Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
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Wednesday: Spaghetti/meat sauce, Italian veggies, garlic bread, citrus fruit, milk. Thursday: Oven chicken, mashed potatoes/gravy, broccoli, wheat bread, peaches, milk. Friday: Tuna salad sandwich, veggie soup, pickle spear, fruited jell-o, whipped topping, milk. Monday: Beef goulash, spinach, wheat roll, strawberries, milk. Tuesday: White bean chicken, chili, tossed salad, cornbread, apricots, milk.... Full story
It has been six weeks since the pool at the Hanna Recreation Center had to be closed for repairs to the pipe draining into the scrubber box that starts the filtration. "We had to have it special manufactured and then installed, but now it is working well," said Vivian Gonzales, Recreation and Parks director. Repairs ended up costing $3500. While the pool was down, Gonzales says the recreation center spent time getting the pool area more clean, training more lifeguards and got... Full story
Many Valley patients at Platte Valley Medical Clinic in Saratoga will likely be seeing a new doctor in late summer after ownership of the clinic is transferred to another physician. Dean Bartholomew, the current physician and owner of the clinic, along with his wife Tonya, confirmed the clinic is for sale and the Bartholomew family will be leaving town once the clinic is under new guidance and ownership. For patients at the clinic, the Bartholomews stress nothing will change. “There’s not going to be a loss of access,” he sai... Full story
The Carbon County School District #2 will have another new member following its Monday meeting where board member and clerk Tonya Bartholomew of Saratoga announced her resignation from the board. Bartholomew announced her resignation and it was accepted by the CCSD No. 2 board unanimously. The board will solicit letters of interest from members of the public who wish to finish out Bartholomew’s term and is planning to elect her successor at the board’s July meeting. The board also recognized several others retiring from the... Full story
Bryon Russell played with the Utah Jazz on the team that was a contender for the NBA championship two years in row. Russell is often remembered for guarding Michael Jordan as Jordan made the clutch shot in the last seconds of game six in the 1998 NBA finals. There was speculation Jordan had pushed off Russell, but the referees didn't call it. Almost 20 years later, Russell was in the Hanna Recreation Center on Thursday to give children who played for the recently concluded... Full story
A youth baseball program similar to the Utah Jazz basketball program is coming to Carbon County. The Salt Lake Bees will be sponsoring the program. The Salt Lake Bees, headquartered in Salt Lake City, are a triple-A affiliate of the Major League Baseball Anaheim Angels. Kids pre-kindergarten to sixth grade are encouraged to come sign up and teams will be set based on age ranges. The deadline to sign up is June 23 by 6 p.m. Interested Carbon County residents can register at the Hanna Recreation Center or can call 307-325-9402...
The rosters are set for the Six-Man Shootout All-Star game between Wyoming and Nebraska's best small-school football players. The sixth Nebraska-Wyoming Shootout Six-Man football game will be June 24 at Kaycee, the school being Wyoming's 2016 six-man champion. Wyoming leads the series 3-2, but Nebraska has won the past two meetings. Kaycee's Lee Kremers, the head coach of Wyoming's All Star team, picked a Carbon County player to be his kicker. Jarrett Neimark, a 2017 graduate... Full story
"Fashion, fur, fine art," said Laura Morrow when asked to describe her store Laura M Gallery on 102 West Bridge Avenue. The business celebrated 20 years of being open although the location has changed several times in Saratoga. Born in Crawford, Nebraska, she was raised mostly in Cheyenne, although she did spend two years of elementary school in Medicine Bow. Later, she would return there to do a fashion show in the 1980s at the Virginian. That show helped launch her design... Full story
I was blessed to have two fathers raise me. Given that Father’s Day just happened, it feels right to do a column on them. They were different in many ways, but in other manners, they shared common traits. My biological father William Oliver Armstrong was a southern boy dairy farmer from a tiny town in Virginia. He was the youngest member in his congregation at age 10 to find his Christian beliefs that were always a part of him. My father never talked about his salary or financial assets to my sister or me, but we knew he g... Full story
The Saratoga Water and Sewer Joint Powers Board (Sewer Board) met Wednesday to work through a relatively short agenda, slowing down only to address concerns of members of the public and businesses. The sewer board discussed bids for improvements soon to be underway at the town’s sewage lagoon and scheduled a special meeting to accept contracts. The board also discussed a sewage issue affecting a handful of homes near South River and Veteran’s Streets in Saratoga, and addressed questions from a Rawlins-based portable out... Full story
The Saratoga Planning Commission met Tuesday for its regular monthly meeting and enforcement of town nuisance ordinances took center stage. At the meeting, Dan Ferrin, the town’s zoning officer, told planning commission members that he has received complaints from local residents about lack of enforcement of nuisance ordinances intended to prevent health and safety as well as aesthetic issues. The board set a workshop to further discuss the issue. The town’s master plan, which had been developed by the commission over mon... Full story
Lane Aaron Swedlund was born to Debra J. Hammer and Jason E. Swedlund on April 20th, 1991 in Fort Collins, Colorado. He passed away on June 9th, 2017 in Encampment. He grew up in Drake, Colorado, before moving to Encampment in 2005. He graduated from Encampment High School in 2009 and completed his diesel technician degree from Casper College in 2012. He was a very well- rounded man with a heart of gold. He had a funny way of being able to connect with anyone on any level. He grew up to have an avid love for the outdoors and... Full story
Tuesday the Hanna Town Council met to approve the new hours of the Hanna Recreation Center, discussed ways to find out how to get the water meters to read data currently not being collected and the Marshal reported the status of the recently purchased police vehicles. Larry Korkell, public works director, told the council he was working to find the reason why the water was running slower. He said it might be algae in the reservoir and he was looking at putting a siphon pipe in... Full story
William Lee Golden, Duane Allen, Richard Sterben and Joe Bosnall-known as the Oak Ridge Boys-came to the Platte Valley Community Center (PVCC) to benefit local charities on Saturday. The Oak Ridge Boys have a history that stretches back to the late 40s when the band was known as the Georgia Clodhoppers, according to Sterben. The band played so often near the nuclear research facility at Oak Ridge the band's name was changed to the Oak Ridge Quartet. In 1961, that name changed... Full story