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Despite having three candidates, the Board of Carbon County Commissioners (BOCCC) appears to be in a holding pattern in regards to the county health officer following their July 6 meeting. For nearly two years, Dr. Wayne Couch has served as the Carbon County Health Officer. In August 2019, Couch was appointed by the BOCCC and was, according to Nurse Manager Amanda Brown, was the only applicant interested in the position. When the contract came up for renewal in June 2020—just two months into t...
Little more than a year after being told the Town of Saratoga was “in a pickle”, the Saratoga Town Council made three motions at their July 6 meeting to correct years of miscoded expenditures. The most recent action by the governing body—at the recommendation of third-party accountant Stuart Webster—appears to conclude more than two years of questions surrounding the Town of Saratoga’s finances originally asked by Councilmember Jon Nelson. In June 2020, those questions led to the announcem...
Shirley Jnell Willford was born on July 22, 1933 in Omaha Nebraska, to Homer Albert Whitlock and Aileen Janet Milisen Whitlock. She was the oldest of two children born to that union. She grew up in Laramie, Wyoming and graduated from Laramie High School in 1952. After high school she attended the University of Wyoming studying elementary education and was a member of the Kappa Delta Sorority. While attending the University she met Bill Willford, a student in the college of agriculture and a... Full story
Encampment native Francis Herring is the 2021 Pioneer Award winner for the Grand Encampment Cowboy Gathering Outfit. Herring, best known as Francie, was one of the 16 children of Ellis and Gladys Herring. He was born in Encampment and has spent most of his life in the town, leaving only for a short time chasing work in New Mexico. Herring will be presented with his award Saturday night during the Grand Encampment Cowboy Gathering All-star Cowboy Poetry & Music performance in the Encampment...
What’s this? The Saratoga Sun changed format, again? If you’re reading the print edition of the Saratoga Sun this week, you’ll notice a change to how things have been the past few months. As many of our readers may recall, in April we changed printers. While we had been printing in Cheyenne for several years, we made the move to Riverton, home of the Riverton Ranger. We are still printing at the Riverton Ranger, but have decided to change from the broadsheet format to the tabloid. When we first... Full story
Confused Asians, crazy drunk van drivers, monstrous RVs, nervous semi drivers, and thousands (perhaps millions) of tourists were among the highlights of a recent trip to Jackson and Pinedale. We were headed north on Highway 287 to Jackson to attend the open house for the new home of the Hughes Charitable Foundation. But a lot happened before we got there. For starters, we groaned as a flagman stopped us just as a huge line of cars ahead of us headed off in the distance behind a pilot car. This was barely 8 miles from home. Was this a harbinger...
With more and more folks flocking to the Upper North Platte River Valley weekly and a free event being staged, a record crowd is expected to attend the 18/19th annual Grand Encampment Cowboy Gathering in Encampment this weekend, July 16, 17 & 18. The three-day celebration will begin Friday evening at 6:30 p.m. in Grand View Park with a free open mic cowboy poetry/music program, followed by the popular campfire jam session. Saturday morning will begin with a free self-defense seminar at 10 a.m.,...
WHATFest, an annual Wyoming music festival, will be returning to the Platte Valley, albeit in a limited form. During the July 6 meeting of the Saratoga Town Council, The Yard co-owner Chris Shannon appeared before the governing body to inform them of a music event which would take place at his venue on July 24. “I thought, since there was a meeting I should just run down here and let you guys know because the last time we were together, Councilman (Ron) Hutchins thought despite the need for a p...
The Owen Wister Cabin residing at the Medicine Bow Museum (MBM) is open after being closed for four years. "It got re-painted and refurbished," MBM worker Howard Bame said. "It was looking pretty rough before." The Owen Wister Cabin is a significant building to the museum and the country, according to MBM Director Sharon Biamon, because it is a place the author built himself and lived for a time after he completed his most famous work, the 1902 novel "The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains"...
According to her parents, Elk Mountain residents Steve and Courtney Priest, Mackenzie has been obsessed with llamas since she was about eight years old. "I did like the book 'Llama Mama'," Mackenzie, a sophomore at Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow High School, said. "But I can't really say why I wanted one." Steve and Courtney took Mackenzie to a llama farm to see if her desire to have one was real. It was and Mackenzie got her wish. She is now the proud owner of Peak, a llama the family calls...
Jezria "Jez" Latham has long been a smiling face in the world of Carbon County real estate. It's also probably safe to say that real estate runs in the blood. She obtained her broker's license at the age of 20 and her mother, Andrea Shepard, founded ERA Shepard and Associates in 1997. Nearly three years ago, Jez branched out on her own and started Provident Realty. While she initially worked from home, she secured a storefront at 116 West Bridge a year ago. As attractive as that location was-it...