Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
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The Saratoga Panthers suffered a conference loss over the weekend as they hosted the Farson-Eden Pronghorns (15-3, 4-1) for a makeup game following the cancellation of the original game in mid-January. Earlier in the week, however, the Panthers were hosted by the Hanna, Elk Mountain and Medicine Bow (HEM) Miners (8-6, 2-0) for a rematch where Saratoga saw another victory over the Miners. Saratoga vs. HEM The last time the Panthers and HEM faced off was on Dec. 18, just before...
The Saratoga Panthers wrestling team has been hit by injuries, health problems and attrition to a point that the team is down to seven grapplers. "We have seven individuals that, as long as health stays intact, will represent us at regionals and state," Head Wrestling Coach Zach Schmidt said. His wrestlers that were able to wrestle on Friday in Saratoga were Jerry Everett, Andrew Everett, John Powell and Tristan Gray. "John Powell has been phenomenal," Schmidt said. "He did a...
The Saratoga Care Center was recently listed in U.S. News and World Report Nursing Home Finder as one of the top nursing homes in Wyoming for 2018-2019. The ranking is based on a data-driven methodology that journalists at the U.S. News and World Report developed to evaluate nursing homes. The U.S. News ratings for nursing homes rely on data from Nursing Home Compare, a program run by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the federal agency that determines and...
The Saratoga Lady Panthers had another rough weekend as they ended the week 0-2 following their game on Jan. 29 against the Hanna, Elk Mountain and Medicine Bow (HEM) Lady Miners (11-3, 2-0) and their makeup game on Jan. 31 as they hosted the Farson-Eden Lady Pronghorns (15-5, 3-2). While the score between Saratoga and the Lady Miners was closer than that of the score between the Lady Panthers and Farson-Eden, Lady Panthers Head Coach Heather Bartlett saw more positives with...
Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) wrestling went to the Saratoga Quad on Friday and Rawlins Rumble on Saturday. Head coach Lyle Richardson was happy with his wrestlers' efforts this weekend. "We had two kids out with injuries this weekend, Seth Blakeman and David Cruz," Richardson said. "As I continue to say, we can't measure this team's success on wins or losses." He said Charlee Solaas continues to impress him as a girl high school wrestler. "She made it down to wrestl...
By Mike Armstrong The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) boys basketball team had very similar experiences with three teams they have met before. They lost to the two Valley teams and resoundingly beat Dubois this past week. Saratoga When the Miners met the Saratoga boys basketball team on Dec. 18, the game went into overtime with the Panthers winning 71-62. It was an exciting competition and the game on Jan. 29 was no different. It also went into overtime before the...
The Encampment Lady Tigers had a lose-win homecoming week as they hosted the Cokeville Lady Panthers (15-2, 4-0) on Thursday evening and the Hanna, Elk Mountain and Medicine Bow (HEM) Lady Miners on (11-2, 2-0) on Saturday to cap off homecoming. Despite the loss to Cokeville, the Lady Tigers managed to come back from a substantial deficit in the second half. Encampment vs. Cokeville When Cokeville last came to the Valley, they left with a 50-point win over the Saratoga Lady...
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) girls basketball team played two Valley teams this past week and the outcome was mixed. On Jan.29 the Lady Miners beat the Saratoga Lady Panthers and lost to the Encampment Lady Tigers on Saturday. On Friday the Dubois Lady Rams forfeited to the Lady Miners. Saratoga The game between the Lady Miners and Lady Panthers had head coach Jackie Jones having deja vu towards the end of the match because of the game they played against the...
Life defining moments are sometimes easy to recognize as they are happening and other instances it takes a little time to realize they occurred. I just had an occasion where I had a life lesson that I could feel changing me, but I didn’t know how to cope. There was so much swirling around in my mind. It was like the outdoors with the copious amounts of snow coming down almost every day the past few weeks. The day before the first wave of snow, I talked to my friend KC who has...
On Jan. 21 at 4 p.m. at the Medicine Bow Elementary School (MBE) there was a ceremony presented by students and staff of the school honoring a bell that started ringing students to come to school 93 years ago. "It was really good," Traci Schneider, principal of MBE, Hanna Elementary and Elk Mountain Elementary said of the ceremony. "It was fantastic," Superintendent of Carbon County School District No. 2 Jim Copeland agreed. According to the presentation, the MBE bell began...
Graveside services for Robert Stanton "Robbie" Gill, 75, will be held at 11 a.m. Fri., Feb. 8, 2019 at the Rawlins Cemetery in Rawlins, Wyo., with Pastor Jason Anderson officiating. Military Honors will be accorded by The Angus England Post 54 American Legion Saratoga and the Rawlins VFW Post 2311. There will be a reception to follow the graveside services at the First Southern Baptist Church, 2005 Darnley Road, Rawlins. Robbie Gill passed away Fri., Jan. 25, 2019 in... Full story
Hazel Claire Ballard went to be with her Lord and Savior 5 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019 she was born in Mitchell Neb., on Feb. 7, 1936 to Clifford and Mae (Scott) McCart, she went to school in Mitchell through the 10th grade when she quit school to help her parents in a cafe they owned. They later moved to the Sand Hills to work on ranches where Hazel met and married Shorty Ballard on Feb. 14, 1954. They were married almost 65 years. They had two children; Boyd, who passed... Full story
As they celebrated their homecoming week, the Encampment Tigers achieved two victories in front of the hometown crowd as they hosted the Cokeville Panthers (10-4, 1-2) on Thursday and the Hanna, Elk Mountain and Medicine Bow (HEM) Miners (8-6, 2-0) on Saturday. This was the second venture in the Valley for Cokeville and the second lost dealt to them while here. While the Tigers trailed for most of the game and it looked like it might enter overtime in the fourth quarter, the...