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The Carbon County Museum will host its fourth annual High Plains Powwow on Saturday at the Carbon County Fairgrounds in Rawlins. This Northern Plains-style dance competition is a rich and immersive opportunity to experience Native American Indian culture. Dancers of all ages will compete in 22 dance categories for over $9,500 in prize money. “This event has become our museum’s signature event and the number of Native American Indian artists has grown year after year,” said Kelly Bohanan, Director of Carbon County Museum. “The success of this...
Saratoga Middle School will be holding a parent and player volleyball meeting 6:30 p.m. Aug. 23 in the Saratoga Middle/High school library. All forms necessary will be provided for parents and players to sign and turn in that evening. First practice will be 3:30 p.m. Aug. 24. at the Platte Valley Community Center Gym. Players are reminded to have their sports physical completed, fees paid to the office, proof of insurance and concussion form taken care of before their first practice. The concussion form may be picked up at the Saratoga...
The Saratoga Panthers high school football team will be holding a meeting 6:30 p.m. Aug. 9 at the Saratoga Panthers football stadium for any Saratoga or Encampment high schoolers interested in playing football for the newly-classified 1A team. Middle School The Saratoga Middle School will be holding their football equipment checkout 4 p.m. Aug. 11 in the shed behind the Saratoga High School. Middle schoolers with questions can call Matt Shelby at 307-327-6159...
This weekend’s weather brought a drying trend that increased fire activity, including some interior heat, smoke, and both single and group tree torching. “The fire woke up a little bit today,” fire behavior analyst Phil Perkins reported on Sunday morning’s briefing. As of Tuesday, the fire had burned 26,067acres. On the southeast portion of the fire, helicopters dropped water to cool hot spots and prevent fire advances. Crews continued working on a mechanical line between Three Mile Creek and Parson’s Draw, including use of two feller bu...
The official State of Wyoming Microbrew Competition will be held Aug. 20 in Saratoga. Microbreweries from Wyoming are slated to compete for the coveted Steinley Cup at the 21st annual competition. This year’s competition brew is ‘American Wheat’ and will be judged by a panel of brewing professionals from Colorado. The event starts at 1 p.m. and goes until 5 p.m. at Veterans Island. Among the breweries invited to this year’s event is the defending Steinley Cup champion, Altitude Chop House based in Laramie and the defending “People...
This year, the Grand Encampment Cowboy Gathering (GECG) Outfit selected Karen and Alden Condict as their 2016 County Pioneers. Alden R. Condict was born on the ranch, on the last day of 1927. He has lived and worked on the ranch all of his life. He is very involved with the cattle and horses. At an early age he took a keen interest in the ranch’s water and water rights, continuing to fine tune the system, taking great pride in getting all of the land possible irrigated. At a horse sale in Fort Collins, Colorado, Alden’s life changed for...
Macey Malone, of Saratoga, and a student at Black Hills State University (BHSU) in Spearfish, S.D., was named on the Dean’s List for the spring 2016 semester. Students on the BHSU deans list maintained a grade point average of 3.5 or higher while taking at least 12 credit hours....
Monday, candidates for contested county offices and state representatives will have an opportunity to meet their Platte Valley constituents and present their views on local, county and state issues at the upcoming primary elections forum sponsored by the Valley Service Organization (VSO). The forum will be held at 7 p.m. Monday at the Platte Valley Community Center, according to Kate Sherrod, VSO president. The primary election is August 16. Invited candidates include: Jerry Paxton of Encampment; Julie McCallister of Rock River; Ken Casner, Elk...
At the 14th Annual Grand Encampment Cowboy Gathering this weekend, there will be a variety of activities such as free music performances, a ticketed night show, events for children, a breakfast, Cowboy Church and campfire jam sessions. The headline performers will join others at 7 p.m. on Friday in an Open Mic program to be held at Grand View Park in Encampment, followed by the campfire, which is a round-robin performance. Anyone interested in taking part in either program Friday should plan to register at the park beginning at 6:30 p.m. Daron...
