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The wrestling season started off over the weekend with events throughout Wyoming on Friday and Saturday. 2 A schools were in Lusk to meet a host of Nebraska schools as well as North Park, Colorado and Newell, South Dakota. The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) Miner High School wrestling team was in Lusk along with Glenrock, Moorcroft, Sundance, Newcastle-Upton, Lingle-Southeast, Saratoga, Wright, Tongue River, Hulett and the Kelly Walsh JV. Head coach of the HEM team, Robert Riddle, was...
On November 6, the voters of Carbon County renewed the lodging tax in a strong manner. The tax was approved by 79 percent of the residents who voted. Keeping the tax will help make sure the Carbon County Visitors Council (CCVC) can continue to fund grants for activities for the different communities throughout Carbon County. The events that the CCVC sponsor promote visitors spending the night in the county so the funds can be replenished. However, the CCVC and Wyoming Office of Tourism (WOT) rea...
December 3 started the Christmas season in Carbon County in a resounding manner as holiday events were held in several different communities. At the "Old Pen" in Rawlins, there was a bazaar and the town's "Festival of Trees" in the evening. The cowboy town also played host to "Rudolph the Red Nose Christmas" at the Carbon County Fairgrounds. The event started at 11 a.m. and ended by 3 p.m. Damien Cesko, one of the hosts for the event, said there was a line to get in. The winter wonderland of rei...
I recently purchased a DVD copy of Lonesome Dove at Bridge Street Bargains in Saratoga. I am always coming across unusual and older movies in this shop, which were highly acclaimed back in their day. I bought the movie partly because the back cover said it was the most realistic Western movie ever made. Those are some pretty big words to me–as a fan of Shane and The Searchers. It was made in 1988 and probably, because I was newly married, didn’t watch a lot of TV which is where the movie was fir...
Medicine Bow Crossing convenience store in Elk Mountain has a new look, but it is not apparent from the outside. Medicine Bow Crossing was established in the town of Elk Mountain about four years ago by Bill Jones, Cody Jones and Joyce Menke. Menke departed after about a year and father and son ran the business. The store had success but Bill Jones had to drive in from Laramie which was a challenge in winter. This past summer the Jones' sold the business to Menke. The new owner had major...
On November 22, the Town Council of Hanna approved the name enhancement of the building known as the Hanna Parks and Recreation Center to the Hanna Miner Memorial Parks and Recreation Center. "This town was built on the backs of miners from its inception as a company town for the Union Pacific Coal Company (UPCC)," Hanna Parks and Recreation Director William Armstrong said. "The Recreation Center itself was built for miners and their families in 1982 by the Carbon County Coal Company." The...
The Medicine Bow Town Council met November 14 at the Community Hall. Mark Davidson from Sunrise Engineering (Sunrise) said there had been a meeting with the Council and the contractor a few weeks ago to talk about the streets project. He said Sunrise would try to schedule a meeting with Clayton Bohr, the representative of the manufacturer of the polymer which had been laid down on the town’s roads over the summer. The polymer is not working the way the town had been told. All parties involved a...
The Hanna Town Council met November 22 at the Hanna Town Hall. The Council had not met since their regular meeting on September 13. The meeting on October 11 was canceled when a car accident at Hanna Junction required two council members to leave as the meeting was starting and no quorum could be made. On November 15 there were not enough council members for a quorum. Because of the two months of cancellations, there was a lot on the agenda for the evening. Mayor Lois Buchanan told the council...
The towns of Medicine Bow, Hanna and Elk Mountain have been collecting non-perishable food items for the past month to distribute to 24 families. The Girl Scouts have been doing drives and their efforts paid off. To enter the haunted house at the Hanna Recreation Center on Halloween, a donation of a can or package of non-perishable food was given. Approximately 270 people entered the building that night and a lot of cans were collected. Eli Hobbs, principal of Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow...
The South Conference for 6-man football had 12 of the 20 players named All Conference coming from Carbon County teams. Little Snake River Valley, the state champions, had seven players recognized along with one of them getting South All Conference player–Kammados Peroulis. Also named from the Rattler team were Hadley Myers,Seth Maxson, Bridger Cozzens, Zane Matheson and Isaiah Skalberg. Encampment Tigers had four players named. They were Quade Jordan, Ryon Miller, Kaben Pickett and Bristin S... Full story
I don’t try to wear my political affiliation on my sleeve because I don’t vote exclusively for that party.There are reasons for this.I learned from my father about the Republican party and my mother was a staunch Democrat. I was lucky to have both exposures and I usually have seen merit in each party. My folks on the other hand; neither could vote for the other party and saw no redeeming in the opposition. My stepmother was the only one of my parents who voted for the person and not the par...
In the story The wonder of the Crossing Cafe Trading Company, page 10 in the November 10 edition the owners last name of the Crossing Cafe is spelled Casner, not Kasner. The couple identified in the picture are actually Randy and Anna Shipman. The building currently housing the restaurant was built in 1932 after the first building was burned down. The Sun said the current building was built in 1895. This was the original building on this site. The name of the venue is the Elk Mountain Trading...
