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A letter sent to DKRW Advanced Fuels LLC by the Bureau of Land Management, may cause the project to run past the 39-month extension issued by the Industrial Siting Council on Dec. 18. According to the letter, The BLM Rawlins Field Office reviewed the current plan of development and has determined that the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) will take around 30 months or more. The letter states “The BLM, RFO, reviewed the current plan of development the plants and determined the plants and i...
Questions about water bills, evaporative ponds and cameras dominate meeting The Saratoga Town Council had a busy night at their Feb. 4 meeting. The meeting began with a letter of correspondence from Saratoga resident Cindy Bloomquist. In her letter, Bloomquist said that she was “concerned that The Town of Saratoga has only paid back about (two) years of water bill penalties for a practice that goes back many years.” Bloomquist also said in her letter that if the mayor and council does “no...
Carbon County residents interested in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) can learn more about who can be helped and affected by the program. Wyoming Senior Citizens Inc., will host a presentation on the ACA at 2 p.m. Friday, at Saratoga’s Carbon County Library branch, 503 W. Elm St. in Saratoga. Lee Harden, Navigation Coordinator for Wyoming Senior Citizens Inc., said the meeting will feature a non-partisan, unbiased presentation on the ACA, also known as Obamacare, including the options available f... Full story
Jareth Liem Wood was born Feb. 3, 2014 at Ivinson Memorial Hospital in Laramie to parents Telitha Fay Bergeson and Joshua Noel Wood. Jareth weighed 7 pounds 11.6 ounces and was 20 inches long. Maternal grandparents are Robert Bergeson and Audrey Bergeson, both of Riverside. Fraternal grandparents are Jerry and Liz Wood, of Saratoga. Paternal great grandparents are Garry and Linda Callison, of Colorado City, Colo., and Noel and Janit Wood, of Riverton, Wyo....
Union Telephone customers have been receiving annoying telemarketing phone calls. The call would come during all times of the day and night asking the recipient to “press two if this is not a fax.” Representatives at the local Union Telephone office said this is not just a Union customer problem, it is happening nationwide. Union Telephone provided a website for the Do Not Call Registry: www.donotcall.gov/Register/Reg.aspx. If you have been receiving these phone calls, you can report them to... Full story
I like to think Mark Twain is a pretty awesome guy. Not only is he one of the greatest American writers of all time, his quotes can be inspirational and extremely hilarious as well. But of all of his witty and humorous sayings out there, I try to live by one of his most famous quotes. “Eat a live frog first thing in the morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.” Yeah, I admit, it’s a weird quote to live by. But allow me to explain. I don’t live by the literal meaning...
Editor Not only a right, but a responsibility to bear arms. A group has formed in a Southern Wyoming Town dedicated to the study of the Founders’ Bible. Their study of this foundational text revealed interesting material regarding the second amendment controversies. William Blackstone, an eminent English jurist and philosophical scholar, has been identified as one the most significant contributors to the thinking that constructed the Constitution of the United States. He declared the right to bear arms flowed from the natural right of r...
Editor: Recently the Wyoming State Supreme Court rendered a decision on the constitutionality of SF104. The 3 to 2 decision found that SF104 was unconstitutional legislation. The Governor and the responsible legislators crossed the line, in an attempt to marginalize and diminish the character and reputation of Cindy Hill, the peoples elected choice. The petition drive to repeal SF104 was never about Cindy Hill personally, it was the peoples issue with a Governor who decided he and his minions in the legislature could remove an elected official...
The bridge crossing the Encampment River on County Road 680 is closed until further notice, according to Carbon County Road and Bridge Supervisor Bill Nation. Nation said the lower cord, which was broken, will need to be replaced. Nation is working with PMPC, which is the lead engineer on the project. Martin and Martin is working on the structural engineer design, Nation said. Nation is also working with Wyoming Department of Transportation's Pat Pearson in Cheyenne. The final repair scenario,...
Legislation was passed Thursday by the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee that would protect United States Postal Service rural post offices, according to United States Sen. Mike Enzi. Enzi said the bill would help protect rural post offices from closing, restructure postal rates and maintain second amendment rights. Enzi voted in favor of the bill and said he believes the legislation goes a long way to making the postal service viable by injecting competition into its business plan. The committee unanimously adopted Enzi’s a...
In the Feb. 5 issue of the Saratoga Sun, it was reported that Amber Williams won first place in the Saratoga Elementary/Middle School Spelling Bee, and Kennison Spiering received second place. However, Kennison Spiering was the student who received first place, and Amber Williams received second place. It was also reported that the spelling bee was titled the Saratoga/Encampment Spelling Bee, but it was the Saratoga Elementary/Middle School Spelling Bee. The Sun apologizes for these errors....
After an 11 month deployment in Afghanistan, Navy Chief Petty Officer Derek Ten Eyck is returning to Saratoga. A welcome home party is planned at St. Ann’s Parish Saturday, March 1 after the 5:30 p.m. mass. His wife, Amanda, said she is very excited to have him come home. He left three weeks after their youngest child was born. Amanda said he could be home as early as Friday, or as late as Wednesday. It depended on how long it took to out-process from active duty. She will have to drive to D...
