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Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
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Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD No. 2) Superintendent Jim Copeland had high praise for seven teachers in his district after the Proficiency Assessments for Wyoming Students (PAWS) results came out last week. Copeland was effusive in his praise of Hanna teacher Jackie Jones saying, “Jackie Jones’, (class) scored both 100 percent on math and reading, which is very outstanding. Sometimes when you score so high on proficiency it is hard to score high growth because you are already performing at a high level.” Despite th... Full story
Coach Jackie Jones of Hanna-Elk Mountain-Medicine Bow (HEM) High School’s Lady Miners did not know how her extremely young team would fair at the Saratoga Invitational, but she was very encouraged with what she witnessed on Friday and Saturday. “I feel the girls played some of the best teams in the state this past weekend. We learned a lot about ourselves, and we know we have work to do in the long season ahead of us,” said Jones. The first team the Lady Miners played in the invitational was Farson-Eden’s Lady Prongho... Full story
The Encampment Lady Tigers spent Friday and Saturday at the home of Valley rival Saratoga Panthers for the Saratoga Invite. While in the house of purple and gold, the Tigers did not square off against the Panthers or 2016 division champion Little Snake River Valley, which took the state championship in a huge letdown for the Tigers last year. The team did however take on five other teams over the course of the tournament, beating them all and beginning the year yet again with an undefeated streak, save for the narrow loss of... Full story
The SMHS cross country team met Friday in Green River for the Green River Invite. The first meet of the year allowed the Panthers to get started on the season after months of summer vacation and the off-season. Senior Ashlynn Johnston, the only high school girl to compete, took third place in the 5-kilometer run, setting a time of 23:20 for the course. The team fielded six high school boys for the 5-kilometer at the Green River Invite. Sophomore Jarom Herring finished eighth, with a time of 19:55. Gavin Bartlett took 11th... Full story
Saratoga High School hosted a tournament Friday and Saturday that served as the first game of the season for a number of schools, including local rivals, and despite strong competition finished the weekend with a 4-1 win-loss ratio. The Lady Panthers finished out their home tournament having lost only to the Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) Rattlers of Baggs, defending state champions from 2016. By losing only one match over the course of the weekend, the team showed it had the mettle to compete with the best this year,... Full story
While the Saratoga Invite volleyball tournament went on down the hill, the Saratoga High School football team scrimmaged against the junior varsity team of Laramie in the first game of the 2017 season. Even though the game was a scrimmage and will not count toward season standing for the Panthers, the game was still a welcomed practice for the team and gave players and coaches an idea of the team’s strengths and weaknesses. The team defeated Laramie JV by a score of 13-2. The team’s defense was particularly strong, for... Full story
Caroline Morrison moved to Saratoga a year ago when her husband, Tyler, got a job with the Bureau of Land Management in Rawlins. At the time she was eager to put her civil engineering background to work and among the places she applied was Engineering Associates (EA) in Saratoga. EA didn’t have an opening at the time, so she and her husband embarked on another creative endeavor; their child Marie. Marie was only about seven weeks old when EA called with a job offer. Caroline took the job, but can only work part time until M... Full story
There is at least one appliance I have yet to mention in my periodic discourses on such things. It has become invaluable tool in our everyday life, but it didn’t start that way. That device was … the telegraph! Alright. No. But the telegraph was the precursor to Alexander Graham Bell’s 1876 invention, the telephone. While the original telephones were not much more than an electrified tin can and string system, they soon became widespread and commercialized. In 1877 the Bell Telephone Company was founded and 3,000 priva... Full story
Members of the Saratoga Town Council and the Saratoga Planning Commission met Tuesday to move the town’s proposed Planned Unit Development (PUD) ordinance closer to a vote. After ironing out some issues in the proposed language of the ordinance, the next step is legal review before the ordinance is voted on by council members after three readings. If passed, the ordinance would allow the planning commission to approve development projects on a case-by-case basis without being required to engage in the process of zoning change... Full story
Residents and visitors to Encampment were treated to a talk about an important figure in the American West, Kit Carson, Thursday at The Encampment Opera House. The talk wrapped up a series of three talks held as part of the Grand Encampment Museum’s (GEM) speaker series, and was delivered by Valley resident and historian John Farr. The event was held as a fundraiser for GEM. About 50 people were in attendance at the event, and the Plexiglas box for optional donations was well stuffed with bills. Farr spoke for about an h... Full story
Robert Lee Wright of Saratoga peacefully passed away at his home, August 21, 2017. He had been under the care of several doctors for about four months battling kidney cancer. Bob, as he was affectionally known, retired from Sinclair Oil Company as Senior Corporate Projects Planner two years ago. This good and caring man owned an archery shop in his home where he sold archery supplies, fletched arrows, tied bow strings, and etc. He helped experienced archers improve their bow skills. He worked with beginning and new archers,... Full story
Word was received here this week of the death of former Saratoga and Encampment resident Ronald Arnold Perue who passed away Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017, in a Spokane, Washshington hospital. Ron was born Sept. 2, 1939 in Laramie, the third son of R. A. (Bob) and Elizabeth (Edington) Perue and grew up on the Pick Ranch and in Saratoga, attending school here. He graduated from Platte Valley High School with the class of 1957. He was class president and a member of the wrestling team, where he and Gary Maki were Saratoga’s first s... Full story