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“It was just a matter of time,” Dr. Jean Stachon, the county’s health officer said about when variants of the novel coronavirus would appear in Sweetwater County. Currently, 12 of Wyoming’s 23 counties have variants circulating within their boundaries. Two variants, originally discovered in California, have appeared amongst the COVID-19 infections recorded in Sweetwater County. They have been circulating for a while too. Dr. Stachon said one of the variants was first detected in a sample...
Flaming Gorge Days is another year away, but a group of cornhole players are wanting to bring an event to Green River in June. Zac Page, representing 307 Cornhole, approached the Green River City Council Tuesday night, to discuss the possibility of hosting weekend tournament June 11-13. Page said plans are preliminary but anticipates the event could include other family events and musical performances. Page said the group hosted a tournament last year and attracted more than 100 competitors...
ROCK SPRINGS (Wyoming News Exchange) — A Minnesota man died March 31 in a head-on collision on Interstate 80 near Rock Springs. At 3:10 p.m. on March 31, the Wyoming Highway Patrol responded to a report of a vehicle collision at milepost 104 near the Elk Street exit of I-80. A 2018 Volvo commercial truck was headed west on I-80 when it crossed the median and entered the eastbound lanes, according to the WHP. It then collided head-on with a 2007 Peterbilt commercial truck. The collision created a large explosion causing both commercial trucks t...
A memorial service for Lyda Mae (Powers) Garland, 84, will be held 10:00 a.m., Friday, April 9, 2021 at Davis Funeral Home with Pastor Matt White of the Pavillion Community Methodist Church officiating. Memorials may be made to the Pavillion Community Methodist Church in care of Davis Funeral Home, 2203 West Main, Riverton, WY 82501. Lyda passed away on the holiest of days, Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021 at home, surrounded by her family. She was born on July 7, 1936 in Palma, Kentucky, daughter...
Dora B. Lopez, 101, left her home for the last time at midnight, Monday, April 5, 2021 with the clock playing " I Did It My Way." She was a long time resident of Rock Springs and a former resident of Superior, Wyoming; Oregon, and Texas. She was born January 16, 1920 in San Antonio, Texas; the daughter of John Gamez and Annie Houston Gamez. She was the middle of 7 children. Mrs. Lopez attended schools in Texas. She married Willie Lopez on November 13, 1934 in San Antonio, Texas. In 1942, at the...
Ronald Heuck Jr., 52, passed away on April 5, 2021 at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County in Rock Springs, Wyoming. He was a resident of Rock Springs, Wyoming for seven years and was a former resident of Kearney, Nebraska. He was born on June 11, 1968 in Scottsbluff, Nebraska; the son of Dan Carlson and Wilma Brothers. Ron attended schools in Nebraska and he was a 1986 graduate of the Sidney High School. He married Connie Harmon on June 14, 1986 in Sidney, Nebraska. Ron was a truck driver...
Jesse Jeremiah Gifford, 34, passed away Sunday, April 4, 2021 at his home in Rock Springs, Wyoming following a sudden illness. He was a resident of Sweetwater County for the last 3 years and a former resident of California. He was born on June 27, 1986 in Bakersfield, CA, the son of Jonn Joseph Gifford and Cynthia Lynn Billingsly. Jesse attended schools in Lodi, CA and graduated with the Tokay High School Class of 2004. He married Kayla Jeanne Barclay in Lodi, CA on April 17, 2016. He was a...
We’re not going to criticize the decision to postpone Flaming Gorge Days. While other organizations are busy planning for summer events, we understand the idea of not wanting to host Flaming Gorge Days because of the pandemic. We told our readers months ago about the possibility of events getting cancelled for a second year. This wasn’t unexpected. Yet, we think there should be something for Sweetwater County’s residents in Green River this coming June. With Zac Page’s visit to the Green River City Council Tuesday night, we think a cornhol...
Dear Editor, It’s election season in the Wyoming Republican Party and all across the state liberals, who for many years successfully exploited the Republican brand in order to get their left-wing cronies elected to public office, are in a collective temper tantrum over the successful grassroots effort which has made great strides in returning the Party of Reagan to its conservative moorings. Uinta County is not immune. A small group of people whom I will charitably call moderates under the leadership of Jon Conrad, Scott Dickerson and Jay A...
CHEYENNE — During the final days of the 2021 legislative session, Wyoming State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jillian Balow expressed both praise for an imminent K-12 school funding deal and concern for the long-term future of the state’s school funding model. “With the fall of coal and the political attack on domestic oil and gas production, our mineral revenue- dependent education system is seriously just several biennia away from collapse,” Balow said Friday afternoon. She was attending the first in-person monthly luncheon of the Gre...
GILLETTE — Fossil fuels have been targeted by environmental groups and political policy for years, and things could get worse as President Joe Biden’s administration works through its priorities. That’s why it’s important that lawmakers, the state of Wyoming and fossil fuel industries work together and push back. That was the message Republican U.S. Reps. Liz Cheney and Bruce Westerman, who represents Arkansas’ 4th Congressional District, had for representatives from the energy sector during a roundtable discussion at the Integrated Test Cent...
One of the most perplexing mysteries about Wyoming’s 2021 legislative session is how the House could kill a suicide prevention bill. Then, when lawmakers got a chance to reconsider the matter, they rejected a second measure, too. Trying to keep people from killing themselves shouldn’t be a controversial issue in Wyoming, which has the highest suicide rate in the country. But apparently it is, at least for lawmakers who decided against mandating school programs that train students how to recognize suicide warning signs from their peers and obt...
An ever-changing profession and the ability to make a difference in a patient’s life is what drives Jonathan Beattie as a pharmacist. As the new Pharmacy Director, Beattie has been overseeing Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County’s Pharmacy Department since November. He moved to Rock Springs from Casper, where he worked as Pharmacy Director for Community Health Centers of Central Wyoming. “I enjoy the challenge of pharmacy,” he said. “The profession is always changing and pushes me to continue to learn every day. It’s a profession that collab...
On the last day of March, during a still, chilly spring day, the Green River track team took the short trip west to Mountain View to join with the larger schools from Rock Springs, Evanston and Lander, as well as small schools Farson-Eden, Manila, Lyman, Big Piney, Cokeville and private school Franklin Central to compete with the hosting Mountain View team. In team scoring, the girls had 41 points to finish ninth while the boys scored 74.5 points to take sixth place. Top finisher for the boys on the day was a distance runner, sophomore Nathan...
