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Determining what to do with all of the county’s facilities and one lot is something the Sweetwater County Commissioners would like to address in the future. During a recent Commissioners meeting, the Commissioners made a motion to approve spending $25,000 for the design and architecture of future buildings at the 7,200-square foot lot located at 36 Lagoon Road off of Highway 191 South. The lot currently has a small sand and salt building located on it. The Commissioners discussed the possibility...
Green River student Rachel Heisinger knew she was going to attend college, she just didn’t know where to go for sure. Her mind changed quickly when Casper College offered her a full-ride scholarship. All she has to do to earn that two-year scholarship is compete on their speech and debate team. “Since this will be my first year of college, I decided Casper would be a good fit for a few different reasons,” It’s relatively close to home, they have a wonderful criminal justice program, amazing...
More than a dozen children were burning energy and getting to know each other while at the Kids in Motion program Thursday. Children from birth to five years old were running around playing on obstacle courses, shooting hoops, spinning in turtle shells or jumping on the trampolines while at this triweekly program. Jennifer Spangler, who has taken her son to the program twice, said the program is a fun way for kids to get their energy out when it's so cold outside. Plus, her child has the...
The possibility of more housing northwest of the Rolling Green Golf Course is one step closer. During the Sweetwater County Commissioners meeting Tuesday morning, the Commissioners unanimously approved a zoning map amendment request from Randy Laughter and Lane Fillingim for a 38.2-acre parcel of land to be changed from agriculture to R-1. County land use director Eric Bingham said a R-1 designation is the most restrictive, and even though the proposed lots are 1 and 2 acres in size, they are...
Making St. Patrick's Day bracelets was as activity residents and volunteers alike seemed to enjoy. On Friday residents at the Mission at Castle Rock Rehabilitation Center and the Villa gathered to make St. Patrick's Day bracelets. Kathy Elliott, who runs the Crafts with Kathy class, said she inherited most of the beads for the project from Jeanette Palmer, who used to volunteer at the CRRC. Each resident was given 50 beads, which were white, yellow, silver, clear and two colors of green. To...
For the 12th year in a row, the speech and debate team has taken first place at districts. The Green River High School Speech and Debate team didn’t have to travel far to claim first-place this time, since the Wind River District National Qualifying Tournament took place in Rock Springs Thursday and in Green River on Friday and Saturday. Rock Springs came in second and Natrona County took third. “We also won the debate sweepstakes award and the travel trophy for most degrees accumulated ove...
For the first time in a very long time, the Lady Wolves won a game at State. Head coach Rick Carroll said even though the Lady Wolves have made it to State, he doesn't think they've won a game at the tournament since 2007. The Lady Wolves broke that losing streak this weekend when they won not only one, but two games, which led them to become the consolation bracket winners. Carroll said they did receive some trophies for winning the consolation game, but the road to that win started out rough....
The Sweetwater County Child Developmental Center may want to readdress how much of their sixth-cent overage they want to continue to invest. During a recent Sweetwater County Commissioners, SCCDC board members, their executive director, Cristy Pelham, and their attorney, Danielle Mathey, spoke to the Commissioners about the a second amendment to the SCCDC’s memorandum of understanding regarding when the SCCDC receives funding. Mathey said this is a concern for three reasons, the SCCDC has a new...
The speech and debate team came home from state with a fourth place finish. The team traveled this past weekend to Riverton to take on the best Wyoming had to offer. The Green River High School Speech and Debate team took 18 students to state this year and came in fourth. Cheyenne East took first, Cheyenne Central nabbed second and Rock Springs claimed third. GRHS missed out on third place by three points. “It would have been nice to win state this year, but our team is young and they did a f...
College is expensive. This is something that is common knowledge at this point, which is why it’s hard for me to believe the county hasn’t received a lot of applications for its scholarships in the past. The Sweetwater County Commissioners are once again seeking applications from Sweetwater County high school students who are going to graduate with the class of 2019. Commissioner Randy Wendling said the Commissioners will give three $1,000 scholarships to three applicants. Wendling said he was...
The Green River cheer and dance teams returned home with a few second place finishes at state. Last week, the Wolf Pack Dance Team participated in the 4A division hip hop dance and jazz competitions, while the GRHS cheerleaders competed in the 4A Division cheerleading competition. The GRHS cheerleaders competed in all three competitive categories, which were all-girl cheer, game day and co-ed cheer. The cheerleaders took second in c0-ed cheer, fourth in all-girl cheer and sixth in the game day...
A local legislator may have had intentions of giving the Sweetwater County Commissioners a friendly update, but it quickly turned into the Commissioners questioning whether or not he had the county’s best interest in mind during this legislative session. During the County Commissioners meeting Tuesday morning, Commissioner Randy Wendling asked Rep. Clark Stith, R-Rock Springs, why he voted in favor of Senate File 49 when so many Sweetwater County residents and county commissioners across the s...
Seniors were keeping themselves busy Friday morning by playing games. About a dozen men were in the pool room enjoying the new felt on a couple of pool tables at the Golden Hour Senior Center, while a handful of ladies were playing UNO in another room. "This is just a way to waste time in the morning," pool player Dale Johnson said. Johnson was watching a couple of other pool players hit their shots before it was his turn. He was also in on the heckling that was involved in the game. After one s...
