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On Friday morning, pool players gathered in the Platte Valley Community Center (PVCC) awaiting their table assignments to be announced. Some were fresh faced and ready to go while others were less so, having stayed up the night before to watch the end of the Pro-Am tournament. The green felt on the tables contrasted the blanket of snow forming outside, courtesy of one of Wyoming's signature spring storms. The Wyoming Open had officially begun. Entering its 11th year, the...
Linda Butler is leaving the position as principal of Saratoga Senior and Middle School to take on a new role in a management position at Carbon County School District No. 2's (CCSD2) office. A search started for a replacement, and a committee was formed that included close to 20 people. Darrin Jennings, principal of Saratoga Elementary School (SES), was on the committee as they interviewed four candidates. After one candidate dropped out, Jennings was approached about the...
The Warriors of the Light Women’s Conference is heading to Hanna, Wyoming. The annual conference is usually held in Nebraska, but this year Ellen Mortensen, the founder of the conference, decided to come to Wyoming. After talking to Sunshine Solaas of Hanna, she felt inspired to come to Hanna. The conference will start at 9 a.m. and go until 3 p.m. on April 14, at the Hanna Recreation Center. Dawn Kenneda, resident of Elk Mountain will lead the worship at 9:30 a.m. There a...
The Carbon County Sheriff’s Victim/Witness Program recognizes April 8-14, 2018 as National Crime Victims’ Rights Week by promoting victims’ rights and honoring victims of all crimes. The 2018 theme, “Expand the circle, reach all victims” reminds communities that by coming together to support and assist victims of all crimes, we help the healing of victims and survivors and also help break the cycle of violence. Through community action and service, we all become stronger, together. Each year, we have the opportuni...
For many people, the day doesn’t technically start until the first, second or third cup of coffee. Whether it’s light roast or dark roast, black or with creamer or even a regular coffee or a latte with three shots of espresso, coffee has benefits for early birds hoping to get the worm. On April 14, coffee will have one more benefit within the state of Wyoming. Cups4Cups, a program started by the Wyoming Breast Cancer Initiative (WBCI), is aimed at highlighting 100 coffee sho...
On March 24, thousands of people converged upon Washington D.C. to attend the “March for Our Lives,” a protest that had been organized in the aftermath of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Fla. At the same time, an estimated 800 marches were taking place in cities around the nation and the world. In the town of Riverside, population 52, one lone protester was present. Pat Laird taught second-grade students at the Saratoga Elementary School (SES)...
Deep breathing exercises, modified yoga poses, kids “talking” to walls, a few running down hallways and coaches and students wishing everyone good luck. No, this isn’t basketball or wrestling warm ups. This is the scene before every round at a speech and debate tournament. Speech and Debate offers students the opportunity to learn and become comfortable with public speaking and performing. The audience typically includes fellow competitors, other students, family members, friends, coaches and judges. Most presentations are m...
The Saratoga Panthers track team had been scheduled to compete in the Wheatland Invite on April 7, but due to inclement weather the meet was canceled. The Panthers and Lady Panthers will, weather permitting, compete at the Rawlins Invite starting at 11 a.m. on April 13....
“The kids are bummed and I am bummed,” Jackie Jones, Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School track coach said. “We need to have a meet.” The Miners had their meet in Casper canceled on Friday and their meet in Wheatland canceled on Saturday. “We got the Wheatland meet rescheduled on Wednesday, so we are heading there and pretty excited about that,” Jones said. Following the rescheduled meet at Wheatland, the Miners are scheduled to go the Rawlins Invite Apri...
While the weather may have forced the Wheatland Invite to cancel, that didn’t stop the Encampment Tigers track team from running up to Casper to compete in the Kelly Walsh Trojan Invite. Several of the Tigers and Lady Tigers would place over the weekend, though the team wouldn’t prequalify any more athletes for State. Lady Tigers Grace Tieszen placed 8th in the triple jump with a distance of 28 feet and 6.75 inches and completed the 100 meter dash with a time of 15.88. Amb...
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. ~John Muir *** Growing up, it is safe to say that I was a little averse to the outdoors. I was more content to be inside either playing video games or tying up my parents’ phone line browsing the internet. I was not the biggest fan of hunting or fishing and I rarely, if ever, went on a hike. In high school, the only reason I was excited for the Snowy Range to open was because it made it quicker to get to Larami...
In July 2017, the United States Forest Service (USFS) began planning for the Landscape and Vegetation Analysis (LaVA) project in response to the mountain pine beetle and spruce bark beetle epidemics that plagued the Medicine Bow National Forest (MBNF) for nearly 20 years. The regeneration of the MBNF may be taking its natural course, but the LaVA project is aimed at helping accelerate that process. “We’re really looking at the restoration aspect of this and resiliency pie...
The Saratoga Town Council met at 6 p.m on April 3. The council quickly took care of business as usual approving the agenda for the evening, approving March 28 council’s minutes and paying the financials. The total to pay for bills was $177,108.41. Ed Glode, mayor of Saratoga, said he got correspondence from Chris Duke that requested permission for a 24 hour permit to serve food and alcohol during the Wyoming Open between April 7 and April 8. The council approved the permit. Gl...
Lyle Everett Wessel, 84, passed away on Easter Sunday, April 1 , 2018, after having been with his wife, all of his grandkids, son, and daughter-in- law. Lyle was born in 1933 in Kansas City, Kansas to Ernest Christ Wessel and Laura Florence Goodell. He grew up in Visalia, California and moved to Encampment in 1957 after serving four years in the navy and marrying Encampment native, Dauna Kay Herring on Aug. 26, 1956. He worked at Hines Lumber Mill and LP in Saratoga for 19... Full story