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The city council seeks an operational study for the upcoming solid waste transfer project. The Green River City Council approved an increase in the Solid Waste Fund in the amount of $30,000 for the study. The study was initially budgeted for $60,000, but the Solid Waste Division was able to decrease the cost to $48,000. However, last week they surveyed the landfill and found that is more full than they expected it to be at this point in time. Director of Finance Chris Meats said the diminished capacity is causing them to move the time frame...
Justin Allen Tanner, infant son of Travis Tanner and Alicia Hummel passed away July 12, 2016 at the Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County. He was born June 12, 2016 in Rock Springs. Survivors include his parents, two brothers; Jason and Jaxon Moen of Jamestown and one sister, Jessica Moen of Jamestown; paternal grandparents Justin and wife Brenda Tanner of Price, Utah, maternal grandparents Adam and wife Gerri Clark of Green River, Shawn Hummel and girlfriend Jackie Herrera of Jamestown,... Full story
Seniors were asked to think about what they would like to write about and possibly pass on to family members. During a creative writing class at the Golden Hour Senior Center Thursday afternoon, seniors discussed what they would like to write about. This fairly new class is taught by Michelle Jefferies with Western Wyoming Community College. "I came prepared to teach fiction, but I wanted to find out what you would like me to teach," Jefferies said. The class thought about it for a few minutes...
After more than two decades of serving the library in various positions, reference librarian Micki Gilmore has retired. Gilmore has worked at the Sweetwater County Library since 1992, where she started out subbing. In 1993, she moved to a permanent part-time position in circulation and in 1998 she became a full-time employee. Throughout the years, Gilmore worked in various positions, including outreach and the bookmobile, web master for the new website and then she settled into the reference lib...
A man who led officers on a chase with five teenage girls in the car was given probation for his actions. Daniel Ray Potter, 21, of Rock Springs, appeared in the Third District court of Judge Richard Lavery at a sentencing hearing to a felony charge of interference with a peace officer, and three misdemeanors, two counts of reckless endangering and fleeing or attempting to elude police officers. All of Potter’s felony charges, five felonious restraint, and three misdemeanor charges of driving u...
Brett Stokes is seeking a second term on the Green River City Council in Ward III. Stokes has served one term with the council and hopes to be able to continue his work for another four years. “I’ve been involved in politics for most of my career. Politics intrigues me and I wanted to get involved in local government and try to make a difference,” Stokes said. Stokes has spent 26 years in law enforcement, working with the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office and currently as the captain of the Sweetwater County Detention Center. As captain...
While it’s less than what they’ve worked with before, Sweetwater County School District No. 2’s budget will fund some pay increases for teachers originally negotiated months ago. The district’s board of trustees approved budgets for both the district and the recreation board, which utilizes a mill levy for district projects aimed at improving recreation and physical activities. The district’s valuation decreased by $82.7 million in the last year, which resulted in the valuation being $928,625,...
Cheryl Lea Gillmore, 58, died peacefully in her sleep July 13, 2016 in her home in Green River. She was born the third of three children on Sept. 12, 1957 in Denver to Robert Olen Fling and Geraldine Ray (Fling) Nelson. She lived most of her life in Colorado and had just recently moved from Phippsburg, Colo. to Green River to live with her aunt and uncle. She met the love of her life, Andy Frank Gillmore, and they were married on Dec. 29, 1993 in Steamboat Springs, Colo. Her husband died in a on... Full story
Joan E. Westling passed away on July 12, 2016. Funeral services will be 10 a.m., Thursday at Davis Funeral Home in Riverton. Father Demetrio Penascoza officiating. Burial will follow at Mountain View Cemetery in Riverton. She was born June 7, 1932 in Rochester, N.Y., the seventh child of Joseph and Elsie Isaac. She met a young Airman jet mechanic at a USO dance and they were married May 16, 1953. The mother of three sons and a beautiful daughter, Joan loved being an Air Force wife and mother.... Full story
Christopher Patrick Weese, 41, of Farson, Wyoming passed away July 13, 2016 at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County. He had been a long time resident of Farson. He was born Aug. 30, 1974 in Yonkers, N.Y., the son of Patrick Gene Weese and Martha Midgley Weese. Weese attended schools in New York and was a 1992 graduate of the York Town High School. He married Jamie Dawn Mines Weese on July 24, 2004 in Farson. Weese was a self-employed farmer and a farrier. He lived for his children Connor and... Full story
Donna Jeanne Giovanini, 71, of Rock Springs, passed away July 1, 2016 at the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City. She had been a long time resident of Rock Springs. She was born Jan. 15, 1945 in Rock Springs, the daughter of William D. Chetterbock and Margaret Giovanini. Giovanini attended schools in Rock Springs and was a Rock Springs High School graduate with the class of 1963. She was employed as a legal secretary for many years, at Western Wyoming Community College and also f... Full story
It’s easy to read news coming from Cheyenne about state budget cuts or staff reductions in Casper as issues being far removed from Green River. They’re not and the recent closure of SW-WRAP is proof of that. The organization, which underwent a reorganization under a new CEO last year, closed after several grants supporting programs administered through SW-WRAP were cut or awarded elsewhere. As a result, the Green River-based organization which once boasted offices in multiple states, is now defunct. The real tragedy of the closure isn’t the j...
