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George Robert Aydelott, 90, formerly of Rawlins, died Jan. 1, 2014, at Life Care Center of Cheyenne. He was born Aug. 18, 1923, in Duluth, Minn., to Vergal and Mayme (Clausson) Aydelott. When he was three years old, his family left Minnesota and settled in Encampment. George graduated from Encampment High School on 1942. In September of that year, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps and was later being detached to the Eighth Air Force Medical Corps. His service career was spent in Central America, mostly Panama, but including Guatemala and...
Snow and snow-covered roads prohibited the Carbon County School District No. 2 Speech Team from traveling to Worland for competition Friday. Results from the Jan. 3 and 4 competition were reported. Head coach Brenda Ostendorf reported that Becca Treat placed fourth in poetry at the Jan. 3-4 competition. Treat and Kaylyn Wessel placed third in duet, with Wessel earning a third place nod in poetry. Nina Ford competed in the Lincoln-Douglas debate and earned fourth place. Aleck Freeman enter the semi-finals in drama. “The exciting part of the comp...
Janssen awarded lifetime achievement award for his work in spine surgery Dr. Mike Janssen, owner of Saratoga Resort and Spa, was awarded the Life-time Achievement Award in Spine Surgery for the world by AOSpine in November. Janssen said he had mixed feelings about the award. At first he was excited, but then he said he was sad, realizing life-time achievement awards sometimes indicate someone is at the end of their life or after they have passed on. "Most people are considered for life-time...
The Carbon County School District No. 2 Speech Team went into winter break as 1A/2A champions and started off 2014 with a 1A/2A championship. On Dec. 20 and 21, the speech team traveled to Cheyenne East High School Tournament to compete against 30 schools and 1100 team members from Wyoming, Colorado and Georgia. The members were evaluated by 225 judges comprised of college professors, former upper level varsity competitors and accomplished community members according to head coach Brenda Ostendorf. The duet team of Becca Treat and Kaylyn...
2 years ago Dec. 19, 1912 Basketball at Encampment Friday night the S. & E. ran a special train from here to Encampment for the benefit of the basketball game that night. About 70 people went from here and all report a good time. The Rubes and Giants played a one-sided game of 5 to 25 in favor of the Giants. The girls played against the Encampment girls and the results were 10 to 4 in favor of the Saratoga girls. The games were followed by a dance which lasted until train time Saturday morning. Supper was served at midnight by the Ladies... Full story
Carbon County School District No. 2 held their final meeting of 2013 on Monday. Board members devoted a large part of their discussed financials of the 2013 calendar year. The district announced they have spent an average of $40,385 a day on district expenditures and have been able to keep these expenditures in check with their revenues without having to draw from reserve funds. Approximately 35 percent of expenditures went to elementary education, nine percent went to the middle school, 23... Full story
The Carbon County School District No. 2 Head Speech Coach Brenda Ostendorf is looking forward to the speech season to begin. At the novice speech meet in Cheyenne several weeks ago, the novice duo of Dylan Baxter and Tylr Kozelisky placed sixth against the bigger schools. "For a novice team to go up against big guns like Cheyenne Central, Cheyenne East and South is pretty amazing," Ostendorf said. Friday, the rest of the team will find out how they placed against other speech teams in Green... Full story
The Platte Valley’s high school basketball season is ready to begin this weekend with the two-day Carbon County Classic. This tournament is the first area high school basketball competition of the 2013-14 season, and will feature Saratoga’s, Encampment’s and HEM’s basketball teams. The first day of the tourney begins at 9 a.m. in H.E.M. High School. Saturday, the tournament moves to Encampment School with a start time of 9 a.m. Both the boys and girls high school teams from the Carbon County... Full story
The wind is blowing. Again. Here in Carbon County there is a lot of wind, and as many of you know, it is proposed that a wind farm be put in south of Rawlins. Known as the Chokecherry Wind Farm, it would produce electricity for about a million people and would generate about half a billion dollars in tax revenues over the next 20 years. Wind energy is a great idea; however, the people in the Valley need to take a close look at how much we really benefit from this project. Though the wind farm is projected to provide electricity for a million... Full story
The Carbon County School District No. 2 Speech team competed in its first meet during the weekend. Tylr Kozelisky (Encampment) and Dylan Baxter (HEM) earned sixth place in duet finals, head speech coach Brenda Ostendorf, said. Kat Hytrek (Saratoga) and Becca Haywood (Saratoga) received two firsts and a second with their preliminary duet. Leam Engel (Saratoga) earned a third place in oratory finals. Nina Ford (Saratoga) and Bradley Killion (Saratoga) earned a win in their third round of Public Form debate. Ostendorf said she the students did... Full story
School board members are aiming for July 1 to have a new superintendent. Carbon County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees, after consulting with the Wyoming School Board Association, will use the organization in a nationwide search for a new superintendent. According to a tentative timeline, CCSD 2 may have a replacement for current superintendent Bob Gates by July 1, 2014. Executive director of WSBA Mark Higdon said the first step in the search will gather feedback from school board... Full story
Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD 2) implemented a new online forum, which can be found on its website. The new forum allows community members, teachers, administrators and others interested in CCSD 2 to provide feedback on a list of topics. "We have to have some kind of avenue where we can put out an idea and collect input on that idea," said Superintendent Bob Gates. The open forum currently has five topics: activities, student attendance, food services, gifted and talented education,... Full story
Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD 2) wants to give its attendance policy more teeth. CCSD 2 and Carbon County School District 1 administrators met with the Carbon County Attorney’s Office Nov. 6 to discuss possibly changing policy regarding student attendance. The current CCSD 2 policy states administrators will send a letter addressed to a student on the seventh day of that student’s absence. Another letter will be sent on the 15th day, Gates said. On the 20th day, Gates and the pri...
