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3th GRADE 4.0 Honor Roll Allie Condict, Madison Johnson, Josie Little, Cheyenne McCormick, Aspen Sewell 3.5 Honor Roll Tyler Bangs, Karlee Boyles, Sophia Diaz, Bailey Glode, Sophia Grubb, Allyster Ingraham, Jaida Jennings, Jerahleigh Johnson, Milan Scott 3.0 Honor Roll Douglas Anderson, Kanean Roberts, Decker Sipe, Skyler Wood 11th GRADE 4.0 Honor Roll Gillian Creed, Bennett Keel, Hazen Williams 3.5 Honor Roll Wynter Adams, Levi Hatch, Taylor Malcolm, Nathaniel Williams 3.0 Honor Roll Andrew Baldwin, Burris Berger, Mallory...
Saratoga Elementary School Interventionist ReAnn Follum presented the LTRS program to the Carbon County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees (CCSD2) at the December 16, 2024 meeting. LTRS stands for Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling. LTRS is a professional learning course in the science or reading for elementary educators and the course teaches the how, what and why of literacy acquisition to improve instructional practices, according to the handout...
Joe Gaspari is a quiet man. When he speaks, he says well thought out words to describe his passion for the Carbon County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees (Trustees). His commitment to the Trustees just earned him Wyoming School Board Member of the Year by the Wyoming Association of School Administrators at the Wyoming State School Boards of Association annual meeting in November. The honor was announced at the December Trustees meeting in Saratoga. Carbon County School...
The Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) Board of Trustees are in a race to complete their concealed-carry rule draft before the Wyoming State Legislature potentially passes a law on "enhanced concealed-carry." In a world where school is no longer a safe haven for children, changing times are forcing schools in Wyoming to come up with rules-not policies-to protect the children from the terrorism of school shootings. Rules, Policies and Laws On December 4, a committee...
For the second year in a row, Saratoga High School (SMHS) junior Bennett Keel has been accepted into the All-State Concert Band. He is the only student from Carbon County to play in the band. To be considered, Keel was required to send an audition recording of his trombone playing by October 28, 2024. Keel says he did not try out for the bank his freshman year, because he was a little overwhelmed with the complexity of the music for the audition. Keel said one of the best...
Editor's note: This is the final story in a series on the Valley Village Childcare as it approaches its one year anniversary in their new building. Less than a year after the Valley Village Childcare Center (VVC) opened its doors at their new location in the Ray A. Corbett Building, the VVC board established a partnership with the Wyoming Early Childhood Professional Learning Collaborative (Collaborative). The Collaborative is a Trustees Education Initiative outreach in the...
*Editor’s note: This is the second of a series on the Valley Village Childcare as it approaches its one year anniversary in their new building.* Tammy Willford is the Program Coordinator at the ExCel Developmental Preschool (ExCel) in the eastern part of Carbon County. She also is a teacher at ExCel. For the last 35 years, she taught in the same building that was located on Spring Avenue next to St. Ann’s Parish Hall. In January, ExCel moved to the Ray A. Corbett building own...
Community members are in for a treat Friday as the elementary students will be putting on their first play “North Pole’s Got Talent.” The play begins at 6 p.m. at the Platte Valley Community Center and is sponsored by the Town of Saratoga, Carbon County School Districts No. 2 (CCSD2) and the Platte Valley Drama Club. The play, written by Lavinia Roberts and sponsored by Pioneer Drama Services, is designed for a flexible cast according to pioneerdrama.com. Stage right, is di...
The gifting of an apple to a teacher is one ingrained into popular culture, a tradition carried from the Old World to the American Frontier with apples serving as a symbol of knowledge and wisdom. While teachers may not receive apples from their students anymore, the Platte Valley Legacy Foundation hands out crystal apples each year. This year, they awarded two of them on November 21 at the Hotel Wolf in Saratoga. “The Platte Legacy Committee (Foundation) has chosen t...
Visitors at Saratoga Middle High School are now greeted by a mural in the hallway before entering the school thanks to Noel Shepard’s art class from last year. It is the seniors’ gift to the school. Last year, Shepard had one student who helped her with the mural, Emily Gonzales. The mural is a brightly colored painting of evergreen trees with everything Wyoming and Saratoga - including Panther Paws. Study it long enough and the state bird, the Meadowlark, can be found. The br...
