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The fun was in full swing for the kids who attended the annual Jump Rope and Hoops for Heart last Friday. Shayley Love has organized the event for her third year in a row and wanted to do a University of Wyoming (UW) Cowboys theme for this year's event, "To help those who help us.", Love said. Love is referring to the UW Cowboys football team who helped the Saratoga community this summer with sandbagging. "We wanted to give back by jumping and shooting in the honor of UW football player Xavier...
Guy Jansa, of Jansa Apartments in Saratoga, pleaded with the Saratoga/Carbon County Impact Joint Powers Board (Water and Sewer Board), to not recommend Ordinance 829 as written to the Saratoga Town Council. Jansa argued the new rates would be a hardship on apartment owners like his mother, Nancy Jansa. The ordinance had beenreferred back to the Water and Sewer Board because of the turnover on the board. Three water and sewer board members had been elected to the governing body. Glee Johnson,...
The Saratoga planning commission received input from Mayor Ed Glode at its Feb. 10 meeting on changing the bylaws to allow the Saratoga Town Council appointed member to have a vote on the planning commission. Will Faust, the council member who was appointed by Glode to serve on the planning commission, told the commission he was comfortable with having another members of the planning commission to report to the town council, when he was in disagreement with the commission. The Saratoga Planning...
The new lease and rental fee for the Saratoga Airport Board was tabled for one more month because the new town attorney was still reviewing the leases, Lance Grubb reported to the board. Erickson and Roberts LLC was appointed as Saratoga’s town attorney at the Feb. 3 council meeting, replacing Tom Thompson. The new appointment has slowed the process of the leases. In December, Dave Worthington had questions about the new lease and rental fee, but the item was tabled. In January, the airport boar...
Encampment Mayor Greg Salisbury discussed with the council as well as members of Encampment Public Works, his concern over the recent vandalism of the Encampment Park restrooms at the regular council meeting last Thursday. “I guess somebody went in there and [defecated] all over the place. So, I’ve had [Public Works] put some padlocks on it so once you guys do shut down for the season, put them on there,” Salisbury said. “I think another thing is to do is maybe invest in some of these cameras...
Bio-Domes were the main topic of discussion last Thursday night when Mayor Leroy Stephenson and the rest of the Riverside Town Council talked about improvements to the towns wastewater lagoon facility. The Bio-Domes would be placed in the lagoons to create a bacterial film to help digest the solids in the lagoons and clean up the dissolved oxygen levels of the lagoons, this helps the other good bacterium work on through the winter months which, “are our most problematic,” according to Ste...
The most controversial Oscar nominee this year isn’t American Sniper. Nor is it Selma, the Oscar-snubbed Martin Luther King docudrama. If you were like me, you probably hadn’t even heard about the film. Chances are you likely will following this year’s Academy Awards. The documentary, nominated for an award in the Best Documentary category is titled, “CitizenFour”. CitizenFour was the codename used by Edward Snowden when he reached out to award- winning documentarian, Laura Poitras. In the fi... Full story
Wyoming recently passed House Bill 17 through The House. This bill was sponsered so that sexual assault victims can obtain an order to keep their attacker away. Currently, victims of domestic violence and stalking can get a Protection Order but not sexual assault victims ( unless the assault was part of domestic violence). Unfortunately HB 17 was amended recently. Originally the bill would allow orders to last a year. But now, The House amended it so that the order expires in 3 months if the perpetrator is not charged or found guilty of sexual...
Four Encampment students are preparing to embark on a life-changing trip. Karie Russell, Tylr Kozelisky, Brett Ralston and McKenzie Powell plan to travel to Ecuador and volunteer at an orphanage. But first, they have to raise more than $11,000 for the trip. So far, they have raised $2,000 through raffles and fundraising and this month they are contacting local businesses and have opened an account on gofundme.com. The idea came from Encampment Spanish teacher Toby Ricks, who served a mission in...
When Dee Trease and her husband Tom sold the Roadrunner Restaurant and Saloon in New River Ariz,. back in 2003, they thought they were moving to the Platte Valley to retire. Turns out Dee is great at running bars and restaurants but is terrible at retiring. Almost immediately after moving to the Riverside-Encampment area, the two veteran restaurant/bar owners bought the Mangy Moose and ran it successfully until they sold the bar in 2011. Once again Dee was ready to retire, but when her husband...