After 15 years of the mountain pine beetle epidemic killing pine species in around 4 million acres of forest in the southern Wyoming and northern Colorado, the United States Forest Service is looking toward a new era of forest restoration. Phil Cruz, Forest Supervisor with the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest, said timber management on the forest has focused on reducing or removing dead and dying trees from key areas like campgrounds, roadsides and power line corridors. The forest service has been working on the removal of the key areas and...
A major marijuana bust took place near Elk Mountain. 54-year-old Randy Rheinhardt and 28-year-old Jon-Paul File, both from Evansville, Ind., were arrested on Feb. 4. The two men face felony charges for possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, felony possession of a controlled substance in plat form and conspiracy to deliver a controlled substance. They were stopped on Interstate 80 about 12 miles from Elk Mountain. Rheinhardt and File were stopped by Wyoming State Patrol for...
Bradford C. Cary, agent for New York Life in Saratoga, recently earned membership in the Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) for 2014. Cary, who also resides in Saratoga, has been a New York Life agent since 1987, and is associated with New York Life’s Wyoming General Office in Casper. He received his Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) designation in 1992, his Chartered Financial Consultant designation from the American College in 1995 and Certified Financial Planner designation in 2006. According to the local New York Life branch, achieving m...
During a public hearing on Feb. 4, Michael Haak of Sage Civil Engineering discussed the master plan for Shively Airfield. Haak said that this was the last public meeting before implementation of the project. Haak presented the outline for the airport layout plan which the terminal layout and approach surface. He said that the new approach would “increase the efficiency and effectiveness [of planes] coming into the airport.” It was also announced that there will be projects in place to make the...
The Saratoga Panthers gave their season record a boost with a 67-50 conference victory over Southeast’s Cyclones last Saturday in Laramie. Both teams were stranded in Laramie by the snow storm and made the best of a bad situation by playing Saratoga’s home game at Laramie High School. Saturday’s triumph was a much welcome comeback for the Panthers, after they got stung 53-67 by the Pine Bluffs Hornets Friday, and previously lost 53-57 in their January game against Southeast. “The boys played...
The Encampment Tigers experienced mixed emotions last weekend, succumbing to a big loss against Cokeville after an oh-so-close squeak past Farson-Eden. Friday’s conference game, in which Encampment won 52-50, was quite the change of pace for Farson-Eden this time around. The Tigers trampled the Tigers 71-46 only one month earlier. “We had a good first half that enabled us to win the ball game,” said head coach Clint Bromley. “Luke Pantle had 23 points, five rebounds and three assists...
Nearing the end of their season, Saratoga’s Lady Panthers took in two conference losses last weekend against Pine Bluffs and Southeast. Saratoga now has a 6-13 overall record, and the team has not won a conference game yet. Friday was when Saratoga received the 31-65 sting from the Lady Hornets. “Very simple, they played very well and we did not,” said head coach Matt Love. “We played hard though, just couldn’t get any shots to drop and we got in early foul trouble, then it got ugly. It seemed...
Last weekend was a tough stretch of games for Encampment’s Lady Tigers, squeaking by Farson-Eden Saturday and falling to Cokeville the next day. Head coach Amy Clay said Friday’s 36-35 conference victory over the Lady Pronghorns was a battle from the opening tip, which was a far cry from when the Lady Tigers pummeled them 48-31 in January. “We were tied at 17 at the end of two, and we scored 13 in the second and 12 in the fourth,” she said. “We shot a season best 48 percent from the field and...
Results from the Saratoga USA Wrestling Club’s Cowboy Kids Laramie Invite are shown below. The tournament took place Feb. 8, and names, divisions with weight classes, records and placements are included. Folkstyle wrestling Ace Arnold - Pee Wee 34-35 lbs, 1-3 record, fourth place Jace Westring - Pee Wee 40-42, 3-1, second place Kannon Gilbert - Pee Wee 43-44, 2-1, second place Brian Smith - Bantam 45, 4-2, fifth place Allyster Ingraham - Bantam 45, 3-1, second place Baylin Sifford - Bantam 4...
The Saratoga wrestling team beat four out of five teams at the Southeast Team Duals in Yoder Saturday. The Panthers faced off against teams from Lusk, Hay Springs, Neb., Bayard, Neb., Burns and Southeast. Individually, Daynon Mowry, Thomas Ingleby and Tate Stinson all ended the tournament with five wins and no losses in their respective weight classes. Sixteen teams were divided into four pools to begin wrestling, and Saratoga was in Pool C with Lusk, Hay Springs and Bayard. The Panthers lost...
Encampment High School sophomore basketball player KeeGan Johnson is hoping to represent Wyoming this summer, at one of the 2014 Down Under Sports tournaments in Australia. The Utah-based Down Under Sports, which celebrates 25 years this year, hosts international events in Australia, New Zealand or Hawaii, where students from high schools all over the world participate in sports during the summer. Student athletes compete for a week in one specific sport, such as basketball, cross-country... Full story