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Thanks to community volunteers, soldiers serving overseas will receive a care package for Christmas. The Sweetwater County Eagles Club in Green River was transformed Sunday afternoon into a makeshift assembly line for the purpose of creating and packing care-packages for local soldiers serving overseas. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 2321 members, Girl Scouts and community members were busy opening white United States Postal Service priority mail boxes, taping them and putting them in a...
Visitors to the Sweetwater County Historical Museum will have the chance to see photos of past Christmases on display. The small exhibit features a number of photos taken from different periods of Green River's history, including photos of different depictions of Santa Claus. The exhibit also features old toys from the museum's collection, including civil war soldiers, a remote control dog and doll houses. They also feature old fashioned games such as dominoes, which can also be found in the...
The Green River High School Speech and Debate team took their skills to another state this past weekend. The Tournament of Champions took place in Alta, Utah, and showcased debate students from around the country. During this tournament, individual awards are given out and students have the chance to receive a bid to the national Tournament of Champions. “We normally don’t compete in the TOC circuit and it has a very specific and more rapid style of debate across the board,” head coach Carina St...
Anthony Donovan Cervantes Crystal Mason and Mike Cervantes Jr. of Rock Springs recently announced the birth of their son Anthony Donovan Cervantes. He was born Dec. 5, 2015, at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County. Nathaniel Lance Carmine Christopher Carmine and Marie Hall of Rock Springs recently announced the birth of their son Nathaniel Lance Carmine. He was born Dec. 1, 2015, at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County. Dossen Cruize Moffitt Josh and Brittany Moffitt recently announced the birth of their son Dossen Cruize Moffitt. He was...
The children of Ellis Ramon Walker invite friends and family to celebrate his 80th birthday with his wife, Verla Walker, and their family Saturday, Dec. 19, from 4-6 p.m. at the LDS Church in Lyman. No gifts please....
A yearly tradition in Green River has been Santa's arrival to the city and this year was no different, as the jolly man in the red suit brought smiles to kids awaiting his visit Saturday afternoon. While most associate Santa riding in a sleigh pulled by his nine trusty reindeer, Santa and his wife arrived to the Eagles Club in style. Santa rode in on the back of a motorcycle while Mrs. Claus rode with firefighters in the city's vintage firetruck. Children lined up to greet Santa and were...
Officers were dispatched to an alarm on Faith Drive. Officers checked the property, everything appeared OK and contacted a responsible party for the property. Officers assisted Castle Rock Ambulance personnel on a medical call. Officers contacted an individual, in reference to a report of a stolen large plastic water tank, on 515 E. Flaming Gorge Way. Officers completed a report regarding the incident, which is under investigation. VIN checks were conducted at the Green River Police Department. Officers contacted an individual who reported...
Janie Beth Hamner, 71, Rock Springs, passed away Nov. 30, 2015 at her home. A longtime resident of Rock Springs and former resident of Table Rock, Hamner died following a sudden illness. She was born on August 15, 1944 in Littlefield, Texas, the daughter of the late Louis Leslie Conner and Pauline Evelyn Vandiver. Hamner attended schools in Amarillo, Texas and was a 1962 graduate of Tascosa High School. She was employed as funeral director at Vase Funeral Home. She was an employee for the past...
Minnie Elaine Dolinar, 85, of Rock Springs passed away Dec. 2, 2015. A long time resident of Rock Springs, Dolinar died following a lengthy illness. She was born on June 1, 1930 in Rock Springs, he daughter of the late Angelo and Lucy DeCora Cordero. Dolinar attended schools in Rock Springs and was a 1948 graduate of Rock Springs High School. She married Edward J. Dolinar on August 5, 1950, in Rock Springs, and he preceded her in death on June 11, 2014. She was a homemaker and an active member...
Helen Marie (Tycoles) Hyndman of Greeley, Colo., and former longtime resident of Green River passed away Nov. 20, 2015 after a brief illness. She was born on July 13, 1934 in Kamsack, Saskatchewan, Canada to Mike and Mary (Shmon) Tycoles. She married Keith (Sam) Hyndman on Feb. 14, 1961 in Cheyenne. She became a naturalized citizen on July 10, 1967. The two moved to Green River in 1968. Hyndman loved many things in her life. Her family, baking, knitting reading , gardening and her little dog Nikki. She also loved to sew, making outfits for her...
Ronald L. Moskovita 54, of Green River passed away Nov. 26, 2015, at his home. A longtime resident of Idaho, Moskovita died following a lengthy illness. He was born Aug. 22, 1961 in Idaho Falls, Idaho to Bert Bybee and Shirley Jean Merchant-Moskovita and later adopted by his step-father John Moskovita. He was employed as a truck driver, equipment operator and was a part of the union. Moskovita had a big heart and loved his family, he enjoyed fishing, camping, rock hunting, and teaching his...
