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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....
Fred Pickett, 65, of Rock Springs, died suddenly Jan. 21, 2019, at the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City. He was born on Feb. 26, 1953, in Riverton, to Thomas J. and Minnie Eleanor Pickett. He graduated in 1971 from Riverton High School and graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1977 with a degree in broadcasting. He began his professional career at KTNW in Thermopolis and then moved to Rock Springs to be a production manager at Sweetwater Cable TV. He freelanced in production...
Clem Skiles passed away Jan. 27, 2019. He was born to L.C. Skiles and Julia (Rodriguez) Skiles May 25, 1949. He was the first of four children. He began his life in Hiawatha, a small community known to the Mountain Fuelers. While in Hiawatha, he met his future classmates and friends that he would have throughout his life. After graduating high school in 1968, he went to Denver to attend drafting school. While in Denver he met and married Penny Rogers. After their marriage, he was drafted into...
The Carnegie Library building in Green River is the focus of a $12,000 grant to pay for a structural study on the building and we’re hoping it reveals a way to save the building. We agree with Brie Blasi, director of the Sweetwater County Historical Museum, when she calls the building one of the most historically important structures in Green River. The building is important to Green River as it’s one of two structures that established Green River as a viable, permanent town. It, along with the U.P. Depot gave people a reason to invest in the...
To be honest, I’ve never cared about winning awards for my work. I won’t argue that it doesn’t feel good to have our work recognized by our peers. It does. I also won’t argue against how good it feels to walk to a podium and accept those awards. However, I’ve always been of the opinion that while the awards and kudos that comes with them is nice to have, it does not and should not be the main reason for me to get out of bed and come to work. Ensuring people are accurately informed, working t...
HB140 (48-hour waiting period for abortion) is an unnecessary, discriminatory bill, and an example of government overreach. This bill requires that a woman wait at least 48 hours after receiving information about ultrasound before she is allowed to have an abortion, except when necessary to preserve the woman from an imminent peril that substantially endangers her life or health, according to appropriate medical judgment. HB140 is unnecessary. By the time a woman finds out she is pregnant; evaluates her options; talks to her doctor, family, fri...
Supporters, doubtlessly, you’re bringing your own personal religious bottom lines to bear on this intensely private matter, HB140, that, truthfully, is none of your beeswax! Why should we tolerate your push to inflict your positions on us? The ONLY legitimate reason to include any outsider in our deliberations might be if they commit to taking and raising the unborn as their own. You presume to better know or, more accurately, to simply ignore our physical, psychological, financial and social circumstances in pursuit of your own desired o...
The Green River Wolves are looking to bounce back following a narrow defeat in Star Vally over the weekend. The boys traveled to Star Valley Saturday, but lost to the Braves 68-65. The Wolves slip to 1-2 in conference play and 7-6 overall. Slow starts continue to plague the Wolves in their games, with the Wolves finding themselves down 21-13 at the end of the first quarter. Head coach Laurie Ivie believes the problem could cost the team future games if it continues. "We played a good second...
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...
This past week the Green River High School Indoor Track Team sent their best boys distance runner, Marcos Valerio, south to the regional Utah High School Track Coaches Association Meet in Kearns, Utah, while the rest of the team traveled to the Wyoming High School Open in Laramie to compete against the three Cheyenne teams, as well as Casper, Gillette, Douglas, Western Heritage, Rock Springs and Riverton. In Utah, Valerio ran well, taking 26th place in the 1,600-meter run in a time of 4:39.12 against a field of 361 runners. Marcos finished one...
Despite a strong showing by the Wolves grapplers in Riverton, the boys ended up with a second-place finish during the annual Ron Thon Memorial tournament. The Wolves ended the tournament with 181 points, placing higher than Thunder Basin High School, Star Valley, Powell and Rock Springs. Kelly Walsh took top honors at Ron Thon, scoring 217.5 points overall. Several wrestlers climbed their way through the brackets during the two-day tournament, ending as either champions or runners-up in their weight classes. Payton Tucker took first place in...
The Green River Wolves Boys and Girls Indoor Track Team competed in their second indoor track meet of the season at BYU, though their participation was cut short by winter weather and bad travel conditions on the way to Provo, Utah. The team missed the first day of competition Jan. 18, which included all the field events, including the throws and the jumping events. The next day, the weather improved and the team’s runners traveled and competed. In a field of 205 runners for the boys mile run, Green River was led by senior Marcos Valerio who f...
It's a building that has been a part of Green River for more than a century, providing education and later justice to the city's residents. However, now the Green River Carnegie Library building stands vacant and problems with the building have become more severe. The Green River City Council approved the acceptance of a $12,000 grant from the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office to fund a structural study of the building. The matching portion of the grant comes from $3,500 in cash...
Twin toddlers and an infant were among those rescued from a downed aircraft Monday night. According to the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office, the Sweetwater Combined Communications Center received a report of a downed plane at about 6:30 p.m., Monday evening. The pilot had been in contact with authorities at the Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport, reporting he had landed his Piper Archer fixed-wing, single-prop-engine aircraft into a snowy field near the airport after running low on fuel. The pilot was flying from Wayne, Neb., to his home i...
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...
A man was injured after being hit by a Wyoming Department of Transportation snow plow last week. According to Sgt. Jeremy Beck of the Wyoming Highway Patrol, a semi had gotten stuck on Wyoming 530, 9 miles south of Green River Monday morning. The truck was headed northbound and stuck in the southbound lane during a time when WYDOT had issued a no unnecessary travel restriction on the highway. The driver was outside his truck and placing chains on the tires with the help of another motorist who h...
The Sweetwater County Attorney’s Office recently completed an investigation into a violation of state campaign finance law in Rock Springs, stemming from a paid letter of support posted on the SweetwaterNOW website. According to a media release from the county attorney’s office, no charges were filed against the letter’s authors or employees at SweetwaterNOW. “I felt that it was clear that no one intended to violate campaign finance laws. Had the parties been aware of the specific law, or not been charged a fee, then a violation would not hav...
The number of building permits issued by the city’s community development department sharply decreased compared to 2017 and 2016 according to a report released from the department. The decrease brings the number in line with 2014 and 2015. According to Laura Leigh, director of community development for the city, the decrease is due to work repairing citywide damage from a hail storm in 2016 being completed. According to the report, 380 permits were issued throughout 2018, compared to 906 p...
Gloria Jean Kane May 9, 1951-Jan. 31, 2019 From her birth on May 9, 1951, to her death Kane filled her life and the lives of those around her with warmth, an invitation to her home was an invitation to her heart. In 1970, she married Joe Hellewell in Green River. They moved to Greeley, Colo., in 1973 and had two daughters before later divorcing. On Sept. 11, 1993, she married Dennis 'Zeke' Kane and they combined their families in Windsor. Gloria worked in finance for many years before her retire...
