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The Saratoga Sun caught pictures of the solar eclipse Monday with special camera filters....
Some Saratoga residents and visitors took in the total solar eclipse Monday at viewing parties held at local homes....
John Russo had 10 professional gun trainers out at the Spur Outfitters pistol range Sunday to teach the Advanced Defensive Pistol course. Fourteen students with skill levels ranging from never having fired a gun to fairly proficient attended the course in the proper defensive use of a semi-automatic pistol. The 3-hour course began at 1 p.m. with a classroom-style general overview that went from parts and controls of a pistol to proper aiming, stance and trigger pull. After...
The Saratoga Museum held its fifth annual C.J. Box Trivia Night Fundraiser Saturday at the Platte Valley Community Center. The fundraiser brought in money for the museum and brought to town famous Wyoming author, and former Saratoga Sun reporter, C.J. Box. About 30 attendees at the event had the chance to meet Box, sample food from Saratoga's newest restaurant, Firewater Public House, and had the opportunity to support the Museum. Box, who worked at the Saratoga Sun in 1981, i...
The official State of Wyoming Microbrew Competition will be held Aug. 19 in Saratoga. Microbreweries from across Wyoming are slated to compete for the coveted Steinley Cup at the 22nd annual competition. This year's competition brew is 'American Amber Lager' and will be judged by a panel of brewing professionals from Colorado. The event starts at 1 p.m. and goes until 5 p.m. at Veterans Island Park. Among the breweries invited to this year's event are the defending Steinley...
A documentary film crew made a stop in Saratoga Friday in pursuit of cowboy poet and Saratoga cowboy Daron Little. According to producer of the film, Mike Day of Intrepid Cinema, the crew has been keeping up with Little for just about a year, with filming having started in November 2016. The crew followed Little into Saratoga last year, and this time the three-person film crew wound up following the local cowboy poet into Valley Foods. The documentary explores cowboy poetry, Day said. The crew and Little were on their way to...
The vibe was frenetic but friendly and I could hear music spilling from the Virginian Hotel in Medicine Bow as I pulled up to a full parking lot Saturday afternoon. I noticed tents dotting the area with more being erected as I found a spot to park behind the historic and stately hotel. I had come to see the ninth annual Battle of Old Wyoming (BOW) as the boisterous and free alternative music festival is known. The co-owner of the Virginan, Vickie Scott, was very nice as she...
The Grand Encampment Museum (GEM) hosted another of its speaker series events at the Grand Encampment Opera House Thursday. Valley residents and visitors attending the talk learned about the trial of Tom Horn with speaker John Davis, an attorney and historical author from Worland. Davis’ most recent book, published in March by the University of Oklahoma press, is about the famous trial. Horn was a scout who also worked as a soldier, cowboy, Pinkerton detective and gunslinger for hire. In 1902, Horn was convicted in the m...
Nineteen people gathered at the Saratoga Museum Saturday morning to take a trek out to Emigrant’s Crossing. Local historian and Valley chronicler, Dick Perue, gave a short overview of the trip to come and handed out flyers detailing events that occurred and people having had interactions in the area. Shortly after having corralled a passenger to open gates, Perue led the nine car wagon train the approximately nine miles north of Saratoga to a gate where the group proceeded to head west. Two stops were made along the way. T...
The Platte Valley Arts Council will be holding the first annual Toy Tractor Display Show and Competition as part of Encampment’s Copper Days Festival. The show will be held in the livery stable of the Grand Encampment Museum from 2 -5 p.m., September 9. There is no cost to see the toy displays or to enter the competition. Winners will be announced during the Community Dance at 6 p.m. The purpose of this event is not only to provide friendly competition, but also to provide toy collectors and enthusiasts the ability to c...
