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The filing period for candidates seeking public office is open, resulting in several Republicans seeking one of two positions on the Sweetwater County Board of County Commissioners. According to information from the Sweetwater County Clerk’s Office, three Republicans have filed to seek election to the board of county commissioners. Commissioner Lauren Schoenfeld, along with Mary Thoman and Mark Peterson have registered as of Tuesday morning. Schoenfeld and Thoman both sought to fill Commissioner...
People driving along Flaming Gorge Way Monday morning would have seen the line. Several people waited outside the Sweetwater County Courthouse’s south entrance on the first day the courthouse would open after an extended closure resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Once inside, temporary employees met with visitors to find out what they needed to do and placed them into different lines associated with different county functions. According to Garry McLean, the county’s human resources dir...
As more summer events throughout southwest Wyoming get cancelled due to concerns of spreading COVID-19, Green River Main Street still plans to host its popular Farmer’s Market in July. At least, that’s the plan right now. Jennie Melvin, Green River Main Street/URA administrator, said the organization isn’t sure what the recommendations from the state will be in July. As such, Main Street is moving ahead with the market, though only in a tepid fashion. Normally, Melvin would have had the vendo...
Recent social media posts suggesting residents would need to have their absentee ballots notarized to mail them to the Sweetwater County Clerk’s Office are untrue, according to Sweetwater County Clerk Cindy Lane. Should a resident want to vote using an absentee ballot, they only need to send the completed ballot to the county courthouse, where it will be tabulated with other ballots. The initial confusion resulted from a February Green River Star article that erroneously reported the ballots w...
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department recently received a $10,000 donation to support access for hunters and anglers through the Access Yes program. This donation comes from the Williams Foundation, through the WYldlife Fund. Access Yes is a program that facilitates the partnership between private landowners, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department and hunters and anglers to create free public hunting and fishing access on private land and inaccessible public land. These include walk-in fishing and hunting areas, hunter management areas and other...
Wyoming’s white sucker state record has been broken for the first time since 2011. The new record white sucker was caught in the Wind River on March 20. Riverton angler Patrick Edwards set the new record with a fish that weighed in at 5 pounds 6.45 ounces. Edwards’ fish was 22-inches long with a girth of 13.5 inches. Edwards was looking to get himself and his kids out of the house during their COVID-19 isolation and had been wanting to try pickling white sucker ever since hearing about it from Jim Zumbo on Patrick’s RadCast Outdoors podca...
Three Green River High School graduates recently received industrial arts scholarships named for Maicy Braden, a student who died in an automobile crash in 2016. This year, the $500 memorial scholarships were awarded to Kaycee Olsen, Alaina Maiers and Elizabeth Froats. Froats plans to attend the University of Wyoming, intending to pursue a career in either veterinary science or in healthcare. Alaina Maiers will attend WYO Tech in Laramie to study collision repair and refinishing, seeking to...
A manuscript by Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County’s Dr. Banu Symington will be published Thursday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. The manuscript, “When Less IS More or Acknowledging the Value of Tincture of Time,” will be published online May 14, at https://ascopubs.org/journal/jco. The print version will be published this summer. “The Journal of Clinical Oncology is the most prestigious journal for cancer specialists,” said Symington, a hematologist/oncologist and medical director at Sweetwater Regional Cancer Center. “Publicat...
Western Wyoming Community College has received approval from local and state health officials for its first variance to allow students to complete their spring labs and hands-on curriculum in-person. Additionally, the College’s Commencement Ceremony will be virtual and interactive on June 27. Starting Monday, students will have new safety protocols with guidelines for being on the Rock Springs campus. Western’s campus is still closed to the public until at least July 6. There have been limited exceptions granted for students who need to liv...
For many, many years, a stuffed beaver has graced the gallery of the Sweetwater County Historical Museum in Green River, greeting all visitors, especially children. But he (or she) has no name, and the museum is calling on the children of Sweetwater County to remedy that with a naming contest. Contestants are invited to submit their name suggestions to the museum at sweetwatercountymuseum@outlook.com, along with their own name, age, and where they go to school. Entries will be limited to one...
The Department of Workforce Services is contracting with 30 additional call center agents in order to reduce the hold times and process the unprecedented number of Unemployment Insurance claims the agency has been receiving. The phone number to reach the new call center is 888-674-7699. Claimants may call the toll-free number to file a claim or ask questions about unemployment insurance. "With the contract with TTEC, we are nearly doubling the staff available for answering calls to the Unemployment Insurance division," DWS Workforce Programs...
Like Flaming Gorge Days and the non FFA and 4-H portions of the Sweetwater County Fair, the annual International Day celebration in Rock Springs was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The International Day Committee announced the postponement last week on the event’s website and through social media channels. The event has been rescheduled to take place July 10, 2021. “We want to host the kind of celebration we can be proud of, but at the same time, we understand the current concerns about community health,” Philip Parnell, the c...
