Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
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1 years ago November 4, 1915 Bridge Collapses The fifty-foot span of steel across Spring creek, a mile south of Saratoga, collapsed Monday, when the work of finishing the flooring was in progress. The I beams and stress iron on the west side gave away first and the bridge gradually went down until it rested in the creek, twisting nearly every iron in the structure. It was loaded with about 25 to 30 tons of green concrete, which is given as the cause for the buckling. It is stated by the bridge people that after the floor...
Monday night children from the Platte Valley gathered to audition for “The Jungle Book.” Friday and Saturday, they will perform for audiences after only four days of play practice, thanks to the Missoula Children’s Theatre. The first performance is 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Platte Valley Community Center (PVCC). The second performance is at 2 p.m. Saturday at the PVCC. The Missoula Children’s Theatre staff invites the Platte Valley to join them as they direct a 50 local students as a bunch of Jungle Book characters trying...
Reprint of this story from the October 27, 1905 issue of The Grand Encampment Herald brought to you courtesy of Grandma’s Cabin, Encampment, Wyoming. Preserving History - Serving the Community. TWO IMPORTANT IRRIGATION ENTERPRISES Work Started on the North Platte and Encampment Canal. Dirt is Flying. Actual construction work on the North Platte and Encampment irrigation canal was started this week. A contract for a certain section of the ditch was let to J. E. Lynch and he took out a gang of men and began throwing dirt W...
An audition will be held for the Missoula Children’s Theatre (MCT) production of The Jungle Book Monday at the Platte Valley Community Center Theater from 4 - 6 p.m. Those auditioning should arrive by 4 p.m. and plan to stay for the full two hours. Some of the cast members will be asked to stay for a rehearsal immediately following the audition. Among the roles to be cast are Mowgli (the man-cub), Bagheera (the panther) and Akela (the leader of the pack), the entire wolf pack, Shere Khan (the tiger) with his side-kick T...
6 years ago Oct. 6 1955 Sixty-five aboard airliner perished this morning in crash on Medicine Bow peak One of the worst disasters in aviation history occurred this morning about 7:00 o'clock, when a United Airlines New York to Los Angeles plane with 65 people aboard crashed on the east slope of Medicine Bow peak in the Snowy Range. Local men who were part of a rescue party from the sheriff's office in Rawlins, said the big ship crashed into the face of the almost sheer rock...
Reprint of this story from the October 13, 1905 issue of The Grand Encampment Herald brought to you courtesy of Grandma's Cabin, Encampment, Wyoming. Preserving History - Serving the Community. Penn-Wyoming Company Suspends Operations to Double Capacity of Plant The positive assurance that a railroad is to be built into Encampment has caused the Penn-Wyoming Copper Company to order a temporary suspension of operations. There will be but a short period of inactivity, however, a...
1 years ago October 7, 1915 Editing a Newspaper Editing a newspaper is a pleasing business — if you can stand it. If subscribers want to bawl about anybody the editor’s the goat. If the town is lagging behind and people won’t get out and make things hum — its because the town paper is on the bum. If business is bad—it’s because the editor wants too much money for his advertising space. If business is good — advertising hasn’t anything to do with it, but conditions are right. If we print what pleases people — that is our dut...
In the art room at Encampment K-12, junior and senior high students were instructed to come up with a place that mattered to them, then another, and then to find the line between them. The lines, called ley lines, are related to the most recent project of Harvey Hix, professor of poetry and philosophy at University of Wyoming (UW). Hix visited Encampment on Monday to instruct students before heading up the line to Saratoga to give a similar presentation at the Platte Valley...
Breweries at the Saratoga Resort and Spa were: 1933 Brewing Company, Rickon Brewery, Equinox Brewing Company, Lander Brewing Company, Jackson Hole Brewing Company and Mahogany Ridge Brewery and Grill...
The Carbon County Library has a busy October planned for the Encampment Library branch beginning Wednesday with Out of This World Reads. The Encampment Library is calling all stellar readers to enjoy a space-themed BookQuest. Crafts, games, origami and snacks will be part the event from 4-5 p.m. On Tuesday, Craft and Chat: Pumpkin String Art will use a pumpkin as a canvas to create an autumn decoration using string and nails. Those who want to participate need to bring their own pumpkin, but the Encampment Library will...
University of Wyoming Professor of Philosophy, H. L. Hix, is hitting the road to visit communities across Wyoming, engaging in conversations about art and writing. Join H. L. Hix as he explains and shares his insights into the beginning of "Ley Lines" as it originated from two blogs, and how it grew to book and museum exhibition. Ley lines are the hypothetical or actual alignments of geographically or historically important places in the landscape, such as sacred sites,...
The Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) Education Center’s annual trek will be covering the east side of the county on Sunday. The trek begins at 8 a.m., in Baggs at the Cowboy parking lot. The first stop on the trek is the Little Snake River Museum in Savery. There, the attendees will learn about ditch companies that have been or are presently serving the Little Snake River Valley. The next stop will be at Hog Park. The trek will travel Wyoming and Colorado county roads past Three Forks to Hog Park Reservoir. This trip will i...
The sensual, spacious sounds of The Bird and the Bear returned to Saratoga Sept. 11 and the Saratoga Sun took some time to talk with the duo about their roots and life in Music City, Nashville, Tenn. Wood grew up in the North Platte Valley, leaving in 2008 to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass. Bolhuis is a native of Groningen, Holland a large, college town with a population of almost 200,000. The pair met in 2011 at a hostel in Nashville as they were pursuing sol...
Sam Platts, formerly of Saratoga, will make a homecoming on Friday at the Saratoga Resort and Spa. Platts' band, Sam Platts and the Kootenai Three, are currently in the process of recording a new album which should be out in the next year. "We'll be playing some new stuff," Platts said of his concert. Born and raised in the Platte Valley, Platts has been all around the world now, stating that he spent time touring around China and Australia this spring. Now Platts lives in...
Around 20 people attended the Brush Creek Presents program Sept. 1 at the Platte Valley Community Center. The program, which is sponsored by the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts introduces artists from all over the world to the Platte Valley. The artists shared samples of writing, music, film and visual arts at the presentation. One artist, Gayle Curry, invited people to come and try creating some art, for which local residents Irene Mikkelson and Annette Mason...
Organizers are finalizing last minute details for the 8th annual Party on the Platte fundraiser which begins with cocktails at 5 p.m. Saturday at the Platte Valley Community Center (PVCC). This year’s theme is “Get Behind the 8-ball” and PVCC’s Executive Director Joe Elder said the event is “racked full of great auction items.” Auction items include a fur coat, guns, hunting and float trips, antiques and a luncheon with Gov. Matt Mead. There are also a few surprises,...
More than 100 high-end classic cars are scheduled for a pit stop at the Grand Encampment Museum (GEM) Wednesday. The 27th Annual Colorado Grand, a tour of classic sports cars that winds its way through the mountains of Colorado and into Wyoming this year, will stop in the Valley for only the second time. Encampment and the GEM will provide a mid-day break for the drivers as the head from North Park, Colo. eventually driving over Battle Pass and back in to Colorado. The...