of the four teams by the end of Tuesday night.” The Miners have played Burlington twice this season so far. Southeast is the leader in the Sou...
The Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) High School Rattler basketball team went across the border to play two 2A Colorado teams. The first game on January 6 went well for the Rattlers as they beat Hayden by about 20 points. “We got behind early, then we got close and then we pulled away,” LSRV Head Coach Jack Cobb said. “It was a good win and we learned more about ourselves as a team.” The next night, playing against Meeker didn’t go so well. “They had a kid who was shooting and we had no answer f...
“The Shane Shatto Tournament was very good,” Head Wrestling Coach Robert Riddle for Hanna, Elk Mountain, (HEM) High School said. “ All the kids wrestled well.” HEM went up against 28 teams with boys wrestling and 26 teams in girls wrestling. Riddle was happy to see his wrestlers do well against the tremendous competition which came together on January 6 and 7. “Jared Nelsen advanced in the bracket but came up a few matches short for the placing round,” Riddle said. “Samual Ramirez took 3rd in t...
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) Lady Miner High School basketball team faced the leader in the Southeast conference and did not quite match up to the Southeast Cyclones.The score was 50 to 20.This victory put the Lady Cyclones with a record of 12 to 2 and undefeated in the conference. The Lady Miners are now 0-6.HEM will play Saratoga on January 10....
The Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) High School girls basketball team went on a road trip that produced two wins in a row. Given the Lady Rattlers had a rough start in the beginning of the season, dropping their first three games, the back-to-back wins against two 2A Colorado teams made Head Coach Mark Gillies happy. “Both of these teams had some pretty good size and some excellent athletes,” Gillies said. “But the girls would look for the best shot, take it and the girls encouraged each other...
Eli Hobbs was made Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School principal when Steve Priest retired in late September. Hobbs has had a few months to learn to understand the job with a lot of help from many. He has been pleasantly surprised how many people were around to help adjust to the new position. "I thought I was going to have to figure out everything on my own," Hobbs said. "There was some of me doing that, but the tsunami of the learning curve has been lessened by those who...
William Bailey won the election for Mayor of Medicine Bow in November against incumbent Mayor, Sharon Biamon. This past week, Bailey sent in a resignation letter. A new Mayor will be chosen from the new council that will be sworn into office January 9 at the regularly scheduled Medicine Bow town council meeting. Medicine Bow has a tradition of swearing in the mayor elect at the first town council meeting in January. When a new mayor is chosen, a council seat will become open. Current council...
The mayor for the past four years of Hanna, Lois Buchanan, stepped down on January 3, at a special town council meeting at 6:30 p.m. at the Hanna Town Hall. Council members Sammy Sikes, Jayson Nordquist and Bill Dys were in attendance while council member Tracy Fowler was absent. Buchanan, running a little late by her own admission and got to the meeting just as it was 6:30 p.m. "What a day to be late," Buchanan joked as she sat down. "Especially since we have only one thing on the agenda." She...
With the start of 2023, I am hoping to commit myself to some better eating and exercise habits. I am pretty sure I won’t be the only person in the country doing this. This holiday season, well actually it started Halloween, more candy, cookies and baked treats have gone into my tummy than anytime in recent memory. Halloween can be like kryptonite for me. I steer clear of candy for most of the time which isn’t easy. For instance, I love strawberry Twizzlers. I love them too much. With no eff...
The holiday season is an opportunity to get together with family and friends and celebrate being in each other's company. However, sometimes circumstances occur and a person might find themselves alone during this time. Dana Davis, the director at the Saratoga Museum was thinking about these people when she decided to have a "Game Night" at the museum on Christmas Eve."The community gives a lot of support to the museum and I wanted to do something to give back to the community," Davis said. "The...
The Hanna Town Council met December 19 at the Hanna Town Hall. The meeting was a week later than scheduled due to a power outage which took place on December 12 about an hour before the regularly scheduled meeting. This was the last town council Mayor Lois Buchanan and Council member Tracy Fowler will be in a full meeting. The newly elected Mayor, Jon Oslting and new Councilmember, Roger Hawkes were in attendance. Buchanan highlighted the Public Works report, saying the preview bids for Phase 2...
There is another Wyoming chapter coming for the Boys and Girls Club (BGC) and it is happening in the northern Carbon County town of Hanna. It will be the 9th in the state. Most are in larger communities, but Theresa Pacheco, director of the Carbon County branch in Rawlins, sees the town of Hanna as a good place for the organization. The BGC will be located in the Hanna Miner Memorial Recreation Center. Pacheco said the actual idea to have a girls and boys club in northern Carbon County came...
The Hanna Miner Memorial Recreation Center was built in 1984 by the Carbon County Coal Company. It was state of the art at the time with racquetball courts, basketball courts, weight room and a pool that was just shy of being an Olympic size pool. The pool became the center of attention not only to swimmers who wanted to do laps or kids that wanted to dive and go down the water slide, but it was important to a group of people who wanted to try a new thing. It was called water aerobics. This was...
