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On April 3, Wyoming State Engineer Patrick T. Tyrrell announced the call on the Platte River remains in effect. Joe Glode, president of the Upper North Platte River Water Users Association, said that water users are now starting to irrigate and the call now affects those that have junior water rights. Irrigators, municipalities, industries and storage reservoirs that have junior water rights are those that were established after 1904. Glode said a lot of land in the Platte Valley has junior...
The second phase of the Master Plan for Shively Field will begin with a public workshop from 3-6 p.m. on Monday, at the Saratoga Town Hall. Michael Haak, with Aeroland Planning LLC, and Dave Scultz with Sage Civil Engineering, have been working closely with the Saratoga Airport Board to develop a Master Plan. Haak said the first workshop was in December and the information collected was used to make a forecasted 20-year outlook. That has been approved by the Federal Aviation Administration...
ong with department heads met for the second time Thursday to talk about the future Saratoga budget. Thursday’s meeting was the second meeting in a long process the town of Saratoga will go through to prioritize projects for the 2013-2014 budget. The budget, just like an ordinance, will go through three readings before being approved by the Saratoga Town Council. The first reading will take place at the regular Saratoga Town Council meeting May 2. The second reading will take place June 4. T...
WYDOT advises motorists on Interstate 80 that the westbound passing lane is now closed from Rawlins west to the Carbon County line. On Monday, McMurry Ready Mix put head-to-head, two-way traffic in the westbound lane of that section so they could perform construction in the eastbound lane. The head-to-head traffic lasts until Oct. 15. There is going to be a 15-foot width restriction in both directions during that time. For more information, please contact WYDOT Resident Engineer Ralph Tarango at 307-728-4104.... Full story
Carbon County is set to be No. 1 in the nation for energy development. That is what Voices of the Valley (VOV) volunteers heard at the Wyoming Infrastructure Authority meeting in March. VOV has been studying the effects of what a major energy boom in Carbon County would do and how it would change the county – including housing, tourism impacts and air quality. Judd Campbell, president of VOV, and Jim States, vice-president of VOV attended council meetings last month to introduce themselves a...
Faster internet is coming soon. Construction workers and large spools of red, green and blue wire could be spotted along Highway 130/230 Thursday just outside of the Saratoga town limits. Those wires are fiber optic lines. “We are out to increase the speed of the internet,” said foremen Randy Asay who was at the site laying line Thursday. Union Wireless, the company funding the project, is setting out to dramatically increase the internet for subscribers county-wide. The company is also loo...
Judith (Hames) Campbell, 69, of Saratoga and Salome, Ariz., died in hospice care in Denver, on March 28, 2013, after an 18-month battle with Mantle Cell Lymphoma. She will be remembered as an energetic and endlessly patient wife, mother and grandmother who leaves three granddaughters, ages 2, 5 and 12. When she was 23 years old, in 1967, she took care of three of her Air Force husband’s four children, ages 5 to 13, as he flew back and forth to Vietnam. Judy is survived by her husband of 46 y... Full story
Memorial services for Shane Murray Cote were held March 25, at Arriola Bible Church, in Dolores, Colo. Rev. Kent Slyter officiated. Shane was born Sept. 30, 1968 in Portland, Maine. He went home to Glory on Tuesday, March 19, 2013. At a young age, Shane moved with his family from Maine to Wyoming where he spent his childhood growing up on the ranches of the west. He graduated from Saratoga High School in 1987. Wyoming was the perfect playground for Shane, providing endless opportunities for... Full story
I’ll admit, Wyoming was never a state I thought I’d eventually live in. When I was younger, I always thought of the place as a large, deserted piece of land with multiple tiny and isolated towns placed randomly across the state limits. The thought of there being so many small towns spread far apart from one another with no big cities close by seemed too painful for me to bear. I thought I might be able to live in a bigger Wyoming city like Cheyenne or Casper, but I never thought I could liv...
Carbon County is becoming No. 1 in the nation for energy development, with projects like wind farms, new wells at the Creston-Continental Divide and huge transmission line projects. These new developments in energy production mean change is coming According to the board members of Voices of the Valley, an organization that is looking to give local residents a voice, you can have a say in what that change will look like. Your thoughts can be relevant, especially to your town council, county commissioners and others in our communities who make th...
Editor: I attended Encampment School from kindergarten through 12th grade, and am a proud graduate of the class of 1997. I feel very privileged to have had art classes with Pam Kraft throughout my elementary and high school years. The communication and thinking skills I developed as an art student have been invaluable to me in maintaining employment throughout my adult life. Learning to construct and carry out a plan, as well as explain and defend the results supplies students with sought after abilities that can be transferred to any field....
Editor: I am enclosing a letter that I wrote to the school board in January 2012. I did get a response from the school board, which regrettably, I did not save. The response was rather terse and more or less told me to mind my own business. There was also a copy sent to then representative Jeb Steward. Now it seems to me that this would be at least a partial solution to the problems with the budget cuts. These busses are unnecessary in light of “decreasing student enrollment” and are a cost vs. benefit boondoogle. I am quite sure that the ini...
Editor: Our front porch caught on fire the night of St. Patrick’s day. The wind as we all know was bad. Everyone in the house was sleeping except for my son. I had been sleeping maybe 20 minutes when my son came and told me there was a fire. The flames were about three tall and spreading fast. The whole family immediately grabbed pots of water and put out the flames. I called the Saratoga dispatch, to have someone come out and make sure everything was completely out. In less than five minutes, a police officer, a fire crew, and a truck from C...
