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Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
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I am a dog person, I will tell you in a heartbeat. It probably goes back to my early childhood when my folks got a collie pup named Tippy for the family (i.e. me). As he got older, he became my personal substitute for a pony. I remember being on his back and him taking me for rides until I was too big. He was my first best friend. We had a cat too-my mother’s actually. The name I knew it by was Worthless; courtesy of my farm boy raised father who believed you had a pet for a purpose. The name tells you what he thought of a ho... Full story
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I was blessed to have two fathers raise me. Given that Father’s Day just happened, it feels right to do a column on them. They were different in many ways, but in other manners, they shared common traits. My biological father William Oliver Armstrong was a southern boy dairy farmer from a tiny town in Virginia. He was the youngest member in his congregation at age 10 to find his Christian beliefs that were always a part of him. My father never talked about his salary or financial assets to my sister or me, but we knew he g... Full story
After a very hectic Memorial Day Weekend where we covered everything from teacher retirement parties, open houses, graduations and the many Memorial Day Services in east county I showed up to work Monday to try to sort through the depressingly large array of photos and stories at hand. Needless to say, I was very tired to start with as I started to figure out where everything would go. About 30 minutes into Memorial Day I got a phone call from a friend I don’t hear from that often. I was happy to hear from Chris until I c... Full story
You may have noticed the Saratoga Sun now covers a larger portion of Carbon County. We have recently began to cover Hanna, Elk Mountain and Medicine Bow on a more regular basis. There are several reasons this has come to be. There are developments, both social and economic happening in those areas that are, and will be, of interest to the entire county. We have been witnessing a rebirth of sorts in businesses growth and an overall improvement in terms of positivity in the northern end of the county. The Saratoga Sun has also... Full story
To most people who know me in Wyoming, it is not much of a secret I worked in the world of spirits (not the ghostly type) to make my living. Probably less well known, I earned my bread and butter as an English teacher in Taiwan for almost half a decade. I taught English classes for doctors in a few hospitals, gave private English lessons for business owners and rich housewives wanting to read novels written in that language (which was actually very cool). Several large... Full story
Before I get into my regularly-scheduled rant, I would like to express how proud I am of every single participant at the Wyoming State track meet held recently. I saw kids trying to compete with aches and pains (one observer commented that one of the students was trying to do the high jump on a bum shin), I saw athletes come off the field and break down bawling because they felt they could have done better, I saw sisters compete and pump each other up at the same time, athlete... Full story
The modern holiday of Mother's Day in the U.S. was first celebrated in 1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother at St. Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia. Jarvis wanted to honor her mother who was a peace activist. Efforts by Jarvis, had all US states observing the holiday by 1911, with some states officially recognizing Mother's Day as a local holiday. In 1914, Woodrow Wilson proclaimed Mother's Day, held the second Sunday in May, as a national... Full story
There are several apparatuses (apparati?) around the home with which most folks contend. I have written on struggles with the washer/dryer and its attendant chores and fluids. I have praised the refrigerator and commented on the device’s various devious drawers. There is another gadget to mention … the microwave. From folks who complain any food cooked in the microwave is not really food to the “need it now junkies,” Americans have arrived at an almost universal love/ha... Full story
Dear Editor, I would like to share some serious concerns about the proposed annexation in front of the present Town Council and being discussed by the Saratoga Planning Commission. To begin with I would like to express my support for the annexation of the U.S. Forest Service because I believe that this will have a very minor effect on this community because the majority of the employees that work at this facility are residents of the town of Saratoga so are already part of the equation for factoring in the load on the waste... Full story
Editor, Are you aware that the proposed federal budget calls for the elimination of the Low Income Energy Assistance Program (LIEAP)? This is the program that keeps many Wyoming residents warm in the winter. Earlier this year, the State of Wyoming legislature eliminated its usual additional funding for this program. Between the federal and state budget cuts, this translates to zero help for people in need of winter home heating assistance. I recently spoke with Brenda Ilg about this issue. Ms. Ilg is the LIEAP program manager... Full story
There are a large percentage of people in this area that do for others—with no desire to be recognized for it. That is indeed a very laudable attitude and should be commended on its own. You may have noticed the Saratoga Sun has been lucky enough to be able to bring you a few of these stories. They are good articles that especially need to be told during what are, at least, not the best of times. One of these stories was on area cattlemen who learned of fellow ranchers in Kansas who had lost their entire herd, their houses a... Full story
I was 5 or 6 when I saw Bambi for the first time and cried little boy tears at the injustice of his mother’s death. The days are long gone of me crying about a deer’s death, although Bambi was living in the forest and not destroying gardens in towns. I find absolutely no redeeming qualities about town deer—whether we are talking about the Valley or out in northern Carbon County. The first house I purchased was in Saratoga. The backyard had a 10 foot fence so I was prote... Full story
I have mentioned the “Wyoming Way” in a previous column. The way I described it was: “When someone asks you if you can do something, you say ‘yes’ and learn it as you go.” I think that’s true. Look at it like this: True pioneers who wanted a new, different and better life came to this country, colonized it and won the right to make a new life on it. For good or ill, it took a spirit—people with that genetic quality—to undertake that task and to take those risks. People who... Full story