Encampment K-12 School hosted the Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) November 18, which gave Principal Jake Johnston an opportunity to show off the improvements in the school building. Improvements include new carpet in the office and hallway, a redesign of the front office for visitors and parents to check in and new bleachers. Johnston told the board, all the contractors showed up on the same day, which was a challenge for the newly appointed principal. The final...
People hear the word BOCES, but all they know is it has something to do with education. It is much more than that according to Stacey Erickson, the BOCES director. BOCES stands for Board of Cooperative Education Services and was formed in September, 2012 when the Western Wyoming Community College (WWCC) and the Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) Board of Trustees entered into a BOCES agreement. This allows the two entities to provide education services to children...
The Carbon County School District Board of Trustees approved a donation made by John H. Perue Living Trust in memory of John’s late wife Linda Fisher-Perue. The trust donated $1,000 for the Saratoga Middle High School (SMHS) Art Program. The donation is for purchase of supplies and equipment. Fisher-Perue was the art teacher at SMHS from 1993 to 2014. John Perue said people made donations in memory of Fisher-Perue when she passed away in April. He decided to use that money i...
Across Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2), administrative staff encourage the relationships between educators, students and parents to ensure academic success. The results of such a relationship are probably most evident at Encampment K-12 School, which is seeing success with both primary (elementary) and secondary (middle school and high school) students when looking at American College Test (ACT) and Wyoming Test of Proficiency and Progress (WYTOPP) scores. Taking...
At Encampment K-12 School, an empty fish tank sits in the main lobby. Soon, however, it will be home to more than 200 trout eggs. Encampment will be one of more than 60 schools taking part in the “Trout in the Classroom,” a program administered by Wyoming Trout Unlimited with the help of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD). “Schools are getting around 250 eggs because there is quite a bit of die-off,” said Ian McCreary, Wyoming Trout Unlimited State Coordin...
*Editor's Note: Anthony Campbell won the local Voice of Democracy contest. We have reprinted his entry here for our readers.* Our forefathers' vision of America is not exactly how it is today. When writing on the importance of law in the United States, Founding Father James Wilson stated, “Without liberty, law loses its nature and name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.” This principle still holds today, especially as liberty has been questioned rec...
Interest in speech and debate died out in 2021 when only four students signed up for the team and at least five students were needed to compete. This year there are nine to 11 students interested and coaches lining up to assist. COVID restrictions in 2020 resulted in the state competition being conducted online with teams competing through a computer monitor and virtual judging. The passion for debating without realtime interactions died out, at least for the Platte Valley...
Photo by Liz Wood Nick Wamsley, left, listens to his son Lloyd read Tuesday morning at the Encampment K-12 School for Books and Breakfast. Nick Wamsley is on the Board of Trustees for Carbon County School District No. 2....
When a student graduates from high school, the goal of teachers, the Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) and the Board of Trustees are to make sure each student is ready for the workforce, military, career or college. That is the purpose of the Postsecondary Readiness, which is used as an indicator to see if they are in fact ready. It measures the progress of juniors in high school and is dependent on students and what they have done to be ready for their next step...
*Editor's Note: McKinley Martin won the local Patriot's Pen contest. We have reprinted her entry here for our readers.* What is democracy you may ask? It is a system of government by the whole population where voting can make changes if the people don’t agree with the laws and government. Gerald Stanley Lee said that “America is a tune. It must be sung together.” If we sing together then all the people’s voices, including my voice, will be heard in American Democracy. Voting is important because we have a respons...
Every spring, students in third through 10th grades participate in the Wyoming Test of Proficiency and Progress (WY-TOPP) which gauges students’ abilities based on Wyoming Content and Performance Standards (WYCPS). The test is produced and offered through an outside evaluation agency. Writing, mathematics, science and language arts are tested over several days to evaluate the progress of students year to year. Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) saw mixed results f...
Last month, the Saratoga Elementary School (SES) Library became a miniature book store, thanks to SES librarian Luke Spiering, and Scholastics Book Fair. The students were able to shop for books they were interested in without leaving the area. Since there are not any bookstores in Saratoga, this gave students an opportunity to browse through books and toys related to books to see if they want to purchase them. The book fair was open during the school’s parent/teacher c...
Photos by Liz Wood and D'Ron Campbell...
The common room at Hanna Elementary School (HES) is filled with projects from the students who attend the school. From math computations to writing about the Native Americans who lived in Wyoming, the students show off what they have learned. These projects are a result of a collaboration of teachers in the school and Hanna Elementary School Principal Jackie Jones, using a combination of teaching techniques. Jones, who is in her second year as the principal of the school, is...
