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Skyler Petit, a 23-year-old from Denver, earned the title of Rocky Mountain All-Around Lumberjack at this past weekend's Woodchoppers Jamboree. This is Petit's first year to win the overall championship at the Encampment competition. He has been competing since he was 10 years old, and travels Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico competing in different events. Petit's parents have been competing for 21 years and have been coming to the event since he was 2 years old. "I started competing as soon as...
John W. Craig, 88, of Saratoga, passed away June 9, 2014, following a short illness. Funeral services took place June 13, 2014, in the Valley Chapel at the Saratoga Cemetery. Interment followed in the Saratoga Cemetery. John was born Aug. 15, 1925, in Mountain View, Mo. He married Melcine Howard on June 13, 1952. They were married for more than 61 years. John served for two years in the U.S. Army, stationed mostly in Germany. He worked in timber and lumber mills for a large part of his career,...
Thomas Delos Ward, Wyoming Game Warden, World War II Veteran, and author, passed away on Friday in Casper, Wyo. He was 92. He was born on Nov. 28, 1921 in Burns, Wyo., the son of Fred J. Ward Sr., a homesteader turned town marshal, and Georgia F. Thompson, a schoolteacher. Tom, one of nine children, divided his time between attending school in Saratoga and working on the family homestead during the summer. In later years, Tom's stories of his childhood would describe a world of hard work,...
Saratoga Airport Board chairman Mike “Hack” Patterson submitted a letter of resignation in April. Patterson did not cite a reason for his resignation in his letter. The letter has already been seen by the Saratoga Town Council and was effective at the June meeting. The board has already received a letter of interest from a Saratoga resident Tyler Trevillyan. Vice-chairman Lance Grubb will take over the position of the chairman on the Airport board. With low attendance at the meetings, the boa...
Members of the Town of Saratoga/Carbon County Joint Impact Powers Board (Water and Sewer) were not pleased with the $12,000 offer from Reiman Construction to help pay the retainage fee for the water meter project. At the June 11 meeting, PMPC engineer Ken Schwerdt and Engineer for the Town of Saratoga Chuck Bartlett, said they told Reiman construction the $12,000 offer was too low, and consequently proposed an undisclosed counter offer. Scott Reiman, with Reiman Construction, was reportedly...
My son Josh got married earlier this month. I didn’t think there was too much to planning a small wedding. My husband and I offered to help where we could, and we were happy to be able to do it. My husband and I eloped to Esbjerg, Denmark, so we never had a real wedding. It was called the Darling Denmark Tour. It sounds romantic, but is wasn’t. We checked in on Sunday, registered on Monday, toured the city for three days and got married on Thursday. We said our vows so fast we exchanged our rin...
When the Saratoga Sun’s Mike Dunn interviewed the retiring teachers this year, one theme was common. The teachers will miss the students. We are very fortunate to have the quality of teachers in our school district that we do. The teachers retiring this year are no exception. Their experience varies from 20 to over 40 years and in that time these teachers have seen a huge change in technology, school curriculum, superintendents, principals and school boards. It is not easy adjusting to a new boss every few years, or to explain to school b...
Editor, An acknowledgment to the Saratoga’s “Magnificent 9” - Glee Johnson, Lynda Healey, Ed Glode, Don Sherrod, Chris Duke, Joshua Wood, Will Faust, Dave Jeffers and Richard Raymer. You have stepped forward and committed yourselves to keeping the Town of Saratoga and its checkbook above water. Thank you for caring. Lois Rupert Dillon, Colo. (Part-time Saratoga resident)...
Editor: How many of the newspapers that come into Saratoga each day or week get recycled? As the Paper man I bring 1,378 papers into Saratoga each week. This paper, the Sun, brings in another 1,700 papers each week. That means we bring in a total of over 3,000 papers a week, or 12,000 a month. That works out to be well over 144,000 newspapers a year that come into our fair town. How many of these papers get recycled? This large number of incoming papers does not include all the other news papers, magazines, periodicals and catalogs that come...
Editor At the WAM meeting last Friday, I had the opportunity to personally thank Governor Mead for sending state resources to help with the flood efforts in Carbon County and Saratoga. With the 2014 flood event behind us and if there are no unforeseen damages to the water line that crosses the river at the Saratoga Inn or damage to the bridge at Veterans Island, the estimated cost to the Town of Saratoga is estimated to be between $125,000 and $150,000 this includes all costs not just sandbagging. The State of Wyo. cost was $400,000, with the...
Veterans Island has seen better days. However, after this year's flood, Saratoga Mayor John Zeiger is optimistic the park will be ready for use soon. The popular park became a part of the North Platte River between May 25 and the early part of June, as water several feet deep moved across the island. After the 2011 flood, the town of Saratoga took precautions to ensure the island could withstand another flood. The town placed liners underneath the trail so the route would not wash away with the...
For public safety, the Medicine Bow National Forest is temporarily closing Forest Service Roads 225 and 496, and part of the Ryan Park Campground. These facilities are located on the Brush Creek-Hayden Ranger District. Runoff from last winter’s above-average snowpack has washed out these roads at stream crossings near Ryan Park and Hog Park Reservoir, making both roads impassable. High water over a stream crossing near Quimby Park has also made Forest Road 415 temporarily impassable. Although currently open and passable by high-clearance v...
The Town of Encampment passed the 2014/2015 budget on its third and final reading Thursday evening. The council also amended the 2013/2014 budget. The 2014/15 budget is balanced to reflect revenue and expenditures of $1,243,196.04. The council approved a $2 water rate increase, and to raise the irrigation rate. The irrigation rate increase went from $8 per irrigated lot for a year, to $10 per irrigated lot for a year. Also approved by the council was a $250 service contract for the Encampment...
