Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
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Sunday afternoon, members of the Type III Incident Management Team fighting the Beaver Creek Fire 24 miles north of Walden, Colo. safely negotiated treacherous meteorological conditions that rapidly expanded the footprint of the blaze. As of Tuesday, the fire had burned 34,020 acres (roughly 53 square miles), and its management is being transferred from the Type III Incident Management Team lead by John Warder to a National Incident Management Organization Team (NIMO Team) headed by Mike... Full story
August 5, 6 and 7, Encampment will be “Grand” once again. The whole town and its sister berg Riverside will turn out to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Grand Encampment Museum (GEM), and all are invited to attend a multitude of festivities, said GEM director Christie Smith. The “cornerstone” of the weekend will be the opening of a pair of time capsules that were sealed at the museum 49 years ago at GEM’s dedication ceremony June 11, 1967. According to Smith, three members of the original... Full story
As Encampment resident Allen Branton describes it, the job of a television lighting designer is to figure out how to squeeze wonderment into a box. Branton should know: this year he has received two of five Primetime Emmy Award nominations in the category of Best Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Special. Branton was nominated for his cinematography of both NBC's "The Wiz: LIVE!," a televised broadway-style play, and "Adele: Live in New York City," an NBC broadcast of an Adele... Full story
You may have noticed that the first paper of this new volume of the Saratoga Sun is slightly shorter than previous editions. That’s because we have changed printers. We now print out of Cheyenne and the change in size is due to what the different presses can accommodate. Before anything else is said, we would like to thank the Casper Star Tribune for their excellent service. They went out of their way on several occasions to point out errors we had made in the files we sent them. We value our business relationship with them and are happy to p... Full story
My second trail season with the Maine Conservation Corps (MCC) began, as the locals say, “way down East” in Washington County. Our assignment there was to do heavy duty maintenance on a ten-mile section of the Cutler Coast Public Lands. These paths were a little more trafficked than the deep-woods locations I’d been sent to in my first three months, but we could still work for several consecutive days without seeing any hikers. This was especially true of the inland half of the 10-mile figur... Full story
The Saratoga Panthers high school football team will be holding a meeting 6:30 p.m. Aug. 9 at the Saratoga Panthers football stadium for any Saratoga or Encampment high schoolers interested in playing football for the newly-classified 1A team. Middle School The Saratoga Middle School will be holding their football equipment checkout 4 p.m. Aug. 11 in the shed behind the Saratoga High School. Middle schoolers with questions can call Matt Shelby at 307-327-6159... Full story
With Wyoming's at-large U.S. Congressional seat open for the first time in eight years, the race to replace outgoing congresswoman Cynthia Lummis on the Republican ticket is crowded and entering its final stretch. July 19, that race came to the Platte Valley when Liz Cheney made a campaign swing through the area, stopping at the Saratoga Senior Center and eating lunch in Encampment prior to the August 16 primaries. About five residents, including National Rifle Association (NRA) election... Full story
Wyoming has continued to shed jobs in the midst of a bearish oil market, according to unemployment figures published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) June 22. Wyoming and North Dakota are the only two states in the U.S. that saw unemployment numbers increase over the year, according to the BLS' figures. Wyoming's unemployment numbers increased by 1.5 points, from 4.2 in June 2015 to 5.7 in June of this year. Wyoming also had an increase in unemployment from May 2016 until June 2016,... Full story
CARBON COUNTRY SENIOR CENTER Wednesday: Sloppy joes, french fries, mixed vegetables, frog eye salad, milk Thursday: Ham/pasta salad on lettuce leaf, beets, muffin, mixed fruit, brownie, milk Friday: Roast beef, mashed potatoes, green beans, wheat roll, pears, milk Monday: Chicken/dumplings, carrots, cookie, peaches, milk Tuesday: Spaghetti/meat sauce, tossed salad, garlic bread, mandarin oranges, milk... Full story