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Wyoming Youth Encouraged to Join 2024-2025 4-H Program

Press Release

University of Wyoming Extension

 

The Carbon County 4-H program encourages youth ages 5-18 to register for the 2024-2025 program year during National 4-H Week, which runs Sunday, October 6, through Saturday, October 12.

Additional Information on Constitutional Amendment for 2024 General Election

Press Release

Chuck Gray, Secretary of State

 

The 2024 General Election ballot will contain one proposed constitutional amendment. The following is the ballot language of Constitutional Amendment A as it will appear on the 2024 General Election ballot:

Helene Devastates Atlantic Coast and Touches Wyomingites

By Dana Davis  

Reporter, Carbon County Wyoming

 

UW and Wyoming APEX Accelerator to Host GSA Contracting Webinar

Press Release

University of Wyoming

 

Small-business owners will have an opportunity to learn how to work with U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) contracting Tuesday, October 1.

Sinclair Library Branch to Close Amid Budget Cuts

By Mike Armstrong

Reporter, Carbon County Comet

 

Carbon County Library Director Maria Wenzel has been with the Library for over four years and director for two years and she said, a very tough decision had to be made recently by herself and the Library Board.

Due to budgetary restrictions, a painful step had to be taken and a library branch had to be shut down.

That branch is Sinclair.

Sports

Volleyball in October

By Mike Armstrong

Reporter, Carbon County Comet

 

Encampment High School Lady Tiger volleyball team lost to Cokeville 0-3 on September 27. The next day the Lady Tigers rebounded against Farson-Eden winning 3-1 The Encampment team will face Little Snake River Valley on October 4.

Rawlins Cross Country Competes at Shana Ward Memorial Invitational

By Mike Armstrong

Reporter, Carbon County Comet

 

Local Runners Compete at Shana Ward Memorial Invitational

By Dana Davis

Reporter, Carbon County Comet

 

Saratoga High School athletes competed Friday at the Shana Ward Memorial Invitational Cross Country Meet held at the Saratoga Inn Golf Course.

Rattlers Squeeze Farson-Eden

By Mike Armstrong

Reporter, Carbon County Comet

 

The Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) High School Rattler football team keeps taking on quality football teams and beating them resoundingly.

On September 28, the Farson-Eden football team became the next victim of the Rattlers bite.

Rawlins Colts beat Saratoga Junior High Panthers

By Mike Armstrong

Reporter, Carbon County Comet

 

Head coach Zach Scholl was happy with what he saw his young team accomplish on September 24 when they faced the junior high team of Saratoga.

The Rawlins Colts beat Saratoga 26-7.

It was a game, the Colts were in control of from almost the start.

Scholl certainly had players he was proud of.

Football Roundup

By Mike Armstrong

Reporter, Carbon County Comet

 

Encampment High School Tiger football team beat Casper Christian in a convincing manner on September 28. They won the game 82 to 33. The Tigers are undefeated and will face the Farson-Eden Pronghorns on October 4, in Farson-Eden.

Outdoors

Pilot Hill Connector Trail finished; non-motorized route established from Pole Mountain to Laramie

Press Release

Aaron Voos

Public Affairs Specialist

Forest Service

Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests & Thunder Basin National Grassland

 

The full trail is nearly seven miles long, from the Forest boundary to Happy Jack Trailhead.

 

Continental Divide Trail Study Explores Impact of Wind Energy on Hikers, Local Communities

By Mike Armstrong

Reporter, Carbon County Comet

 

The Continental Divide National Scenic Trail, known as the Continental Divide Trail (CDT), is a United States National Scenic Trail with a length measured by the Continental Divide Trail Coalition of 3,028 miles between the U.S. border with Chihuahua, Mexico and the border with Alberta, Canada.

It is part of the Triple Crown for hikers.

Public Lands Day Events Set for Saturday

Press Release

Aaron Voos

Public Affairs Specialist

Forest Service

Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests & Thunder Basin National Grassland

 

The University of Wyoming has coordinated multiple events near Laramie with a variety of partners.

 

Will Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-Atlas) be the Comet of the Decade?

Press Release

SETI Institute 

 

Medicine Bow Landscape Vegetation Analysis monitoring field trip planned for September 25, 2024

Press Release

Aaron Voos

Public Affairs Specialist

Forest Service

Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests & Thunder Basin National Grassland

 

This all-day event will look at a Good Neighbor Authority timber sale in the Sierra Madre Range.

 

Emergency Preparedness

By K.J. Schricker

Reporter, Carbon County Comet

 

Entertainment

Fourth Annual Water Stop Jamboree Revives Medicine Bow Traditions

By Mike Armstrong

Reporter, Carbon County Comet

 

On September 27 at 7 p.m. at Cooper’s Garage in Medicine Bow, JB’s Stop-N-Shop and The Old West Bar, along with other sponsors, presented the fourth annual Water Stop Jamboree. The event that started on Friday with live music by the Cul-De-Sac Cowboys continued on September 28 with a vendor fair from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Cul-De-Sac Cowboys played music later that evening. 

Satay is Great

By Mike Armstrong    

Reporter, Carbon County Comet

 

It is funny to me that I really didn’t eat any Southeast Asian cuisine until I moved to Hawaii and even then, I didn’t eat much.

I loved Chinese (American style) when I first started eating it in my 20s. Growing up, neither of my families ate Asian food at all. No idea why, because we consumed a lot of different other styles of foods.

A Bartender’s Journey Into the World of Cognac

By Mike Armstrong

Reporter, Carbon County Comet

 

When I first started bartending in Washington D.C., like all new bartenders, I learned about spirits from what people drank. When I went to work at an upscale marina bar, a lot of the customers drank Hennesy and Coke.

Hennessy is a cognac.

Horoscopes by Aurora

Aries

(March 21 – April 19)

The expectations of somebody else might work to your benefit when it comes to getting something bedded down or better structured, setting in place a situation that can be built upon in time.  It could also encourage you to seek out more information and this may bring you into contact with people with good ideas.

 

Taurus 

(April 20- May 20)

SideCars Between the Sheets with Nelson’s Boozy Secret

By Mike Armstrong

Reporter, Carbon County Comet

The Virginian just brought in some decent XO (extra old) brandy to the bar. I realized as it came in, if you go into a bar, brandy is not common. 

I discovered the value of brandy when in my restaurant in Laramie, two of my more popular cocktails were the SideCar and Between the Sheets.

 

The SideCar Recipe

Horoscopes by Aurora

Aries

(March 21 – April 19)

You might need to contend with varying opinions when it comes to what needs to be let go in order to put a better structure in place. This may not get fully sorted until early next year, so I wouldn’t get too worried if there seems to be no real solution that you feel entirely happy about. See what unfolds as time goes on.

 

Taurus 

(April 20- May 20)