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Recent appointments to the Sweetwater County Combined Communications Joint Powers Board have revealed both a distrust of who appointees from Rock Springs represent and flaws in the county’s board application process. At the start of the month, the Sweetwater County Commissioners deliberated on two board appointments for the Sweetwater County Combined Communications Joint Powers Board, which oversees emergency dispatch services throughout the county. Up for reappointment were Rock Springs Fire Ch...
By HANNAH ROMERO Staff Writer When Golden Hour Senior Center celebrated Saint Patrick's Day last week, one of the smiling faces helping hand out bread pudding belonged to Ruth Lauritzen. The festive party was Lauritzen's first big event as GHSC's new director after she started March 9. "The job has been a steep learning curve, lots to learn, lots to know," Lauritzen said. "But I think I'm doing all right on it and getting there." Working at the senior center is Lauritzen's way of getting back...
Carol Petty, 66, passed away on February 13, 2022 at the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was a longtime resident of Rock Springs, Wyoming and former resident of Albuquerque, New Mexico. She was born December 25, 1955 in Roselle, New Jersey; the daughter of George Rayner and Dorothy “Dolly” Schoonmaker. Mrs. Petty attended schools in Roselle, New Jersey and was a 1973 graduate of Abraham Clark High School. She obtained three Bachelor’s Degrees from Colorado; Biology; Medicine; Organic Chemistry and one Bache...
Aubrey Carol Jones, 37, passed away March 14, 2022 at her home in Rock Springs, Wyoming. She was a resident of Rock Springs, Wyoming for the past 18 years and former resident of Fort Pierce, Florida She was born May 4, 1984 in Fort Pierce, Florida; the daughter of Glenn H. Jones and Judy C. Daigneau. Aubrey attended schools in Fort Pierce, Florida. She graduated from Indian River Community College with an Associates in Arts degree in Science in 2003. She worked at Genesis Alkali Westvaco for...
Terrence "Terry" Sundeen, 65, of Green River, Wyoming; formally of Brocket and Lakota, North Dakota, passed away Thursday, March 17, 2022 at Mission at Castle Rock Rehabilitation Center under the loving care of the staff and the staff of Hospice of Sweetwater County. He died following a lengthy illness. Terry was born July 27, 1956 in Devils Lake, North Dakota; the son of Nils Sundeen and Mary Cole Sundeen. He was raised on the Sundeen Farm and loved farming and was in his glory on a tractor....
Stanley Barras Reay, 91, passed away Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at TenderNest Assisted Living in Billings, Montana. He was a resident of Montana for the last two years and former resident of Gateshead, England; Rock Springs, Wyoming. He was born October 19, 1930 in Chester-le-Street, England; the son of John Teasdale Reay and Mary Jane Dixon. Mr. Reay attended schools in Pelton Village in England. He was married to Margaret Hillier and they had two sons from this union. She preceded him in death...
Robert Gene Neibert, 92, of Idaho Falls, passed away peacefully on March 16, 2022, at home. Robert was born January 30, 1930, in St. Louis, Missouri, to Peter Joseph Neibert and Gladys Winnefred Jackson. He had one sibling Betty Bryan, whom he loved and adored very much. Growing up, he was always protective of his little sister and loved being her big brother. He grew up and attended schools in St. Louis. Robert enlisted in the Army Air Corp February 12, 1945, at the young age of 15 years old....
Daniel Sevanovich, 64, passed away Wednesday, February 9, 2022 at Billings Clinic Hospital in Billings, Montana. He was a resident of the Wyoming Life Resource Center in Lander, Wyoming since 1969. Daniel received incomparably capable and compassionate care for over fifty years to provide for his health, training, and recreational needs. Mr. Sevanovich was born November 20, 1957 in Rock Springs, Wyoming; the son of Daniel Sevanovich and Olga Bertagnolli. He attended schools in Wyoming. Mr....
Oreste "Rusty/Junior" Frazzini Jr., 88, passed away at home in Sun City West, Arizona on March 6, 2022. Rusty was a resident of Sun City West, Arizona for 32 years, and former resident of Salt Lake City, Utah and Rock Springs, Wyoming. He was born November 29, 1933 in Rock Springs, Wyoming; the son of Oreste Frazzini Sr. and Stella Mariani Frazzini. Rusty attended schools in Rock Springs and was a 1951 graduate of the Rock Springs High School. He then attended college at University of Utah. He s...
