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Don Goodspeed, Jr. passed away on May 17, 2019 at the Rawlins Habilitation and Wellness Center. He was 83 years old. Don was born on October 25, 1935 to Don Goodspeed and Mable Petersen. Don married the love of his life Shirley Joan Stragner on February 14, 1953. They were married for 61 years. They started their life in Lamar, Colo., spent many years in Sinclair, Wyo. and ended up in Saratoga, Wyo. During this time Don worked for C.I.G. for 44 years. Don is preceded in death by his wife,... Full story
Raymond Allen Shelton and Betty Jean Shelton, of Saratoga, Wyo., went home together to be with Jesus on May 15, 2019, in Grand County, Colo. Born in San Antonio, Texas on Jan., 11, 1942, Allen Shelton met Betty Jean Pittman in a high school English class. Allen and Betty Jean, born in Santa Barbara, Cali., on July 16, 1944, had been married 58 years. Allen joined the local Plumbers and Pipefitters Union at a young age as an apprentice welder and used the training to work on projects all around... Full story
“I just feel unprepared to have meaningful questions because we didn’t know you were going to be here tonight. At least, I didn’t.” This comment from council member Jon Nelson during the May 21 meeting of the Saratoga Town Council highlighted what appears to be a lack of communication within the Zeiger administration following an invitation several days earlier to representatives from Memorial Hospital of Carbon County (MHCC) to speak at the most recent town council meeting. Council members...
Since receiving the audit on March 5, and accepting it on April 2, the Saratoga Town Council has expressed a desire to speak with Dennis Tschacher of ACM, the company that performed the audit for Fiscal Year (FY) 2017/2018. As was reported previously (see “On the plus side” on page 3 of the May 8 Saratoga Sun), Tschacher was expected to be in attendance during the April 29 budget workshop, but was unable to attend due to scheduling conflicts. Despite the audit reporting several significant defic...
Traci Schneider came to the position of principal for the three northern Carbon County elementary schools this year planning to stay for many years. Unfortunately, although she had a job she loved, her husband couldn't find any position in Carbon County that compared to his job in Cheyenne. So the couple has been doing long distance for the past year. "Even though I was going home on weekends, it was really tough on us," Schneider said. "I grew up around here, but he is a Cheyenne boy, so he...
I want to apologize for the paper being late last week. Apparently the delivery driver felt it was unsafe for him to bring us our papers in a timely manner. Don’t worry. I let the organization we have contracted with to both print and deliver our papers know that this was unacceptable. Of course, this apology comes in a paper a day late by design. Hopefully, the Memorial Day photo spread on the front page spread is worth the delay to you, our readers. It has been said lately that I am ...
Despite a fluctuation in weather over the past few weeks, the Wyoming Department of Transportation was successful in opening the Snowy Range Scenic Byway as of noon on May 25. While crews from both Saratoga and Laramie had been able to initially break through snowpack the week before, spring storms added up to two more feet in fresh powder while strong winds created new drifts that had to be removed. While Wyoming Highway 130 is open for the season, work is continuing on Wyoming Highway 70 over...
On the weekend of May 9, Laramie played host to the 2019 Summer Games for Special Olympics of Wyoming. Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) sent five students to compete and, for the first time this year, were able to play in 3-on-3 basketball and compete in a 4x100 meter relay. Michael Dugger, who attends Encampment K-12 School, is familiar with Special Olympics and always looks forward to it. While he enjoys basketball, what he enjoys even more is the chance to stay at a hotel and eat...
Since 1993, the Platte Valley Arts Council has been enriching the quality of life in the area and expanding educational opportunities for all forms of the arts, whether it is music, literature, dance, visual arts or theater. It’s mission is: “to foster awareness of and participation in any form of the arts, with the aim of developing vibrant and cohesive communities.” The arts council’s purpose is to keep Art in our everyday lives. In 2000, the arts council began awarding scholarships to high school seniors who demonstrated that art current...
It was not uncommon, following the end of World War II, for the young men, and women, to return home and go back to work, rarely talking about what they had experienced. A generation that went from a robust economy to the Great Depression-The Greatest Generation, a term coined by journalist Tom Brokaw-set their minds and hands to working for the country they had fought so hard for in Europe and the Pacific Theater. Private First Class Richard "Dick" Wiant was and is a member of that generation....
Kathy Thompson did not start out her professional career in library science or even education. Thompson, who hails from Montana, studied restaurant management, received an associates arts degree and founded her own establishment in Ennis, Mont. Thompson said the town was a major fly fishing destination near Yellowstone National Park. She said the town’s economy was seasonal. “I did very well,” Thompson said. “But the season is only for about four months and I felt in a vicious cycle, making...
"When Shelly finished her contract at Sinclair, the principal said she was the only teacher there that had never been any complaints," Jeanette Fischer, Medicine Bow resident and former teacher in Medicine Bow Elementary School (MBES) said. "The parents, the students, the school and community all loved her, just like they do here. She just has a way about her." On May 23, Shelly Cooper was honored as "Teacher of the Year" for Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) in a ceremony at MBES....
Pam Glasser is known to many inhabitants in Carbon County as a music teacher. To fellow musicians and concert goers in Wyoming, Houston and Israel, Glasser is acknowledged as an accomplished French horn virtuoso. Glasser may be extremely accomplished on the French horn, but she plays other instruments, including some she makes herself. Her love of music is second only to her love of teaching music appreciation to the new generations. She has been teaching in Carbon County School District No. 2...
Cody Sheldon has been the music teacher at Saratoga Elementary for the past five years. As the school year ends, Sheldon is leaving Wyoming and moving to Washington D.C. to teach music in the nation's capital. Sheldon said he started playing the piano when he was five. "I used to play by ear," Sheldon said. "My mother used to play the song "The Rose" by Bette Middler and I just loved it when it dropped down from the g to the c. It was like a big arrival moment and I wanted to replicate that."...