Two new graduates from the South Central Wyoming Emergency Medical Service (SCWEMS) training program were announced at Thursday’s Riverside Town Council meeting. Helen Weiland, EMT and Encampment Station Manager for SCWEMS, said there were two graduates from Encampment who recently passed the EMT class. The two were Virginia Parker and Kelly Ralston. “They both passed their EMT and will be getting their EMT cards, so we have two new EMTs on our service,” Weiland said. “We’re so excited a...
In the June 11 edition of the Saratoga Sun, the Saratoga Town Treasurer was referred to as Tommy Flohr rather than Sammy Flohr. Additionally, it was reported the Saratoga town council had passed the budget on the third reading. It was the second reading of the budget. In the June 4 edition, the Saratoga Sun reported Lynda Healey worked as treasurer at the town of Saratoga from 2006 to 2012. She was the treasurer from 2009 to 2012. The staff at the Saratoga Sun apologizes for these errors In the June 11, 2014 Saratoga Sun, Tonya Bartholomew was...
Several Carbon County School District No. 2 teachers are retiring this year. The following is a look at those retiring from Saratoga schools. Jack Patrick Whether it’s teaching the use of complex human emotion in Shakespeare’s writing, or the proper use of a semicolon, Jack Patrick has spent the past 41 years teaching the English language to students. Patrick began his teaching career after graduating from Dickinson State Teacher’s College (now Dickinson State University) at the age of 20. P...
Kevin Sharp and his family lost everything they had in a house fire. But after only a few short months, he and his family are ready to give back. This weekend, the Sharps, along with several other community members, are setting up a raffle and benefit to raise money for Saratoga’s Volunteer Fire Department. According to Sharp, the event started when he went to buy a Rock River AR .223 rifle for a gun raffle to benefit the fire department. He said when others heard about the raffle, it turned i...
Have you ever wondered what it was like to grow up in the 1930s and 40s in and around Encampment? The answer is in the new display at the Grand Encampment Museum (GEM) "Encampment Journeys". Students from Encampment School interviewed several residents, including Dick Barkhurst, Dick Blake, Bob Herring, Betty Merrill, Kate Moon, Charlotte Kraft and Jack James about growing up in the Platte Valley. The project was part of the Smithsonian Institutes "Journeys" program, which is coming to the...
Plans are in the works for the Platte Valley School Class of 1964 50-year reunion to be held in Saratoga July 25-27. Alums from other graduation classes are also invited to attend the activities. The reunion will begin with a social gathering at the conference room at the Riviera Lodge Friday. Saturday is a float trip, with dinner at the Hotel Wolf Saturday night and breakfast on Sunday morning. Contact Carolyn Miller Buff at 307-234-5424 or 307-266-1370 about fees for the reunion. Registration deadline is July 15....
Poems from Encampment author Dawn Senior-Trask were recently included in the WyoPoets 2014 chapbook, titled “Weather Watch: Poems of Wyoming”. Trask’s two poems included were “April Blizzard in the Ranch Yard” and “Spring Sunshine”. The chapbook was released at a reading during the WyoPoets Workshop in Casper last spring. From more than 100 entries, 34 poems by 24 poets were selected by juror and featured poet Barbara Smith, of Rock Springs. The selection of poems was made by a double-blind process, where the poets submitted poems without...
Saratoga High School athletes reminisced on a productive year of sports at the 2014 Saratoga Panthers Athletic Banquet May 29. Student athletes from the 2013-14 year received awards, certificates and letterman honors for several sports, including cross-country running, wrestling, track and field and golf. Coaches, friends and family members were in attendance at the banquet, which took place at Saratoga Middle/High School. Presenters included coaches Rex and Mary Hohnholt, Jared Mason and...
Encampment High School coaches and athletes looked back on a year of strengths, achievements and improvement at the 2013-14 E-Club Athletic Banquet. The banquet, held at the Encampment K-12 School Gymnasium May 27, was attended by coaches, family members, friends and students who participated in school sports over the recent school year. Coaches in track and field, volleyball and boys' or girls' basketball reminisced on their respective seasons, and presented students with awards, certificates...
2 years ago June 19, 1913 Dentist located here Dr. Frank Coret, a young dentist from Denver, arrived here Saturday through the influence of Dr. Stanton, and has established his office in the Club Building. Dr. Coret purchased the office fixtures belonging to Dr. Bunten and is now open for business. He will remain steadily if he finds the business will warrant it. He also expects to make Hanna a few days each month. This valley has been in need of a dentist for some time and he is certainly welcome. Everyone needing his work should attend to...
There were two tables for duplicate bridge on Monday. There was a three way tie for high winners between Sheila Johnson and Pat Bailey, and Vivien Campbell and Mariel O’Grady, and Marianne Blue and John Blue. I now have the forms for the elderly and disabled tax returns, so stop by and get one or call and I will help you fill them out and get them sent back. You have until Aug. 31 to get the forms in. Qualifications are you have to be at least 65, if you are single you can make up to $17,500 per year. Married couples can make up to $28,500. It...
We give thanks to two very special volunteers from the Saratoga Missionary Alliance Church—Terry and Judy Hicks—we have flowers in the front of our building and on the patio. With the advent of warmer weather, residents are going out on the patio to enjoy the sun and the beautiful flowers. The bench seat outside our front door is receiving residents as well. The flowers look terrific. Games throughout the week provided fun and laughter. On Sunday afternoon, seven residents played Dominoes with Charlotte Gibbons winning. On Tuesday morning, six...