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While the school year started for most students last Wednesday, high school athletes started working hard a few days earlier. Practices for high school athletics started Monday of last week, with dozens of students getting a chance to work off the rust developed over a long summer vacation. While practices are needed to improve skills and get more experience, they're also needed to make sure students are eligible for competition. According to the Wyoming High School Activities Association,...
There was lots of friendly competition and jokes about being dealt bad cards at the Golden Hour Senior Center Thursday during the pinochle tournament. Drawing inspiration from senior centers in Rock Springs and Evanston, who have regularly put on pinochle tournaments, GHSC decided to try its first day-long tournament. "I think everybody's had a good time," GHSC employee Mary Grubb said. The seniors started around 10 a.m. and were wrapping up the tournament at around 4 p.m. A few volunteers...
The aroma of cinnamon and fresh-baked bread overwhelm the senses. Following the blissful smell, leads one to Janice Castillon who is busily working in a sort of secret area behind the Golden Hour Senior Center's main kitchen. Castillon is busy rolling out dough for her ever-so-popular cinnamon rolls on a wooden surface before placing the cinnamon, brown sugar, raisins and walnuts on the dough. She then rolls up the dough, trapping the sugar, cinnamon, raisins and walnuts inside. She proceeds to...
Twenty four hours was all the participants in the live sculpting and 2D competitions were given to complete their work. Both Green River, Sweetwater County and out-of-state artists gathered at the Expedition Island pavilion Friday and Saturday to compete in the Art on the Green competition. While the artists worked on their clay sculptures, drawings or paintings, residents walked through the pavilion looking at them and asking them questions about their particular pieces of art. Kinear resident...
For Tony Beardsley, athletic director of Sweetwater County School District No. 2, the philosophy is simple. “Everything we do should be done ... to benefit those kids,” Beardsley said. “Anything we can do to get children involved in activities is going to benefit the community.” More than a year after he took over as the district’s athletics director, Beardsley admits there is a lot he still wants to accomplish. However, he has brought a lot to the table already. One of Beardsley’s more recent...
It was a chilly, but wind-free morning Saturday as the runners lined up for the Run With the Horses marathon, half marathon and 10K. Shortly before sunrise, a group of about 127 runners from across the country started running the race at Expedition Island. The group then ran up to Wild Horse Canyon Road and made their way along the gravel Wild Horse Loop Tour. John Pawleska, Riverfest and Green River Chamber of Commerce volunteer, said the turnout was less then last year, but that could have...
It’s a sound no mother ever wants to hear. The sound of panic and fear in their child’s voice. Unfortunately, this is exactly the sound Green River resident Kymbrlee Smith heard Thursday afternoon. The Smith family and a few other families gathered at the Green River pelican beach, which is located near Expedition Island. This area is called the pelican beach because of the large pelican statue near the kayak U-drop. “My son and a couple of other boys were catching crawdads,” Kymbrlee said. A...
Green River residents are once again being asked what their stance is on the deer population. After hearing from numerous residents at a Green River City Council workshop on the deer population in the city, the Council decided to have residents complete a second survey regarding whether or not they would support thinning the deer population through culling. This would be the second survey sent out to residents on the same subject. According to Green River Police Chief Chris Steffen, the first...
Green River will have a new fire chief, but it will not be a new face or name for the community to remember. This week, the city of Green River announced Green River Fire Department Capt. Mike Nomis, of Green River, as its new fire chief. For the past 25 years, Mike has volunteered for the GRFD; and has been in the captain's position since 2010. "It's been a lifelong dream that I wanted to be fire chief," Mike said. Mike said, his father, George Nomis, was also the GRFD chief. "My whole life my...
One person Green River residents have become accustomed to seeing at the River Festival's Cajun Shrimp Boil is United States Senator John Barrasso, R-Wyo. This year's shrimp boil was no different. Despite the chilly and windy conditions, hundreds of residents, along with Sen. Barrasso attended the shrimp boil. While at the boil, Barrasso was put to work shoving the shrimp down to members of the Green River High School cheerleading squad who were placing the shrimp in styrofoam containers. "I...
Residents should get comfortable with detours if they frequently use the Union Pacific Underpass. The underpass closed Monday, with all traffic being rerouted down Flaming Gorge Way. The project, paid for through sixth-penny sales taxes, will include the replacement of the road surface, as well as curb, gutter and sidewalk for 950 feet from South 1st West Street to the UP driveway. A 12-inch water line will also replace an aging 12-inch asbestos-cement pipe. Reopening the road to traffic is expected to take place in mid-October, with...
