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The Lady Wolves basketball team ended its regular season with two losses at home. This past weekend, the Green River High School Lady Wolves played Natrona County and lost 64-26. They also played and lost to Kelly Walsh, 69-35. “We competed pretty well rebounding wise,” head coach Rick Carroll said. Kelly Walsh only had one more rebound than the Lady Wolves, he said. “(Against) Kelly Walsh we gave up too many offensive rebounds,” Carroll said. “They’re a good team and we just can’t do th...
Several hundred Green River students submitted stories and poems in this year’s Young Authors Awards Competition. Fredrick Schwartz, Sweetwater County School District No. 2’s Young Authors coordinator, said just one school alone submitted more than 300 entries, which made for a pretty tough competition. Schwartz said each elementary school judges their own entries and then send him the first-place winners. In a second round of judging, it was narrowed down to 77 entries that placed first thr...
Clapping and laughter filled the air as seniors moved along to the music. The Golden Hour Senior Center's Zumba Gold class continues to grow the longer it runs. At first, a small group would faithfully show up each week, but now there can be anywhere from 15 to as many as 20 working out to music. On Monday morning, one of the first songs played was the Village People's "YMCA" and the ladies in attendence were really moving to the beat. They were swaying back and forth while mimicking the moves Z...
The old adage, “You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar,” is something that still resonates with me. It’s also something I wish other people would remember when they are approaching me for a favor. Like most people, I don’t like people demanding that I do something for them. If you really want me to do a favor for you, would it kill you to ask nicely? I just don’t understand where the simple common courtesies such as “please and thank you” are going. It seems as though those are thr...
After months of discussion between Sweetwater County Sheriff Mike Lowell and the Sweetwater County Board of County Commissioners, the Sheriff’s Department will start the process of hiring three people. During a recent Commissioners meeting, the Commissioners voted unanimously to allow Sheriff Lowell to start the process for hiring two additional court security officers. As for the request for an additional detention officer, it was a 4-1 vote. Commissioner John Kolb was the only commissioner o...
Portions of the Golden Hour Senior Center building will act as a temporary shelter for The Mission at Castle Rock Rehabilitation Center should they ever be faced with an emergency evacuation situation. During the Sweetwater County Commissioners meeting Tuesday, the commissioners unanimously approved a memorandum or understanding between the county, GHSC and Mission. Under the MOU, Mission can use the GHSC building as a temporary shelter for its residents if an emergency occurs. A few months...
Lately, it seems as though all the Wyoming Legislature wants to do is cut, cut, cut, while sitting on a pile of saved money. It’s one thing to cut because there’s no other choice, but it’s another thing to cut because “education funding deserves its fair share of cutting too.” Some Wyoming Legislators have actually said things close to the quoted statement above. Before I continue, I want to make it clear that when I speak of the Wyoming Legislators, I am mostly talking about the ones who are no...
The team may not have come home with a top three finish, but the coach is proud of what they accomplished this season. “(I) just want to say how proud I am to have coached this team. You are fighters to the end,” head coach Colleen Seiloff posted on the teams’ Facebook page. “Also, thank you to everyone who has supported us throughout the season. It has been amazing. We have lots to celebrate at our banquet. Hope to see all you there.” During state this past weekend, which took place in Larami...
A season plagued with injuries is taking its toll on the Green River High School Lady Wolves basketball team. The Lady Wolves started off the non conference season with a few wins, but as soon as conference play began, the wins stopped. The teams latest loss came from their biggest rivals, the Rock Springs Lady Tigers, 65-22. This loss takes the Lady Wolves to 0-8 in the conference. Prior to the game, head coach Rick Carroll said in an interview that one of the team’s best players, Andri Dewey h...
The speech team came home with a second-place finish after traveling to Laramie this weekend to compete in a new tournament. The Green River High School speech and debate team attended Laramie’s first Pokes Invitational Speech and Debate tournament, which was hosted by the University of Wyoming. Twelve schools and about 214 students attended the event where Cheyenne East took first place with 103 points, Green River grabbed second with 92 points and Rock Springs came in third with 33 points. ...
Paying students’ negative balances off is something residents in Green River are trying to help out with. With 776 students, or 30 percent of Sweetwater County School district No. 2, on the free and reduced lunch meal program, the need to help pay off balances for those who have to go on this program is increasing. Thanks to donations of more than $1,500, the community is helping out with those negative balances, Linda Martin, director of nutrition services, said. The money received through d...
It’s every mother’s challenge. Trying to figure out where their kids’ mittens, boots, shoes, hats and even coats are at. What’s worse is then they start attending school and these items don’t come home anymore. I know I’m not the only one who has children with this problem because when I went to my sons’ school to dig through the lost and found bin, there were three bins. In fact, so many items had been lost that they had a system for it. One bin was for all the missing hats, a second was fo...
For one Green River resident, staying idle isn't something she's ever going to do and her lifestyle is a reflection of that. When Karly Eyre isn't busy teaching at Lincoln Middle School, she's coaching, participating in her favorite sports or serving her country in the Wyoming Army National Guard. Recently, she participated in the Western Regional Championships biathlon competition in Jericho, Vermont. Eyre, who admits to being extremely new to the sport, is still learning about it. A biathlon...