Dear Editor, Regarding Simone Keevert’s March 17 “Threat to the Editor,” in the Green River Star, she is mostly wrong. Her complaint was that on February 24, the paper published a little editorial suggesting that it is “Time for Wyoming to get off the Trump train.” It was not signed because “Editorial Roundups” never are, including in one of America’s favorite and very conservative newspapers, The Wall Street Journal. Such editorials are the collective result of well-informed opinion, as one might expect to find in a newsroom. In the case of...
Dear Editor, The government has no obligation to protect you from death. That fact is well known and quite logical and enforced by the courts since time immemorial let alone during the minuscule lifetime of the United States. The fact of the matter is for the state to protect you they would have to supply every human with a protector which cannot be done because who’s going to protect the protectors? It is your obligation to maintain your life and in order to interfere with that the government must have a compelling interest in allowing you t...
Green River Police Department reports for March 11 At 8:13 a.m., officers responded to a report of property damage on Cumorah Way. Officers met with an individual who reported their ex had broken a window of their vehicle. Officers were able to make contact with the suspected individual and the individual agreed to pay for the window. Officers later received a receipt showing the window had been repaired and completed a report of the incident. At 8:52 p.m., officers at the GRPD office responded to a report of an agency assist for the Uinta...
Patricia Swan-Smith has had a story in her heart and on her mind for over a decade, and she'll finally be able to not only share it with others but see it come to life on stage with the Actors' Mission's latest production, "A Reason." The play deals with the topics of mental health, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), suicide, trauma and the role these subjects play in the American prison system. Swan-Smith wrote the story based largely on her own experiences as a journalist and mental health...
After working hard all season, seven members of Green River High School’s Speech and Debate team will be headed to the National Speech and Debate tournament June 12 to 18 in Louisville, Kentucky, where it will be held in person for the first time in three years. Green River’s Speech and Debate team went to the Wyoming State tournament two weekends ago, but several team members were unable to attend, and Green River didn’t have any team members place in finals. “So it didn’t go well in terms of c...
Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County will end its COVID-19 Drive-thru Swab Station services on Saturday, March 26. It will no longer offer no-cost testing. Sweetwater Memorial’s drive-thru is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday under the awning at 1200 College Drive through March 26. After that, COVID-19 specimen collection can be arranged at curative.com. The hospital has operated the site since March 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic, said Mary Fischer, MHSC Medical Laboratory Director. Since then, the hospital has t...
The Wyoming Department of Transportation and contract crews will be initiating work on several projects this spring around Sweetwater County. Bridge rehabilitation on WYO 530, Uinta Drive in Green River WYDOT and contract crews from Reiman Corp. will be working on the northbound bridge over the Green River on Uinta Drive in Green River, which started March 22. Traffic will be diverted to the southbound bridge, with one traveling lane in each direction. Travelers are advised to be aware of possible delays. The lane closures are tentatively...
CASPER — Questions about the advanced nuclear reactor planned for Kemmerer have circulated since the day TerraPower announced it would be built in Wyoming. People living near the candidate sites wanted to know where the spent fuel would go. If — and how — the electricity the plant generated would be taxed. Whether workers would be rehired from the coal plant it ended up replacing, and if the coal mine the plant relied on would survive. Wyoming, home to the vestiges of a booming uranium industry, still houses plenty of untapped uranium reser...
The outdoor track season has gotten off to a great start for the Green River Wolves. Sporting a strong group of seniors who have been involved in the program since their freshman days, the team is looking to make a name for itself this season. Head coach Dan Hansen said the team has worked very hard in the last three weeks of practice. Despite spring break taking place last week and late winter weather not supportive of outdoor track activities, Hansen said many of his athletes pushed through...
Although it's only their second year to even exist, the Green River High School girls fastpitch softball team is already improving drastically. After not winning any games in their inaugural season, the team has won two out of three games after just their first weekend. "We're leaps and bounds ahead of where we were last year at this time," head coach Blaire Aimone said. This year's season started with the Lady Wolves taking on three other teams last Saturday during a tournament hosted in...
The Green River High School Boys Soccer Team is looking to score a successful season this spring through what first-year head coach Jorge Salcedo describes as a more aggressive style. The Wolves have already seen some success with this play style, earning a 3-0 win over Cheyenne South during the Todd Melonek Soccer Festival in Green River Friday. The team took a loss Saturday against Laramie in a game that ended 2-1, but Salcedo said while wins and losses are important, he's not very concerned w...
The Green River High School girls soccer team is off to a strong start under new leadership, starting the season 1-1 after last weekend's games. The Lady Wolves faced their first opponent last Friday when they took on Cheyenne South at home. The game was tied after each team had scored one goal, with Zella Maez getting Green River's goal during the first half. Cheyenne South tied the game with a goal late in the second half. The game went into a shoot out, and Brynlee Doak and Kiley Strange...
