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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...
Businesses that purchase poultry, lamb, pork or bison during the Carbon County Fair and Rodeo will be able to donate the processed meat to Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2). This information was provided to the CCSD2 Board of Trustees during their July 17 meeting during public comment. As the Board of Trustees wished all the students participating in the county fair luck, CCSD2 Business Manager Sally Wells took the opportunity to inform the trustees of the recent...
On July 20, 1969, broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite said, "The least of us is improved by the things done by the best of us, because if we are not able to land at least we are able to follow" as CBS provided coverage of the moon landing. Eight years after President John F. Kennedy urged the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to put a man on the moon "within a decade", Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the moon with "one small step for man, one...
Long-time Brush Creek ranch couple, Tim and Margo Barkhurst, has been selected as 2019 Carbon County Pioneers by the Grand Encampment Cowboy Gathering Outfit (GECGO) and will be honored during the upcoming 17th annual weekend gathering July 19 thru 21st in Encampment, Wyo. The couple will be recognized throughout the three day event and will be honored during intermission of the All-Star show Saturday night, July 20th, in the Encampment High School gym. Presentation of the...
Following a 35-year career in special education, 24 years of which were spent in Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2), Deb Riker has retired as the district’s Special Education Administrator. Riker has had the fortune to be one of those lucky people who has a career doing something they love. “I knew I always wanted to be, somehow, in education, because I loved school. I was great in school. I’d line up the teddy bears and I’d teach them when I was little,” said Riker....
The Hanna Agricultural Resource Team (HART) met at 5:30 p.m. on June 18 in the community area at the Hanna Market. It was the first time since the group went into hibernation in November 2018. “This is our meeting to set goals for the team and get the beds assigned for the summer,” Linda Goodrich, secretary for the group said. “We have just had to wait because the weather has been so crazy this year.” She said the enclosed garden that held all the beds was in good shape c...
The shootout between Wyoming and Nebraska had a recent Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) graduate quarterback as part of the game on June 15 held at Chadron State University in Nebraska. Wyoming won 52-50 in a game that was decided in the final seconds and is 5-3 in the shootout since it started. That graduate is Tylor Goodro. Goodro was happy to be selected. He said he had hoped, after a successful junior year at Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School,...
Carrie Craig is leaving Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) after working for the school system for 40 years. Craig said she started working for the district after she left her job at the Saratoga Sun when Dick Perue was the publisher. "It was a great experience to work for the Sun," Craig said. "I loved it." Unfortunately, as a single mother, she needed to find a job that had strong benefits that the Sun did not provide. It was tough for her to leave the Sun because s...
The Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) Board of Trustees met at the Central Office in Saratoga for their regularly scheduled June 17 meeting where they offered two new contracts, discussed one of five policies up for review and approved a mil levy donation to the Board of Cooperative Education Services (BOCES) Region V. New Blood The first contract to be offered was to Lauren Culligan, who will serve as a Title 1 teacher in both Hanna Elementary School (HES) and...
A trio of retiring personnel from Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) bid farewell through tears during the June 17 meeting of the CCSD2 Board of Trustees at the Central Office in Saratoga. Carrie Craig, Deb Riker and Cheryl Munroe were all presented with personalized gifts along with complimentary statements from CCSD2 Superintendent Jim Copeland. Carol Blake, who also retired this year, was on the agenda as well, but was unable to attend. "We wanted to recognize a...
The Encampment Town Council met at 7 p.m. on Thursday at the Encampment Town Hall with two council members absent. Council members Kim Loftice and Gary Stull were present to make a quorum. Mayor Greg Salisbury was also present. The agenda and minutes from the May 2 regular monthly meeting were quickly approved as were the financials. May’s payroll and contracted liabilities amounted to $24,803.67 and regular bills amounted to $51,808.07. Karran Bedwell, the town’s South Cen...
The first teaching job that Chelsea DeWitt got out of college was at Medicine Bow Elementary School (MBES). "This was the best first teaching job I could have ever hoped for," DeWitt said. "I came fresh out of the University of Wyoming in 2014." Before completing her degree at the University of Wyoming, she graduated from Southeast High School in Yoder, Wyoming. Both her parents teach at the school there. DeWitt said she grew up in Huntley on a ranch. Her husband is a rancher...
Vicki Scott has made up meals and served them up for Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) students for 39 years. "I began in Medicine Bow, the year my oldest son, Zack started kindergarten," Scott said. "I started under Shirley Stoner who taught me everything. Shirley was a beautiful person. When I first started, we cooked for 300." She left Medicine Bow and started working the kitchen in Hanna in 1998. Scott said the school population ebbs and flows, but cooks, on...
