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Is Green River safe? According to a quarterly study, the crime that happens most often in Green River and across the state is theft; larceny specifically. According to the third quarter report of crime in Wyoming in 2015, from the uniform crime reporting division of criminal investigation office of the attorney general, the highest percentage of crime in Wyoming during the third-quarter of 2015 was larceny, at 71 percent. Looking at previous quarters of 2015, larceny is the lead crime across...
The Green River High School Varsity and Junior Varsity wrestlers have been hard at work over the Christmas break preparing for the Tournament of Champions, Friday and Saturday in Vernal, Utah. "Many of the GRHS wrestlers have been using this break to focus on technique," coach Marshall Rhodes said. "We have added quite a few things and have really tried to fix some of the mistakes we have been making the first month of the season." The wrestlers took Christmas week off from practice, have been...
The Green River High School’s varsity boys basketball team has the confidence to face the Cheyenne teams head on at the Taco John’s Invitational, Jan. 7-9. The team also has the humbleness to know they can learn from their experience playing Cheyenne, no matter the outcome. “I want to play them. Maybe they’ll beat us bad, but we can take what we got from them and use it to our advantage,” player Cameron Morris said. “There’s no individuals on our team. We’re a team no matter what.” “We’re a...
New Year's Eve at the Golden Hour Senior Center was filled with all festivities. The tables were set, the decorations were hung, the music was live, the conversation was abundant, and dinner was served. "It was kind of just a nice night out for the seniors," activities coordinator Megan Brown said. Brown said the center served over 100 people on New Year's Eve. She said the New Year's Eve event gives them a nice night out, which some otherwise wouldn't be able to afford on a fixed income. The...
Middle school age kids brought in the new year with a celebration at the annual Green River Recreation Center's Middle School New Year's Eve party. The party started at 9:30 p.m. and went on until 12:30 a.m., with a variety of activities carrying on through the night. There was all-night bingo, hungry human hippos where partners go against another team to capture balls in a basket, on wheels. It looks fun and trying. There was also human bowling where kids act as the bowling ball, rolling into...
A grant application approved Tuesday night may help improve traffic safety during emergencies. The grant application approved is part of a regional grant application for the 2015 assistance to firefighters grant program. Fire Chief Jim Wamsley of the Rock Springs Fire Department is acting as coordinator for the regional grant, on behalf of the benefiting fire departments. Regional groups included in the program will be the Green River Fire Department, the Rock Springs Fire Department and the...
Green River is good at being kind. It is something that we all need in our lives. Many in the community do very well at giving and being generous during the holidays and all year round. With the new year here and chatter of new year’s resolutions in conversation, I’d like to remind people of kindness, though I do not want it to be a resolution. Kindness is a lifestyle. There are a couple neighbors of mine down my street that have been kind, good neighbors during the winter snow storms we hav...
Green River has a new restaurant opening in town. Staci Ann's Cafe opened Monday at 95 East Railroad Avenue. The opening was the soft launch for the restaurant. The official opening day is tentatively set for Monday. The cafe's owner, Staci Martin is no novice to the restaurant business. She has served, managed and operated various restaurants throughout her food-service career, and owned a restaurant before this one as well. Frequenters of the Rolling Green Country Club may know her food from...
A shadow that loomed over Green River High School and the high school boys basketball program has lifted. The two-year, 58-game streak of no won games has ended. The high school basketball program as a whole is winning. The Junior Varsity and Freshman basketball teams are thus far undefeated in the season, and Varsity snagged their first win of the season at the Flaming Gorge Classic this weekend. Their triumph came at the end of their tournament game against the Grace, Idaho team. The ending...
The Green River High School Boys Varsity Basketball team is gaining momentum. The boys brought home a win at the annual Flaming Gorge Classic basketball tournament, hosted in Green River and Rock Springs over the weekend. "Overall, the kids had a great tournament" head coach Laurie Ivie said. "They did a really nice job." The boys started the tournament with a game against Pinedale, and loss with the score of 60-50. The boys picked up their speed in their next game against an Idaho team and...
The Green River High School wrestling team traveled to Grand Junction and Fruita Colorado to compete in the Warrior Classic this past weekend. "Overall I am happy with our performance this weekend," Coach Marshall Rhodes said. "We have gained shape and managed to fix some things in practice." Rhodes said along with technique they still have to work on their toughness and conditioning, but with some hard work it will come around. There were 38 teams from Wyoming, Colorado and Utah competing in...
It was 1987, when a spry Mike Kennedy started his volunteer firefighter training for the Green River Fire Department. After training, he was put on as a full-time volunteer in 1988. His fourth year on the squad, he became lieutenant and was in that position until December of 1999, when he was appointed as assistant fire chief. He transitioned to fire chief in 2008 and has been since, but alas it's time to relent the position. "I will be 70 in February," Kennedy said. "I'm 69 and a whole bunch."...
