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Following the initial announcement on Aug. 7, 2018 that Health Management Services (HMS) LLC. would be taking over management of Platte Valley Medical Clinic (PVMC) with a tentative date of Oct. 1, many wondered when the inevitable transfer of management would take place. It was suspected that, despite the transfer in management, Dr. Bryan Kaiser would see his lease of the building through until the end of the year. In the Sept. 25 edition of the Rawlins Daily Times, however, a public notice... Full story
The Wyoming Public Lands Initiative (WPLI) Advisory Committee made the following recommendations for the four Carbon County Wilderness Study Areas (WSAs) in an Aug. 20 document. The comment period for most of these areas closed Sept. 9 but there will be a single topic meeting to discuss the Wild and Scenic status for the Encampment River from the Colorado State line downstream to the Encampment River trailhead at the Bureau Land Management BLM campground. This meeting will be held at 9 a.m. Oct....
The Medicine Bow Town Council met at 7 p.m. on Sept. 10 at the Medicine Bow Community Hall. It was business as usual as the minutes and financials were approved. The council heard from Gareth McDonald of BluEarth, a Canadian Company, who spoke about two new wind projects coming potentially coming into the area. He said it’s an eight-year-old company, privately funded by the Ontario teachers’ pension fund. They own 99.5 percent of BluEarth, a wind, solar and hydroelectric company. The Two Riv...
Saratoga High School graduate and award winning KBHB Radio program, news and sports director Gary Maki, Jr. has been selected to receive the Tom Brokaw Award that recognizes excellence in broadcasting. Presented in a cooperative effort between the South Dakota Broadcasters Association (SDBA) and the Contemporary Media & Journalism Department of the University of South Dakota, it is one of USD's highest honors. Maki is originally from Saratoga and a graduate of Black Hills State University with...
The Carbon County Council of Governments (CCCOG) met at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 19 at the Hanna Town Hall. Steve Nicholson, the chairman, was not in attendance so Kenda Colman, the vice-chairman, ran the meeting. The minutes of July 18 and Aug. 15 along with the treasurers report were approved by the council. Morgan Irene, mayor of Elk Mountain and CCCOG Secretary/Treasurer, said most information he needed on the 5th penny tax had come in from the municipalities, but there was still some tweaking to...
The second layer of the Economic Development Tiers Includes Quality of Life and Workforce Development. This month my thoughts turn to the third block: Infrastructure Development. Living in a small, rural, isolated community can be thought of as a negative situation. But many of us feel the exact opposite. We choose the Good Times Valley for a multitude of reasons and relish those attributes. Such as a sense of calm and quiet. Feeling safe. Knowing our neighbors by name. Support. However, when it comes to infrastructure, we want the same things...
“Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.” ~ David Lynch Coffee is a reporter’s best friend. Freshly-brewed coffee, hot out of the pot and steaming from the mug is best. Nearly day-old coffee that’s been heated up in the microwave will suffice in a pinch. I’ve recently noticed that stores are beginning to sell edible coffee cubes for people too busy to make coffee. I don’t think I’m that far just yet and if I am, someone please tell me. Now that I mention it, though, I am curious as to w...
Dear Editor, In regard to my employment at the Platte Valley Medical Clinic: Change is hard. For everyone. For those with significant medical needs it is particularly difficult to establish care with a new and unknown provider. Or in a new and unknown health care system. Having worked in nursing for the past 27 years, I have come to understand that change is the norm in health care. It is a constant that cannot be avoided. But it can be managed in ways that are helpful to those most impacted. Or, it can be mismanaged with the most important... Full story
The Saratoga Lady Panthers, the current No. 2 team in 1A Southwest, had a pretty easy weekend as the only game for the varsity was against the No. 2 team in 1A Southeast, the Rock River Lady Longhorns (25-14, 25-21, 22-25, 25-15) who they hosted Friday evening. The last time the two teams met was when Rock River hosted the Lady Panthers. Saratoga returned home from that match with a 3-2 victory. This time, with the Lady Panthers hosting Rock River, the ladies of Saratoga would shorten the match...
Following their performances for the hometown the week before at the Shana Ward Memorial Invitational, the distance runners of Saratoga Cross Country left home to run in the Wheatland Invitational on Friday. Shianne Baker would not run this weekend, but Kaitlyn Campbell ran in the women’s junior varsity and took 5th place with a time of 25:05, a career best according to Rex Hohnholt, head coach of Saratoga Cross Country. Also seeing a career best was Kelton Johnson, running in the men’s jun...
