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In April, the Carbon County Impact Joint Powers Board (CCIJPB) reviewed details of the Spring Avenue water line replacement project with T-O Engineers. This project involves replacing 1,800 feet of waterline from the old water treatment plant on South River to the intersection of 3rd and Spring Avenue. When the project was in planning stages, the engineers saw the project as fairly straightforward. The main concern was supply chain shortages for materials such as 10 inch...
All businesses have a similar beginning, starting as an idea which can spark a plan. As of 2020, there were 31.7 million small businesses in the United States, 68,641 of those are located in Wyoming. The Business Innovation Hub, with the help of Impact 307, is working to increase that number. I just opened earlier this year. The Business Innovation Hub not only serves as the main office of the Rawlins Downtown Development Authority and executive director Pam Thayer, but as a r...
The Unclaimed Property Division of the Wyoming State Treasurer’s Office issued 2,389 checks totaling $2.564 million between July 1 and Sept. 30. The first-quarter results included $1.07 million paid in the month of September highlighted by a $125,000 check issued to a Teton County resident and a $102,000 check delivered to a governmental entity. The Unclaimed Property Division has now issued three six-figure checks this fiscal year as a former Cheyenne resident received nearly $170,000 in July. “We continue to locate ind...
More than 10,000 pounds of potatoes from the second annual potato harvest at the James C. Hageman Sustainable Agriculture Research and Extension Center (SAREC) are in distribution across the state via Food Bank of Wyoming. The potato harvest is a partnership between two University of Wyoming Extension programs, SAREC and the Cent$ible Nutrition Program (CNP), along with Food Bank of Wyoming. The goal is to provide Wyoming-grown produce to families facing food insecurity. CNP...
On September 30 the Saratoga Cross Country Team went to the Wheatland Invite and proved they have what it takes to win. Coach Rex Hohnholt shared his feelings about the meet, "Great effort at the meet this past weekend. We had some great performances highlighted by Grant and Grady's first and second place finish as well as the girls winning the team race once again. Thanks for all the effort you put into being successful. It will pay off for all of you in three weeks. These...
The Tigers found the Little Snake River Rattlers ready to fight. The Tigers fell to the Rattlers 21-8 and 21-19, leaving that game at 2-0. They were challenged by Burlington’s Lady Huskies, winning both games with 21-14 in the first match and 21-19 in the second. The Tigers brought their game when they tore into Big Piney’s Punchers winning 2-0 with 21-19 and 21-10. The Tigers encounter with Shoshoni didn’t go as well as they planned, losing both matches by only 3 point...
The Lady Panthers faced off with Riverside’s Lady Rebels Friday afternoon. The Rebels overcame the Panthers in a 2-0 game. This gave the Panthers a 12-4 record. Later in the afternoon the Panthers won against Wind River’s Cougars scoring 21-15 and 21-17 to win 2-0. In the evening, the Panthers slammed into Kemmerer’s Rangers 21-14 and 21-11 winning again 2-0. The last match that night for the Panthers was against Farson-Eden Pronghorns winning again 2-0 with scores of 21-4...
The Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) Rattler High School football team went up against the Hulett Devils in Midwest last Saturday and won in the usual manner. Big. The score was 52 to 0. Rattlers Head Coach, Jack Cobb, was pleased–not only with the game–but also that the Rattlers and Devils finished before a torrential rainstorm hit. “Hulett is a good team with some physical size and I challenged the boys to come out and take care of business,” Cobb said. “And they did just...
The Encampment Tiger High School football team took no prisoners against the Kaycee Buckaroo football team. They allowed Kaycee 6 points in the 2nd quarter, but that was it. The Tigers went to score 71 points making the game 71-6. The Tigers looked like they had the game in control from the beginning when Quade Jordan raced 38 yards for a touchdown. Kahan Pickett got the conversion and the score was 8 to 0. The Tigers were not done scoring the 1st quarter. Bristin Sifford got...
"We had a great game," Hanna, Elk Mountain (HEM) Miner High School football head coach Zack Scott said. "We played well on both sides of the ball and really applied what we have been working on in practice." The Miners faced the Midwest Oilers on September 30 and played their best football game since the season started. The young HEM team showed it had rebounded from the tough loss against Encampment the week before where they were not able to put up any points against the...
The Hanna Agricultural Resource Team (HART) has been getting ready for the change of seasons. On September 24, the organization had their last barbeque for the summer. It actually was in the Hanna Hometown Market because weather was threatening to drown anything outdoors. HART is a garden group in Hanna that not only runs a community garden compound behind the Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School; the group has gotten together at least every other weekend and...
Not to jinx myself, but I have been pretty lucky with this whole aging thing. I recently completed lifeguard certification and this body surprised me by being up to the physical aspects of the test. The written part on lifeguarding and CPR was not easy and I was happy to pass it. However, I really didn’t know if I was going to be able to do all the physical tests in the time required. Swimming laps was the one part of the test I was confident in. I was worried aoubt s...
Community Choirs in both Saratoga and Encampment are preparing for the upcoming holiday season. The Saratoga Community Choir will have their Christmas Concert performance on December 11 at 4 p.m. at the Platte Valley Community Center Theater. Until then, they have practice every Tuesday evening from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. To join in on the fun, call Valerie Larscheid at 307-321-8865 for more information. Encampment’s Community Choir will be December 7 at 6 p.m. at the Opera H... Full story
When Danny Burau opened his restaurant half a decade ago, he knew he was taking a risk. He wanted to have a place that made all its food on premise and be open seven days a week. Burau explained how he wanted Firewater Public House (Firewater) to be known when a customer went to the restaurant's website. "Firewater Public House is a community pub offering high quality comfort food and a unique whiskey selection. Perfectly set next to the North Platte River in Saratoga,...
The North Platte Valley Medical Center Project (NPVMC) was born nearly five years ago. Leaders from the community and the Corbett Medical Foundation (CMF) saw financial problems developing at the Platte Valley Clinic that threatened sustainability. CMF formed a subcommittee who were concerned about keeping quality healthcare in the community. They approached Memorial Hospital of Carbon County (MHCC) and Ivinson Memorial Hospital (IMH) to find a partner for the clinic, but...
Logan Wright, Head Coach of the Saratoga High School football team had a good feeling his Panther team would do well against the Panther team from Wright, Wyoming, last week. He also knew the other Panthers wanted to win badly and it would be a tough game. He was right. The game was a defensive showdown. Neither team scored a touchdown. However, two safeties were scored by the Saratoga Panthers. It didn't add up to a lot of points, but it was enough to win. "It has been since...