The Green River High School varsity and junior varsity wrestling teams did well at the Evanston Invitational tournament this weekend. They came away with tournament wins after losing their first dual of the year against Wasatch High School Thursday, in Heber City, Utah, with a score of 55-18. "The dual on Thursday was the first competition of the year for us, but I think we showed some good things and fought hard against the top team in Utah," head coach Marshall Rhodes said. The Wolves may...
To start the weekend off right, Green River High School’s junior varsity basketball team won their first game of the season, against Star Valley. The score was 46-38. Head basketball coach Laurie Ivie said their win was a bid deal to them, especially because junior varsity didn’t win a game last year. “They did great,” Ivie said. “They played a lot of hard defense, a lot of rebounds, they just played super aggressive.” GRHS varsity basketball played a tough game against Star Valley this weekend...
Tis' the season for giving in Green River. Mission at Castle Rock Rehabilitation Center partnered with the Wesswick Foundation to bring some Christmas cheer on Friday. The center donated $300 worth of school supplies to Truman Elementary School as well as candy for each student. Every student also received a book for Christmas. The books were donated by Louise Wesswick, founder of the Wesswick foundation. This is not the first time Wesswick has donated books to a school, but this is the first...
Children's giggles and smiles fill the room as they intently listen to lines from the book "The Day the Crayons Came Home" being read to them by librarians' theatrical voices. A page featuring the glow-in-the-dark crayon was actually glowing in the dark, with a back background. "Awesome," the Washington Elementary School first graders said in unison. They really enjoyed that page. Librarians at the Sweetwater County Library read six books to the first grade classes Thursday, as part of the...
A homeland security grant to benefit the Green River Police Department was approved by the City Council last night. The grant totals $45,954 and will not require any funds from the city and is fully reimbursable. The grant will be used to fund new secure proximity card-reader doors for city hall and the police department, as well as security cameras for the police department and parks and recreation department. “We sat down and thought, what are our needs,” Lt. Burke Morin said. Morin said the...
Local law enforcement recently attended a drug and alcohol seminar focusing on drug-related crime. Facilitating the seminar was Ernie Johnson of the Governor’s Council on Impaired Driving. “Every county faces the same issue,” Johnson said. “I don’t think Green River is any worse.” Johnson said when there are crimes, more often than not, there is alcohol involved. The good news for Wyoming is 8 percent of state crimes are felonies, while the majority, 92 percent are misdemeanors, or minor crime...
The new city ordinance concerning disorderly conduct raises a question of Green River’s influx of transients and other disturbances, which the ordinance now can deal with. “It’s not a huge problem, but we have a pretty heavy influx of transients in the summer months,” Green River Police Chief Chris Steffen said. “We deal with that problem every summer.” Steffen says it’s been an issue for quite a long time now in Green River. It hasn’t gotten any worse, but it hasn’t gotten any better either, an...
It's a brand new basketball season for Green River High School, with new players, and a new boys basketball coach, Laurie Ivie. The fresh varsity boys basketball team will kick off their 2015-2016 season with a game against Star Valley High School. The game is 7 p.m., Dec. 11 at the GRHS gymnasium. Ivie said it is difficult to gage how good some other teams around the region will be this year because they have new coaches as well. Star Valley has a new coach this year, as well as Rock Springs,...
Green River High School wrestling got close enough to a state championship last year, they could almost taste it. At second place, the sweat of victory was one place away. This year, they intend to take the victory. To end the season as state champions is their goal this year. "They're working pretty hard. I think they're pretty focused on our goal," GRHS wrestling coach Marshell Rhodes said. "If we work hard and improve, then I think we have a chance. They realize that, they're focused on...
Green River High School has a new boy's basketball coach, Laurie Ivie. Basketball has always been at the forefront of Ivie's life. She grew up playing it, her sisters played it, her father coached it, and now she coaches it. Ivie has been coaching basketball at various levels for 15 years now. Since 2000, she's coached middle school, high school, girls, and boys basketball, starting in Rock Springs and now Green River. As a Rock Springs native, Ivie is no stranger to the area, as she is no...
The first readings of two new ordinances for the City of Green River passed at the city council meeting Tuesday night. The first was a new city ordinance for disorderly conduct. Both the Green River Police Department and the city prosecutor have felt that they lack the ability to enforce disturbances that are not covered under the code of violations. When the GRPD receives calls from business owners and other citizens concerning the removal of transients from a location, the police officers have...
Consideration to approve an increase in the general fund in the administration department for an amendment to the City Administrator’s Contract, in the amount of $20,862 was approved at Tuesday’s city council meeting. At the beginning of the council meeting Councilman Gary Killpack asked for the motion to be moved out of the consent agenda. That was for the public to be aware of the action. He said because some actions were done under the consent agenda concerning the previous city adm...
Moms group MOPS (Moms of pre-schoolers), and Moms Next of Sweetwater County bought, gathered and packaged up shoe boxes stuffed with toys and hygiene products Thursday. The toy-stuffed shoe boxes were sent to children-in-need overseas, some in hard-to-reach locations. The mom's were taking part in an annual international project called Operation Christmas Child. The project was started in 1993, by Samaritan's Purse, an international Christian relief and evangelism organization. Since 1993, the...
