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In February, Danny Burau, owner of Saratoga's new restaurant Firewater Public House, told the Saratoga Sun in an interview that he hoped the restaurant-which was undergoing renovation at the time-would be open by the first weeks of summer in order to capitalize on the Valley's lucrative summer tourism season. By the time the restaurant opened August 19, the bulk of summer had passed, leaving the restaurant the last couple weeks of the season to pull in customers and sales before the long, cold...
Caroline Morrison moved to Saratoga a year ago when her husband, Tyler, got a job with the Bureau of Land Management in Rawlins. At the time she was eager to put her civil engineering background to work and among the places she applied was Engineering Associates (EA) in Saratoga. EA didn’t have an opening at the time, so she and her husband embarked on another creative endeavor; their child Marie. Marie was only about seven weeks old when EA called with a job offer. Caroline took the job, but can only work part time until Marie is old enough f...
Saratoga's newest restaurant, the Firewater Public House opened Saturday after many months of renovation to the building and preparation....
When Mark Pesognelli arrived at the Saratoga airport and began to walk down the hill, he said he was stopped five times by locals asking if he needed a ride. He was reminded of the small town he came from in Pennsylvania and immediately fell in love with the area. Over the eight years he has lived here, his son, Ian, has visited several times and has grown to become fond of Saratoga too. Ian had gone to school in Denver for auto mechanics and was doing well working at a Ford dealership as a...
North Folk Engineering was founded in March by Jon Nelson, a professional civil engineer with a strong background in construction. He has supervised construction of tunnels, dams, reservoirs, sanitary sewer mains, drainage structures, irrigation facilities, water treatment and distribution systems. North Fork also includes Paul McCarthy, a longtime Saratoga resident who owned a civil engineering firm in town from 1985 to 2014. He has over 50 years of experience managing civil infrastructure...
The state level unemployment figures released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis show Wyoming's unemployment dipped below the national average while income rose, despite retreats in oil and coal prices. The number of jobs in the Mining and Logging industry sector, which includes jobs in the oil and coal industries, increased by 1.600 over the year ending May 2017. These gains were not enough to offset losses or zero growth in 13 other employment categories. Overall, the state had 3,900...
The Country Store in Saratoga celebrated its 30th anniversary in business over the weekend with a party for customers, free food, free giveaways and a lot of other fun. The business itself, and person that runs it, is a testament to the vibrant community of Saratoga and the Valley in general, and another indicator of how the town draws people back year after year. The owner, Kathleen Martin, is a fifth-generation Valley resident. For years, her family owned a ranch near Cow Creek, but after her grandfather died and her dad returned home from...
Jim Drever, the Regional Director for the Small Business Development Center (SBDC), wants Carbon County residents to know SBDC is a resource for both those who are thinking of starting a business and those who have been in business for years. SBDC doesn’t charge for its confidential, one-on-one advice concerning starting or helping established businesses. SBDC can help a business with advice on strategic planning, marketing, growth and capital access. “Market research, risk management, fin...
Until a little over a month ago, if a resident of Hanna wanted to get some pipe for a plumbing fix, this required a drive to Rawlins, Saratoga or possibly Laramie. Kyle and Amelia Young, the owners of Hanna's grocery store, have refurbished the back of the store to be a hardware operation. "We started the hardware side of our business to keep the people in town," Young said of why he opened this department in his one-and-a-half year old food enterprise. The structure for the grocery/hardware sto...
The Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA), an intergovernmental organization that is part of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), issued a report Monday saying demand for coal will most likely stall in coming years. In the 141-page report, the medium-term market report for coal, says that while the world is currently burning more coal than it ever has, market demand for the commodity is expected to level off and not see marked increases in demand for the next several years, with decreases likely in even the...
Linda Skordas was recently selected unanimously as Realtor of the Year for 2016 by the Carbon County Board of Realtors. Linda has been an active member of the Carbon County Board of Realtors since 1988. She also previously won the title of Realtor of the Year in 1998. Linda grew up in Rawlins where she married her husband and helped raise two children. Linda loves Carbon County and all it has to offer its citizens. "I love to take people on tours of Carbon County ... there is so much to see and...
Russia, the largest oil-producing country that is not a member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), has signaled some resistance to pressure from the cartel to cut oil production. Iran, an OPEC member, is also fighting back against the cartel, saying it won't cut its own production of crude oil. Russian and Iranian resistance to OPEC's wishes to cut production might be good news for consumers who will continue to pay less at the pumps to fill up their cars, but could be m...
Wyoming’s month-to-month unemployment rate saw a decrease of 0.3 percent, bringing the state’s unemployment rate to 5.1 percent for the month of October. That is only 0.2 points higher than the U.S. average of 4.9 percent. According to figures released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Wyoming was one of seven states in the country that saw a statistically significant decrease in unemployment rates. Despite the spot of bright news for the state, when counting over-the-year, unemployment in Wyoming is up, from 4.3 percent to...
