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A program geared towards giving single mothers job training in high paying fields may return to Sweetwater County. Tomorrow, CLIMB Wyoming’s founder and executive director Dr. Ray Fleming Dinneen, along with a number of funding and community partners, will make a formal announcement in Rock Springs, but the details of that announcement have yet to have been made public. “Our future plans are unconfirmed until the press conference,” CLIMB’s director of communications, Shannon Brooks Hamby, said. According to a media release from Hamby, the ann...
A few honks and hand waves were generated on Flaming Gorge Way by a group seeking legalization of marijuana for medical uses. The group, Wyoming Cannabis Activists, were in both Green River and Rock Springs Monday to promote their views on medical marijuana. Holding signs on the sidewalk in front of Centennial Park, three members from the Casper-based organization, as well as a couple of county residents came out for the cause. The Wyoming Cannabis Activists is a nonprofit organization seeking...
A fire south of Rock Springs continues to fiercely burn its way across the landscape. The fire, located about 20 miles south of Rock Springs, started Sunday at about 3 p.m. and is estimated to be around 2,500 acres. According to a Bureau of Land Management High Desert District press release, the wildfire has now spread to the Maggie Springs and Bitter Creek areas, near County Road 27. "We do not know what caused this fire," Sweetwater County Fire Warden Mike Bournazian said. With 35-45 mph winds...
King Coal is dead. Long live King Coal. Those might be the words coming from someone whose followed recent news about the coal industry in Wyoming. Mentioned in Sweetwater County School District No. 2’s budget introduction is a nugget of information telling of where coal is ranking right now. Citing data from the U.S. Energy Department, natural gas surpassed coal as the top source of electric power generation in the county last April. As natural gas is used more for electricity, the price for natural gas has started to stabilize from the s...
Dear Editor, Especially, immediately, yea collectively, and above all in a global, generational sense we, each and everyone of us, desperately need to purpose utmost proactive hope of/for healing in this country let alone universally, throughout with personified hearts shared and harmonized. In transitioning, transcending the present time’s challenges of mutual confidences somehow, someway it just seems to my sensitivities that all relationships, internationally speaking, have somehow, someway evolved pervasively into an ongoing social phenomen...
From June 7-12, Volunteers of America hosted its 12th consecutive Camp P.O.S.T.C.A.R.D. (Police Officers Striving To Create And Reinforce Dreams) in Casper. With the support of our community, the Green River Police Department School Resource Officers Program was able take part in another amazing year at Camp P.O.S.T.C.A.R.D. This year, Green River School Resource Officers took 10 students from Green River to the camp. Students are chosen to attend camp after being nominated by teachers and staff as students who have leadership potential. Eight...
Have you ever opened your refrigerator door and thought “What on earth is that smell?” That happened to me again recently. I opened the door to get my boys a snack and was hit with a pungent smell. I quickly grabbed the boys snack and shut the door. “Like that is going to help,” I thought. Once the boys were busy eating their snack, I opened the door again and started the process of looking through the fridge to find the culprit behind the nasty smell. I first looked through the vegetab...
Over the weekend our dishwasher leaked and water ended up between the layers of our floor and proceeded to leak into the basement. It was a mess. We had to pull up our vinyl floor and run fans to dry out the subfloor. Our kitchen is unusable at the moment, but hopefully we can get everything back up and running soon. Thankfully, we have resources at the library to help us figure out how to repair our kitchen. We often fix things ourselves in our house as a means to save money, and books available at the libraries are a great resource....
The history of Green River revolves around water. From the earliest days, the city “ebbed and flowed” because there was an adequate and dependable water supply. Between the 1860s and the 1870s Green River was nearly abandoned in favor of Bryan a now abandoned community located on the Black Fork River 13 miles west of present day Green River. Incidentally, Bryan was on land controlled by the Union Pacific Railroad. However, by 1872 drought forced the U.P. to move its operations to Green River because adequate and dependable water was ava...
Felicia Hatt, 88, of Rock Springs passed away July 21, 2015 at her home. A longtime resident of Rock Springs, Hatt passed away following a lengthy illness. She was born on Oct. 12, 1926 in Quealy, the daughter of the late Edward and Juana Barayazarra Aguirre. Hatt attended schools in Quealy and Rock Springs and was a 1945 graduate of Rock Springs High School. She married Angus "Buddy" Hatt on Oct. 6, 1946 and he preceded her in death May 7, 2002. Upon graduation, Hatt was employed by the North...
Emma Rose Besso, 97, of Rock Springs passed away July 22, 2015 at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County. A lifelong resident of Rock Springs, Besso died following a lengthy illness. She was born on May 4, 1918 in Rock Springs, the daughter of the late Frank and Domenica Yori. Besso attended schools in Rock Springs and was a 1936 graduate of the Rock Springs High School. She married James Besso in Manila, Utah on Jan. 31, 1940 and he preceded her in death on May 31, 1967. Besso was a member of...
