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The Green River High School Speech and Debate team traveled again this past weekend and came home with another first-place finish. “Overall the team did an excellent job. A lot of our first year students who have recently become varsity competitors are discovering how competitive varsity competition can be,” assistant coach Jason Grubb said. “They are learning lots and we know we will see some of them on stage before the end of the year,” he said. Eight schools and a total of 151 student...
The Red Desert Humane Society is hosting the “Pampurr” Yourself Purse and Jewelry Auction on Saturday, Jan. 27 at the Holiday Inn ballroom. This event will help to chase away the winter blahs. Residents will have the chance to bring home a new purse or piece jewelry With more than 200 purses, one should be able to find something. This event is also the perfect girls’ night out because it’s full of good food, fun, company and purses. Tickets for the event are available at both the Green River and Rock Springs chambers of commerce and the Red...
Truman Elementary School students were busy learning about symmetry and image reflection during art class this week. On Tuesday morning, second-grade students were learning how to look for symmetry. They then worked on the first half of their reflection drawings. Teacher Jaime Campos said most of the students were drawing their pictures about winter scenes, which is something they discussed because of the recent snow. She asked them to think about what items they can see their reflections in dur...
Lois Marie Beard, 82, passed away, Jan. 20, 2018, in Green River following a sudden illness. She was a resident of Green River for more than 54 years and was a former resident of Thermopolis and Sheridan. Beard was born June 27, 1937, in Sheridan, the daughter of Orville Marquess and Emma Mueller. She attended schools in Sheridan and was a graduate of the Sheridan High School. Beard also received a master's degree in education from Chadron State University. Beard married Jack C. Beard in 1961...
Funeral services for Doris H. Thorne, 86, will take place at 10 a.m., Jan. 27, 2018, at the Gorman Funeral Homes-Platte Chapel in Wheatland. Interment will be in the Wheatland Cemetery. Doris Thorne died Jan. 18, 2018, at the Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County in Rock Springs. Doris was born Sept. 21, 1931, in Briggsdale, Colo., the daughter of Lester W. and Alberta “Katie” (Irene) Clark. She was raised and educated in Colorado. She graduated from the Grover High School in 1948. She attended and graduated from beauty school in Che...
Jeffrey Miles McCurtain, 39, passed away Jan. 10, 2018, at his home. He was a lifelong resident of Rock Springs. McCurtain was born May 20, 1978, in Rock Springs, the son of James Riley McCurtain and Roberta Lynn Miles. He attended schools in Rock Springs and graduated from the Rock Springs High School with the class of 1997. He graduated with honors from Wyoming Automotive Tech. His interests included the demolition derby, being a mechanic, playing with his bulldogs and spending time at the...
The Green River High School Wolves wrestling teams competed at the Tiger Grizz Invitational in Idaho Falls, Idaho, last weekend, ending with the varsity squad taking fourth place and the JV wrestlers securing ninth. For head coach Josh Wisniewski, both the varsity and JV squads wrestled well. "I think we took a big step toward our season goals," he said. Wisniewski said the coaches are trying to instill championship habits in the team to help them accomplish their goals, one of which is to earn...
The Green River Lady Wolves girls basketball team played two away games this past week and came back with two losses in conference play. On Thursday, the Lady Wolves took on Evanston and at the end it turned into a real nail-biting game as the Lady Wolves and Lady Red Devils continued to change leads with a mere 2 minutes left in the game. “We just really fought hard. We gave ourselves an opportunity to win,” head coach Rick Carroll said. He said they had a really great fourth-quarter come back....
The Green River High School Indoor Track team started its 2018 season Friday at the Weber State High School Invitational. This was one of the largest meets in the region with as many as 140 competitors in an individual event, featuring performers from Utah, Idaho and Wyoming, including a large contingent from Star Valley, Evanston, Green River and Rock Springs. With many of the spring track season athletes competing in winter sports and the weather canceling the team bus only those competitors that could travel with their parents to the meet...
Two more swimmers qualified for state this weekend during the Lyman and Green River meets. The Green River High School swimming and diving team, added Miles Moffat to the state qualifying list in diving, while Logan Johnson qualified in the 100 breaststroke. So far, the team has 10 state qualifiers and they are hoping to add a few more before state. “They had some solid swims in Lyman,” head coach Colleen Seiloff said. During the Lyman meet, Seiloff had the boys compete in different events. She...
Starting Feb. 1, the Rock Springs-Sweetwater County will no longer be the name of the local airport. From that date on, it will be known as the Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport. Airport Manager Devon Brubaker spoke to the Sweetwater County Commissioners at its recent meeting about the name change. The Rock Springs-Sweetwater County Joint Powers Airport Board voted for the name change at its Jan. 10 meeting, to change the name to the Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport effective Feb. 1....
Editor's note: Due to the graphic nature of these particular cases and a need to protect the victim's identity, even the redacted court documents supporting the charges will not be published. Green River City Councilman Allan Wilson is accused of sexually abusing a minor, according to court documents from two counties. He was arrested last week for a charge stemming out of Lincoln County and one charge in Sweetwater County. A detention officer confirmed that Wilson was in the Sweetwater County D...
The Green River Chamber of Commerce has started its search for a new CEO. The chamber started publishing advertisements this week for the position, which was vacated after the chamber’s executive board released former CEO Irene Parsons prior to the chamber’s week-long break Dec. 20. Parsons was originally hired in August to replace Rebecca Eusek, who had been the chamber’s director for nearly five years. Eusek had accepted a position at the Wyoming Business Council....
James Anthony Kragovich, 77, of Rock Springs, died peacefully, after a hard fought battle with Alzheimer's Disease, surrounded by his family Jan. 22, 2018. Jim was born Oct. 23, 1940, in Rock Springs. He attended Catholic school and was a 1959 graduate of Rock Springs High School. He married the love of his life, Barbara Hofeldt, in March 1997 in Las Vegas. They enjoyed following the Wyoming Cowboys, spending time at the cabin with family and friends and visiting Dawn and her family in Montana....
Carol Dawn Crouch, 83, passed away Jan. 12, 2018, at her residence in Denver after a lengthy illness. Born July 18, 1934, in Lexington, Tenn., to Ray Otis Taylor and Jessie Mae Taylor. Carol was the oldest of seven children, four brothers and three sisters. She was raised by her grandmother, Ida Watson. To help her father provide for the family, she worked many jobs and graduated from Garden City Senior High School in 1952 and moved to Denver shortly after. While living in Denver, she fell in love and married Leonard Crouch from Green River....
