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We obviously have many reasons to feel gratitude to those who have served in the U.S. military, but one we may have overlooked is the role military service has played in preparing our healthcare workers to help keep our community healthy and secure. Take, for example, Saratoga Care Center Director of Nursing Stephany Ponish, BSN, RN. Ponish served as a hospital corpsman in the U.S. Navy from 1992-1999 and says her experience has enabled her to continue to apply the core values of the U.S. Navy: honor, courage, and...
The Saratoga/Platte Valley Chamber of Commerce has begun selling tickets for the annual Reverse Drawing. Tickets are $10 each and only 300 are sold. Unlike the usual raffle procedure, the very last ticket drawn is the grand prize winner in this drawing. The winner receives $1,000 in chamber gift certificates which can be redeemed at chamber member businesses only. The first, 50th, 100th, 150th, 200th, 250th tickets drawn will also win $50 certificates. And the owner of the 299th ticket drawn will win a $100 certificate. The...
"I am a Carbon County girl," Lezlee Musgrove, the town clerk/treasurer of Sinclair said. "I was born in Rawlins, but grew up in Sinclair. My father worked for the refinery when it was company town and my siblings and myself feel very blessed to have been raised in such a neat environment." Musgrove who loves her hometown is getting ready to retire from her position at the town hall after 25 and a half years. "I love this job," Musgrove said. "I am going to miss it very much."...
The Saratoga Holiday Bazaar has long been a central location for local crafters and makers to sell their wares, promote their small businesses and encourage shopping locally. With a difficult year drawing to a close, shopping close to home and buying from local businesses may be more important than ever. Dixie Berger, co-owner of Pure Dixie, has long found the annual holiday bazaar to be a successful event for her business and is hoping to continue that success this year for...
The Hanna Recreation Center was a flurry of activity on Wednesday evening as student volunteers from the FFA and the schools in Hanna got together to create a different type of haunted house for Halloween. In years past, residents would wander through the recreation center into a different scary rooms. Due to COVID concerns, rooms were still being decorated but the idea was for guests to look in. The theme was a scary hospital. The FFA usually helps with decoration but, this...
For the ninth year in a row, the Saratoga TechKids/SkillsUSA made a generous donation to the Corbett Medical Foundation. Traditionally, the school program hosts a golf tournament and a 5K run/walk event to raise funds. This year, however, the affects of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) forced the program to adjust. While the "Chip in for Cancer" golf tournament was able to take place as planned, the 5K run/walk had to go digital. Shirts, which were traditionally sold at the...
Thanksgiving is quickly approaching and it would seem that there has never been more need in the 25 years of the Platte Valley Helping Hands’ Free Community Thanksgiving Day Dinner than 2020. Fortunately, the Platte Valley Helping Hands have every intention in following through with helping those in need this year. It will just look a little different. According to Marilyn Verplancke, no food or beverages will be served in St. Ann’s Parish Hall, which has historically hosted the annual dinner. Additionally, Platte Valley Hel...
Pam Paulson was the Hanna town treasurer for 13 years before recently retiring. Paulson worked with Ann Calvert, who was town clerk for three of those years. When Paulson decided to leave, Calvert knew she wanted to try for the position of treasurer. She had some experience already since the town does some cross training between the two positions. Also, when Calvert first got hired, Paulson broke her ankle and had to be on leave for a period of time which required Calvert to...
The Hanna Parks and Recreation Center had a meeting at 4:30 p.m. on October 7 at the Hanna Recreation Center. The Hanna mayor, Lois Buchanan, was in attendance along with two board members. Because there were not enough board members to form a quorum, Vivian Gonzales suggested going over subjects that did need a vote, but could still be discussed. Halloween was the first concern. The Hanna Recreation Center has a ‘Haunted House” that the residents look forward to each year. “W...
The last time the Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School Miners played at home over the Labor Day weekend, on September 5, there was ominous black smoke billowing into the clear blue skies. By the time the game ended at 2:30 p.m., several planes were flying overhead dumping retardant and water to stop an out-of-control fire just a couple miles outside of town. By 5 p.m. the town had called for a mandatory evacuation and fire departments from all over the county,...
When the Parco Sinclair Theater first opened its doors in 1924, the interior walls were hand painted and the seating was top notch for its time. Its exterior was like the rest of the company town; a unique Spanish style. For years, the Sinclair Oil Corporation owned the theater along with almost the rest of the town. In 1968 residents could purchase homes and the Town purchased the theater. The theater stopped showing movies in the 1960's and there was an attempt to keep the...
As the warmth of the summer months give way into the cooler days of fall, there’s nothing that hits the spot quite like a bowl of chili. Additionally, there’s nothing in the fall quite like a good tailgate party. In that vein of thinking, the Saratoga/Platte Valley Chamber of Commerce (S/PVCC) is hosting their inaugural Tailgate Party Fundraiser during the upcoming Denver Broncos and Kansas City Chiefs game. A great tailgate doesn’t happen without some good food or some good drinks, though. The S/PVCC is asking anyone who h...
