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Photo by Joshua Wood Seadar Rose Davis of Screen Door Porch sings at the 19th Annual WHAT Festival north of Saratoga on July 27 as the sun sets behind her. The Jackson, Wyoming based band was one of several to play the two-day music festival over the weekend....
On July 18, customers with Union Wireless in the Platte Valley experienced a service outage which lasted approximately two hours. The internet, cellular and phone service outage appears to have impacted some business more than others. Scott Duke, interim CEO at the North Platte Valley Medical Center, said the service outage did not disrupt the hospital's operations a whole lot. “The hospital has redundant backup wireless and the backup wireless kicked in so we didn't completely shut down,” sai...
Valley residents saw new and returning candidates for the Board of Carbon County Commissioners participate in the Valley Service Organization (VSO) public forum on July 9 in preparation for the 2024 election. The candidates running for the three open seats are Gwynn Bartlett, Sue Jones, Jimmy Hinkle, John Espy and Garrett Irene. Jones, Espy and Irene all currently serve as commissioners and are running for reelection. Irene did not attend the forum. Patterson began the forum by asking Bartlett,...
“When you can make so many people happy, it’s good for your heart.” The sun had long set on Roger Burau’s property, home for The WHAT Festival for the third consecutive year, when he took to the stage on Saturday evening. For the past 48 hours, acres of his land had been transformed into a miniature community of music, camping and food trucks with cliffs to the north and the river to the south. As he stood on stage, in the spotlight for just a few minutes, he was greeted with cheers, applaus...
In observance of the “dog days of summer” everyone is invited to “Gather at the Table” for baked spaghetti, hearty salad, garlic bread, pineapple cake with cream cheese frosting and strawberries plus a choice of beverages Monday evening, Aug. 5, from 5:30 to 7:00 in the Saratoga Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall. Last month’s complimentary meal drew more than fifty folks, so this month “Gather at the Table” committee cooks are preparing for even a larger crowd to come and enjoy free food, fu...
Surrounded by family, Iva Mae Craig passed away on July 18, 2024 at the North Platte Valley Medical Center at the age of 92. Iva Mae Swanson was born on a ranch near Saratoga, Wyoming on December 2, 1931 to Leo and Sophia Clements Swanson. She lived in Saratoga and the Platte Valley area all of her life. On May 3, 1947, Iva married Jack Craig. Together they had 6 children, 13 grandchildren, 13 great grandchildren and three great, great grandchildren. At Iva’s house, the kitchen was always the place to visit and have a meal with fresh v...
Just in time for canning season, the University of Wyoming Extension has updated and expanded its signature food preservation publication, “Preserving Food in Wyoming.” This free downloadable resource is designed to help Wyoming residents safely can or freeze their harvest at home. Appropriate for both experienced and aspiring food preservers, the publication provides research-tested recipes and step-by-step instructions for preserving vegetables, fruit, meat and fish using a boiling water canner or pressure canner. Unlike many popular can...
The possibilities of the Office of the Presidency, the Framers of the Constitution knew, would depend in large measure on the character of its occupant. The Presidency was constrained by the terms of the Constitution and the doctrine of checks and balances, designed to temper the vaulting ambition of future chief executives who might imitate those in European countries that aggrandized power for their own interests. But the presidency was also empowered to perform the responsibilities of the...
Wyoming misunderstands Gillette. That was apparently clear when the task force in charge of picking a site for a state shooting complex opted against the more site-ready, cost-effective plan in Campbell County for what amounts to the predictable, and in the eyes of the ones in power, more quintessentially Wyoming location of Cody. Gillette has a site picked out, with ample space, local buy-in and available infrastructure to support it. Cody has natural beauty, and a lot of question marks. More importantly, Park County has task force members...
Our special this week is my delicious cheesecake bars, which are so sweet and creamy you won’t be able to eat just one. You might want to make a double, or triple, batch of these great treats so that they aren’t all gone in one sitting. Dee Dee’s Delicious Cheesecake Bars Ingredients Crust: - 2 tbsp. s melted Cheesecake Filling: - 16 oz. cream cheese, room temperature - 1 tsp lemon juice - 2 eggs - 1/2 c. sugar - 1/2 c. fresh blueberries - 1/2 c. fresh raspberries Directions Preheat the oven...
At the July 2024 General Convention of The Episcopal Church, an important resolution was unanimously adopted by the body. As a member of the Wyoming Episcopal Church Deputation to this Convention, I was proud to support Resolution C032 – “A Prayer to Remember the Innocents.” This resolution expresses the church’s remorse for its role “in the irreparable harm suffered by Indigenous children who attended Indigenous boarding and residential schools in the 1800s and 1900s and acknowledges that the effect of that harm carries on in boarding...
