Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
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Reprint of this story from the July 12, 1888 issue of the Platte Valley Lyre brought to you courtesy of Grandma’s Cabin, Encampment, Wyoming. Preserving History - Serving the Community. A few miles above Saratoga there enters the Platte from the east Cedar Creek. This stream is generous in its gift of water supply to its valley, comprising in fact three creeks, all of great and rushing volume, via: Cedar creek proper, and the North and the South Fork. Cedar creek proper being nine miles in length, and each of the forks a...
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 Carbon County Fair Queen Committee is looking for contestants. The deadline for application is July 16, 2015, while the actual contest will be held on Sunday, July 26, 2015. The age divisions are as follows: Carbon County Fair & Rodeo Queen, at least 17 and not more than 23; Carbon County Fair & Rodeo Junior Queen, at least 13 and not more than 16; Carbon County Fair & Rodeo Princess, at least 8 and no more than 12. All contestants must be a resident of Carbon County. She shall not be pregnant, currently living with a...
The Platte Valley High School class of 1965 is holding their 50-year class reunion over the Fourth of July weekend. So far, 19 of the 28 classmates have registered to attend. Two classmates, Roy Holdeman and Gary Elliott have passed away. The reunion will kick off at the Saratoga Resort and Spa (Saratoga Inn) on July 2 with an evening ice breaker. On July 3, Candace (Carroll) France will host the classmates at her and Dwight France’s home in Riverside. Marilyn (Thompson) and Sam Verplancke will host lunch, followed by the f...
The Fourth of July is an exciting time to be in the Valley. There will be activities for all age groups during the holiday weekend of July 3-5, including the annual parade and fireworks show. All these activities on Independence Day allow the community to stay together and have all sorts of things to do. One event in particular, Togie Days, is being brought back to Saratoga for the Fourth of July. Togie Days is one of the events on the Fourth that is unique this year. From 2 -...
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...