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On a bright Saturday morning on Blackhall Mountain Ranch, the smell and sound of percolating coffee threads itself through the handful of conversations happening among those gathered in an arena. Nearby horses move around in their stalls and send out the occasional whinny. The people who have assembled in the large building, most of them women, are preparing for the second day of a three day horse clinic hosted by Jean Burger and put on by Chris Irwin. The attendees range in...
Despite the erratic weather that was present on Saturday, Riverside residents gathered at Rick Martin Memorial Park for the annual Riverside Party Day. On the enclosed stage loaned by the Town of Encampment, the bluegrass band High Plains Tradition strummed their guitars, banjos and other string instruments while people gathered and caught up with each other. "This is my going away party," said Jane Hill jokingly, as the long time resident is moving soon. The food, provided...
It's a cold and cloudy Sunday morning as I pull myself out of bed around 7:30 a.m. and get myself dressed. Normally the "day of rest" is used for just that; rest. On this particular morning of Aug. 19, however, I am heading down to the Silver Spur Shooting Range to cover one of several gun courses being taught by Silver Spur Outfitters in cooperation with Sgt. John Russo, who has been in law enforcement for 25 years. Having started in 2013, this is the fifth year that Spur...
John Russo and other professional gun trainers will be at the Spur Outfitters pistol range starting August 18 to teach the fifth annual Advanced Defensive Pistol course. In the past, students with skill levels ranging from never having fired a gun to fairly proficient have attended the course in the proper defensive use of a semi-automatic pistol. The 3-hour course begins with a classroom-style general overview that goes from parts and controls of a pistol to proper aiming,...
The Hanna Agricultural Resource Team (HART) met at 5:30 p.m. on July 31 at the Hanna Market to discuss changes in leadership. Rose Dabbs, the president of HART, told the members in attendance it was time for a new leader. Dabbs said she needed to pull back in her role at HART because she needed to take a rest. She said her commitment to the organization was still strong, but she felt it was time for another member to take over her present role. Ellen Freeman, HART member who...
Friends of the Saratoga Library announced a local couple will be presenting a program highlighting their birding experiences at 7 p.m. on Thursday Aug. 16 in the Saratoga Branch Library. The public is invited to attend this entertaining and informative presentation. Presenters will be Francis and Janice Bergquist, a husband and wife team photographing and writing out of their home in Saratoga. Francis has been photographing for the past thirty five years and specializes in the Rocky Mountain wildlife and scenery. Janice...
The First United Methodist Church (FUMC) of Ft. Lupton had a mission team come to northern Carbon County to paint the parsonage at the Medicine Bow FUMC house from July 15-20. In addition to painting the parish house, the mission volunteered to help with the distribution of food from the Food Bank of the Rockies that comes to Medicine Bow once a month. The Ft. Lupton group was made up of mostly teens, although there were adults. They were in Medicine Bow for almost a week and...
At 8 a.m. Saturday, 22 local residents and 4 participating businesses will kick off the weekend in south county with bargains galore. A garage sale spanning the Encampment/Riverside area features 22 published locations with maps available at the local participating businesses (The Red Wagon, Good Things, Sagebrush Senior Center and the Grand Encampment Museum) and in the foyer of the Encampment Town Hall. Encampment Mayor Greg Salisbury characterized the yard sale like this:...
As the summer has progressed, one of the constants throughout Wyoming is the sight of cyclists traveling alongside the roads. Since WYO 130 cuts through Saratoga, the town is often an obvious stop for those who are often taking part in cross-country rides. Valley residents may have noticed, however, that many cyclists have gathered at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church which sits along WYO 130, and there's a good reason why. Reverend Susan Dyer has put the church on the...
For old timers in Medicine Bow, the C-Spear Bar and Grill location had housed the Diplodocus Bar. The "Old Dip" as it was affectionately known by locals, was famous for it's murals painted by Bill Bennett. Old Dip was also home to the world's largest jade bar. The 40-foot countertop was carved from a four ton boulder of Wyoming jade which was found in the southwestern part of the state near Rock Springs. Wyoming is home to some of the largest jade geological deposits in the...
Dawn Kenneda, Medicine Bow American Legion Auxiliary Unit No. 64 Girls State Chairman, had some of her northern Carbon County girls attend the 76th session of the American Legion Auxiliary Wyoming Girls State (Girls State) held June 10-16 at Laramie County Community College in Cheyenne. Caitlin Cloe Olsen, and Taylee Widdisen of Hanna Elk Mountain Medicine Bow High School, were selected to attend for their accomplishments to the community. Olsen was selected for her...
One of the draws of being in the military is being able to travel the world. The same applies to being a pastor and a missionary. Pastor Phil Arndt of Saratoga Alliance Church has done both. While enlisted in the military and stationed in Korea, Arndt was involved with a small group of Christian servicemen and felt the calling to become a pastor. It also helped that being a missionary was in his blood. "My parents had been missionaries in Honduras and Central America," said Ar...
Valley residents and visitors will have yet another weekend full of events they can choose to attend with one such event being the Grand Encampment Cowboy Gathering. Entering it's 16th year, the cowboy gathering kicks off at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, July 20 at Grand View Park with open mic. cowboy poetry and music. This will be followed by a campfire jam session at 9 p.m. also in Grand View Park. On Saturday, beginning at 10 a.m., a quilting program will be held by South Dakota...
