Sorted by date Results 1 - 23 of 23
Castle Rock Hospital District will break ground on its new medical center building in July, according to CRHD CEO Bailie Dockter. The new building will be built in front of the current facility, with construction expected to conclude next summer. “We’re hoping to be open next summer,” she said. The staff and hospital district board started conversations about building a new center last year as they’ve had to deal with more building problems due to the current facility’s age and original...
A vacancy was officially declared on the Board of Sweetwater County Commission Tuesday. After the death of Republican Commissioner Don Van Matre, the Commissioners had to officially declare the vacancy to allow the Sweetwater County Republican party 20 days to present the Commissioners with three names. Deputy attorney John Deleon said now that the Commissioners have declared the vacancy, the Republican party will have 20 days to obtain a list of applicants and narrow that list down to three. Th...
The Green River City Council approved its preliminary budget Tuesday night for the 2019-2020 fiscal year. This budget can still be changed before the Council approves the final budget, which is scheduled to occur at its June 18 meeting. According to the budget summery provided by the city, the expected expenditures, totaling $15.06 million, are higher than the anticipated revenues, listed at $14.7 million. City Administrator Reed Clevenger said the city will receive some one-time funding during...
Making needed upgrades to the nearly 45-year-old exhibit hall is a priority for Sweetwater County. A press release from the Sweetwater County Events Complex states, the events complex board and its employees are focused on renovating, updating and expanding the exhibit hall, which was built in 1976-77. Lena Warren, Sweetwater County Events Complex Marketing and Event Coordinator, said for fiscal year 2019 the events complex received about $800,000 for capital improvements. This money will go to...
Sam Peter Mamalis, 83, passed away May 12, 2019, at his home in Mesquite, Nev., surrounded by his family. He was a resident of Mesquite, Nev., for 15 years and is a former resident of Green River. Sam was born March 2, 1936, in Moriki, Greece; the son of Petros Mamalis and Elaine Kaninis. He attended schools in Green River and was a 1955 graduate of the Green River High School. Mamalis also attended Scotts Bluff College where he played football. Sam married Shelia Masters and they later...
This week represents a major anniversary for an event of historical, cultural and scientific significance. Maj. John Wesley Powell led an expedition down the Green River 150 years ago from a small hub that would ultimately become the city we call home. The first expedition was an adventure fraught with peril and discovery. While lacking much of the scientific rigor the second, better funded 1871 expedition provided, Powell’s first journey helped map the waterways from southwestern Wyoming through the Grand Canyon. Both journeys also helped e...
My Thursday afternoon was slightly derailed following what was supposed to be a quick trip to Shopko. Admittedly, the store’s closure wasn’t on my personal radar since writing about it months ago. The large, yellow and black signs with the words “store closing” printed boldly on them never brought me in. I went in because I suddenly needed a flash drive. I didn’t find one, but I ended up walking out with two packages of pens, a 10-piece set of stainless steel cookware and a black backpack I’m su...
As a family with young children, it is hard to find television shows all of us can watch together. For whatever reason, more and more shows on the big networks shown during prime time have chosen to allow curse words into the programs. This may be fine for older children to hear, but I most certainly don’t want my children spouting off some of those words they may have heard on those channels at school or at church. This has left our family looking for other shows all of us can watch. We’ve com...
Stanley W. Bode, 96, of Green River, passed away Tuesday, May 14, 2019, at the Mission at Castle Rock. A longtime resident of Green River and former resident of Carlsbad, N.M., Bode died following a brief illness. He was born Jan. 7, 1923, in Vallejo, Calif., the son of Albert Ernest and Hertha Schmockel Bode. Bode attended schools in Watsonville, Calif., and was a 1940 graduate of the Watsonville High School. He attended and graduated from Salinas Technical College, earning an associate of scie...
Josephine (Jo) Lowham Rudy (Munari), 86, formerly of Green River, passed away Dec.6, 2018, at Lakeside Preserve Senior Living Facility in Lakewood, Colo. Jo was born March 16, 1932, in Diamondville to the late Charles and Teresa (Dreu) Munari. She was one of seven children, three of whom preceded her in death, baby Charlie Munari, Jane (Jenny) Koscak and Lavina Currey. Josephine graduated from Kemmerer High School with the class of 1949 and married her high school sweetheart, John (Jack) Lowham,...
