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The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) has released a draft travel management plan for the Medicine Bow National forest, and will be seeking public input about the draft plan until September 6. Issuing the draft plan moves the USFS closer to putting to bed a contentious debate that began about 18 months ago with the release of a proposed action. Under that action, the USFS outlined roads it was considering closing, decommissioning, or of which it was considering changing designation. “We knew there would be some parts of it that would draw a lot of att...
Editor’s note: The Saratoga Sun initially broke an abbreviated version of this story on our website Wednesday. A police chase that began in Nebraska ended in a foot pursuit on I-80 at Walcott Junction Wednesday. Troy Douglas, 23, Of Nashville, Tennessee, was arrested after leading police on a chase, disabling his car and pointing a gun at an officer before attempting to flee on foot. According to David Wagener of Wyoming Highway Patrol, the chase began early Wednesday morning in Nebraska. Nebras...
Memorial services for long-time Saratoga resident Marie Huntley were conducted Friday, Aug. 19, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. in the Saratoga Cemetery Valley Chapel with the Rev. Stephen Niccolls of the First Presbyterian Church officiating. Music was presented by Teense Willford. Marie died Sunday, Aug. 14 in Cheyenne, Wyo. She had suffered with serious illness the past several months. Born Dec. 16, 1935, in Davis, West Virginia to Ernest Clyde and Vivian Edna Winters, in her younger years Marie moved...
Shawn Renae (Garretson) Janson July 11, 1967- Aug. 15, 2016 Memorial services for former Saratoga resident Shawn Renae (Garretson) Janson, 49, will be conducted Friday, Aug. 26, 2016 at 10 a.m. in the Valley Chapel at the Saratoga Cemetery. Teense Willford will be performing the service, with Carbon County Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. An additional memorial service will be held in Brush, Colo. on Monday, Aug. 29 at 2 p.m. at the Calvary Assembly of God Church with Pastor Chris...
Bluefield, WV – Richard Louis Sharp, 95 passed away August 16, 2016 at his home in Bluefield, WV. Born in Cheyenne, Wyoming on April 25, 1921, he was the only child of Seymour S. Sharp and Mary E. Hysell Sharp. He grew up in Saratoga, Wyoming, valedictorian of his high school class, attended University of Wyoming and University of Colorado in Boulder obtaining a degree in Civil Engineering. He was a veteran of World War II, U.S. Army Air Corps. His 30-year career was spent in Wyoming, C...
Prominent Rawlins businesswoman and community leader, Della Maier Vivion, died August 11, 2016 in Casper, Wyo. Born in Sheridan, she was the daughter of Edna Fauver and Joseph A. Maier. Active in a wide variety of civic and community affairs, Della served as the first woman Mayor of Rawlins from 1987-1989. She was devoted to her family and the community, and worked tirelessly on behalf of innumerable causes including the revitalization of downtown Rawlins, historic preservation, and fostering...
As floating season draws to a close, the Platte Valley Chapter of Trout Unlimited (TU) has announced a “River Clean Up Float” scheduled for 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. September 3. TU board member Steve Heinitz is the event’s organizer, and he said the float will concentrate on the North Platte between Treasure Island and town. He hopes to get permission to access private property near the halfway point so the float can be split into two and be more meticulous. Following the clean up effort, Heini...
Although it does have a certain ring to it, we were not, in fact, supposed to be on the night train to Niangoloko. I was well into my second year of service in the Peace Corps in Burkina Faso, and checking one of the items off my Peace Corps Bucket List: traveling by train in West Africa. Along with Rebecca and Barry, two Peace Corps Volunteer (PCV) friends, I was joined on the trip by Rebecca’s boyfriend David, who was visiting from the States. The four of us were headed about 100 miles west o...
“We’re in good standing; we’re up and running; we’re legal,” said Kevin Hefley, owner-operator of Airtime Aerial, a company that performs aerial applications of insecticides. Hefley was presenting at an August 16 meeting of the Saratoga Town Council to explain why unfiled paperwork with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had left the town without an applicator for much of the summer. At the meeting, which was attended by about 10 members of the public, Hefley repeatedly distanced himself from Circle S Aviation, a company Hefley pu...
For Hank Morris, 37, a new resident to Saratoga and new real estate agent at Town & Country Realty in Saratoga, first impressions mean a lot. Though his path to living in Saratoga may have been a bit circuitous, but he is glad he finally has the opportunity to live and work in the Valley. He's been selling real estate since 2012 in Texas and Arkansas, and just three weeks ago moved to Saratoga with his wife Jessie, and two children, 6-year-old Sam and 3-year-old Maggie, to continue his career...
Write-in candidates in municipal races across the Valley have been notified by certified mail that they crossed the three-vote threshold to be listed on ballots in the general election in November. Those who accept their neighbors’ nomination have five days following the receipt of a certified letter from the election clerk to pay a $25 listing fee in order to appear on general election ballots. In Saratoga, Glee Johnson and Steve Wilcoxson have accepted their nominations and paid the fee to a...
Around 15 officers from across the nation, though mostly from Wyoming and Colorado, gathered at the Platte Valley Community Center (PVCC) Monday and Tuesday to become certified to train fellow officers on proper Taser use. Tasers are devices which fire small dart-like electrodes which stay connected to the main unit by thin wires. When triggered the electrodes fire and attach to a suspect and deliver an electric current to disrupt voluntary muscle control causing neuromuscular incapacitation. Th...
udents gathered under a large metal canopy adjacent to the Silver Spur Ranch shooting range 8 a.m. Saturday morning, arms crossed and fleeces zipped against an early morning chill. The class was called Advanced Defensive Pistol, and the students ranged in age from a teen competitive shooter to elderly adults looking to master new weapons. The instructors were all former police or military weapons trainers, many from the San Diego area of California. John Russell, former SWAT sniper and...
After Walden, the 200-250 person Beaver Creek Fire Incident Command Post (ICP) is currently the second biggest population center in Jackson County Colorado. Barring unforeseen developments, within two months, the tents and the trailers, the helibase and handwashing stations will all be gone. Everyone who calls this ad-hoc city home today will have moved on to other fires, or returned to the day jobs they left on hold to fight the flames here. An Aug. 17 tour of the ICP on day 59 of the fire figh...
Wyoming continues to see unemployment rates that are significantly higher than this time last year and markedly higher than the national average, according to figures released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Wyoming is one of three states in the nation that saw a statistically significant increase in unemployment rate between July 2015 and July 2016. Of those three states, Wyoming's unemployment increase was the highest, increasing 1.4 points from 4.3 percent in July 2015...