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Saratoga graduate Sam Streeter is completing his fifth year at Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H., working on his Bachelor of Arts in Engineering with a Biomedical Engineering Major and Earth Sciences Minor. In March of 2012, Streeter traveled to Peru for a not-for-credit, extracurricular volunteering opportunity funded by the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding. The Dickey Center is an entity within Dartmouth College. The nine-week internship allowed him to work in...
Editor: At the Saratoga Town Council meeting on Tuesday, April 16, I addressed the council concerning the waiting lines at Kaake Walk Dog Park. I asked if we (dog owners) might use the Bennie Walters Field for overflow at Kaake Walk Dog Park. I also volunteered to fix the fence and clean up Bennie Walters Field. Lisa Burton, the Saratoga Recreation Director, and Chuck Bartlett, the Town Engineer, saw no problems with using Bennie Walters Field for dog training and exercise. In addition, Mr. Bartlett said he would have the park cleaned up and...
Some residents expressed appreciation to the Saratoga Town Council after it unanimously approved of several special event applications. “Our winters are long enough and our summers are way too short. It’s really nice to be able to have, in my opinion, these events. I believe they are a benefit to our community,” Councilman Steve Wilcoxon said before the meeting was adjourned. The town council approved six applications, including one for the Laura M Farmer’s Market and several events to take pl...
Summer celebrations were a hot topic at both Encampment’s and Riverside’s recent town council meetings May 9. At both meetings, John Farr mentioned a summer gathering celebrating the yearly opening of the Battle Pass Scenic Byway, or Highway 70, which runs from Encampment to Baggs. He also gave the Encampment and Riverside councils new Wyoming state maps that more clearly marked the Battle Pass Scenic Byway. “On Friday the 21st of June, the first day of summer, we’re going to have a little...
A hunting education opportunity is coming to the Valley. Wyoming Game and Fish Game Warden Biff Burton and Supervisory Resource Specialist for SERCD Joe Parsons, along with other guest instructors, will help conduct a hunter safety course May 17 through May 19 at the Saratoga Town Hall in the council chambers. The May 17 course begins at 6 p.m. and ends at 9 p.m. The May 18 course will begin at 8 a.m. and end at 5 p.m. And the May 19 course will begin at 9 a.m. and end at 5 p.m. The May 19 cours...
The overall budgetary goal of the town of Saratoga is to sustain what it already has. According to the town’s new treasurer, Joe Elder, the goal is realistic within the proposed budget. “We kind of have a pretty good picture of what we have,” Elder said. Elder said the town of Saratoga won’t have a solid number on how much will be in the budget until the Saratoga Town Council conducts the first reading of the budget on May 22. However, Elder estimates the town’s 2013/2014 fiscal year budget wi...
Editor: How great is it that Saratoga was chosen as one America’s Top 12 Small-Town Art Places? The award was based on the number of resident artists, artist-related businesses and non-profits receiving funds for the arts and music. Also on the top twelve list was Marfa, Texas, a similar town of 2000, with antelope and cattlemen. CBS’s 60 Minutes highlighted Marfa (www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50144819n), and they interviewed a bemused cattle rancher, their happy mayor who called it a “freedom loving town. People are allowed to — just-ah...
The Saratoga Airport Board is about half way through the process of adopting a master plan, but there is still plenty of time to be heard for those who are interested in the future of the airport. “We are still in the decision-making process,” said Mike Haak, a consultant from Aeroland Planning. The airport board and Haak held an informal open house meeting April 15 to explain to the public what is in the proposed master plan for the airport, a plan that defines how the airport could dev...
The newest member of the Planning Commission was greeted with “fireworks” and heated discussion at the last meeting. Bob Thrasher, who was recently appointed to the Planning Commission, sat silently while the audience and other commission members traded verbal jabs concerning the matter of appointments and Chairperson Bev Hempel’s presence at the meeting. “Right now, you are not officially on the board, Saratoga resident Glee Johnson told Hempel in the April 9 meeting. You have not been reappoin...
If all goes according to plan, Saratoga residents could be able to donate unwanted cars to help a wish come true. The town of Saratoga is in the midst of coordinating with Wheels for Wishes, an organization that collects cars, trucks, motorcycles, SUVs and RVs for the Make a Wish Foundation. The proceeds from donating an unwanted vehicle will go to help a Wyoming child with a life-threatening disease, according to the website. Although the town is in the early stages of coordination with Wheels...
The Encampment Town Council discussed the “Cow Pie Open” golf tournament and Encampment Emergency Water Connection Project at its most recent town council meeting last week. Jim McKinney spoke with the council about financial support for the the 18th annual Encampment/Riverside Cow Pie Open on June 1. The local golf tourney takes place at a cow pasture, and buckets serving as course holes are set in the ground 140 yards apart from each other. The event features a barbecue, custom-made shi...
Art in Saratoga has not always had a large presence, but today, Saratoga’s involvement in art is nationally recognized. “It’s kind of neat to see it gets to all corners of the United States,” said Saratoga-Platte Valley Chamber of Commerce Director Stacey Crimmins. Crimmins discovered Saratoga had been recognized as one of 12 small-town art places in the United States after reciveing an email from ArtPlace, the organization that selected Saratoga in its list. The “America’s Top Twelve Smal...
