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A threat made against the Sweetwater County Attorney's Office and the Sweetwater County Commissioners resulted in the county courthouse being locked down Tuesday morning. The building was locked down at about 9:35 a.m. after an individual called the county's dispatch center and issued a threat against the courthouse. According to Sweetwater County Commissioner Randy Wendling, the threat revolved around a claim the caller made about their plans to gun down employees in the Sweetwater County...
Out of a desire to give students more hands-on experience with agriculture and livestock, Sweetwater County School District No. 2 is hoping to swap land with the city in order to build barns for Green River High School’s Future Farmers of America program. Liz Thoman, the agriculture and natural resources teacher at GRHS, spoke at Tuesday’s city council meeting “to chat about a proposed land swap to help benefit our high school and FFA program.” Thoman is also the director of the FFA program...
While many people hoped the COVID-19 pandemic would improve throughout 2021 and life would get back to normal, the fight against the novel coronavirus and its variants continued throughout the year, with an ongoing back-and-forth of progress and setbacks. In the past year, the Wyoming Department of Health reported almost 54,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the state and over 1,100 related deaths. The first COVID-19 vaccine doses in Wyoming were administered in Dec. 2020. By the beginning of...
Gov. Mark Gordon’s leadership hasn’t been stellar over the past few years as he’s failed to adequately address several problems the state has faced since he assumed office. However, one decision we can get behind is his signing of an emergency order to keep the second unit at the Jim Bridger Power Plant from a premature shutdown through an EPA mandate. Gordon’s order is not absolute, but it does give much needed breathing room to allow for a solution to be found while saving jobs that would have evaporated with the end of 2021. Our hope is...
We’re about a week into the new year — how are those resolutions coming? Many people enjoy beginning a new year by making resolutions, picking out goals they want to reach, plans they want to stick to every day, and ideals for how to improve themselves and their lives. Many of those people also get overwhelmed and frustrated with their grand plans, some more quickly than others. Some may give up on their resolutions, and some may have given up on making resolutions altogether. I do think res...
Green River Police Department reports for Dec. 26 At 10:18 a.m., officers responded to a report of a two vehicle collision at Trail Drive and Winterview Drive. Officers met with the driver of a snowplow who advised that while plowing the roads he traveled down a hill on Winterview Drive and attempted to slow down to make a turn, but due to the icy road conditions was unable to and slid into a vehicle which was parked in a driveway. Officers observed the damage to the vehicle and completed a report of the incident. At 7:41 p.m., officers...
A Green River couple welcomed the first newborn of 2022 early New Year's Day. Brooke Dimick and Skylar Marse welcomed their child Chad Michael Marse at 2:12 a.m., making Chad the first baby born at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County for the year. He measured 19.5 inches and weighed 8 pounds, 5.3 ounces. He is the family's third child, joining siblings Carter, 6, and Greyson, 3. The Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County Auxiliary welcomed the New Year Baby by donating a basket to the...
Debora Soulé, the director of the Community Fine Arts Center in Rock Springs, doesn’t like being the center of attention, but she does love bringing recognition to the importance of the arts and the strong arts community in Sweetwater County. So when it was announced she will be one of the recipients of the 2021 Governor’s Arts Awards, she just saw it as another opportunity to highlight the local arts. “I feel like what I do is my job, and I shy away from being in the limelight,” Soulé sa...
The Actors’ Mission has recently received donations from the Rocky Mountain Power Foundation and the Thomas and Mary Kourbelas Trust, which will support the organization’s plans to build a blackbox theater in downtown Rock Springs. As work on renovating the Actors’ Mission building and constructing the theatre continues, these funds are being used for a project that adds stronger beams to the flooring in order to provide the needed support for the seating and stage on the main floor. “Fundraising had to slow down and building materials have go...
Stefon and Taylor Carroll of Green River are announcing the birth of their son Zachary John Carroll. Zachary was born Dec. 11 at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County. Damond Fornengo and Heather Swensen of Rock Springs are announcing the birth of their son Wylder Hayes Fornengo. Wylder was born Dec. 17 at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County. Mollie Wohletz and Christopher Wohletz Jr. of Rock Springs are announcing the birth of their daughter Aria-Jo Diane Wohletz. Aria-Jo was born Dec. 22 at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County. Baylee a...
Dallas Morgan, 26, passed away Sunday, January 2, 2022 at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County in Rock Springs, Wyoming. He was a resident of Green River, Wyoming and former long-time resident of Salt Lake City, Utah. He was born August 13, 1995 in Rock Springs, Wyoming; the son of Donald O. Morgan and Tara Ortega. Dallas attended schools in Utah and obtained his GED. He worked for Maes Construction as a laborer. Dallas loved to fish, snowboarding; motocross and his two dogs Gooby and CiCi;...
Catherine Zwiener Pawleska passed away at her home in Green River on Saturday, December 25, 2021 at the age of 91. Catherine was born on February 10, 1930 and grew up in Spaulding, Nebraska, one of five daughters born to John and Maratha Zwiener. She met and married Herbert Paul Pawleska of North Loup, Nebraska They moved to Green River, WY where Herbert was employed at FMC. They lived in Jamestown where they had a huge garden before moving to town in the 70's. They had five children and attende...
Kelly Ann Porenta, 62, passed away with her husband and sister Carmen by her side Tuesday December 21, 2021 at the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. She died following a courageous battle with COVID. Kelly was a resident of Rock Springs, Wyoming for 55 years and resident of North Dakota. Kelly was born February 22, 1959 in Elgin, North Dakota the daughter of Anselm Schlosser and Kathleen Ann Boehm. Kelly spent her early childhood years on farms near Mott, North Dakota before...
Larry Wayne Shaw, 71, passed away Sunday, December 5, 2021 peacefully in his sleep at his home in Rock Springs, Wyoming. Mr. Shaw was a resident of Rock Springs, Wyoming since 1961 and former resident of Illinois and Arizona. He was born May 30, 1950 in Rosiclare, Illinois; the son of Vernon Shaw and Ruth Jolene Moore. Mr. Shaw attended schools in Rock Springs, Wyoming and was a 1968 graduate of Rock Springs High School. He married Deborah Ann Morgan April 12, 1971 in Rock Springs, Wyoming. Mr....
