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In sports, it’s easy to get hung up on numbers displayed in the win-loss column. It’s easy for athletes of all levels to stop looking at their opponents as other people and simply regard them as a roadblock to be overcome. During a game at Natrona County High School last week, the Green River Wolves basketball team rose above those petty points of view and showed respect to an opponent’s coach during a difficult time in his life. Coach Laurie Ivie said Natrona’s assistant coach, Josh Anderso...
A runner from Green River High School will return to some familiar surroundings once he starts classes at Montana State University-Northern, this fall. Curtis Westenskow signed a letter of intent to join the university’s cross country team Friday and plans to run distance events as a MSU-N Polar Bear. For the Westenskow family, Curtis’ signing signifies a return to MSU-N. Westenskow’s grandfather taught foreign languages at the campus in Havre, Mont. and members of his family still reside in the...
The Lady Wolves basketball team continue struggle as their season starts to wind down. The girls lost both games in Natrona County last weekend, losing 66-42 to Natrona County High School Friday and 57-37 to Kelly Walsh Saturday. Playing without the Lady Wolves’ point guard Taylor Stoeger due to injury, head coach Rick Carroll said the team had to play girls in other positions. However, despite that challenge, poor ball handing would haunt the Lady Wolves throughout the weekend. “We just did...
School district officials fear a “double whammy” of cuts if the Wyoming Legislature follows through with cuts to education. Speaking last night to the Sweetwater County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees, Superintendent Donna Little-Kaumo said the proposed cuts, when combined with anticipated drops in student enrollment, will result in larger funding decreases to the district. The Joint Appropriations Committee recommended a 3 percent funding cut to the K-12 fund during the next bie...
After serving in an interim capacity for nearly a year, Brie Blasi can finally drop the word interim from her job title. Blasi was promoted to be the Sweetwater County Historical Museum’s executive director after a special meeting the museum’s board hosted last week. She took over the museum’s management after former executive director Ruth Lauritzen left the museum February, 2015. Blasi, who can trace her family heritage to Northern Italian immigrants who worked in the mines around Super...
Green River residents continue to be the target of phone scams. Det. Luke Benson with the Green River Police Department said they’ve received a number of calls regarding phone scams the city’s residents are reporting. While tax season is underway, Benson said they haven’t gotten complaints about scams focused on delinquent taxes. A previously reported scam involving the IRS revolves around a person calling and claiming the intended victim owes delinquent taxes. The caller demands a payme...
Thursday night was not a good night for either of the varsity basketball teams from Green River High School. Both teams traveled to Rock Springs and faced very strong Tigers squads. For the Lady Wolves, their 48-28 defeat would impact the team's confidence, according to head coach Rick Carroll. "It was a tough game. They started poorly and took a hit in their confidence," Carroll said. Carroll said the team is made up of great basketball players and can play with better than they did in Rock Spr...
Many think the pioneering spirit in Wyoming is often limited to the legendary mountain men and outlaws who lived and died more than a century ago. Wyoming lost one of its modern pioneers last weekend; the man who introduced the jump shot into basketball. Kenny Sailors, 95, died at Spring Wind Assisted Living Center in Laramie Saturday morning. He had suffered from declining health since a heart attack that occurred in December of 2015. Sailors is credited with developing the modern jump shot in...
Rival schools, united by a common cause, were able to collectively donate more than 600 pints of blood during the annual blood drive challenge Green River and Rock Springs high schools competed in. Thursday morning at Green River High School, students and faculty donated blood in the school's auditorium. Some, like junior Santana Kunz, had personal reasons to donate. Kunz' parents instilled the idea of doing good for other people in her. She said about half of her family is unable to donate...
Green River High School’s indoor track team continues to perform well early in the season. Last weekend, the team competed at Weber State in Ogden, Utah, a meet that head coach Steve Boyd said serves as another practice for the team. Boyd said the early meets serve as a tool to help athletes condition themselves for more important meets like the state competition and the Simplot Games. Kalen Kester excelled in the long jump for a second week in a row. Kester recorded a distance of 20 feet, 9 i...
With a little more than a month left in the season, the Green River High School boys swimming and diving team continue to work on speed and technique in the pool. The boys hosted the Green River Invite during the weekend and took first in their home pool. Green River scored 276 points, while second went to Lyman High School with 269 points and Rock Springs High School took third with 256 points. Head coach Colleen Seiloff said she was happy with the boys’ performance during the weekend, s...
Things are looking up for the Lady Wolves varsity basketball team. The team ended their first weekend of conference play with a 1-1 record. The girls lost their match to Evanston Thursday 54-49, but were able to defeat Riverton, 55-40, Saturday night. Head coach Rick Carroll said the girls have improved their ball handling skills and have cut down the number of turnovers they’ve had. Also, Carroll said the girls are becoming more proficient at reading the floor and creating more scoring o...
More than 40 people showed up to a Castle Rock Hospital District board meeting last night, a few of whom had concerns about the district's administration. The audience, which nearly filled the conference room the meeting was hosted in, was moved into Castle Rock Medical Center's lobby during an early executive session called to discuss legal and employee matters. An executive session is a legal means for boards and councils to discuss sensitive topics, which are limited by Wyoming Law. Both...