Ed Glode is finishing up his second month as the new mayor of Saratoga and last week was a busy one for the new mayor. Glode attended the Planning Commission meeting and the Carbon County/Saratoga Impact Joints Powers Board (Water and Sewer Board) and took a tour with the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and members of the Water and Sewer Board of the sewage treatment facility north of Saratoga. Glode, who had never had a full tour of the facility said he learned a lot on the tour Feb. 10 and now fully understands the need for the new... Full story
The Encampment Tigers (3-2, 1A Southwest; 16-3 overall) swept homecoming with two wins against the Farson/Eden Pronghorns (0-5, 1A Southwest; 7-11 overall) and the Cokeville Panthers (2-3, 1A Southwest; 13-7 overall). With the win against the Panthers, the Tigers and Cokeville Panthers are tied for second and third place in the conference, Tigers head coach Clint Bromley said. If the placings stay the same after this weekend, a coin-toss will determine their seed entering into regionals in two...
The Saratoga Panthers added two wins to their overall record last weekend with a win against North Park 54-37 and Hanna-Elk Mountain-Medicine Bow (HEM) 46-39. Head coach Joe Johnston said the boys are playing hard and playing as a team. He credits that with the success they had last weekend. With the team coming together at the end of the regular season, Johnston is still concentrating on one game at a time. Friday, the Panthers (2-5, 2A Southeast; 6-12 overall) host Lusk (5-2, 2A Southeast; 14-...
Saratoga Lady Panther Justine Fourman broke the school’s record in rebounds Saturday against Hanna-Elk Mountain-Medicine Bow (HEM). Fourman scored 23 points and had 23 rebounds against HEM. Sixteen of the rebounds were defensive rebounds and the rest were on the offense. The weekend was made sweeter and the girls come home with two wins under their belt, with a 42-35 win against North Park in Walden and a 57-47 win against HEM. The Lady Miners have had a successful season and are ranked No. 1 i...
The Lady Tigers (2-3, 1A Southwest; 12-7 overall) had a split weekend for their homecoming games, but the Encampment’s team coach, Amy Clay, is pleased with their efforts in the game against Cokeville (5-0, 1A Southwest; 20-1 overall). The Encampment Lady Tigers easily defended their third place ranking in the conference against the Farson/Eden Lady Pronghorns (0-5, 1A Southwest; 3-15 overall) winning the game 54-21. Cokeville has been undefeated in the conference, but the Lady Tigers never gave up and even gave the Cokeville Lady Panthers a f...
On Saturday, the Carbon County tournament for Junior High School basketball takes place in Saratoga. Saratoga, Encampment, Little Snake River Valley and Hanna-Elk Mountain-Medicine Bow (HEM) and Wamsutter will vie for the top spot in junior high basketball. The Encampment girls are going into this Saturdays game undefeated. With power players like eight grader Noelle Peterson averaging 15 points a game, and fellow eighth grader Paige Powell averaging 13 points a game, the tournament is sure to...
The Saratoga Panthers battled fang and claw to a fourth place overall finish at the Carbon County Invite last weekend. 20 teams visited Saratoga for the invitational and brought a great crowd with them in addition to the loyal Panther fans who also showed up in force. The Panthers fought through sickness and injuries to place well in the tournament impressing their coaches. "Our boys really stepped up and competed ... Kyle Bartlett and Marshall Hill in particular. They both placed here. They... Full story
Reprint of this story from the February 17, 1905 issue of The Grand Encampment Herald brought to you courtesy of Grandma’s Cabin, Encampment, Wyoming. Preserving History - Serving the Community. Cold Wave Visited the North Platte Valley over Sunday The coldest cold snap that has struck Encampment and the North Platte valley for many a year paid a short visit Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The thermometer had a sinking spell Saturday afternoon, when it fell down about ten or twelve flights of registers and all efforts to revive it were in vain. B...
The South Central Sage-Grouse Local Working Group is considering recommendations from the public in relation to the Wyoming Sage-Grouse Conservation Plan’s core area map at its next meeting at 9 a.m. Monday, Feb. 23 at the Rawlins Bureau of Land Management office located at 1300 N. Third St. Any person proposing changes to a core area boundary are asked to provide the local working group with maps and/or written descriptions along with an explanation of their proposal in advance of the meeting. These documents can be emailed to t...
There were eight here to play bingo on Tuesday. Two dollar winners were Carl Kerbs, Nadine Kerbs, Betty Dean, and Berneil McCord. Nadene Kerbs won the $5blackout round. There were five here for Bridge Monday. High winner was Gertrude Herold. Second high went to Vivien Campbell. Pete and Myrtel Roybal are our new King and Queen for 2015. Congratulations to you both and enjoy you dinner at the Wolf. It seems like there is a tummy bug going around the valley. Everyone seems to be getting it. Bill Fluty was sick with it then Jane got it then the...