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According to Jim Piche, President of the Carbon County Fire Protection District Steering Committee, one benefit of a fire district may be lower insurance premiums for homeowners and businesses. Unincorporated Carbon County does not have an Insurance Service Organization (ISO) rating, which is one of the factors insurance companies use to determine rates for an area. An ISO evaluation for fire protection involves looking at communications, hose testing, pump testing, water...
During a special meeting Thursday, the Carbon County Commission voted to increase the salaries of six elected officials beginning in 2017. The majority of the commissioners agreed to increase the salaries by 1 percent beginning in January 2017, and by 2 percent starting in January 2018. The increases for the elected officials, which include the assessor, clerk of court, coroner, county clerk, sheriff and treasurer, come as their departments will likely take up to a 5 percent...
Saratoga/Platte Valley Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Stacy Crimmins has been reappointed to serve on the Platte Valley Community Center Joint Powers Board. Crimmins has served on the seven-member board since its inception in 2003, the years she also began as the local chamber’s executive director. Her reappointment to the board was announced during last week’s Carbon County Commissioners meeting. “I’m very proud to serve on the board, and we’ve worked really ha...
Carbon County Commissioners held a workshop with board members and administration from Memorial Hospital of Carbon County Jan. 21, to discuss ICD-10’s affect on the county’s only hospital. ICD-10 is a coding program mandated by the federal government for all hospitals across the country. Coding will expand from approximately 17,000 codes to approximately more than 80,000 new codes to know and implement for health services across the nation. Coding is the way insurance age...
The Carbon County Museum announced they are well on their way to entering their new location at the Ferguson building at the Carbon County Commissioners meeting on Jan. 7. Lauren Hunley, the education and outreach coordinator for the Carbon County Museum said that the success they had in 2013 will only improve moving forward. “Our visitation of 2013 is the highest its ever been in the history of the Carbon County Museum. We have served 5,520 people (last year). A lot of t...
Museum purchases historic downtown building A new historic home is now on the horizon for the Carbon County Museum in Rawlins. Carbon County Commissioners and the Carbon County Museum finalized the purchase of the Hugus-Ferguson Building, located at 406 West Cedar St. in downtown Rawlins, on Dec. 30, 2013. The building, which first had construction work done in 1895, will serve as the new home for the Carbon County Museum and Research Center. The Carbon County Museum is...
Three hours of testimony and discussion ends in a four to two vote The Industrial Siting Council approved and extended a 30-month amendment submitted by DKRWs' Medicine Bow Fuel and Power LLC (MBFP), Dec. 18 after hearing from representatives of DKRW, elected officials and members of the public. Two motions were presented. The first one fell to a tie vote, mostly because during discussion, the amendment grew, changed and became hard to follow. After listening to nearly two...
Council members discussed town cleanup and a potential new visitor’s center in Rawlins at Riverside’s town council meeting Thursday evening. Early in the meeting, the council discussed four bids that were submitted to buy a shed located at Rick Martin Memorial Park. The council approved Ken Campbell’s bid for the shed, which was for $327, more three other lower bids of $300, $111 and $101. The council also approved a bid for the electrical work in the new shop at Rick Marti...
Since 1980, Carbon County residents could take all their questions about Wyoming weeds, pests, bio-control and herbicides to well-known Carbon County Weed and Pest Supervisor Larry Justesen. However, on Oct. 31, Larry will officially retire from the Carbon County Weed and Pest Control District after 33 years. When Larry began his Weed and Pest Supervisor position March 12, 1980, he had no way of knowing the impact he would make throughout Carbon County. Instead, along with...
2 years ago Oct. 9, 1912 Intolerable conditions At the meeting of the Young Men’s Liberty club in Cheyenne Friday night, the lynching of Wigfall in the state penitentiary was discussed freely and handled without gloves. While the expression was universal that Wigfall deserved just what he got, the members were equally unanimous in the opinion that a system that would permit in a lynching to take place in a penitentiary demanded investigation. If it is possible for the prisoners to pass the word, hold up the guards and l...
Carbon County is becoming No. 1 in the nation for energy development, with projects like wind farms, new wells at the Creston-Continental Divide and huge transmission line projects. These new developments in energy production mean change is coming According to the board members of Voices of the Valley, an organization that is looking to give local residents a voice, you can have a say in what that change will look like. Your thoughts can be relevant, especially to your town council, county commissioners and others in our comm...
Lindy Glode and Sue Jones were elected as the second and third female Carbon County Commissioners last fall and took office in January. The two women are from the PlatteValley. Glode lives in Saratoga and Jones lives in Encampment. After serving for three months as commissioners, the women talked with the Saratoga Sun about their experiences on the five-commission board. Glode said serving as a commissioner is very challenging but also exciting. She likes the dynamics of the...
On Jan. 21 the Carbon County Republican Party met to select three applicants to be considered for the Carbon County Commissioners seat left vacant by Jerry Paxton. Paxton resigned his commission seat to fulfill his duties as House District 47 Representative. Carbon County Republican Party Chairman Mike Kelley said they had received eight applicants and went through several rounds to select the three finalists, John Johnson, of Elk Mountain; Ron Platt, of Encampment and Matt...
The transition from sixth grade to seventh grade is tough. The level of difficulty and amount of work means students must spend more time and be more organized. In the past, many students have had to deal with those changes on their own, but thanks to the new STARS program, Encampment seventh graders know a handful of students, and a teacher, will always have their back. “A lot of students were going home to places where no one was asking them what is going on, and so there was no accountability,” Leslie McLinskey, Enc...
