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Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School head track coach, Jackie Jones, is excited about the team being fielded this year. “We are returning athletes with good regional and state experience this season,” Jones said. “Our boys had a third place finish at regional and a fourth place finish at state last year and on the girls side, we were just short of a regional plaque placing fourth.” She said the team did have a large number of freshman this year that means t...
The Saratoga Panthers track and field team boasts 38 student athletes this year, with 20 boys and 18 girls. According to Rex Hohnholt, head coach of Saratoga track and field, the girls team is the largest Saratoga has had in the last 15 years. “The first thing we need to do is see where kids are and what events they want to explore,” said Hohnholt, “Many of the athletes we have are still young to this sport so watching them work out and seeing what best fits their abili...
Kegan Willford, head coach for Encampment High School track, has high hopes for his team in the 2018 season. “We have a combined 28 athletes on the track team,” said Willford, “This is the largest team Encampment track and field has had since I have been here. It is exciting to have a large team.” Willford hopes that with the number of athletes participating this year that Encampment will be able to score more team points than they have in the past. “As of now, we have 17 b...
"It is hard to describe the feeling of watching the chopper thundering in with sheep dangling below and setting them a stone's-throw distance from us, blasting us with rotor-wash before taking off for another capture." Jordan Seitz, who teaches sixth grade at Encampment K12 Schools and eighth grade earth science, was able to take his students on a "once-in-a-lifetime experience" on Feb. 28. Seitz, his students and some additional staff members from Encampment aided the...
The 1A Southeast Conference gave honors to three Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School girls basketball players and four honors to the boys basketball team. Shane McGraw was named 1 A Southeast Player of the year. The Sun interviewed them on their thoughts about playing basketball this year. Jessica Nelsen Jessica Nelsen is in 11th grade and said she has lived in Hanna all of her life. Nelsen said of the three sports she participates in; volleyball, basketball...
Basketball season may be over, but four Saratoga Middle High School (SMHS) student athletes still have something to celebrate. Two Saratoga Panthers and a Lady Panther have been named to the 1A Southwest All-Conference list and one Saratoga Panther has been nominated 1A All-State. Saratoga Panthers Sam Schneider, junior, and Nate Rimmer, senior, were both nominated to the 2018 1A Southwest All Conference list. This is Schneider's second year in a row making the list and...
As each sports season comes to an end, the Wyoming Coaches Association (WCA) and their sports representatives designate a coach from each class to nominate All-Conference and All-State student athletes. This year, Encampment has the honor of boasting one All-Conference basketball player and four All-State basketball players - two of them nominated for the second year in a row. Encampment Tigers Wyatt Cox, senior, and Reid Schroeder, sophomore, were both named to the 2018 1A St...
When Donna Pipher went to the South Central Wyoming Emergency Medical Services (SCWEMS) emergency meeting on Feb. 27 at the Saratoga town hall, she did not imagine she would be leaving in an ambulance after suffering a minor stroke. The SCWEMS meeting room was packed and many people were standing. Mayors from Encampment, Elk Mountain, Hanna, Medicine Bow, Riverside, Saratoga and the Carbon County Commissioners were at a large table in the front. Approximately a dozen EMT...
Seniors graduating from Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD 2) high schools can now apply for the annual $500 Youth Citizenship Award (YCA) offered by the Valley Service Organization (VSO). Application forms are now available from the counselor’s office at each of CCSD 2’s high schools. Home-schooled students are also eligible for this award, according to Carol Beach, YCA project chairman. Beach said the award is not a scholarship, but rather is a cash award given directly to the student in recognition of his or her...
The U.S. Forest Service, Laramie Ranger District, is seeking public input on the proposed Fox Creek Vegetation Management Project in Albany County. This project is separate from the ongoing Medicine Bow Landscape Vegetation Analysis. The Fox Creek project decision will utilize Farm Bill categorical exclusion authority, with an open public process for determining the scope of issues addressed. The project area is located about 30 miles southwest of Laramie, within the Lower Douglas Creek Geographic Area, as defined by the...
At their regularly scheduled meeting at 7 p.m. on March 8 at the Riverside Town Hall, the Riverside Town Council held the third and final reading of Ordinance 223, transferred a liquor license from Riverside Hospitality, owned by Jolene Pavelka, to Encampment Hospitality, owned by Margaret Weber and heard from Irene Archibald about the Sixth Penny Tax. Fred Lorenz, Riverside Town Council member acting as Chairman in the absence of Mayor Leroy Stephenson, opened up public discu...
On Feb. 14, 2018, 17 people walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (MSDHS) in Parkland, Florida expecting just another day. These people, 14 of them students and three faculty, would not live to see the end of the day. Since then, the news has been dominated by the survivors of the Parkland Shooting. A deputy sheriff, tasked with protecting the school, stayed outside of the building as the shooting took place. Students dialed 911 so much they were told to stop...
The Saratoga Town Council met at 6 p.m. and approved routine business before hearing Tom and Pat Roszel ask why a sign from the Saratoga Hot Springs Resort (Resort) was up when they had only recently received a notification about the sign asking permission to put it up. Ed Glode, mayor of Saratoga, said he had been approached by the local Kiwanis chapter and been told a meeting on March 21 has been set to dissolve the organization because there were few people joining and the...
During a rescheduled regular meeting at 7 p.m. on March 6 at the Encampment Town Hall, the Encampment Town Council heard updates on the community fishing pond and a request for use of the Grand Encampment Museum (GEM) grounds for the upcoming Mountain Man Rendezvous. The current discussion around the proposed community fishing pond is the placement of a Union Telephone line that currently prevents the construction of the pond. Doreen Harvey, town clerk and treasurer, informed...
The Upper Platte River Solid Waste Disposal District (UPRSWDD) board met at 7 p.m. on March 7 at the Encampment Library to discuss issues with improper cardboard disposal and Saratoga residents using the dumpsters located at Veteran’s Island and the Saratoga Hot Pool as well as set the dates for the clean up days in May. After hearing the site reports from Ron Munson, Randy Raymer, chairman of the UPRSWDD board, informed the rest of the board of the recent acquisition of S...
By Joshua Wood "So, this is legit. I found out today that Margaret was issued a temporary liquor license, and upon placing her liquor order for this weekend, was denied her order. There is a lot to this story, but to sum it up ... the previous owner never paid taxes to the state of Wyoming. The State has decided to put a lien on the Bear Trap which in turn, means no liquor license, until the taxes ($9,221) are paid IN FULL. There is still a temporary license issued for this...