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After nearly two weeks worth of practices, the Green River High School Girls Basketball team will have a chance to apply what they’ve learned during the Christmas break. The Lady Wolves will travel to Cheyenne this weekend to compete in the Taco John’s Invitational, taking on three teams in the course of three days. They are scheduled to play against Cheyenne South, Sheridan and Laramie during the tournament. Next week, the team will face Cheyenne South and Laramie a second time in Green Riv...
As the Wyoming Legislature prepares to debate and pass a budget for the state, local governments are reminding legislators they need funding. For Sweetwater County, a proactive message through the Wyoming County Commissioners Association aims to dispel the idea local governments only want state funds to increase their employee numbers. “That’s not true with Sweetwater County,” Johnson said. In a letter to the commissioners’ association, county human resources director Garry McLean state the cou...
The Green River High School Boys Swimming and Diving Team didn’t have to travel far to compete two weeks ago. Due to a problem with the Riverton High School pool, the Riverton Invite was moved to the GRHS aquatics center, giving the team a respite from traveling on the winter roads. At the end of the competition, the teem placed fourth with a score of 183. Head coach Colleen Seiloff said the team continues to cut time in all of its events. During the 500-yard freestyle, Michael Richmond set a n...
Green River started the year with a few new faces joining the city council. A new mayor, Pete Rust, along with new council members Ted Barney and Allan Wilson, set to work on one of the city’s biggest issues at the beginning of the year: finding a new city administrator. After making a change to the criteria utilized by the city’s human resources department, the council decided to focus on candidates already living in Green River. After a series of executive sessions discussing applicants, the...
The Sweetwater County Commissioners had a busy 2015, debating issues involving Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County and a proposed justice center which will house both of the county’s circuit courts. The year started with a new face being added to the group. Republican candidate Randy “Doc” Wendling won election to the position last November, resulting in former Sweetwater County Sheriff Gary Bailiff being edged out of the five-member group. Incumbent commissioners, Democrat Reid West and R...
The Green River High School's Lady Wolves basketball team continues to struggle early in its season, losing each of their games during the Flaming Gorge Classic tournament in Green River. During the tournament, the Lady Wolves lost to Lyman 46-33 Thursday, Worland 54-45 during overtime heartbreaker Friday, and to Pinedale in a close 40-37 game and to Mountain View 36-28 Saturday. "We've got to get over that hump to a win," head coach Rick Carroll said. However, despite those struggles, the team...
It’s hard for me to single out one Christmas that somehow stands above all others in terms of memorable events. I’ve had a lot of great Christmases. My younger years focusing on “the haul” coming from family and Santa Claus, while the Christmas celebrations as I got older focused more on the gathering of friends and family, but no single Christmas stands out as the ultimate Christmas in my mind. Instead, there are a few things that crop up during multiple celebrations that have come to define...
Home insurance rates might lower for Green River residents after a new rating for the city was issued by the Insurance Service Office. The ISO rates cities on a variety of criteria regarding how well-prepared a city is to deal with a fire, which include fire department response times and how high a city’s fire flows are within its water system. Green River was upgraded from a four rating to a three, which goes into effect March 2016. The ratings ISO gives are based on a 10-point scale with o...
Postal inspectors and the Green River Police Department are looking into a series of post office box break-ins at the Green River Post Office. According to Pamela Durkee, a postal inspector with the United States Postal Service in Denver, less than 10 boxes had been broken into. Customers affected by the break-ins were notified Tuesday. Durkee said the break-ins occurred between 9 p.m. Monday and 5:30 a.m. Tuesday morning. The locking mechanisms on the boxes were bent, causing the doors to be...
Green River High School's Girls Basketball Team had a bumpy start to their season after losing their first game against Star Valley, 53-26. "We allowed Star Valley some easy baskets," head coach Rick Carroll said. Carroll said the team struggled with both offense and defense throughout the game. The team suffered from a high number of turnovers as well as fouls, which allowed Star Valley ample opportunity to score from the free-throw line. During the game, Emily White lead the Lady Wolves in...
The Green River High School Boys Swimming and Diving Team are off to a great start to their season, qualifying three swimmers for the state competition, which will take place in Gillette Feb. 26-27. The team took part in two meets in Gillette over the weekend, a relay competition and a pentathlon. Green River placed sixth in the relays, with a total 138 points. Green River took fourth in the pentathlon, with a total of 56 points. The Wolves tied Kelly Walsh High School in the pentathlon’s d...
One of the Lady Wolves will take to the volleyball court next year as a Central Wyoming College Rustler. Senior Hattie Hix signed a letter of intent with Riverton's CWC last week to continue her volleyball career at the junior college level. During her time in Green River, Hix was twice named All-Conference and earned All-State honors during the 2015 season. She also holds the season record for assists. As the team's setter, Hix was a three-year starter for the Wolves Volleyball Team. "She defin...
