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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... Full story
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... Full story
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... Full story
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.... Full story
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... Full story
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... Full story
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... Full story
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... Full story
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... Full story
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... Full story
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... Full story
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... Full story
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... Full story
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... Full story
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... Full story
This year, the Grand Encampment Opera Company will present "The Treasure of Shiver River or It's Hard to Drive Cattle When Their Horns are Frozen," by Flip Kobler and Cindy Marcus. The melodrama has all the traditional plot elements for a melodrama. The nasty scoundrel Rod Enreel will soon take over the Shiver River Ranch and find the hidden treasure if Colonel Sanders can't sell his cattle to come up with the mortgage money. Heroic Marshal Marshall Law would love to propose to Heidi Claire, the... Full story
Four men have been added to the Encampment-Riverside Lions Club Hall of Fame for 2016: John Priquet, Otto Wirz, Jay Talbott and Marvin Brandt. Each have been recognized for their contributions to Woodchoppers over the years. Biographies for Brandt, of Fox Park, and Talbott, of Laramie, are forthcoming. John Melvin Priquet John B. Priquet, Melvin's grandfather, came to America from France when he was seven. He came to the Valley on Jan. 1, 1900 with his wife and 11 children. John and his sons... Full story
Wyoming HWY 70, or Battle Pass, is now open. Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) reopened Battle Pass on Thursday morning after snow removal, according to a press release. “We encountered more snow this year than we anticipated,” said Tim McGary, district maintenance engineer in Laramie. “As always, our crews worked hard to get the pass open and ready for the season.” Battle Pass is a seasonal closure due to huge volumes of snow during the winter months, along with another Platte Valley staple HWY 130, the Snowy Range Scenic Byway.... Full story
The Carbon County Museum invites everyone to experience Native American culture through song and dance at the fourth annual High Plains Powwow. This free event will be held Saturday, Sept. 10 at the Carbon County Fairgrounds in Rawlins. Registration is now open for community sponsors, program advertising, and vendor spaces. “We are excited to see the High Plains Powwow in its fourth year,” said Lauren Hunley, the museum’s education and outreach coordinator. “The success of this event wouldn’t be possible without the generosity and participa... Full story
Battle Pass Scenic Byway Alliance will host Michael Martin Murphey from 4:30-6:30 p.m., June 12 at the Platte Valley Community Center. Murphey will also do a Saturday night show on the second Saturday in June during future years, a press release said. When Murphey performed last year in the Valley, the show received rave reviews, the release said. The country artist performs all across America each year, and his annual Cowboy Christmas Tour is a long running, successful musical tribute to the holidays. Murphey lives outside of Gould, Colo. on... Full story
Guy Erickson has finished off his senior year at Encampment High School with a plethora of different athletic honors. Among these awards are All-State Golf, Three Trails Conference Basketball Player of the Year, All-State in Basketball, Wyoming Coaches Association All-Star Basketball Selection, Southwest District Student Athlete of the Year, Jake Clark Memorial Carbon County Athlete of the Year and Encampment Boys Basketball Player of the Year. Erickson will be off to the University of Wyoming... Full story