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Chia Valdez-Schwartz is the newest face at ERA Frontier Realty, located at 100 S. 1st St. in Saratoga. The realty company announced Valdez-Schwartz as the newest member to their team in a press release on Monday. "Chia is an exceptional professional possessing a caring and colorful personality combining into a perfect addition to our team at ERA Frontier Realty," the press release read. "Chia has been an agent, broker, and owner within the real estate business for over 11...
Announcement was made this week that in addition to history of Saratoga's cemeteries, folks on the Saratoga Museum trek Saturday, June 29th, will learn about the first Carbon County Fair which was held in Saratoga in 1910 as well as the Civilian Conservation Corp camp at the stone gates on the Pic Pike road. Local historian and tour guide Dick Perue has put together a panel of "experts" to explore both the Cadwell and Saratoga cemeteries east of town as well as relate their...
The Hanna Agricultural Resource Team (HART) met at 5:30 p.m. on June 18 in the community area at the Hanna Market. It was the first time since the group went into hibernation in November 2018. “This is our meeting to set goals for the team and get the beds assigned for the summer,” Linda Goodrich, secretary for the group said. “We have just had to wait because the weather has been so crazy this year.” She said the enclosed garden that held all the beds was in good shape c...
While there have been a number of upgrades to Valley Foods under the direction of General Manager Adam Clarke, the one that many customers were waiting for was an improvement upon the parking lot, which had often been a source of complaint due to the number of potholes. Over the past few weeks, Saratoga has been witness to a completely new parking lot being installed as the old asphalt has been removed and replaced with concrete. "When you have asphalt, you have to chip seal...
As Mother Mountain Anglers (MMA) host their "Tale of Two Cities" disc golf tournament for the third year on June 29, they are continuing to add more to the event. Last year, MMA set up nine temporary baskets at the Encampment-Riverside Lions Club Arena. This year, those temporary baskets are changing location as they are set-up at the old Peryam stage stop just outside Riverside. "You know, last year we did it at the rodeo grounds. So, the idea with this is that, every year,...
The shootout between Wyoming and Nebraska had a recent Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) graduate quarterback as part of the game on June 15 held at Chadron State University in Nebraska. Wyoming won 52-50 in a game that was decided in the final seconds and is 5-3 in the shootout since it started. That graduate is Tylor Goodro. Goodro was happy to be selected. He said he had hoped, after a successful junior year at Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School,...
Carrie Craig is leaving Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) after working for the school system for 40 years. Craig said she started working for the district after she left her job at the Saratoga Sun when Dick Perue was the publisher. "It was a great experience to work for the Sun," Craig said. "I loved it." Unfortunately, as a single mother, she needed to find a job that had strong benefits that the Sun did not provide. It was tough for her to leave the Sun because s...
The Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) Board of Trustees met at the Central Office in Saratoga for their regularly scheduled June 17 meeting where they offered two new contracts, discussed one of five policies up for review and approved a mil levy donation to the Board of Cooperative Education Services (BOCES) Region V. New Blood The first contract to be offered was to Lauren Culligan, who will serve as a Title 1 teacher in both Hanna Elementary School (HES) and...
A trio of retiring personnel from Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) bid farewell through tears during the June 17 meeting of the CCSD2 Board of Trustees at the Central Office in Saratoga. Carrie Craig, Deb Riker and Cheryl Munroe were all presented with personalized gifts along with complimentary statements from CCSD2 Superintendent Jim Copeland. Carol Blake, who also retired this year, was on the agenda as well, but was unable to attend. "We wanted to recognize a...
Healthcare and emergency services continue to be issues of concern for the Saratoga Town Council. At the June 18 meeting of the council, Mayor John Zeiger read two pieces of correspondence, heard a concern from a previous council member, discussed the ongoing issues with the Enhanced 911 (E911) system and received an update from the Platte Valley Healthcare Project (formerly the Healthcare Sustainability Project Subcommittee). Clinic concerns As the council meeting got...
Dear Editor, I have been following the debate regarding healthcare in Saratoga with great interest. After studying the proposals to date, I am convinced that we are headed in the wrong direction. There is a medical emergency in rural America. More than 100 of the country rural hospitals have gone broke, then closed in the last decade turning some of the most rural parts of the United States into what experts now call “health hazard zones.” Looking at the information on Saratoga’s situation I believe that we are on the verge...
Chances are, by the time this editorial is being read, Saratoga will be “in the clear” as far as threat of flooding. With the alternating of warm and cool weather, the amount of run-off from the mountains into the North Platte River has been fairly regulated. Despite that there was still some risk of flooding for the area. Over the weekend of June 14, the smokebusters from the Newcastle Honor Conservation Camp came to the Valley and filled over 9,000 sandbags. This, combined with the 2,000 sandbags that were already fil...
Leigh Rae Brungardt (Hamilton), 45, of Saratoga passed away surrounded by family on Saturday, June 15, 2019 at Wyoming Medical Center in Casper, Wyo. Leigh was born to Richard Hamilton and Carolyn Hamilton (Bottoms) on January, 25, 1974 in San Jose, CA. She grew up in Phoenix, Ariz. Sea Brooke, Texas, Encampment and, later, living life in Cheyenne and Saratoga. She graduated high school in Phoenix, Ariz; later getting her cosmetology license in Cheyenne,Wyo. Leigh loved being...
A public memorial service will be held at Saratoga Cemetery at 10:30 a.m. on June 26 for former resident Dale W. Johnson. Dale passed away in Molalla, Oregon on June 10, 2018. He was born to Oscar and Myrtle Johnson in Encampment, Wyoming, on February 23, 1929. Dale went to public schools in Saratoga and graduated from high school in 1948. He spent much of his life logging, farming and driving school bus in Oregon. He loved family gatherings, music, dancing, fishing, hunting, woodworking and was a member of the United...
Sharon Louise Ewing Anderson was born August 25, 1952 in Sundance, Wyo. to Dorman James and Ellen Astrid Ewing. She joined one brother, William Eugene Ewing and one sister, Linda Lea Ewing Larsen. Sharon attended schools all over northern Wyoming, as well as Craig, Colorado, as her dad was employed in the oilfield business. Sharon married the love of her life, John Earl Anderson, on May 23, 1970 in Sundance, Wyo. To this union three children were born, Laticia Yvette (Jamie)...
Helen F. Pryce was born on Dec. 21, 1925 and passed away June 20, 2019 in Rawlins, Wyo....
On June 11 the trio of Christina Barrineau, Aquatic Habitat Biologist for Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD), Joe Parsons, District Manager for the Saratoga-Encampment-Rawlins Conservation District, and Jeff Streeter, North Platte River Project Manager for Trout Unlimited (TU), were in Washington, D.C. to receive national awards for work they have been doing in restoring fisheries on Upper North Platte river drainages including the Big Creek and the Encampment River and...
With less than two weeks left in the current fiscal year, more changes were made to the budget for the 2019/2020 fiscal year before it passed third reading during the June 18 meeting of the Saratoga Town Council. Councilmember Jon Nelson told the rest of the council that he was prepared to vote against Ordinance No. 854 if the changes weren’t made, which led to the document being tabled until after executive session. The budget wasn’t the only place where the town council dis...