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Saratoga resident Mark Shipp has been making his work commute to the north Carbon County towns of Hanna, Elk Mountain and Medicine Bow for seven years. Is he a traveling salesman of some sort? No. He is the elementary school principal for all three towns–and after this May his commute to the schools will be over. He is retiring. "Mark has been principal since I have been here," Jim Copeland, Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) superintendent said. "Mark is a great individual to work w...
Wyoming Ranks No. 5 on ‘Best States for Higher Education’ List The low cost of higher education in Wyoming, combined with low student debt and a relatively high community college graduation rate, have placed the state No. 5 on U.S. News & World Report’s new “Best States for Higher Education” list. Wyoming trails only Florida, Utah, Washington and California in the rankings, which are part of the magazine’s annual “Best States” report. In the area of tuition and fees, Wyoming ranks No. 1 because of its low cost for University of Wyoming (UW) an...
Liam Scott will be starting elementary school next semester. A challenge for many children, but because Liam who, at age 14 months, was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1), an autoimmune disease of the pancreas in which the organ fails to make insulin; he has a companion going with him to make sure his sugar levels stay safe. Allie, Liam's companion, is a Diabetic Alert Dog (DAD). Two years ago, Allie was homeless and in a shelter before Heads Up Hounds out of Nebraska, which uses rescu...
A whistle blast starts the balloon busting event and another game in the annual Mr. Soto Elk Mountain Elementary School (EMES) and Medicine Bow Elementary School (MBES) Field Day. The competition has balloons taped to the shoes of the students who are placed in a circle of cones. If a student leaves the circle, they are disqualified. The child with one remaining balloon wins. The balloons are taped in such a way, there is no danger to the feet, but the game creates laughter along with foot...
From May 29 to June 2, Wyoming Game and Fish (WGFD) will have it's seventh annual hunter education at the Hanna Senior Center. "We bounced around having the classes between Elk Mountain and Hanna until we found Hanna seems like the more central location for the communities of Medicine Bow, Elk Mountain and Hanna.," Ryan Kenneda, Senior Game Warden for Elk Mountain said. "The Hanna Senior Center is a great place for our classes too." The major purpose of Hunter Education (HE) programs is the...
Western Wyoming Community College’s Division of Mathematics and Science is pleased to announce a new partnership with Encampment High School (EHS). Encampment High School is a K-12 public education institution and part of the Carbon County School District No.2. The Town of Encampment is home to approximately 440 people. Wyoming Representative Jerry Paxton said of the partnership, “As a former Vocational Agriculture teacher and school principal at Encampment School it is always good to hear that our school is moving forward with plans to imp...
Encampment Preschool recently received a donation of $500 from the Sinclair Wyoming Refining Company to go towards the preschool’s tuition fund. The fund allows children in Encampment to attend preschool without cost to the parents. To ensure that children can attend preschool, the fund receives donations from various organizations and individuals....
The Elk Mountain Kids Choir and the Elk Mountain Youth Choir performed together for the 5th annual Elk Mountain Spring Recital on May 10. There were solos in singing and playing the piano to entertain the packed Elk Mountain Country Church. The two choirs were directed by Dawn Kenneda and the accompanist was Kay Grant. The Elk Mountain Kids Choir was comprised of Dakota Crites, Shaylee Crites, Loalei Grende, Jordann Grende, Holli Hays, Jake Hays, Nehemiah Hobbs, Israel Hobbs, Kaylee Johnson,...
Wyoming U.S. Senator (R) John Barrasso came to Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School to meet with students and faculty of the school at 8:30 a.m. on May 1. The meeting was held in the HEM gym. where the senator first spoke about the Hathaway Scholarship and how the funding came about. The Hathaway scholarship was created to provide an incentive for Wyoming students to prepare and pursue after high school education within the state of Wyoming. In 2005, state lawmakers created a...
According to their website, "SkillsUSA Wyoming is a Career-Technical Student Organization serving students in Secondary and Post-Secondary technical, skilled, and service occupations, including health occupations." Saratoga High School students Kelly Glode, Taylor Bennett and Lairren Peebles represented Saratoga at the SkillsUSA Wyoming competition taking the silver. "We got to do a lot more than SkillsUSA when we went to Casper," Peebles said. "We got to tour the Rocky Mountain Oncology...
