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A number of Green River children received awards for their artwork during the Green River City Council meeting Tuesday night. The children competed in a coloring contested hosted by the Green River Fire Department, which accepted more than 600 entries from Green River children. Tom Murphy, a Councilman who also serves on the city's volunteer fire department, said the contest was only open to children within Sweetwater County School District No. 2's boundaries. "This is something I'm very...
A book motivated one Green River preschool class to make dog donuts and then take them to the animal shelter to feed the dogs. Last week, Nancy Johnson’s Monkey Class at the Green River Sweetwater County Child Development Center visited the Animal Control Shelter to see how dogs would react to the dog donuts they made. The idea came through the book called “If You Give A Dog a Donut,” by Laura Numeroff. Johnson picked the book because the class was focusing on the letter D and thought this...
The speech and debate team ended its first meet with a fourth-place finish. The Green River High School Speech and Debate Team traveled to Casper this weekend to start this year’s season. Cheyenne East took first, Natrona County grabbed second, Rock Springs nabbed third and Green River came in fourth. Head coach Carina White said they took 41 students and they will continue to improve on their pieces. “Students have worked on perfecting their primary event; now we need to add the secondary eve...
A Green River High School graduate is making a name for himself on the collegiate level in cross country. Braden Reichl, who is a sophomore at the D-2 school Michigan Tech University, was recognized for finishing higher than any other cross country runner in MTU history in the 8K at the GLIAC Conference, which took place Nov. 3. He finished in sixth place with a time of 25:09.7. He received the GLIAC First-Team All-Conference award. Reichl's parents Dawn and Aaron Reichl were at the GLIAC meet....
Five Wolves received All Conference honors in football, with three making All State, according to a list released by the Wyoming Coaches Association. Erik Gwaltney, Kyle Ivie, Anthony Johnson, Anthony Mitchell and Caison Straw made the All-Conference list, while Johnson, Mitchell and Straw were named All State. According to stats from Wyopreps.com, Gwaltney made 34 tackles throughout the season, making 17 assists and 13 solo tackles. He made two sacks, two tackles for lost yardage and one...
Government entities need to be more vigilant in ensuring their discussions occur in public. A recent example of how easy it can be to slip can be seen with Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County’s Board of Trustees. The board, with the exception of Richard Mathey, and the hospital’s CEO discussed pulling hospital funds from Bank of the West in emails sent amongst members of the board in late September. The board ultimately made a decision in October to withdraw those funds from the bank, with board chairman Mathey claiming the board broke the...
It is an interesting time of year. The mid-term elections are over, the days are shorter, and the holidays are picking up speed. Some businesses will have their peak of profits over the next week, while others are slowing down as their staff takes holidays and focuses on family, food, and snagging the best black Friday deals. Some businesses are preparing for year end. Reflecting on accomplishments, balance sheets and wrapping up projects. On a personal level many will take time this week in particular to practice gratitude. Gratitude makes...
I originally intended to run this in October, since Halloween factors perfectly into a game featuring Dracula and other well-known monsters. With the elections, I opted to hold off because allowing our readers to voice their opinions is much more important than me using this space to reminisce about a 31-year-old game I played on a Nintendo Entertainment System Classic Mini. Castlevania Dracula has become one of the most enduring icons of horror. Bram Stoker’s original character, based l...
Voters in three conservative Western states overruled their elected officials in the midterm elections and expanded Medicaid to hundreds of thousands of low-income people via ballot initiatives. “The GOP has been bashing the [Affordable Care Act] for nearly a decade, and voters in the reddest states in the country just rejected that message,” Jonathan Schleifer, executive director of The Fairness Project, told ABC News. “It’s a repudiation and a tectonic shift in health care in this country.” It’s a fair assessment of what happened, b...
Solvay Chemicals is appealing an assessed valuation in regards to property taxes. During the Sweetwater County Commissioners meeting Tuesday morning, the Commissioners heard an update from County Assessor Dave Divis and Sweetwater County Treasurer Robb Slaughter about the appeal process. Commissioner Chairman Reid West said the matter doesn’t require any action from the Commissioners, but thought it would be a good idea for them to hear an update on it. Divis said the Department of Audit conduct...
