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Students who attended a recent Science, Technology, Engineering and Math night left with a better understanding of what it would take to think like a computer scientist. Sara Wisniewski, Monroe Elementary School STEM teacher, said she worked with Western Wyoming Community College associate information technology professor Carla Hester Croff to get the STEM night program at the school. Wisniewski said Croff brought all of the supplies they needed to have six stations for the program. During the...
The Wolves swimming and diving came home with first and second-place finishes in individual and relay events and with fifth overall at state. This past weekend, the Green River High School team traveled to Gillette for the state competition and came home with a fifth-place finish, just one point away from fourth. "We were happy with it," head coach Colleen Seiloff said. "When you know you've given it everything you got." Three Wolves were named to the 2019 All-State Swimming and Diving athletes...
The Lady Wolves basketball team has won their last four games, including two non-conference and two conference, and they are setting their sights on more this week. On Thursday, the Lady Wolves took on the Evanston Lady Red Devils in Green River and came out on top, 44-39. They then traveled to Jackson on Saturday where they defeated the Lady Brocs, 54-42. The two conference wins take the Lady Wolves to second in the Southwest quadrant with a 3-2 conference record and to 11-9 in their overall...
Last Thursday schools across Green River were busy celebrating Valentine's Day with their students. At Monroe Elementary School, students in kindergarten through fifth grade were busy handing out valentines or participating in some sort of a Valentine's Day activity. In McKensey Lucero and Kada Alcorn's kindergarten class, children participated in various activities during a station rotation. Some of the activities the children participated in were handing out valentines, decorating and eating...
The speech and debate team took first this weekend in a Jackson tournament. The Green River High School Speech and Debate team competed against eight other teams at this tournament and came out on top with 100 points. They were followed by Natrona High School with 96 points, Riverton High School with 56 points and Rock Springs High School with 49. “We really came together as a team this weekend and the results showed that,” head coach Carina White said. The debate team members continue to do...
With state taking place this week, the Wolves swimming and diving team was happy to qualify two more. Last week, the team competed in Rock Springs Wednesday night and a second time in Green River Thursday for its last chance meet. Head coach Colleen Seiloff said she was hoping a couple more swimmers who were close to qualifying would do so in front of a home crowd. Two swimmers, sophomores Sam Quick and Araya Finley, took advantage of those meets and qualified for state. They join seniors...
The Lady Wolves basketball team traveled to Riverton and Cody this weekend and came home with two more wins. The two non-conference wins, take the Lady Wolves to 9-9 in the regular season. In the Riverton game, the Lady Wolves came out on top, 55-38 and against Cody they won 44-26. “I think over the course of the weekend, we played defensively pretty well,” head coach Rick Carroll said. During the Riverton game, the Lady Wolves shot the ball well, but missed some fairly easy shots. This is som...
The Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Department will probably move forward with the purchase of a reconditioned snowcat. During a recent Sweetwater County Commissioners meeting, Sheriff John Grossnickle asked the board if he could pursue the purchase of a reconditioned Hagglund snowcat from Natrona County. The snowcat and a trailer to pull it is available for purchase at about $74,000. Grossnickle said this type of a machine is used by the military and can hold up to 16 passengers, which would e...
A parcel next to the Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport may be given back to the Bureau of Land Management. Rickey Rocky, Sweetwater County Parks and Recreation board president, said the model RC Airport, which is located on Baxter Road near the airport, is no longer serviceable. "The rule changes from the Federal Aviation Administration have condemned that space unflyable for RC controlled planes, drones or anything radio controlled," Rocky said. He said the space was meant to be run by a club...
Sweetwater County will look at offering a volunteer separation program for employees who qualify. During the Sweetwater County Commissioners meeting Tuesday morning, human resources director Garry McLean presented the board with information about the Voluntary Separation Program. McLean said since 2012, the county has offered early retirement packages when it saw a reduction in the oil and gas industry. He said the county was being proactive when they had money to come up with the early...
The Green River Shopko Hometown Store will be closing. Shopko announced more store closures Wednesday and the Green River location was one of the stores named. The estimated closing date given by the company is May 12, 2019. Other Wyoming locations that are closing are Lander, Mountain View, Thermopolis, Greybull and Worland. Both Thermopolis and Greybull's closures were announced in January. According to an earlier press release from Shopko dated Jan. 16, 2019, Shopko, a leading operator of...
Students were asked to bleed green for the 11th annual high school blood drive challenge. Green River High School students and members of the community were at the high school auditorium Thursday for the same purpose: to donate blood. While some students waited their turns and others ate snacks after donating blood, others were already in the donation chairs giving blood. Kendahl Coy, blood drive chair and GRHS senior, said she was cochair last year and had a pretty good idea of what it would...