The lights were on, but the doors leading into the Krazy Moose restaurant were locked Tuesday afternoon. The restaurant’s closure was announced suddenly Monday evening on the Krazy Moose’s Facebook page. Blair Graham, the restaurant’s owner, declined an interview Tuesday, saying the closure was like a death in his family. He also said he wishes the employees well and thanked the community for their years of patronage. While the restaurant has closed, the Red Feather will remain open as it is a...
The Sublette County Sheriff was booked and released from the Sweetwater County Detention Center Tuesday afternoon. The sheriff, Stephen Haskell, faces five charges, three of which are felonies. The three felonies are fraud charges accusing Haskell of using county funds to pay personal debts, while the misdemeanors accuse him of unlawfully acting as an elected official before taking his oath of office Jan. 5, 2015. Haskell’s bond was set at $10,000 cash or surety and a court hearing has been scheduled for Feb. 11 at 1:30 p.m. at a circuit c...
County officials and residents have come out to defend the Sweetwater County Drug Court from proposed budget cuts. The state is considering a cut which could remove approximately $100,000 in funding from the drug court. Drug court is a service combining addiction treatment professionals, attorneys, judges and social service workers to help those with non-violent drug and alcohol offenses in their recovery and get their lives back together. Donna Lee Bobak, Sweetwater County Clerk of District...
The next time Fluffy or Spot get loose, their owner might have an easier time finding them if they get their pet chip through the city’s animal control department. Making a presentation to the Green River City Council Tuesday night, Kim Wilkins, one of the city’s animal control officers, said the chips would help them re-unite pets to their owners. The chips are about half the size of a rice grain and are injected using a syringe. Wilkins said animals don’t feel the injection, as the chips...
It was a surprising start to the indoor track season for Green River. Their first meet, at BYU, resulted in a first-place win in the long jump and solid times for the runners. Head coach Steve Boyd said first indoor track meets the Wolves compete at are often used to gauge where individual competitors are in regards to their conditioning and skill. While he admits the team needs to focus on improving their conditioning, he said the biggest surprise for him was Kalen Kester’s win in the long j...
The Wolves dominated the Thoman Soda Ash Memorial Tournament hosted in Green River over the weekend. The team was undefeated in their duals and had six wrestlers represent Green River in the Best of the Best competition. The tournament attracted teams from throughout Wyoming, as well as Colorado, Utah and Nebraska. "I am pleased with the way our varsity wrestlers competed," head coach Marshall Rhodes said. "We wrestled much better than we did a week ago and with more intensity." During the cours...
Since he was 6 years old, Zac Taylor has been a dirt-track racer. The Green River resident, is the son of Terry and Candie Taylor. His grandparents are Gary and Bobbi Bailiff of Green River and Les Taylor of Vidor, Texas. While still in high school, has had an impressive string of wins and accolades during his 11 years in racing. Some of those accolades include being named the United Rebel Sprint Series Rookie of the year in 2013, the Colorado Outlaw 270 Micro Sprints Winter Series Champion...
While the Green River High School Boys Swimming and Diving Team continues to improve its performance in the pool, the freshmen have shined during their recent competitions. Head coach Colleen Seiloff said the freshmen members of the team continue to impress and will only get better as they gain more experience in high school competition. She said Dean Lyon and Brastin Moore had great time cuts during the weekend, while Michael Richmond and Lane Hutchison made improvements as well. The team...
Sweetwater County is in an economic downturn. That part is something almost everyone living in the county is aware of. With the downturn, Sweetwater County’s revenue will decrease due to a drop in oil, gas and coal valuations. According to Sweetwater County Treasurer Robb Slaughter, economic downturns are a fact of life for any county dependent on minerals as a source of revenue. In the past, economic downturns have traditionally impacted the county for one fiscal year. Slaughter, who has 30 y...
"For the record, I got a swat in that office, in that room and down there," longtime resident and Green River City Councilman Ted Barney said as he walked around Monroe Intermediate School. A lot has changed since the days Barney attended school at Monroe during the early 1970s. The firing range in the basement is long gone, and school-administered corporal punishment is a distant memory as well. However, even a student who attended classes at Monroe a couple of years ago would have a difficult...
Rumors regarding the Rock Springs J.C. Penney store closing turned out to be true after the company announced the closure Tuesday. The store, located in the White Mountain Mall, has operated since March 29, 1978, will close in early April, according to J.C. Penney corporate spokesperson Carter English. The store joins six other J.C. Penney locations that will close. English said the closure is "a significant decrease from the number of closures reported in previous years." English said the...
Competing in last week's Laramie invite, the Green River High School Boys Swimming and Diving Team continue to impress their coach, Colleen Seiloff. Seiloff said the boys continue to cut time in their events, with Ethan Moffatt qualifying for state competition in the 50-yard freestyle while they were in Laramie. Now, in the middle of their season, Seiloff said hard work from the individual swimmers will start to pay off. In the upcoming competitions in Evanston and Lyman, Seiloff plans to look f...
