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The Saratoga Town Council met at 6 p.m. on July 3 at the Saratoga Town Hall and quickly approved the agenda, the minutes for June 19 and the financials which totaled $191,139.82. Mayor Ed Glode went over correspondence from Frontier Days in Cheyenne and a letter from Geri Doughtery in support of events at The Yard. Glode said the Garden Board was getting further along in becoming its own non-profit entity. He told the board a new town attorney, Kylie Rangitsch, an associate with McPherson,...
Eight seconds may not seem like a long time, but spend those eight seconds on top of a massive animal that is mostly muscle and weighs nearly a ton and those eight seconds can turn into an eternity. Unfortunately, apart from all the excitement that surrounds bull riding, there is no small amount of tragedy. Rodeo and bull riding have been a part of world history for centuries. Elements of bull riding can trace their origins to the Minoans while much of what we know today as rodeo in the...
In loving memory of John H. Larsen 3/31/1924 - 12/8/2018. Please join us for a memorial service honoring John’s life on July 14, 2018 at 11 a.m. at St. Marks Episcopal Church, 701 S. Wolcott St., Casper, Wyo.... Full story
Vera Juanita (Hunt) Brinkman returned to her savior on December 16, 2017. She was born on January 13, 1927 in Coffeyville, Kansas to Bertha and Roy Hunt. She grew up on a dairy farm where she enjoyed milking and selling eggs. After she graduated from high school she went to nursing training and became a cadet nurse in World War II. On July 29, 1946 she married H. Donald Brinkman. They were blessed with a son, Donald Roy Brinkman, April 16, 1947. The family remained in Coffeyville until 1951... Full story
Timothy Joel Smith, 23, entered into the presence of Jesus on Thursday July 5th, 2018. He was born in Big Spring, Texas on February 21, 1995. He grew up in Saratoga Wyoming, graduated from Saratoga High School and received his Eagle Scout Award in 2013. He graduated from Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, California in 2017 with a Bachelors Degree in Communications with an emphasis in cinema arts. He began writing stories as a very young child and started making videos as a teenager. He went on... Full story
William Nelson Payne, age 60, died June 28, 2018 at Missouri Delta Medical Center.Born November 13, 1957 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, to the late William Leo Payne and Patsy Ann Parrish Payne, Bill loved family, America and the Denver Broncos. Bill graduated from Platte Valley High School in Saratoga in 1976. He was a member of the All State Band, and the Choir. After graduating Bill joined the U.S. Marine Corps proudly serving in Hawaii. After his enlistment, he returned to Saratoga to work with his... Full story
The Medicine Bow Town Council met at 7 p.m. on June 11 at the Medicine Bow Community Hall to discuss fireworks for the fourth of July celebration and pass the third reading of Ordinance 2-2018 B, the annual appropriations ordinance for fiscal year of 2018-2019. The meeting started with business as usual with the agenda, the minutes from May 14 and the financials were all approved. Karen Heath, town clerk/treasurer, told the council she had to add $500 for postage and office supplies to cover...
The Valley Service Organization (VSO) has scheduled two candidate forums in Saratoga prior to the Aug. 21 primary election. The forums are scheduled as follows: July 23 –Town of Saratoga and legislative candidates. July 25 – County commission, assessor, attorney and sheriff candidates. Both forums will be held in the Great Hall at the Platte Valley Community Center starting at 6 p.m. The forums will take the usual form of a brief presentation from each candidate followed by a question and answer period, according to Sue Jones, organizer of the...
I occasionally have to do what we call “inserting.” It’s fairly self explanatory but I’ll fill you in anyway. We upload the Saratoga Sun to the press in Cheyenne Tuesday afternoons and when they are done being printed, they ship them to Walcott by truck which is then met by a courier the printer has hired to bring them to us. The upshot is that we usually get the finished papers by 2 a.m. Wednesday morning. Then the inserter’s job begins. Whatever flyers are there to be sent out with the paper...
