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The Encampment Lady Tigers appear to have a promising season ahead of them, despite a split weekend at the Carbon County Classic. On Friday, the Lady Tigers played against the Hayden Lady Tigers (36-38), where they lost due to a buzzer-beating shot, as the St. Stephen's Lady Eagles (47-53), surpassed Encampment in the last 40 seconds of the game. Saturday, however, was a different story as the Lady Tigers beat the Meeteetse Lady Longhorns (35-31) and the Dubois Lady Rams...
Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School girls basketball team had a good weekend hosting the Carbon County Invite on Friday and Saturday. They won three out of four games. "I think overall our girls had a great weekend of basketball to start off the season," Jackie Jones, HEM basketball head coach said. Their only loss was against a highly ranked St. Stephens team. Friday the Lady Miners handled the Meeteetse Longhorns beating them 48-34 and had an even stronger...
Lori Dawn Henderson, 43, passed away at her home on Dec. 1, 2018. Her funeral will be Thursday, Dec. 13 at 10:30 a.m. at St. Ann's Catholic Church. Lori was born on a snowy Saturday morning, May 17, 1975 in Rawlins, Wyoming to Michael James and Connie Jo (Everist) Patterson. She was their first beloved child and would later be the elder sister to twin brothers, Patrick and Paul. Lori attended Saratoga schools from kindergarten through her high school graduation in 1993. During... Full story
Big sister Sady and Big brother Wayne would like everyone to meet their little brother Zane DeVerl Hunsaker. Zane was born Oct. 10, 2018 in Laramie and weighed 6 pounds 13 ounces and was 19 1/2 inches long. Parents are Drew and Cady Hunsaker of Encampment. Maternal Grandparents Cody and Cathy Cox of Encampment and Paternal Grandparents are Robert and Barbara Hunsaker of Wellsville, Utah. Great Grandmother is Sandy Buckley of Harrison, Neb. and another Great Grandmother is... Full story
At 6:15 p.m on Dec. 3 at Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School's gym, the HEM football team and HEM volleyball team were honored by students, faculty, parents and fans. Russ Wiggam, director of sports activities for HEM, said the awards were in recognition of both athletics and academics attained during the season for both sports. Both the varsity football and volleyball team had most of their players recognized for keeping an above 3.4 grade point average while...
"Having five girls named to the All-Conference team was an honor to what they did for the season," Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School head volleyball coach Jackie Jones said. "It is nice when the hard work is recognized." She said that in the early part of the season, when the Lady Miners were facing strong competition, including teams outside the 1A, some people didn't understand that the losses HEM had were a building exercise. Rainey Wilson, Taylar Scott,...
Thursday the Saratoga Platte Valley Chamber of Commerce drew the last numbers for the reverse drawing. Member Services Manager Sierra Martinez drew numbers from the basket as Chamber Director Stacy Crimmins kept track of the winners. The first winner, picked at number 50, was Matt Hayes who won a $50 gift certificate. Other $50 winners were Barb Rangitsch (100), Tracy Avery-Peters (150) and Laurie Box (who won $50 twice on the number 200 and 250 picks). The 299th pick was Val... Full story
“Going three and one isn’t bad,” Cliff Jones, head coach for Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School basketball said of the varsity team. “Of course a coach likes to win every game.” The Carbon County Invitational held in Hanna on Friday had HEM host Meeteetse and beat the Longhorns 78-45. Also on Friday, the Miners played Dubois who gave the HEM basketball team a closer game but still lost 65-50. The Miners found themselves down 7 points early against St. Josep...
The Saratoga High School wrestling team went to Soroco Invitational in Oak Creek, Colo. on Friday and Saturday and came out with a team 3rd place. "The kids were a little disappointed they didn't come out with a trophy, but we came in with the second least amount of kids out of 15 teams," Zach Schmidt head wrestling coach said. "We had some great effort and Jerry Everett really was impressive." Friday night was a dual against Soroco where the Panthers came out on top 30-24...
Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School Wrestling team sent five grapplers to the Tiger Invitational on Friday in Lusk. A total of 14 teams attended. “They ran the invite round robin style so all the kids got several matches,” Lyle Richardson, HEM head wrestling coach, said. “I saw a lot to be excited about with some of the new kids who have never wrestled.” Richardson said, before going to the invite, he had a squad that had very little mat time and Lusk was going...
Despite it being the pre-season, the Saratoga Panthers seem to be off to a good start following their 2-1 weekend at the Burns Winter Classic as they took on the 2A Southeast Cyclones (44-42), the 2A Pine Bluffs Hornets (67-76) and the Lingle-Fort Laramie Doggers (60-58). While the Panthers ultimately beat Lingle-Fort Laramie, it was only after going into overtime that the Doggers fell by 2 points. Saratoga vs. Southeast Teegan Love led the team in scoring against Southeast...
While the regular season hasn’t started yet, suffering losses during the pre-season isn’t something any team wants to face. Such was the case for the Saratoga Lady Panthers, who saw losses against the Southeast Lady Cyclones (29-40), the Pine Bluffs Lady Hornets (24-56) and the Lingle-Fort Laramie Lady Doggers (30-40) at the Burns Winter Classic in Burns over the weekend. “This weekend did not go as we had hoped,” said Heather Bartlett, head coach of the Lady Panther...
The six-member team of the Saratoga High School speech team traveled to Green River over the weekend to compete in the Green River Invitational Speech and Debate Tournament. This was one of two tournaments that Saratoga is competing in before the New Year and are novice/varsity meets. In meets such as those, novice members are still allowed to use their source material during rounds as they are often still committing them to memory. “These young ladies have been practicing t...
It’s December and we all know what that means! Hallmark and Lifetime are subjecting us to their onslaught of holiday-themed movies until the day after Christmas. Last year, Hallmark released 33 movies and another 28 in 2016. Altogether, they have approximately 136 movies in their library. Lifetime has 44 similar movies. Netflix is starting to create their own line of Christmas movies as well, though I did enjoy “The Christmas Chronicles” with Kurt Russell as Santa Claus. With...
The Saratoga Lions Club and Platte Valley Jaycees recently announced several developments for the Saratoga Skijoring weekend of February 8-10. Popular musical entertainers Chancey Willams and the Younger Brothers have been booked as entertainment for Saturday evening and event organizers have added Calcuttas to the weekend’s proceedings. The first Calcutta of the skijoring weekend is planned for the Friday, Feb. 8 evening and will be held at the Hotel Wolf. That next night, do...
If the Encampment Tigers are setting out to prove a point this season, it was more than apparent as they hosted the Carbon County Classic over the weekend, and that point seems to be "Do not underestimate us." Throughout the whole weekend, the boys of Encampment tore through the competition as they defeated the Hayden Tigers (81-43), St. Stephens Eagles (79-40), Meeteetse Longhorns (64-23) and Dubois Rams (71-15). All four games saw the opposing teams struggle against...
Freedom of information became the central focus at the Upper Platte River Solid Waste Disposal District (UPRSWDD) meeting which began at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Saratoga Town Hall. Though the meeting began with the routine business of approving bills for both Oct. 3 and Nov. 7 and amending the previous minutes slightly, the board soon moved to old business. The board members; which included Hank Jewell, Sue Jones, Leroy Stephenson and chairman Randy Raymer, with Schelby Merrill...
Before the Saratoga Town Council met at their regularly scheduled time of 6 p.m. on Dec. 4 at the Saratoga Town Hall, a public meeting on the second reading of Ordinance No. 848 was held. During the public meeting mayor Ed Glode, and council members Will Faust and Richard Raymer, listened to the public’s comments. Council member Steve Wilcoxson joined the council at 6 p.m. One question from the public was what would happen if a relative came in their recreational vehicle (...