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Judith Ann Gervais Riggles passed away on Friday, April 12, 2019 at Memorial Hospital of Carbon County with her husband by her side. She was 78 years old. Judy was born on June 27, 1940 in Sandstone, Minn. to parents Alfred and Treveline (Morin) Gervais. In 1950 she moved with her parents to Kelly Lake, Minn. where she attended Kelly Lake Elementary School and later Hibbing High School. Judy married Maynard (Bill) Riggles on October 12, 1957 in Kelly Lake and later moved to Cass Lake, Minn. In 1966, after their children started school, she...
There is still time for graduating seniors from Carbon County School District 2 high schools and home schools to apply for the Valley Service Organization’s (VSO) $500 Youth Citizenship Award (YCA). Carol Beach, YCA chairman for VSO, said the application deadline is Monday, April 15. Application forms are available from school counselors. Home schooled students may get them by contacting Beach at 307-326-8012. Beach reminded students and their parents that this is not a scholarship or academic award but is based on the student’s und...
On the afternoon of March 12, it seemed as if spring was just around the corner. The premonition of famed groundhog Punxsutawney Phil, Seer of Seers, Sage of Sages, Prognosticator of Prognosticators and Weather Prophet Extraordinaire (author's note: this is the full name of Punxsutawney Phil) seemed to be coming to fruition. With the official start of spring a week away and temperatures around 40 degrees Fahrenheit, it did not seem as if a storm was on the way. Of course, what does a marmot...
Students that learn at home have different reasons to do so. It is not necessarily popular with public school administrators that have small school populations to begin with, but in Carbon County School District No. 2, (CCSD2) there is an effort between the school system and parents to make sure the students get the best education no–matter where they actually sit down and learn. A Principal's View Traci Schneider, principal for Elk Mountain, Hanna and Medicine Bow elementary schools said she w...
"I talked with Marybeth," former governor Spencer Rulon said. "I hear you might need a lawyer." Joe smiled. "I think I do." C.J. Box, New York Times Bestselling Author of the Joe Pickett series, left readers with quite a cliffhanger at the end of "The Disappeared," Box's 18th book in the long-running series. Following a mission in the Upper North Platte River Valley on behalf of Governor Colter Allen, the game warden with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department was last seen in the back of a...
*UPDATED 3/13/2019 6:18 p.m. Due to inclement weather conditions, Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) Superintendent Jim Copeland has directed that all CCSD2 schools will remain closed today. The National Weather Service has issues a blizzard warning for areas including Saratoga and Elk Mountain and is predicting 12 to 18 inches of snow with winds up to 65 mile per hour. The blizzard warning is in effect until 6 p.m. on Thursday. The Saratoga Sun will keep you updated on school...
A season that started with running clocks for the Encampment Tigers came to an end with an overtime buzzer beater shot on Saturday night in the Casper Events Center. The Tigers, who went through their regular season nearly undefeated, dispatched the Hanna, Elk Mountain and Medicine Bow (HEM) Miners on Thursday afternoon and the No. 1 East Upton Bobcats on Friday evening to face conference rivals the Farson-Eden Pronghorns in the Championship round. Encampment vs. HEM Encampment had already...
As the number of wind energy companies interested in the area in and around the small town of Medicine Bow, the requests to lease property has continued to increase. During the last meeting of the Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) Board of Trustees on Feb. 20, the board members listened to a proposal for such a lease from Dean Byrne via phone. Byrne, owner of DDV, LLC., a Cheyenne, Wyo. based company, made the proposal on behalf of Viridis Eolia, a wind energy company that already has...
By Joshua Wood A fourth grade student from Hanna Elementary School (HES) is in recovery following a diagnosis of bacterial meningitis that was reported by Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) Superintendent Jim Copeland near the end of the Feb. 20 CCSD2 Board of Trustees Meeting. As was reported on the Saratoga Sun website (“Bacterial meningitis reported in Hanna”) late Wednesday night, the student was life flighted from Laramie following the diagnosis. The student, according to Cop...
When the Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) Board of Trustees brought the contract for Linda Butler up for a motion, it was met with an awkward silence. Butler’s contract was the only administrative contract where no motion was made and following the absent motion, CCSD2 Board of Trustees Chairman Joe Gaspari turned to attorney Bill MacPherson, who confirmed that without a vote the contract for Director of Data and Special Programs could not be renewed. The Feb. 20 meeting adjourned s...
The application period is now open for the $500 Youth Citizenship Award offered by the Valley Service Organization (VSO) to graduating Carbon County School District 2 seniors. Application forms are available from the counselor’s office at each of the district’s high schools. Home-schooled students are also eligible for this award according to Carol Beach, YCA project chairman for VSO. Home-schooled seniors can obtain the application form by emailing her at [email protected]. Completed applications should be returned to: VSO P.O. Box 160...
The Hanna Town Council met at 6 p.m. on Feb. 12 at the Hanna Town Hall with all council members and mayor in attendance. There was also a public hearing for a special use permit application submitted by Hanna resident Michael Zedicker for 201 North Harrison St. Mayor Lois Buchanan asked the large public audience, that filled the room to capacity, if there was any opposition. There was none and Buchanan closed the public hearing to go into the regular council meeting. The agenda and Jan. 8 town...
