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While much of the excitement focused on the National High School Finals Rodeo is in Rock Springs, Green River is also host to some of the competition. Monday and Tuesday, competitors in the NHSFR light rifle event converged at the outdoor shooting range the city operates near FMC Park. The shooting sports competition also includes a trap shooting event, which takes place at the Sweetwater Trap Club in Rock Springs. According to information from the NHSFR, the shooting events were introduced to...
Two Green River All-Star Baseball teams will continue competing, while one team wrapped up its season this week. 14U All-Stars This team is managed by Nathaniel Liebelt and consists of boy baseball players 14 and under. The players on the team have all played on little league baseball teams and were selected to play on this team. During their short season, the team played against Rock Springs and Kemmerer and they were highly competitive in these games, Liebelt said. This past weekend, the team...
Therapeutic riding students had the chance to show what they learned during a riding showcase Thursday. The program called One Stride Closer, a Sweetwater County Board of Cooperative Educational Services equine-assisted therapy program, hosted it's fourth annual riders' showcase. The program itself started six years ago, according to program director Cindy Brandjord. The gait of a horse's walk is the closest movement to the way a human walks, Brandjord said. For those with physical...
A teacher's childhood dream became a reality this summer when she attended space camp. Kathy Stanton, a Green River Science, Technology, Engineering and Math teacher, recently attended the Honeywell Educators at Space Academy, which took place in Huntsville, Ala., at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. Stanton said she found out about the camp through her Edmodo account. Edmodo.com is a way for teachers to stay connected with their students and parents. It helps students get and stay organized...
A familiar sight on Roosevelt Drive returned to Green River last week. The Green River Farmers Market started its weekly visit last Wednesday. The markets take place every Wednesday from 4 -7 p.m. According to Jennie Melvin, administrator for the Green River URA/Main Street organization, said many of the same vendors residents have enjoyed shopping from plan to return this year. The URA/Main Street organization will sell Beehive Cheese to raise funds for its facade improvement program and other...
The University of Wyoming wasn’t likely expecting the criticism it received when it unveiled its new marketing slogan “The World Needs More Cowboys.” The critical comments are coming from some faculty members who claim the slogan isn’t inclusive and supports a stereotypical image of a white man in blue jeans and wearing a cowboy hat. The university claims the slogan will be used with images that don’t associate with the commonly held image of the cowboy. We think it’s fair to let the university move forward with its slogan and their plans for u...
“Now you’re playing with power.” I remembered the cheesy slogan from an old Nintendo Entertainment System commercial back from the mid-1980s when I found and bought one of Nintendo’s NES Classic Editions recently. Sure, video games look much better and shinier than they did 30-plus years ago, but I have fond memories sprawled out on the living room floor playing “Super Mario Bros.” and “Donkey Kong.” Decades later, these games still put a smile on my face. As I make my way through the sys...
I’m not sure what’s worse -- a cold or the medicine to treat the cold. It’s bad enough to have gotten a summer cold, but for me it’s always tough trying to decide whether or not to suffer it out or give in a take some medication. If I don’t take the medication, I have to deal with the constant head pounding, sneezing, sore throat, coughing and overall ickiness I feel when I get a cold. However, if I take the medication, then I feel as though I am watching my own life pass me by in slow moti...
Imagine this. Your phone rings and a pleasant voice starts talking to you about your recent visit to your favorite restaurant. You reply, and a conversation follows. The voice responds and you are convinced that you are speaking with a person… but you aren’t! Instead you are speaking to an Artificial Intelligence (AI) program that is so advanced that you can’t tell if it’s a live person. Science fiction? Not anymore. Recently Google demonstrated Google Duplex. This appointment program has passed the famed Turing Test for AI, which requires that...
The Sweetwater County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees approved their 2018-2019 budget Tuesday evening. The budget, according to Chris Dean, business manager for the district, works to align the district’s resources to student achievement. With Enrolled Act 64, Dean said the district fared better than officials expected. The act came at the end of a legislative standoff between the state House and Senate in regards to education funding. The first year of the act takes the solution provide...
A woman accused of child abuse after choking a child under 16 years of age will have the charge dismissed if she can successfully complete her probation. Joanna Stephenson, 29, of Green River, appeared in the Third District Court of Judge Richard Lavery for an order suspending proceedings pursuant to Wyoming Statute 7-13-301 to one felony count of child abuse. In this case, under Wyoming Statute 7-13-301, a no contest plea was taken, but not entered. Should Stephenson successfully complete her...