The 104th Wyoming State Fair and Rodeo is accepting entries from Wyoming cowboys and cowgirls to participate in the 2016 PRCA Rodeo. Rodeo performances are scheduled for August 14-15 at the State Fairgrounds. Contestants must be entered by 2 p.m. on July 22. All Wyoming residents 18 years and older are eligible to compete in the State Fair Rodeo. Seven traditional rodeo events are offered: bareback riding; saddle bronc riding; tie down roping; team roping; steer wrestling; steer roping and girls’ barrel racing. Contestants must complete p...
A press release from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) announced that “a series of collaborative meetings to discuss mule deer management in the Platte Valley” will be held between July 18 and July 21. The first meeting will be held 6 p.m. July 18 at WGFD Headquarters in Cheyenne. Next up is a 6 p.m. July 19 meeting in Laramie at the University of Wyoming Biodiversity Institute’s Berry Center, then there will be a 6 p.m. July 20 meeting at the Jeffery Center in Rawlins. Finally, there will be a 6 p.m. July 21 meeting at the Sarat...
The Wyoming Arts Council is accepting applications for the 2017 Creative Writing fellowships. The annual creative writing fellowships are awards of merit based on a writer’s body of work and honoring Wyoming’s literary artists whose work reflects serious and exceptional writing. Recipients for the fellowship will receive $3,000. There are a number of changes to the format of the fellowship this year. Three fellowships will be awarded in each category of poetry, creative nonfiction and fiction. In addition, winners will also receive a tra...
Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) announced an internship in his Washington, D.C. office and is encouraging students from all areas of study to apply by the deadline of July 15. “An internship in my office is rich with opportunity and provides students with firsthand knowledge and experience,” Enzi said in a news release. Interns are important to the office’s functioning Enzi said, and those selected for the internship will get to meet many people, work on projects and experience living in Washington, D.C. The interns will be able to network, develop...
Provost’s Honor Roll The University of Wyoming lists seven students from Carbon County on the 2016 spring semester Provost’s Honor Roll. The Provost’s Honor Roll consists of undergraduates who have completed at least six but fewer than 12 hours with a minimum 3.5 grade point average for the semester. Students are: Rawlins Neil Quinn Carrico Brendan Charles Gemelli Seth Hetherington Gregory Miller Cody R.S. Steege Saratoga Kylie M. Grant Janna McDonald Dean’s Honor Roll The University of Wyoming lists 30 students from Carbon County on the 201...
The cowboy life is what identifies living in the West. It is not an easy life. The cowboy needs to know how to rope a calf, brand the calf without inflicting too much pain and learn water laws. Water rights in Wyoming can be confusing. Saturday, Mike Condict, along with his cousin, Reggie Thornburg will talk about water rights of the past, present and future, beginning at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Saratoga Museum Pavilion. The two have been studying water law and work with 16 ranchers in the Platte Valley, the University of Wyoming and the State...
The Platte Valley Habitat Speaker Series will host a presentation by Robert Kimbrough, United States Geological Survey (USGS) Associate Director for Hydrologic Data, about water quality in the North Platte River at 7 p.m., June 27 at Saratoga Town Hall. The referenced study, conducted at Northgate on the North Platte River from 2012-2015, is a summary of baseline water quality sampling and results for organic contaminants in stream bed sediment. Kimbrough will also report on several additional...
The annual meeting for members of the Carbon Power and Light co-op will be Saturday, June 25 at the Platte Valley Community Center (PVCC) in Saratoga. Meeting registration will begin at 10:30 a.m., lunch will be served at 11 a.m. and the business meeting will start at 12:30 p.m. Any members of the co-op are allowed to attend. Members will have the opportunity to vote for reelection of directors from districts one, two and three, and members will also be able to pick up capital credit checks. This year’s meeting is the 75th annual meeting, a...
The Beaver Creek Fire, reported on June 19, has grown to approximately 500 acres on the Routt National Forest as of June 20, and management of the fire transitioned to a Type III incident management team on Monday. This fire is responsible for the heavy smoke seen in the Platte Valley beginning Sunday. Additional resources have been ordered to help deal with the wildfire in northwest Jackson County, Colo., which is burning in heavy timber with a high percentage of beetle kill, said a press...