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The Party on the Platte may have raised enough money this year to replace the gym floor, according to Joe Glode, chairman of the Platte Valley Community Center (PVCC) Joint Powers Board. "It was fantastic," Glode said. "I don't know how we could have done it any better." The Great Hall was filled to capacity with nearly 300 people attending, Glode said. Joe Elder, the PVCC's executive director, said they raised nearly a gross total of $95,000 Saturday night at the annual fundraiser. A $20,000... 
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Even though it may seem the Platte Valley has received more rain than usual, meteorologist Shawn Leibl with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), said precipitation is up in the Platte Valley, but not as much as you might think. The last two months, Saratoga has seen 5.3 inches of rain as of Sept. 12 — which is slightly above normal rainfall. Leibl said there is an average of 4.14 inches of rain between July and now. While the last two months have seen a larger amount of r...
Lower scores on the 2014 PAWS (Proficiency Assessments for Wyoming Students) and SAWS (Student Assessment for Writing Students) tests are nothing to fear, Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD#2) Superintendent Jim Copeland said. Copeland said the test results will likely reflect lower scores from previous years, as they make the transition to meet Common Core standards. The tests were taken by students in March and April of 2014, and their results will be released to the public on Sept. 22....
A Masonic memorial service and picnic will be held for Orley Roberts at noon on Sept. 23 at Kathy Glode Park. In case of bad weather, the service will be moved to the Masonic Hall at Second and Rochester....
Martin "Marty" Roy Huntley, 58, passed away on Sept. 11, 2014 in Saratoga, his hometown. Marty was born June 12, 1956 in Portland, Ore., to Josef M. Huntley and Nellie M. Heminger. Marty attended Saratoga School. While growing up he lived in Ryan Park for a while and helped his dad with the logging and made many of the roads there today. On June 25, 1977 he married Jane Slater and they had three children. Marty worked in many different trades. He logged for Jim Crowe and Lester and Tom...
On Sept. 13, 2014 at 6:08 p.m. an emergency meeting of the Board of Directors of Anheuser Bush was called in an effort to stymie the sudden freefall in stock price as a result of plummeting Budweiser sales. Investors and Board members alike feared the worst when they learned of the untimely death of Kirsten M. Campbell, 46, of Saratoga. Kirsten was the backbone of the kitchen in the Wolf Hotel for over 20 years and was loved, respected, and admired by a legion of friends and a tightly knit...
A service for Jacqueline E. Smith will be held at St. Ann's Parish, 218 W. Spring Avenue, Saratoga, at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 27 followed by the burial of ashes at the Saratoga Cemetery and a reception at the Saratoga Inn, 601 Pic Pike Road. Jacqueline E. Smith was born May 12, 1929, to Dr. Karl E. and Louise Krueger in Omaha, Neb. When Dr. Krueger completed medical school the family moved to Rock Springs, Wyo. Jacqueline graduated from the Rock Springs High School in May of 1947, and...
The fencing ordinance will receive another makeover. The planning commission voted to amend the fencing ordinance which will allow for a seven-foot fence, with 75 percent visibility in fences higher than four feet. The planning commission wrestled with the changes for more than an hour. The major topic of concern was how high does the fence have to be to keep deer out of a homeowner’s yard. Initially, the proposed ordinance called for a maximum of a six-foot fence, with 50 percent visibility i...
It’s time again for the new model year and the old model year-end clearance sales. Summer has come to its Labor Day ending and fall is in the air. For me, this means my birthday is around the corner. This year, I will have hit the half century mark. The big Five-Oh, or maybe Five-Ow seeing as some part of me almost always has some kind of pain. The new normal is a traveling soreness. My foot might hurt one day, my shoulder the next. The knee is acting up today or maybe it was a backache. Some da...
To the editor: Amazingly, people can do the strangest things. For example, I just have finished looking over more than seventy “Retro-Blog” columns written by Keith McLendon and published in the Sun from 2009 to this year. In his essays, McLendon has covered such diverse topics as the rules for waving at people in Saratoga (8-4-10), time flying like arrows (11-10-10), craving grilled cheese (7-11-12), licensing pressure cookers (4-24-13), and smelling road cones (5-28-14). On a more personal level, he has praised his mother (5-8-13) and dec...
Most evenings you'll find Bill Baker sitting in front of his Saratoga apartment basking from the warmth of the chiminea glowing with fire. The retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, former Halliburton recruiter, and college assistant dean has a great view of the playing fields across Bridge Street to watch evening competition play out. This year's Legacy Award recipient, Baker and his wife, Jeannette, who died in August last year, established the Bill and Jeannette Baker Agriculture Scholarship....
The Saratoga High School (SHS) cross country runners took more than 15 minutes off their combined time at last week’s Liberty Bell Invitational at Heritage High School in Denver, Colo. Every single high school runner had an improved 5k time. Notably, Milo Hunter dropped 3 minutes, 51.3 seconds (3:51.3) and Katie Loose shaved 2:01.5 off of her time from the previous week. “It was exciting to see kids with a smile on their face thinking ‘wow, I didn’t think I could do that’,” Rex Hohnholt, head co... Website
When you go to play a powerhouse team like Cokeville, some pre-game jitters are to be expected. But Saratoga football head coach Scott Bokelman said the jitters ended up getting the best of them in their 48-9 loss to the Cokeville Panthers. Bokelman said his team did not play nearly as well as he expected. “We came into the game just a little bit intimidated,” he said. The game against Cokeville was a wake-up call for the Panthers, Bokelman said. He said in order for them to compete in fut...
