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The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School football team was dominant against the Midwest Oilers from the beginning. The Miners scored in the first 10 seconds making it 8-0. The Oilers got the ball up the field a few yards before a fumble recovery by Shane McGraw. This led to a touchdown by the Miners in three plays. With 8:43 left in the 1st quarter, the score was 16-0. It didn't get better for the visiting team. A minute off the clock later, had the Miners with another score...
The Hanna Town Council met at 6 p.m on Sept. 10 at the Hanna Town Hall. It was business as usual as the council quickly approved the agenda for the evening and the minutes from the Aug. 13 regularly scheduled meeting. Mayor Lois Buchanan, Councilmembers Sammy Sikes, Bob Patton and Tracy Fowler were in attendance. Councilmember Linda Schisel was absent. The report from public works indicated work was going well and the crew was getting ready for the change of weather. Water meters were being...
The game warden station in Medicine Bow has been in existence since 1953 according to Rob Shipe, the new game warden for the area. "My district goes along US 30 to Fetterman Road towards Rock River and then I sort of follow the county line to west and quite a lot of my area is public land," Shipe said. "My area includes Shirley Basin, which is a major area for wildlife." He said his territory covers a lot of the new wind farms that are being built. "They are cutting new roads and it is changing...
The newest building at the Hanna Basin Museum is opening officially to the public from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 25. It is the largest of the three buildings on the museum's grounds. Unlike the two other buildings that are a part of the museum, it was constructed in this century. The first building to house the Hanna Basin Museum was the Hanna Community Hall, also known as Linden Hall it was built in 1890 in Hanna as a saloon by its proprietor, John Linden, to serve coal miners in the...
Mayor Kevin Colman resigned at the Medicine Bow Town Council meeeting on Monday at the Medicine Community Hall. Colman is moving to Montana at the end of the month. Colman came to office 10 years ago under similar circumstances. He was a new council member that was selected to be mayor by the council when the mayor at the time resigned. Karla Denzin, President of the Council, will be acting mayor until Thursday evening when the Medicine Bow Town Council will select a mayor from the sitting... Full story
"Our team is more talented than the score showed," Saratoga High School head football coach Logan Wright said after Little Snake River handed the Panthers a loss at 0-71 on Thursday evening at Saratoga. Wright makes no excuses, but acknowledged the birth of a new little Wright on Monday had him miss practices with the team. "We were not as prepared as we could have been," Wright said. "Saying that, it was our first game and it was against a strong Baggs team. We just were not ready to face the...
As the game got under way, the Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow High School (HEM) football team fumbled the ball on their first possession and in a few plays found the St. Stephens team, poised to score the first points of the game. It was 5 yards and goal. The Miners dug deep and not only prevented a score, but converted a fumble to being the first team to get points. "Our kids dig deep. We just do it that way," Head Football Coach Zach Scott said. "We find ways to fix it. It is a good way to...
The Valley had the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band return to the Platte Valley Community Center (PVCC) on Aug 29 to a sold out auditorium. The band was established in 1966 in Long Beach, which translated into fans of all ages. The six man band, formed back in the 60s, has two founding members still entertaining audiences. Frontman Jeff Hanna, who plays guitar and vocals for many of the group's songs, and Jimmie Fadden, drummer, singer and harmonica player, have been with the group since day one. "We got... Full story
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School girls volleyball team did well last week according to head coach Jackie Jones. "Last week was a great week for the Lady Miners," Jones said. "We ended the week by going 6-1 counting our tournament in the Wyoming Indian/ Wind River Invite." Before the tournament on Friday, the Lady Miners beat Encampment on Sept 4. The Lady Tigers did well, with matches going 25-20, 25-19, 25-18, but they could not beat the determined Lady Miners. "I feel...
I have made no secret of my love for Carbon County in the summe. I really think it is one of the greatest places in the world during this time. It is also pretty cool when a person from an entirely different culture reinforces your beliefs. Last week an excellent friend from France came to visit me on his world tour. Where The Friendship Began I met Didier several decades ago in Taichung, Taiwan. He had been in the city (it is the third largest in Taiwan) about a year before I came. When I met...
Last year when the Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School girls volleyball went to Lingle for the Dogger Invite, they won only one game out of five. This year the Lady Miners had a better showing, winning three out of five. The first opponent was Upton and, although HEM did not prevail, the first set was a close 25-24 and the second match went 25-20. “The girls were getting used to playing together for the first time as a team and there was some jitters,” Russ Wiggam, HEM ath...
The Hanna Agricultural Resource Team (HART) came together at 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 27 at the Hanna Market. Perry Goodrich, chairman of HART, told the members present, the cleanup on July 27 was successful. He said the next cleanup around the garden was slated for Sept. 28. Linda Goodrich, secretary for the organization, said the mayor was looking into getting water onto the site through water container trucks. L. Goodrich and Rose Dabbs, HART member, told the group they were looking to compile...
