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The "Star Wars" film franchise is one of the most enduring pop culture icons in cinema history. The original story of a young farm boy who goes off to become a Jedi and fight the evil galactic empire has expanded over the course of the last 40 years and continues to be relevant today with Disney pushing a new film every year since the release of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." May 4, unofficially known as May the Fourth by fans due to its similarity to "May the Force," was celebrated by teens...
A presentation given to the Green River City Council Tuesday night will have to be investigated further before the Council can act, according to Mayor Pete Rust. The Council discussed privatizing trash collection during a workshop. Rust said some Council members are concerned with current employees in the city’s Solid Waste Division and are still skeptical if the move to a private service would result in savings. Rust said he would like to see the city have representation on the Sweetwater C...
Many commissioners are still convinced the county building at 731 C Street in Rock Springs can be converted to a hospice facility. The building, which houses the circuit court in Rock Springs, was the subject of discussion Tuesday afternoon during the Sweetwater County Commissioners’ meeting. The county is building a justice center near the Sweetwater County Detention Center, which will combine the circuit courts in both cities. As such, the space occupied by the court in Rock Springs would b...
A suspicious man sending an envelope at the Green River Post Office resulted in a response from the county’s bomb squad Monday night. According to a release from the Green River Police Department, officers met with a person at 7:47 p.m. who said they were on Interstate 80 between Rock Springs and Green River and were passed by a maroon-colored Toyota Camry with Oregon license plates, driven by a man wearing a gas mask. The person claimed they followed the vehicle to the Green River Post O...
The Green River High School Boys Soccer Team has gotten comfortable working overtime during their past few games. According to head coach Chris Bieber, it's not a situation he would like to see the boys repeatedly in, but admits the team does have an advantage because of their familiarity with overtime play. That advantage didn't materialize during their third game with their rivals from Rock Springs. Tuesday afternoon, the Tigers defeated the Wolves and gave them their first conference loss,...
It isn’t a secret that sales tax revenues in Sweetwater County have continually declined during the past few years. Both the Green River and Rock Springs municipal governments have had to cut their budgets due to reduced sales-tax revenue, however sales tax isn’t only impacting cities in Sweetwater County. Reduced sales tax income has also resulted in a change to when the county can end its specific use sales tax. In 2012, county voters approved a 1 percent specific purpose sales tax, com...
A county voucher approved to pay a company owned and operated by a Sweetwater County Commissioner illustrates how a politician’s personal business can get involved with the politician’s public office. Last week, the commissioners voted to approve a voucher submitted by Alpha Petroleum, a company owned and operated by Commissioner John Kolb, for $967.83. The voucher was approved with a 4-0 vote, with Kolb abstaining. Kolb’s company specializes in petroleum contracting work. According to Gene Lege...
Castle Rock Hospital District’s financial health continues to improve, with the district $150,000 higher than it was at this time last year. “We’re doing well by any measure,” Chief Financial Officer Todd Toolson said during the district board of trustees meeting Tuesday night. Toolson said the hospital district’s days of cash on hand, a measure of funding reserves calculating how long the district could survive without any income, are expected to be at 67 days by the end of April, the distr...
Green River High School senior Taylor Stoeger has decided to continue playing soccer at the junior college level, recently signing with Laramie County Community College. During a short letter-of-intent signing ceremony Thursday, Stoeger’s soccer coach, Tracy Wyant, joked about not wanting Stoeger to go. “I think maybe we should hold her back,” Wyant said. Wyant said Stoeger has been a leader, captain and play maker for the Lady Wolves, serving as a core member of her team. Wyant said the team...
The two remaining tracts of land where old Lincoln High School was once located will be the subject of a public hearing May 16. Tuesday night, the city Council approved a request to host a public hearing to determine if the city would like to vacate the two tracts of land still under city ownership. One tract of land was previously vacated and is the site of a housing development initiated by New Peak Construction. Laura Leigh, director of community development for Green River, said a...
With the Sweetwater County Commissioners asking county agencies to cut their budget requests by 10 percent, other means of keeping costs down during the next fiscal year are being investigated. One of those means is the initiation of a hiring freeze throughout the county. During Tuesday’s meeting, the commissioners decided an in-depth discussion about a hiring freeze is needed. Chairman Reid West said initiating a hiring freeze could either be across the county’s different departments, or the co...
An Idaho woman is accused of slicing a man’s ear with a knife during an altercation in Green River over the weekend. Lexie Coziah, 57, of Lewisville, Idaho, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault Saturday night. The charge carries a potential maximum prison sentence of 10 years, as well as a maximum fine of up to $10,000. According to court documents, officers from the Green River Police Department were dispatched to 135 Fox Hills Drive for a subject removal call. Officers were told t...
Youtube can best be described as an endless ocean of bottled messages, floating along until someone comes along, picks one up and reads it. With an estimated 819,417,600 hours of content hosted on the website, there is practically something for anyone. From cute animal videos to extreme sports and even episodes of obscure television shows, the spectrum is very wide. However, for every “Youtube personality” attempting to make it big and earn a living off of the video platform, thousands of peo...