*UPDATE* This story has been updated to reflect the closures of all elementary schools in the northern portion of Carbon County School District No. 2. *UPDATE: 11:46 a.m.* Below the original story, readers will find the text of the letter sent to parents concerning bacterial meningitis, which has been made available by Superintendent Jim Copeland It was announced in the final minutes of the meeting of the Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) on Wednesday that a case of bacterial...
Legendary is a word that is sometimes overused, but in the case of Dario Soto, Physical Education (P.E.) teacher at Medicine Bow Elementary (MBE) and Elk Mountain Elementary and Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) head coach of the the junior high basketball team, the word works well in describing him. "He has done so much for the sporting community, but more importantly the kids," Shelly Cooper, a teacher at MBE and a former student of Soto, said. "This is an awesome thing to do." Cooper's...
On Jan. 22, the Wyoming Department of Education (WDE) released graduation rates for the 2017/2018 school year. The State of Wyoming’s graduation rate rose from 80.2 percent in 2016/2017 to 81.7 percent for the most recent school year. Carbon County School District (CCSD) No. 2 is ahead of that curve, despite the fact that the school district did see a decrease in their graduation rates. According to Jim Copeland, CCSD No. 2 Superintendent, while the graduation rate for the school district w...
On Jan. 21 at 4 p.m. at the Medicine Bow Elementary School (MBE) there was a ceremony presented by students and staff of the school honoring a bell that started ringing students to come to school 93 years ago. "It was really good," Traci Schneider, principal of MBE, Hanna Elementary and Elk Mountain Elementary said of the ceremony. "It was fantastic," Superintendent of Carbon County School District No. 2 Jim Copeland agreed. According to the presentation, the MBE bell began its life 1,356 miles...
The Carbon County School District Education No. 2 Board (Board) met at 2:30 p.m for a workshop and at 4 p.m. on Jan. 21 for a board meeting in Medicine Bow. Before the 4 p.m. board meeting, there was aceremony celebrating a bell that once rang to bring students to school in Medicine Bow almost 100 years ago. The Sun will have more on the bell ceremony in next week’s edition. Although the weather was made it challenging it to get to Medicine Bow, board members Joe Gaspari, Paul Clark, James S...
Carbon County School District (CCSD) No. 2, at last count, had 607 students enrolled in seven schools. Of those, approximately 247 students, or 41 percent, receive free or reduced lunches at school. The program, which is federally funded, is at risk of disappearing due to the partial government shutdown that recently surpassed the one month mark. “The information we have is that the money is available through March,” said CCSD No. 2 Superintendent Jim Copeland. “Now, I don’t expect it to go t...
The forecast for Saturday Jan. 12 was one of clear skies and plenty of sunshine. That morning, however, was the exact opposite as a chilling fog had moved into the Valley overnight. Despite the cold and foggy morning, both children and adults gathered on the 16 inch thick ice at Treasure Island pond, usually visible from Highway 230, for Mother Mountain Anglers' (MMA) 3rd Annual Kid's Ice Fishing Clinic. Adolescent anglers, and their parents, listened closely as Biff Burton, game warden with the...
Our local youths can be at their best when they play sports. They sacrifice their time and sweat to practice. They keep their grades up. They give their heart and soul to their team and the prospect of winning. They learn sportsmanship and teamwork. They also learn respect. In short, our student athletes learn all kinds of valuable lessons from the game. It is a shame that they also learn how petty adults can be. Not in our Paper The Saratoga Sun Facebook page bore a glaring example of that pettiness and poor sportsmanship lately. On our...
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) high school wrestling team went to Walden, Colo. to wrestle with three teams and traveled to the Don Runner tournament on Jan. 11-12 in Wind River which had 16 teams attend. “It was the busiest week of the season travel wise and competition,” Lyle Richardson, the head coach of the wrestling team, said. “Thursday night we went down to Walden to wrestle with North Park, West Grand and Middle Park and most of our kids got a couple matches.” He said th...
During their regularly scheduled meeting at 4 p.m. on Dec. 17 at the Central Office, the Carbon County School District (CCSD) No. 2 Board of Trustees, complete with new board members Karen Condict and Charlie George, heard and discussed a proposal from Oftedal Construction, Inc.’s (OCI) Business Development Director George Hruska. The board of trustees also went through their annual reorganization of the board with little change to the makeup. Near the end of his report to the board, CCSD No. 2...
"Its a new season and we have 10 kids signed up to wrestle," Lyle Richardson, Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School head wrestling coach said, "We have a fairly fresh and young team." He said that of the 10, only three were returning from last year and that only two had any mat time to speak of. "We have one wrestler who played basketball last year, but decided to wrestle this year," Richardson said. "We also have some new kids move into the community that have wrestled other place...
The Carbon County School District (CCSD) No. 2 Speech and Debate team may be small this year, the team consists of only six girls, but they have set lofty goals for themselves as they prepare to head into the season with new Head Coach Johnny Mercer. "Our team goals this year are to make a showing at State," said Mercer. "The girls have expressed a desire to place at or win State, if at all possible. We have some girls that, they've set individual goals ... knowing how they did last year and...
Locals have likely seen a new face wearing the familiar red shirt at the gas station, filling up the equally familiar green truck. Teal Cufaude, who served as a game warden for West Rawlins for three years, became the new wildlife biologist for the Laramie Region - Saratoga effective Sept. 1 after Will Schultz accepted a position in Cheyenne. "One of the big things was, it presented an opportunity to me to kind of evolve as a wildlife professional. I had been a game warden for a little over 6...