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Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
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The town of Encampment held its monthly town council meeting on Thursday where it appointed a new South Central Wyoming Emergency Medical Services (SCWEMS) member, and discussed other ongoing business. The council had a long agenda, but for the most part quickly moved though the list, but did stop to spend time on discussing the appointment of the SCWEMS representative, and listen to public concerns about getting a natural gas supplier for the town to allow for construction of senior apartments. Resident Sandy Martin brought up the issue of a l...
Access, availability, spot-zoning, and questions of protocol once again dominated discussion of Triple D Construction’s (“Triple D”) plan to develop a 6.7 acre lot on the western edge of Saratoga. In contrast to previous planning commission meetings, however, the developers emerged from the May 10 meeting with a solid way forward. Perhaps one difference from previous meetings was the presence of additional stakeholders during the discussion. In addition to Chuck Bartlett, who has repre...
As the school year winds down and summer approaches, the Carbon County School Board no. 2 (CCSD No. 2) met Monday for its monthly meeting. The meeting was dominated mostly by personnel matters as well as budget issues and approval of the student handbook. The board accepted the retirement of Hope Jones, the district’s long-time speech therapist, and it accepted the resignation of Brandi Dearcorn, fifth grade teacher at Hanna Elementary, effective at the end of this school year. The board also spent time hiring. The board voted to hire two n...
Joe Jones had some bad news for the Shively Field Airport Board. Jones was contacted by Saratoga to do an informal inspection to determine asbestos levels in the airport’s old terminal building, and his findings revealed significant levels of the carcinogen. Asbestos poses no risk if undisturbed, but when the material becomes airborne during demolition or construction it can lodge in the lungs and cause mesothelioma or other conditions. In the past, Jones said he was “accredited in all pha...
At the Carbon County Board of County Commissioner’s (BOCC) meeting on May 3, possible flooding in the North Platte Valley was front and center among the many topics discussed. During the meeting, the commissioners spent a significant amount of time discussing the possibility of flooding and how the county would act, should flooding happen. The BOCC’s chair, John Espy was given authority to declare a flood zone without consulting the other BOCC members, and emergency managers detailed plans to have inmate crews remove old sandbags from the ban...
Editor, There seems to be some confusion around our town about the cost the town bears for the Community Garden. I was not part of the ordinance developed by the last administration and Voices of the Valley in 2011 that created the Community Garden, but am an original member. The ordinance provided for development of the Town property where the Garden stands and a typical budgetary process and a Board. The Town put in the water tap and two frost-free water spigots and provides the water. The Town also volunteered to put up the greenhouse....
Between 6 and 8 p.m. May 5, visitors to the commons area of the Saratoga Middle/High School (SM/HS) were transported to a different world. Soft, slinky selections such as “Isn’t She Lovely” and “Impressions” floated through the air courtesy of the school jazz band. Wafting alongside the grace notes was the smell of exotic appetizers prepared by the Family Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA). The creamy pesto pinwheels, strawberry bruschetta and herbed onion parmesan toasts were like...
The May 12 meeting of the South Central Wyoming Emergency Medical Services (SCWEMS) Joint Powers Board (JPB) resulted in a mixed bag of piecemeal progress and stalemate on long term issues the service faces. With terms expiring for five of the seven JPB members on July 1, the current board will have one more chance to rectify these issues at what may be their last meeting together on June 6. In the words of JPB chair Ken Drain, “Some entities have screwed up – big time.” Drain was refer...
The town of Riverside quickly moved thorough the agenda at its town council meeting on Thursday, working through a host of issues affecting the town as spring rolls into the valley. Cleanup of dead and diseased trees in the park was underway and expected to be completed soon, and talk also turned to spring cleanup and maintenance of roads and other infrastructure. At the time of the meeting, Mayor Leroy Stephenson said that of 28 trees scheduled to be cut down and disposed of, about 20 had been taken down and the remaining trees were expected...
The Saratoga/Carbon County Impact Joint Powers Board (sewer board) met Wednesday and discussed several issues, including problems with a sewer line serving Happy Tails Dog Boarding. The board also announced that a new pay-by-use kiosk for dumping RV holding tanks was expected to be installed and operational by Memorial Day weekend. Problems at Happy Tails dog boarding were brought up at last month’s sewer board meeting where it was said that the kennel had been having issues with a sewer line running under the highway backing up. However, a...
A strong season ending push over the weekend propelled four more Panther tracksters into upcoming state competition. The size of the Saratoga High School (SHS) contingent headed to Casper now numbers 11, with Katie Loose, Shianne Baker, Alicia Zaragoza, and Shaelee Hamann winning tickets to compete alongside Mychaela Jackman, Meredith Lincoln, Jeremy Detterer, Ben Fairbanks, Aaron Kerbs, Alex Ziegler and Bradley Bifano, who had already qualified in weeks past. “We didn’t have any regional champions this year, but we had some really solid perfor...
Encampment High School (EHS) boys’ and girls’ track teams competed in regionals in Lander on Friday and Saturday, setting the stage and raising expectations for their upcoming visit to state finals. The girls’ team placed third of nine teams that competed, and the boys’ team placed sixth, also out of nine teams that competed. Several of the student athletes placed first in individual events, and many set new personal records according to the team’s coach Kegan Willford. “I felt really good about the weekend and we had several kids who had the...
Hundreds of science students from across the state flocked to Laramie this March to take part in the annual Wyoming State Science Fair. With 14 different categories of competition and junior and senior divisions for middle school and high school students, respectively, exhibitions at the fair offered a peek inside the minds of Wyoming’s best and brightest. Brightest was what Saratoga Middle School (SMS) seventh grader Campbell Grabow was concerned with. Her experiment, titled “The Effect of Dif...
