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The Upper Platte River Solid Waste Disposal District (UPRSWDD) addressed their pursuit of consolidated billing during their Aug. 7 meeting in Saratoga as they listened to a proposal from Alysson Sneddon. The board was also presented with a petition from Saratoga Town Councilmember Steve Wilcoxson addressing the Sunday closure of the Saratoga Transfer Station. Board members Leroy Stephenson and Schelby Merrill were absent. Bills, Bills, Bills As was previously reported (see “Billing, hazard” on...
The Encampment Town Council met at 7 p.m. on Thursday with all council members present with the exception of Bill Craig. Mayor Greg Salisbury and Doreen Harvey Town Clerk/Treasurer were also in attendance. The agenda and minutes from July 11 were quickly approved. Once those items were taken care of, Harvey went over the financials. The council approved the July payroll and contracted liabilities in the amount of $31,005.81, manual late month payments totaling $636.25 and the payment of the regu...
The Riverside Town Council met at 6 p.m. on Thursday at the Riverside Town Hall where all current council members were in attendance. Mayor Leroy Stephenson and Town Clerk/Treasurer Jan Cook were also present. The agenda and minutes from the July 11 regularly scheduled meeting were approved. Financials were gone over by Cook and the council approved paying the bills. Stephenson told the council that, when he attended Carbon County Council of Governments in Dixon on July 17, there was a Wyoming...
Nearly four months since first appearing before the Saratoga Town Council, Bob Quist, interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Memorial Hospital of Carbon County (MHCC), returned for the Aug. 6 meeting of Saratoga’s governing body. The attendance of Quist at the meeting came 10 days after a press release from MHCC announcing the Board of Trustees’ intent to establish a clinic in the Platte Valley (see “MHCC announces clinic” on page 3 of the July 31 Saratoga Sun). Along with Quist, current...
Next week, the day that every parent dreams for and every child dreads for three months will finally arrive. The first day of school. When I was younger, I always dreaded the first day of school. There was really no particular reason for it other than the fact that summer was coming to an end and gone were my late nights of playing video games and watching horror movies. For much of my teenage years, I was never what one would call a morning person. I would reluctantly drag myself out of bed and, like the shambling terrors of the movies I...
To the Saratoga Sun Staff, Anyone who has worked in the newspaper business knows it is hard work getting a newspaper out when everything goes right, and it rarely goes right. I am impressed with how the team came together and published the paper two days after losing their leader, Keith McLendon. This says a lot about his team and the way he led it. That was not an easy task. You should be proud of yourselves. I know Keith would have been. Good job, Liz Wood Saratoga...
Dear Editor, The past couple of weeks you have run letters from readers who feel Brush Creek is changing the valley in a way that they don’t approve of. I would make the opposite argument. I would start by the obvious and that is that they are targeting a clientele that no one else in the valley targets, and they are doing it successfully. They are obviously providing them with an experience that they find attractive and are bringing a national awareness to their facility. The fact that they continue to grow and attract a different clientele is...
Dear Editor, We want to express my appreciation to Brush Creek Ranch and the White’s for their investment in Wyoming. We believe that our state benefits in many ways from Brush Creek and it’s employees and guests. Many of the employees of Brush Creek Ranch live in our communities and thus contribute to the overall success of our region. They buy homes, pay taxes, shop in our stores, eat in our restaurants, support our community center, and have children enrolled in our schools. We realize that most of the guests of Brush Creek Ranch probably do...
On the evening of Aug. 2, the Grand Encampment Museum (GEM) hosted a panel of authors and historians at the Grand Encampment Opera House as part of their Pioneering Women Symposium. The panel, called "Finding the Stories," was moderated by local historian Candy Moulton and panelists included Chris Enns, Donna Coulson, Jennifer Lawrence and Dick Perue. During each panelists introduction, they all touched on the theme of the panel, informing the audience how they came to get involved in becoming...
The Grand Encampment Museum (GEM) will be holding a historical trek that will appeal to both local and Native American history buffs on Aug. 17 as they host the "Native American Trek at Big Creek: A Benefit to Support the Grand Encampment Museum." The trek, which will last all day Saturday, will feature three guest speakers; Dr. Jason LaBelle, Associate Professor of Archeology at Colorado State University (CSU), Ray Sumner, a first-year doctoral student in anthropology at CSU, and local historia...
Sunshine Solaas is settling into her job as the new director for the Hanna Basin Museum (HBM). The position had not been filled for several months and Solaas acknowledges there is work to be done. Solaas is originally for Grand Island, Neb. She did live in Florida for a year after graduating before returning to the state she was raised, but lived in a much smaller town. "Broken Bow is about 4,000 people, bigger than Hanna, but still a small town," Solaas said. She lived there for 10 years...
Two programs by local historian Dick Perue, one sponsored by the Saratoga Friends of the Library and another sponsored by the Saratoga Museum, have been cancelled. The Friends of the Library program, which was scheduled for Aug. 15, was intended to relate the history of the Barrett Ridge ski jump and Ryan Park Ski Club and would lead into the museum trek, which had been scheduled for Aug. 31. Due to what Perue described as considerable interest in the two events, the local historian related a...
At just about any county fair, it is not uncommon to see a variety of different animals ranging from swine to poultry to steer. The Carbon County Fair is no different and, every year, children and young adults throughout the county work to raise their chosen animal in the hopes of winning an award for their hard work and, maybe, make a sale. Despite the rural area that encompasses most of the county, and the state, not everyone has the space to raise larger animals. Other animals, meanwhile,...
Nicole Karem is Gateway Community Coordinator for the Continental Divide Trail Coalition (CDTC) and she came to Carbon County on July 22 to explain designating Encampment/Riverside as a Gateway Community on the Continental Divide. Karem said there are currently five states involved in the 3,100 total miles on the Continental Trial Divide (CDT). 550 miles of the CDT are in Wyoming. The addition of Encampment/Riverside brings the total of gateway communities on the trail in Wyoming to three. Rawli...