The Lady Wolves continued their conference losing streak this weekend with another two losses. Despite adding two more to the loss column, head coach Rick Carroll felt the team was playing better than they have in previous games. The losses, one from Evanston, 59-51, and the other from Jackson in overtime, 50-44, take the Green River High School Lady Wolves to 0-7 in the conference. During the Evanston game, Carroll saw improvement. "I thought as a team we played pretty well," Carroll said....
Twelve Green River High School swimmers and three divers have qualified for state and are ready to see what this weekend’s competition will bring. The team will travel to Laramie to compete at state to wrap up their season. Last Thursday the team competed at the last chance meet in Pinedale. The team was unable to qualify anymore even though there were a few on the team that were so close. “I’m happy with it. We were really hoping for a couple more at last chance,” head coach Colleen Seiloff...
Residents at the Mission at Castle Rock Rehabilitation Center were learning a new type of art -- decoupage. During the weekly Crafts with Kathy Elliott class Friday morning, those participating in the class were learning how to decoupage. Most of them hadn’t even heard of such a thing, but once they found out what it was, they were ready to give it a try. Decoupage is nothing more than a slight of hand. When done correctly, it gives one the impression that something was hand painted, but in real...
This weekend the Lady Wolves basketball team lost both of their conference games by double digits, taking their conference record to 0-5. Head coach Rick Carroll said they Lady Wolves started of each game pretty good and during some points in the game they were playing consistent basketball and they had good defense. “We’re just really struggling to score,” Carroll said. “They never beat us bad every quarter, but they beat us every quarter.” Out of the eight quarters of basketball the Lady Wolves played against Natrona County and Kelly Walsh, t...
The Green River High School swimming and diving team not only came in second at conference, they broke some records along the way. During the 4A West Conference meet, Kelly Walsh High School came in first with 422 points, while Green River grabbed second with 379 and Rock Springs High School came in third with 174. In a previous interview with head coach Colleen Seiloff, she knew going into conferences that Kelly Walsh would be the team to beat. After this weekend, the Wolves have 15 swimmers...
The Sweetwater County Democratic Party is now seeking applications for the County Assessor’s position. This position was left vacant after Pat Drinkle, a Democrat, announced her retirement. On Tuesday morning, the Sweetwater County Commissioners unanimously approved a letter notifying the Sweetwater County Democratic Party Central Committee of the vacancy. The Commissioners’ letter states the Democrat party must name three qualified residents to hold the assessor’s position and forward those...
Southwest Counseling Service will receive a 4,000-square foot building from Jonah Energy LLC. During the Sweetwater County Commissioners meeting Tuesday morning, the Commissioners voted unanimously to accept a donated modular building on behalf of SCS. The building will be used to house psychiatric and telahealth services. SCS CEO Linda Acker said months ago she spoke to the Commissioners about the possibility of receiving a modular building from Jonah Energy. She said employees of SCS went out...
One hundred and forty children descended upon the high school Saturday morning with one common goal- to learn a dance routine. The children ranged in age, from three year olds to 13 year olds, and the Green River High School gymnasium and auxiliary gymnasium were filled with children learning a dance routine from the Wolf Pack Dance Team. This is the third year the dance team has put on this dance camp and it has grown. The first year about 80 children attended and in the second year the group...
The Wolves faced tough competition this weekend, but still came back home with a first-place trophy. The Green River High School Speech and Debate team traveled to the Natrona County for its tournament. Thirty one teams and more than 600 students from Wyoming and South Dakota attended this tournament. “This is the biggest and most competitive tournament we have traveled to this season,” assistant coach Jason Grubb said. “Most events had over 50 competitors. Some as many as 90. Since we are n...
Each year, the Green River High School Student Council is challenged with coming up with new ideas for the Make-A-Wish fundraising event. The friendly competition between Green River and Rock Springs raises money for the organization, which is then used to grant children's wishes. Some Sweetwater County children have received their wishes granted due to these efforts. One new fundraiser this year was the rummage sale. GRHS junior Kassandra Reyes came up with the idea with the help of her...
On Friday, students in Emily Gomez' second-grade class waited patiently for their mystery guest to arrive. While they were being read a book, the students would occasionally whisper to each other about who the mystery guest would be and when he or she would arrive. After about a 10 minute wait, the children soon realized who the guests were when four female Green River High School students walked into their classroom at Washington Elementary School. The students' next assignment was to try and f...
The Sweetwater County Commissioners will send a letter to U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke in Washington D.C., opposing the Little Mountain juniper tree removal. During the Commissioners Dec. 16 meeting, the Commissioners voted 4-1 to send an opposition letter to Zinke. Commissioners Reid West, Don Van Matre, John Kolb and Wally Johnson voted in favor of the letter, while Commissioner Randy Wendling voted against it. In December, they sent a letter to the BLM letting the federal agency know...
