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The game “Saratoga” is a hybrid of 8-Ball and 9-Ball with a rotation of solids/stipes. You have either solids or stripes, but you must shoot them in rotational order from lowest number to highest number. The game is played with 6 solids (1-6), 6 stripes (1-6), and the winning black ball. • Run solids or stripes IN ORDER, then pocket the black ball to win • You have to hit lowest ball of your kind first (lowest of either one if open table) • Legal shots are as we are used to in order “ball-in-hand” leagues • This is a calle...
Danny Roy Perniciaro was 13 when he got his first guitar for Christmas. That instrument set him on a path that would lead the Bay St. Louis, Miss. native on a 46-year journey around the country. Nine years later, the 22-year old would set off on the road with his 4-person band, Seabreeze. In 1972 Seabreeze contracted with the Holiday Inn hotel chain and the band was off on a 10-year ride to places like Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Florida and South Carolina. In the...
Mart Million was the winner of the Carbon County Fair Demolition Derby that started at 3 p.m. on Saturday. It was not the first time he has won. He came in first place in 2009 and second in 2012. He took a break after his effort in 2012 until this derby. Million lives in Craig, Colo., but he was raised and lived in Hanna for 33 years. He attributes his interest in working on cars to living in the town during his high school years. "A small town like Hanna, there isn't a lot...
The official State of Wyoming Microbrew Competition will be held Aug. 18 in Saratoga. Microbreweries based in Wyoming are slated to compete for the coveted Steinley Cup at the 23rd annual competition. This year's competition brew is Pilsner and will be judged by a panel of brewing professionals from Colorado. The event starts at 1 p.m. and goes until 5 p.m. at Saratoga's Veterans Island Park. Among the breweries invited to this year's event is the defending Steinley Cup...
What has been called the "Best Punk Rock Party in America" by Casper radio station 101.9 "The King" will be going on this weekend in Medicine Bow. Vicki and Vernon Scott, owners of the landmark three-story Virginian Hotel, will once again be hosting the frenetic, yet friendly, occurrence and will be moving furniture to accommodate the crowds this week. The free admission event, called the Battle of Old Wyoming (BOW), features several regional punk rock and alternative bands al...
Scott Helmer said when he first started touring in the U.S. in 2012 one of the early places he rolled through was Riverside and he played at the Bear Trap. He loved the place and was happy to return to play there on Friday. "Margaret (Weber) is a sweetheart," Helmer said. "She is so welcoming and it is like I am visiting an old friend." Helmer went further saying, "Bear Trap gets the funnest group." Besides playing at Bear Trap on Friday, Helmer was in Saratoga playing at...
John Barker hails from Sydney, Australia and has been in the north of Wyoming three times, but now on his fourth time to the Cowboy state, he is taking a look at places off the beaten Australian tourist trail. He is a writer for Escape, an Australian travel magazine owned by News Corp. Barker flew in on June 25 going Sydney, Los Angeles to Denver with another Australian journalist where they joined two other travel writers that had come in from Europe. One writer was from the...
Carl Bernstein and Marilyn Priddy rolled into Saratoga on June 13 in the early afternoon and approached Tona Hall, manager of Firewater Public House (Firewater) about singing and playing music for food and tips. Hall listened to the couple's pitch and after trying to get in touch with owner Danny Burau with no success, she decided to give them a chance. After the deal was done, the couple left to get their instruments, a cello and guitar. Although their music is acoustic they...
Despite varying styles and subjects, the artists gathered at the PVCC had two things in common; passion and perseverance. Some of the artists have pursued a full-time career while others find the time to pursue their passion in the free time from their day jobs. Talk to any of the artists, however, and the pride in their work is clearly evident. That same passion and perseverance that helped the masters of their craft get where they are today is something that is suggested to...
Entering its 3rd year, the Festival of the Arts will be taking place on June 30 and July 1 at the Platte Valley Community Center (PVCC) courtesy of local businesswoman Laura Morrow. The show will highlight local artists as well as artists throughout the state of Wyoming and the Western United States. Locals and visitors to the Upper North Platte River Valley are encouraged to attend the event. This year the show will include artists ranging from photography to bronze and more....
The meeting room of the Saratoga Branch Library was filled with raucous rhythms of homespun musical instruments on Friday, June 22, as children played along with the self-styled Gypsy Cowbelle. The event, which was scheduled as part of the "Libraries Rock" summer reading program, started at 1 p.m. and quickly filled with youngsters and their parents. Spoons, a washtub bass, a handsaw and more were used in a hectic harmony as "V," as she is known, led the band of merry music...
One of the many events that will be available for residents and tourists alike to attend during Togie Days will be the Battle of the Badges. Organized by Carbon County Sheriff’s Deputy Justin Hale, the event will be raising money for the Saratoga Volunteer Fire Department. Starting at 11 a.m. on June 30 and running until 1 p.m. at the Saratoga Football field, the event will be more than just watching the Saratoga Police Department and the SVFD go head-to-head. An inflatable obstacle course will be set up for children to p...