King Coal Days are here again starting July 20. At 5 p.m. on Friday registration for weekend events at the Hanna Parks and Recreation Center begin this year’s festivities. Also starting at the same time; a craft, art and food vendor show with a silent auction, a community barbecue and a sand volleyball tournament. From 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. there will be a DJ, karaoke and dancing. Saturday, starting at 7 a.m., a 5k Color Dash Run Walk. The same time a pancake breakfast will be s...
The official name for the town of Encampment is Grand Encampment and it received that name because it was, indeed, a grand encampment for fur traders, mountain men and local Native American tribes to meet and trade. During the weekend of July 20, people can get a taste of what those times were like while visiting the grounds of the Grand Encampment Museum. The Sierra Madre Muzzleloaders Mountain Man Rendezvous will begin on Friday, July 20, and will end on Sunday, July 22....
The Saratoga Lions Club met July 5 to award member Doug Campbell a pin for his 40-year membership and install new officers. The members seemed in a good mood as business was conducted and Joe Glode announced the incoming officers. During the meeting Glode expressed the need for new members and new projects to be undertaken. The new Lions Club officials are: James Beckmann, President; Gary Condict, First Vice President; Tim Dziadon, Second Vice President; Travis Moody, Third...
In the early morning hours of July 4, as the sun began to rise over the Snowy Mountain Range, people began to gather in the parking lot of the Platte Valley Community Center (PVCC) to register for the 2018 Cancer Walk/Run. As people sipped coffee and registered, they also listened to music from The Bird and The Bear, Garry "The Bear" Wood, being a cancer survivor himself after a battle with non-hodgkin's lymphoma. A large contingent of those participating in the event had...
The wind was gusty on the evening of July 4 in Medicine Bow as the dusk was closing in. It was blowing hard enough the town's fire department felt it would be wise to move the fireworks from their original set up to make sure there would be no chance of a fire from sparks being sent out past the perimeter they had deemed safe. This delay saw families play with sparklers and assorted other small fireworks. The crowd waited patiently until the music started at around 10 p.m....
Doug and Kathleen Campbell often joke about the fact that they bought the Hotel Wolf on April Fools Day. Obviously not superstitious, they are celebrating the hotel's 125 anniversary on Friday the 13th. The Campbell family has been the proprietors of this immensely popular establishment for 41 years. For any person that comes to Saratoga and doesn't know this historical landmark, the Hotel Wolf is an L-shaped, two and one-half story, brick and frame building on the corner of...
Staff Report Ah, summer! It’s finally here with vacations, floating, camping and barbecues. But it’s not fun if someone you love is in the hospital and there is no blood on the shelf. Here, in the southern part of Wyoming, it takes 500 people a week to donate blood to serve the 47 area hospitals in this region! One out of every three people will need blood during their lives, but only one in 20 people regularly give blood. Saratoga’s next blood drive with United Blood Services is from noon to 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 17 at...
When one is standing on the shore of the Upper North Platte River, the sounds one expects to hear would be the songs of birds. On one warm summer weekend, June 23, a different sound joined the avian melodies. The arrhythmic beeps of morse code and the whitenoise of an amateur radio in search of other stations could be heard on the property of the Ryan Ranch. The ranch owned by Greg Ryan, who also owns Ryan Electronics, was playing host to the Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL)...
Summer is here and Hanna resident Rose Dabbs presided over the monthly Hanna Agricultural Resource Team (HART) meeting held at 5:30 p.m. on June 26 at the Hanna Market to discuss work needed to be done outside the fenced area of the Community Garden. "I would like to talk about the upkeep of the outside of our garden," Dabbs said. "The thistles are growing taller and we need to figure something out because I don't think any one person should have to it." Several ideas were...
A new ministry for single adults has blossomed at St. Barnabas’ Episcopal Church. Singles Eating Together is a monthly time for adult singles—of any faith—to gather and share a meal and conversation. The next Singles Eating Together gathering will take place on Monday, July 9th at 5:30 p.m. in St. Barnabas’ Church’s Agape House, located at the corner of First Street and Main Ave. in Saratoga. Single adults in the valley are welcome to join us for food and fellowship. This ministry grew out of a study undertaken by members...
The Lincoln Highway enters the state from the east on U.S. 30 at Pine Bluffs and, established in 1913, was America's first coast-to-coast highway. Much of the route in Wyoming today is dirt and gravel and is impassable for much of the year, but in celebrating Ft. Steele's 150 year birthday, a historic walk was hosted by the National Park Service on Saturday. The walk was on parts of the original road near Ft. Steele that went by the Platte River where remnants of a bridge...
The Wyoming Rancher Family Camp, which was started by a handful of Wyoming ranchers and their families, will be entering it’s 73rd year. This year, the event will host speaker Brandon Buller, a pastor born in Nebraska and raised in Wyoming. After graduating high school in 1999, Buller attended Frontier School of the Bible in LaGrange, Wyo. and is now the pastor at Glendo Community Church where he has served for the last four years. Bible Study will be lead by Pastor Shon McIntyre from The Real Tree Church in Farmington, M...