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While one of the most discussed topics in recent meetings of the Saratoga Town Council has been healthcare, finances have become a close second as concerns have been raised about the most recent audit and the current budget. During the Aug. 20 meeting, the council spoke with Sammy Flohr, town treasurer, about progress with the Town of Saratoga’s bookkeeping program and approved a new auditing company. On The Books Over the past month, Flohr, who has been with the Town of S...
There are new wind projects being slated to come to northern Carbon County that will have impact on several municipalities. The Lucky Star Wind Energy Project (Lucky Star) will be operating on 78,292 acres, mostly owned by two privately owned ranches; Medicine Bow River Ranch and Lookout Ranch. The project will also use land from federal and state parcels. Two Rivers Wind Energy Project (Two Rivers) will be on 19,547 acres. This project will be on land held by privately owned...
The Hanna Town Council met at 6 p.m. on Tuesday at the Hanna Town Hall with three council members in attendance. Council member Traci Fowler was absent. Mayor Lois Buchanan was present. Before the regularly scheduled town council meeting started, there was a public hearing for a special use permit submitted to establish a RV park located at 608 3rd street. There were no objections and several attendees from the audience voiced positive comments on how well kept the park was...
While discussion of projected numbers took up the majority of the public meeting with the Platte Valley Healthcare Project (PVHP) committee on Aug. 14, the group also presented conceptual drawings and a possible location for the proposed critical access hospital. In June, Valley residents were presented with five possible locations for the critical access hospital (see “Sites and sounds at healthcare meeting” on page 11 of the June 19 Saratoga Sun) that included the Sar...
The long search for a zoning officer may finally be coming to an end for the Town of Saratoga. During the Aug. 13 meeting of the Saratoga Planning Commission, two prospective candidates were in the audience as commissioner Jim Beckmann conducted the meeting in the absence of Acting Chairman Tom Westring. Saratoga residents Bob and Sierra Smith were also in attendance at the meeting with questions about the special use permit for their bed and breakfast business, Roan Hill Ranc...
The Saratoga Airport Advisory Board held their last monthly meeting on Aug. 14 as they make the transition from meeting monthly to meeting quarterly. Along with making that decision, the advisory board also made a recommendation to fill the final open seat and discussed snow removal equipment. Monthly to Quarterly The discussion about how often to meet has been one held since the inception of the advisory board. Under the dissolved Saratoga Airport Boar, meetings were held...
Six months since the Platte Valley Healthcare Project (PVHP) first introduced the Valley to accounting firm BKD, partners Joe Watt and Eric Lopata returned to present projected feasibility numbers during a public meeting on Aug. 14. It was originally intended for those numbers to be presented during the July 17 meeting, but the presentation had been pushed back. Former and current members of the Memorial Hospital of Carbon County (MHCC) Board of Trustees and MHCC interim...
Nearly four months since first appearing before the Saratoga Town Council, Bob Quist, interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Memorial Hospital of Carbon County (MHCC), returned for the Aug. 6 meeting of Saratoga’s governing body. The attendance of Quist at the meeting came 10 days after a press release from MHCC announcing the Board of Trustees’ intent to establish a clinic in the Platte Valley (see “MHCC announces clinic” on page 3 of the July 31 Saratoga Sun). Along w...
The Riverside Town Council met at 6 p.m. on Thursday at the Riverside Town Hall where all current council members were in attendance. Mayor Leroy Stephenson and Town Clerk/Treasurer Jan Cook were also present. The agenda and minutes from the July 11 regularly scheduled meeting were approved. Financials were gone over by Cook and the council approved paying the bills. Stephenson told the council that, when he attended Carbon County Council of Governments in Dixon on July 17,...
The Encampment Town Council met at 7 p.m. on Thursday with all council members present with the exception of Bill Craig. Mayor Greg Salisbury and Doreen Harvey Town Clerk/Treasurer were also in attendance. The agenda and minutes from July 11 were quickly approved. Once those items were taken care of, Harvey went over the financials. The council approved the July payroll and contracted liabilities in the amount of $31,005.81, manual late month payments totaling $636.25 and the...
The Upper Platte River Solid Waste Disposal District (UPRSWDD) addressed their pursuit of consolidated billing during their Aug. 7 meeting in Saratoga as they listened to a proposal from Alysson Sneddon. The board was also presented with a petition from Saratoga Town Councilmember Steve Wilcoxson addressing the Sunday closure of the Saratoga Transfer Station. Board members Leroy Stephenson and Schelby Merrill were absent. Bills, Bills, Bills As was previously reported (see...
The Carbon County Council of Governments (CCCOG) met at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the Valley Community Center in Baggs. As might be expected, there was strong representation from the towns of Baggs and Dixon. Only the town of Medicine Bow did not have a representative. The roll call took a few minutes with the large crowd. Next the agenda and minutes from the regular meeting on May 25 were quickly approved. Financials were reviewed and approved. Irene Archibald,...
At approximately 2 a.m. on July 28, officers from the Saratoga Police Department responded to a call of a possible attempted suicide at 204 West Main. Upon arriving, the officers located Saratoga resident Keith McLendon unconscious in his residence. The responding officers performed chest compressions until Emergency Medical Services (EMS) arrived. McLendon was transported to Wyoming Medical Center in Casper where he was later pronounced dead. McLendon was employed with the...
