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From hats, scarfs, purses and handmade knick knacks to rocks, soap, jewelry and candles. The Golden Hour Senior Center's Craft Fair had a little bit of everything. On Friday evening and Saturday, the GHSC was bustling with residents going from room to room looking at crafts and homemade baked goods that were for sale. One table was selling microwavable bowl holders. Bentia Hardinger of Rock Springs and her husband Orrin were selling them. If there wasn't a particular pattern someone wanted,...
Another road trip produced another fourth-place finish for the speech and debate team. The Green River High School Speech and Debate team traveled to Cheyenne this past weekend to compete in Cheyenne South’s tournament. Cheyenne Central took first with 185 points, Cheyenne East took second with a lower 100’s score, Rock Springs grabbed third with 57 points and Green River claimed fourth with 50 points. “We knew we would end up somewhere around there,” head coach Carina White said. “We were miss...
The area west of Green River, past Jamestown, is poised to explode with development in the next few years. A Love’s Travel Stop is going through the permitting process and should that project come to fruition, it wouldn’t be hard to see other developments like a restaurant or some other business built to attract people off of Interstate 80. With that realization, it seems like the vision of past mayors to see expansion west of Green River was the correct course for the city to take and unfortunately, failed to navigate to completion. Past pro...
No one can argue that safety is a priority concern when a school has an active shooter on its grounds. One university is pioneering a rather unique approach to helping students and faculty remain safe and fight back against an assailant. Oakland University, near Detroit, recently purchased 2,500 hockey pucks to distribute to students and faculty. The university has a no weapons policy and Mark Gordon, the university’s police chief, initially suggested using a puck to distract a shooter. ...
Running for an elective office is something I had never pictured myself doing. I’ve even looked down on politicians as somewhat less than human. Then one day I read something written by the Sweetwater County Conservation District (SWCCD), in March, 2018. This could not stand. Something had to be done. It was so utterly wrong and misleading, even using as a supporting document RS2477, written in 1866, then repealed in 1976, that I was shocked and almost vomited. I was mortified at the low level to which a government advisory committee would s...
Candice "Candy" Ann Long, 68, of Rock Springs, passed away Nov. 29, 2018, at her home. She was a former resident of Eden for 30 years. She was born July 15, 1950, in Newcastle, the daughter of Ellsworth Richard Lingle Sr. and Lucille Marie Morgan Lingle. She graduated from Bellflower High School in Bellflower, Calif., with the class of 1968. Candice married Douglas Earl Long July 13, 1968 in Bellflower, Calif. He preceded her in death Sept. 21, 2007. She was employed by Sweetwater County School...
James Rees Radden was born Sept. 30, 1937, in Ainsworth, Neb., to Warren and Helen Radden.James passed away peacefully Nov. 26, 2018, at 81 years of age, after a short struggle with ALS. On March 18, 1961, James married the love of his life, Rachel Dorene Wagner in Casper. They later built a life in Rock Springs where they raised their two children, Dena Lesko and Jeff Radden. James befriended anyone he met and would keep a conversation rolling with his favorite memories and stories. He enjoyed...
Margaret Ann DePoyster Perry, 75, passed away Nov. 30, 2018, at her home in Rock Springs following a lengthy illness. She was a resident of Rock Springs for 40 years and was a former resident of Bellevue, Neb. Perry was born July 22, 1943, in Lawton, Okla., the daughter of Lewis Edward DePoyster and Lohrine Margaret Schernikow. She attended schools in Bellevue, Neb., and was a 1961 graduate of the Bellevue High School. Perry also attended College of Saint Mary in Omaha, Neb., for four years...
In what County Commissioner John Kolb described as “critical” to the Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County’s operations, the Sweetwater County Commission is moving forward with the process to approve a $1 million budget amendment to help the hospital pay for needed maintenance improvements. During the Sweetwater County Commissioners meeting Tuesday morning, a motion was made and unanimously approved to move forward with getting the hospital on the agenda for the next meeting after Kolb gave...