The second phase of the Master Plan for Shively Field will begin with a public workshop from 3-6 p.m. on Monday, at the Saratoga Town Hall. Michael Haak, with Aeroland Planning LLC, and Dave Scultz with Sage Civil Engineering, have been working closely with the Saratoga Airport Board to develop a Master Plan. Haak said the first workshop was in December and the information collected was used to make a forecasted 20-year outlook. That has been approved by the Federal Aviation Administration...
ong with department heads met for the second time Thursday to talk about the future Saratoga budget. Thursday’s meeting was the second meeting in a long process the town of Saratoga will go through to prioritize projects for the 2013-2014 budget. The budget, just like an ordinance, will go through three readings before being approved by the Saratoga Town Council. The first reading will take place at the regular Saratoga Town Council meeting May 2. The second reading will take place June 4. T...
Pool enthusiasts from across the globe participated in the sixth annual Wyoming Open pool tournament at the Platte Valley Community Center March 29 through 31. The event, produced by E.J. Glode and co-promoted by the Illinois-headquartered Dragon Promotions, featured some of the world’s greatest pool players. United States’ No. 1-ranked Shane Van Boening from South Dakota went undefeated to win the Wyoming Open, beating Hawaii’s “Rocket” Rodney Morris in the “8-Ball Bar Table” event in the Maste...
1 years ago April 3, 1913 Freak Game Law Here are a few of the items contained in the game laws as gotten by what is supposed to have been the most intelligent men in the Twelfth Wyoming legislature. Just where all the members were or what was on their minds that they let this get by is beyond our conception of able men to represent this state. One deer with horns can be killed from October 1st to 31st in any county in the state. You can’t fish within 100 feet of any dam across any stream in the state. You can’t shoot into private land fro...
Although some remember her reappointment to the Planning Commission, the Town of Saratoga cannot find any record of Bev Hempel’s renewal. “We have not found any official minutes from the town council that shows that she was reappointed,” Mayor John Zeiger said. The town will begin to advertise the position on the Planning Commission after the next council meeting, giving people who applied last time a second chance to get on the commission. In the last Saratoga Town Council meeting, Zeige...
1 years ago March 27, 1913 Looks Like Big Year Judging from all indications this valley will be more prosperous this year than for several years. We are not handing out a bunch of hot air, either. There is certain matters taking place that lead us to believe that we are going to have a better business than is usual. While things have been a little quiet as a whole, this town and valley have suffered less than nearly every community that we have had reports from. Business has been good, although we would like to have seen twice as many men...
Lloyd Buford was the meat market manager for Safeway stores in Nebraska for 11 years but grew tired of the grocery business. At the time, Buford knew he wanted to own a small business of his own and caught wind of a meat locker for sale in Encampment. He was familiar with this area and ended up buying the business. He moved his family to Wyoming in 1983. With three small children, Lloyd and his wife Jan needed more income and some form of insurance. A part-time police officer position, that...
Councilman Steve Wilcoxson kicked off the March 5 Saratoga Town Council meeting with comments about how appointments are made on different boards. “In my logical mind what should take place is the mayor will nominate whoever he wants for the appointment and that’s up to us to take and discuss whether that person is the one we want to fill the vacancy,” Wilcoxson said. According to state statutes, the mayor can appoint anyone to a vacant position on the Planning Commission. However, the gover...
A selection committee chose two firms to conduct river studies of the North Platte River running through Saratoga. The seven-member committee consisting of community members and town officials met Thursday to announce Stantec and Wildland Hydrology would study the river running through the town of Saratoga. The study, when completed, will provide information to aid in a possible re-channelization project and two proposed construction projects on banks near Veterans Island, said Public Works...
I want to kick off my first column by introducing myself. I am the newest reporter for the Saratoga Sun assigned to cover Carbon County School District No. 2 and the town of Saratoga – not an easy task, although I feel I will find most of my stories enjoyable to report on and write about. I have only been at the Saratoga Sun for a few days, but I have already met some real rich characters, all of them incredibly nice. I can’t wait to start digging into this community and find what kind of new...
Editor: I would like to comment on what was described by Zach (Saratoga Sun reporter Zachary Laux) as a controversy on the Planning Commission. The alleged controversy is directed towards a single member of the Commission and not the Commission as a whole. It has been questioned as to if Bev Hempel had been officially re-appointed by the council to the Planning Commission. We are researching the minutes so we can get a correct answer to the question. If we find that we haven’t reappointed her, then the Mayor’s re-appointment of her can be ratif...
Bev Hempel remembers being reappointed to the Saratoga Planning Commission, but does not remember when. “I don’t remember details of my re-appointment other than it happened,” Hempel, Chairman of the Saratoga Planning Commission said in an email. “That was about the time my husband died after a long illness, and the focus of my memory from that time is not the specifics of my re-appointment to the Planning Commission. If there was some mistake made, it certainly was not intentional.” There cou...
Thanks to the Saratoga Town Council. After hearing public complaints, the council made changes to its agenda and meetings. Issues were discussed openly by council members. Employees of the town were asked to explain processes and procedures during its reports. The Saratoga Sun commends the Saratoga Town Council for this action. The town council plans to further change its agenda to have items from the public after report items and before business which allows the public to comment on what was discussed in the meeting. The only request the town...