Saratoga Friday, June 29 6-8pm: Live Music at Lollypops Saturday, June 30 10am-1pm: Battle of the Badges @ SMHS Football Field 10am-5pm: Platte Valley Arts Festival @ PVCC 10am-3pm: Auto Show @ West Bridge Street, downtown Noon-6pm: Bouncy House and Water Slide, downtown 3-9pm: Togie Days Live Music, downtown Saratoga Sunday, July 1 9am-5pm: Sporting Clays Shoot @ Silver Spur Ranch 10am-4pm: Platte Valley Arts Festival @ PVCC 12pm-4pm: Craft Mart @ Saratoga Museum 2:30pm: Golf Tournament and Biergarten Party @ Saratoga Hot... Full story
"Come next year in January, in the year 2019, Diamond Rio will have been together-the same six guys have been standing beside one another for 30 years," Marty Roe, Diamond Rio lead vocal and rhythm guitar player, told the crowd during a break between songs when the band played on Saturday night at the Platte Valley Community Center (PVCC). The band started their sets at 8 p.m. to the sold out crowd. Diamond Rio has not only had the same members for close to 30 years, the...
The 23rd annual Steinley Cup Microbrew Festival in the Good Times Valley is just around the corner. This year’s competition is set for Saturday, August 18 at Veterans Island Park in Saratoga. An integral part of the afternoon is the Chili Competition and the Craft Show. This event is becoming more popular every year, while still remaining a fun, family-type gathering. There are three categories in the Chili Competition: red chili, green chili, and salsa. People’s Choice voting will begin when the Festival gate opens to the...
John R. Waggener, an archivist in the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming, is the author of "Snow Chi Minh Trail: The History of Interstate 80 between Laramie and Walcott Junction." The book is published by the Wyoming State Historical Society, a nonprofit, membership-driven educational organization. The subject matter is a 77 mile stretch of road that is known to many Wyoming residents for its volatile weather conditions that makes the highway very...
This weekend marks the annual Woodchoppers’ Jamboree and, with it, the events that so many people have come to enjoy; chainsaw tosses, pole climbing, ax throws and melodramatic performances. When the saws are put away and the wood chips are done flying, a long-held tradition of the weekend is to head to the Grand Encampment Opera House to watch the melodrama put on by Valley thespians. This year, residents will be seeing , “He Lured Her to the Primrose Path but He was Nip...
By Joshua Wood On March 27, C.J. Box released "The Dissappeared," the 18th installment in the Joe Pickett series, which follows the exploits of the popular Wyoming Game and Fish warden. Newcomers and longtime fans of the series have often wondered when Pickett would get his own television show. To some it seemed only sensible considering the success of "Justified," based on books by Elmore Leonard, and "Longmire," based on the books by fellow Wyoming author Craig Johnson....
The Platte Valley Arts Council is proud to present the "Frontier Brass Band", an ensemble associated with the 67th Wyoming National Guard Band. They will perform at 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 9 at the Saratoga Museum Pavilion. The eleven- piece band is a New Orleans style band playing second line standards to arrangements of today's top 40 hits. Taking its name from the black street parading tradition in which it was developed, second line rhythm has spread around the world...
What does a Wyoming girl with degrees in History and International Relations do after graduation? Pat Stuart parlayed them into a berth at the CIA. Wyoming author and former CIA officer, Pat Stuart, will relate "True Stories from the Espionage Wars" 7 p.m. May 10, in the Saratoga Library. She will present stories from her career, and that of her colleagues, demonstrating the role and utility of espionage in America's defense during the free public program sponsored by...
By Mike Armstrong Hanna Elementary was the setting for the global bluegrass ambassadors the Henhouse Prowlers as they held a music workshop April 9-10. After finishing up the workshop at the school on April 10, the band gave an evening public concert at the Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School auditorium in which grades K-6 participated. The band from Chicago has been together for 15 years, although one member, guitar player Chris Dollar, has only been with the...
The Carbon County Museum had a meet and greet for Steven Deniro, the new Executive Director, and offered a book signing by author C.J. Box starting at 5 p.m. and lasting until 8 p.m. on Thursday. Box and his wife, Laurie, signed a contract with the museum to do book signings once a year. In turn, the museum will be naming the bookstore in the new facility being built after the couple. Box signed copies of his new book, "The Disappeared," along with other copies of his books...
On Friday morning, pool players gathered in the Platte Valley Community Center (PVCC) awaiting their table assignments to be announced. Some were fresh faced and ready to go while others were less so, having stayed up the night before to watch the end of the Pro-Am tournament. The green felt on the tables contrasted the blanket of snow forming outside, courtesy of one of Wyoming's signature spring storms. The Wyoming Open had officially begun. Entering its 11th year, the...
In what has been an expanding weekend, pool enthusiasts from the region and around the world will converge on Saratoga to play pool in what has been called by organizers, "the most popular pool event in the Rocky Mountain States." The period ranging from Thursday, April 5 to Sunday, April 8 will give pool players ranging from novices to professionals a chance at pots which have had $11,000 added to the entry-fee winnings total. The added money has been weighted according to...