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“This is not sustainable. We know that. Obviously, we’re running out of money.” This statement from Saratoga Town Council member Jon Nelson illustrated the difficulties facing the Town of Saratoga as they prepare to set the budget for the next fiscal year (FY). With FY 2018/2019 nearing an end, the Saratoga Town Council and Town of Saratoga department heads gathered at Saratoga Town Hall for the second budget workshop in a series to discuss FY 2019/2020. In preparation for t...
The Healthcare Sustainability Project Subcommittee (HSPS) met at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday during an open meeting which had been rescheduled from the previous Wednesday due to the snow storm that hit on that day. HSPS member Will Faust opened the meeting by thanking everyone for attending and announcing a new HSPS website. The website at www.plattevalleyehealthcare.org is to feature past meeting minutes, a link to the Platte Valley Healthcare Assessment Survey and slides from the...
The evening of March 21 saw more full chairs than empty in the council chambers of Saratoga Town Hall as local hunters gathered for a presentation from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) about 2019 hunting season proposals. Saratoga Wildlife Biologist Teal Cufaude led the presentation as she went through proposed changes to antelope, deer, elk, moose, bighorn sheep and sage grouse hunting seasons. Antelope The first slides in the presentation covered Antelope Hunt...
Despite the weather, the Carbon County Impact Joint Powers Board (CCIJPB) was able to hold their regularly scheduled meeting on March 13 at Saratoga Town Hall. The topic of the water ordinance and water rates were, again, the central point of discussion at the meeting as the joint powers board continues to move forward with re-examining the current rate structure. Due to the blizzard, the Saratoga Sun was not in attendance, but spoke with CCIJPB member Roger Cox and Saratoga...
The roads in Encampment were cleared off enough Thursday evening for the Encampment Town Council to hold their regular meeting where they thanked the Department of Public Works (DPW) for the work done on clearing the streets. Mayor Greg Salisbury and the council, absent Bill Craig, also heard an update from Jon Nelson, of North Fork Engineering, on the progress of the sewer lagoon project. While the snowfall began to dissipate on Thursday morning, there was still plenty of it...
The Hanna Town Council got a late start on March 12 at the Hanna Town Hall. The meeting was to start at 6 p.m., but had a delay of about 20 minutes to have a quorum. Mayor Lois Buchanan and council member Bob Patton waited for council member Sammy Sikes to show up. Once he did, the council started. Council members Tracy Fowler and Linda Schisel did not attend the meeting that evening. Buchanan told the council that she had attended the High Country Joint Powers Board as the...
Despite just barely having a quorum, the Saratoga Planning Commission was able to move through their agenda with relative ease on the evening of March 12 at the Saratoga Town Hall. Acting Chairman Tom Westring and town council representative Bob Keel were joined via phone by planning commission member Jim Beckmann via phone as they heard from Louis Waits, co-owner of the Flower Pot, and discussed the soon-to-be vacant zoning officer position and the memorandum of...
On the afternoon of March 12, it seemed as if spring was just around the corner. The premonition of famed groundhog Punxsutawney Phil, Seer of Seers, Sage of Sages, Prognosticator of Prognosticators and Weather Prophet Extraordinaire (author's note: this is the full name of Punxsutawney Phil) seemed to be coming to fruition. With the official start of spring a week away and temperatures around 40 degrees Fahrenheit, it did not seem as if a storm was on the way. Of course,...
*UPDATED 3/13/2019 6:18 p.m. Due to inclement weather conditions, Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) Superintendent Jim Copeland has directed that all CCSD2 schools will remain closed today. The National Weather Service has issues a blizzard warning for areas including Saratoga and Elk Mountain and is predicting 12 to 18 inches of snow with winds up to 65 mile per hour. The blizzard warning is in effect until 6 p.m. on Thursday. The Saratoga Sun will keep you updated...
The Hanna Recreation Center played host to the public for people to get free food for the first time in Hanna. The Wyoming Food Bank of the Rockies truck got to Hanna at around 7:30 a.m. on Friday. Vivian Gonzales, Hanna Recreation Center director had asked volunteers to come around that time earlier. In less than a hour, the truck was unloaded and the volunteers had the distribution of the food ready to go. There was a line forming at 9 a.m., so Gonzales decided to open the d...
Memorial Hospital of Carbon County and Classic Air Medical are proud to announce their new emergent blood transfusion program. This program allows Classic Air Medical to pick up blood from Memorial Hospital of Carbon County and transport it to patients on the scene of a traumatic injury, giving patients early access to lifesaving blood. Memorial Hospital of Carbon County and Classic Air Medical have developed a partnership to provide residents of Carbon County and other surrounding counties with leading edge critical care...
It was a quick meeting of the Upper Platte River Solid Waste Disposal District (UPRSWDD) at the Riverside Town Hall on March 6. The majority of the board was in attendance, with Riverside representative Leroy Stephenson absent. While the meeting was brief, the board held continued discussion around cardboard recycling and approved the installation of an evaporation tank for the Saratoga transfer station. As Ron Munson, owner of Evergreen Disposal and current operator of the...
The Saratoga Town Council met at 6 p.m. on March 5 at the Saratoga Town Hall with all the council and mayor John Zeiger in attendance. It was business as usual with the approval of the minutes for the meeting on Feb. 19 and the agenda for the evening. The financials were approved to the sum of $168,568.26. Correspondence had a letter from the Local Government Liability Pool (LGLP) telling the town that contribution rates were staying the same. LGLP informed the council that...
