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Coronavirus (COVID) has changed how the world operates. Businesses are shuttered and people are finding themselves staying away from family and friends in order to be safe. By most standards, this is a tough time in our history. As hard as it is for adults, many kids, of all ages, are finding themselves having to incorporate the rules and protocols of staying safe from COVID into their day-to-day life that makes them question if the measures are all worth it. "When COVID...
The Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) Board of Trustees received a number of updates during their November 16 meeting, one of which was from Robin Brown, district special education director. According to Brown, the district had approximately 101 students enrolled in special education across all disability categories. Additionally, there were six students who had transferred to the district from out-of-state that were undergoing evaluations for Individual Education...
As classes in Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) enter their third month of being in session, there have been changes to every aspect of how school is conducted. During their November 16 meeting, the CCSD2 Board of Trustees heard an update from Encampment K-12 School Principal Mike Erickson on how his school was adapting to the changes for the 2020/2021 School Year. “I kind of thought that I would do something a little bit different than normally we do with the report...
The Carbon County Visitors Council had to change their meeting from Sinclair Town Hall to meet virtually due to concerns of COVID-19. The meeting started at 10:31 on November 18. The agenda and minutes from the regularly scheduled meeting on October 10 were quickly approved. The next order of business was going over and approving the 2021 Budget Amendment that incorporated $270,428.06 of Cares Act Relief Funding (CARF) received for the purpose of marketing and promoting...
Parents and staff members alike were in attendance at the November 16 meeting of the Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) Board of Trustees to express their concern and frustrations over a “blanket quarantine” issued by Carbon County Public Health for three sports teams in the school district. As was reported previously (see “Over 100 cases in Carbon County” on page 1 of the November 18 Saratoga Sun), CCSD2 Superintendent Jim Copeland announced the news of the quarantin...
Carolyn Lynn Adams was born on October 21, 1950 in Craig, Colorado. She passed away on November 13, 2020 at the Sandrock Ridge Care Center in Craig, Colorado. Carolyn grew up on a ranch in the Brown's Park area and graduated from Moffat County High School. Carolyn and Steve (Stevie) F. Adams were married on September 4, 1971 and lived in Laramie for a short time. They then moved to Snake River and purchased their ranch near Dad later moving to a ranch east of Baggs. Carolyn...
With fall sports finished for the year, winter sports are just around the corner. As the number of cases within the school district, the county and the state continue to rise, there is understandably some concern over whether basketball and wrestling will actually take place. The Wyoming High School Athletics Association (WSHAA) have made no indication that winter sports, at least statewide, will be suspended. The association, however, did release updated guidance for both...
As temperatures continue to drop, the number of positive coronavirus (COVID-19) cases both within Carbon County and across Wyoming continue to rise. With winter well on its way and the holidays approaching, the number of active cases in the county have surpassed 100 while a recent decision by Carbon County Public Health has caused some frustration with parents in Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2). On Sunday, CCSD2 Superintendent Jim Copeland provided an update on...
*Editor’s Note: On November 17, Carbon County Health Officer Wayne Couch issued a county-wide mask mandate effective immediately. The Saratoga Sun will have more information next week.* “We have a lot of holidays coming up, a lot more social events, and that’s where we’re seeing a lot of the spread within Carbon County is small family units and social events. So, we’re asking the public to be more socially responsible.” During their rescheduled November 10 meeting, th...
"I am a Carbon County girl," Lezlee Musgrove, the town clerk/treasurer of Sinclair said. "I was born in Rawlins, but grew up in Sinclair. My father worked for the refinery when it was company town and my siblings and myself feel very blessed to have been raised in such a neat environment." Musgrove who loves her hometown is getting ready to retire from her position at the town hall after 25 and a half years. "I love this job," Musgrove said. "I am going to miss it very much."...
Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) added two more positive cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) earlier this week as Carbon County’s active cases continue to rise. Additionally, the county has added one more COVID-related death bringing the count to three. On November 8, CCSD2 Superintendent Jim Copeland updated the school district website to include two positive cases in Saratoga. While previous cases had been staff members, the two new cases were students. Cope...
The hardest part of my job by far is going up to a coach who has just lost a big game. There have been occasions that the loss was so painful, I could see tears in the eyes of the players as they listened to their coach and I honestly could feel the pain these young folk were feeling. I have even decided it wasn’t the proper time to talk to the coach because there was still so much being processed. I have been covering high school sports for three and a half years and have b...
