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Sunday’s weather may have hurt the town’s access to water. As of Tuesday morning, all five Variable Frequency Drives (VFD), which enable water wells to pump water, have stopped working . Three of the well pumps are pulling over average, meaning that they are totally non-functional. Saratoga town engineer Chuck Bartlett said it was unclear what specifically caused the VFDs stop function. “I’m not sure if it got hit with lightening or over-voltage. One or the other, it causes the same problem... Full story
Dan Gilbert, a meteorologist with Weather Modification Inc., who is working out of Saratoga, said Sunday’s weather is referred to as “thunder snow”. “It’s hard to forecast,” Gilbert said. “They usually happen after a warm period when the surface is warm.” With the warm air hovering near on bottom, cold air moves above it creating thunder. Though Gilbert said that these thunder storm is much less severe than summer thunder storms, the storms managed to knock out power in the Platte Valley C...
As auctioneer Cody Waldrip rattled off bids and the horses raced down the track, hundreds trudged through the mud and the wind to witness the 34th annual Donald D. Erickson Memorial Chariot Races this past weekend. The event began Friday night at the Hotel Wolf with the first round of the Calcutta Auction. Auctioning continued track side between each of Saturday’s and Sunday’s 10 races. Proceeds from the auctions went to benefit the Saratoga Lions Club. Several races featured incredibly close photo finishes. Saturday’s last race included Sheldo...
The Saratoga Sun received word that Kim Ward, wife of Neal Ward, formerly of Saratoga, passed away Feb. 14, 2014 in Terrebonne, Ore. A full obituary will appear in a later edition of the Saratoga Sun.... Full story
The Platte Valley Christian Center will be hosting speaker Dick Schroeder Sunday. Schroeder, a national speaker for Chi Alpha University Ministries, is currently doing a retreat with University of Wyoming chapter in Saratoga and will speak to local residents. Schroeder will speak at 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. Feb. 23 at the Platte Valley Christian Center....
Town Engineer Chuck Bartlett said that the town has made solid progress with their portion of the North Platte River Restoration Project. Bartlett claims that he has compiled an exhaustive list of contact information for people who live alongside the river. Despite a complete list, Bartlett or the town of Saratoga have not made any contact with residents. He says he is waiting until the plans for the project are finalized to start making contact with residents. “Right now it’s kind of hard to tell people what is going to happen when we don...
The airport board is finally back up in the air after six months without a formal meeting. As Jennifer Hamilton and Bobby Chitwood joined the ranks of board members, the Saratoga Airport held their monthly meeting on Feb. 12. The board realigned officers for the new board. Mike Patterson, a long time veteran to the airport board, became the new president. “Mike has been on the board long enough to know how this operation works,” said former board president Lee Tromble. Additionally, Lance Gru...
e Sharp family was under one roof Friday when they moved into a temporary home after a fire, followed by water damage, made their home of eight years uninhabitable. "The important thing is we are all safe," Kevin Sharp said. On Feb. 8, Jessica Sharp was at work at Deseret Rehab and Care Center and Kevin was home with their three children, 16-year-old Maddison, 14-year-old Kevin and 12-year-old Jacob. "We were watching 'The Avengers' when Maddison kept hearing a buzzing sound. We thought it was t...
Everyone seems to think that I am going to write my column this week about my new grandson. Well, he is special and he is my first grandchild, but being only two weeks old, I am not sure I can write 500 words or more about being a grandmother or having a new baby to hold and kiss. He does fill my days with delight and reminds me to slow down. Every time I see him he is sleeping, so there really is not much to write about. I will say, Telitha and Josh are awesome parents. Much better than I was... Full story
Editor: This week begins the budget session and of course the true forms of power and egos, yet for whom, the people or the bureaucrat and bureaucracy? The real true bedfellows of legislation are not the politically elected, but the bureaucrat, when funding is laid out on the table! Bureaucracy impedes the actions of legislative actions needed to create a government for the people’s wishes. Wyoming people always hear we will have to look into that, or we’ll have to delay the actions until our departments have time study the actions fur...
The welcome home party for Navy Chief Petty Officer Derek Ten Eyck has been moved to a new date, according to his wife Amanda. The party is scheduled at 5:30 p.m., March 2 at St. Ann’s Parish Hall. Ten Eyck returned home from Afghanistan last week....
Saratoga hosted U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo) Monday. Barrasso took a tour of the Saratoga Forest Management Mill meeting with its staff and the owners. Senator Barrasso recently sponsored the National Forest Jobs and Management Act which, according to the bill, aims "to create a predictable wood supply from the National Forest System land that can be harvested, processed, and sold as wood products." Owners of the mill, Gary Ervin and Clint Georg, said that Senator Barrasso's visit to...
