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By Joshua Wood Employees of Saratoga Care Center, Platte Valley Medical Clinic, residents of Saratoga and even Dr. Bryan Kaiser himself were in attendance at a packed Saratoga Town Council meeting on the night of Tuesday, Aug. 7 at the Saratoga Town Hall. With the fate of Kaiser’s lease with the Town of Saratoga in question and with repeated executive sessions over the last few months, it was suspected that the council would announce the fate of Kaiser’s future with Platte Valley Medical Cli...
On Aug. 7 it was announced that Health Management Services (HMS), LLC. would be taking over management of the Platte Valley Medical Clinic. This came on the heels of the announcement that the Town of Saratoga would neither renew nor renegotiate their lease with Dr. Bryan Kaiser, who took over as provider following the departure of Dr. Dean Bartholomew. HMS, a company based in Billings, MT., has managed the Saratoga Care Center for three years following a crisis that threatened to close the...
Forest Road 830 (Deep Jack Road), and Forest Road 443 (Jerry Accord Road) in the Sierra Madre Range, Medicine Bow National Forest, will be temporarily closed for public safety during roadside hazard tree removal work this fall. The work on the 830 Road will begin on or around Monday, Aug. 13, and work on the 443 Road will begin once the 830 Road is complete. Start dates are approximate and the roads will remain open until work actually commences. The same contractor will be working on both roads, so first the 830 Road will be closed until work...
The Carbon County Impact Joint Powers Board heard from Element Engineering, the company hired to oversee the lagoon project, and from Forsgren Associates at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 8. Nick Marcotte of Element Engineering was in attendance to give a synopsis and explain what all had been done during the span of the project. This included burying air piping that had previously been above ground, installing new valves, flow meters and chemical injection systems to maintain the lagoon. While...
The official State of Wyoming Microbrew Competition will be held Aug. 18 in Saratoga. Microbreweries based in Wyoming are slated to compete for the coveted Steinley Cup at the 23rd annual competition. This year's competition brew is Pilsner and will be judged by a panel of brewing professionals from Colorado. The event starts at 1 p.m. and goes until 5 p.m. at Saratoga's Veterans Island Park. Among the breweries invited to this year's event is the defending Steinley Cup champion, Snake River...
I have dreaded August since January. Augusts in even numbered years mean one thing to me … I will be losing my mind (even more than normal). Augusts contain Back-to-School sections, County Fair coverage, Fall Sports Sections and, in the aforementioned even-numbered years, … Election Sections. You may have noticed that the actual paper is outweighed by the Primary Election Section by eight pages. It is a pain … to put it lightly. Getting Started I started assigning candidates to my repor...
Editor, My heart is heavy with sadness as I compose this letter. I think the powers that be could have been more sensitive and forth coming to the public with our health care provider issues instead of the way it was handled. However righteous you may have wanted it to be, in the end, you treated us as school children and left us feeling something shady was done. I am publicly mourning the loss of a great doctor this little Valley was blessed with, Dr. Brian Kaiser. For the very short time he was here he made a huge improvement to so many...
Editor, After many questions by several different people, I thought I would help clear up what the difference in a PA (Physician Assistant), NP (Nurse Practitioner: may have different first initial depending on specialty, for instance FNP is family nurse practitioner, PNP is pediatric nurse practitioner), MD (Medical Doctor) and a DO (Doctor of Osteopathy) is. In basic form: a DO has medical school training including a focus on the muscular and skeletal systems to treat problems throughout the body. They regard the body as an integrated whole,...
Dear Editor and readership: In my years living in this Valley and elsewhere, which includes several working in administration at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, I have encountered few physicians like Dr. Bryan Kaiser. His combination of attention to current research, and to patient input, and sheer will to find solutions to patients’ problems is uncommon and to be respected and treasured. He has made a tremendous impact for the better on many residents’ lives in the short time that he has been here, with a genuine interest in diagnosis and a pa...
Twenty-year-old Thomas Ingraham was back in Saratoga working at his family's establishment, JW Hugus Restaurant, for the summer. In a week or so, he will be returning to University of Jamestown, a private college in North Dakota. In 2007, Jamestown became the first North Dakota college or university to make U.S. News and World Reports "Tier 1" for undergraduate colleges in the Midwest, an accolade repeated annually. It is a university that takes wrestling seriously enough that it is one of the...
Harold Phillips, Director of Maintenance for north county Carbon County School District No. 2 schools said the Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) Middle/High School needed upgrades to improve safety for the students. A new ventilation system in the metal shop was one of the new improvements done over the summer. There was also new lighting. "The new ventilation system in the metal shop and wood shop was done to improve the safety for the kids," Phillips said. The wood and metal shop areas...
The Federal Commission on School Safety held its third listening session of four starting at 1 p.m. on Aug. 7 in Cheyenne to listen to speakers from several western states with many rural communities. Previous listening sessions have been held in Washington D.C. and Lexington, KY. In March 2018, President Donald J. Trump appointed U.S. Secretary of Education (ED) Betsy DeVos to lead the Federal Commission on School Safety. Other members appointed by President Trump to the Commission in March of...
Mart Million was the winner of the Carbon County Fair Demolition Derby that started at 3 p.m. on Saturday. It was not the first time he has won. He came in first place in 2009 and second in 2012. He took a break after his effort in 2012 until this derby. Million lives in Craig, Colo., but he was raised and lived in Hanna for 33 years. He attributes his interest in working on cars to living in the town during his high school years. "A small town like Hanna, there isn't a lot to do but work on...
John Russo and other professional gun trainers will be at the Spur Outfitters pistol range starting August 18 to teach the fifth annual Advanced Defensive Pistol course. In the past, students with skill levels ranging from never having fired a gun to fairly proficient have attended the course in the proper defensive use of a semi-automatic pistol. The 3-hour course begins with a classroom-style general overview that goes from parts and controls of a pistol to proper aiming, stance and trigger...
There was great news for the Bow River Future Farmers of America (FFA) chapter in Hanna. The team of Jolynn Borah and T’lysa Solaas representing the Bow River FFA chapter has been named a finalist this year in the Animal Science category in Division 2 of the competition. Bow River FFA was selected as one of the six Wyoming chapters to send in National Chapter application for consideration on the national level. They were selected as a Three Star Chapter. This means that Bow River FFA is in t...
Walter Hagan worked for the Carbon County Sheriff’s Department from 2005 to 2015 before he retired from law enforcement. Following the retirement of Sheriff Jerry Colson and the appointment of Archie Roybal to the position, Hagan felt he needed to run for sheriff in the next election. “I thought about running before and that kind of put it over the barrel because I knew things weren’t going to change and we need change,” said Hagan. “The old style of ‘we’re just investigators and that’s all we do’ is out the window. There’s too many things tha... Full story
Ed Golden is running for re-election for the Riverside Town Council following his nearly four year term after the 2014 election. Golden stated that while he had some doubts if he should run again, he was encouraged by residents of Riverside. “I figured if I could help out in the town I’d do that — and I haven’t had any complaints,” said Golden. The Riverside candidate points to ten years he spent in a town of 300 people several years ago as experience for working with small municipal government. He also believes that the 34 years he spent as... Full story
Thomas "Thom" Gamblin is currently employed by the Rawlins Police Department (RPD) and has been for the past 13 years, but decided to run for Carbon County Sheriff this year. "I decided to run for sheriff of Carbon County to make sure our county remains a safe place for the children of our community to grow up in," said Gamblin. Along with having worked for the RPD since 2005, Gamblin also has several years of law enforcement experience with three other departments in his home state. "I have... Full story