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The Carbon County School District (CCSD) No. 2 Speech and Debate team may be small this year, the team consists of only six girls, but they have set lofty goals for themselves as they prepare to head into the season with new Head Coach Johnny Mercer. "Our team goals this year are to make a showing at State," said Mercer. "The girls have expressed a desire to place at or win State, if at all possible. We have some girls that, they've set individual goals ... knowing how they...
Saratoga High School (SHS) head wrestling coach Zach Schmidt is excited with the wrestling team that is getting ready to hit the mats this year. "This group has the most talent I have seen in about four years," Schmidt said. "Top to bottom we have good experience, but their biggest question is; can they come together and compete as a team?" He said the squad is out to help each other in a team effort. "If your 106 pounder doesn't perform as expected, your 113 pounder can say,...
"Its a new season and we have 10 kids signed up to wrestle," Lyle Richardson, Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School head wrestling coach said, "We have a fairly fresh and young team." He said that of the 10, only three were returning from last year and that only two had any mat time to speak of. "We have one wrestler who played basketball last year, but decided to wrestle this year," Richardson said. "We also have some new kids move into the community that have w...
"We are looking forward to the season," Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School Head coach Cliff Jones said. "Last year we had a great season and we need to build on it this year." He said three players of the team had been playing together since they were freshman and are juniors now. Those players are Conor and Shane McGraw and Brendon Reeves. Last year, Devon Grosstick joined the team to give the team more height. Only Conor McGraw is slightly under six feet tal...
Jackie Jones, head coach for Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School ladies basketball team, said she knows her team is full of tremendous potential to do well this year. She tempered her optimism with acknowledging her team was young and that only four girls from last year's team are returning. "With only four returning players, three of which are sophomores, once again, the team is mostly freshman and sophomores," Jones said. "Saying that, we aren't going go out...
Last year, the Encampment Tigers went to the State Championships and came home after placing third, but every new season presents new challenges. This year, the challenge for the Tigers will have nothing to do with low numbers as they boast a total of 16 student athletes on their roster. What the Tigers may have to work to overcome this year will be how to play the game without Wyatt Cox. Cox, who was a senior last season, led the team in rebounds with 226 rebounds. There...
The Encampment Lady Tigers return to the court this year following a third place finish last season at the State Championship. This season the Encampment girls will be playing without Hailey Barkhurst, Cheyanne Jordan, Kayla Wagy and Micaiah Pantle, who all graduated last year. Another unexpected loss, which took place shortly before the school year, was that of Paige Powell when her family moved to Cody. "Obviously we've got some difficulties," said Clint Bromley, head coach...
The season may just be starting for the Saratoga Panthers, but that does little to diminish their goals for the year according to Jason Williams, head coach of the Panthers, as they hope to make another showing at the State Championship. "Another trip to State, ultimately, is what our goal is for the end of the year," said Williams. "If we make it to State tournament, put together three good days of basketball and see what happens. Definitely, a return to State is on our...
The last few years have been rough for the Saratoga Lady Panthers when it comes to basketball. They haven't had a conference win since the 2014/2015 season and last year they only had three non-conference wins. It was 1981 the last time the Lady Panthers won a state title and the last time they showed up at the State Tournament was in 1983. Each season, however, is another chance, another possibility at rewriting history. Last year, the girls had seven girls on their varsity...
George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st President of the United States, passed away at his home in Houston, Texas at the age of 94 on Nov. 30, 2018. Bush’s death comes just over six months after the death of his wife, Barbara Bush, at the age of of 92. Prior to serving as the 41st President of the United States, Bush served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States, under President Ronald Reagan. Following his death, President Donald J. Trump issued an order that all U...
The last economic development block in the third layer is ENTREPRENEUR DEVELOPMENT. This is similar to the adjacent block, Existing Business Development, but focuses on start-ups, new ventures and development of innovative products and services. At one time or another, most of us would have been considered an entrepreneur--your first lemonade stand, babysitting or mowing lawns. The skills you learn when you are young stay with you your entire life: time management, customer service, financial planning, imagination and...
The Wyoming Department of Workforce Services (DWS) released its October report on unemployment claims recently, placing Wyoming unemployment at 4.1 percent, putting it at the same percentage as September and down from October 2017, which saw an unemployment rate of 4.2 percent. According to the DWS, the highest unemployment rates were reported in Fremont County, at 4.4 percent, and Natrona County, at 4.2 percent. Carbon County, which reported 3.7 percent unemployment, sat in...
The Healthcare Sustainability Project Subcommittee (HSPS) will be holding their monthly public meeting at 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 12 at the Platte Valley Community Center Great Hall. An email from HSPS board member George Haigh stated that the meeting will include introduction of new staff members at the Platte Valley Clinic (PVC) and their roles and an update from Health Management Services President Karl Rude on physician recruitment for the PVC. The HSPS will also continue to take questions from the public in regards to access... Full story
It is the start of the holiday season and for many that means traveling by air to get to a desired destination. I don’t know about you, but I used to love to have the adventure of going on an airplane trip. When I was a tyke, because one set of my folks lived in Houston and the other set in D.C., my sister and I flew by ourselves at least half a dozen times. On those flights, I can remember getting to visit the pilot cabin and getting toy airplanes. I doubt either practice h...
Five contestants competed in the Carbon County Make It With Wool (MIWW) district competition held at the Jeffery Center in Rawlins, on Sunday, Nov. 4. Winners were announced at the end of the fashion show. Winners in the Junior Division (age 13-16) included Katie Dugger, Encampment, first place. She modeled a blue/pink plaid jacket and navy blue slacks. Siobhán Lally, Savery, received 2nd place. She modeled a plaid bolero jacket, ivory top, and blue pants. Dugger and Lally rep...
Lana Sanchez, affectionately known as "Lana Banana" to coworkers, started working as the Social Services Director for the Saratoga Care Center in August. Friday morning, the smiling Sanchez was putting together Christmas baskets for the residents of the facility. Sanchez explained that, though the nursing home does a "Secret Santa" system for holiday gift giving, the care center has enough continuous donations that it is possible to make up nice gift baskets for each of the re...
Hanna Agricultural Resource Team (HART) met at 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 27 at the Hanna Market to discuss the Christmas party the group will be sponsoring from 2-4 p.m. on Dec. 22. The event will happen at the Hanna Market. Rose Dabbs, a past chairman and member of HART, said that Santa Claus was going to be there and most of the party will be focused on the children that attend. She said there will be decorating contests on cookies and cupcakes. A suggested game was the donut game....
Mandy Cooper may be a familiar face to some, but she is new to the Platte Valley Clinic. Cooper and her husband, Buddy, have lived in Saratoga for 11 years now. Cooper met her husband in Idaho where she grew up. Eventually the couple moved to Georgia, where she began her nursing education. The couple then moved to New Mexico where the nursing candidate worked on furthering her education. Cooper currently has an Associates Degree in Nursing, but worked on a bachelors degree...
The Carbon County Council of Governments (CCCOG) gathered at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday in a special meeting at the Jeffrey Center in Rawlins and all municipalities that had projects to be funded by the 6th penny tax had representatives present. The special meeting had been scheduled after the regularly scheduled meeting on Nov. 14 had not resolved what projects should be pursued by each town (see “CCCOG gets project bids for tax” on page 5 of the Nov. 21 Saratoga Sun). The mee...