Dear Editor, To the person what came in my yard late Sunday night or early in the morning hours Monday and stole my alien, if you have any kind of heart left, would you please return it to my residence or contact the Green River Police Department? It has been reported stolen. This is a very sentimental gift, which stood in my yard for years so people could adore it. If you wanted one that bad, I could have surely helped you by giving you information on purchasing one. This is one of a kind. There is not another one here in town, so if anyone... Full story
This is only my second time in Cleveland so the neighborhood I picked for lodging, while covering the Republican National Convention, was a crap shoot. I got lucky. Tremont is about a mile due south of the convention center and I had planned on just renting a bicycle, thinking it would be easier pedaling in and out of the downtown area than taking a cab or Uber. I was wrong. On Sunday, friend wife and I decided to do some reconnaissance in the hope that my internet-mapped route would be as easy as it looked but as Sunday wore on, the police,...
Nearly two-thirds of adults over age 70 have hearing loss that doctors consider “clinically meaningful.” In plain English that means as people age, they are likely to become hard of hearing. Many of those people, however, don’t get the help they need, often because they simply cannot afford it. “The prevalence of hearing loss almost doubles with each age decade of life,” says Dr. Frank Lin, an otolaryngologist at Johns Hopkins University, but for older people, he adds, “there are multiple barriers that prevent individuals from getting the...
Sometimes, it’s hard to know where a person will end up after falling down the rabbit hole known as Youtube. A person could start watching videos about ancient Roman civilization and end up watching clips from Andre the Giant’s greatest professional wrestling matches. This happened to me recently while watching cooking videos and I somehow ended up finding a series dedicated to recreating recipes from the 1700s. The series, “18th Century Cooking with Jas. Townsend and Son” is produced by a co...
The recent move to change how high school activities are scheduled is a great move by the school district. While I realize some may bemoan the fact that the Wolves won’t play as often as they have in the past, this is better for both the teachers and students involved in student activities. For the teachers, it gives them more opportunity to help students struggling in their classes and better opportunity to teach their classes. While technology does give students and teachers more opportunities...
Athletes playing for Green River High School won’t see as much action on the road as they have in previous years, thanks to a push to reduce the number of miles student-athletes travel and increase in the time spent in the classroom. Sweetwater County School District No. 2 Athletics Director Tony Beardsley said he’s reduced the number of away events students participate in for the upcoming school year. One of the major pushes behind the reduction in travel is due to the Wyoming Legislature con...
The Green River Knights started the past week with a double header July 13 against the Cheyenne Hawks. In the opener, the Knights were explosive as they scored 15 runs to defeat the Hawks 15-7. In the second game, they lost a close match 8-7, then concluded their series with the Hawks in another close loss 5-3 to end up 2-2 with Cheyenne.. Friday, the Knights returned home for the first time in almost a month and hosted the Wheatland Lobos in a doubleheader. The Knights leadoff hitter Tyler...
A Green River Democrat will represent Wyoming at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. Cathy Denman, who is the current Sweetwater County Democratic Party Committeewoman, is excited to attend the national convention and represent one of 18 Wyoming delegates at the national convention, which is scheduled to take place July 25-28 in Philadelphia. Denman decided before she went to the Wyoming Democratic Convention that she was interested in attending the national convention as a delegate....
Kids and adults alike had a chance to enjoy a slice of the middle ages at the Sweetwater County Library System's annual Medieval Faire. Along with face painting, jousting and a storyteller, visitors could enjoy a number of games dating back to the period. Some are recognizable, such as bocce ball, while others, such as Kubb, might not be. Kubb is similar to horseshoes where players throw wooden pegs at blocks on either end of the field. Players take turns trying to knock over the blocks and,...