The Sweetwater County Library System will begin offering curbside services at its three main branches starting Wednesday, May 20. In order to pick up materials through this service, library patrons will be asked to place holds on their library cards through the library’s online catalog. The catalog can be accessed at www.sweetwaterlibraries.com and clicking “search the catalog” in the upper right corner of the page. Log in to your account by clicking “Log In” at the top of the page and inputting your library card number and PIN. If you have...
Lucille F. Pezely Saunders, 97, of Casper, Wyoming passed away on Tuesday, May 5, 2020 at the Kloefkorn Hospice Home surrounded by her family. She was a resident of Casper for the past 60 years and former resident of Rock Springs, Wyoming. Mrs. Saunders was born on December 13, 1922 in Winton, Wyoming, the daughter of Robert Pezely and Maria Mikez Pezely. She attended schools in Rock Springs, Wyoming. Mrs. Saunders was employed by True Oil as a custodian for thirty years and retired in 1990....
Sibyl Love, 78, passed away Thursday, May 7, 2020 at her home in Rock Springs, Wyoming. She was a life-longtime resident of Rock Springs. Ms. Love was born on January 6, 1942 in Rock Springs, Wyoming; the daughter of Louis Boschetto and Rose Rio. She attended schools in Rock Springs and was a 1960 graduate of Rock Springs High School. Ms. Love was employed by Sweetwater County School District #1 for many years as a bookkeeper and working in food service. She was a member of Holy Spirit Catholic...
Michael Held, 64, of Green River, Wyoming passed away on Wednesday, May 13, 2020. He was a resident of Green River for 26 years and former resident of Kremmling, Colorado and Greeley, Colorado. Mr. Held was born on March 30, 1956 in Greeley, Colorado, the son of Reuben Richard Held and Pearl Ailene Jurgens Held. He attended schools in Greeley, Colorado and was a 1974 graduate of Greeley West High School. Mr. Held married Sherry Mickens on December 24, 1983 in Greeley, Colorado. He was employed...
Cindy Hamblin, 59, passed away on Sunday, May 10, 2020 at her home in Manila, Utah following a courageous six - month battle with cancer. She was a longtime resident of Manila, Utah and Green River, Wyoming for many years. She was born on August 20, 1960 in Omaha, Nebraska, the daughter of Clarence "Sorny" Sorensen and Ruth Zimmerman Sorensen. Cindy attended schools in Rock Springs and was a 1978 graduate of the Rock Springs High School. She married Jerry Hamblin in Rock Springs on November 8,...
Nancy Vase, 76, passed away Friday, May 8, 2020 at her home in Rock Springs, Wyoming. She was a resident of Rock Springs for 50 years and a former resident of Grand Island, Nebraska and Santa Monica, California. Ms. Vase was born on October 30, 1943 in Grand Island, Nebraska; the daughter of Joe and Irma (Nelson) Peterson. She attended schools in Grand Island, Nebraska and was a 1961 graduate of Grand Island Senior High School. Nancy also attended Midland Lutheran College, Fremont, Nebraska...
Dallas "Jerry" Sinclair, 81, of Jamestown, Wyoming passed away on Friday, May 8, 2020 at the University of Utah. A resident of Green River, Wyoming for the past four years and former resident of Wichita, Kansas, he died following a lengthy illness. Mr. Sinclair was born August 21, 1938 in Ponca City, Oklahoma, the son of Charles Sinclair and Valera Talley. He attended schools Ponca City, Oklahoma and later obtained his General Education Degree in the United States Air Force. Mr. Sinclair was a...
Patrick Dougherty, 53, of Rock Springs, Wyoming passed away on Friday, May 8, 2020 at his home. He was a longtime resident of Rock Springs and former resident of Vernal, Utah. Patrick was born on January 13, 1967 in Sacramento, California, the son of Edmond and Valerie Dougherty. He attended schools in California. Patrick married Diane Dougherty on October 13, 2011. He was employed as a casing operator for many years. Survivors include his wife Diane M. Dougherty of Rock Springs, Wyoming and...
Wyoming is at a point where it needs more investment into its ageing infrastructure and the pandemic is the perfect excuse to do so, as long as the state’s legislature finally decides to open up spending some of its reserves. The pandemic has resulted a large number of people being laid off from their jobs. The oil and gas industry has been particularly impacted, though travel and tourism efforts across the state will likely see diminished returns as well. Less revenue means less work. However, if the state poured heavy investments into its h...
When people look back at the COVID-19 pandemic in the future, one of the takeaways will likely be that the incident resulted in people using the time at home to brush up on their cooking skills. The fact that a lot of people started experimenting with recipes and techniques they were interested in, yet didn’t think they had the time for, is undisputed at this point. People sharing the sourdough starters they concocted over social media has become almost a joke in itself because of how common t...
There are about 150,000 respiratory therapists in the United States, according to the American Association of Respiratory Care. If they're anything like those who are part of the 11-person team at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County, they are well-trained. They have to be; COVID-19 is primarily a respiratory-related illness that impacts a person's ability to breathe. Respiratory therapists nationwide are in the thick of the outbreak, managing ventilators and assisting with intubations, said...