The Green River City Council approved a request to increase residents solid waste bills from Wyoming Waste Management Tuesday night. The move allows the company to charge an increase to residents based on an increase in a 12-month rolling consumer price index. The CPI increased by 2.3 percent, which is the increase that is expected to amount to 72 cents per month. Councilman Gary Killpack said the increase is minuscule compared to the increases the city projected if it continued operating its...
Emails sent amongst members of the Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County board of trustees show how board members came to a decision regarding its withdrawal of funds from Bank of the West. An environmental policy on the bank’s website created a stir within Wyoming when it stated it would not do business with certain operations within the energy industry. The statement led to the Sweetwater County Commissioners pulling county funds from the bank and Governor-elect Mark Gordon, currently the W...
A summer lifeguard was credited with saving a swim student earlier this year. The lifeguard, Ayden Powers, was recognized by the Sweetwater County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees last week for making the save at the Green River High School Aquatics Center. According to the Aquatics Center’s manager Mike Moody, the high school’s pools are utilized by city swim classes throughout the summer. The youngest students are taught the basics at the center’s therapy pool as the shallow depth is us...
Sherry Darlene Robinson, 63, of Green River, passed away Nov. 18, 2018, at home with her loving husband by her side. She was born Nov. 15, 1955, in Nephi, Utah, the daughter of the late Darlene and William Byron Major. She was the eldest of five siblings. She graduated from Juab High School in Nephi, Utah, with the class of 1973 and later graduated from Le Cordon Bleu of Culinary Arts. On May 22, 1995, she married Don Robinson in Green River. She spent most of her life as a stay at home mom and...
Eileen J. Thompson, 73, of Rock Springs, passed away at her home Nov. 12, 2018, surrounded by her loving family. She was born July 21, 1945, in Taos, N.M., the daughter of Braulio and Ferminia Gomez. Eileen attended schools in Green River and was a 1963 graduate of Lincoln High School. She married Stan Thompson in Rock Springs in July, 1974. Eileen was a medical assistant for many doctors in the area over her more than 30 years of service, retiring in 2008. Her interests included slot machines,...
Rachel McCormick, 53, of Rock Springs, passed away Nov. 17, 2018, at the Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County. A longtime resident of Rock Springs and former resident of Montana, McCormick died following a lengthy illness. She was born July 8, 1965, in Great Falls, Mont., the daughter of William Alfred McCormick and Rachel Elizabeth Branstetter. McCormick attended schools in Joliet, Mont., Rock Springs and Superior. She was employed by Sterling Construction for many years and also home health...
JoAnn Rivera, 72, of Farson, passed away peacefully at her home Nov. 10, 2018, surrounded by three of her 10 children. The daughter of William Lavery and Wanda, she was born March 15, 1946, in Salt Lake City, Utah, the daughter of William Lavery and Wanda Barlow Lavery. Rivera attended schools in Utah. She married Ernie Rivera Jan. 1, 2000, in Rock Springs and he preceded her in death Nov. 26, 2016. Rivera was employed Sweetwater County School District No. 1 and was a custodian for many years....
JoAnn Robertson, 71, of Rock Springs, passed away Nov. 13, 2018, comfortably at her home following a brief illness. She was born July 4, 1947, in Rock Springs, the daughter of David and Mary Bertagnolli. She attended schools in Rock Springs and was a 1965 graduate of Rock Springs High School. She attended three years of college at the University of Wyoming. JoAnn married the love of her life, Richard Robertson in August of 1971 in Rock Springs. Robertson was an secretary for Fremont Motors and...
David "Davy Bear" Ahern Lewis, 68, passed away Nov. 4, 2018, at his home in Rock Springs. He was a resident of Rock Springs for 40 years and is a former resident of Douglaston, N.Y. Lewis was born Oct. 11, 1950, in New York City, the son of Albert Reedy Lewis and Elizabeth Patricia Ahern. He attended Paul Smith College in New York where he obtained a bachelors of arts degree as well as a master's degree in political science. Lewis also attended Western Wyoming Community College as well as the...
Rulon Francis Wells, 87, of McKinnon, passed away Nov. 13, 2018 at the University of Utah after a massive stroke. He was born Dec., 6, 1930, in Provo Bench, Utah, the son of Harry Davison and Gladys Kathern Kiel Wells. Rulon married Veleda Celaya on April 7, 1954, in the Salt Lake City Latter-day Saints Temple. He was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was a veteran, having served in the U.S. Air Force. Survivors include his wife Veleda C. Wells; children Rulon Kiel...
