Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
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7 Years Ago Fireworks prohibited on forests As the Fourth of July approaches, it is time to remind all National Forest users that the use of fireworks on National Forest lands is prohibited. This is a general ban which applies to all National Forests and National Grasslands. It is not limited just to the up coming Fourth of July holidays. According o Gary Heath, Forest Supervisor for the Medicine Bow National Forest, “ We want to advise people not to bring fireworks onto the National Forests. They can easily start fires, c...
Darrell "Whitey" Stewart, born and raised in Wyoming, stays in shape at the age of 87 years old by participating in running events such as half-marathons. Stewart first started running around 1943 while he was running errands and working as ranch help for Ralph Platte in Riverside. His endurance was built up by things he did in the field such as haying. He mostly does race walking in events rather than race running. The difference between the two, according to Stewart, is that...
Friday July 3 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. National Fish Hatchery Tours The Hatchery is celebrating their 100th anniversary with tours of their facility north of Saratoga. See how they breed and hatch brown and rainbow trout fish before stocking area lakes. Tour the new facility for the rearing and breeding of the endangered Wyoming toad for reintroduction into the wild. 3 p.m. - 8 p.m. Kid’s Fish Kids age 12 and under can bring their rods and tackle boxes to the pond at the Saratoga Resort & Spa for a free evening of catching trout. N...
The Saratoga Museum is hosting its second annual A Celebration of Custom and Culture by recognizing the 125th anniversary of Wyoming becoming a state. Festivities will be held the Fourth of July after the parade with the 67th Wyoming Army Band performing from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Saratoga Museum Pavilion at 104 Constitution Ave. in Saratoga. Beginning at 2 p.m., re-enactments will take place featuring prominent people from more than 125 years ago. J.W. Hugus, portrayed by...
“It’s nice,” James Chaney said, “because it helps me to let things go, let the past go, enjoy the water and the company I have with people with common backgrounds.” This was Chaney’s fourth year at the Wounded Warrior Project hosted by Trout Unlimited. With trained fishing guides, Wounded Warriors from the Cheyenne VA hospital practice casting, fishing or just relaxing in the great outdoors. The Warriors and members of Trout Unlimited went to a pond on the Upper Cedar Creek...
The facility’s Activity Program is based on residents’ interests and allows residents to achieve a greater level of self-esteem which enables them to perform their activities of daily living at a higher level. It also provides residents with continuing contact with the community. Games provide laughter and socialization during the week. On Sunday afternoon, three residents played Dominoes with Elaine Burge winning. On Tuesday morning, three residents played Uno with Marjery McAulay winning. On Wednesday and Friday afternoons,...
There were two-and-a-half tables for Duplicate Bridge Monday. High winners were Mary Sjoden and Pat Bailey. Second high went to Nancy Facciani and Vivien Campbell. We have the papers for the tax refund for the Elderly and Disabled, so you can come up and get the forms or come in and I will help you fill them out. We had our birthday/anniversary dinner today. Those having birthdays this month are Betty Dean, Lila Worden, Teense Willford, Helen Wykle, Richard Rakness, June Spencer, Richard Hodges, Lyle Makinen, Gloria McVey,...
Reprint of this story from the June 27, 1902 issue of The Grand Encampment Herald brought to you courtesy of Grandma’s Cabin, Encampment, Wyoming. Preserving History - Serving the Community. The first issue of the Riverside Record, with Bert E. Davis as editor, appeared this week, and is in every way a credit to its publishers, the town and the district. The articles are well written, the paper is neatly printed, and the Record is in every respect a good paper. It has been started under favorable circumstances with a good p...
It has been 75 years since Betty (Everist) Vyvey graduated from high school. She attended Platte Valley High School in Saratoga and graduated in 1940. Vyvey was born in a homestead cabin in southern Colorado. The closest school to their home in Colorado was more than 20 miles away. There were no school buses at that time, leaving only horses and her own two feet as options for getting to school. Her family moved to Saratoga in 1936 when she was 13 years old because her uncle o...
A historic graduation announcement proclaims, "The Class of 1910 of the Saratoga High School requests your presence at the Commencement Exercises to be held at Jensen Hall Thursday evening, May 19th at eight o'clock." The gold embossed card continued, "Baccalaureate Sermon at Presbyterian Church, Sunday evening May 15th at eight o'clock." Class motto of the nine graduates was "To him that o're cometh, God giveth a crown." The printed four-page program is neatly tied to the...
In a 1913 Chalmers auto, Robert Abrey stopped in Saratoga on Tuesday with a reminder to us all about the history of travel in the West. A farmer from Norfolk, England, Robert and his wife Jane took off from New York on June 4. He was inspired by his antique, made-in-Detroit car (and a lot of historical reading) to travel to San Francisco on the Lincoln Highway. He had been reading about what was called the Great Race and decided to go on a mission of his own with Jane...
Weeds are simply undesirable plants. Anyone who manages land (home owners, gardeners, ranchers, farmers) deals with weeds. A weed might be a poisonous plant you do not want in your pasture because of livestock grazing, or it could be something like mint that has simply taken over the garden. Most weeds are fighters. They are resilient and do not readily succumb to the stresses that overtake other desirable plants, which is why the best weed control tool is prevention. There are several weed invaders in the state of Wyoming...
Breast cancer is so prevalent in Veronica Lincoln's family, she believes either her or her sister Meredith will have breast cancer sometime in their lives. Because of that statistic, Veronica became active in the Cancer Walk sponsored by the Saratoga Middle High School Technology (Tech) class. This is the fourth year the Tech class has sponsored the race and they have made an impact in raising awareness. This year, the Tech class has been traveling throughout the county to rai...
Editor’s note: This article first appeared in the Saratoga on July 1, 1976. It is the recount of Jessie (Cunningham) Miller’s trip to Yellowstone Park in 1915. Jessie is the mother of Alice Parrie Swanson. Alice had several photos she shared with us that did not appear in the 1976 paper, and since this trip was taken 100 years ago, we decided to share it again. On July 5, 1915, we left Encampment, by covered wagon and horseback to tour Yellowstone Park. In the company were 11 young people (I was 15 at the time) and two cha...
Saratoga Elementary School won a grant in October for a hydroponic system, and recently, the school reaped the ultimate reward — eating what they grew. A hydroponic system, according to Adelaide Myers, library aide at Saratoga Elementary, is a medium to grow plants that doesn’t use soil. The vegetation can be angled at almost any position; all that matters is that it is receiving light and water. “And basically it’s just some heavy-duty mesh we planted the seeds from little pl...