I’ve been in church all my life and I know people who believe that attending an assembly fulfills the majority of their Christian obligations. Somewhere down through the centuries the idea of the Ekklesia being a boot-camp to train soldiers and a school to teach disciples how to engage in spiritual warfare and develop their ministries, became watered down into an easy country club lifestyle of comfort and pride. The word Ekklesia appears in the New Testament 114 times and is often translated as church or assembly. It means to be called out b...
The identify of the Mirror Lake John Doe discovered on July 4 has been identified 56-year-old James Bitner of Blackhawk, Colorado, according to a July 25 press release from the Albany County Sheriff’s Office. As was previously reported, the Snowy Range between Saratoga, Wyoming and Laramie, Wyoming became the scene of an active investigation over the July 4 weekend. The Albany County Sheriff’s Office received a report around 8:00 p.m. on July 4 of a dead body in the vicinity of Mirror Lake. It...
A Saratoga man is dead following a high speed car chase which began as an attempted traffic stop in Saratoga and ended in Centennial on the night of July 24. According to information provided by the Wyoming Highway Patrol, an officer with the Saratoga Police Department attempted to stop a green and gold Subaru Outback with no registration for speeding. The driver of the vehicle, later identified as Ayden LeCureux, refused to stop and drove recklessly through downtown Saratoga. At times,...
CHEYENNE — Was U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., justified in chasing down former U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle at the Republican National Convention, days after former President Donald Trump was nearly assassinated? Was Wyoming Congresswoman Harriet Hageman’s description of Vice President Kamala Harris as a “DEI hire” a full-blown racist comment? Nearly a dozen Wyoming Republican and Democratic political candidates and party leaders weighed in on the recent actions and comments by two of the Cowboy State’s three federal l...
JACKSON — A single mother with two children has to make $45 an hour to be “self-sufficient” in Teton County. The Wyoming Women’s Foundation’s 2024 Self Sufficiency Report reveals such a wage will cover a family’s basic expenses — transportation, groceries, health care, child care, taxes and housing (assuming rent is only $1,700 a month) — without room for most extraneous purchases. When the foundation last released its report, in 2020, a three-person family in Teton County had to make $39 an hour. In 2005, it was $18 an hour. “Yes, we all kn...
Brews are in this weekend as the 28th Annual Steinley Cup Microbrew Competition returns to Veterans’ Island in Saratoga. The original and only official State of Wyoming Microbrew Competition, hosted by the Saratoga/Platte Valley Chamber of Commerce, will see 11 breweries from across the state descend upon the Platte Valley for their chance at the coveted Steinley Cup. That includes Freedom’s Edge of Cheyenne, which has won back-to-back in 2022 and 2023. Last year, Freedom’s Edge won with their E...
Finn Rolseth, a former Saratoga Panther, closed the final chapter of his high school career on July 20. Rolseth, who graduated from Saratoga Middle High School earlier this year, played in the Wyoming Coaches Association All-Star Game at Casper College. Wyoming Boys South fell to Wyoming Boys North, 80-69. Rolseth said the all-star game was a big challenge because it was fast-paced. “The biggest adjustment between 1A and the all-star game was the speed,” Rolselth said. “Everything’s faster....
A coalition of conservation groups filed a motion in federal court Friday to intervene in Wyoming and Utah’s lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management’s Public Lands Rule, becoming the latest entrant to the legal melee over the controversial policy. The motion, which the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, the Wilderness Society and the Conservation Lands Foundation filed, comes as a rejoinder to Wyoming and Utah’s June motion that seeks to prevent the agency from implementing the Biden...
A wicked twist on Texas Red Dirt music will be coming to the North Platte Valley this weekend. Cory Waller & the Wicked Things will perform at the 18th Annual Encampment Community Barbeque/Potluck on August 3. This will be The Wicked Things’ first visit to the Platte Valley. Waller said he had been asked for a long time to perform in Encampment but, due to his touring schedule, he could not find the time to come to the Platte Valley. “I had a friend of a friend who has been trying to get us to...
Andrea (Andi) Dee Ward was born February 2, 1965 in Dillion, Montana. She was raised in the beautiful mountains of Beaverhead County and later moved to Lovell, Wyoming. Andi loved the western way of life; rodeo, hunting and fishing with her grandfather instilled a life-long passion for the outdoors. After graduating from Lovell High School in 1983, she moved to Saratoga, Wyoming to be closer to her parents, Roger and Suzie Cox. In 1988, Andi met and married Will Ward. Together they had two... Full story
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