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On Friday afternoon, students at Monroe Elementary School were recognized for various accomplishments by their teachers. During an assembly, students at the school were asked to stand and then come forward in front of their family and friends to receive a small token of appreciation. One third grade class at the school was given applause for being the class to raise the most Box Tops. Box Tops for Education is a program that encourages students, parents and their families to collect Box Tops....
Nineteen teams were vying for the No. 1 spot, but Green River walked away with the honor. The Green River High School Speech and Debate Team traveled to Casper this weekend to compete in the Kelly Walsh Invite and came home with first place. They were followed by Natrona County in second place and Cheyenne East in third. From now on, only varsity team members will be competing, head coach Carina White said. This weekend the 41 varsity members competed against more than 300 students from across...
The boys swimming and diving team continues to place in the top three at the meets it has been attending. The Green River High School swim team recently traveled to Cheyenne to swim at both Cheyenne Central and Cheyenne East school pools. They took first place in the Cheyenne Central meet where they competed against two other teams and they took third at the Cheyenne East meet where they competed against 10 teams. In a previous interview, head coach Colleen Seiloff said the team is getting tired...
In a dominating fashion, the Lady Wolves came home with a win against Worland. Last Thursday, the Green River Lady Wolves basketball team traveled to Worland earning a commanding 64-39 win. The first quarter started off slow for the Lady Wolves, but then they started to work hard and were more focused on their defense,” head coach Rick Carroll said. “We increased the intensity and that increased the turnovers we created for Worland,” Carroll said. “We also got very serious on the glass and lim...
A trip to Vernal, Utah, resulted in Green River High School’s grapplers earning a third-place finish at the Tournament of Champions over the weekend. Green River earned 183 points during the tournament, finishing behind Juab High School of Nephi, Utah’s 196 and the Vernal-based Uintah High School’s winning 248 points. A few wolves were able to shine individually during the weekend. Clayson Mele earned a first-place finish at 106 lbs., defeating a wrestler from Uintah by decision. Kade Flores took third at 120 lbs, winning the third-place match...
It’s that time of the year where a lot of Green River’s residents think about warmer climates and avoid any mention of the four-letter word referring to cold, fluffy white stuff. While it goes without saying that the county’s motorists should exercise caution while driving on the ice and snow covered roads, we think it’s equally important for everyone to spare a thought for the people responsible for maintaining clear roads when the snow starts to fall. Plow drivers can have it rough. The Wyoming Department of Transportation maintains Interst...
A lot of blood, sweat and years went into the fight to remove state sales taxes from groceries in Wyoming. It finally happened in 2006. Former State Rep. Ann Robinson (D-Casper) spent eight years bringing bill after bill to the Wyoming House before finally seeing the food tax exemption pass as a state budget amendment. This session, though, the exemption faces its first serious threat in 13 years, and she’s not happy about it. “It’s a bad idea,” she said, correctly in my view. “It doesn’t speak well of the Legislature that they would even...
A suggested amendment to the city’s historic Green River Ordinance was suggested during the Green River City Council meeting Tuesday evening, resulting in Mayor Pete Rust calling for a workshop meeting to discuss the potential change. Green River resident Rachelle Morris approached the Council to speak about the city creating a list of residences that do not want to be solicited to. Morris said she recently had a suspicious person visit her house while no one was home. Seeing the person on her d...
For at least the past five years, Sweetwater County has participated in a nationwide homeless population count to determine just how many homeless people are in the county. The annual Point in Time Count will take place from sundown Jan. 22 to sundown Jan. 23 to gather this information. The national PIT county is an unduplicated count on a single night of the people in a community who are experiencing homelessness. This includes both sheltered and unsheltered populations. Kathy Tacke, member of...
While the Green River URA/Main Street organization continues to finalize its plans for the new year, there is one event it hopes will continue public support for a downtown property. Jennie Melvin, administrator for the organization, said it plans to host a dinner at the Union Pacific Depot building in May. Melvin said she hopes the dinner will help convince residents and potential businesses the building would be a viable location for commercial development. “The whole point is to showcase t...
A power outage shut down Green River High School Friday and students were released early. Around 7:40 a.m., shortly after school started, the power went out. GRHS principal Darren Howard said the main breaker at the high school went bad. He said the main breaker was the original breaker put in when the high school was built in 1997. The back up generators kicked in, but the generators only run the lights, not heat. "I've got to compliment our maintenance crew," Howard said. They were at the...
William Allen Steubing died Dec. 14, 2018, at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County at the age of 56. Cremation has taken place. He was born Oct. 24, 1962, in Pasadena, Texas, the son of William Allen and Marsha (Slater) Steubing. He moved with his family to Rock Springs at an early age, growing up with a love of adventure and horses, as well as a bit of mischief. He moved to Northglenn, Colo., graduating Northglenn High School in 1980. On June 2, 1991, he married Laura Sue Carlson in Arvada, C...
James O'Dea Williams, 77, passed away Jan. 6, 2019, at his home. He was a longtime resident of Rock Springs and former resident of Green River. Williams died following a lengthy illness. He was born Nov. 19, 1941, in Rock Springs, the son of Marion Etta Williams and Gloria May Bell DeChemin. Williams attended schools in Rock Springs and received his GED. He graduated from the police academy in Douglas. He was employed by Union Pacific Railroad Company as a yard man for 18 years. He held various...
