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It was something she had always wanted to do. She knew it would be difficult, but also knew if she didn't try, it might be something she would always regret. Shelly Steadman, a former Green River resident, recently conquered hiking to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, which is 19,341 feet. "The thought of climbing Kilimanjaro was a bit intimidating, but I wanted to not just see the mountain from afar but be a part of it," Steadman said. "I always figured 'one day,' but finally decided one...
Lincoln Middle School recently released its third quarter honor roll. Students making the sixth-grade honor roll are Enna Adams, Lillian Allison, Abigail Allred, Cirica Arthur, Renea Barnes, Morgan Benson, Julie Bowen, Logan Boyer, Katherine Bronstein, Allona Brown, Isabella Burgess, Owen Calzada, Zoe Castillon, Silas Chetterbock, Aubrie Clark, Haley Clevenger, Jordan Cudney, Marina Amor de la Riva, Addison Demaret, Reese Eastman, Hunter Flores, Taycie Fox, Cherelle Ginestar, Grace Gomez and Logan Gray. Also making the list are Lily Harris,...
A red carpet welcome awaited anyone walking into Green River High School Monday evening. The high school's theater department hosted a special advance performance of "Bright Star" which will have its public premiere Thursday. This show was specially geared to residents in the county with mental disabilities. Green River High School theater director Bradlee Skinner said his students realized people with those disabilities often did not come to the theater productions. "They were a group not repre...
Spring weather caused cancellation of the Big Piney Invitational track meet last Friday but the Wolves, along with Rock Springs, Lyman and Cokeville, traveled to West Jordan, Utah, Saturday to compete with 15 Utah teams. Those competitors for the Wolves finishing in the top eight in their events and scoring team points for Green River included senior Erika Wilson taking first place in the long jump with a leap of 5-3. Senior Kim Peterson placed fifth in the discus with a throw of 96-9 and sophomore Liberty Ferrell placed eighth in the...
While most were out enjoying the nice weather this weekend, employees and volunteers at the Mission at Castle Rock Rehabilitation Center were busy baking goodies for its sale. On Monday, tables were filled with homemade goodies. From cookies and cakes to breads and popcorn balls. There was just about something for everyone, even for those with the slightest sweet tooth. Heidi Schuh, CRRC activities director and volunteer coordinator, said because Easter is so late this year, the center felt the...
Given the context of our relatively short lives on this beautiful world we live on, it’s hard to think of a lot occurring within our lifetimes as being truly historic. It has been said that each generation has a defining historical event occurring during their prime developmental years. Think about the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the assassination of John F. Kennedy or the entirety of the Vietnam War. For people my age, that event will most likely be the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the World...
Several years ago, in what was widely hailed as a tremendous achievement, most of the Wyoming Range was protected from oil and gas drilling. Dozens of oil and gas leases, issued during the 1990s and 2000s, were purchased and retired, and Congress passed legislation withdrawing the area from further leasing. It was a success story, achieved only through years of dogged activism from sportsmen, conservationists, and local officials, along with willing leadership from Wyoming’s congressional delegation. But the Wyoming Range is as much a c...
Recently Peggy, an Indiana woman and reader of this column, sent me a lengthy email about her 94-year-old mother who is rapidly spending down her minimal savings to pay for prescription drugs. Peggy didn’t hold out much hope that prices would come down before it was too late for her mom. But she succeeded in lowering her mom’s drug costs and what she learned along the way can be helpful to others strapped by high pharmaceutical bills. Her mother is typical of many women in old age who have only a tiny financial cushion to absorb the con...
Jack A. Podbevsek, 69, passed away on Friday, March 8, 2019, in Phoenix. He was born Sept. 5, 1949, in Rock Springs to Jack G. and Arlene Podbevsek. Jack graduated from Rock Springs High School in 1967. He attended the University of Wyoming, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in social services. After school, Jack was drafted into the military and was stationed at Fort Riley in Kansas during the Vietnam War. He then moved to Cheyenne and worked in social services. After returning to Rock...
Margaret Rae Gregory, 74, died peacefully at Sage View Care Center in Rock Springs March 28, 2019. Born July 17, 1944, in Marshalltown, Iowa, to Charles and Dorothy Reimer (Ceaser), she attended Knoxville High School in Knoxville, Iowa, followed by study at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa. Later she moved to Colorado Springs, Colo., where she met David L. Gregory. They married Nov. 25, 1967. She moved with David and their two sons to Green River in 1977 and lived there until 2012,...
On March 8, 2019, Simon Allan Furlong died from a rare condition called AVM, Arteriovenous Malformation. During his 30 years of life, Simon was a poet, a writer, an artist, a musician, a gourmet vegetarian cook, a nature lover, a snowboarder, a hiker, a historian, a Buddhist, a humanitarian, and a devotee of all things intelligent and kind. He loved to travel and had many great adventures with his family and friends, including an epic adventure to Paris, France, with one of his best friends...
Charles E. Newman, 75, passed away March 27, 2019, at his home in Rock Springs. He was a resident of Rock Springs for the past 38 years and is a former resident of Butte, Mont. Newman was born Jan. 6, 1944, in Butte, Mont., the son of Alver Newman and Gene Newman. He attended schools in Butte, Mont., and was a 1962 graduate of the Butte High School. Newman married Margaret J. Hall on July 7, 1971, in Butte, Mont. He worked as a truck driver for Bridger Coal for 23 years until his retirement in...
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...
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...
The county’s local lodging tax is set to increase this month, up to 4 percent as a result of voter approval during the 2018 election. Jenissa Meredith, executive director of the Sweetwater County Joint Travel and Tourism Board, said the board won’t see its check from the increased lodging tax until this summer. The lodging tax is charged only at hotels within Sweetwater County and according to Meredith, is primarily used to market the county as a travel destination to outside markets. “Tourism i...
The Sweetwater County Fire Department was given the go ahead to start adding staff to its department. During the Sweetwater County Commissioners meeting Tuesday morning, the Commissioners voted unanimously to approve a request from Sweetwater County Fire Warden Mike Bournazian for an additional seven firefighting personal, which would cost about $239,000. Bournazian requested one additional full-time firefighter/engine boss, two nine-month seasonal firefighters, three sixth-month seasonal firefi...
(Publisher’s note: the following article is a teaser for the Star’s annual Historical Edition, which is found in this week’s newspaper.) The earliest Green River Star available to anyone is dated Nov. 17, 1905. The archives at the Star’s building only go back to 1940, due to a fire destroying the newspaper’s earliest archive books, but the newspaper can be found online on the Wyoming State Library’s newspaper project, newspapers.wyo.gov. Listed as Vol. XVI - No.14, the newspaper is faded in so...
Green River theater students will once again be the first in the state to perform a new musical this week. According to Green River High School theater director Bradlee Skinner the students will perform "Bright Star," which is a musical written by Steven Martin and Edie Brickell. It is set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina in 1945-46 with flashbacks to 1923. The musical is scheduled to take place at 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday. "This particular production deals with...
