Sorted by date Results 1 - 25 of 26
Tackling alcohol-related issues the county faces is something members of the Sweetwater County Prevention Team are ready to do. With an action plan in hand, the team consisting of prevention specialists Danielle Deters, Megan Weston and Laura Schmid-Pizzato, manager of Recovery Services, recently gave a quick presentation to the Sweetwater County commissioners. Along with this information, startling statics about alcohol misuse in the county was listed. Schmid-Pizzato said the Wyoming...
A $57 million budget was unanimously approved by the Sweetwater County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees last week, which includes $40 million in the district’s general fund. “This is the absolute best (budget) I’ve seen in 19 years,” board member Steve Core said. “It explains it all. It’s graphed out. It was very well done.” The 2019 legislative session impacted the district’s budget, which included providing $494,348 to the district through an external cost adjustment. “The good news her...
(Note: This article is part one of two.) A recent public records audit initiated by the Green River Star reveals Sweetwater County School District No. 2 and the Green River Finance Department were extremely helpful in releasing requested information and provided assistance in helping understand the data. The newspaper’s intern, Lexi Mitchell, approached different government offices in early June and sought data available to the public through Wyoming’s public documents act. In this case, the...
The mosquitoes are in full force this summer and the city is fighting back. Green River Parks and Recreation Director Brad Raney, sent out a press release in June about the city’s plan to control the mosquitoes. The plan includes eliminating larvae to combating adults in places around the city. For areas of standing water they are using BTI biscuits. These tablets neutralize the mosquito larvae. They also sprayed the standing waters in the city limits with Vecotbac, which is naturally occurring and safe to use. As for the adult mosquitoes t...
The Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office released bodycam footage following a pursuit on Interstate 80 Saturday morning. The office also seeks help in the ongoing investigation of the incident. At approximately 9:15 a.m., Saturday, sheriff’s deputies responded to the area of Elk Street and Yellowstone Road to aid in seeking a vehicle that had failed to stop for an attempted traffic stop and was possibly fleeing from police. The vehicle, a Chevy Impala, was located minutes later driving at a high rate of speed on Elk. According to a release fro...
Laurie Macioszek, 51, of Green River, passed away at her home July 15, 2019, surrounded by her loving family. She died following a courageous 16-year battle with cancer. Laurie was a native of Green River. She was born May 27, 1968, in Rock Springs, the daughter of Jerald Butcher and Patricia Orme Butcher. Laurie attended school in Green River and was a graduate of the Green River High School with the class of 1986. She married Ronald Macioszek Sept. 12, 1996, in Green River. Laurie was...
Viola Bonnie Bergwin passed away July 13, 2019, in Blair, Neb., peacefully with family by her side. She was born Jan. 21, 1934 to Fred and Edith Myrick. Bergwin was a longtime resident of Green River and Bedford. Children are Michael Rolf Carlson and wife Pualette of Green River, Vickie Kwallek and Dan of Blair, Neb., Cheryl Rylie, of Kansas City, Mo., Dennis Lee Carlson and Donielle of Kansas City, Mo., and many grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded...
Daniel Marion Allen passed away July 16, 2019, at his home in Granger. Dan was born Oct. 6, 1946, in Vernal, Utah, to Merle and Wilma Allen. He grew up in the Uintahs on the family farm in the Whiterocks, with summers spent logging. He graduated from Union High School in 1964. In 1966, he welcomed a son Travis into this world. He met Sandy Dunn in 1974 and they were married in November that same year. In October 1978, they welcomed a daughter Seandara to their small family. Dan moved to Wyoming...
Pamela Tahnazani Farmer, 48, passed away July 11, 2019, at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County in Rock Springs. She was a resident of Rock Springs for the past five years and is a former resident of St. George, Utah. Farmer was born April 2, 1971, in Chinle, Ariz., the daughter of Joe Toddy and Delphine Tanezani. She attended schools in Arizona and Utah and was a 1989 graduate of Dixie High School. Pamela married Aaron Farmer March 15, 1997, in St. George, Utah. She was very close with her...
Ronald Gene Young, 76, passed away July 13, 2019, at Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City. He was a lifelong resident of Reliance and Rock Springs. Ron was born April 23, 1943, in Rock Springs, the son of Richard G. Young and Ann Kovach. He attended schools in Reliance and was a 1961 graduate of the Reliance High School. Ron married Frances Chesnovar Nov. 25, 1966, in Rock Springs. He served in the United States Navy from 1964-1966. Afterward, Ron worked in the oil field most of his...
Bernice Uhls passed away peacefully May 27 in Sheridan. Bernice graduated from Superior High School in 1950 and reigned as Homecoming queen during her senior year. She was also a Marionette; baton twirler majorette for SHS. In 1994, she earned a degree in fine art from Sheridan College after her divorce from Billy Uhls. She was a very fine painter and potter. She started her academic career at Western Wyoming Community College and finished in Sheridan after moving there to care for her parents....
Want to find out how much your local government is spending, where it’s spent or which government positions earn the most; there are a variety of publicly available documents to satisfy that curiosity. Want to know how a public official responded in an email conversation with other officials or are curious about what the Green River City Council approved in May 2017. There are documents that can answer those questions too. Government documents and reports are the best window into how your governments operate. They show what is being spent a...