Editor’s note: Read more about the superintendent search for CCSD 2 in a future edition of the Saratoga Sun. The search for a new superintendent for Carbon County School District No. 2 will need plenty of feedback from the community, according to board members. The CCSD 2 Board of Trustees spoke with Executive Director of the Wyoming School Board Association Mark Higdon in a teleconference Tuesday to explore the option of using the Association in a search for a new superintendent. Higdon p...
Editor’s note: This is one of several columns researched and written by Encampment School seniors. Technology is becoming a huge part of the Carbon County School District No. 2 education system; but it is only useful if we know how to use it to its full potential. iPads are an investment Carbon County School District No. 2 has made over the past few years. But when purchasing them, I do not believe the administration took into account how much this form of technology is actually going to cost. When an iPad is purchased, much like any other f... Full story
It's out of the tower and on the run as a zany cast of friends and foes help Rapunzel's harrowing escape from the towering imprisonment of Madame Gothel. Add a dash of French flair and pinch of personal triumph and friendship, and this is a story the audience won't forget. The Missoula Children's Theatre is presenting "Rapunzel" at 7 p.m. Nov. 8 and 4 p.m. Nov. 9 at the Platte Valley Community Center Theater. The production includes more than 50 local students as they present an original... Full story
Missoula Children’s Theatre will hold auditions Monday for its production of “Rapunzel”. Auditions will take place from 4-6 p.m. Monday at the Platte Valley Community Center theater. Those auditioning should arrive before 4:00 p.m. and plan to stay for the full two hours. Some of the cast members will be asked to stay for a rehearsal immediately following the auditions. Among the roles to be cast include Rapunzel, the Princess, Madame Gothel, Rapunzel’s Parents, the Wood Elves, Ears of Corn and a Potato, Unicorns, Pixies, Gremlins, Billy G... Full story
Carbon County School District No. 2 school board members anticipate having a new superintendent lined up before Bob Gates retires at the end of this school year. “We anticipate that, in the spring, we will be offering a contract to a new superintendent who will resume the duties July 1,” said CCSD 2 Board of Trustees Chairman Greg Bartlett. The CCSD 2 Board of Trustees unanimously voted Monday to consider using the Wyoming School Boards Association (WSBA) for the search of a new sup...
2 years ago Oct. 9, 1912 Intolerable conditions At the meeting of the Young Men’s Liberty club in Cheyenne Friday night, the lynching of Wigfall in the state penitentiary was discussed freely and handled without gloves. While the expression was universal that Wigfall deserved just what he got, the members were equally unanimous in the opinion that a system that would permit in a lynching to take place in a penitentiary demanded investigation. If it is possible for the prisoners to pass the word, hold up the guards and lynch a prisoner, it i... Full story
With golden shovels in hand, Hanna Elementary School students broke ground at the sight for the new elementary school. “This project has been going on for a while and all of you put hard work into making this new school happen,” Superintendent Bob Gates said at the sight before the groundbreaking commenced. Each class had something prepared to show their gratitude and appreciation for the new school. Kindergarteners did a cheer, as they raised letters that spelled “School”. First graders...
All sports in Carbon County School District No. 2 are allowed two coaches, after the Board of Trustees changed a regulation on Sept. 16. The regulation, IGDJ-R, regulates the number of kids needed to maintain a team in each sport, how many players needed to maintain three coaches and, before a vote, it regulated how many players needed to maintain two coaches in middle school sports. The regulation states a second assistant coach will be provided to middle school volleyball, basketball and...
Editor’s note: The Saratoga Sun interviewed new teachers in Carbon County School District No. 2 to introduce them to the community. These are some of the new teachers. Alli Calvert Alli Calvert is beginning her science teaching career at HEM Junior/Senior High School. “I am very excited for the opportunity to teach at HEM, and I hope to make an impact in students’ lives,” she said. Calvert has lived in Saratoga for the past two years, and previously worked for Carbon County School District No. 2 as the Saratoga Elementary School Friday Enrichm...
Improvements and declines in math, reading and science scores are neck and neck for Carbon County School District No. 2 students, according to data from the 2013 Proficiency Assessments for Wyoming Students (PAWS). The data shows CCSD 2 students improved in eight areas from last year: fourth grade math and science; fifth grade reading; sixth grade reading and math; seventh grade math and reading; eighth grade reading; and 11th grade math. The data also shows students’ performance declined in e...
Richard Thomas Fisher, 84, passed away Saturday, Aug. 31, at the Laramie Care Center. He was born on May 17, 1929 in Laramie, Wyo, to Richard and Matilda Roberts Fisher. Two years later shortly after the birth of his sister, Alice, his mother died and Richard then made his home with Reno and Marietta Chace. Fisher graduated from Medicine Bow High School in 1947 and attended the University of Wyoming where he belonged to the Sigma Chi fraternity. An Ag major, Richard was a member of the... Full story
Carbon County School District No. 2 administrators are beginning to look at new standards adopted by Wyoming a year ago. The new standards, known as Common Core, apply to math and language arts learning primarily and are focused on preparing students for college. The standards began to set roots in multiple school systems around the United States in 2010. Wyoming adopted the standards last year, which means the state assessment will change to reflect those standards, said Stephen Marsh, Wyoming...