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A car sits adjacent to a propane tank with two immobile occupants in the vehicle. White smoke billows from the sides. The alarm sounds and staff at the Deseret Health and Rehabilitation Center begins to evacuate. Sirens can be heard in the distance from responding firefighters and police officers. None of it is real, though. It’s a drill. The people in the car are city employees posing as injured residents. The smoke is dry ice and water. The residents inside Deseret Health and Rehabilitation C...
The town of Saratoga isn’t waiting for the arrest of vandals who defaced hot pool property earlier this month to take action in preventing it from happening again. Aug. 20, the Saratoga Town Council passed a motion to allow the Saratoga Police Department to purchase four surveillance cameras and a Digital Video Recorder in the amount of $4,140.40. The cameras will be installed in areas around the hot pool to help prevent vandalism and other illegal activity, said Mayor John Zeiger. “We have had...
In a special meeting Thursday, the Encampment Town Council hired Grayling Wachsmuth as the new Chief of Police in Encampment. Wachsmuth will begin his new job in Encampment Sept. 1. Wachsmuth, who has worked in the police department for the town of Saratoga since 2004, said he is excited to start with the town of Encampment. “It is going to be a good and positive change,” Wachsmuth said. Wachsmuth was promoted to Chief of Police for the Saratoga Police Department in 2008 after Ed Lake res... Full story
Lorraine Dorothy Kelley, of Encampment, passed away on Aug. 23, 2013 at Ivinson Memorial Hospital in Laramie. The world lost a beautiful sprit in Lorraine, after a long-fought battle with breast cancer. She was surrounded by her family when she was called home to her Heavenly Father. Lorraine was born in December, 1937, in Denver to Joseph Isaac and Maria Elsie Abeyta. She spent her childhood living in Denver with her parents, three brothers, Joseph, Leo and Arthur Abeyta and two sisters, Isabel Briner and Irene Ellis. She met her husband of... Full story
Temporary road closures for hazard tree removal are, or will soon be, going into effect on Forest Roads 500, 496 and 100 in the Brush Creek-Hayden (BCH) Ranger District of the Medicine Bow National Forest. Forest visitors planning to use these roads should note that work will occur through the remainder of this summer and into the fall. To reduce impacts to forest visitors, however, work will be completed in segments and roads will be reopened during weekends from approximately 5 p.m. each Friday to 7 a.m. each Monday. • Forest Road 500 (...
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) High Desert District (HDD) invites horse enthusiasts to the 2013 Saratoga Mustang Versatility at the 5N Ranch Arena in Saratoga. The event takes place at 9 a.m., Sept. 7 at the arena. This second annual event, done in cooperation with the Platte Valley Ranch Supply and 5N Ranch, showcases Mustangs, but all breeds of horses are welcome. The competition will feature an obstacle course, games and ranch sort for all ages of horse and riders. There is a fee and all participants under 18 must be accompanied by an...
Volunteer Organizations Active in Disasters (VOAD), program aimed to prepare communities for disasters, will hold a training session in Saratoga Sept. 26. VOAD is a nationwide movement that is connecting organized, trained volunteers with local emergency management officials before a disaster occurs. Part of VOAD’s involvement in Carbon County will be having a list of volunteers and what experiences they have so officials can place them where they would be most beneficial during response and recovery. “Due to the potential for disasters in Car...
The Grand Encampment Museum will hold a public meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 3 at the Grand Encampment Opera House to discuss the future interpretation of the Peryam Transportation building and the Doc Culleton Interpretive Center. The Museum has received a $25,000 Grant from the Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund to develop an interpretive plan that will guide the facility in interpreting local history. The Museum has hired Studio Tectonic of Boulder, Colo., to prepare the plan. As part of the launch of this planning work it is important that a...
With news of the National Security Association going through your emails and listening to your phone calls, I want to know if you feel like you are being watched enough. When a respected magazine like “Popular Science” writes an article entitled “The NSA Sucks More Than You Thought”1, you should really begin to question why and how these people got the authority to sift through your personal communications. God only knows what drones are watching us across the country. So, we’re being watched o...
Editor: The date is January 1st, 1998 the location is Green River, Wyoming: Susan McDonald mother of 5 year old Carlie McDonald after becoming intoxicated choose to place Carlie in the front seat of her car and drive. Susan entered I-80 and at 75 mph rear ended a slow moving semi-trailer. There was un-survivable damage to the right front passenger side of the vehicle where Carlie had been placed instead of the back seat. Carlie who loved the movie “The Lion King” and her dog, died at the scene of the accident. I thought of young Carlie on Mon... Full story
Editor: I have a serious complaint about your newspaper and cartoonist. He did a terrible job last week regarding “Vandalism at the Hot Springs”. First, he shows the vandal with one-quarter of his brain missing, and second, he spelled “black marker” correctly. He should have eliminated the top half of his head and, of course, misspelled “black marker” with something like “blk mrkr”. We citizens of Saratoga pretty well know who these vandal ass kids are because we can spot the new crop every school year, and they are as stupid as last year’s... Full story
A chemical spill in the Saratoga sewer lagoons of unknown type and origin caused a strong odor many visitors and residents may have encountered in May and June. “It got hit with some kind of chemical,” said Public Works Director Chuck Bartlett. “We don’t know whether it came from the system or someone dumped it, but it got hit and killed all the bacteria in cell one.” Bartlett said the chemical got into the system between May and June, causing the strong odor. Depending on wind condition...
