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Nicholas Bair, CEO of Clean Energy Holdings and Bair Energy, spent this past weekend speaking with many residents of northern Carbon County.Friday, Bair went to Hanna where he met with Mayor Lois Buchanan, Public Works Director Larry Korkow, Water Work Director David Sutter and others. Joining Bair in Hanna were Tyler Boswell, the project's safety director. When Bair went to a packed house town hall in Elk Mountain on Sunday, he was joined by Boswell as well as Candice McGuire, Board Chair of Ba...
Outdated state salaries and higher paying alternatives appear to have all but depleted the amount of staff at Carbon County Public Health. Amanda Brown, Carbon County Public Health nurse manager, informed the Board of Carbon County Commissioners (BOCCC) of her ongoing staff shortage during their April 5 meeting. Brown, who was in attendance to request permission to advertise for three positions in her department, told the commissioners a full-time position had remained open for more than a...
Elk Mountain may be in the sights of Bair Energy as the potential future home of a green hydrogen plant, but that hasn’t stopped CEO Nicholas Bair from making the rounds to other communities. On April 5, Bair appeared before the Saratoga Town Council alongside Yvonne Johnson, executive director of the Carbon County Economic Development Corporation. While Elk Mountain—specifically Simpson Ridge—is being proposed as the site of the green hydrogen plant, Bair told Saratoga’s governing body his com...
Providing healthcare for Carbon County is no easy task. With 10 municipalities and a county nearly 8,000 square miles in size, it can be difficult to try and meet the needs of every resident. That doesn't mean, however, Memorial Hospital of Carbon County (MHCC) isn't trying. On April 1, formally released their Community Health Needs Assessment. "Every three years, we go through this process. It needs to be this ongoing evaluation of our health needs within our area across the entire county. As w...
Wyoming communities can now apply for the 2022 State Homeland Security Program (SHSP) grant from the Wyoming Office of Homeland Security. The SHSP grant is 100 percent federally funded and provides funding to eligible applicants based on Wyoming’s homeland security strategies and priorities. State, local, tribal governments and other special districts are eligible to apply for funding. At least 30 percent of the combined SHSP funds allocated must be dedicated toward law enforcement terrorism prevention activites. The state must pass through 8...
When I was younger, I used to wonder what it would be like to time travel. The ability to go backwards or forwards through time was such an exciting concept and I had a mental list of all the places I’d want to visit, from the Ancient Pyramids of Egypt—when they weren’t so ancient—to some far off future. As I’ve grown older, I’ve realized all one needs to do to time travel is blink. It seems like just yesterday my wife, Telitha, and I were dropping our son, Jareth, off for his first day of kind... Full story
The first meeting of the year for the Hanna Agriculture Resource Team (HART) was at 5 p.m. on March 22 at the Home Town Market. "It was a very productive meeting and we are excited not only for spring but for getting all moved into the new garden," Vice President Ellen Freeman said. According to Freeman, HART is excited the fence around the garden beds at the Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School is slated to be going up soon. "We are so excited to see this major step moving forwar...
The Valley Service Organization (VSO) has, once again, opened up the Youth Citizenship Award for graduating seniors from Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2). This scholarship awards $500 each year to a senior selected by the VSO Award Committee. VSO Chairwoman Cindy Walton has emphasized this scholarship is not based on grades. Instead, it is a cash award given directly to the student for their “community service and understanding of what it is to be a good citizen”. The award is open to graduating seniors from Saratoga Middle/High Sch...
The April meeting of the Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) Board of Trustees may get a dose of cheer. During the March 21 meeting of the Board of Trustees, CCSD2 Superintendent Jim Copeland and Saratoga Middle/High School (SMHS) Principal J.D. Johnson informed the board two parents had expressed interest in starting a cheer group for the high school. According to Copeland, the parents said they were considering self-funding the program. This would not be without precedent, as the six-m...
The 2022 Governor's Tourism and Hospitality Conference was held from February 28 through March 1 at Little America in Cheyenne. The annual conference has been virtual for the past two years and both attendees and speakers were clearly glad to be meeting in person. It was a constant theme heard throughout the conference. "This was a gathering of the movers and shakers in the Wyoming tourism industry," Governor Mark Gordon said. "Wyoming really is a lost treasure and it is so great to see the outp...
It might have been spring break for Saratoga schools, but that didn’t stop the Panthers from competing in the Wheatland Invite on April 1. On Friday, a number of Head Coach Rex Hohnholt’s student athletes placed in the top 10 of their respective events with some taking 1st place. The run to Wheatland gave the Panthers one more meet under their belt for the season as they prepared to host the Burt Willford Memorial Invite this weekend. Girls In the 200 meter dash, Whitney Bennett took 5th place w...
The Little Snake River track team slithered into the 2022 Meeker invitational hosted by Meeker High School. LSRV scored a total of 51 points in the meet. Though only 11 athletes were in attendance due to spring break the Rattlers still sunk their fangs into the competition. “We had a small group due to spring break, but they did well,” said Head Coach Norman Yoast. “Another small group will be participating in next week’s State FFA,” continued coach Yoast. Hadley Myers leaped over the competiti...
Chalk up your pool cue! This weekend marks the 14th Annual Wyoming Open and billiards players from Wyoming and surrounding states will converge on the Platte Valley Community. Beginning April 7, this four day event will seek to find out who is the best pool player in the Classic, Sportsman, Masters and Expert divisions. According to event organizer Mark Osborne, the event has already had 150 registrants. Additionally, renowned player Rodney "The Rocket" Morris will be in attendance to compete....
Members from the Saratoga High School FBLA chapter had an amazing showing at their State Conference March 16 - 18 in Laramie. The event kicked off Wednesday evening with the Keynote Speaker, Brandon White who shared his personal story and passion for life while encouraging students to be risk takers and "own it". Milan Scott "owned it" as she volunteered to go on stage to learn how to dance the tango with Brandon White, who taught her the importance of quality leadership, in front of the nearly...