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The Carbon County Council of Governments (CCCOG) met at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday to decide on the different options for terminating the Carbon County 2008 special purpose tax (6th penny tax). Irene Archibald, chairman of the Specific Purpose Tax Joint Powers Board (Tax Board), said since the CCCOG meeting on March 21, when she recommended to town councils and county commissioners a plan to pay off bonds issued by the Carbon County 2009 Specific Purpose Joint Powers Board to...
The Carbon County commissioners, along with representatives from six municipalities of Carbon County, met at 4 p.m. on Wednesday at the Medicine Bow Community Hall, with the Albany County commissioners and representatives from Rock River and Laramie. The meeting was held to discuss the memorandum of understanding (MOU) monies each municipality and the two counties felt would be needed to offset the impact of the TB Flatts wind energy farm located about 15 miles north of Medici...
The Carbon County Wyoming Public Lands Initiative (WPLI) committee invites the public to an open house from 4-5 p.m. on April 10 at the Grand Encampment Opera House. During the open house, there will be a short presentation on potential options for management of the Wilderness Study Areas (WSAs), time to ask questions and an opportunity for the public to provide feedback to the committee. The committee says it looks forward to hearing the public’s thoughts on how these w...
When Donna Pipher went to the South Central Wyoming Emergency Medical Services (SCWEMS) emergency meeting on Feb. 27 at the Saratoga town hall, she did not imagine she would be leaving in an ambulance after suffering a minor stroke. The SCWEMS meeting room was packed and many people were standing. Mayors from Encampment, Elk Mountain, Hanna, Medicine Bow, Riverside, Saratoga and the Carbon County Commissioners were at a large table in the front. Approximately a dozen EMT...
The Saratoga Town Council met at 6 p.m. and approved routine business before hearing Tom and Pat Roszel ask why a sign from the Saratoga Hot Springs Resort (Resort) was up when they had only recently received a notification about the sign asking permission to put it up. Ed Glode, mayor of Saratoga, said he had been approached by the local Kiwanis chapter and been told a meeting on March 21 has been set to dissolve the organization because there were few people joining and the...
“The public needs to realize how important it is and how gravely in danger it currently is,” Sue Jones, County Commissioner, said, referring to ambulance service, at the special meeting for the local government participating agencies of South Central Wyoming Emergency Medical Services (SCWEMS) joint powers board held 6 p.m. Feb. 27 at the Saratoga town hall. She was talking to the other county commissioners, mayors from Encampment, Elk Mountain, Hanna, Medicine Bow, Riv...
After reviewing 11 applicants for three open library board seats, the Carbon County Commissioners filled the vacancies at a meeting on Monday. Linda Fleming from Baggs, Patty Hays and Mike Morrell from Rawlins were the candidates selected. “We really appreciate all the people that applied,” Sue Jones, Carbon County Commissioner, said. “It was absolutely fabulous to see all these qualified and interested people apply for the positions.” Jones said all the aspiring board m...
The Bess Sheller room at the Rawlins Public Library was full as the Carbon County Library Board convened at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 17 for a special meeting. After calling the meeting to order and performing the pledge of allegiance, board chair Joyce Menke immediately called the board, along with Carbon County Attorney Ashley Davis, into executive session. It was expected the board would be discussing a decision made at their earlier regular January meeting. That decision was...
The Bess Sheller room at the Rawlins Public Library was full as the Carbon County Library Board convened at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 17 for a special meeting. After calling the meeting to order and performing the pledge of allegiance, board chair Joyce Menke immediately called the board, along with Carbon County attorney Ashley Davis, into executive session. It was expected the board would be discussing the decision made at their earlier regular January meeting. That decision...
"My husband, Mike, and I decided a few months ago we wanted to go to Arizona for the month of February," Lindy Glode, Carbon County Commissioner, said. "And my intention was we would come back a couple times and any meetings I could not be present, I would call in." Glode said as February drew closer she started to have doubts about being away from the County for an extended time. "I decided it was just better for me to retire once and for all, because I really did feel it...
“I have been with Mark since 2008 and he is an amazing instructor and I have learned so much from him,” Tracy Fowler, South Central Wyoming Emergency Medical Services (SCWEMS) volunteer, said about Mark Kostovny. “I think we would be lost with him.” “For a national registered EMT (Emergency Medical Technician) 20 years is a long time,” Jennifer Cruickshank, a SCWEMS volunteer said. “He loves this and we are called Mark’s Girls,” Fowler said. “He has taught me so much for being an EMT and I will cry on the day he retires alth...
Few ventured into howling winter wind to attend the Dec. 6 meeting of the Saratoga Town Council. About five members of the public (including incoming council member Jennie Lou Ivory) turned out for the conclave, which wrapped up in less than 25 minutes, after the council had attended to a slate of routine business. On top of the to-do list for the council is determining who to vote for in elections to the Local Government Liability Pool (LGLP). The LGLP is “a self-insurance l...
Linda Skordas was recently selected unanimously as Realtor of the Year for 2016 by the Carbon County Board of Realtors. Linda has been an active member of the Carbon County Board of Realtors since 1988. She also previously won the title of Realtor of the Year in 1998. Linda grew up in Rawlins where she married her husband and helped raise two children. Linda loves Carbon County and all it has to offer its citizens. "I love to take people on tours of Carbon County ... there is...
