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A full year since an initial presentation to the Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) Board of Trustees, Dean Byrne, representing Viridis Eolia, appeared in person at the February 19 meeting to inquire about property owned by the school district in Medicine Bow. As was reported previously (see “CCSD2 asked about land lease” in the March 6, 2019 edition of the Saratoga Sun), Byrne attended via phone to ask about leasing property surrounding the old Medicine Bow High School which had bee...
Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School Principal Steve Priest and Hanna Elementary School Principal Jason Greenway provided updates to the Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) Board of Trustees at their February 19 meeting on issues of subsidence surrounding their respective schools. Hanna Elementary School and the football field at HEM both sit above Mine No. 4, which was closed and filled with a sand slurry in the 1980s. Over the past 30 years, however, that sand slurry had...
The Hanna Town Council met at 6 p.m. on February 11 at the Hanna Town Hall. All members of the council and mayor were present. The agenda was approved after it was amended to show that Carbon County Fire Warden John Rutherford would not be making the meeting due to road conditions on US 30. After the agenda was approved, the minutes for the regular meeting of January 18 and special meeting on January 28 were approved. Mayor Lois Buchanan gave a quick overview of the public works report. She...
Much like a bad penny, attempts by the Wyoming Legislature to remove public notices from the pages of Wyoming newspapers, and leading to less informed constituents, have returned. Despite the failure of three similar bills last year, these bills—HB0050, HB0051 and HB0052—would amend Wyoming State Statute to where the only notice required would be on the state procurement website. On Friday, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved these three bills. These pieces of legislation, having now passed the House, will go onto the Sen... Full story
Twenty schools were intending to come to the Carbon Tournament on February 14-15 at Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School. Due to the blustery wind and icy road conditions, three schools dropped out. The wrestling event started at 1 p.m. and the gymnasium where the teams were staging their matches was packed with parents and friends from all the schools attending. HEM, Saratoga and Rawlins were the Carbon County teams that showed up. From HEM, Charlee Solaas at 126 gave the...
Old man winter just kept on disrupting the schedule for the two wrestling teams in Carbon County School District No. 2. This past week the wrestling teams of Saratoga High School Panthers and the Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) Miners were forced to cancel the tournament in Rawlins this week. This is the third wrestling event that has been canceled due to weather. So far no wrestling events have taken place in February for either Carbon County school team. The Rumble in Rawlins had...
"My grandpa moved to Double 8 in July of 1951 to manage the ranch for the Scott family." "The Scott's bought it in June of 1951." Owen Williams is the third generation to manage the Double 8 Ranch near Elk Mountain. This year, under his care, the Double 8 won the Wyoming Stock Growers Association's (WSGA) Environmental Stewardship Program and Award, in partnership with the Wyoming Department of Agriculture. The Double 8 is made up of 10,000 deeded acres. It is six miles south of Elk Mountain....
The Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) Board of Trustees held their regular meeting at 4 p.m. on January 21 at the Medicine Bow Elementary School in Medicine Bow. Before the meeting started, students from Medicine Bow Elementary sang the National Anthem. Some of the students also signed to the song. Student Wheatlynn Michael shocked many of the board members with her stirring rendition of the song. During board comments later in the meeting, all members praised her voice. The agenda...
I was a tyke when I first started watching Jonny Quest. For those who don’t know this cartoon (which I think is near impossible) it came on TV in 1964. It was not the first time a cartoon was in prime time, but it was the first attempt at being for both kids and adults. Jonny Quest was a preteen who had a super scientist for a father, a body guard named Race who was cooler than James Bond, a best friend named Hadji who was from India that lived with the family and a pug pup called Bandit. Consid... Full story
Carrie Ann Craig, born June 25th, 1956, passed away on January 12th, 2020. Carrie graduated from Platte Valley High School in 1974. She worked for Carbon County School District #2 for 40, YES 40, years. Carrie was an active member of the American Legion and held several offices for many years. She was a volunteer for different community organizations including the Fishing Derby, the Chariot Races and a Young Authors judge. Carrie was known for her sharp wit, sense of humor, generosity and... Full story
For the 4th year in a row, the non-profit group Mother Mountain Anglers (MMA) held their annual Kids' Ice Fishing Clinic on January 11. With a cloudy sky Saturday morning, a departure from previous years, the number of people in attendance at first appeared to be low. Shortly before the starting time of 9 a.m., however, trucks and cars descended towards Treasure Island Pond. This marked the second consecutive year that MMA held their clinic on Silver Spur property. After the young anglers were...
“I really think this is a huge sink of my time and , considering the amount of money and considering what I was hired for, I do not think this is the most effective use of my time.” During the December 16 meeting of the Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) Board of Trustees, CCSD2 Curriculum Director Noel Manning advised the board against applying for the Perkins V Grant for the upcoming school year. This recommendation was supported by CCSD2 Superintendent Jim Copeland. The Board of Tru...