Saratoga High School football head coach Logan Wright said each week he keeps being more proud of what his players are accomplishing. Although the team’s wins are not counted in 6-man football and are considered exhibition, the Panthers are playing for keeps and their record shows it. They are 4-1 and their only loss is to Farson, currently the number one ranked team in 6-man. He said the game on Friday against Guernsey-Sunrise didn’t start out well, with the Vikings scoring the first tou...
While the Encampment Lady Tigers had a rough few weekends recently, they finally had some wins to celebrate as they had a 2-0 weekend. Encampment travelled to face off against the Laramie Lady Plainsmen Sophomores (25-18, 25-12, 25-19) on Friday and hosted the Rock River Lady Longhorns (22-25, 25-20, 26-24, 14-25, 15-11) on Saturday. While neither victory was a conference win, it gave the Lady Tigers a moral boost and showed how much work they've put in recently as well as how much they've...
On Friday, after the impressive win of the Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) Miner football team, the residents of Hanna got to watch the Lady Miner volleyball team handily beat the Guernsey-Sunrise Lady Vikings. The Lady Miners took control quickly and the Lady Vikings were down 11-6 in the first match, but the guests rallied to make it 16-12 and the HEM homecoming fans in attendance started to get nervous. The Lady Miners pulled together and won the first game 25-17. The next game was...
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) Miner football team got their first taste of home cooking Friday and kept at their winning ways against the Normative Services Institute Academy (NSI) Wolves, who were down from Sheridan. It was the Miners' homecoming game and before the competition started, Carbon County Search and Rescue had a helicopter drop off the game balls for the upcoming football and volleyball matches. After the game balls were given to HEM football head coach Zach Scott and...
Eva and Dan West were honored as this year's Super Fans for Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School for homecoming at halftime on Friday at the Miner football game. Jackie Jones, the head coach for HEM varsity volleyball, spoke to the nearly 200 people in attendance. She reminisced when she was a small girl and could remember the couple's kindness to her. "Enjoy being honored, because of all the time both of you have invested in all of us, it is truly treasured," Jones said. The coup...
Less than a week after the first community meeting at the Grand Encampment Opera House, Rocky Mountain Team Black (RMTB) and other agencies once again gathered in the historic building at 6 p.m. on Sept. 25 to provide updates to area residents on the Ryan Fire. The meeting followed exponential growth of the fire over the weekend of Sept. 22 as it threatened communities within the Skyline and Big Creek area. "I was really hoping this meeting would have a little bit more history, we wouldn't be...
River restoration is a set of activities that aid in the environmental health of a river. Most of these projects are aimed at flood management, improving fish and game habitat, landscape improvement, bank erosion repair and more. Four river restoration projects are currently ongoing with three proceeding on the Encampment River and one on the North Platte. The benefits to River restoration are manifold as these projects aid agricultural producers in preventing loss of land due to erosion, help...
Kay Grant has been educating students on life of the early pioneers and the Plains Indians culture for 13 years. She does this in a variety of ways, from using actual stone instruments used in day-to-day life to games and toys the children played with. She has a buffalo hide that has been on display for its tenth year and she has students scrape off a little hair with stone tools. About half the hair is left, which is amazing given how many years she has displayed it and allowed the scraping. Sh...
On Thursday, Sept. 20, Saratoga Middle/High School (SMHS) students and staff presented a check for $25,000 to the Corbett Medical Foundation to go towards helping Valley residents diagnosed with cancer. The donation came out of the $32,500 raised by the students of SMHS and members of SkillsUSA in 2018, led by Saratoga technology teacher Scott Bokelman. The remainder was donated to the Wyoming Breast Cancer Initiative (WBCI). To date, that is the most money that Bokelman and his students have...
Following the public notice in the Sept. 25 issue of Rawlins Times that the current provider of the Platte Valley Medical Clinic, Dr. Bryan Kaiser, would be closing his practice on Oct. 19, concern swept the Valley. A second notice ran in the Oct. 3 issue of the Rawlins Times with an altered date of Oct. 24. The Saratoga Sun reached out to the Rawlins Times and spoke with Shawn Therrian, legals and classifieds representative for the newspaper. Therrian informed the Sun that the date of closure... Full story