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If budget cuts of 60 to 74 percent are approved, most branches in the Carbon County Library system will be shuttered by July 1. Hours and services at the remaining branches would be slashed under such a scenario, said Bobbie Morgan, Director of the Carbon County Library System Board (CCSLB) at an emergency meeting of the board June 13. Morgan was told to brace for the deep cuts at a meeting of the Carbon County Commissioners June 6. A month earlier, Morgan had been told by the commissioners to...
The annual Woodchopper's Jamboree and Rodeo will be held in Encampment and Riverside, with local historians Dick Perue and Nancy Anderson as Grand Marshals of the event. This year's Jamboree will be held Saturday, June 18 and Sunday, June 19 in Encampment and Riverside, and will begin with a 9:30 a.m. parade on Saturday. Woodchopping events begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday and 9 a.m. Sunday. Rodeos will be held on both days at 1:30 p.m. at the Encampment-Riverside Lion's Club Arena. Perue, who was t...
Mary Margaret was born Sept. 25, 1944 in Cheyenne, Wyo. Her parents, W. Dillard "Pic" and Frances E. Walker were pioneer Wyoming aviators. When "MM" was just five, the family moved from Cheyenne to Saratoga, Wyo. where she spent her formative years. Her parents built the Saratoga Inn Resort there and operated several ranches in the Platte River Valley raising cattle, horses, and sheep. In 1958 the Walker Family moved to Scottsdale, Ariz. where MM continued her education graduating from Scottsdal...
With one eye warily on the “sensitivity of funding at the state level,” Saratoga Mayor Ed Glode said it would be unwise to allow a loan and grant package to go unused. The loan and grant, to make improvements on the Saratoga lagoon system, was under discussion at a June 8 town council meeting attended by about 20 residents. “There’s a laundry list of things that we can do to improve our system with the overall goal obviously of being compliant and having a discharge that’s as clean as possible,...
This year, the Grand Encampment Opera Company will present "The Treasure of Shiver River or It's Hard to Drive Cattle When Their Horns are Frozen," by Flip Kobler and Cindy Marcus. The melodrama has all the traditional plot elements for a melodrama. The nasty scoundrel Rod Enreel will soon take over the Shiver River Ranch and find the hidden treasure if Colonel Sanders can't sell his cattle to come up with the mortgage money. Heroic Marshal Marshall Law would love to propose to Heidi Claire, the...
Four men have been added to the Encampment-Riverside Lions Club Hall of Fame for 2016: John Priquet, Otto Wirz, Jay Talbott and Marvin Brandt. Each have been recognized for their contributions to Woodchoppers over the years. Biographies for Brandt, of Fox Park, and Talbott, of Laramie, are forthcoming. John Melvin Priquet John B. Priquet, Melvin's grandfather, came to America from France when he was seven. He came to the Valley on Jan. 1, 1900 with his wife and 11 children. John and his sons...
As the dirt road got closer and closer to the ocean, I started itching to get sand back beneath my feet, and presently an opportunity presented itself. Fearful of a trespassing charge, I passed up a driveway leading to the “Western Ghana Palm Oil Research Institute.” A few hundred meters up the road, though, a sign pointed toward another coastal resort, and I made my move seawards. At first, the beach here was much the same as I had found at the Green Turtle Lodge – pleasantly sandy and immac...
Pat and I attended the Michael Martin Murphy concert last night. It was outstanding and was another example of the quality of entertainment that regularly graces the stage at the PVCC. We were once again, however, disappointed by the number of empty seats. Over the past 50 plus years we have lived in cities ranging in size from Saratoga to Houston. In each city we have tried to take advantage of the performing arts opportunities that they offer. We have also had the chance to attend concerts and musical theater in cities such as New York, Londo...
Two Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) projects have received funding from the Wyoming Wildlife and Natural Resources Trust (WWNRT). The Big Creek Fish Passage project, which will not begin until fall 2017 at least, received $105,000 toward their total project cost of $323,666. Another, the TFB (Taylor, Faerber, Brooks) Aspen project in the Sierra Madre mountain range, was awarded $30,000 of the total project cost of $134,400. The Big Creek Fish Passage project is a partnership between...
Students in New York City may take a field trip to the Empire State Building. For kids in San Antonio, Tex., it's the Alamo. Here in the Good Times Valley, students get to take advantage of Grand Teton National Park. From May 13 to 18, 14 Saratoga Middle School (SMS) eighth graders took a class trip to Grand Teton National Park to learn about ecosystems and biology in a pristine natural classroom. Accompanying them were SMS eighth grade teacher Shaleas Harrison and chaperone Laurie Cooksey, who...
Wednesday’s meeting of the Saratoga Water and Sewer Joint Powers Board (sewer board) saw board members stepping out from behind the council table to address their fellow board members as concerned citizens. Russell Waldner was one of the board members who took to the floor as a concerned citizen. At the sewer board’s meeting in April, the board discussed the issue of a backed up sewer line that runs under Hwy 130 that was causing issues at Saratoga Feed Store and Waldner’s business, Happy Tails Dog Boarding. At the April meeting, the counc...
Riverside Town Council passed its budget on Thursday, discussed impediments to the Chokecherry/Sierra Madre wind farm and committed $500 to the Encampment-Riverside Branch of the Carbon County Library to help offset massive cuts in library funding. The library discussion took up the bulk of the council’s time. On June 2 at a meeting of the Carbon County Library System Board (CCLSB), a budget cut of 30 percent was announced. At that meeting, the CCLSB said that the Encampment-Riverside branch would face reductions in service hours, from 20 hours...
The Encampment Town Council devoted nearly half its 34-minute meeting to the plight of the Encampment Branch Library and agreed to help fund the branch in the face of budget cuts at the county level. Facing a 30 percent budget cut this year, the Carbon County Library System Board (CCLSB) said during a meeting on June 2 that the Encampment-Riverside branch of the library would see reductions in service hours, from 20 per week to 15. Citing the frequent use the library sees, the board decided to set aside $1,000 to help fund the library,...
Poorly timed spring storms, soft subgrade soil and complications on another project have made for slow progress on taxiway rehabilitation underway at Shively Field this spring. If all goes according to plan, however, the paving process will be completed by June 17, said Dave Shultz of Sage Engineering. Shultz and his colleague Brek Ibach were presenting what should be one of Sage’s last progress reports on the taxiway project at a sparsely attended June 9 meeting of the airport board. In his r...
Wyoming HWY 70, or Battle Pass, is now open. Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) reopened Battle Pass on Thursday morning after snow removal, according to a press release. “We encountered more snow this year than we anticipated,” said Tim McGary, district maintenance engineer in Laramie. “As always, our crews worked hard to get the pass open and ready for the season.” Battle Pass is a seasonal closure due to huge volumes of snow during the winter months, along with another Platte Valley staple HWY 130, the Snowy Range Scenic Byway....
The Carbon County Museum invites everyone to experience Native American culture through song and dance at the fourth annual High Plains Powwow. This free event will be held Saturday, Sept. 10 at the Carbon County Fairgrounds in Rawlins. Registration is now open for community sponsors, program advertising, and vendor spaces. “We are excited to see the High Plains Powwow in its fourth year,” said Lauren Hunley, the museum’s education and outreach coordinator. “The success of this event wouldn’t be possible without the generosity and participa...