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With high winds and low humidity over the weekend a third wildfire was discovered burning in Carbon County Sept. 10. Given the intensity of the new blaze, and its distance from the Walden, Colo. incident command post (ICP) combating the Broadway and Beaver Creek Fires, Forest Service Public Affairs Officer Aaron Voos said there has been discussion of establishing a separate ICP in Encampment. That ICP would manage the new fire as well as the Broadway blaze. The Snake Fire, as it has been...
9 was the biggest year yet for the five-year old Saratoga Cancer Walk, both in terms of participants (more than 250) and funds raised (over $15,000). On Sept. 8, several walk organizers, Saratoga High School (SHS) principal Linda Butler and SHS students who did "legwork" for the Fourth of July fundraiser gathered at the Wolf for a valedictory lunch and check presentation ceremony. According to Scott Bokelman, an SHS industrial technology teacher and cancer survivor, the $15,000 will be split...
John Heinrich, age 73, of Loveland, Colo. passed away peacefully at home on Sept. 7, 2016 after a long struggle with lung disease. John was born in Denver, Colo. on March 3, 1943 to "Heinie" and Dorothy Heinrich. He was a Navy Veteran. After serving four years, he met and married Linda Voeller of North Dakota in 1964. They shared 52 loving years of marriage. John's career of 43 years was spent as a manufacturers sporting goods representative. He was an avid outdoors enthusiast, enjoying hunting,...
A Sept. 6 Saratoga Town Council Meeting began with Cindy Bloomquist presenting mayor Ed Glode with an oversized squash from the community garden. About five people were in attendance, and outside of an update on the prospects for a gravel bar removal project, little of substance was under consideration. Director of public works Jon Winter said at the meeting that he has been working on the gravel bar removal undertaking with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACE). The gravel bars are located in...
Riverside Town Council met at town hall Thursday to deal with town business and to hear from Jacob Mickelsen director of the Carbon County Library System (CCLS) about funding for the Encampment/Riverside branch library. Mickelsen appeared before the council to inform members that the library system had established a system that would allow donors to make contributions to individual branch libraries with all money earmarked for a particular branch to be used there only. The council also made a determination to not fill a seat that became...
The Encampment Town Council met Thursday at town hall to deal with routine matters and voted to donate funds to keep the town’s library open for an additional hour per week. The council was visited by Jacob Mickelsen, Director of the Carbon County Library System, who ensured the council that money donated to a particular library would only be used to fund operations at that library. The town also voted to support a resolution urging the state legislature to not raise taxes on wind power generated in the state. Mickelsen visited the E...
By 1:30, we'd paid the check at La Marguerite and started making our way toward the train station two kilometers away. Imagining we were under some sort of time constraint (ha), we split into two groups with Rebecca and David biking ahead and me walking my bike beside Barry, who had opted not to bring his. His was a prescient decision. I'd seen Bobo-Dioulasso's train station many times from afar, but this was my first time inside. In a city with little to offer in terms of competition, it's an...
Folk duo Otter Creek will entertain Valley residents starting at 7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 19 at the Platte Valley Community Center. Prior to their performance, Peter and Mary Danzig will be working with third and fourth grade students from both Saratoga Elementary and Encampment Schools to compose a verse to a well-known song which will be performed that evening. With 10 instruments between them and 53 strings to tune, Otter Creek burst onto the national folk scene in 2012 with back-to-back hit...
After starting the season hot, the Saratoga Panthers volleyball team cooled off significantly over the weekend, losing their first conference match against Little Snake River. The girls dropped their conference debut in the minimum, losing 25-17, 25-11, and 25-20. “I just felt like we were a little bit flat when we stepped on the floor and missed some serves that we haven’t missed up to this point,” coach Shayley Love said a few days later. She said while she had heaped praise on the Panth...
The Encampment School volleyball team put in another strong performance over the weekend at Hanna Saturday keeping the team’s undefeated streak alive. The varsity team defeated rivals from Rock River, Lingle, Guernsey, Kaycee and Glendo. Over the course of ten games, the team won all sets and all matches. While there were a couple close calls for the Tigers in two games when the team only won by two points, the team handily defeated their opponents in the other 8 games. One of the close games was against Rock River. The team played against R...
Sandwiched between two four-and-a-half-hour trips on a school bus, the Saratoga High School Panthers football team suffered a resounding 58-12 loss to Lusk Sept. 9. “It wasn’t a very fun bus ride back home,” said first year coach Kegan Willford. A big factor in the lopsided outcome was how much difficulty the Panthers had holding onto the ball, Willford said. He said the Panthers had five turnovers in the first half, including four fumbles and one interception and “Our defense was just put int...
Saratoga High School’s cross country team crossed a lot of country this past weekend on the way to the Liberty Bell Invite in Littleton, Colo. The team fielded 11 runners in the varsity boys’ competition, and two runners in the varsity girls’ field. Varsity boys saw two athletes finish in the top 20, with Reid Schroeder turning in a tenth place finish with a time of 17:24, while Ben Fairbanks came in 15th place with a time of 17:54. Saratoga’s girls came in 26th and 139th in a field of 157 runners. Katie Loose earned a 26th place finish...
Senior Center Menu Wednesday: Chili, cheese/onion, tossed salad, mandarin oranges, cinnamon roll, milk Thursday: Tuna casserole, mixed vegetables, wheat bread, fruited jell-o, whipped topping, milk Friday: Roast beef, mashed potatoes/gravy, corn, wheat roll, fruit cocktail, milk Monday: Beef tacos, luttuce/tomato/cheese, refried beans, quash blend, apricots, milk Tuesday: Pork roast, mashed potatoes/gravy, brussels sprouts, wheat roll, applesauce, milk Saratoga School Wednesday: Italian dunkers, cheesy breadsticks, green beans, fruit and...