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“Playing Laramie sophomores, we honestly never know what to expect,” Jackie Jones, Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) head girls basketball coach said. “The majority of our team being freshman or sophomores, it should be a pretty good matchup.” On Dec. 15, the Lady Laramie Plainsmen came in strong and got ahead of the Lady Miners early and made it difficult for HEM to come back. Laramie outlasted the Lady Miners, winning 44-37. “We got down early against Laramie’s sophomores, but had a great second half of basketball,... Full story
Saratoga Panthers went to two tournaments that lasted two days each. Both were in Colorado. “It was every bit as hard as I heard it would be and then some,” Zach Schmidt, Saratoga head wrestling coach said. Panthers Jaxon King (120 lbs.), Andrew Everett (126 lbs.), Tristan Gray (170 lbs.), Torin Hedley (195 lbs.) and Preston Dew (285 lbs.) went to Loveland, Colorado to attend the Old Chicago Wrestling Christmas Tournament on Friday and Saturday. “I wanted to have them in an event that would feel like State and I got my wish,... Full story
On Friday, the Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School boys basketball team faced the Laramie Plainsmen sophomore basketball team and had to leave with their first loss of the season. The Plainsmen beat the Miners 66-50. “We played a pretty solid team in Laramie last Friday night,” Cliff Jones, HEM head basketball coach said. “They were pretty physical defensively.” Jones said the toughest part of the game was how strong Laramie was with their three point shooting. “They had good size and shot the ball unbelieva... Full story
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School wrestlers were busy from Thursday to Saturday. On Thursday, HEM hosted the Quad tournament that had North Park High School from Walden, Colorado, Rawlins JV and Laramie JV compete. Saratoga was scheduled to have wrestlers at the Quad, but road conditions from bad weather made the trip impossible. The Miner wrestlers were in Kremmling, Colorado, for the West Grand Invitational on Friday and Saturday. Lyle Richardson, head... Full story
The Saratoga Panthers boys and girls, traveled together over the weekend to Shoshoni to compete in the Wrangler Invitational. The boys left Shoshoni with a record of two wins and one loss, the loss coming at the hands of the No. 1 ranked Burlington Huskies, who delivered a 71-58 loss to the Panthers in their first game Friday. Later that day, the Panthers took on Riverside, blanking the Rebels 75-40. Saturday, the boys took on the Longhorns of Meeteetse, taking another impressive win with a 38-point point difference. The... Full story
The Encampment Tigers made their way to Lingle-Ft. Laramie over the weekend for non-conference play at the Lingle-Ft. Laramie Basketball Classic. The Tigers may not have been playing for conference points, but that didn’t stop them from dominating every opponent they faced over the course of the weekend. The boys from Encampment had a good outing over the course of the two-day tournament in Goshen County. Over the weekend, the boys took on three opponents and beat all comers by healthy point spreads. The Tigers faced off agai... Full story
The Hanna Town Council convened at 6 p.m. Dec. 12 to allow liquor license holders to serve until 2 a.m. on Jan. 1 and be informed the town had another full time officer. It was business as usual with the approval of the town council Nov. 24 meeting minutes and approval of the financials. Marshal Jeff Neimark told the council the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) approved the Hanna Marshal’s Office for a Community Oriented Policing Services (C.O.P.S.) grant for one officer position. This comes from the 2017 C.O.P.S. hiring p... Full story
Jayce Wayne Wofford came with his parents Ethan and Carrie, to a benefit that many who started planning this event a month ago didn’t think he would be able to attend. Jayce was born Oct. 5 at 2 pounds 15 ounces at Denver’s Childrens Hospital and it was thought he would not be leaving the medical center until late January. Jayce surprised everyone by beating the odds and is now over six pounds. He still has to breathe oxygen through a tube because his lungs still need hel... Full story
Mary Kay Ferguson passed away on Dec. 5, 2017, in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, at the age of 73 following a sudden illness. She was born in Elgin, Illinois to Herbert John and Edna Mary (Sederstram) Beacon on April 6, 1944. A native of Elgin, Kay attended Iowa State University and graduated with a degree in nursing from Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. She worked as a nurse in Chicago and Elgin, before marrying John “Jack” Cotter Ferguson on March 25, 1967, in Elgin. They recently celebrated t... Full story
Judith Ann (Dower) Babel passed away on Dec. 9, 2017, at the age of 74. Judy was born Aug. 30, 1943 in Niagara Falls, New York, to May and John Dower. She was raised on Grand Island, New York, and attended Charlotte Sidway School through 8th grade. Since there was no high school on the island at that time, she attended Mount Saint Mary Academy in Kenmore, New York, through her sophomore year then transferred to Madonna High School in Niagra Falls, and graduated in 1961. Judy spent her freshman year of college at Richmond... Full story
For a lot of Valley residents, the first couple weeks of December meant more than Christmas shopping, decorating and getting ready to spend the holidays with friends and family. For those paying attention, the first part of December also means the NFR, National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas is going on. And this year, a young Valley resident, Tuker Carricato, took home the top prize. Tuker rode bareback three times at NFR in Vegas. For his first round, he placed second. He... Full story