On November 1, 2020, Pamela Susan (Pixler) Rollison–loving wife, mother, grandmother, aunt and sibling–passed away due to complications from COVID-19 at the age of 75. A lifelong resident of Wyoming, Pam was born on August 28, 1945 and was a graduate of Rawlins High School. After marrying Patrick Rollison and following the birth of their three sons, the family eventually settled in Saratoga, Wyoming where she managed the family business in addition to working for and retiring...
The Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) Board of Trustees spent part of their October 19 meeting again discussing property in Medicine Bow that is leased to MedBow Lodging LLC. As the end of the calendar year approaches, so too does the end of the lease, which expires on December 31. Discussion of the lease and the property was placed on the agenda by CCSD2 Superintendent Jim Copeland. “This is just a reminder so it doesn’t sneak up right at the very end but their lea...
As Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) continues to move forward into the school year with some students attending virtually instead of physically, the potential of teacher burnout has become a topic of discussion. During the October 19 meeting of the CCSD2 Board of Trustees, Director of Curriculum Noel Manning touched on the subject during his monthly curriculum update. According to Manning, the district was pushing the increased use of the Schoology program beyond...
As the Wyoming Legislature prepares to face down a substantial budget deficit and following significant departmental budget cuts from Governor Mark Gordon, school boards across the state are having to examine their own budgets. In the case of Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2), a potential 16 percent cut in funding could come in the form of reduced personnel. During the October 19 meeting of the CCSD2 Board of Trustees, both the board and CCSD2 Superintendent Jim Cope...
Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) added three more positive cases over the Halloween weekend according to an announcement from CCSD2 Superintendent Jim Copeland. As has been the case in recent weeks, this trend follows the trend of both the county and the state as Carbon County, as of Monday, had 64 active cases and Wyoming had 5,204. The announcement from Copeland, which can be found on the school district’s website, originally announced two cases on October 31 w...
The Encampment Tigers had already had a season of firsts this year as they had played their first varsity schedule in 30 years and dispatched the Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) Rattlers, the defending state champions, early in the season. Now, the Tigers get to add another first; playoffs. "This is actually the first time Encampment Football has ever qualified for the playoffs," said Kegan Willford, head coach of the Encampment Tigers. "The boys have put in a lot of time get...
As frigid temperatures visit the Valley, snow falls, and cold and flu season begin, the effects of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) are still being felt seven months after the first cases were reported. Over the weekend, Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) Superintendent Jim Copeland announced that three staff members had recently tested positive for COVID-19. Two staff members working in the northern part of the school district had tested positive and one staff...
As the count of active cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to rise in Carbon County and across Wyoming, Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) recently announced three active cases among staff members. CCSD2 Superintendent Jim Copeland made the announcement on Sunday morning through the CCSD2 website. In the announcement, Copeland stated that the results of two positive results came due to ongoing random testing performed by the school district on all of...
Editor, The ongoing restrictions regarding indoor attendance numbers mandated by Governor Gordon, on the advice of Dr. Alexia Harrist-WY State Health Officer, obviously affects state-wide public school sporting events. These mandates are adopted by the Wyoming High School Activities Association which, in turn, local school districts are required to abide by if they want to participate in sports. The correlation between unlawful mandates–meaning they were never legislated by a governing body elected by the people–and usi...
While it had been unclear at the beginning of the school year if fall sports would get the green light, the past several weeks have proven that athletics can be conducted in the era of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). As the fall sports schedule begins to draw to a close, winter sports are on deck. For basketball and wrestling to take place in Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2), some of the more stringent requirements from the Wyoming High School Athletics...
Summer 2020 is officially over and Carbon County, like the state of Wyoming, had to make adjustments as the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) was still impacting life for many residents. It was hoped back in April, and then May, that the virus would be under control with warm weather. That didn't happen. Cases started spiking in the West and South. The summer of COVID-19 started in June and people anxious to get out of lockdowns started to travel but not by public transportation...
Though the 2020/2021 School Year just started, discussion of graduation appeared before the Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) Board of Trustees during their meeting on September 21. While part of that discussion was about the graduation dates for the three high schools in the district, the larger part of that discussion centered around an early graduation request from a student at Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School. Early Graduation CCSD2 Jim...
Parents hoping to enroll their children in kindergarten next school year may have to wait due to legislation passed by the Wyoming Legislature during the 2020 Budget Session. This new information was provided to the Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) Board of Trustees during their meeting on September 21 by Superintendent Jim Copeland. “The state has changed enrollment birthday deadlines for kindergarten. So, it has been September 15. They had to turn five before S...