Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
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Editor, I would like to respond to a couple of comments from the August 1st edition of The Saratoga Sun’s coverage of the political forums: “I think we are over training or over requiring on some of those requirements” and, “It doesn’t take a whole lot of training to put a bandage on a guy’s throat” I will refer to Wyoming State Statue 33-36-101 Wyoming Emergency Medical Services Act of 1977 Chapter 1 Section 3 Purpose These rules and regulations promote the health and safety of the people of Wyoming by establishing minimum standards and...
Editor, Heads up Saratoga. Our landfill will not accept any plastic for recycling. Any plastic taken to the Saratoga Landfill along with any glass will be buried. Please don’t blame the landfill attendant, Steve. He is just doing what his boss, Ron Munson, told him to do. If you are a dedicated recycler like me, talk to Ron or any landfill board member or its chairman Randy Raymer to find out why no plastic is being recycled. I am taking my rejected plastic to Rawlins. Please consider taking your recycling to the Rawlins Recycling Center. M...
Fairly recently I have run some photos of the Carey sisters. These photos ran for two weeks in a row because they showed up for both the Independence Day celebrations Saratoga held and the centennial-and-a-quarter proceedings at the Hotel Wolf. You might wonder why I would give two out-of-towners the press. I have two reasons. First, they showed up in turn-of-the-century period costumes. Second, these ladies were a hoot. Everyone I talked to thought pretty much the same thing. The first time I...
The Good Times Valley has a lot to offer people both from out-of-town and out-of-state. We are home to a number of inclusive resorts, the only hot springs outside of Yellowstone and Thermopolis and world-class dining. The Hotel Wolf, Bella’s Bistro and Firewater Public House have either been long standing institutions or have quickly cemented themselves as attractions within our town. Along with all of that we also have great fishing, wonderful hunting and some great hikes ranging from easy t...
Dear Editor, I cannot believe the Saratoga Sun staff is endorsing having children play with fireworks. I had to look twice in the photos of Medicine Bow, when I saw small children playing with fireworks and then saw it was supervised by the Medicine Bow Fire Department. Children and adults are human, and many will believe that once they have been taught how to use fireworks, that it is will be okay to use them without proper supervision, because they know how to properly do it. We have a very dry, fragile forest just waiting for someone to put...
Medicine Bow recently demonstrated what we at the Saratoga Sun feel is a good idea. The town allowed children and adults alike to play with fireworks. The reason this was allowed is that the county, despite having a fireworks ban, cedes authority to a municipality to have fireworks if set off by appropriately trained individuals. Medicine Bow Fire Chief Peter Andrews asked for, and got, permission from the Medicine Bow Town Council to attend Fireworks School. Fireworks School is a two-day program that teaches the proper safety techniques for ha...
I was out in my garden last Sunday afternoon and did a twist of my back somehow and by the evening, I was in major pain. Gut wrenching torture, that made me want to puke; I couldn’t walk for more than three minutes at a time without suffering. I probably am one of the least stoic people dealing with being sick or hurting myself. I’m not really a baby or anything close, but I want my discomfort over fast. I don’t like lingering, much less intensifying uncomfortableness. Monday, I was barely able...
I occasionally have to do what we call “inserting.” It’s fairly self explanatory but I’ll fill you in anyway. We upload the Saratoga Sun to the press in Cheyenne Tuesday afternoons and when they are done being printed, they ship them to Walcott by truck which is then met by a courier the printer has hired to bring them to us. The upshot is that we usually get the finished papers by 2 a.m. Wednesday morning. Then the inserter’s job begins. Whatever flyers are there to be sent out with the paper...
On June 28, a shooter claimed five lives at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Md. after he shot out the front window of the building that housed the newspaper and roamed the newsroom with a shotgun. The shooter, who has since been identified as Jarrod W. Ramos, had a long-running dispute with the paper that began after “a column in 2011 that detailed his harassment of a high school classmate,” was published days after he pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge according the New York Times. Sin...
It is no secret I have lived in a fair amount of places in my life, but I really don't think I have ever lived an area that can have such different weather that is less than 40 miles apart. This includes going from coastal/tropical environments and traveling inland to nearby mountains that are higher than what we have in the Snowy Range. Hanna, Elk Mountain and Medicine Bow in the north of the county often have very different weather than what is in the Valley. This was driven home about a...
School is out, Memorial Day has passed and summer has arrived in an even numbered year. This signals, among other things, the beginning of the campaign season for elections. The deadline for filing as a candidate in the midterm primary elections was June 1 with those elections being held Aug. 21. Wyoming is one of 14 states that has closed primaries, meaning a person can only vote within their political party in the primaries. Just before the filing deadline, the Saratoga Sun noticed there were very few candidates for local offices and ran an...
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade (the 1960s) and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.” — John F. Kennedy The Moon: Just a Phase? In the late 60s, a quarter of the world’s population watched as American astronauts sent back images...
“Somewhere along the line we started misinterpreting the First Amendment and this idea of the freedom of speech the amendment grants us. We are free to speak as we choose without fear of prosecution or persecution, but we are not free to speak as we choose without consequence.” ~ Roxane Gay *** What a time to be alive. If someone had told me 10 years ago that a federal judge would have to make a ruling on the President’s Twitter and whether or not blocking users was allowed, I would have laugh...
When writing a column, way too often, I start on a topic and as I put the idea in words, I find myself waylaid by another theme. Then I realize I want to do a column on the new concept. So the other day I was talking about the column I was writing and the person I was in conversation said, “You are becoming a bit of a celebrity.” “Huh?” Truthfully, I get why, in context, the statement was made, but it started that train of thought that produces columns. So goodbye column on what I was writing...
At one time (not that long ago) there were three major television stations (okay, four if you count PBS) and everyone watched something on one of those stations. The next day, workers would “gather around the water cooler” at work and talk about what they had seen the night before. There was a commonality in what we did. I have never worked at a place where people actually gathered around the water cooler, but I have heard this phrase since I was young (yes, that long ago). I have worked in plac...
