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Encampment girls' volleyball has expanded its winning streak to 23-0 overall and 5-0 in the conference, despite a squeaker of a match against Little Snake River Valley in Baggs Friday. With Sierra Martinez out Thursday, the Lady Tigers seemed to have no difficulty dispatching the North Park Lady Cats in Encampment, sending the Lady Cats back to Walden, with a resounding loss. Friday's match against Little Snake River was a harder fought game, with the Tigers barely pulling out the win against...
After more than 35 years, Kim Lorenzen of Saratoga Aviation has started the process of selling-off his Fixed Base Operator (FBO) business at Shively Field to a new firm, Mountain Flight Services. The transaction was announced and approved at an Oct. 12 meeting of the Saratoga Airport Board attended by about five members of the public. An FBO is the entity in charge of keeping an airport up to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) standards, and it is also responsible for providing a host of...
Riverside Town Council met Tuesday to take care of routine town business, discuss a donation to the Encampment branch of the Carbon County Library and to discuss becoming a gateway community for the Continental Divide Trail. In routine business, the council members discussed the town’s budget and receipts of county taxes. Since July, the beginning of the fiscal year, the town received $81.42, even though the town had budgeted $6,300 in county tax receipts. Jan Cook, town clerk, told board members that the budgeted amount was based on previous y...
The Encampment Town Council Met Thursday and saw its regular meeting dominated by issues related to the South Central Wyoming Emergency Medical Services (SCWEMS) and the opportunity to be a Continental Divide gateway community. After taking care of routine business, Jeb Steward, Chair of SCWEMS, spent about 20 minutes updating the council on the goings on at SCWEMS. Steward was appointed as Encampment’s representative to SCWEMS at the May 12 council meeting. At that meeting, Steward accepted the appointment telling the council that SCWEMS w...
One of the biggest problems facing any rural emergency service is how to minimize and compensate for any “gaps” in coverage. For South Central Wyoming Emergency Medical Services (SCWEMS), whose coverage area stretches across thousands of square miles, the problem is acute. As explained by newly appointed SCWEMS chair Jeb Steward, gaps in coverage occur when a community doesn’t have an emergency responder on-duty and able to respond to a call for help. Steward said that in these instances, the n...
I didn’t set out to be a “crazy cat lady.” I have acquired three cats though and apparently three is the threshold for being dubbed such. For years I was cat-free–but in the summer of 2001 I felt the need to go to the library. There, in the entry alcove, was a lady I knew. I said “hi” and then noticed the box of kittens she was watching over. “You want one?” she asked. “They’re free.” Against my better judgment, I picked a few up and eventually settled on a little cutie with a checkerboard m...
When Mikayla Larrow started working as the director of the Saratoga Museum this spring, she inherited what would be a prize-winning artifact–and a mystery. The Wyoming State Historical Society recently named a keepsake box owned by the museum one of the Top Ten Artifacts of 2016, but questions about the box’s provenance remain. The box is an intricately carved wooden piece in the “kerbschnit” style, which involves making deep furrows in wood with a razor or other small blade. The outside...
I appreciate opportunity to answer the editorial comment on my letter last week. The government report referenced compares wind turbine power when the turbine actually spins. The problem is the wind doesn’t cooperate 24 hours a day. The extra expense to a contract electricity supplier who has to supply electricity 24 hours a day occurs as they either have to invest in reliable alternative back-up generation or buy very expensive electricity (open market source.) Please verify this fact with Wyoming Electric Cooperative, consumer owned. A...
Once again, the Saratoga Panther volleyball team managed to split weekend matches, but they didn't walk away with the W they really wanted. After taking three of four sets at home against Hanna Elk Mountain Medicine Bow (HEM) Friday, the Panthers were defeated by Farson-Eden in Farson Saturday afternoon. The Farson-Eden match-up was the more important game, because it represented one of Saratoga's final three conference matches of the season. There are now just two of those conference matches...
In Saratoga High School’s Oct. 14 football game against Rocky Mountain High School, in Cowley, Wyo., all of the action came in the first half. Little of it was in the Panther’s favor. Despite a revitalized roster featuring two previously injured athletes, Saratoga fell 55-7 to the Grizzlies, dropping to 1-3 in conference play with one regular season game left. “We started out OK, but I’m not sure exactly what happened,” coach Kegan Willford said afterwards. Indeed, in the first quarter t...
Beginning at 10 a.m. Oct. 21, the Rawlins Veterans’ Affairs Telehealth Clinic will be holding an open house at 1809 East Daley Street in Rawlins. According to a press release, at the open house veterans can get their flu vaccinations and learn about the advantages offered by telehealth services. A tour of the facility will also feature in the morning’s events, and all members of the public are invited to attend and learn about services offered by the Veterans’ Administration....
The Saratoga Planning Commission are six laymen armed with three-hundred page binders and charged with a daunting task. With about five members of the public attending their Oct. 11 meeting, the commission continued to grapple with questions of how to order organic growth and impartially direct development. Camping at Copperline Lodge, redefining the town influence area, finalizing a zone-change application from Trivest Enterprises and other repeat issues took up much of the docket. Copperline...
The Saratoga Water and Sewer Joint Powers Board (sewer board) met Wednesday after a month without a regular meeting to dispense with accumulated business. The sewer board debated whether or not it had the authority to grant permission for a tap for the waste transfer station that is under construction. Board member Russ Waldner said the ordinance made it unclear to him whether the sewer board could unilaterally approve a tap without the involvement of the town council, since the transfer station is outside town limits. Waldner took issue with t...