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The Saratoga/Platte Valley Chamber of Commerce is holding its Annual Meeting and Dinner Thursday at 6 p.m. with cocktails at the Platte Valley Community Center. All Chamber members and the public are invited to attend. The highlight of the evening is the announcement of the four annual awards. Winners of the Business of the Year, New Business of the Year, Organization of the Year, and Volunteer of the Year, who have been nominated and voted on by chamber members, will be honored. A limited number of tickets will be available at the door....
“Hello folks, and welcome to another addition of American Sportsman. I’m your host Curt Gowdy, and today we will be fishing the Upper North Platte river with my guest and the new sports writer for the Saratoga Sun, Brian Trautwein.” Those were the words that started the show for the famous sports announcer and writer Wyoming cherished enough to name a state park after. I’m not saying I’ll ever have a state park named after me, but I would like to continue writing the sports section of our paper...
For the second full week in January, women in Saratoga will have a chance to get a mammogram without having to drive out of town and could get some help covering the cost. Through the Wyoming Women First Program, a collaboration among GE, the State of Wyoming and Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a “mammovan” equipped with a mobile, state of the art mammography unit will be parked at the Platte Valley Medical Clinic from Jan. 7 to Jan. 11. “GE provided the funding for a mammo-tech, the mobile mammo...
Saratoga native and long-time resident Chester ‘Chet’ Davidson passed away on Dec.10, 2012, in Gillette. Chet was born on June 30, 1921, in Saratoga to F. Harry Davidson and Alice Kennaday Davidson, homesteaders above Cedar Creek. He joined sisters Amonda, Vita, and Louiza ‘Billye’; and later Eleanora ‘Sis’, Charles ‘Dan’, and Rae were added. The family moved to the Davidson Ranch south of Saratoga in 1928. After graduating from Platte Valley High School, he attended the University of Wyoming until 1942 when he enlisted in the Army Air Corp....
Rita Nadine Harrington, known as Nadine by family and friends, passed away Saturday morning at Kindred Hospital of Denver. Nadine was preceded in death by her father Dale Soles and grandson Justin Daniel Harrington. She is survived by her mother Doris Miller, who lives in Cody; a sister, DeAnna Black, of Saratoga; brother Gary Soles, his wife Mary Read and their two children, of Saratoga; sister Joyce Larson and her two children and granddaughter, of Tucson, Ariz.; sister Laura Ghormley and her...
As part of ongoing efforts to increase responsible domestic energy production while protecting wildlife near oil, gas, and geothermal facilities on BLM lands, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced Friday it has expanded best practice standards for the fluid minerals industry. Active cooperation between industry leaders and the BLM has contributed in recent years to significant decreases in the number of wildlife deaths associated with oil and gas operations. The new Best Management Practices (BMP) build on this cooperation in...
Bobby Chitwood and his family are the newest fixtures to blow into Saratoga. The new owner of Lollypops’ is a jack of many trades. Bobby has a country music band and tours regularly. He is a celebrity spokesman for the Wounded Warriors Home, an organization that helps place wounded vets into rehabilitative homes in cases of severe head trauma. Chitwood is also active in the Wyoming National Guard. Bobby runs their new restaurant, and his wife Danyel is the General Manager for the Best Western h...
Saratoga High School freshman Sierra Schutte is following in her brother’s footsteps by being accepted into Wyoming’s All-State Choir. Sierra said she loves to sing and last year she took a music class, but she also practice’s a lot at home. She is enrolled in choir at Saratoga High School this year. “Singing is one of my passions,” Schutte said. Her brother, Ryan Schutte, was accepted into all-state choir all four years of his high school career, and Sierra hopes to follow his lead. Ryan is i...
On Tuesdays and Thursdays shoppers at Valley Foods will get to see, taste, smell and buy meals cooked by Chef Eugene Api. Shoppers at the store in the morning will smell the aroma of food as Api prepares his featured meal of the day. On Friday, that meal was chili served over jasmine rice, with steamed vegetables on the side. On display next to his finished product are recipes created by Api using ingredients that can be found in the store. Cooking fascinated Api when he was young and he...
1 years ago January 2, 1918 Boxing Contest The boxing contest pulled off here last night was a good clean 10 round go. The contest was between Jess Boche, of Lander, and Young Martin, of Encampment, with H.L. Groninger as referee. The contest was fast in the beginning and closing rounds and was well worth the price of admission. Referee Groninger decided it a draw and it met with satisfaction to the crowd. A preliminary 3 round go was put on by Joe Harden and Kid Curtis and was much appreciate...
At Valley View, residents enjoyed many activities throughout the week. The Activity Department offers a wide variety of activities each week to meet the residents’ interests, as well as the physical, mental, and psychological well-being of each resident. The residents and staff of Valley View want to wish the people of the Valley a safe and Happy New Year. We hope that the world will be at peace during 2013. We want to thank all the volunteers and organizations that have helped brighten the lives of our residents during 2012. These include o...
6 is here and changes are in the air. Lila has resigned from writing this article. Thank you for all the good years, Lila. So, you will have to deal with me for a few weeks. Then I will be signing off and we will see who takes over from there. Maybe, I can encourage Rhonda to step in. Our count was down for the week. But, there were family members visiting and folks gone for the holidays, trusting all picks back up about now. I am leaving the Senior Services the end of January. Rhonda Krouch has been chosen to take on the mantle of site...
Seven Rawlins residents, including four children ages 6, 4, 3 and 1-1/2, were rescued early Saturday morning on Bridger Pass. David and Michelle Wolfe, Nathan Gallant and the four children left Rawlins Friday morning to hunt elk in the Bridger Pass area. Friday evening, as the three adults and four children headed back to Rawlins, their vehicle became stuck in drifted snow. They were able to contact family and friends in Rawlins, but the family members and friends could not get to the stranded vehicle and its occupants. At about 9:40 p.m....