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The city plans to eliminate use of the gas chamber in the Green River Animal Control Shelter, but is still working out details in order to make the transition complete. The option of eliminating the gas chamber has been discussed among the city council in the past, but no specific action had been taken. A group of protestors stood outside City Hall Jan. 4 to urge the council members to take the gas chamber out of animal control. Addressing this topic was not on the agenda, but at the end of the...
Sweetwater BOCES is excited to announce it will host the annual Wyoming State Spelling Bee on March 19, located on the Western Wyoming Community College campus. This event has been held virtually the last two years due to COVID19. Each year, 70-80 students from across the state participate in the competition. To be eligible to compete, the speller must not have reached their 15th birthday on or before August 31, 2021 and the speller must not have passed beyond the eighth grade on or before... Full story
While many of the teams competing at the 2022 National High School Cheerleading Championship may not have known where Wyoming is, they're going to remember Green River. The Green River High School Wolves Cheerleading team headed to Orlando, Florida last week to take part in the national competition after their recent first place win at the Wyoming state competition. They returned from nationals this week taking fifth in the nation in the Medium Varsity Coed (MVC) Game Day competition. "It was...
Preston T. Hehr, 49, of Omaha, passed away Feb. 9, 2022. Preston grew up in Green River, graduating from Green River High School in 1990. He was preceded in death by mother and step father Annette and Donald Haney, and mother-in-law Karen Cummins. Survived by wife Lara of Omaha, children Lochlan, Kyra, Koen, and Ryker, father Kerry (Susan) Hehr of Green River, WY, sister Chandra (Brian) Westerfield of Charlottsville, VA. Celebration of Life service 11 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home in...
Brandi Lee Finch, 28, passed away Friday, February 11, 2022 at her home in Reno, Nevada surrounded by her family after a seven-year battle with cancer. She was a resident of Reno for the last three years and former resident of Rock Springs, Wyoming. She was born January 12, 1994 in Rock Springs; the daughter of Robert Finch and Holly Tracy. Brandi attended schools in Rock Springs and was a 2012 graduate of Rock Springs High School. She also earned an Associates of Science Degree from Western...
Leonard J. Carlson, 59, passed away Friday, February 4, 2022 at his home in Rock Springs, Wyoming. He was a resident of Rock Springs for 13 years and former resident of Washington. He was born February 6, 1962, in Puyallup, Washington, the son of Leonard S. Carlson and Corinne Mello. Leonard attended schools in Tacoma, Washington, graduating from Stadium High School in 1980. Mr. Carlson married Jennifer Golden on November 14, 2021 in Rock Springs, Wyoming. Leonard served in the United States...
Recent movement by the Sweetwater County Commissioners in hiring a consulting firm to help with the upcoming specific purpose sales tax push shows lessons were learned from the 2021 general purpose sales tax ballot’s defeat. We’re not sure hiring a consultant itself is the best use of county money in regards to educating residents about the upcoming special purpose tax initiative, but giving people more opportunity to have their voice heard in these important discussions is something we will always be in favor of. The fact remains that add...
Green River Police Department reports for Feb. 8 At 1:28 p.m., officers responded to a report of two individuals fighting in the street on East 4th South Street. Officers made contact with the individuals involved in a verbal dispute, took statements, and completed a report of the incident. At 3:13 p.m., officers responded to a two-vehicle collision. It was reported two vehicles were traveling north on Uinta Drive navigating the curve in the roadway approaching the overpass. The first vehicle was traveling in the right hand lane after entering...
When spring semester classes started at Western Wyoming Community College in January, a woman eager to become a registered nurse after being out of school for nearly 20 years joined the students attending classes in Rock Springs. Rock Springs resident Stephanie Abram said she has always been interested in health care and initially received her CNA prior to graduating from Rock Springs High School in 2002. That certification allowed her to move out of her parents' house a week after graduation, a...
