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An audition will be held for the Missoula Children’s Theatre (MCT) production of Gulliver’s Travels from 4-6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 13 at the Platte Valley Community Center Theater. Those auditioning should arrive by 3:50 p.m. and plan to stay the full two hours. Some cast members will be asked to stay for a rehearsal immediately following the audition. Among the roles to be cast are Gulliver, his trusty computer JCN (Jason), the Giant King, Queen and Princess of Brobdingnag (brab-ding-nag). A Giant Wasp, the Maniacal Scientist of Lapunta (la...
In Medicine Bow, Pam Glasser, is known as the Medicine Bow Lions Club president. To others in Carbon County, she is known 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 teaching music appreciation to new generations. She currently...
The Hanna Town Council met Oct. 10 at 6 p.m. After routine approvals of the minutes from Sept. 12 and financial reports, the council went over reports from the different boards and departments. After months of talks with Ron Munson, the contractor for the Saratoga Landfill, an agreement was reached for Hanna to take waste from Saratoga. The Hanna landfill will be closed in 2020 and trash from Saratoga will be helpful in getting the landfill to a point where it is fits the Department of Environmental Quality’s criteria to close the pit. The l...
It is every school district's and parent's nightmare, an intruder with a weapon entering an educational facility where there are students. Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School had a lockdown drill to prepare the staff and students for such a situation. Thursday at 10 a.m., the office staff alerted 911 of the lockdown drill. Law enforcement personnel from the Wyoming Highway Patrol, Carbon County Sheriff's Department, Hanna Marshals office and the Rawlins Police Department joined s...
The Carbon County School District No.2 board of trustees met Monday for its monthly board meeting and quickly moved through agenda items. For the first meeting after the beginning of the 2017-2018 school year, the board mostly discussed routine matters, also taking the time to approve a new solid modeling class for high school students and voting to approve a new cell tower adjacent to Saratoga Middle-High School (SMHS). Jim Copeland, superintendent of CCSD No.2 schools, told the board of trustees that a solid modeling class that teaches...
Ryta Sondergard, Community Relations Director for Sinclair Wyoming Refining Company (Sinclair), has been working with Book Trust for two years. Sinclair, through Sondergard's understanding of the program, recently sponsored all Carbon County School District No. 2 kindergarten to fifth grade students in the program. Book Trust is a non-profit organization whose mission statement is to empower elementary age school children to choose and own books, create enthusiasm for reading and elevate...
Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD No. 2) Superintendent Jim Copeland had high praise for seven teachers in his district after the Proficiency Assessments for Wyoming Students (PAWS) results came out last week. Copeland was effusive in his praise of Hanna teacher Jackie Jones saying, “Jackie Jones’, (class) scored both 100 percent on math and reading, which is very outstanding. Sometimes when you score so high on proficiency it is hard to score high growth because you are already performing at a high level.” Despite the high proficiency...
Carbon County School District No.2 (CCSD No.2) students not looking forward to having their summer vacations end Aug. 21 will get a one day reprieve before the beginning of the new school year thanks to a rare astronomical occurrence. Monday, Aug. 21, a full solar eclipse will plunge Carbon County into near total darkness, with a 70-mile wide belt across the state plunged into complete darkness. Because the event is expected to draw thousands of visitors to the state, concerns about traffic and other logistic issues prompted the CCSD No. 2...
"We have had a relationship with Teton Science School for seven to eight years and it has worked out real well," said Mark Shipp, the Carbon County District No. 2 (CCD2) summer school supervisor, "We have enough students in our schools who haven't gotten a chance to see the beautiful country around us, so we have been doing workshops throughout the year and this science camp is an excellent opportunity for them to get out and find out about the local world around them." Teton Science Schools...
The Carbon County School District No.2 (CCSD No.2) board of directors met Wednesday for what was at the time its final meeting before the start of the 2017-2018 school year. At the meeting, the board acted to amend the school calendar—pushing back the start of the school year—and elected a new board member to fill an empty position on the board. After the regular meeting was adjourned, the board voted to pass the CCSD No.2 budget at a separately convened budget hearing that was held immediately after the regular meeting. The board acted to ame...
The Carbon County School District #2 will have another new member following its Monday meeting where board member and clerk Tonya Bartholomew of Saratoga announced her resignation from the board. Bartholomew announced her resignation and it was accepted by the CCSD No. 2 board unanimously. The board will solicit letters of interest from members of the public who wish to finish out Bartholomew’s term and is planning to elect her successor at the board’s July meeting. The board also recognized several others retiring from the district. Bar...
The Carbon County School District No.2 school district drama club will be bringing the 2016-2017 school year to a close with performances of "Aladdin" at the Platte Valley Community Center in Saratoga. Even though "Aladdin" is a story from "One Thousand and One Nights," a collection of folk tales from the Middle East and South Asia, viewers in the Valley will have just two nights-June 1-2 at 6 p.m.-to see this year's production. The production is staffed by students in grades 7-12 from Saratoga...