The Carbon County Commissioners met at 2 p.m. on Aug. 20 at the Platte Valley Community Center. All the commissioners were in attendance. The agenda, minutes from the regularly scheduled meeting on Aug. 6 and financials that totaled $1,179,212.78 were approved in the first few minutes of the meeting. Emily Kaluzny, Carbon County Emergency Response Coordinator, told the commission the public health department was working with Wyoming Game and Fish Department (Game and Fish) in putting dispensers...
"We are very fortunate that 21 girls decided to play volleyball this year," Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School Head Coach Jackie Jones said. "What I think is really exciting for us, there is not a senior in the bunch." She said having the unanticipated success the girls team had going into the finals last year has prompted the turnout. It is the largest group Jones has ever had at her disposal in years. Jones said going into the season, her team focuses on goal setting. "The...
Saratoga High School head football coach Logan Wright said he was happy to see 18 players try out for the team. The Panthers are still playing six-man even with the large roster. Wright said, in the beginning of the summer, he had not expected so many to want to play, so he kept the team as six-man. "I had eight to 10 over the summer in for weight lifting so these kids are buying in and I hope success follows," said Wright. Wright said every player who was on the team last year came back. "We...
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) head football coach Zach Scott said he has 16 great kids on his team. Scott knows that since the Miner football team went undefeated until the championship, many teams will be gunning to beat his team. "Our goal is to have another great season," Scott said. "We are going to take care of what we have to take care of." Scott said the goal of the team is to improve every game. In practice he has been impressed with Jace Smith, Joseph Borah and Devon Gross...
I am loving this time of year. Wyoming in the summer can’t be beat and I revel in living here. Winter and wind be damned, now that summer is here. I am blown away every time I enter the town of Elk Mountain as the summer progresses. It is lovely. I go there almost every week, so I have seen the fields outside the town get greener and more lush, with horses languishing near the creeks as the summer rolls on. The Valley has so many awesome places to visit during this time of year, I never r... Full story
The Hanna Town Council met at 6 p.m. on Tuesday at the Hanna Town Hall with three council members in attendance. Council member Traci Fowler was absent. Mayor Lois Buchanan was present. Before the regularly scheduled town council meeting started, there was a public hearing for a special use permit submitted to establish a RV park located at 608 3rd street. There were no objections and several attendees from the audience voiced positive comments on how well kept the park was by land owner Alice...
There are new wind projects being slated to come to northern Carbon County that will have impact on several municipalities. The Lucky Star Wind Energy Project (Lucky Star) will be operating on 78,292 acres, mostly owned by two privately owned ranches; Medicine Bow River Ranch and Lookout Ranch. The project will also use land from federal and state parcels. Two Rivers Wind Energy Project (Two Rivers) will be on 19,547 acres. This project will be on land held by privately owned ranches, federal an...
On the afternoon on Aug 6, a videographer could be seen following a group of women down Bridge Street. Ryan Halverson was making a documentary for Hermann Global, a company that specializes in highlighting tourism. "Hermann Global publishes USA Parks, which is an online resource for people who are planning road trips across the country that include state and national parks," Casey Adams, Client Services Director for Herman Global, said. "So, finding smaller destinations like Saratoga or Carbon...
The Encampment Town Council met at 7 p.m. on Thursday with all council members present with the exception of Bill Craig. Mayor Greg Salisbury and Doreen Harvey Town Clerk/Treasurer were also in attendance. The agenda and minutes from July 11 were quickly approved. Once those items were taken care of, Harvey went over the financials. The council approved the July payroll and contracted liabilities in the amount of $31,005.81, manual late month payments totaling $636.25 and the payment of the regu...
The Riverside Town Council met at 6 p.m. on Thursday at the Riverside Town Hall where all current council members were in attendance. Mayor Leroy Stephenson and Town Clerk/Treasurer Jan Cook were also present. The agenda and minutes from the July 11 regularly scheduled meeting were approved. Financials were gone over by Cook and the council approved paying the bills. Stephenson told the council that, when he attended Carbon County Council of Governments in Dixon on July 17, there was a Wyoming...
Sunshine Solaas is settling into her job as the new director for the Hanna Basin Museum (HBM). The position had not been filled for several months and Solaas acknowledges there is work to be done. Solaas is originally for Grand Island, Neb. She did live in Florida for a year after graduating before returning to the state she was raised, but lived in a much smaller town. "Broken Bow is about 4,000 people, bigger than Hanna, but still a small town," Solaas said. She lived there for 10 years...
Nicole Karem is Gateway Community Coordinator for the Continental Divide Trail Coalition (CDTC) and she came to Carbon County on July 22 to explain designating Encampment/Riverside as a Gateway Community on the Continental Divide. Karem said there are currently five states involved in the 3,100 total miles on the Continental Trial Divide (CDT). 550 miles of the CDT are in Wyoming. The addition of Encampment/Riverside brings the total of gateway communities on the trail in Wyoming to three. Rawli...
The Carbon County Council of Governments (CCCOG) met at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the Valley Community Center in Baggs. As might be expected, there was strong representation from the towns of Baggs and Dixon. Only the town of Medicine Bow did not have a representative. The roll call took a few minutes with the large crowd. Next the agenda and minutes from the regular meeting on May 25 were quickly approved. Financials were reviewed and approved. Irene Archibald, Encampment’s representative f...