When competing in the Mrs. America pageant in Las Vegas, Green River’s Mrs. Wyoming American Bree McMullen was inspired following a dinner with Michael DeLeon, who speaks to schools and students about drug prevention, which was presented through the Victoria’s Voice foundation. The foundation, founded by David and Jackie Siegel, was named after their daughter Victoria, who had died at age 18 of a drug overdose. The couple published Victoria’s diary to help give parents insight into how addic...
The Sweetwater County Library System received two Wyoming Humanities grants that will assist in operating the Community Fine Arts Center in Rock Springs and children’s programming at the Rock Springs Library on C Street. Wyoming Humanities awarded more than half a million in grants to organizations throughout Wyoming since fall 2021, with $408,940 awarded in the most recent award cycle. In Sweetwater County, the library system was the only recipient of Wyoming Humanities grants in the latest c...
A sleepy Southern town will find its home in Sweetwater County when the Actors’ Mission puts on their upcoming production of the play “Second Samuel.” In order to bring the story and characters to life, the Actors’ Mission is hosting auditions to cast the 11 roles featured in the play. “Second Samuel,” written by Pamela Parker, tells the story of a town in South Georgia in the 1940s which is turned upside down after Miss Gertrude dies and dark secrets in the town are revealed. “This show gives us an opportunity to cast a wide range of ages...
Ethan Munk and Madisen Marble of Green River are announcing the birth of their daughter Charleigh Jade Munk. Charleigh was born Feb. 1 at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County. Marcus and Hannah Lyngar of Rock Springs are announcing the birth of their daughter Emma Grace Lyngar. Emma was born Feb. 2 at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County. Devin and Olivia Coon of Green River are announcing the birth of their son Deegan James Coon. Deegan was born Feb. 3 at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County. John Parker and Isabel Jantz of Rock Springs...
The Green River High School girls basketball team had one big win and one close loss last week, leaving them 4-3 in conference and 10-7 for the season. With the support of an enthusiastic home crowd, the Lady Wolves took on Riverton at home last Friday night and came away with a 65-26 win. "Sometimes you get into that flow where everything's going well and it makes everything easier," Coach Rick Carroll said, describing the win. The team members moved the ball well and stayed relaxed which...
The season is beginning to close for Green River High School’s grapplers. With Friday’s trip to Lander for the 3A Regional Wresting Tournament, the wrestling team will only have next week’s State tournament in Casper. The regional event itself represents a hurdle for the Wolves to overcome as qualification at the event is the only way to punch a ticket for next week’s tournament. When head coach Josh Wisniewski looks at his boys, he sees a scrappy team ready to take on the rest of the state....
Green River Last Chance Meet (Feb. 10) 200 Yard Medley Relay 2. GRHS A, 1:58.15 4. GRHS B, 2:25.26 200 Yard Freestyle 4. Aiden Zimmerman, 2:08.05 8. Riley Majhanovich, 2:14.24 9. Logan Wadsworth, 2:15.23 13. Logan Gray, 2:25.72 200 Yard IM 1. Brady Young, 2:11.67 6. Cole Gilmore, 2:29.83 8. Trace Erdmann, 2:34.44 50 Yard Freestyle 2. Young, 24.34 5. Zeke Reading, 24.91 12. Colin Gilmore, 27.28 15. Andrew Neher, 27.70 28. Joe Renfro, 39.37 1 Meter Diving 1. Braxton Cordova, 290.30 2. Kyle Kight, 250.20 3. River Kirts, 217.10 4. Keegan Gailey,...
Positions within Sweetwater County government are being restaffed, with some positions being eliminated or changed, following staff members leaving as part of the county’s voluntary separation program. Positions in the Accounting Department, Titles Department and the County Assessor’s Office were approved to be restaffed during Tuesday’s County Commission meeting, all of which were connected to changes resulting from the voluntary separation program. The program is for people who want to retir...
On Wednesday afternoons after school, music fills the Lincoln Middle School cafeteria as students gather to start practicing their dance routines. The LMS dance club is in its third year, led by Christine Peterson, who is a coach for Green River High School's Wolf Pack Dance Team. "It's just an opportunity for the middle school dancers or girls to experience dance and kind of get a feel for what it might be like to be on the spirit team," Peterson explained. The program is structured as a club,...