Blaming Sweetwater County School District No. 2 for the elimination of four activities in the high school’s athletics calendar is unfair. The district, having its hand forced by a state legislative body more interested arbitrarily cutting numbers from its budget than doing a more responsible, needs-based budgeting process, did the best it could do in the situation. Unfortunately, that means the end of the indoor track, wrestling cheer, spring tennis and spring golf programs at Green River High S...
Wyoming’s Democrats decided new leadership is needed and chose a Rock Springs resident to head up the state party. Two weeks ago, Joe Barbuto was elected chair of the Wyoming Democratic Party during a meeting in Sheridan. Barbuto replaces Ana Cuprill, a Democrat from Sublette County. He will serve a two-year term, which is up in 2019. Barbuto is a former state legislator, having serviced residents in Rock Springs living in House District 48. He’s also served as chair of the Sweetwater Cou...
For Bonnie Pope, the red flags went up as soon as she noticed the call came from Jamaica. The Green River resident received a phone call Thursday from a man claiming he was with Publishers Clearing House in Washington, D.C. The man told Pope the iconic prize van was en route to her house and would arrive in minutes. He told her she won $5,500 cash every day for the rest of her life and excitedly told her about the financial freedom she would enjoy in the future. “He was really trying to hype me...
Speaking to a small group of people Thursday night, Sen. John Hastert, Minority Whip for the Wyoming Senate, said the past legislative session didn’t result in cost-based cuts to education. “Education funding needs to be equitable and cost-based,” Hastert said. Echoing comments made by Representatives Stan Blake and John Freemen, Hastert said the session was one of the most difficult he’s been involved in. The legislature passed a bill which resulted in approximately $34 million in cuts to educ...
In an effort to cut $1.6 million from its budget, the Sweetwater County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees approved recommendations that would reduce the district’s workforce as well as cut Winter and Spring athletics programs. The district will cut two full time positions and one part time position, reduce positions through attrition while moving school librarians into the classrooms to teach. The board also agreed to cut building budgets by 10 percent. The board also voted to increase a...
Despite having a rough start at the beginning of the season, the Green River High School Boys Soccer Team continues making strides week by week. The team’s first two outings ended in defeat to Cheyenne East and Cheyenne Central, as well as a number of injuries to players. Nearly a month later, a second-place finish at the Pinnacle Challengers Cup over the weekend, as well as a 2-1 win against Natrona County Tuesday, has given the team a lot more confidence since the season’s start. For head coac...
Strong plays by the Green River High School Boys Soccer Team propelled the Wolves to the finals at the Pinnacle Challengers Cup in Worland over the weekend, but a tough game against the Rock Springs Tigers ended with a 1-0 loss and a second-place finish. For the Wolves, the tournament resulted in their first matches Friday with Douglas and Lander, which they won 3-1 and 1-0 respectively. The next day, the Wolves had a second meeting with Evanston and left a 2-1 victory, their second against the...
While the Green River High School soccer and track teams compete through the spring months, GRHS also hosts Spring tennis and golf teams. The teams don’t compete for state championships as the two sports’ culminating events take place during the Fall semester, but can be an important warm up for students looking forward to their sports’ seasons. For the tennis team, they will travel to Casper for an invitational tournament April 22 and will hit the road a second time April 29 to attend an invit...
At nearly halfway through the season, the Green River High School Outdoor Track and Field team has been blessed with good weather and great performances. Despite a severe winter with a number of heavy snowstorms hitting the state, Hansen said his team has had a lot of opportunities to practice outdoors and compete. While the team has had to change meet plans due to weather, Hansen said he’s been surprised with how much time outside his team has had. Weather can impact performances in track and f...
Hundreds of years ago, catapults were important siege tools used to topple cities and build empires. Last week, in a grassy field behind Lincoln Middle School, scaled-down versions of these ancient weapons were used by eighth graders to shoot golfballs at a target. Three weeks of hard work in Stacey Nelson’s eighth-grade honor’s science class culminated in a friendly competition amongst students to see who could launch a ball 10 meters into a 1-meter target, as well as launch their balls the...
The Tomahawk building is under new ownership. Friday, Green River Futures sold the building to Green River Opportunities Wyoming (GRoWYO), a limited liability company formed by a group of investors with local ties. Green River Futures member Mike Frink said he will continue tomanage the building, while GRoWYO will make investments into a fire suppression system and elevator, which will allow for futures improvements and open occupancy to the upper floors of the building. According to a press...
The Green River Police Department mourns the deaths of two of their own, one a respected detective and the other a beloved drug dog. Tuesday night, police chief Chris Steffen told the Green River City Council of retired Lt. Mont Mecham’s death in Idaho Falls, Idaho, Monday. Mecham was shot while on duty in 1996, an injury a teary-eyed Steffen said “is what probably ended his life.” Mecham was one of two officers shot during a confrontation with Steven Mitchell Oct. 14, 1996. According to a Gre...
