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Encampment started at fourth seed in the state tournament Thursday and faced Lingle, Little Snake River, and St. Stevens on their way to the state 1A championship. Quarter Finals Vs. Lingle Lady Tigers head basketball coach Clint Bromley started off describing Thursday's quarter final matchup with the Lingle-Fort Laramie Lady Doggers by saying, "When you have four players in double figures and two with double–doubles you are hard to beat." Micaiah Pantle recorded her best game of the season w... Full story
Saratoga’s inaugural skijoring event, intended to replace perennial favorite chariot races, was a success that orgabuzers hope will lead to big things for the event in the future. Richard Raymer of the Lion’s Club, one of the organizers of the event, said in skijoring’s first year, attendance surpassed the attendance of chariot races, despite the fact the event was organized only during the last 45 days after a lack of competitors for chariot races forced organizers to abandon that event. “There’s a new winter event in Saratoga,” Raymer said...
On January 15, 2017 James Colin Martin succumbed to an epileptic seizure and died at home in Cheyenne. He was born in Laramie on September 17, 1992. Colin attended school in Rawlins, Saratoga and Laramie County Community College in Cheyenne. He especially liked being with family, and enjoyed spending time at T and R Sports cards. Colin is survived by his mother, Melinda Joy Judd; His father, Richard Stephenson; His brother, Luke Martin and family; His grandparents, Wyllie and Ann Love; His uncle, Jack Warren and family. Colin was preceded in... Full story
Nellie Elizabeth Wood of Saratoga passed away during the evening of Feb. 17, 2017 at the Beehive Homes senior living facility in Herriman, Utah. She was 91 years old. Several family members were by her side at the time. Nellie was born in Hanna Nov. 17, 1925 to Frank and Mae Bell Munz. She grew up on the Pass Creek Ranch where her parents owned and ran a dairy farm. She lived in the Platte Valley her entire life, attending grade school in Wolcott and later graduating from Saratoga High School... Full story
RatedRed.com is a media company introducing the sport of skijoring to its viewers. The team they sent to Saratoga last weekend to capture the races included producer Molly Rigger and camera person Joel Cossand. According to Cossand, who worked for the Nashville-based company, RatedRed.com is one of the fastest-growing digital news sources on the web. In the past month they had 1.5 million views. Crossett is from Nashville originally and said he went from high school straight into production... Full story
Cancer at any age must be scary to get, but to have at it at the age of two is incomprehensible to most. Matt and Helen Vaughn know that feeling intimately because their daughter McKenzie, 2 1/2 years old, has had T-Cell Leukemia since she was 14 months. McKenzie is the granddaughter of Rose Vaughn, a Hanna resident of over thirty years. Rose is well known to Hanna locals as she has worked for Rawlins National Bank twenty five years, where she is the manager and assistant vice president. T-Cell...
Last year at this time, I was living and working in the Washington, DC area. People would ask me where I was from and I would tell them Hanna, Wyoming. Eyes would get big with wonder as they heard the town I lived in was not even a 1000 people and not near any sizable city. I got the same reaction when I lived in Shanghai, Beijing, Taiwan and Australia. The eventual question was always, why? Certainly, one of my stock answers was it was a place where nature still won. Telling people of the herds of pronghorn and other wildlife that abounded... Full story
The Grand Encampment Museum (GEM) is hosting a speaker series in 2017. The first speaker is Nicole Jean Hill, Professor of Art at Humboldt State University, Thursday, March 9. The presentation will highlight photography from the Lora Webb Nichols collection. It is one of the GEM's most valuable collections because it chronicles Nichols' life and the life of women miners and ranchers who lived in the Upper North Platte Valley in the early 20th century. This collection is believed to have... Full story
Cliff Jones, head basketball coach for Hanna Elk Mountain (HEM) High School, described the match-up between the Burlington Huskies and the Hanna Miners as a challenge. The score ended with the Huskies scoring 63 to the Miners’ 41 points. Conor McGraw and Jarrett Neimark both contributed 11 points. Shane McGraw had 8 points, Brandon Scott 7 points and Brendan Reeves had 4 points with 6 rebounds. “Opening up the state tournament with the three-time defending state champions is not an easy tas... Full story
Thatcher and Kennison Spiering sing the national anthem before the start of the final round of the championship round of wrestling on the floor of the Casper Event Center February 25. Thatcher was the 152 lb. weight class wrestling champion for 2016.... Full story
Saratoga Elementary School (SES) principal Dave Rangitsch amused students as part of the National Read Across America Day, held on the school day closest to March 2, the birthday of Dr. Seuss. Staff and students participated in the national reading initiative Thursday. The SES version celebrated Dr. Seuss with a 'Cat and the Hat' sketch and a feast of 'Green Eggs and Ham'.... Full story