Three streets have still not had improvements completed to them that are covered by the sixth-penny sales tax and one resident wanted to know why. During the Green River City Council meeting last night, questions arose from Green River resident Kevin Kinney as to just how much money the city still had of the 6th-penny tax and why certain improvements hadn’t been made yet. Finance director Chris Meats addressed these questions saying the city has about $3 million of the 6th-penny tax that will b...
Playing an instrument is what allowed 13 Green River students to make their way across the country to perform in front of massive crowds and see national landmarks and monuments. Members of the Green River High School band who are also members of the Wyoming All-State Marching Band recently made their way to New York and Pennsylvania. "My students had the opportunity to play with other high-school musicians from around the state and represent the state of Wyoming on a national level," GRHS band...
The Sweetwater County Historical Museum has a Christmas exhibit on display to celebrate the season. Museum director Brie Blasi said the display was finished Friday afternoon and is comprised of a number of the toys within the museum's collection. Amongst those toys are tin soldiers, dolls, cars and a copy of the Rock Springs Monopoly game. The scene is a vignette of how a living room might have been decorated for Christmas morning. Blasi said the display is based on the theme of "Naughty and...
The boys basketball team will lean on its leadership to have a good season this year. "Our seniors work together like a well-oiled machine," head coach Laurie Ivie said. "Together, they make each other better. We expect our seniors to do big things." Those seniors are Grant Cobb, Haden Counts, Lane Hutchison, Kyle Ivie, Matthew Seymour, Chase Stoeger and Braxton Yeager. Six of the seven have all contributed at the varsity level prior to this season. The team also has a handful of juniors and...
Head wresting coach Josh Wisniewski is looking forward to the upcoming wrestling season. While Wisniewski admits he doesn't have anyone competing at the heavy weight division this year, he's confident he has a very strong group of wrestlers competing at all other levels. "We're going to have a solid line up," he said. Wisniewski is in his second year as head wrestling coach for the Wolves. The main lesson he learned last year that he brings with him is how hard work pays off on the mat. "We have...
The Lady Wolves basketball team has been hitting the courts for the past couple of weeks to prepare for the season. "We have a lot of girls that have come out to play basketball this year," head coach Rick Carroll said. So far, he's noticed how positive the players' attitudes are and how quickly they are unifying as a team. This year, 36 Lady Wolves from freshman to seniors have been at practices, consisting of four seniors, nine juniors, 10 sophomores and 13 freshmen. "We all practice at the...
For head indoor track coach Dan Hansen, the upcoming season isn’t about winning a state championship. Hansen said he wants the team to improve on its performance last year at State, when the Wolves scored 16 points at the competition. However, he wants to help give the competitors an edge in whichever sport they later participate in. “Our goal is to get better,” Hansen said. “We’re just trying to build better overall athletes.” Indoor track is often seen as an activity that prepares and feeds a...
The upcoming Flaming Gorge Classic Basketball Tournament is sure to bring excitement to Green River’s basketball fans Dec. 13-15. The Green River High School athletics office released a schedule for the tournament Friday morning and will pit the Wolves and Lady Wolves against teams from Idaho, Utah and Wyoming. The times listed are subject to change. All varsity games will be at the GRHS main gym, while JV games will be played at the auxiliary gym. Varsity Boys Dec. 13: GR vs. Westside, Idaho, 7:40 p.m. Dec. 14: GR vs. Thunder Basin, 4:20 p...
The Green River Wolves swimming team is training hard for their first meet. Diving and assistant coach Rick Barker said this year there are about 26 swimmers and four divers who have decided to join the swim team. For the past 10 days, the swimmers have been working on getting back into shape and improving their strokes, while the divers have been busy coming up with six different dives to be ready for competition. The team has been putting in an hour of weight lifting before school; and after...