The American Legion Auxiliary met at 6:30 p.m. March 19 at the Legion Club. department president Joyce Menke paid her official visit to the auxiliary unit. Seven applications have been received for the Auxiliary Scholarship. Past president pins were presented to unit members Fran Payne-Rogers, Kathleen Martin and Diana Galbraith. An invitation ceremony will take place for new members Mandy Cooper and Leslie Pacheco.... Full story
Wellness screenings coming to Saratoga, Encampment and Hanna next week offer nine different tests to assess the health of individuals participating, plus additional screenings for blood pressure, body fat analysis, vision and hearing. The blood draws for these screenings will be from 7 to 9 a.m., Tuesday at Hanna Elementary School; from 6 to 10 a.m. April 17 and 18; in Saratoga at the Platte Valley Community Center; and from 6 to 10 a.m. April 19 and 20 at the Grand Encampment Opera House. Other screenings will be available concurrently and are...
The Riverside Town Council discussed the Zephyr Power Transmission Project and its open house on Wednesday. The project, proposed by Duke-American Transmission Company, is designed to connect high-quality renewable wind energy resources in Wyoming to communities in the southwestern United States. The approximately 850-mile transmission line would run from the planned Pathfinder Wind Development, near Chugwater, Wyo., to the Eldorado Valley, just south of Las Vegas. The project includes at least...
The organizational meeting of the Saratoga Men’s Golf Association takes place Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Saratoga Resort and Spa. All duffers interested in participating in league play this summer at the Saratoga Golf Course on Wednesday afternoons are urged to attend in order to join the club and meet Matt Daubner, the new golf pro, at the resort. In addition to scheduling league play, the meeting serves as initial signup for golf at the Old Baldy Club in mid-May. Each year management of the private club extends an invitation to members of S...
Winners of the Encampment/Riverside Fire Department Easter egg hunt were as follows. Preschool: Carson Everett won first, second and third place. Kindergarten and first grade: first, Janine Lamoureux; second, Cody Starck; third Ashtyn Wells. Second and third grade: first, Peyton Munroe; second, Amanda Musacchio; third, Cora Schroeder. Fourth and fifth grade: first, Gavin Bartlett; second, Reid Schroeder; third, Riley Little. Sixth grade: first, Charles Watt; second, Sean Stewart; third, Justin Shaw....
The Saratoga Friends of the Library will sponsor a free presentation by John Farr at 7 p.m., April 18 at the Saratoga Library, (503 W. Elm St.) Farr’s presentation, “Kit Carson in the West,” tells the story of Kit Carson becoming a mountain man and fur trapper, and his influence on Wyoming. Farr is vice-president of the Grand Encampment Museum and former president of the Kit Carson Home and Museum in Taos, N.M. “Kit Carson in the West” is presented by the Wyoming Humanities Council as part of its Humanities Forum. The Wyoming Humanitie...
Saratoga’s Finest 4-H club held its regular monthly meeting on March 26. The club started by making “Peeps” race cars to take to the Senior Center. There was also the election of officers. Here’s who was elected to serve for the 2013 4-H year: Sentinel—Wyatt Carricato Reporter—Aubrey Berger Treasurer—Cameron Lehr Secretary-—Haley Soles Vice President— Jace Berger President—Micayla Crimmins Each person who was elected for each office has an important job. All these jobs help the club function efficiently. They also talked about upcoming even...
new pastor the beginning of March. Rev. Helen Young of Florissant, Mo., arrived to Saratoga to assume her duties as temporary pastor for the First Presbyterian Church of Saratoga. She moved into the manse on the west bench March 1 and assisted with her fisrt service March 3. She also served communion to the congregation. Young conducted her initial service March 10. In February, Young was hired by the session as the church’s temporary pastor for an indefinite period. Since the death of the R...
Lucas Jarrett will be the second Encampment School senior to go to Michigan State University on a full-ride scholarship through the STARR Charitable Foundation. The scholarship fund itself was set up by a private donor, and is only available to high school graduates from Wyoming and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The application process is “extremely competitive” and only a few graduates are selected each year, Jarrett’s mother Stacey Jarrett said. “I couldn’t be happier with how this turn...
Miss Carbon County is collecting donations for her Coronation Ceremony. During the ceremony, Mandy Harris will be officially crowned Miss Carbon County. However, she has a lot to do before the ceremony on April 20. “I have already been crowned the queen, but we are using this as our fundraiser,” Harris said. “I am going around to the businesses asking for donations, whether it be a cash donation or an item we can auction off.” Harris is currently collecting donations to fund the event, collect...
With their first golf match coming up soon, Saratoga High School students have been fortunate enough to practice drives and putts with PGA professional Matt Daubner, serving as the team’s new head golf coach. Daubner, a Michigan native who moved to Saratoga, also serves as the new retail store manager and golf instructor at the Saratoga Resort and Spa. As a long-time golf instructor who enjoys working with all people, Daubner jumped at the chance to work with teenage golfers when their season b...
Saratoga High School’s track team featured two first-place victories at the Wind River Invitational March 28. The event took place at Pavillion’s Wind River High School, where Ben Gates proved to be the highest individual scorer for team, placing first in the 800-meter run. Gates’ quick running time of two minutes and 3.92 seconds qualified him for the Wyoming State Track and Field Championships. For the school’s highest team placement at the meet, Rodrigo Escobedo, Ben Falk, Luke Linberry and G...