Encampment High School was recently recognized by Make-A-Wish Wyoming for their participation in and fundraising for the program, according to a recent press release. The Kids for Wish Kids program was introduced by Make-A-Wish Wyoming in 2000 and Encampment High School has been participating in the program since 2007. The program encouraged students from kindergarten to 12th grade to raise money to grant the wishes of children who are battling critical illnesses. High school students are allowed creative leeway to craft...
Pam Paulson took her first bookkeeping class at Hanna High School. Although not born in Carbon County, Paulson came to the town a little before the mining boom in the 1980s and Hanna was the place she got her education from first grade to graduation. She remembers, as a young child, living in apartments near the railroad track before the family moved into their home. Paulson graduated and went to work at Shirley Basin. She started driving a truck and then was put in the...
The Hanna Agricultural Resource Team (HART) met at 5 p.m. on September 15 at the Hanna Market. “We need to get ready for the cold weather,” Chairman Perry Goodrich, said. “We already got one snow storm, so it makes sense to start preparing our gardens.” HART member Ellen Freeman told the group that several wooden posts were starting to rot. “There are a few options, from replacing the posts entirely to getting some steel poles and attach them to the posts for stability...
For the 26th year, members and friends of the Little Snake River community will make a fall trek. This year the trek will be close to home, straddling the Continental Divide. It will be a time to enjoy the fall leaf colors and to learn more about the area's history. The treksters will leave Baggs at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, September 26, with stops for additional treksters in Dixon and Savery. They will travel to Brown's Hill where a stop will be made with information about the...
It is, perhaps, an understatement to say that the Upper North Platte River Valley has a wealth of history. From copper mines to coal mines, from manifest destiny to the lumber industry, the Valley and the communities within its borders have a unique story. Fortunately, there are a handful of books-from Candy Moulton's "Grand Encampment" to Gay Day Alcorn's "Tough Country" to "Saratoga and Encampment Wyoming: An Album of Family Histories"-that can help guide even the most...
"Aunt Lily (Turner) passed away in December of 2014," Hanna resident Pam Paulson said. "She was a veteran and, at the time of her death, I ordered a veteran memorial headstone." Paulson said she was told to make the headstone she wanted, it could take a year. So as time went by, she didn't worry about the tombstone until about a year and half had passed. "Then I got curious to why it was taking so long, so I got in touch with mortuary," Paulson said. "The guy who I had put...
The Old Fashioned cocktail is a whiskey drink. It has a few variations and depending on how an imbiber wants to interpret history, the recipe for a proper Old Fashioned is disputed. How did this happen? The first drink close to the Old Fashioned, many whiskey drinkers consider the true recipe. It came from Jerry Thomas' Bartender's Guide published first in 1862. It was called the Whiskey Cocktail. The recipe was to take 3-4 dashes of gum (simple) syrup, 2 dashes of bitters, a...
by Dick Perue (Author's note: The following originally was written as an introduction for Elva's book, "Saratoga 150 Years" however, being extremely modest, she wouldn't include it in "Saratoga 150 Years". This is my personal account of Elva (Olson) Evans and her accomplishments over the past 80 years of our acquaintance and friendship. She has "kinda" agreed to me writing and publishing the following.-Dick Perue). Elva Evans' interest in history was sparked at her parents'...
Reprint of this story from the September 9, 1910 issue of the Grand Encampment Herald brought to you courtesy of Grandma’s Cabin, Encampment, Wyoming. Preserving History - Serving the Community. Ed Martin and Chas. Martin have discovered the Beagle Boulder lead. At least they thoroughly believe it and everyone else who has seen it shares the opinion that the long sought source of the famous bonanza boulder has at last been uncovered. If future developments prove this discovery to be proportionately as prolific of gold as w...
After 50 years of serving the county, Carbon County Counseling will be undergoing a transition. On September 1, CEO Patrick Gonzales approached the Board of Carbon County Commissioners (BOCCC) for a letter of support in regards to the acquisition and merger of Carbon County Counseling and High Country Behavioral Health. Joining Gonzales was High Country Behavioral Health CEO Kipp Dana. “We are seeking the commissioners, essentially your blessing, in support of a a...
Bonnie Culver, the branch manager at Medicine Bow Library, put out a call to volunteers to help put a new coat of paint on the library this weekend. It worked. By Saturday afternoon the trim was being finished and the building was completely painted. Culver said the building has needed the coat for some time. She saved money from book sales and was curious about how much it would cost. "I called Sue Jones, the county commissioner, to see what I needed to do to get the county...
The town of Carbon was described in the Lippincott's "Gazetteer of the World", a geographical dictionary of the world published in 1893, as a post-village of Carbon County. "It is 84 miles by rail northwest of Laramie. Coal mining is on here. It has three churches, a bank, a common and high school, and a newspaper office. Pop. 1140." Carbon County, in 1890 had a population of 6,587. In 1870, the number of people was 1,368. Hanna is not listed; nor is Saratoga or Encampment....
The Hanna Agricultural Resource Team (HART) met at 5 p.m. on August 12 at the Hanna Market. Recent summer meetings have been held at the community garden. The indoor meeting had almost a dozen members attend, including Hanna Mayor Lois Buchanan. Perry Goodrich, the chairman of HART, said that the organization had purchased a new water pump and hose that made watering the gardens easier. Linda Goodrich, secretary of HART, said there was going to be a work day in September to...