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A double-sided sheet of paper, with one side urging residents to fight Love’s Travel Stop’s ambition to build a truck stop west of Jamestown, while the other side features a copy of the county’s public comment form, was not sent by the county. Last week, some Green River residents received the sheet in their mail. Jim Zimmerman, the code enforcement officer for the county’s Land Use Department said the letter didn’t originate from the county, despite featuring a county public comment sheet. “W...
The Genesis Alkali trona mine west of Green River hosted a tour for U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., and Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta Tuesday. According to Enzi, he invites the secretaries he meets to visit Wyoming and when Enzi invited Acosta during his confirmation hearings, he took the senator up on the offer. The two spent two days in Wyoming, touring the North Antelope Rochelle Mine south of Gillette, the Wind River Job Corps Center near Riverton, as well as the trona mine. Acosta...
Determining what to do with all of the county’s facilities and one lot is something the Sweetwater County Commissioners would like to address in the future. During a recent Commissioners meeting, the Commissioners made a motion to approve spending $25,000 for the design and architecture of future buildings at the 7,200-square foot lot located at 36 Lagoon Road off of Highway 191 South. The lot currently has a small sand and salt building located on it. The Commissioners discussed the possibility...
Former Green River City Councilman Allan Wilson’s plea agreement was finalized during his sentencing hearing Thursday morning. Pleading guilty to sexual abuse of a minor in the second degree, Wilson’s other charges were dismissed and was placed on five years supervised probation. If he completes the probation term, the charge will be removed from his record. If not, Wilson faces a maximum penalty of up to 20 years in prison and a $20,000 fine. District Court Judge Nena James told Wilson not...
Two Rawlins residents were arrested last week in connection to burglaries in Wamsutter earlier this year. Antonio Pacheco, 26, and Nathan Gallant, 27, were arrested in Rawlins March 21 by the Rawlins Police Department. The department, along with other law enforcement agencies, served a search warrant on the residence the two occupied on the northeast side of Rawlins. The warrant came after the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office investigated a series burglaries involving two businesses and a private residence in Wamsutter reported in F...
Clark Eric Weber, 64, passed away Monday, March 25, 2019 at his home in Rock Springs, Wyoming. He was a lifelong resident of Rock Springs. Mr. Weber was born on July 1, 1954 in Rock Springs, Wyoming; the son of Roy Weber and Maybelle Erickson. He attended schools in Rock Springs and was a 1972 graduate of the Rock Springs High School. Mr. Weber worked at the Wool Warehouse as a General Manager for 10 years and was also a self-employed rancher. He enjoyed ranching, shooting, fishing, leather...
Herbert Lee Mount, 75, passed away peacefully March 14, 2019, at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, with his wife and daughter by his side. A resident of Green River since 2006, he lost a hard fought, two-year battle with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. He was born Dec. 29, 1943, in Selma, Ala., the son of Hurschel Mount and Ellen Brown Mount. He grew up in Montgomery, Ala., and Mobile, Ala. He earned a bachelor of science degree in business administration from the University of Alabama. He...
Mary K. Curtis, 89, of Green River, passed away March 24, 2019, at her home. She was a resident of Green River for the past 43 years and former resident of New York and Louisiana. She was born Jan. 22, 1930, in Oneida, N.Y., the daughter of Fred R. Kent and Leva Adams. Curtis attended school in Oneida, N.Y., and was a graduate of Oneida High School with the class of 1948. She received her bachelor degree from Syracuse University. She married Ray J. Curtis June 2, 1951, in Oneida, N.Y. Curtis was...
Darlene Marie Shepard, 92, passed away peacefully surrounded by her children March 24, 2019. She was born May 18, 1926, in Green River to Glen and Mabel Warby. Darlene was the first of five children born to the Warbys. She attended schools in Green River, where she lived most of her life. She married her sweetheart Cecil Shepard in Burns, Ore., Oct. 13, 1943. Their marriage was later sealed in The Latter-day Saint Salt Lake Temple in July of 1963. Together they raised seven children. She worked...
Dennis Lee Watts was born Oct. 6, 1951, to Ernistine and Oran Eugene Watts in Flint, Mich. After a long, hard fought battle with illness, Dennis passed away on March 17, 2019. Dennis was more than a man, he was a legend. Some called him Tiger and some called him Denny, and he simply referred to all of those cherished friends as Brotha'. As for his children, we called him Papa. He was our Papa Bear, sometimes a grizzly when we needed his protection but mostly he was a teddy bear, impossible not...
Jackie Wallace Sweets, 80, passed away March 18, 2019, at his home in Rock Springs. He was a life-long resident of Rock Springs. Jackie was born Feb. 17, 1939, in Clarinda, Iowa, the son of Robert Wallace Sweets and Edna Mae Burton. He attended schools in Rock Springs and was a 1958 graduate of the Rock Springs High School. Jackie married Barbara Williams Winfrey Oct. 23, 1965 in Casper. They were together for 54 years. He worked as a welder for FMC for 35 years until his retirement in 1999....
As our readers are likely happy to note, much of the snow that has accumulated in Green River during the past few months has mostly melted away. Local temperatures are warm enough during the day to enjoy a couple of hours outside without a winter coat, or even a light jacket. This had us thinking about springtime in Green River and how residents should celebrate the end of a cold winter. In Green River, there isn’t a public opportunity to celebrate the end of winter. Of course, springtime in Wyoming may bring the odd snowstorm as late as e...
