Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
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The Grand Encampment Museum (GEM) in Encampment, Wyo. recently bid farewell to former director Christy Smith as she departed the Valley for new adventures in history in Cheyenne. Before she left, however, she made sure that the GEM's new director, Tim Nicklas, was well-taken care of as he prepared to take on a new adventure himself. "I would probably be drowning right now if it weren't for Cristy. She left that museum in such impeccable shape and when I came on board, she...
Carl Bernstein and Marilyn Priddy rolled into Saratoga on June 13 in the early afternoon and approached Tona Hall, manager of Firewater Public House (Firewater) about singing and playing music for food and tips. Hall listened to the couple's pitch and after trying to get in touch with owner Danny Burau with no success, she decided to give them a chance. After the deal was done, the couple left to get their instruments, a cello and guitar. Although their music is acoustic they...
When one is standing on the shore of the Upper North Platte River, the sounds one expects to hear would be the songs of birds. On one warm summer weekend, June 23, a different sound joined the avian melodies. The arrhythmic beeps of morse code and the whitenoise of an amateur radio in search of other stations could be heard on the property of the Ryan Ranch. The ranch owned by Greg Ryan, who also owns Ryan Electronics, was playing host to the Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL)...
Summer is here and Hanna resident Rose Dabbs presided over the monthly Hanna Agricultural Resource Team (HART) meeting held at 5:30 p.m. on June 26 at the Hanna Market to discuss work needed to be done outside the fenced area of the Community Garden. "I would like to talk about the upkeep of the outside of our garden," Dabbs said. "The thistles are growing taller and we need to figure something out because I don't think any one person should have to it." Several ideas were...
When school begins on August 20 for the 2018-2019 school year, the halls of Saratoga Elementary School (SES) will be missing a longtime fixture of the building. After 17 years of service in Carbon County School District (CCSD) No. 2, LeAnn Uhling retired at the end of the 2017-2018 school year. Uhling, who moved to Saratoga in 2001 with her husband Larry and two children, Michaela and Lawrence, started at SES as an aide in the kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. The...
Despite varying styles and subjects, the artists gathered at the PVCC had two things in common; passion and perseverance. Some of the artists have pursued a full-time career while others find the time to pursue their passion in the free time from their day jobs. Talk to any of the artists, however, and the pride in their work is clearly evident. That same passion and perseverance that helped the masters of their craft get where they are today is something that is suggested to...
By Mike Armstrong On Thursday, six candidates for governor attended a panel hosted by Wyoming Lodging and Restaurant Association (WLRA) to discuss their views and policies related to tourism, hospitality and retail issues impacting the state at the Nicholaysen Art Museum in Casper. The Saratoga Sun was invited to listen to the candidates because tourism is of interest to many in Carbon County. Tourism, including the travel and hospitality fields, is the second largest...
On June 28, a shooter claimed five lives at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Md. after he shot out the front window of the building that housed the newspaper and roamed the newsroom with a shotgun. The shooter, who has since been identified as Jarrod W. Ramos, had a long-running dispute with the paper that began after “a column in 2011 that detailed his harassment of a high school classmate,” was published days after he pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge according the...
A new ministry for single adults has blossomed at St. Barnabas’ Episcopal Church. Singles Eating Together is a monthly time for adult singles—of any faith—to gather and share a meal and conversation. The next Singles Eating Together gathering will take place on Monday, July 9th at 5:30 p.m. in St. Barnabas’ Church’s Agape House, located at the corner of First Street and Main Ave. in Saratoga. Single adults in the valley are welcome to join us for food and fellowship. This ministry grew out of a study undertaken by members...
A date and time has finally been set for a debate at the Bear Trap Cafe and Bar in Riverside by owner Margaret Weber. Since originally being announced on Facebook and on page 5 of the May 23, 2018 edition of the Saratoga Sun (“Talk at the Trap”), the nature and format of the debate has changed, however. “The focus is no longer like a head-to-head debate. It’s more of a ‘Hey, let’s get the word out to who these candidates are,’” said Weber. Part of this can be chalked up to W...
Seven miles outside of Medicine Bow, towards Laramie on US 30, is a pull-off with two Wyoming informational visitor signs and a couple of buildings. One of the informational signs is about the dinosaur graveyard, referring to Como Bluff, "one of the greatest and well known fossil beds of dinosaur remains in the world." The sign states that at Como Bluffs, 15 miles north, paleontologists found many fossil specimens in near perfect condition. During the late 1870s and 1880s, pal...