Two Sweetwater County Commissioners allege the public is losing faith in Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County’s administration, an allegation hospital board members deny. During a discussion Tuesday afternoon between the commissioners and members of the hospital’s board of trustees, Commissioner Wally Johnson said county residents have told him they’ve lost confidence in the hospital’s administration, specifically saying that sentiment doesn’t extend to the board members themselves. Later, Co...
An investment scheme that’s become a cliched mystery plot attracts new interest in the digital age. Most everyone reading this will probably not know what a tontine is, but they’re likely familiar with the concept. For example, a small circle of people are in a pool to determine the inheritor of a fortune and members of that circle start turning up dead. Sound familiar? Tontines, according to the Washington Post, once represented a majority of the American insurance market, holding 7.5 percent o...
Visitors to the Sweetwater County Historical Museum will have the chance to see photos of past Christmases on display. The small exhibit features a number of photos taken from different periods of Green River's history, including photos of different depictions of Santa Claus. The exhibit also features old toys from the museum's collection, including civil war soldiers, a remote control dog and doll houses. They also feature old fashioned games such as dominoes, which can also be found in the...
A yearly tradition in Green River has been Santa's arrival to the city and this year was no different, as the jolly man in the red suit brought smiles to kids awaiting his visit Saturday afternoon. While most associate Santa riding in a sleigh pulled by his nine trusty reindeer, Santa and his wife arrived to the Eagles Club in style. Santa rode in on the back of a motorcycle while Mrs. Claus rode with firefighters in the city's vintage firetruck. Children lined up to greet Santa and were...
The Green River school district is targeting e-cigarettes and vaporizers in a series of amendments to school policies. Last night, the district’s board of trustees approved amendments to the school’s athletics handbook and its suspension and expulsion guidelines to include the use of e-cigarettes and vaporizers. A third amendment to the student conduct guidelines was voted down by the board in order for its language to match up with language used in the other two amendments. The amendment will b...
A former Sweetwater County Museum employee convicted of stealing money from the museum was ordered to pay the money back or go to prison Tuesday morning. Cynthia J. McCullers, 51, of Green River, appeared in the Third District Court of Judge Nena James at a sentencing hearing after she pleaded guilty to felony theft at an earlier hearing. The felony larceny charge was dismissed as part of a plea agreement. At the hearing, McCullers was sentenced to between three and six years in the Wyoming Women’s Center in Lusk, which was suspended. She w...
A man walking his dog early Thursday morning prompted a lockout nearly encompassing the entire school district in Green River. According to a release from the Green River Police Department, at about 7 a.m. Dec. 3, an employee at Green River High School reported seeing someone walking through the school's parking lot with what they believed to be a rifle slung over their shoulder. The school resource officer, with staff from the school, reviewed security footage and saw a man walk an airedale...
The Sweetwater County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees voted to issue a request for proposal regarding virtual equipment simulators. The board initially heard a presentation about the simulators last month, when Special Services Director Alan Demaret said the simulators could be used to help students in the special services department obtain higher paying jobs. The simulators discussed at that time were a forklift simulator and a heavy equipment simulator that could be used to train for...
Head coach Rick Carroll and his girls basketball team are ready to take the court Friday evening in their first game against Star Valley. The wolves varsity team plays their first game at Green River High School at 5:30 p.m. Junior varsity plays at 4 p.m. It will be their first game before the Flaming Gorge Classic, which takes place Dec. 17-19. "I think we've got good team chemistry," Carroll said of the team. He said the team is working hard, focusing on both defense and offense. Carroll said...
While a majority of the winter sports have started practices already, the indoor track team won’t be seeing any action until Jan. 4, 2016, when practice begins. Head coach Steve Boyd said indoor track traditionally has been a training opportunity for athletes interested in outdoor track during the spring sports season. Boyd said many soccer players participate so they can start to build endurance for soccer. However, since indoor track became a sanctioned sport six years ago, Boyd said it has b...
More than a week into practices, head coach Colleen Seiloff is happy with where Green River High School's boys swimming team has started their season. With 14 returning swimmers, she sees their first competition in GIllette Friday as a fun way to start the season. "We chose to go to that particular meet," Seiloff said. Friday, the swimmers will compete in a relay competition while the Saturday event is the a pentathlon. Each swimmer swims the 100 fly, 100 breast stroke, 100 backstroke, 100...
A Green River resident recently announced her intent to run for Senate District 14 in the Wyoming Legislature. Michele Irwin, a democrat, lives on a bison and cattle ranch south of Green River, announced her intent in an email sent to the Green River Star. “I am running for a seat in the Wyoming Senate to represent the diverse citizens within the district, and because I believe that we need to focus on solutions. Thinking outside the box and finding common ground with others are two skills I b...
Construction at Aspen Mountain Medical Center in Rock Springs is on schedule for company to start accepting patients April 1, according to CEO Steven Perry. Perry spoke to the Sweetwater County Commissioners Tuesday and helped correct a few misconceptions about the hospital. Prior to Perry's discussion with the commissioners, Green River resident Mike Lynch asked the commissioners a couple of questions about the medical center, including if Medicare patients would be accepted. The chief item...