Staff Report Ah, summer! It’s finally here with vacations, floating, camping and barbecues. But it’s not fun if someone you love is in the hospital and there is no blood on the shelf. Here, in the southern part of Wyoming, it takes 500 people a week to donate blood to serve the 47 area hospitals in this region! One out of every three people will need blood during their lives, but only one in 20 people regularly give blood. Saratoga’s next blood drive with United Blood Services is from noon to 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 17 at St. Ann’s Parish Ha...
In a recent press release from the United States Forest Service (USFS), it was announced that the draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for the Landscape Vegetation Analysis (LaVA) project for Medicine Bow National Forest has been released. The release of the DEIS provides yet another opportunity for the public to provide input on the project, which will encompass over 300,000 acres of the Medicine Bow National Forest for the next 10 to 15 years. Comment period on the Medicine Bow...
John Barker hails from Sydney, Australia and has been in the north of Wyoming three times, but now on his fourth time to the Cowboy state, he is taking a look at places off the beaten Australian tourist trail. He is a writer for Escape, an Australian travel magazine owned by News Corp. Barker flew in on June 25 going Sydney, Los Angeles to Denver with another Australian journalist where they joined two other travel writers that had come in from Europe. One writer was from the United Kingdom who...
The Saratoga Lions Club met July 5 to award member Doug Campbell a pin for his 40-year membership and install new officers. The members seemed in a good mood as business was conducted and Joe Glode announced the incoming officers. During the meeting Glode expressed the need for new members and new projects to be undertaken. The new Lions Club officials are: James Beckmann, President; Gary Condict, First Vice President; Tim Dziadon, Second Vice President; Travis Moody, Third Vice President; Bob...
A walking tour was presented at Fort Fred Steele as part of the site's "150 Summers Celebration." The self-guided tour titled "Towns and Ghost Towns" presented, by sign, interesting tidbits about various nearby localities both remaining and long gone. Signs along the trail informed those taking the tour about the former towns of Carbon and Benton as well as still existing towns. Some of the tidbits presented were: • Ties from the Carbon Tie Town stretched 25 miles down the North Platte River t...
Republican candidates running for the office of Wyoming Governor will be participating in a series of public debates Thursday, July 12, 2018 in the auditorium of the Wyoming National Guard Joint Forces Readiness Center in Cheyenne. There will be two one-hour debates. The first debate will begin at 7 p.m.; the second debate will begin at 8 p.m. Candidates have been placed in either the first or second debate based on results of an independent poll conducted by the University of Wyoming Survey Research Center. The top three polling candidates, wh...
Doug and Kathleen Campbell often joke about the fact that they bought the Hotel Wolf on April Fools Day. Obviously not superstitious, they are celebrating the hotel's 125 anniversary on Friday the 13th. The Campbell family has been the proprietors of this immensely popular establishment for 41 years. For any person that comes to Saratoga and doesn't know this historical landmark, the Hotel Wolf is an L-shaped, two and one-half story, brick and frame building on the corner of Bridge Ave. and...
In the early morning hours of July 4, as the sun began to rise over the Snowy Mountain Range, people began to gather in the parking lot of the Platte Valley Community Center (PVCC) to register for the 2018 Cancer Walk/Run. As people sipped coffee and registered, they also listened to music from The Bird and The Bear, Garry "The Bear" Wood, being a cancer survivor himself after a battle with non-hodgkin's lymphoma. A large contingent of those participating in the event had been touched in some...
The wind was gusty on the evening of July 4 in Medicine Bow as the dusk was closing in. It was blowing hard enough the town's fire department felt it would be wise to move the fireworks from their original set up to make sure there would be no chance of a fire from sparks being sent out past the perimeter they had deemed safe. This delay saw families play with sparklers and assorted other small fireworks. The crowd waited patiently until the music started at around 10 p.m. The music played for...
The Sierra Madre Range and Snowy Range within the Medicine Bow National Forest have both entered Stage 1 fire restrictions effective July 5 according to a press release from the United States Forest Service (USFS). The USFS coordinated with both Albany and Carbon Counties on the timing of the restrictions which comes due to “a continued forecast of dry, warm weather conditions and potential for wildfire.” The press release went on to state that the restrictions include the area surrounding the ongoing Badger Creek Fire outside of Laramie, but...