Jamie Short has been teaching science and math at Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow High School for five years. She is leaving after half a decade to be closer to her family in Worland where she grew up. After graduating high school, Short went to Northwest College, the University of Alaska and graduated from the University of Wyoming. She graduated with an education degree in science. She started teaching in Casper at a middle school as a late hire. She finished the school...
At 4 p.m. on May 20 at the Elk Mountain Elementary School, the Carbon County District No. 2 (CCSD2) held their monthly board meeting. The agenda was quickly approved. CCSD2 Superintendent Dr. James Copeland recognized Kathy Thompson, the head librarian for all the northern county schools for her service to CCSD2 for the past ten years. “I have absolutely loved working for the district and really love all the staff and students that have made the job enjoyable,” Thompson sai...
Pam Glasser is known to many inhabitants in Carbon County as a music teacher. To fellow musicians and concert goers in Wyoming, Houston and Israel, Glasser is acknowledged as an accomplished French horn virtuoso. Glasser may be extremely accomplished on the French horn, but she plays other instruments, including some she makes herself. Her love of music is second only to her love of teaching music appreciation to the new generations. She has been teaching in Carbon County...
"When Shelly finished her contract at Sinclair, the principal said she was the only teacher there that had never been any complaints," Jeanette Fischer, Medicine Bow resident and former teacher in Medicine Bow Elementary School (MBES) said. "The parents, the students, the school and community all loved her, just like they do here. She just has a way about her." On May 23, Shelly Cooper was honored as "Teacher of the Year" for Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) in a...
On the weekend of May 9, Laramie played host to the 2019 Summer Games for Special Olympics of Wyoming. Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) sent five students to compete and, for the first time this year, were able to play in 3-on-3 basketball and compete in a 4x100 meter relay. Michael Dugger, who attends Encampment K-12 School, is familiar with Special Olympics and always looks forward to it. While he enjoys basketball, what he enjoys even more is the chance to stay...
Traci Schneider came to the position of principal for the three northern Carbon County elementary schools this year planning to stay for many years. Unfortunately, although she had a job she loved, her husband couldn't find any position in Carbon County that compared to his job in Cheyenne. So the couple has been doing long distance for the past year. "Even though I was going home on weekends, it was really tough on us," Schneider said. "I grew up around here, but he is a...
Nobody who has ever had Cheryl Munroe as a teacher calls her "Mrs. Munroe." Those who work with her don't call her "Cheryl." To students and staff alike, she has always been just "Mo." For 36 years, Mo has been teaching Family and Career Science at Encampment K-12 School, along with teaching at Saratoga Middle/High School (SMHS) for the 2018/2019 school year. Mo has taught for 47 years all told, having started her teaching career in Fort Washakie. Mo is not a native to the Val...
It is that time of year for the annual Mr. Soto Elk Mountain Elementary (EMES) and Medicine Bow Elementary School (MBES) Field Day. On Friday, after the "Big Boy" train stopped at Medicine Bow for the students to see, the "Soto Field Day" started once the kids finished lunch. Traditionally the field day starts in the morning. Dario Soto, physical education teacher for EMES and MBES, said it is about letting children feel improvement and gain confidence while working on their...
An old adage about Wyoming states: "If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes, it will change." Nowhere is this more apparent than at the State Track and Field Championship in Casper. Those who are familiar with the event know that one will experience all four seasons over the course of a weekend. This weekend was no different as competitors had warm weather and clear skies on Thursday, but dealt with rain and snow on Saturday. Despite the deceivingly nice weather on...
A common frustration, expressed from town to town, is the inconvenient scheduling of public meetings. Whether on social media, over lunch or in conversation at the post office, the complaint is almost always the same: I would make that meeting if it didn’t already have something going on. I get it. What’s more, my family gets it. At the Saratoga Sun, we cover six communities and five schools with only two reporters and one editor. Our schedules are filled with meetings. Jus...
Parents with children attending schools in Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) were notified last week via letters sent home with students about an active case of chickenpox, also known as varicella, that had originated in the elementary school portion of Encampment K-12 School. “This is to let you know we have an active case of Chickenpox in the Encampment Elementary school,” the letter, dated April 29 and signed by CCSD2 nurses Karen Patton and Melissa Copeland, rea...
On Thursday, the Healthcare Sustainability Project Subcommittee (HSPS) held their first meeting at the Grand Encampment Opera House. The goal of the meeting was to include the south Valley in discussions about the future of healthcare in eastern Carbon County. HSPS member and Riverside representative Leslie McLinskey opened the meeting with introductions of subcommittee members. The members of the subcommittee are: Encampment teacher McLinskey, Saratoga businessmen Will Faust...