Vivian West, 92, of Rock Springs passed away Dec. 5, 2015, at the Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County. A longtime resident of Green River and Rock Springs and former resident of Portland, Ore., West died following a lengthy illness. She was born on Sept. 25, 1923 in Oregon, the daughter of the late Cornelius and Elizabeth Richert. West attended schools in Oregon. She married Harold J. Roberts, Jr. in 1941 and in 1965 he was killed while serving a tour in Vietnam. She later married Ernest G....
Hal Clyde Wood, 71, of Green River, passed away Dec. 1, 2015 at his home. A longtime resident of Green River, Wood died following a sudden illness. He was born on Nov. 23, 1944 in Salt Lake City, the son of Clyde Quincy Wood and Beth Rhodes Wood. Wood attended schools in Cheyenne and graduated from Cheyenne East High School in 1963. He married Terry Lee McFarland Wood in Cheyenne on July 11, 1964. Wood was employed as a telephone tech for U.S. West for more than 30 years and retired in 2000. For...
The Green River school district is targeting e-cigarettes and vaporizers in a series of amendments to school policies. Last night, the district’s board of trustees approved amendments to the school’s athletics handbook and its suspension and expulsion guidelines to include the use of e-cigarettes and vaporizers. A third amendment to the student conduct guidelines was voted down by the board in order for its language to match up with language used in the other two amendments. The amendment will b...
A former Sweetwater County Museum employee convicted of stealing money from the museum was ordered to pay the money back or go to prison Tuesday morning. Cynthia J. McCullers, 51, of Green River, appeared in the Third District Court of Judge Nena James at a sentencing hearing after she pleaded guilty to felony theft at an earlier hearing. The felony larceny charge was dismissed as part of a plea agreement. At the hearing, McCullers was sentenced to between three and six years in the Wyoming Women’s Center in Lusk, which was suspended. She w...
Local law enforcement recently attended a drug and alcohol seminar focusing on drug-related crime. Facilitating the seminar was Ernie Johnson of the Governor’s Council on Impaired Driving. “Every county faces the same issue,” Johnson said. “I don’t think Green River is any worse.” Johnson said when there are crimes, more often than not, there is alcohol involved. The good news for Wyoming is 8 percent of state crimes are felonies, while the majority, 92 percent are misdemeanors, or minor crime...
A man walking his dog early Thursday morning prompted a lockout nearly encompassing the entire school district in Green River. According to a release from the Green River Police Department, at about 7 a.m. Dec. 3, an employee at Green River High School reported seeing someone walking through the school's parking lot with what they believed to be a rifle slung over their shoulder. The school resource officer, with staff from the school, reviewed security footage and saw a man walk an airedale...
The Sweetwater County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees voted to issue a request for proposal regarding virtual equipment simulators. The board initially heard a presentation about the simulators last month, when Special Services Director Alan Demaret said the simulators could be used to help students in the special services department obtain higher paying jobs. The simulators discussed at that time were a forklift simulator and a heavy equipment simulator that could be used to train for...
The new city ordinance concerning disorderly conduct raises a question of Green River’s influx of transients and other disturbances, which the ordinance now can deal with. “It’s not a huge problem, but we have a pretty heavy influx of transients in the summer months,” Green River Police Chief Chris Steffen said. “We deal with that problem every summer.” Steffen says it’s been an issue for quite a long time now in Green River. It hasn’t gotten any worse, but it hasn’t gotten any better either, an...
Terry Michael Zanetti, 71, lifelong resident of Rock Springs, died Nov. 28, 2015, at his home after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was born April 1, 1944 in Rock Springs, the son of Pete Zanetti and Billie Carroll Zanetti. He attended schools in Rock Springs and graduated from Rock Springs High School with the class of 1962. He had also attended Western Wyoming Community College and University of Wyoming. He had served in the Wyoming National Guard for a number of years. He had worked as a...
Hello, Green River, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Stacey Palmer, and I am the new Young Adult Librarian at the Sweetwater County Library. I am excited to be working with Green River’s middle school and high school students at the library and through programs and events. We are always planning new things, so stop on by, say hi, and tell me what kinds of activities you would like to participate in. Since I’m new to town, let me tell you a little bit about myself. I just moved here from Los Angeles, but I grew up in Mountain Vie...
Starting anything new can be a daunting task, even something as simple as joining an organization, taking up a hobby or checking out new places. For some people, even the Green River Recreation Center could be intimidating. But don’t worry; the smiling staff is there to help. The Green River Recreation Center is not a business; it’s a part of the community. Once through the door, there are so many different areas to exercise, like the weight room, pool, gym, racquetball courts and even the fitness class room. If the exercise takes its toll or y...
A couple months ago, I was trying some new hair styles. One day, I decided to curl my hair, which is something I had not done in a very long time. As I was curling my hair, I was getting frustrated because it didn’t seem to keep the curl. I switched curling irons, and the new one was working better. After I was done, I decided to spritz my hair with spritz hair spray. I then noticed I missed a spot. So I picked up the curling iron, grabbed that piece of hair and put it into the curling iron. M...