The town of Saratoga planning commission spent the majority of their Feb. 11 meeting examining their bylaws. Board members were asked to compile a list of revisions at their last meeting on Jan. 11 meeting. They selected items from other town planning commission bylaws. A new proposal to the bylaws would allow Councilman Steve Wilcoxson to maintain a position on the board, however, he would not be allotted a vote on the planning Commission. Members of the board cited that this would prevent...
The Saratoga/Carbon County Impact Joint Powers Board held their regular scheduled meeting Feb. 12. Town Engineer Chuck Bartlett said that phase two of their loan application for the Waste Water project went out two weeks ago, but the town is still working on the environmental assessment of the project. Bartlett said that he is working with Wyoming Game and Fish to insure that the projects are environmentally sound. There will be a public hearing concerning the waste-water outfall project at 6...
The Carbon County School District No. 2 Speech and Debate Team are co-hosting the Rawlins Outlaw Speech Meet Classic on Feb. 21 and 22 at Rawlins High School. The Saratoga speech members are seeking volunteers to judge at the meet. About 100 judges are needed to judge in poetry, duet, extemporaneous speaking, congress, debate, drama, humor and oratory. Contact Saratoga Middle High School at 307-326-5246 to sign up to judge an event....
The U.S. Forest Service and Wyoming State Forestry Division recently released results of Wyoming’s annual aerial forest health survey, indicating that the spread of the mountain pine beetle epidemic has slowed dramatically while the spruce beetle outbreak continues at low levels. Each summer the agencies work together to aerially monitor insect and disease caused tree mortality or damage across Wyoming forestland. As noted in the 2012 survey results, the mountain pine beetle epidemic continues to slow in 2013. Mountain pine beetle was active o...
Talk of the upcoming Sierra Madre Muzzleloaders Mountainman Rendezvous Thursday evening got Encampment Town Council members excited for summer. Josh Saier, President of the Sierra Madre Muzzleloaders Rifle Club, asked the council Thursday for use of the land near the Grand Encampment Museum (GEM), and a regular contribution for the Mountainman Rendezvous. The American Old West-style shooting and throwing competition would take place July 25-27 this year. Council members approved use of the...
The Saratoga Airport Board was back up and running this past week after the addition of two new members. Jennifer Hamilton and Bobby Chitwood bring their aeronautic experience to the board in order to help improve Shively Airfield. Hamilton, who currently works at the Hotel Wolf, attended aviation school at Aims Community College in Greeley, Colo. She graduated with her commercial pilot's license. She is currently trying to work on her certified flight instructor. A musician and an owner of...
With warmer weather coming soon, council members were planning for park maintenance and summer events at last Thursday’s Riverside Town Council meeting. Riverside Town Clerk Jan Cook said she submitted a $5,500 recreation board grant request, which would go toward park maintenance and Riverside Party Day expenses. The Riverside Party Day is held annually in August at Rick Martin Memorial Park. “A total of $3,500 of it is for the park maintenance person’s salary, and $2,000 of it is for the c...
Last weekend was a big triumph for the Saratoga Panther wrestlers, who earned two individual first-placements and a third-place team win at the Carbon County Invite. Head coach Jared Mason said he was proud to see the Panthers make the top-three out of 17 teams at the tourney, which took place Friday and Saturday at Hanna-Elk Mountain-Medicine Bow Middle/High School. "Finishing third out of 17 teams at the Carbon County Invitational, the Panthers are wrestling well as they look forward to...
Saratoga's Panthers wrapped up their season conference play nicely with a 66-57 snuff over the Burns Broncs. Saturday's win over Burns was not only a good way to end Saratoga's regular conference play, they bounced back after Friday's 54-66 conference loss against Lusk. The Panthers also took their vengeance Saturday, as they had previously lost 35-59 against the Broncs in January. "Burns is a pretty good team, and we had to do our best job to get that win," said head coach Josh Sandlian. "We...
Platte Valley elementary students witnessed a rousing outdoor lesson in cloud seeding last week, with help from the Saratoga-Encampment-Rawlins Conservation District's (SERCD) Natural Resource Education Program. The field days were organized in part of SERCD and lesson presenters included meteorologists Dan Gilbert and Brad Waller, both of the Fargo, N.D.-based Weather Modification Incorporated (WMI). For each day throughout Feb. 10-13, the two presented part of their cloud seeding research...