I remember running into Allan Wilson at Smith’s a few years ago. He had been a member of the Green River City Council for a year or so at that point. He was on his way out and I was going in to grab a quick lunch. We exchanged pleasantries and he talked about how he planned to work on his cabin later that week. We shook hands and parted ways. He greeted me last week at the Sweetwater County Courthouse prior to his sentencing hearing. This time, the exchange was much different. He looked at me a...
The Green New Deal, plain and simple, is a pipe dream for forcing a massive expansion of socialist policies on the American people. Some might say this is an overdramatic statement, but this 14-page bill lays it out in black and white, written in plain English. There isn’t much ambiguity when you describe your legislation as “...a new national, social, industrial, and economic mobilization on a scale not seen since World War II and the New Deal era…” What does it mean in practical terms? It means eliminating abundant, affordable, and reliabl...
Ms. A. was in the bagel shop line and told the server she was allergic to peanuts. The server reassured her there were no peanuts in the bagel but was unaware some peanut butter was left on the knife from an earlier sandwich. After a few bites of the bagel, Ms. A.’s face and lips started swelling, she itched all over, slipped off her chair, vomited and fell flat losing consciousness. When the ambulance arrived the emergency team kept her flat, gave an intramuscular injection into her thigh muscle of epinephrine (also known as adrenalin), t...
Green River student Rachel Heisinger knew she was going to attend college, she just didn’t know where to go for sure. Her mind changed quickly when Casper College offered her a full-ride scholarship. All she has to do to earn that two-year scholarship is compete on their speech and debate team. “Since this will be my first year of college, I decided Casper would be a good fit for a few different reasons,” It’s relatively close to home, they have a wonderful criminal justice program, amazing...
As the weather starts getting warmer some residents may begin thinking about what needs to be done with their garden or yards. “High desert gardening can be a challenge and wanting a pond or water feature can be complicated,” Lyneen Murphy, Green River Pond and Garden Tour director, said. This year, the community will come together on Aug. 10 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.to celebrate a unique free event, which has drawn upwards of 300 people in the past. The tour is a one day event where gardeners from Green River and Rock Springs open their gar...
Employees of Tata Chemicals and United Steelworkers Local 15320 raised $65,446.41 for local community programs through the 2018 United Way of Southwest Wyoming workplace campaign. Tata Chemicals matched their donations dollar for dollar for a grand total donation of $130,892.82. Proceeds raised support education, health and basic needs programs in Southwest Wyoming. United Way works to ensure that children are kindergarten ready and succeed in school, have access to healthcare and are able to provide every day needs. In order to achieve its mis...
The Boys & Girls Club of Sweetwater County received a $1,000 donation from the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail Transportation Union. Representative Stan Blake was an intricate part of this donation to support the club. The SMART Union represents seven local entities in Wyoming and is made up of hard working men and women who work as engineers, conductors, switchmen and brakemen. Local No. 1857 represents individuals from both Rock Springs and Green River. Several union member families have children that attend the Boys &...
More than a dozen children were burning energy and getting to know each other while at the Kids in Motion program Thursday. Children from birth to five years old were running around playing on obstacle courses, shooting hoops, spinning in turtle shells or jumping on the trampolines while at this triweekly program. Jennifer Spangler, who has taken her son to the program twice, said the program is a fun way for kids to get their energy out when it's so cold outside. Plus, her child has the...
Heading into the second outdoor track meet of the season, the Green River Wolves fielded a much larger and more experienced track team than their first meet. Green River competed at the Natrona Invitational in Casper with 18 other Wyoming teams this past weekend. Girls results In the 100 meter dash, finishing in the top third of the field of 102 sprinters for the Lady Wolves were Mariyah Brady in 13th at 13.98, Erika Wilson in 18th at 14.21, Lillian Munoz in 19th at 14.25, Chatney Tirrell in...
The Lady Wolves return to the field this year with a large group of freshmen and several returning players from last year. Head girls soccer coach Tracy Wyant said the team attracted 14 freshmen and has five seniors. Wyant said some of the new players have club experience and the returning players have become team leaders. The senior players are Kylee Hosford, Michaelee Wisniewski, Jose Alatorre, Zoe Turner and Kelby Pope. “I’ve got a good core returning,” Wyant said. Wyant said the recent tourn...
While the boys soccer team traveled to Worland for competition, the Lady Wolves had the opportunity to stay home and compete in the annual Todd Malonek Southwest Invitational during the weekend. The tournament is named for Malonek, an assistant coach for the boys soccer team and booster for the high school’s soccer programs who died in 2016. The Lady Wolves had a strong start against Pinedale in the first round of the tournament, dominating the game with a 9-0 victory. “It was a good starting po...
Practices haven’t gone as well as head boys soccer coach Chris Bieber would have liked, but the Wolves coach sees the team making another appearance at State this year. With seven returning seniors and a large group of players, Bieber said the team has a lot of depth to its ranks. However, a few occurrences outside of anyone’s control have proved to be speed bumps for the team’s early season practices. Bieber said basketball players who join soccer at the end of the winter sports season were...