"I feel so much satisfaction right now," said Jack Cobb, head coach of the Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) high school football team, immediately after the last seconds of the game ticked away making the Rattlers the state champion again. Cobb said, "I am so proud of these boys, these seniors who have won three state championships in the past four years. It is such a tight team and this is what football is all about." As Cobb finished speaking LSRV fans and players mobbed the popular coach...
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School is the location for an annual breakfast honoring the military and veterans. It is usually held the day before Veterans Day, as it was this year. During this event there are several speakers from the military and veterans commemorating this special day in America. It is not common that the speakers are women but this past Thursday, there were two that came to speak to the students and residents.Both of them were different in rank,...
A lot of Joe Pickett fans can tell you unequivocally the popular series is set in Carbon County, Wyoming. Not as many know that the television series is filmed in the province of Alberta, Canada. Big Sky is another TV series filmed in Canada, in the province of British Columbia. Canada is standing in for the landscape of Wyoming. It isn’t the only place where Wyoming western stories are filmed, but also in states which border the Cowboy State. Yellowstone and 1883 are both filmed in Montana w...
"We had a really rough start to this game where we made a lot of mistakes early and things continued to snowball after that," Head coach Kegan Willford of Encampment High School football said.Willford is talking about the game on Saturday in which the Tigers faced the undefeated Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) Rattler High School football team in Baggs.The game started very quickly to go in the Rattlers' favor in the 1st quarter.The Rattler head coach Jack Cobb decided to keep his leading rushe...
The Crossing Cafe Trading Company in Elk Mountain might not have regular hours exactly, because Nancy and Ken Kassner, sometimes take off during the day or evening to take care of other business. "If you want to make sure we are open, people can call," Ken said. "We have hit an age where we do things like that." This doesn't mean the cafe is not open often, but it should not surprise any patron it is closed. But when it is open, it is a place to be visited. Just to walk in the place is like...
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School volleyball team knew this was going to be a year for learning and growing. Head coach for the Lady Miner volleyball team, Hannah Williams said this in the beginning of the season. It was her first year and she acknowledged having a young team. All she wanted from her team was improvement after each game. Williams said every coach wants to win games, but her focus was to get the girls better at the end of the year. The Lady Miners went to...
The Encampment Tiger High School football team went to Kaycee to stay in the hunt for the state championship in 6-man. They did so very effectively, keeping the higher seeded team scoreless. “We emphasized starting fast against Kaycee all week long,” Tiger head coach Kegan Willford said. “I feel like we accomplished that.” The Tigers started scoring from the onset of the game. Quade Jordan ran 39 yards for a touchdown and the Tigers were off and running. Jordan scored another touchdown running...
The Hulett Devils had a brief moment of elation in their game against the Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) Rattler High School football game when they were able to score early in the 1st quarter. With the Devils first possession, they scored against the Rattlers. That hasn’t happened before this season to LSRV. “They caught us sleeping on a long pass and it got over my players,” Head Coach for the Rattlers, Jack Cobb said. “We woke up after that, and took over the game.” The joy the Devils ha...
Many residents in Carbon County know of Rocky Mountain Power through either their utility bill or the windmill farms north of the county. But there is a strong chance not many people know of the company’s effort to help communities that Rocky Mountain Power considers neighbors. The Rocky Mountain Power Foundation is a nonprofit arm of Rocky Mountain Power. Currently the non-profit is donating more than $460,000 in new grant funding across the three states it serves. The grants support o...
Saratoga Panthers Head Coach Logan Wright knew the Panther football team was going to have a challenge winning the last three football games in the season. He was right as the team faced the top three seeds in the East Conference in 9-man. Unfortunately, losing to all three teams. This past week Saratoga took on Lingle-Ft. Laramie Doggers. Wright felt the Panthers were talented and his seniors consistent “In any tough competition, you don’t want to give up anything early and quickly,” Wrigh...
The Encampment Tiger High School football team proved on Saturday why they are in the hunt for a state championship as they took on the Midwest Oilers winning 80 to 6. "This was a good way to end our regular season and for our seniors on senior night," Head coach Kegan Willford of the Encampment football team said. We still have things to improve on as we advance into the playoffs." The game started out in the Tigers favor when Kaban Pickett ran in a touchdown in the 1st quarter. Ryon Miller...
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) Miner High School football team won their first football game of the season on Saturday against the Ten Sleep Pioneers in a convincing manner. In the 1st quarter, the Miners amassed 20 points as the Miner defense kept the Pioneers scoreless. There was no stopping HEM. Tom Wagner finished up his senior year with a great game and was the leading rusher at 127 yards. He was also the leading rusher all season with 117 carries which garnered 688 yards....
On Friday, the Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School volleyball team hosted the Wyoming Indian High School Lady Chiefs and lost all three sets. The Lady Miners were in contention in all three games until they hit double digits. Then the Lady Chiefs surged ahead, leaving HEM to score a few points, but not enough to threaten Wyoming Indian as they would go on to win. The first set, the Miners were down 1 to 6 and then rallied to tie at 7 to 7 to the home crowd's delight. The Lady...