In 1994, Disney released “The Lion King,” an animated film widely considered to be one of the crown jewels of the so-called Disney Renaissance period from the late 1980s to late 1990s. Exactly 25 years later, Disney releases “The Lion King,” a remake of its landmark film, featuring draw-dropping computer animation and a new cast in retelling the tale of a young lion rediscovering his role in the Circle of Life. The 1994 is superior to the soulless remake that will likely earn Disney even mo...
We have all had to deal with bullies throughout our lives, and I have had my share. One fall day, coming home from school, I saw two guys from my third-grade class beating up on a smaller kid and was moved to step in to help. I was chagrined, but not surprised when the victim ran home, and I became the new target. The beating I took that day was minimal, however, the sense that I did the right thing by standing up against bullies has propped up my self-worth my whole lifetime. Bullies and abuse are everywhere. While in medical school, I was in...
The Green River All-Star Little League baseball teams finished their seasons at districts and state tournaments. Juniors According to Majors coach Nathaniel Liebelt, the Junior All-Star team, was in Riverton two weeks ago playing at state. The team, which consists of 13 and 14-year-old boys needed to finish in first or second place to make it to nationals. They started off by winning their first game against Riverton Wednesday, but lost their second game to Lander on Thursday. Friday they were...
The Green River Knights may have lost their last two regular-season games in Cody, but the team secured the No. 2 seed in their conference for the upcoming state American Legion baseball tournament in Douglas next week. The Knights were defeated 9-4 in their first game, then were swept 8-0 in the second half of the doubleheader Tuesday. According to head coach Benjamin Lail, the Knights held the Cubs to four runs until the sixth inning, when Cody’s squad picked up an explosive lead. While he a...
Green River’s Zac Taylor knows that if he is going to get better he has to compete against the best competition and that opportunity presented itself last weekend in Montana during a Lucas Oil ASCS National Tour event. Taylor and his family owned 360c.i. sprint car team traveled to Gallatin Speedway for the two-day Grizzly Nationals. Taylor raced his way into the A Main on Friday while competing against arguably the toughest 360 racers in the country. “We held our own in the heat, finishing fifth, which put us in the B Main,” he said. “I wa...
As the cards were passed around the table as fast as one could, the tension started to brew. Each of the players would quickly glance at their cards to see if they had collected four of a kind yet. As they would get closer and closer to completing the task, they would start glancing at the spoons in the middle of the table, at their cards and then at the other players to see if any of them had taken a spoon. All of a sudden, one player grabbed a spoon, which left the other players scrambling to...
The future stars of Wolves Stadium got a chance to learn from their high-school heroes this week during a football clinic hosted by the Green River High School football team. The clinic took place Monday through Wednesday and featured courses aimed at both elementary-aged children and middle-school students. Students worked on all facets of the game, running through several drills while listening to advice given by both head football coach Marty Wrage and members of the Wolves football team and...
A mother-daughter duo hosted their first book launching party as co-authors on Thursday night. Brigida R. Blasi and Christine Alethea Williams’ book “Women in Sweetwater County” celebrates women who made an impact in the southwest region of Wyoming. The authors are excited to have their book come out the same year as the 150th anniversary of the women’s suffrage movement in Wyoming. The book launch and signing included guest speaker, historian Ann Chambers Noble, whose grandmother is featured in the book. Noble spoke highly of our state a...
The Sweetwater Board of Cooperative Educational Services Summer Theatre for Youth will present two productions over the next two weeks. Their production of “The Wizard of Oz: Young Performer’s Edition” will be presented at the Western Theatre on the campus of Western Wyoming Community College, Thursday at 7 p.m. Admission is free, and doors open at 6:30 p.m. The cast features 45 young adults from ages eight to 18 under the direction of Western musical theatre professor Eric-Richard de Lora and nine Western students. This year marks the 80th...
Dakotah Houchin Beck will take her singing talent to the Wyoming State Fair in August. After coming in third place at the Futures Farmers of America’s talent show in April, Beck, a 17-year-old senior at Green River High School, readies herself to perform at the state fair in Douglas. Each year, the Wyoming State Fair asks FFA to provided entertainment for the midway Pepsi stage. After placing third in the FFA talent show, Beck didn’t think anymore of it. She was just excited to do the talent show. She has been singing since she was two yea...
YWCA of Sweetwater County is pleased to announce they have been awarded grants in the amount of $49,600 from United Way of Southwest Wyoming for the 2019-2020 year. Funding will support two of the agency’s programs; Center for Families and Children (Shelter), and the Financial Empowerment program. United Way of Southwest Wyoming works to advance the common good by focusing on education, health and basic needs. The primary goal of the United Way of Southwest Wyoming is to create sustainable and measurable results to improve lives through c...
United Way of Southwest Wyoming awarded a $46,000 grant to Food Bank of Sweetwater County for the 2019-20 fiscal year. This grant helps fund operational expenses of The Emergency Food Program that provides emergency food to the low-income community in Sweetwater County. The Emergency Food Program aligns with United Way of Southwest Wyoming’s Basic Needs initiative to provide quality services to support independent living for individuals and families. Food Bank Clients will receive nutritious food to last for three to five days twice monthly. ...