To most people who know me in Wyoming, it is not much of a secret I worked in the world of spirits (not the ghostly type) to make my living. Probably less well known, I earned my bread and butter as an English teacher in Taiwan for almost half a decade. I taught English classes for doctors in a few hospitals, gave private English lessons for business owners and rich housewives wanting to read novels written in that language (which was actually very cool). Several large companies also had me on...
Dario Soto is 82 years old and he is the physical education teacher for Medicine Bow and Elk Mountain Elementary schools. Thursday he had his annual field day which usually has both schools participate. Unfortunately, due to the weather throwing a late spring snow storm at the state, Elk Mountain Elementary students could not come to Medicine Bow to join in the activities. Soto has been setting up this event for years. He makes the teams fair by putting two older children on a team complimented...
On April 2 at 6 p.m. the Medicine Bow Lion’s Club had a dinner and meeting at the Virginian Hotel which had Jim Copeland, Superintendent of Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD 2), as a guest speaker for the first time. For the first hour, the Medicine Bow Lions Club members introduced themselves and explained to Copeland the program of the club giving away free eye glasses, exams and assistance with eye surgery for people in the community. Shane Blakeman, President of the Lions Club, a...
It is unlikely coal mining will return to Hanna according to state and county officials. Opening federal lands for leasing to coal helps fund Wyoming Education. For the northern part of Carbon County, an area renowned for coal mining over a century, the news would seem to be a shot in the arm. The Saratoga Sun contacted the Carbon County politicians and the Wyoming Mining Association (WMA) asking the same question to all: “How does any of this help a town like Hanna which has an established but...
Vivian Gonzales, former town clerk for Hanna is now the acting Hanna Recreation and Park Director. The Hanna Recreation Center was in flux for several months when Jerry Leturgey resigned as director. Several candidates were considered over the months, but none were the right fit for the job. The olympic size pool was closed during this time, because no one at the center had a pool operator certificate and lifeguard credentials. This was disappointing to many seniors who did water aerobics in...
Wee Folks Day Training Center (Wee Folks), a nonprofit located at Miner Shopping Center in Hanna, is in danger of closing in the year to come after almost 50 years of helping pre-kindergarteners prepare academically and socially to enter public school systems in Carbon County. Three Certified Development Association (CDA) educators, plus a Developmental Disability Program employee who serve children with special needs, teach 15 children Monday to Thursday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The ages for children...
Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD 2) held a special meeting Thursday in Saratoga to discuss projected cuts to the district’s budget due to educational cuts made by the state Legislature. Projecting cuts of approximately $304,000 in state for the 2017-2018 school year, board members heard a presentation by CCSD No.2 superintendent Jim Copeland and business manager Sally Wells, who discussed the results of a survey of teachers and district parents. The survey was intended to gauge stakeholders’ feelings about what should be cut at the...
Governor Matt Mead last week signed into law Wyoming House Bill 194, which allows schools to develop policies regarding concealed carry of weapons on school property. The bill, intended to increase security at rural schools farther from emergency responders, does not automatically grant concealed carry permit holders the ability to carry guns on school property. Rather, the bill allows school districts to develop their own policies in coordination with local law enforcement, and leaves it to districts to decide whether to allow concealed carry...
The Carbon County School District No. 2 speech and debate team will celebrate its participants and the close of the speech season 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 28 in the Great Hall of the Platte Valley Community Center. The event is open to the public, and will feature a taco bar prepared by members of the Saratoga Booster Club along with carry-in items brought by team members and their families. After the tacos are done, students will perform their competition pieces from this season and coaches Jake Mickelsen and Kate Sherrod will hand out team...
Carbon County School District 2 graduating seniors can now apply for the annual $500 Youth Citizenship Award offered by the Valley Service Organization (VSO). VSO Vice President Carol Beach, chairman for the project, said application forms are now available from the counselor’s office at each of the District’s high schools. Home-schooled students are also eligible for this award. Beach emphasized the award is not a scholarship, but rather is a cash award directly to the student, recognizing his or her community service and understanding of wha...
As most people are aware, the State of Wyoming is facing a shortfall in funding this year due to the recent downturn in the mineral industry. There are several bills that are moving through the legislature, most of which will require substantial budget cuts for Carbon School District #2 (CCSD #2). The exact severity of the cuts probably won’t be known until the current legislative session closes on March 3. Since CCSD #2 cannot wait that long to begin working on our budget, Superintendent Jim Copeland has released a survey to give any Parent o...
Visitors to public schools in the Valley will be required to show a legal ID to enter schools starting Feb. 13, as the Carbon County School District #2 (CCSD #2) implements a new computerized visitor tracking system. The system, purchased from Raptor Technologies of Houston, will allow school personnel to scan a driver’s license, state ID or passport and issue a badge to visit the school property. The visitor will only have to scan their ID one time so the software can conduct a near-instant check to see if the visitor is listed on any state s...
The flu virus, and strep throat, has left scores ill and has caused events across the Valley to be canceled. Kim Deti, of the Wyoming Department of Health, said flu-like activity across the state was on the upswing. Last week’s numbers for flu-like illness was about double the previous week, and that was double the week before, she said. County health officials also say that cases are up across Carbon County, though numbers by individual counties are not available. The outbreak, which has hit Saratoga schools particularly hard, led to the c...