Harold L. Christensen was born Dec. 28, 1925, and died May 17, 2019, at the age of 93. He was a righteous and valiant man, kind and loving to those around him. He is survived by his present wife Mayvon; children and step-children, Patricia Reynolds, Nephi Christensen (Barbara), Debra Hiller (Karl), Wade Christensen (Francoise), Les Maynard, Rick Maynard, Bud Maynard (Linda), Keima Reeves (Greg), Jan Eldredge (Jim); several grandchildren and their spouses and great-grandchildren and...
Brett Charles McKeehan was born Jan. 15, 2001, in Rock Springs, the son of Steven Michael McKeehan and Natalie Ann Sandoval McKeehan. Brett attended schools in Green River and was a Green River High School graduate with the class of 2019. His interests included playing tennis, weight lifting, hanging out with his friends and listening to music. He loved animals and was planning on seeking a career in mental heath. Survivors include his parents Steven McKeehan of Green River and Natalie Sandoval...
With the 150th anniversary of Maj. John Wesley Powell’s historic expedition down the Green River this week, several events are planned to help celebrate and honor Powell’s initial 1869 expedition. The 150th celebration started Wednesday evening, celebrating Powell’s launch from Green River. An opening reception and discussion about Powell and the future of the Colorado River also took place Wednesday evening. On Thursday, a cleanup of the Green River will take place from 8:30-11:30 a.m., with...
Dylan Rust, of Green River, and Jess Fahlsing, of Rock Springs, are the recipients of the University of Wyoming's highest honor as top graduating seniors. The two Sweetwater County students are the winners of the Rosemarie Martha Spitaleri and Tobin Memorial Award, which recognizes the most outstanding graduates from the 2018-19 undergraduate class. The award is based on academic excellence and achievement, service to the university, participation and leadership in the community and campus activ...
A piece of World War II history will pay a visit to Sweetwater County June 10-16, over Father’s Day Weekend. The Commemorative Air Force Airbase Arizona is flying its B-17 bomber, Sentimental Journey, to the Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport as part of its summer tour. Visitors will be able to tour the aircraft, breathe in the history and talk with volunteers from the nonprofit organization about the plane. The CAF will also offer rides. No matter where one sits, the views are great. As one feels the combined 4,800 hp kick in on takeoff, t...
The Community Fine Arts Center and the Sweetwater Board of Cooperative Educational Services are once again hosting ArtCamp Students in fifth through ninth grade will complete nearly a dozen projects including drawing in different medium, collage, watercolor and pastel painting and sculptural projects. Students will receive a sketch book and learn to draw from the world around them. Registration for ArtCamp takes place at the CFAC and a class fee helps cover the supplies needed. Students who qualified for the free lunch program through the...
Six members of the Green River Wolves Track team achieved their personal bests at State. Last Thursday, Friday and Saturday, track teams traveled to Kelly Walsh High School in Casper to compete in the 2019 State Outdoor Track Championships. Green River qualified a team of five boys and five girls. In the girls 3,200-meter run, senior Kaisa Arnell improved on her previous best time by almost three seconds in finishing 15th in the field of 21 State qualifiers. Marcos Valerio, also a senior, took 11th for the boys in the 3,220-meter run in...
Two Lady Wolves soccer players were named All-Conference after the coaches’ votes were cast. Raena Finch and Michaelee Wisniewski were both placed on the 2019 Wyoming Coaches’ Association 4A All-Conference list. Head coach Tracy Wyant said it was great both of these ladies were added to this list. Only the top eight in each category including, goal keeper, defender, midfielder and forwards, receive this honor. All Conference is determined after all of the coaches vote for who they think the bes...
It wasn’t the way anyone on the Wolves soccer team wanted to end their State run in Jackson. After two games, the Wolves’ season ended without a win. The Wolves took on Cheyenne East Thursday morning, falling 2-1 to the Thunderbirds. They then took on Kelly Walsh the following day in the consolation bracket. While the Wolves have had some success against the Trojans throughout the season, including a 1-0 win at Regionals a week prior, the Trojans ended the Wolves’ season 2-0. Three Wolves were...
Green River’s Zac Taylor has not finished outside of the top three during his first three races of the season. That includes his recent runner-up result - despite a damaged steering part - last Saturday at El Paso County Raceway during only his second career non-wing sprint car start. Two weeks ago, Taylor scored his first-ever non-wing sprint car win at the track and last week he drove to a third-place finish in a Grand American Modified on asphalt. “This is an incredible start to the year, especially when you consider I’ve never driven a non...