Eight Veterans Administration (VA) representatives were at the Platte Valley Clinic Feb. 26 to discuss ways they could work with the local clinic and to spread information about programs that are available to veterans. The eight representatives were: Veteran Experience Officer Mary Lee; Health Care Coordinator Jennifer Goodman, MSN, RN CCRN; Facility Strategic Planner Carolyn Thompson; Transitional Social Worker Drew Waldbauer; Enrollment Specialist Mike Grace; Public Affairs...
As the number of wind energy companies interested in the area in and around the small town of Medicine Bow, the requests to lease property has continued to increase. During the last meeting of the Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) Board of Trustees on Feb. 20, the board members listened to a proposal for such a lease from Dean Byrne via phone. Byrne, owner of DDV, LLC., a Cheyenne, Wyo. based company, made the proposal on behalf of Viridis Eolia, a wind energy...
The Medicine Bow Town Council met at 7 p.m. on Feb. 11 at the Medicine Bow Community Hall. All council members and mayor Kevin Colman were in attendance. The agenda and minutes for the regular town council held on Jan. 14 and a special meeting on Feb. 4 were approved. Karen Heath, town clerk/treasurer, read the financials that were ratified and approved. Wind Discussion Jeb Steward, Encampment resident and chairman for the Wind Wyoming’s Way committee, thanked the council f...
By Joshua Wood A fourth grade student from Hanna Elementary School (HES) is in recovery following a diagnosis of bacterial meningitis that was reported by Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) Superintendent Jim Copeland near the end of the Feb. 20 CCSD2 Board of Trustees Meeting. As was reported on the Saratoga Sun website (“Bacterial meningitis reported in Hanna”) late Wednesday night, the student was life flighted from Laramie following the diagnosis. The stu...
This has been a winter that has thrown a lot of snow and wind at Carbon County communities. It has resulted in roads being closed for many hours at a time and, on occasion, days at a time. People who work out of their communities can find themselves missing work, doctor appointments or other situations where travel between communities is essential. When roads are impassable, no person wants to attempt the drive, no matter the reason to travel. Sometimes the roads are not impas...
For several months, the Carbon County Impact Joint Powers Board (CCIJPB) has expressed a desire to speak with a representative from the Old Baldy Club (OBC) in regards to their outdated billing, an issue brought up by board member Roger Cox in June (see “Lagoon done, billing discussed” on page 6 of the June 20, 2018 Saratoga Sun). During their regularly scheduled meeting at 6 p.m. on Feb. 13 at Saratoga Town Hall, Chairman Richard Raymer and Vice-Chairman Craig Kopasz reported...
The Saratoga Town Council met at 6 p.m. on Feb. 19 at the Saratoga Town Hall for a meeting that went for almost three hours. The mayor and all council members were in attendance. The start of the meeting went quickly with the agenda and minutes from Feb. 5 council meeting being approved. Next, the financials totaling $98,191.22 were approved. There was no correspondence. Mayor John Zeiger next had South Central Wyoming Emergency Medical Services (SCWEMS) Saratoga...
PacifiCorp, a regulated utility who serves 1.9 million customers in six western states, has applied for approval to repower the existing Foote Creek Rim 1 Wind Project located near Arlington, Wyo. Repowering will primarily involve removing the existing 68 turbines and replacing them with 12 new turbines. Although the activities involved are typical for wind energy project maintenance, residents may notice increased vehicle traffic during the construction period. The project is expected to bring more than $14 million dollars...
Reverend Stuart German, Assemblies of God (AG) missionary representative at Global University, will be the feature guest speaker at Platte Valley Christian Center AG, on Sunday, March 17, according to Reverend Gene Smith, pastor. Stuart and Jeanie have served in AG World Missions for nearly three decades, spending their first twenty-six years in the Philippines. The Germans first moved to the Philippines in 1991 where their three children, Nathan (25), Erika (21) and Jared...
The Hanna Town Council met at 6 p.m. on Feb. 12 at the Hanna Town Hall with all council members and mayor in attendance. There was also a public hearing for a special use permit application submitted by Hanna resident Michael Zedicker for 201 North Harrison St. Mayor Lois Buchanan asked the large public audience, that filled the room to capacity, if there was any opposition. There was none and Buchanan closed the public hearing to go into the regular council meeting. The...
In an approximately 20-minute Saratoga Planning Commission meeting every item on the agenda was tabled. During the Feb. 12 meeting, the commission briefly discussed four agenda items and decided that these were all items that needed further research, modification or reading. Three members, including Chris Duke, Bob Keel and chairman Tom Westring, were present at the meeting with Jim Beckmann absent. After approving the agenda and minutes from the Jan. 8 meeting and finding no...
The Healthcare Sustainability Project Subcommittee (HSPS) met Wednesday, Feb. 13 at the Platte Valley Community Center to discuss progress on healthcare in the Platte Valley and take questions on the shape that would continue to take. HSPS welcomed Joe Watt and Eric Lopata from Kansas City accounting firm BKD to speak at the meeting. After introducing the guest speakers and giving a brief overview of what HSPS expects from a feasibility study to be done by BKD, subcommittee...