A run of eight and a half happy but hectic years managing the Bear Trap Cafe in Riverside is coming to a close for Seattle-native Margaret Weber. Weber has scheduled one last last blow-out “Dukes of Hazard” themed party for the night of Aug. 31, then she will hand over the keys to new-owner Jolene Pavelka the following morning. Weber experienced a wide range of emotions while describing the transition process in a recent interview. “Although it’s been a very good 8½ years, it’s been a very lon...
For Hank Morris, 37, a new resident to Saratoga and new real estate agent at Town & Country Realty in Saratoga, first impressions mean a lot. Though his path to living in Saratoga may have been a bit circuitous, but he is glad he finally has the opportunity to live and work in the Valley. He's been selling real estate since 2012 in Texas and Arkansas, and just three weeks ago moved to Saratoga with his wife Jessie, and two children, 6-year-old Sam and 3-year-old Maggie, to continue his career...
Wyoming continues to see unemployment rates that are significantly higher than this time last year and markedly higher than the national average, according to figures released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Wyoming is one of three states in the nation that saw a statistically significant increase in unemployment rate between July 2015 and July 2016. Of those three states, Wyoming's unemployment increase was the highest, increasing 1.4 points from 4.3 percent in July 2015...
Wyoming has continued to shed jobs in the midst of a bearish oil market, according to unemployment figures published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) June 22. Wyoming and North Dakota are the only two states in the U.S. that saw unemployment numbers increase over the year, according to the BLS' figures. Wyoming's unemployment numbers increased by 1.5 points, from 4.2 in June 2015 to 5.7 in June of this year. Wyoming also had an increase in unemployment from May 2016 until June 2016,...
It’s back to the drawing board for both Triple D Construction firm and Trivest Enterprises. The fates of two separate development projects likely hinge on zone change amendments that have to pass through the Saratoga Planning Commission, and neither got the nod from the commission at a July 12 meeting attended by around 10 people. Rory Grubb normally serves as chair of the planning commission, but since he was representing Trivest at the July 12 meeting, he recused his spot at the table early o...
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its latest unemployment figures Friday that showed an increase in payrolls that offset a disappointing performance in May, but the impact on Wyoming is unclear. Nationwide, nonfarm payroll increased by 287,000 in June, a far better performance than May’s anemic job creation numbers of 16,000. The biggest increases in employment were in the leisure and hospitality, health care and social assistance and financial services sectors. Mining, including oil and gas extraction, has the highest u...
A proposed coal liquefaction plant south of Medicine Bow is no more, according to an email sent to the Wyoming Industrial Siting Council (ISC) by the project’s proponent, Houston-based DKRW, Inc. The beleaguered project met its end after DKRW decided market conditions were not favorable to continue construction of the coal-liquefaction plant which would have turned coal into gasoline using a series of chemical reactions called the Fischer-Tropsch process that was developed in Germany in the 1920s. Coal liquefaction has been used successfully i...
The town of Saratoga recently was given a copy of the new master plan for the town by Community Builders, Inc., the firm that was hired to produce the plan. The master plan is 254 pages including all appendices, and lays out strategies for town growth, the resources that Saratoga has and issues that may stand in the way of progress for the town as it grows over the next couple decades. The plan notes that a well-diversified economy will help the town grow and become more prosperous. According th...
Earning membership in The Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT), an organization of insurance and financial professionals that recognizes achievement in the industry, is, according to Saratoga New York Life representative Brad Cary, “a pretty big deal.” And even though he was so honored last month, he says the biggest satisfaction in his work comes from helping others make financial plans and be ready for the future. Cary has been a New York Life agent in Saratoga since August 1987, Cary said, and in that time he has seen myriad changes in the fin...
By Wednesday, May 11, the first shift will have started at the long-dormant Saratoga sawmill, according to Gary Ervin. Ervin, the managing partner of Saratoga Forest Management (SFM), is a 50 percent owner of the firm, and manages many of the lumber plant’s day-to-day operations. Production has been on hold at the mill since an early-morning fire disabled the facility in January. At full capacity, the mill employs about 140 people, with an additional 50 contract workers driving trucks or f...
Engineering Associates moved from its old offices on East Bridge Avenue in Saratoga to a new location at 211 N. First Street last week. The company’s new offices are smaller than their previous office on Bridge Street, but it is a more efficient space for the employees, said Karl Smith, an employee at the company. Smith also said that parking was at a premium at the old office on Bridge Street. Ken Schwerdt, who also works at the company, said parking during the summer was particularly bad and that the company has a lot of trucks that used t...