Broadway and film veteran Duffy Hudson brings his talent and fascination for Edgar Allan Poe to life in a unique one-man play at 7 p.m Thursday evening. in the Saratoga Branch Library at 503 West Elm Ave. Friends of the Saratoga Library presents Duffy’s rendition of “In The Shadow of the Raven,” which begins as Edgar Allan Poe rises from the scene of his mysterious death and continues as he pieces together the events of his life. Using a combination of biographical information and the dramatic interpretation of Poe’s literat...
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King Coal days started Friday with a community barbecue, baseball games and Texas Hold-em poker games and wrapped up Sunday with Mud Drags. There was a lot in between. Saturday began with a 6 a.m. 5k color dash walk/run. There were two fundraiser pancake breakfasts for the sports teams of Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow High School, a parade featuring floats and candy being thrown to the kids, volleyball and basketball tournaments, eating contests, T-Bones seventh annual...
The Grand Encampment Museum is sponsoring three free presentations. The first, on the Trial of Tom Horn, will be presented by John W. Davis on Thursday, July 27. The second presentation, on August 10, focuses on John Wesley Powell and the third is about Kit Carson on August 24. All three presentations will be held at the Grand Encampment Opera House at 7 p.m. Admission is free, but donations are greatly appreciated. “The Trial of Tom Horn,” presentation by John W. Davis explores the most sensational trial in Wyoming his...
"Friends of the Saratoga Library" enrichment program resumes this Thursday, July 13, at 7 p.m. in the Saratoga Public Library, when Saratoga Middle/High School graduate and author, Sarah Reichert, holds a book signing and discussion of her latest novel "Fighting Destiny". Sarah, daughter of Bill and Chris Wickstrom of Saratoga, will read excerpts from her recent work and answer questions about the story, characters and writing process. Refreshments will be served and all of...
Saratoga's own noted cowboy poet, humorist, storyteller, BS-er and master of ceremonies Chuck Larsen returns after a couple of years absence to emcee as well as star in this year's Saturday night show during the 15th annual Grand Encampment Cowboy Gathering (GECC) Friday through Sunday in Encampment. Larsen was the featured poet and emcee for 13 of the 15 years of the weekend event sponsored by the GECG-Outfit. At 7 p.m. he will be joined on stage at the Encampment gym by...
Bryon Russell played with the Utah Jazz on the team that was a contender for the NBA championship two years in row. Russell is often remembered for guarding Michael Jordan as Jordan made the clutch shot in the last seconds of game six in the 1998 NBA finals. There was speculation Jordan had pushed off Russell, but the referees didn't call it. Almost 20 years later, Russell was in the Hanna Recreation Center on Thursday to give children who played for the recently concluded...
A youth baseball program similar to the Utah Jazz basketball program is coming to Carbon County. The Salt Lake Bees will be sponsoring the program. The Salt Lake Bees, headquartered in Salt Lake City, are a triple-A affiliate of the Major League Baseball Anaheim Angels. Kids pre-kindergarten to sixth grade are encouraged to come sign up and teams will be set based on age ranges. The deadline to sign up is June 23 by 6 p.m. Interested Carbon County residents can register at the Hanna Recreation Center or can call 307-325-9402...
"Fashion, fur, fine art," said Laura Morrow when asked to describe her store Laura M Gallery on 102 West Bridge Avenue. The business celebrated 20 years of being open although the location has changed several times in Saratoga. Born in Crawford, Nebraska, she was raised mostly in Cheyenne, although she did spend two years of elementary school in Medicine Bow. Later, she would return there to do a fashion show in the 1980s at the Virginian. That show helped launch her design...
William Lee Golden, Duane Allen, Richard Sterben and Joe Bosnall-known as the Oak Ridge Boys-came to the Platte Valley Community Center (PVCC) to benefit local charities on Saturday. The Oak Ridge Boys have a history that stretches back to the late 40s when the band was known as the Georgia Clodhoppers, according to Sterben. The band played so often near the nuclear research facility at Oak Ridge the band's name was changed to the Oak Ridge Quartet. In 1961, that name changed...