I am not a winter guy. Columns over the years have made this pretty clear. Back in my younger years when I was fairly fearless about taking jumps on a mogul field, I saw the merit of cold and snow; but as I have traded my skis for a snow shovel, winter has pretty much lost any allure to me. This winter seems to have started off strong. There has been snow every week since Halloween. I have found myself outside shoveling snow quite a lot these past weeks and try as I might not to, I find myself...
Darlene Scheneman has been baking and making sweet treats since she was a little girl growing up in Utah in what she said was a little tiny town. "It is called Roosevelt, right below Flaming Gorge," Scheneman said. "It is a pretty rural area and the population is not much bigger than Hanna." Scheneman is no stranger to baking and confections. "I started baking bread when I was six years old, maybe even a little younger," Scheneman said. "I learned out of necessity. I started with basic white...
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) Lady Miner girls basketball team had a rough go of this past weekend. The team went to the Shoshoni tournament and the first team the Lady Miners played was a team the Lady Miners had played a week before where they only scored 4 points. The second meeting didn’t go better on Friday.“We started the Shoshoni Tournament against a tough Burlington team and we had a tough time getting our offense rolling,” HEM head girls basketball coach Jackie Jones...
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) Miner High School basketball team faced one of the strongest basketball teams in the state for their first game of the season. The Burlington Huskies beat the Miners in a convincing manner. The HEM team didn’t get a lot of time to get more experience under their belts before meeting again on December 15. “Difficult start to the tournament opening up with Burlington again on Friday,” HEM head basketball coach Cliff Jones said. “We played better as the...
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) Miner wrestling team went to Saratoga on Thursday and head coach Robert Riddle was pleased with how they did, although Tom Wagner, a senior wrestling in the 144 weight class was absent. “Tom needed to pass on this weekend and rest so he will be better once the break is over,” Riddle said. “The wrestlers looked strong and all the kids got matches and wrestled tough,” He said it was a good start for the weekend. On Friday the team had dual with Clear C...
The Saratoga Panther High School basketball team is proving they are a team to watch as the season unfolds. Thursday night the team went to the Shoshoni Tournament and faced the host team first. “The Shoshoni game was a really good game for us,” Head coach Jason Williams said. “We only had three practices before that game and played them on their home court. The Wranglers have some pretty good athletes and we knew that going in.” Williams said he was pleased how the Panthers controlled the tempo...
The Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) Rattler basketball team made their head coach Jack Cobb happy this past weekend. “I came off this weekend pretty pleased,” Cobb said. “You know I said deep down in my heart, if we win two out of three, I will be really satisfied. If we win one out of three, we accomplished something and if we go zero and three, well that is disappointing.” The first game against the Burlington Huskies on Friday did not go well for the Rattlers. “Burlington is dang good and...
The Carbon County Classic tournament featured seven teams, three from Carbon County School District No 2 (CCSD2) and saw the Saratoga High School Panthers go undefeated. The Burlington Huskies impressed people attending the games as they handled their opponents. The Dubois Rams, a team which went to the State Championship last year, gave the Carbon County teams tough games, although they lost to both Encampment and Saratoga. The Rams met the Panthers on December 9 in Saratoga. Head Coach Jason...
The Burlington Huskies went to Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School to prove they are a team to watch this year. The first game the Huskies faced HEM. The younger, smaller Miner team played hard, but it did not take Burlington long before they had control of the game. At the half, the score was 36 to 6 in favor of the Huskies. The HEM team did manage to get into double digits, but the Huskies were also able to score another 36 points. The final outcome was 72 to 20. "Burlington...
The Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) Rattlers had a successful first weekend according to Head Coach Jack Cobb. “I was happy with the weekend,” Cobb said. “We took a little time off after winning the championship and then Thanksgiving, so I feel we were a week or so behind other teams who had been practicing.” On December 9, the Rattlers faced the Kemmerer Rangers and lost 66 to 51. “They had one big kid we just didn’t have an answer to,” Cobb said. “Early in the season, it is good to go up a...
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) Lady Miners took some hard licks in their first game of the season when they faced off against the Burlington Huskies. "We knew we were going to take our lumps," said Head Coach Jackie Jones. "And lumps we did." The Lady Huskies beat the Lady Miners 62 to 4. The Lady Miners scored 3 points the 1st half and 1 point the 2nd half. The next game they played against the Dubois Lady Rams went better, although the HEM team did lose. Jones believes the team...
The Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) Lady Rattlers played some great teams this past weekend according to Head Coach Mark Gillies. It was the last game against the Wind River Lady Cougars where the Lady Rattlers lost 42 to 41. “Honestly, it was just one of those games where we were doing some of the little things wrong and Wind River was playing really hard,” Gillies said. “They hit a shot with 10 seconds left to take the lead and we had turnovers, way too many turnovers, in that game and it wa...