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Carbon County School District No. 2 Saratoga Schools Breakfast Wednesday – Breakfast pizza or cereal/string cheese, fruit or juice, milk. Thursday – Breakfast burrito or cereal/string cheese, fruit or juice, milk. Friday – Breakfast biscuit or cereal/string cheese, fruit or juice, milk. Monday – Breakfast pastry or cereal and yogurt, fruit or juice, milk. Tuesday – Cereal, string cheese, fruit or juice, milk. Lunch Wednesday – Sub sandwich, broccoli, fruit and vegetable bar, applesauce, milk strawberry, chocolate,...
If Friday's play by the Encampment Lady Tigers was any indication of what the rest of their season will look like, the team will go far in the 1A division this fall. The Lady Tigers varsity team won both of their matches Friday against 1A Hanna Elk Mountain Medicine Bow (HEM) and 2A Saratoga Lady Panthers. In junior varsity play, the Tigers fell in two sets against the Lady Panthers. The score was 19-25 in both sets. The varsity line up for the Lady Tigers was changed for...
For the next two years, the fundraising focus at the Platte Valley Community Center will be for a new gym floor, according to Platte Valley Community Center Executive Director Joe Elder. The seventh annual Party on the Platte begins with cocktails at 5:30 p.m., Sept. 13 at the Platte Valley Community Center. The current gym floor was replaced in the 1960s, Lisa Burton, town of Saratoga Recreation Director said. It is a soft floor, not a wooden floor like the new gymnasiums...
Zach Schmidt's teaching career has taken him almost literally around Carbon County, but he's happy to have landed in Saratoga as the new special education teacher at Saratoga Middle/High School. Schmidt graduated from Rawlins High School in 2004. While growing up, he said he frequented the Platte Valley to go fishing, hunting and hiking. After receiving his teaching certification from Dakota Westlyn University in Mitchell S.D., Schmidt came back to his hometown to teach. He ta...
The filing period for the Carbon County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees expired Monday. Jim Hinkle filed for the unexpired term of Area 2. Hinkle was appointed after Greg Bartlett resigned. Incumbent Diana Berger has also filed for Area 2. Incumbent Tonya Bartholomew has filed for Area 3. KayCee Alameda and James Sewell have filed for Area 4, which is an at large position. All of these candidates live in or near Saratoga. Linda Crane, of Elk Mountain, has filed for area 1. These names will be included on the general...
The Town of Riverside wants you “to enjoy a late summer afternoon, with good music, good food and invite anyone who wants to spend the afternoon with us to come,” said Jan Cook. Riverside Party Day begins at 4 p.m. Saturday at Rick Martin Memorial Park. Party Day started nine years ago when the town decided they should have a late summer concert. Once it was decided to have live music, food seemed like a good idea too. This year, the duo of Davis and Mavrick will be the band, and beef and chicken fajitas is the food offering....
New faces and new opportunities will ring in a new school year at Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD#2). Jim Copeland has already taken the helm as CCSD#2’s new superintendent. As he started on July 1, Copeland said he hopes to make CCSD#2 one of, if not the top, school district(s) in the state. Additionally, Copeland said he hopes to be present in all of the communities and schools as the school year progresses. The 2014/2015 school year will have many exciting o...
A Saratoga substitute teacher is being charged with three drug-related offenses. Fifty-one-year-old Gregory Scott Bush is facing one count of delivery of a controlled substance marijuana, one count delivery of drug paraphernalia to a minor and one count endangering children after he allegedly allowed Saratoga High School students to use marijuana in his home. The Saratoga Police Department released an affidavit to the Saratoga Sun on Aug. 14. In the affidavit, Saratoga Police...
At the Valley Service Organization (VSO) candidate forums this past week, Saratoga residents asked questions to the candidates on ordinances within the municipal code. Specifically, residents asked about enforcing property nuisances and whether or not bicyclists can camp on town property. So what does the Saratoga Municipal Code say about these subjects? Nuisances When the candidates were asked whether or not they would enforce property nuisances, their answers ranged from “It...
The new Hanna Elementary School is well on its way to completion Larry Hepner, District Facility Manager with Carbon County School District No. 2, said in an interview Monday the building itself is expected to be completed on Sept. 17. Hepner said they are hoping to move students and teachers in to the building itself on Oct. 6. However, Hepner said these dates are still tentative. Mostly, construction has remained on schedule. Hepner said the big delay they are running into...
By Erik Gantt The George B. Storer Foundation provided funding for four University of Wyoming (UW) College of Education students to participate in the Teton Science School's (TSS) Carbon 2 Science Summer School. The Storer Foundation has partnered with TSS for five years to support learning about local environments and economies, specifically based on hands-on experiences. With tears in her eyes, Storer scholar Rhonda Kraus said "Personally, I got so much more out of this...
The Teton Science Schools (TSS) brought their Summer Science School to Carbon County School District No.2 (CCSD#2) last week. The five-day program was focused on weather and climate, and it took the children to several places in the Platte River Valley. Working with a host of local experts, teachers from Saratoga Elementary School, Storer Scholars from the University of Wyoming (UW), and TSS faculty-led studies that included: • Local community dynamics • Measuring weather eve...
The Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD#2) school board meeting had a fresh face at the table, as new Superintendent Jim Copeland joined the CCSD#2 team. Between moving and learning the district, it has been a hectic few weeks for Copeland, who started working on July 1. However, he said he is excited to take the reins at CCSD#2. “It’s been great just getting to know the community,” he said. Copeland has spent his first weeks receiving a crash-course Wyoming finan...
The Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD#2) board of trustees approved their budget for the 2014/2015 fiscal year. The proposed General Fund budget for the 2014/2015 year was set at $17,380,000. The budget is a $90,000 decrease from the 2013/2014 fiscal year. Sally Wells, business manager at CCSD#2, said in a report CCSD#2 is financially healthy. Despite the decreased revenue of $1,026,286.79 from fiscal year 2014 to 2013, expenses at CCSD#2 also decreased by...
The University of Wyoming accorded degrees upon 8 students from Carbon County School District No. 2 at the completion of the 2014 spring semester. Degrees were awarded to: Encampment Danial C. Barkhurst - Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Christina Elise Pantle - Bachelor of Arts Medicine Bow Trevor W. Strauch - Bachelor of Science Saratoga Thomas S. Bokelman - Bachelor of Arts Russell Devon Burton - Bachelor of Science Maegen Ruth Fields - Bachelor of Arts Heidi L. Lehr - Bachelor of Science in Petroleum...
Editor’s note: This is the last in a series of stories about Michelle McWain. She is a wife, a mother, a Carbon County School District No. 2 employee and a breast cancer survivor. Michelle’s McWain’s hair was gone. Her breasts had been removed. She had lost 30 pounds. Breast cancer took many things from Michelle. But for everything she lost, she gained even more. When Michelle was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2012, her life had instantly changed. She spent days driving back...
At the July 1 Saratoga town council meeting, Richard Rideout, an attorney representing the town Saratoga, announced the three pending actions between the town and Saratoga resident Randy Stevens have been consolidated for trial. Stevens said in an interview Monday the trial had been moved to January of 2015, in hopes of the town of Saratoga and Stevens coming to an agreement before the court hearing. The legal battle between the two parties has been ongoing for more than a...
Editor’s note: This is the second story in a series about Michelle McWain. She is a wife, a mother, a Carbon County School District No. 2 employee and a breast cancer survivor. *** When Michelle McWain received the call telling her she had breast cancer, there was no time for her to feel sorry for herself. Her life was at risk, and waiting was not an option. “The most frustrating thing was being your own advocate,” Michelle said. “You are trying to deal with the shock of bein...
Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks, the Saratoga Sun will share the story of Michelle McWain. She is a wife, a mother, a Carbon County School District No. 2 employee and a breast cancer survivor. *** Michelle McWain led an ordered life. Her house had to be clean. Her job in human resources and accounts payable at the Carbon County School District No. 2 office had to be precise. To Michelle, everything had its place. If something was not right, she would drop everything and take care of it. But, two years ago, her o...
Several Carbon County School District No. 2 teachers are retiring this year. The following is a look at those retiring from Saratoga schools. Jack Patrick Whether it’s teaching the use of complex human emotion in Shakespeare’s writing, or the proper use of a semicolon, Jack Patrick has spent the past 41 years teaching the English language to students. Patrick began his teaching career after graduating from Dickinson State Teacher’s College (now Dickinson State Unive...
Two students became the first from Carbon County School District No. 2's speech team to compete at the National Individual Events Tournament of Champions (NIETOC), held May 9-11 at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn. Speech students Kaylyn Wessel and Becca Treat, both Encampment High School seniors, competed using Jodi Picoult's "My Sister's Keeper" as their duo piece. Individually, Wessel competed with her drama piece entitled "January First" by Michael Schofield....
Two Carbon County community members were given awards on behalf of the Valley Service Organization (VSO) Thursday at the Hotel Wolf. Longtime VSO member Sue Jones received the VSO 2014 Woman of Distinction Award, which she was given for more than 30 years of public service. Jones' credits include serving on the Saratoga Town Council; council liaison to the recreation board; board member of the Carbon County Economic Development Corporation and Voices of the Valley; and...
Three Carbon County School District No. 2 athletes brought home several gold, silver and bronze medals from the Special Olympics this spring. At the April 24 area games in Cheyenne, Allen Fairbanks, Kenny Wohl and Amanda Musacchio competed in track and field events and basketball skills, which were coached by Chuck Mollica, district occupational therapist. The three scored multiple medals and ribbons at the area games. Kenny and Amanda also competed during May's state games...
Carbon County School District no. 2 (CCSD#2) school board denied a motion to implement the school resource officer position for the 2015 school year. The position, proposed by Saratoga Police Chief Tom Knickerbocker, would require CCSD#2 to contribute $17,724.60, which is 25 percent of an officer’s wage, to allow a school resource officer to be assigned at the schools in Saratoga, Encampment and Hanna. The other 75 percent of the officer’s wage would have been paid by the Sar... 
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Talented student writers from across the Valley will be honored at the District Young Authors Celebration, held tomorrow at the Platte Valley Community Center. Starting at 6:30 p.m., placements will be announced and district winners will read their original pieces of literature. Several Carbon County School District No. 2 students from grades kindergarten through 12th grade entered the competition, submitting original poetry and fiction or non-fiction writing pieces. As...