Learning how to incorporate nature into early childhood education in a fun and interesting way is something about 30 workshop attendees learned how to do. On Friday, participants from Evanston, Jackson Big Piney, Afton, Rock Springs and Green River attended the Wyoming Project WILD and Wyoming Project Learning Tree hands-on workshop. The workshop focused on nature education curriculum for formal and non-formal early childhood educators and daycare providers. Leading the workshop was Lucy Wold,...
One Green River student has received a $25,000 scholarship from the Horatio Alger National Scholarship, which can be used at any college of choice. Green River High School senior Mary Harris was quite surprised when she recently received the news. “I’m just really honored to receive it,” Harris said. According to a press release, “This annual scholarship recognizes outstanding students, who, in the face of great adversity, have exhibited an admirable commitment to continuing their educati...
It was one of the toughest competitions of the year, but the speech team came home with third place. This weekend the Green River High School Speech and Debate team traveled to Casper to compete against 32 teams and about 600 students, including competitors from South Dakota. “It was good to see competition from other states. There is always a bit of a difference in the way they compete and the level of talent they bring,” head coach Carina White said. Cheyenne East came in first followed by...
Records were broken, first-place finishes obtained and two more qualified at regional swimming this past weekend. The Green River swimming and diving team came home with third after competing in regionals in Evanston against six teams, including Laramie and Kelly Walsh. “We actually had a good weekend,” head coach Colleen Seiloff said. “We finished where we thought we would.” In fact, they were even closer to Kelly Walsh then they thought they were going to be. Seiloff was proud to have two mor...
The tournament may have been a smaller one, but the competition was tough. The Green River High School Speech and Debate team traveled to Evanston this weekend to compete against eight schools and more than 200 students. “They did a fantastic job; we took second place but we had a lot of competitors in elimination rounds and it gave us some solid data on the direction we need to go for the rest of the season,” head coach Carina White said. Cheyenne East took first with 158 points, Green River gr...
More than 70 children were learning dance moves to a song during the Green River Wolfpack Dance Team's dance camp. On Saturday two Green River High School gyms were filled with children from preschool through eighth-grade students who were all learning dance moves to the song "It's Party Time" from "Hotel Transylvania 3." Assistant dance coach Christine Peterson said the older children in grades fifth through eighth were learning a separate dance from the preschool through fourth-grade dancers....
In a highly competitive swim meet, the Wolves swimming and diving team came home with a fifth-place finish. Nineteen teams from across the state were in Gillette this weekend trying to see where their team was in comparison to others. The Green River High School boys team kept themselves in the top five. They showed they can be competitive against Kelly Walsh and Cheyenne Central, Lander and Thunder Basin. This weekend the team will travel to Evanston for regionals. The team is still trying to q...
Before the Federal government shutdown stopped, residents were asked to help TSA employees at the Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport to make ends meet until the shutdown was over. The seven TSA employees at the airport had been working since Dec. 22 without being paid, this means they have missed two paychecks, airport director Devon Brubaker. Due to the loss in pay, Brubaker asked the community to help by donating nonperishable food items, diapers and wipes, groceries, laundry detergent, dish...
With the Federal government still shut down many organizations are starting to feel the trickle effect of that shut down. However, Linda Martin, Sweetwater County School District No. 2 nutrition services director, said the free and reduced lunch program is not being impacted by the government shut down nor does she expect it to be. “We have enough funding to get through March,” Martin said. Even if the government were to impact the free and reduced lunch program the worse case scenario is the...
A grant matched by Sweetwater County will continue to be used to fund two full-time Sweetwater County Emergency Management Agency positions. During the Sweetwater County Commissioners meeting Tuesday morning, the Commissioners unanimously approved a fiscal year 2018 Emergency Management Performance Grant agreement from the Wyoming Office of Homeland Security. Under the agreement for the $120,000, the grant will provide $60,000 and the county will match it with $60,000. According to Judy...
The Lady Wolves basketball team won on their own court against Jackson Saturday, but they lost on the road to Evanston. Both the Evanston and Jackson games were conference games, taking the Lady Wolves to 1-1 in the conference and 7-6 overall. The Lady are one of four teams in their quadrant, which includes Star Valley, Evanston and Jackson. On Thursday, the Lady Wolves came up short against Evanston, 41-39. “It was a close game throughout the game,” head coach Rick Carroll said. At any giv...
The boys swimming and diving team continues to show their skills in a couple of smaller meets this weekend. On Friday the Green River High School Wolves swimming and diving team traveled to Lyman to compete against a handful of teams. They came in first at that meet. On Saturday, the Wolves were in their own pool when they hosted the Green River Invitational. About eight teams made it to that meet. The season is starting to wind down for the Wolves. They will swim in Gillette this weekend,...
The Sweetwater County Library was bustling with children all there to build things with LEGOs. During the library’s LEGO Olympics, children could participate in three timed events at a chance to win a prize or they could just build whatever they wanted with the LEGOs provided. Youth services librarian Becky Iwen said over the years they’ve had many LEGO parties. She said a few years ago they used to have LEGO group that met once a week. Now, the library tries to host special events, such as thi...