On Wednesday at 9 a.m. there was a Hanna Elementary School Science Expo where the 4th-6th graders were broken into teams of three and presented different experiments to the entire school body. The "A-mazing Rabbits" were a definite hit far as students wanting to watch the bunnies do their thing. The experiment was to see which gender completed a maze faster. In the trials, the female had gotten her time down to 30 seconds while the male took a bit longer. Unfortunately, in front of the...
Members of the Encampment chapter of Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) traveled to Cheyenne in March to participate in the annual State Leadership Convention and Competitions. The 2018 convention theme was "Peaks of Potential – Rise, Lead, Succeed" and, with Encampment High School sending 23 members to the competition, they did just that. Encampment ProStart students also headed up to Casper in March to compete in the State ProStart competition. FCCLA Ryley Henrie r...
Linda Butler is leaving the position as principal of Saratoga Senior and Middle School to take on a new role in a management position at Carbon County School District No. 2's (CCSD2) office. A search started for a replacement, and a committee was formed that included close to 20 people. Darrin Jennings, principal of Saratoga Elementary School (SES), was on the committee as they interviewed four candidates. After one candidate dropped out, Jennings was approached about the job. "I was asked by a...
North Fork Engineering has announced the creation of the North Fork Engineering Scholarship. The scholarship is open to graduating seniors from Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) high schools who are pursuing an education in engineering, construction or a technical field. The North Fork Engineering Scholarship will be awarded in the amount of $500 to one student prior to graduation. “Our goal of providing this scholarship is to encourage aspiring engineers on their journey, promote oppo...
The Daniels Fund recently released the names of 238 students from Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming who have been selected for the Daniels Scholarship Program. The program, which was established by cable television pioneer Bill Daniels, covers the expenses that remain after all other scholarships and financial aid have been applied. Daniels Scholars may attend any accredited nonprofit college or university in the United States. “These young people have demonstrated the character, l...
By Mike Armstrong On March 21, if a person went on the Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine (HEM) Bow High School website, there were words that made people aware the administration was taking seriously any possible danger to it's students, no matter how remote, the circumstances: "Over the weekend, it was reported to school personnel that a student mentioned to another student that they might bring a weapon to school. As soon as this was reported to us, we contacted legal authorities who investigated...
Seniors graduating from Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD 2) high schools can now apply for the annual $500 Youth Citizenship Award (YCA) offered by the Valley Service Organization (VSO). Application forms are now available from the counselor’s office at each of CCSD 2’s high schools. Home-schooled students are also eligible for this award, according to Carol Beach, YCA project chairman. Beach said the award is not a scholarship, but rather is a cash award given directly to the student in recognition of his or her community service and...
"It is hard to describe the feeling of watching the chopper thundering in with sheep dangling below and setting them a stone's-throw distance from us, blasting us with rotor-wash before taking off for another capture." Jordan Seitz, who teaches sixth grade at Encampment K12 Schools and eighth grade earth science, was able to take his students on a "once-in-a-lifetime experience" on Feb. 28. Seitz, his students and some additional staff members from Encampment aided the Wyoming Game and Fish...
Sinclair Wyoming Refining Company has helped bring Book Trust to all elementary grades in the Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD 2) this year. "Initially, Book Trust started out going only from kindergarten to second grade, but Sinclair volunteered to help have the program go all the way to sixth grade because it was important to them", said Darrin Jennings, principal of Saratoga Elementary. Book Trust is a program that offers children the opportunity for them to buy books each month....
Pamela Glasser, the music teacher for Hanna, Elk Mountain and Medicine Bow Elementary schools applied for funds for guitars from Donors Choose, an organization that has donors give money to classrooms and teachers. The organization was started by a history teacher. In 2000, Charles Best, a teacher at a Bronx public high school, wanted his students to read Little House on the Prairie. As he was making photocopies of the one book he could procure, Best, according to Donors Choose website, thought...