The Platte Valley Habitat Partnership will hold a meeting and a tour of mule deer habitat on Aug. 28-29. The meeting will be held beginning at 1 p.m. Wednesday, at the Platte Valley Community Center, 210 W. Elm Ave. in Saratoga. The meeting will review the Platte Valley Habitat Partnership Plan and Process, discuss the role of Voices of the Valley in the partnership, and discuss the project approval process and current proposed habitat projects. On Thursday, the United States Forest Service will host the Mule Deer Habitat Tour. Those...
A fundraising party to benefit car accident victim Kayci Swimley will take place Sept. 21 at the Whistle Pig Saloon in Saratoga. Saratoga residents, Tonya Hartman and Maggie Ingleby are helping organize this event meant to financially benefit Swimley, who is from Saratoga and currently still hospitalized. According to Hartman, Swimley was injured in a car wreck while on the way to Casper July 27. “She was ejected from her car, and broke all her ribs and her back in two parts,” Hartman said. “She also ripped her spleen, broke her collar bone...
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Rawlins Field Office (RFO) has made the revised North Platte River Recreation Area Management Plan (RAMP) and environmental assessment (EA) available for public comment until Sept. 6. In response to public input, the RFO has completed site specific inspections and modified the RAMP to include the following preferred alternatives: 1. Boat-in Campground- Only a primitive campsite with boundary signs proposed. 2. Corral Creek Campground- Develop horse corrals and improve river access. 3. Bennett Peak...
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Rawlins Field Office is launching a public comment period on an environmental assessment (EA) for a proposal by Samson Resources Co. and Mountain Gas Resources, LLC. The public comment period would be to construct new access roads, two pipelines and two compressor stations, and install a high and low pressure loop pipeline in the Desolation Flats Natural Gas Field. The Endurance/Barricade Gas Infrastructure Project encompasses approximately 42,240 acres of primarily public land with a small amount of state...
This month, the Encampment/Riverside Fire Department celebrated 110 years of heroic rescues and building saves in the Platte Valley. It was 1903 when the Encampment Fire Department held its first annual banquet for department members and friends at what was then known as the city hall, according to an archived article from the Grand Encampment Herald newspaper. At that time the new department staff had 31 members, including Fire Chief John Ball, Assistant Chief Frank McDaniels, Secretary...
Incoming Saratoga High School junior Marhshal Hill has been chosen to participate in the United States Senate Page Program for the upcoming fall semester. Hill was chosen as one of 16 boys from across the country to participate in the program to be a page, which lasts from Sept. 9 to Jan. 24 and is open to all high school juniors across the country. He will serve as a page in a paid position for Wyoming Senator Mike Enzi’s office in Washington, D.C. “I’ll run papers back and forth between senat...
Liandro Escobedo has grown accustomed to the ringing of a cash register and sifting through merchandise after working at a thrift store throughout the summer. Escobedo works hard. Any given day since June, He could be spotted inside Bridge Street Bargains, located on Bridge Street across from The Wolf Hotel, working the register, hanging up clothes or performing some other task to benefit the non-profit shop. “I think it’s great because it helps you a lot, plus it gives you something to do, so...
The Wyoming Stock Growers Agricultural Land Trust (WSGALT) held its annual banquet in Saratoga Saturday WSGALT was founded in Saratoga. The driving forces behind it were Dr. John Lunt and Joe Glode who worked together to establish WSGALT. Lunt and his wife, Suzie, returned to Saratoga for the event, which was held at the Sheep Rock Ranch owned by Joe and Jack Glode. Sheep Rock Ranch was the first ranch to have a conservation easement under WSGALT. Glode told the record breaking crowd that on...
Opinions are crossed on which of the four routes would be the best for the TransWest Transmission Line project. As of now, there are still four potential routes being considered for the 725-mile, 600kV, high-voltage direct current project designed to deliver high capacity wind energy from Wyoming to renewable power-needing markets in Nevada, California and Arizona. There is a BLM-preferred route that runs through southern Carbon County and takes the lines closer to Baggs (Route 1-D); a...
If fundraisers are measured by the amount of people who attend, then the Ryan Park Fundraiser was a huge success this weekend, with more than 350 people attending. “We had 311 paying adults,” organizer Donna Beach said. Another successful part of the fundraiser was the Ryan Park Volunteer Calendar, which featured the area’s history. The idea to high Ryan Park’s history via calendar was partially concocted by Ryan Park resident Carol Beach. The calendar, designed by Dick Perue, sold for $12 eac...
1 years ago July 3, 1913 Hen hovers kittens We don’t believe in Nature-fakers and the ones who naturally pulls off the “ruph stuph” should be run over the edge of the earth whenever that edge may be found. But here is a new one and as it comes from good source, we are going to give it space and take chances on being called a nature-faker. A lady out in the country said she has a hen that has taken up with a bunch of kittens. The lady was, we believe, trying to “break her up.” Also the lady has a cat with some little kittens The said cat... Full story