Konnar Knotwell and Bailey Miller, of Encampment, and Jace Berger, of Saratoga, are competing in High School Rodeos this fall. Knotwell is competing in team roping and breakaway roping. Miller is competing in barrel racing and Berger is competing in calf roping and team roping. Aug. 31 and Sept.1, the trio competed in Wheatland. Berger earned fourth place in team roping with a time of 7.44 seconds on Sept. 1. He and roping partner Matt Britton, of Wheatland, shaved off several points from...
The Encampment Lady Tigers beat Little Snake River in four sets Friday night in front of a full house at the Encampment School gymnasium. With purple on one side of the bleachers and red on the other side, there was constant cheering during the match. In the first set, the Lady Rattlers had a strong start with three unanswered points before the Lady Tigers stepped up and took charge. It would take a few of Alyssa Barkhurst's stinging kills before the Lady Rattlers would react to Barkhurst. The... Website
Only one member of the Saratoga High School (SHS) golf team went to Douglas for last week’s golf tournament, and he walked away with first place. Braxton Schwartzkopf shot a 77 on the only day of the tournament which was shortened due to weather. The next closest golfers both shot 79. “I just played really solid golf the whole day,” Schwartzkopf said. He said he had a couple of birdies that helped and he made the shots he needed to. This was Schwartzkopf’s first win of the season. As far as...
The Lady Panthers varsity volleyball team played Hanna Elk Mountain Medicine Bow (HEM) last Thursday and Southeast (Yoder, Colo.) on Friday. They lost both matches. There was some back and forth scoring between the teams during the HEM match for which the results were 23-25, 19-25 and 15-25. Panthers coach Shaley Love said Thursday was kind of rough and she didn’t feel like the team was “in the zone.” The first two sets of the Southeast match were tightly contested. Love said she thought they wo... Website
Gary Stull opened the public comments at the Sept. 11 Encampment Town Council meeting this past Thursday by complaining about the burned structure at 507 McCaffrey. “This property has been sitting as an eyesore to the city since April,” Stull said, adding “The top story is starting to lean to the south and it needs to be taken down before snowfall.” Mayor Greg Salisbury said the problem is that it is private property and the owner has a building permit to rebuild, and that as long as it is boar...
Editor’s note: this is the second in a two-part series on the restoration of historic fire lookouts in general and the fire lookout tower at Kennaday Peak in particular. By Erik Gantt [email protected] “The lookout symbol is so iconic to our agency that when the Forest Service Honor Guard was developing a coin to give thanks to folks that have contributed to the agency or families of the fallen the lookout was chosen for one side of the coin,” Melanie Fullman, District Forest Range...
Whether it's teaching the finer aspects of drawing, or the molding of clay, Noel Shepherd is excited to be the new art teacher at Saratoga Middle/High School. Shepherd is from Rawlins, and she graduated from the University of Wyoming with a degree in art education in 2012. "I have always loved art, that's why I have decided to pursue it as a career," Shepherd said. "I also love teaching. I consider both of them to be passions of mine." This is Shepherd's first job at a public school, but she is...
1 Years Ago Sept. 17, 1914 Well, we had a fine summer. Crops have been good and the farmer and rancher both wear smiles “that isn’t going to be pulled off with a donkey.” The weather was especially fine until Saturday afternoon, when it went democratic and remained with us a few days. However, this may clear up the situation until late in the fall. Like all democratic conditions, there is generally a long republican spell after the shock. The next snow will arrive somewhere between the 2nd and the 7th of November, 1914, according to the p...
At Deseret Health and Rehab, residents enjoyed many activities throughout the week. The Activity Department offers a wide variety of activities each week to meet the residents’ interests, as well as the physical, mental and psychological well-being of each resident. Games throughout the week provided fun and laughter. On Sunday afternoon, six residents played Dominoes with Pat Rust winning. On Tuesday morning, eight residents played Yahtzee with Janet Kennaday winning. On Wednesday afternoon, 16 residents played Bingo, and on Friday afternoon,...
Dominoes: Shout out to our Domino players, Joe Remick, Lorraine Knotwell, Betty Merrill, Phil Fleming with a win, Bill Telfer with two wins, Madeline Telfer with one win and Laura Rettelle Coffee Drinkers: Our ever faithful coffee drinkers, Laura Rettelle, Connie Beckham, Patty Herring, Karen Dibbern, LeDawn Vorn, Arleigh Simmons, Dody Brown. Bridge Game: One down three to go for Sheila Johnson, Millie Parker, Kay Fleming, Rosemary Craighead, Vivien Campbell. Quilters: New quilt for the month not sure whose or the name of the Quilt but it is a...
From Sept. 8 through Sept. 14, the Saratoga Police Department responded to 72 calls including the following classifications: Agency assistance (2); ambulance (3); animal problem (1); assist business (1); business checks (19); check fraud (1); citizen assist (5); civil assist (1); destruction of property (1); dog at large (3); lost dog (1); dog tag (1); fingerprints (6); fire (1); hot pool check (6); lockout (1); lost property (1); missing person (1); paper service (2); traffic accident (1); house watch (3); record check (1); school bus...
Saratoga Schools Breakfast Wednesday – Breakfast pizza or cereal/string cheese, fruit or juice, milk. Thursday – Breakfast burrito or cereal/string cheese, fruit or juice, milk. Friday – No breakfast. Monday – Breakfast pastry or cereal and yogurt, fruit or juice, milk. Tuesday – Cereal, string cheese, fruit or juice, milk. Lunch Wednesday – Italian dunkers, cheesy bread, green beans, fruit and vegetable bar, pears, milk. Thursday – Pancakes and syrup, sausage patty, hash browns, fruit & vegetable bar, banana, milk. Friday – No lunch. Monday ...