Mayor Kevin Colman called a special meeting to order at 6:00 p.m. on July 15 at the Medicine Bow Community Hall with council members, Karla Denzin, Sharon Biamon, John Cowdin, and Trevor Strauch present. Colman explained the purpose of the meeting was to discuss and decide on prioritizing the impact monies received from the TB Flats and Gateway projects. Town Clerk/Treasurer Karen Heath said they had received $400,000 to date from the TB Flats project and $93,333.34 from the...
The Medicine Bow Town Council met at 7 p.m. on July 8 at the Medicine Bow Community Hall with President of the Council Karla Denzen presiding due to Mayor Kevin Colman being absent. Council member Sharon Biamon was not present in beginning of the meeting. Once Biamon arrived, the agenda and the minutes from the regular council meeting of June 10 and the special council meeting on June 26 were approved. The next order of business was to ratify and pay the financials presented...
On July 26, Memorial Hospital of Carbon County (MHCC) announced in a press release that the MHCC Board of Trustees had unanimously approved a decision to “begin the process of acquiring or constructing a primary medical facility in the Platte Valley” during their regularly scheduled July 25 meeting. Jason Campbell, MHCC Board of Trustees member and Saratoga resident, was quoted in the press release as saying “Memorial Hospital of Carbon County has played an important role...
Though the current location of American Legion Post 54 “just across the bridge” has been a fixture since 1991, the Post itself has held a location in Saratoga for 98 years and it turns 100 this year. In celebration of reaching its centennial mark, the American Legion will be holding the North Platte River Poker Run at 10 a.m. on Aug. 3 followed by Stockwell-Wilcoxson Chicken Burn. American Legion Post 54, also known as Angus England Post 54, is named after Saratoga res...
The purpose of federally mandated emergency exercises, like the one held at the Saratoga Care Center on July 12, is to allow multiple agencies to train together and find deficiencies in local emergency management. Since the exercise held nearly two weeks ago it would appear that at least one issue is what channels the dispatch center do, and do not, have access to. Following an editorial (“A Saratoga disaster” in the July 17 Saratoga Sun), Mayor John Zeiger and Saratoga Pol...
The newly renamed Platte Valley Healthcare Project (PVHP-formerly the Healthcare Sustainability Project Subcommittee) held their monthly meeting 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 17 in the Platte Valley Community Center (PVCC) Great Hall. The first thing that struck an attendee to the meeting was that instead of all the seats facing a front table, the chairs were arranged in a box fashion surrounding an open space. Snacks were also on hand for visitors. To start the meeting, project...
The July 16 meeting of the Saratoga Town Council proceeded without Mayor John Zeiger in attendance and Councilmember Steve Wilcoxson serving as Mayor Pro-Tem. The Saratoga Sun asked about Zeiger’s absence from the council meeting the following day and was informed by Town Clerk Suzie Cox that Zeiger had been responding to an ambulance call. In a conversation with Zeiger on Thursday afternoon, Zeiger confirmed Cox’s statement, adding that he had returned from an ambulance call...
The Riverside Town Council met at 6 p.m. on Thursday at the Riverside Town Hall with council member Fred Lorenz absent. The meeting started with a public hearing for a liquor license application for Desi L. Vacher and JoElla Vacher, who recently purchased The Mangy Moose. There was no public opposition and the public hearing was closed. The council approved the liquor license. The minutes for the regularly scheduled meeting on June 11 were approved. The financials were next...
While it appeared, upon its creation, that the Saratoga Airport Advisory Board was having a problem filling the open seats, the July 10 meeting showed that it now has the opposite problem. Following the appointment of Ladd Sanger to the advisory board during the Saratoga Town Council meeting on July 2, one seat remains unfilled while at least two people have submitted letters of interest. An additional two individuals, however, have expressed an interest in serving on the...
During their regularly scheduled meeting on July 10, the Carbon County Impact Joint Powers Board (CCIJPB) was presented with a conundrum in the form of Saratoga resident Mark Jones, who was nearing completion on an accessory building on his property that included water and sewer service. “I guess, to kind of fill the board in, Mark is building a pole barn accessory building to the rear of his house and our former zoning officer and public works director signed off on a b...
As the Town of Saratoga enters month four without a permanent planning and zoning officer, the three member Saratoga Planning Commission spent a large portion of their July 9 meeting discussing how to handle the issue. Since the departure of Dan Ferrin in March, the position has remained open, though former planning and zoning officer Kent Smith has served on an as-needed basis. The planning commission also sent a recommendation to the council in regards to the zoning...
The group met to plan a bombing. Picking an experienced shooter was also added to the blueprint. No, the scene was not a surly group of terrorists meeting in an abandoned warehouse-but a gathering invited to formulate a yearly federally-required disaster drill at the Saratoga Care Center. Though law enforcement and fire officials were invited, those present at the Platte Valley Community Center meeting included members of the Saratoga Care Center, Laramie Peaks Therapy and...