The speech and debate team finished the regular season strong when it took first in its last tournament before state. This past weekend, the Green River High School Speech and Debate team traveled to Rawlins to take on 19 teams with more than 300 competitors. Their hard work paid off and they took first, followed by Natrona County in second and Rock Springs in third. Head coach Carina White said Cheyenne East, one of the most competitive teams, was there with about 20 students. Even though the t...
A couple of residents were trying to see if they had what it takes to move up a level as a Ham radio operator. On Saturday, the Sweetwater Amateur Radio Club and its amateur radio testing group were busy administering tests to a couple of residents who wanted to move onto the general class level. Rick Breininger, club member, said volunteer examiners are overseen by the Federal Communications System administration. These volunteer testers give the 35-question test. To move onto the next level, t...
The Lady Wolves basketball team knew they had to win at least two games at regionals in order to advance to state. They won three and took third place at the 4A West Regional Basketball Tournament in Cody this weekend. On Thursday, the Lady Wolves started off their first game playing against their biggest rivals, the Rock Springs Lady Tigers. Rivalry aside, both teams wanted the win to increase their chances of making it to state. The Lady Wolves came out on top with in this one, 45-36. “It was...
Hundreds of entries were whittled to three winners in each fiction, nonfiction and poetry category for this year’s Young Authors Awards in Green River. Steve Schwartz, Sweetwater County School District No. 2 Young Authors coordinator and English teacher, said they received several hundred entries. “I am unsure of exactly how many entries there were since the elementary schools judge their own, and then they send me their first through third place winners,” Schwartz said. “I really did appreci...
The Lady Wolves basketball team ended its regular season with one win and one loss. Both conference games were real nail biters with the score going back and forth in the last quarter. In the Rock Springs game last Thursday, it came down to a shot at the buzzer from Lady Wolf Maddie Heiser who put down a two-pointer for the 47-45 win. "It was great," head coach Rick Carroll said. "Everybody was really excited about that." Overall, it was a great game because both teams were playing really well,...
In its last tune up before State, the Green River indoor track team traveled to the University of Wyoming this past Friday to participate with nine other Wyoming teams at the university’s field house track in Laramie. For the girls, Ellie Kettering led the way in the 55-meter dash, finishing 19th in a field of 75 sprinters with a time of 8.23. Kettering took 11th out of 60 sprinters in the 200-meter dash in 29.08. In the 400 meters, Rachel Foster took 20th in 1:13.26, with teammate Britty H...
I thought my days of going without a shower for a few days was over when both of my children were in elementary school. I was wrong. Recently, I rediscovered this feeling when my two sons and I got terrible colds. For my youngest son, John, it didn’t start as a cold, but something else. He had a fever, was tired, extremely needy, dizzy and weak. The poor thing. It makes me sad when he is like that. Almost every hour for two days, I changed his ice pack for his head upon request and catered to h...
Elevated levels of methane gas were the cause of a mine evacuation at Ciner Saturday morning. According to a press release from Ciner, monitors detected elevated methane levels early Saturday morning. The levels were high enough to trigger an evacuation of the mine. “We evacuated all personnel from the mine and turned off the power,” a release from Ciner states. The release stated surface operations continued to function by utilizing ore from the mine’s stockpile. However, on Tuesday miner...
Sweetwater County is requesting about $5.3 million in impact funds for the TransWest transmission-line project, which will run through portions of the county. During a recent Sweetwater County Commissioners meeting, the commissioners unanimously approved a memorandum of understanding between Sweetwater County, Carbon County, Baggs, Dixon, Sinclair, Saratoga, Rawlins and Wamsutter for the impact funding request. According to information in the MOU, a high-voltage transmission system will extend...
Sweetwater County will offer a volunteer separation program for qualifying employees. During the Sweetwater County Commissioners meeting Tuesday morning, the Commissioners unanimously approved a resolution allowing for the Voluntary Separation Program. At the Commissioners previous meeting, county human resources director Garry McLean was asked to meet with department supervisors and elected officials about the proposed VSP to find out if they had any areas of concern. McLean reported he had...
Discussion about whether or not the Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County will take over Sweetwater County’s ambulance service took place at the Sweetwater County Commissioners meeting. Representatives from MHSC, Sweetwater Medics and members of the Ambulance Service Board were on hand to answer questions the Commissioners had about the hospital possibly getting into the ambulance service business. Scott Kitchner, chairman of the ambulance service board, said Sweetwater Medics and the hospital...
More than a dozen Mission at Castle Rock Rehabilitation and Villa residents painted bowls for a cause. Last Wednesday, tables were lined with residents and CRRC employees painting bowls for the Sweetwater County Bowls of Caring fundraising event. YWCA development director Kayla Mannikko said, those who participate in the program buy the bowls and paint them. Mannikko said the YWCA then takes them to a kiln where they are heat treated. Once heat treated, YWCA employees then deliver the microwave...
