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Churches throughout eastern Carbon County are preparing to hold special services to celebrate Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. As a service to our readers, the Saratoga Sun has listed multiple churches and services below if they wish to attend or view and celebrate the holiday in fellowship. This article has been updated to include the Christmas Eve Service for the First Presbyterian Church of Saratoga. The Saratoga Sun apologizes for the oversight. Abundant Life Church Abundant Life Church at 108 W. Spring Avenue in Saratoga will be holding a... Full story
John (Sunday) Sebastian Konecny, resident of Saratoga, Wyoming, peacefully passed out of our world in the early hours of December 8, 2020 in his place of residence at the age of 50 years. John was a man of strength, courage, ambition, play, art, music and family. Born in Hershey, Pennsylvania, on August 29, 1970, he prided himself on his independence and strove early toward greatness. Primarily self-taught, he climbed the ladder of the lumber industry until he could branch out and create his... Full story
“It is time to move forward in a positive manner. The Town of Saratoga has had too much conflict.” During the December 15 meeting of the Saratoga Town Council, the governing body was addressed by former Carbon County Commissioner and Saratoga resident Lindy Glode as she voiced her support to appoint Councilmember D’Ron Campbell to the mayoral vacancy. As was reported previously (see “Choice or lack of options?” on page 5 of the December 9 Saratoga Sun), two motions to make an appointme...
As 2020 comes to a close for the Town of Saratoga, the Saratoga Town Council will be entering the new year without a mayor, town clerk, legal counsel and potentially without an accounting firm to perform their audit. This revelation came about during the December 15 meeting of the governing body as the municipality stares down and will likely fail to meet a December 31 deadline to submit an F66 form to the Wyoming Department of Audit. In emails sent by Mayor Pro-Tem Bob Keel to the rest of the...
Albert Einstein once said “Time is an illusion” and I don’t think those words have ever been truer than in 2020. With only one week left in the year, I’m still having trouble wrapping my head around the fact that it isn’t March or April. Indeed, after March 13–a Friday–it seems as if all time just became a little more fluid. Time has passed so quickly, yet so slowly, this year that I almost forgot that next week will be my three year anniversary with the Saratoga Sun. That’s right, January 2 wil... Full story
Just in time for Christmas, the Corbett Medical Foundation has received a $25,000 grant from the Sinclair Wyoming Refining Company (SWRC) in support of the Platte Valley Healthcare Project's "Help Us Build a Strong Foundation" fundraising campaign. The check was presented December 16 by Annette Penman, grant coordinator for SWRC, to Laura Bucholz representing the Corbett Foundation and Irene Archibald and Sonja Collamer of the PVHP. According to Archibald, treasurer for the PVHP, they learned...
The Encampment Lady Tigers went 1-1 over the weekend as they hit the road to face the Lingle-Fort Laramie Lady Doggers and the Southeast Lady Cyclones. While Encampment secured a double-digit lead over the Lady Doggers, they would see victory narrowly evade them when they were hosted by the Lady Cyclones. Lady Tigers vs Lady Doggers The Lady Tigers went into their match against Lingle-Fort Laramie with two wins already under their belt, as they had dealt losses to the Dubois Lady Rams and the...
While the Guernsey-Sunrise Vikings may have come to the Valley in hopes of stealing a win from the Saratoga Panthers on Friday, the Panthers sunk any hopes of a win with a substantial double-digit lead as they headed into Christmas break. "Obviously, just really pleased," said Jason Williams, head coach of the Panthers. "(The) boys just came out and played really hard and that's what I was hoping we would do. They just played the game the right way and I couldn't be prouder of them for it." The...
Following two difficult losses the week before, the Saratoga Lady Panthers headed into Christmas break with a much needed win as they hosted the Guernsey-Sunrise Lady Vikings on Friday. The double-digit win over Guernsey-Sunrise gives Heather Bartlett, head coach of the Lady Panthers, more of a baseline on what to work on over break. As the 1st quarter got underway, the Lady Panthers got a slow start against Guernsey-Sunrise though still keeping a lead against the visiting team. While the Lady...
On December 15, the Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) Lady Miners and Miners hosted the sophomore teams of the 3A Wheatland Lady Bulldogs and Bulldogs. Lady Miners vs Lady Bulldogs The Lady Miners took to the court first. While it was only their second game of the season, the team showed how sharp they were as they quickly dominated the scoreboard. In the 1st quarter, HEM threw up 22 points on the board while keeping the Wheatland sophomores to a single point. The 2nd quarter saw Wheatland...
The Encampment Tigers went into Christmas break with two more wins under their belt while on the road. While in Lingle-Fort Laramie on Friday, the Tigers dispatched the Doggers with a nearly 40 point lead. Encampment then withstood the Southeast Cyclones to end the game with a nailbiter score of 58-55. Tigers vs Doggers When Lingle-Fort Laramie last hosted a Valley team before, it came with a loss to the Saratoga Panthers. The Doggers wouldn't fare much better when hosting Encampment as the...
In recent years, the student athletes of Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) have been awfully busy breaking records and rewriting history books. Teegan Love, who is a senior at Saratoga Middle High School (SMHS) has had the distinct privilege to do both. Love was just one of the integral members of the Saratoga Panthers when they came away from Casper as 1A State Champions, the first time in school history, last season. While that was quite the achievement to be proud of, the...
Local historian Nancy Anderson was with her husband Victor some years ago taking care of their cattle, when they made a discovery in a gulley. A type of shed lying on its side, basically in the middle of nowhere. "Apparently, when the railroad disposed of these structures they just, as they frequently did, hauled them off to the nearest gulley," Anderson said. "This one had been lying on its side for quite a long time." She said Victor had to replace all the siding where the shed had rested on...
The Riverside Town Council meeting on December 10, 2020 began as all meetings with the minutes and financials being approved quickly. The main topic of discussion for the night was the town’s website, which currently is not as user friendly as the council would like. Jamie Waugh, creative designer of Bandita Design Co., has experience in web design and was asked to assist in developing a new website. She presented the town council with two options. According to Waugh, Wix would be the best optio...
The bulk of the Encampment Town Council meeting on December 10, 2020 was once again centered around the discussion of Union Wireless upgrading their tower is located in the town of Encampment, one block from the school and directly across the street from a daycare facility. Mayor Greg Salisbury told the Union Wireless Representative that he wants to err on the side of caution and make “dang sure” that the public will not be affected by radio waves. There were many questions about the amount rad...
1 Years Ago December 23, 1920 Local Railroad Wants to Quit, and Applies to Public Utilities Board The recent rumors to the effect that the owners of the local railroad contemplated discontinuing service on the S. & E. line were not without foundation, is evident by an item appearing in the Wyoming Tribune of last Friday, as follows: “It is reported that the Saratoga & Encampment Railroad has communicated a desire to the public service commission to go out of business because of the prohibitive price of coal. This railroad had never been a f...