We at the Saratoga Sun would like to applaud Hanna Marshal Jeff Neimark and extend to him our gratitude. Last week, the Sun reported on an incident that took place in Medicine Bow involving an armed suspect. For approximately 20 years, this small town at the intersection of Carbon, Natrona and Albany counties has been without local law enforcement and has relied upon the Carbon County Sheriff’s Department. While they are attempting to get a law enforcement program started again, Medicine Bow is left unprepared for situations such as the one t... Full story
The Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) Board of Trustees were given a preview of Encampment K-12 School’s new school improvement plan during their Nov. 18 meeting. Held in the music room of the Encampment school building, the update was given by staff members from both the elementary and secondary schools along with Principal Mike Erickson. Erickson began the presentation by reflecting on the goals set by Encampment staff in the previous school year. “Last year we had two goals in our p...
There are 10 Hanna Elementary students going to Casper on Dec. 6-7 to compete in the Wyoming FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) LEGO League Robotics Competition. Jason Greenway, Principal for all three northern Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) Elementary School is overseeing the 11 students that will go to the competition. He said there were 22 students who applied to be in the program, but the competition is limited to 10. The extra will be an...
One of the strongest benefits I continue to get from my job as a Saratoga Sun reporter is covering sports teams in Carbon County School District No 2 (CCSD2). Living in Hanna, I am the guy who covers all the teams at Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School, and there is a definite attachment to the kids there as I watch them from the sidelines. The same is true for a few of the Saratoga teams I cover, such as football and wrestling. Going to Laramie this past week and watching HEM... Full story
For several years, the Saratoga Panthers Cross Country team has incorporated runners throughout Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2), most notably students from Encampment, 20 miles south of Saratoga. In the past four years, the combined efforts of the long distance runners have seen the 2A Boys Cross Country team bring home the State Championship for three years with the last two years being back-to-back victories. When the State Championship was won in 2016, Reid Schroeder come home as...
"I went to Phu Cat for two weeks of training and that was kind of exciting because I did something really dumb. I was out at my end of the Qui Nhon and it was during the Tet Offensive and the bus was five hours out taking us to Phu Cat, whoever was going that direction. Being young and bulletproof, I stuck my thumb out and hitchhiked ... to Phu Cat." Steve Flauding has lived in the Valley for 41 years. In that time he has worked a variety of jobs. He went from being a troubleshooter for Carbon C...
The Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) met at 4 p.m. on Oct. 21 at the Hanna Elementary School. Board members present were chairman Joe Gaspari, vice chairman Paul Clark, treasurer James Sewell, clerk KayCee Alameda, Kassey Westring, Georgia Miller, Karen Condict, Charlie George, and Mike Boardman. The first order of business was the approval of the agenda. After the approval of the agenda, Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School principal Steve Priest introduced new...
"I'm just thankful I get to be a part of the start of this. I don't get to be here next year, but I honestly don't care at all. It doesn't bother me at all. I just love being a part of this, starting a new tradition." Dayne Anderson is one of two seniors playing football for the Encampment Tigers this year. This is also the first year in nearly three decades that Encampment has had a football team to call its own. For three years, between 1988 and 1990, Encampment had a team, but low turnout...
This past weekend was one of those rare times when there wasn’t an event that I needed to cover nor were there any home games. With that in mind, and my birthday on Monday, my family and I decided to head out of town. Whenever we get a chance to take a road trip, Telitha and I often end up talking about the various towns one finds along the way. Some of them, like Jeffrey City and Bosler, are essentially ghost towns. Others, like Bairoil and Medicine Bow, continue on. Before moving to S... Full story
The Hanna Town Council met at 6 p.m on Sept. 10 at the Hanna Town Hall. It was business as usual as the council quickly approved the agenda for the evening and the minutes from the Aug. 13 regularly scheduled meeting. Mayor Lois Buchanan, Councilmembers Sammy Sikes, Bob Patton and Tracy Fowler were in attendance. Councilmember Linda Schisel was absent. The report from public works indicated work was going well and the crew was getting ready for the change of weather. Water meters were being...
It was not an uncommon sight to see bicycles parked at 106 W. Bridge Avenue in Saratoga throughout the summer, after school and on Fridays. Since 2009 the location had served as the home of The Hub and was operated by the Greater Wyoming Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS), which has six locations throughout the greater Wyoming area and serves most of the state. Despite a decade of serving the Saratoga community, the doors of The Hub have closed just as the school year has begun. "We first started...
The Carbon County Commissioners met at 2 p.m. on Aug. 20 at the Platte Valley Community Center. All the commissioners were in attendance. The agenda, minutes from the regularly scheduled meeting on Aug. 6 and financials that totaled $1,179,212.78 were approved in the first few minutes of the meeting. Emily Kaluzny, Carbon County Emergency Response Coordinator, told the commission the public health department was working with Wyoming Game and Fish Department (Game and Fish) in putting dispensers...
The Encampment Town Council met at 7 p.m. on Thursday with all council members present with the exception of Bill Craig. Mayor Greg Salisbury and Doreen Harvey Town Clerk/Treasurer were also in attendance. The agenda and minutes from July 11 were quickly approved. Once those items were taken care of, Harvey went over the financials. The council approved the July payroll and contracted liabilities in the amount of $31,005.81, manual late month payments totaling $636.25 and the payment of the regu...