The town of Riverside council met briefly Thursday, absent mayor Leroy Stephenson, and quickly dispensed with routine business. The entire meeting lasted about 18 minutes and most of that time was spent hearing issues from the public. The board quickly approved meeting minutes and voted to pay the town’s bills before moving on to guest speakers and voting to allocate $500 to the Carbon County Library System which will go directly to benefit the Encampment-Riverside branch. Over the summer, as a funding battle between the libr...
The night of Oct. 18 all four Carbon County Commissioner candidates found themselves on the hot seat, with a pair of Rawlins High School students doing the grilling. The occasion was a forum hosted by the Carbon County Higher Education Center (CCHEC), where about 30 people gathered to watch the three Republican incumbents and their lone Democratic challenger vie for three open positions on the board. The forum was also live-streamed on the CCHEC’s facebook feed, where it h...
A tax on energy generated by wind that was proposed earlier in the year by the Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Revenue Committee (JRC) was nixed Thursday, removing uncertainty for the builder of the Chokecherry/Sierra Madre windfarm in Carbon County. When the tax was originally proposed by the JRC, Power Company of Wyoming (PCW), the builder of the windfarm, said such a tax would put the project in jeopardy. Kara Choquette, Communications Director for the company told Carbon County lawmakers in a May meeting that were the tax t...
The Saratoga Planning Commission will have a full plate for some time to come. In an Aug. 9 meeting attended by about 10 individuals, the commission voted in favor of a rezone request put in by Trivest Enterprises and devoted the remainder of their two-hour meeting to laying out goals for the year ahead. Commission chair Rory Grubb and commission member Chris Duke were absent from the proceedings. The three to one Trivest decision came in the wake of a 20 minute discussion abo...
Government officials representing every corner of South Central Wyoming gathered in Riverside July 20, from Melodie Seilaff of the Dixon Town Council to Jerry Paxton, Wyoming State Representative for House District 47, as well as all five Carbon County Commissioners. The group of about 35 represented high turnout for the bimonthly meeting of Carbon County Council of Governments (COGs), and the headline item on their agenda was a resolution opposing increased taxation rates...
If attendance at a July 18 meeting of the Carbon County Library Board (CCLSB) was any indication, the contention and controversy that swirled around the board in recent months may be waning. With an audience of less than five not counting media and guest presenters the CCLSB hired Jacob Mickelsen to serve as new Executive Director of Carbon County Libraries. Mickelsen is inheriting a challenging set of circumstances following the abrupt resignation of his predecessor, Bobbie M...
It’s back to the drawing board for both Triple D Construction firm and Trivest Enterprises. The fates of two separate development projects likely hinge on zone change amendments that have to pass through the Saratoga Planning Commission, and neither got the nod from the commission at a July 12 meeting attended by around 10 people. Rory Grubb normally serves as chair of the planning commission, but since he was representing Trivest at the July 12 meeting, he recused his spot a...
“It’s your turn, Joyce,” Carbon County Library System Board (CCLSB) member Joanne Whitson told Joyce Menke. Minutes before, Menke had been elected CCLSB chair at a tear-filled 4.5 hour July 6 CCLSB meeting attended by nearly 40 members of the public. Hours later, CCLSB director Bobbie Morgan was told to hand in her keys. Two days after that, Whitson, who had previously served as CCLSB chair, resigned her position on the board. The exit of Morgan and Whitson signaled a decisive...
Dear Saratoga Sun, I would like to apologize to the patrons of the Rawlins Library. I was not there today to unlock the doors and welcome you. I was not there to help you with the computer, answer your questions, or direct you to the local businesses. At this point the Main library no longer has enough staff to operate, let alone provide services to the other seven branches. There is no one to process new books or items for any of the libraries. There is no one to order supplies; or pay bills. Being one of the 2 remaining...
At the Carbon County Board of Commissioners meeting on Monday, officials from the County Attorney’s office and the Coroner’s office cited shrinking budgets and increasing workloads as a potential problem for the offices in the upcoming year. Ashley Davis of the County Attorney’s Office and Carbon County Coroner Paul Zamora spelled out the problems facing the county and the offices, and what services may be impacted by recent budget cuts by the county council. Davis said that a 21.8 percent cut in this year’s budget, combine...
As of July 18, a fractious Carbon County Library System Board (CCLSB) will have one more position to fill. Rather than continue working in what she deemed a “hostile work environment,” CCLSB director Bobbie Morgan tendered her resignation effective that date at a tense special meeting of the board held 6 p.m. June 24 in Rawlins. Morgan, who has served as director for a little over two months, submitted her resignation in absentia through a letter read aloud at the June 24 mee...
A series of last minute financial tweaks roughly sketched out at a June 20 public meeting of the Carbon County Library System Board (CCLSB) will keep all library branches open with significant hour reductions across the board. In total, patrons will be losing 47 hours of access to the CCLSB’s eight libraries each week due to deep cuts in county funding. The flagship location in Rawlins and the Saratoga branch library will lose the most hours, taking hits of 16 and 10 hours r...