Gloria Ann Kaeding, 59, of Evanston, passed away July 25, 2015. A longtime resident of Evanston and former resident of Rock Springs, Kaeding passed away following a brief illness. She was born on Sept. 9, 1955 in Rock Springs, the daughter of the late Ralph Aniceto Archuleta and Mabel Elizabeth Carroll Archuleta. Kaeding attended schools in Rock Springs and graduated from Rock Springs High School with the class of 1972. She married Frank Kaeding in Rock Springs, May 13, 1989. Her interests...
Kevin Michael Knezovich, 23, of Rock Springs, passed away July 25, 2015. He had been a lifelong resident of Rock Springs. He was born April 19, 1992 in Rock Springs, the son of Anthony Mark Knezovich, Jr. and Linda Woolen Knezovich. His interests included hunting camping and playing guitar. Survivors include his parents Anthony Mark Knezovich, Jr. and Linda Woolen Knezovich of Rock Springs; daughter Echo Jane Knezovich of New Mexico; brother Christian Knezovich of Rock Springs; two half-brothers...
Kenai, Alaska resident Robert "Bob" Menapace, 69, passed away July 14, 2015 at his home. Memorial services will be 11 a.m. Aug. 8, at Mansface Church in Green River with a reception at the church to follow. Menapace was born March 4, 1946 in Grand Junction, Colo., and he served in the Army Reserve. He worked for Tree Electric and for Bridger Coal Company, both in Rock Springs. He moved to Alaska in 2002 where he worked for GLM Machine Shop in Kenai, Alaska. He was an avid fisherman and enjoyed...
Daniel Milton Stewart, 63, formerly of Green River, passed away July 10, 2015 due to complications of a sudden illness in Casper. Born Dec. 20, 1951 in Rock Springs, Stewart was the first of six children born to Leo and Louise Stewart. He attended schools in Green River and graduated from Lincoln High School in 1970. He later married Denise Durrews and they had two children, Tracy Lynn and Jason. In 1992, He had a third child, Jared with Wendy Fischer. Dan worked at Allied Chemical before...
Ann-Marie Gustavsson Frint, 86, a longtime resident of Green River, passed away July 19, 2015. Frint was born Jan. 8, 1929, in Gaddvik, Nederiulea, Sweden. A celebration of life will take place Thursday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints at 120 Shoshone Drive from 6:30-8:30 p.m....
Tuesday night was a big day for many of Sweetwater County’s youth. The Sweetwater County Fair’s first concert, featuring Martina McBride, took place that night, as well as the opening of the fair’s carnival. For some, the fair represents a chance to eat foods only available at the fair. Jay Erickson, a Green River resident started off with a footlong corn dog at the carnival. Erickson said the fair gives him an opportunity to eat all the food he can find. With funnel cakes, deep-fried food...
One can never be too old to write. In fact, the writing group that meets at the Golden Hour Senior Center, every Wednesday at 12:45 p.m. is hoping this message will reach other seniors. Writing group organizer Mary Anne Bocquin said she and Patsy Sorensen were writing together when they decided to ask the GHSC if they could write at the center once a week. Soon, new seniors started to join them. Bocquin, who was a Green River High School English teacher for 34 years, is not new to the written...
“I still got my ponytail. Praise God,” Steve Barrera said. For the past few weeks, Barrera was busy trying to raise money for the 10th Annual Dean Quail Against Cancer Benefit and Run. Barrera was faced with the possibility of cutting off his 26-inch ponytail. Barrera said the whole idea came about when he was chatting with volunteers for Chariots of Light, a Christian motorcycle club. He jokingly said that if they raise $1,000 he would cut his ponytail off. He forgot about the whole thing unt...
Chuck and Wilma Realing of Green River are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary Saturday. Chuck and Wilma were married July 31, 1965. Chuck and Wilma are both retired Sweetwater County School District No. 2 teachers. Children are Kim (Realing) Skoric and husband, Todd Skoric of Berthoud Colo., Kerri (Realing) Lewis and husband Kim Lewis of Green River, Karin (Realing) Kelly and husband, Brian Kelly of Rock Springs and Kristin (Realing) Gasaway and husband, Kyle Gasaway of Rock Springs....
Despite a rough start, the Green River Knights American Legion Baseball team took second at the state tournament in Lovell last week. While the team was able to edge out Lovell 6-5 in their first match last Tuesday, which head coach Stub Hatfield attributes to a three-run home run hit made by Brendan Hopkins. That narrow game led to the Knights first run-in with the Cody Cubs. “It was ugly,” Hatfield said about the game. The Cubs defeated the Knights 16-1, sending Green River to the losers bracket. Hatfield said the team made eight errors dur...
Ten members of Green River’s USA swim club attended the state swimming championship in Gillette July 17-19. Swim coach Randy Walker said he would have liked to have more swimmers attend, but due to summer vacations and obligations, a majority of the swimmers from the club could not make it to the competition. The swimmers had a good meet, cutting times throughout the competition and improving their skills. “We had some pretty good drops,” Walker said. Walker said Michael Richman competed after recovering from a broken arm. Walker said he pract...