In an unexpected move by the Sweetwater County Commissioners, the commissioners almost defeated the lodging tax initiative by not acting at all. Initially when the resolution was reviewed, chairman Reid West asked for a motion twice, no one would make a motion and the resolution died because the commission failed to act on it. However, after a short recess and realizing the initiative would die and not be placed on the general election ballot if they failed to act on a resolution, the...
Concerns continue to grow regarding proposed oil and gas leases the Bureau of Land Management intends to sell in the Greater Little Mountain area. Large portions of the area were listed in a fourth quarter lease proposal released by the BLM earlier this year. For Joshua Coursey, Muley Fanatics Foundation CEO in Green River, protecting the Greater Little Mountain Area comes down to wanting to promote a healthy game population in the area, as well as preserving some of the few places in...
A Republican member of the Wyoming House seeks election as the next Wyoming State Auditor. Nathan Winters, a pastor from Thermopolis, wants to provide efficient and transparent service in the State Auditor’s Office. He has served in the Wyoming Legislature since 2013 in House District 28. The district encompasses the entirety of Hot Springs County, as well as parts of Park, Big Horn and Fremont counties. “I know what it means to represent small communities,” Winters said. While the state audit...
Seroni Lynn Carey, 47, of Rock Springs passed away Tuesday, July 3, 2018, at the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City. She had been a life time resident of Rock Springs. She was born Feb. 27, 1971, in Rawlins, the daughter of Paul E. and Diana Finch Schmied. Seroni attended school in Rock Springs and was a 1989 graduate of the Rock Springs High School. She attended and graduated from Stevens-Henager College with a bachelor degree in accounting. She married Jeff Carey in Rock Sprin...
Larry Arnold Gillingham, 75, passed peacefully in his sleep after a short illness July 12, 2018. He spent his last days at home surrounded by his family. Larry was raised in Richland Center, Wisc., on his family's farm. In his late 20s, he and his family moved to Wyoming to attend LaGrange Bible School in pursuit of a ministerial degree. His love of wide open spaces and hunting endeared him to Wyoming for the rest of his life. He enjoyed spending time on the lake fishing, hunting, and spending...
Michael Dean Johnston, 61, passed away June 29, 2018, at Learning Services Specialists in Brain Injury Care of Lakewood, Colo., where he had been a resident for 30 years. He was born July 13, 1956, in New Gulf, Texas, the son of William and Lily Johnston. Mike worked for Texas Gulf near Green River as a miner. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, rock and fossil hunting. Survivors include his daughter, Misty Johnston-Roberts and husband Nathan Roberts; two grandchildren, Addison Blue Roberts and Oliver Mansell Roberts, as well as close friends Bob and...
Margaret "Sue" Pulley, 74, was born April 10, 1944, to the late Ellis Monroe and Katie Mae (Skaggs) Miller in Bonne Terre, Mo. Sue died July 8, 2018, at her home in Branson, Mo. Sue married the love of her life, the late Robert Dean Pulley, May 27, 1977. Sue and Bob loved going to the mountains to camp, hunt, and fish, taking along Bob's son, John Pulley, on the adventures at times and Charlie and Sheila, when they were around for a visit. Sue took a special interest in mentoring her younger...
Edna Brewer, 86, passed away Tuesday, July 10, 2018, at Mission at Castle Rock in Green River. She was a resident of Green River for 45 years and is a former resident of England. She was born on April 4, 1932, in Hersden, Kent, England, the daughter of Septimas Johnson and Frinah Edgar. Brewer attended schools in England. She married Roy Brewer Aug. 4, 1951, in Hersden, Kent, England, and he preceded her in death Oct. 4, 1995, in Green River. Brewer worked at the Golden Hour Senior Center as...
David (Oly) Grant Olsen, 68, passed away unexpectedly July 11, 2018, in St. George, Utah, at the Dixie Regional Medical Center. He was born in Price, Utah, June 14, 1950, to Norman Lloyd Olsen and Veda Mae Briggs. He married his sweetheart and a best friend, Wanda Ann Zimmerman, Nov. 18, 1977. They were later sealed for time and all eternity in the Ogden Utah Temple July 20, 1990. He attended first grade in Big Piney; second grade in Odessa, Texas; third grade in Blanding, Utah; and fourth...