Donald Thomas Newey, 65, of Green River passed away peacefully at his home Aug. 18, 2016. A longtime resident of Green River, Wyo., and former resident of Ogden, Utah, Newey died following a lengthy Illness. Newey was born Jan. 10 1951 in Arlington, Va., the son of Donald H. and Mary Jane Newey. Newey graduated from Ogden High School in 1969 and later from Stevens Henager College. He married his High School sweetheart Jacqueline Dee Fielding of Ogden July 7, 1970. They were happily married for 4...
Mary Seivert passed away peacefully Aug. 4, 2016, from natural causes. She was 101years old. Seivert was born Nov. 12, 1914, in Rock Springs, the daughter of John and Mary Karlin. She had one sister, Ada Starman, and one brother, John Karlin, who preceded her in death and has one half sister, Bette Powell, of Santa Clara, Calif. Seivert grew up in Rock Springs, attended Rock Springs High School and graduated with the class of 1933. Shortly thereafter, she became employed at Mountain Bell Telepho...
Donald E. Cox, 76, of Rock Springs passed away Aug. 17, 2016 at his home. A longtime resident of Rock Springs, and former resident of West Virginia, Cox died following a lengthy illness. He was born March 27, 1940, in Clarksburg, W.Va., the son of Louis Preston Cox and Goldie Bly Bennett Cox. Cox attended school in Philippi, W. Va., and was a 1958 graduate of the Philippi High School. He also attended El Paso Community College and obtained a degree in welding. He married Marina Irene Trujillo in...
Wyatt Levi Kalivas, 18, of Superior passed away Aug. 13, 2016. He had been a longtime resident of Sweetwater County. He was born May 15, 1998, in Rock Springs, the son of Paul Kalivas and Kendra Shorten. He attended school in Rock Springs and was a 2016 graduate of Rock Springs High School. He was fascinated with motors and he could be found riding his motorcycle or driving his trucks in the wide open spaces. He loved all things outdoors and spent as much time as possible hunting, fishing, campi...
Wanda Mae (Jones) Lemmon, 87, of Thornton, Colo., passed away from natural causes on Aug. 7, 2016. A resident of Rock Springs from her birth until she moved to Colorado in 2011, she had been staying at Lifecare Center of Longmont, Colo., for the past few weeks. During that time, she was able to spend meaningful time with many of her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, and was with family when she passed. Lemmon was born Sept. 11, 1928, she attended school and worked in Rock Springs...
Betty Jean Sumner, 85, of Rock Springs passed away Aug. 17, 2016, at her home. She was a longtime resident of Rock Springs and former resident of Williston, N. D. Sumner died following a lengthy illness. She was born in Williston, N.D., the daughter of the late Axel and Josephine Davidson. Sumner attended school in Williston, N.D., and was a high-school graduate of the Williston High School. She married Leonard Sumner in Williston, N. D., July 10, 1953, and he preceded her in death Feb. 24,...
With the conclusion of last weekend’s River Festival, summer events in Green River have ended for the year. While fall brings its own excitement to the city’s residents, we can’t help but feel that Green River should have more going on during the summer months. The city hosts three major events during the three months, two of which occur in June. While we understand the tremendous number of volunteer hours needed to pull off The Overland Stage Stampede Rodeo, Flaming Gorge Days and the River Festival, we think Green River would benefit from...
Going into my senior year of college is exciting, but it’s also quite scary. I look forward to another year of college, but I can’t help but stress about what happens when I graduate. I know I am not the first person to go through this stage in life, and I know I will get the hang of adulthood eventually just as everyone does, but I just don’t feel totally ready for the real adult experience yet. “What are you going to do after you graduate?” That is the question I am so often asked these days, to which I always answer with some variation...
Ugh. Whenever I see some spray-painted images imitating real art, I can’t help but silently rage at the fact that someone doesn’t take pride in their community. Some images spray painted onto a wall might seem like a small issue, but what it communicates to the outside world is something anyone who cares about Green River should worry about. I’ve written about graffiti before. Driving down Flaming Gorge Way and seeing something like the pistol and heart-shaped shot group painted beneath the b...
Among the collection of artifacts housed at the Sweetwater County Historical Museum is a large shell horn. With a red and black wooden mouthpiece installed on one side and tied with a dark red cord, the shell's inclusion in a small Wyoming museum's collection may seem odd to some. The shell horn is known as a horagai and it originates from Japan. The horn is constructed from a triton shell and red cord wrapped around from the mouthpiece and shell is known as the kainō. Tassels at each end of the...
