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While Ms. Harrison's eighth grade class was working on their geology unit, they were able to collaborate with the Saratoga Museum and start a geologic time period brochure competition. The winner of the competition, Taylor Bennett, was presented with a certificate last Friday. Originally, during the unit, Harrison worked on comparing the coursework with the geology surrounding the region. "What better place to learn about geology than in the Snowy Range," said Harrison. During that time in the...
From 6-8 p.m. on Friday, the Saratoga Museum will be hosting ‘A Toast to History: a wine tasting event and museum fundraiser’ in the West Hall at the Platte Valley Community Center. According to Erik Gantt, Interim Director for the Saratoga Museum, there will be appetizers and wine pairings provided by seven local establishments. The participants include The Hotel Wolf, Duke’s Bar and Grill, Sweet Marie’s, Lollypops, The Saratoga Resort and Spa, Platte River Pizza and Valley Foods. These e...
The Saratoga/Platte Valley Chamber of Commerce has been busy setting up the second annual job fair and first business exposition for the community. This year it is not only a job fair, and there will be a variety of different activities for all. The main events, according to Stacy Crimmins, Executive Director of the Saratoga/Platte Valley Chamber of Commerce, are the job fair and the business expo. The job fair will be held from 12- 6:30 p.m. on March 16 and the business expo will be between 9...
Rowdy Alameda, fifth grader at Saratoga Elementary School, qualified to compete in the state-level competition for the National Geographic Bee. Alameda won the school-level competition at Saratoga Elementary School, which qualified him for the state-level. He is the only student from Carbon County who will be competing at state. According to the National Geographic Bee website, "The contest is designed to inspire students to be curious about the world." The National Geographic Society prepares...
This weekend, during the Chariot Races, youth will have the chance to compete in their own event - and adults can bet on it. The second annual Kirsten Campbell Kids race will be held during the middle of the Calcutta on Sunday; which, begins as 11 a.m. According to Michelle Olguin, organizer of the event, the race was started last year in memory of Kirsten Campbell, who passed away in 2014 of cancer. Proceeds from the race go to the Kirsten Campbell memorial for end-of-life care. Campbell's...
The first of three open houses for the West Side Snowy Range Travel Management project was held from 5 p.m.- 8p.m., Thursday in Elk Mountain. Citizens attended the open house on Thursday to look over the three different alternatives that the Forest Service has released to the public. The three different alternatives chosen for analysis within the Environmental Assessment were the No Action Alternative, the Modified Proposed Action Alternative and the Less Roads Alternative. According to Melanie...
This year the town of Encampment has a 'refurbished' archery range that many feel will get increased usage this season. Bob Kelley, resident of Encampment, explained how the public archery range that has been around for 25 years has needed some significant updating. "The town has been very good supplying all of the materials and this year they finally wore out," said Kelley. "We have replaced centers of them over the years but finally the whole backstops needed to be replaced." Most of the...
The first time I heard of Saratoga, Wyoming was last year around the Fourth of July. I was in the Tetons, visiting my boyfriend who worked seasonally as a Forest Technician in Vernal, Utah. As we were driving up, I was talking to a friend who grew up with me in Saratoga, New York and was living in Boulder at that time. She was going to be in Wyoming the same time we were for a weekend getaway. I asked her what part of Wyoming, as I wanted to see if we could meet up since I hadn’t seen her in a...
John Farr, President of the Battle Pass Scenic Byway Alliance (BPSBA), wants to improve the number and quality of the interpretive signs on Highway 70 in-between Encampment and Baggs - which, was the start of the Michael Martin Murphey benefit concert for Battle Pass Highway. The benefit concert is for the Battle Pass Scenic Byway in attempt to earn some funds to ultimately improve interpretive signs along the highway. "There's some [signs] up but not all of them are accurate and there are some...
The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) will be holding three open houses in the upcoming weeks to release the three proposed alternatives for the West Side Snowy Range Travel Management project. The three locations will be in Elk Mountain, Rawlins and Saratoga. According to Monique Nelson, Environmental Coordinator at the Laramie District Office, this is in response to the high number of comments as well as stakeholder response. “We released the Notice of Proposed Action earlier this spring and we r...
The Carbon County Museum is currently working on two different, projects that they hope will boost tourism in the County. According to Kelly Bohanan, Director for the Carbon County Museum, they are working on renovating the Hugus-Ferguson building for their new museum facilities and building a walking trail along Merrell Hill off Interstate 80. The Hugus-Ferguson building was, according to Bohanan, built in the 1890's, and is located in downtown Rawlins on the Corner of Fifth and Cedar. Bohanan...
Over the weekend, a documentary was shot about WHATFest in Riverside. A number of filmmakers and photographers were involved in producing an 8-10 minute documentary which highlights the culture of the festival and the music that was showcased. Mike Vanata, of Square State Film, and Brian Harrington, of BHP Imaging, explained what the documentary will be focused on. "Basically this is a documentary highlighting WHATFest and showing how important it is culturally to Wyoming and people who live...
For the past couple of years, Brent Kaufman and Scott Phister, Clinic Founders of Fremont Therapy Group (FTG), have been looking at Rawlins as a potential location to open up a new facility. "It looked like Riverton to us, it looked like Lander to us, it looked like any other community in Wyoming that really could justify having the type of facility and staff that we have in other communities," said Kaufman. After a few years of seeing the potential, they decided to move forward and create a...
At the Carbon County Commissioners meeting July 21, discussions arose over a dispatch system. A Memorandum of Understanding is now established between the town of Saratoga and the Carbon County Commissioners to have the town of Saratoga take over the costs of a T1 line that is part of the Enhanced 911 dispatch system to link to Rawlins. When the line was installed, Carbon County was listed on the contract with Union Wireless to pay for the cost of the line. However, now the town of Saratoga will be assuming those expenses. The cost of this...
The farmer’s market is starting back up this Monday from approximately 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m at the Platte Valley Community Center’s east parking lot. Anyone who is interested in having a stand at the market can do so for free. Joe Elder, Executive Director of the Platte Valley Community Center, explained that with the organization of the market changing hands frequently, they simply forgot about running it. “This year we kind of forgot about it, and he [a usual vendor] called and said ‘hey...
The Carbon County Commissioners held a special meeting at noon July 13 at the Carbon County Courthouse, specifically to discuss Carbon County Library’s budget. According to the draft of Commissioners minutes, the meeting was held in response to the Library Director emailing them “with proposed cuts including potentially closing two branch libraries.” Marilyn Pederson, Library Director for the Carbon County Library System, said that although the statement was true, it was not board appro...
