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Sweetwater County might be the site for a new gun manufacturing facility. During an update given to both the Green River City Council and Sweetwater County Commissioners Tuesday, Kayla McDonald, the business development manager for the Sweetwater Economic Development Coalition, said a company plans to scout possible locations this Spring for their facility. The manufacturer, though unnamed, is looking at the county after the SEDC responded to a Wyoming Business Council lead named Project Arms. A...
Secretary of State Ed Murray visited Green River to talk about the state’s upcoming challenges and opportunities, as well as speak with local officials about Sweetwater County. Murray said he was invited to speak to members of the Green River Chamber of Commerce after attending the annual Cajun Shrimp Boil during Riverfest in August. Murray believes Wyoming at a point of reckoning, where it will have to address the boom and bust economic cycles it has dealt with during the past several d...
A man accused of kicking his pregnant girlfriend pleaded not guilty to one felony charge. Hector Jaciel Perez-Villegas, 20, of Green River recently appeared in the Third District Court of Judge Richard Lavery at an arraignment to aggravated assault and battery. If found guilty, Perez-Villegas could face a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a maximum fine of $10,000. According to court documents on Sept. 18, 2016, a Green River Police officer went to Bridger Drive to check on a possible...
Wyoming’s notorious winters are marked by some of the most severe durations of snowfall, freezing rain and blowing snow. Western Wyoming’s winter conditions are severe and unlike any other region, with winds exceeding sustained speeds of 30-40 miles per hours with gusts to 50 or 60 miles per hour. The wind, coupled with snowfall and snow drifting, can create blizzard conditions, wind chills and ice pockets that challenge any road maintenance team. For those who must travel, WYDOT is offering these winter driving tips: • First and foremost, wear...
Leisa Kay Butcher, 54, passed away Dec. 13, 2016 at the L.D.S. Hospital in Salt Lake City following a week long illness. She was a resident of Evanston for the past 15 years and former resident of Green River. She was born March 16, 1962 in Rock Springs, the daughter of Jerald Butcher and Patricia Orme Butcher. Butcher had many years of training at the Mountain Regional Services in Evanston. She was a member of the Saint John's Episcopal Church. Her interests included spending time with family,...
Elizabeth (Betty) Ann Eastman passed away Dec. 14, 2016, at her home in Green River after a long battle with cancer. She was born Dec. 18, 1932, in Bozeman, Mont. She had been a resident of Green River for the past 43 years, and former resident of Pocatello, Idaho, for 13 years. She was preceded in death by her husband Donald in 2013, after 51 years of marriage; sisters, Jerry Cockran and Mertz Hodge, brother Jim Haggerty and parents Edward and Eva Haggerty. Survivors include sons Dan Eastman of...
Floyd Johnny Ortega, 67, of Green River passed away Dec. 9, 2016, at the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City. A lifelong resident of Green River, Ortega died following a brief illness. He was born Jan. 20, 1949, in Rock Springs, the son of Domenico and Audilia Martinez Ortega. Ortega attended the Green River High School and was a 1967 graduate. He was a United States Marine veteran of the Vietnam War and served from 1967 until 1969 when he received his honorable discharge. He married...
Joanna K. Griffin, 82, passed away Dec. 14, 2016, at Deer Trail following a lengthy illness. She was resident of Rock Springs and a former resident of Tucson, Ariz. She was born Aug. 4, 1934, in Cortez, Colo., the daughter of Joseph Zimmerman and Velma Bracken Zimmerman. Griffin attended schools in Colorado and Wyoming She married James C. Griffin in Tucson, Ariz., in 1973 and he preceded her in death in 1978. Griffin was in healthcare as a CNA from 1965-1994. She was a member of the Holy...
Tucker Eugene Atkins, 13, of Green River, passed away Dec. 17, 2016, at his home. He was born on Nov. 26, 2003, in Ogden, Utah, the son of Jason William and Tonya Lee Wacaser Atkins. Tucker was a pure, sweet boy. He was always happy and had a smile for everyone he met. He loved children and babies. Tucker had a special way with people. He had a gift to be able to touch everyone's hearts. He loved helping special needs children and at the convalescence center. Tucker had a way of bringing light...
Sonya Levine, 57, passed away Dec. 16, 2016, in Evanston. She was a beloved mother and wife. Sonya loved the outdoors from being in her garden to the lakes, rivers, mountains or desert. Sonya loved to go rocking and fishing camping and hunting. Other hobbies were coloring, beading and just sitting with her best friend Buddy, her dog. Sonya was preceded in death by her father, Earl Jones and her son, Glen Geiger; two brothers, John Jones and Nathan Jones of Green River; mother in law, Jean...
State should lead in climate change policy Dear Editor, Climate change is a global emergency on the scale of—and of greater consequence than—the Second World War. And, yet, this country’s environmental and regulatory policies barely acknowledge that climate change is even “a thing.” Climate science assumes change and attempts to quantify how it is changing; yet it wasn’t even brought up in recent “presidential” “debates.” If the global average temperature increases any more than 2°C (3.4°F), crops will begin to fail around the world. We will se...
Dear Editor, The Red Desert is home to many Wyoming treasures including desert elk, one of the largest living sand dune systems in the U.S., and the Boar’s Tusk. These treasures are located primarily on public lands managed by the BLM. The Rock Springs BLM is currently drafting a new management plan that will determine the future of a large portion of the Red Desert for the next 20-25 years. The public should be a part of this process, which will determine the future of the Red Desert. Unfortunately, it has been nearly six years since the publi...
Happy Donkey Days! Each Christmas, businesses scramble to find ways to get shoppers through the doors with coupons, prizes, and special offers. In 1957, the Green River Chamber of Commerce tried a special kind of contest to help bring shoppers to the bustling shopping scene of downtown Green River. Donkey Days was a several weeks-long event where Green River stores featured “their holiday goods and favorable prices…to bring home to Green River people the variety of merchandise…to be found in these stores. It culminated just before Chris...
With the upcoming closure of the Green River City Landfill and the construction of the Transfer Station, many people are asking questions about how and why we are pursuing these actions, and what the city’s garbage system will look like in the future. We at the Public Works Department wanted to take this opportunity to let people know a little bit of the background on how the system has evolved in the last few years, and how the decisions that have been made related to the city’s garbage system have been intended to limit cost increases and...
If you’ve been counting down the days until the Winter Solstice (the shortest day of the year) congratulations, we made it and now the days start getting longer. If it doesn’t seem that way, perhaps it’s because while the sun begins to set a little later from here until summer, it rises a little later in the day until Jan. 3. So when Christmas rolls around this Sunday, even though you’ve told yourself, “the days are getting longer,” your eyes aren’t seeing the light of day any earlier. Some sleep scientists attribute this annual phenomenon as...
The Green River Lady Wolves Basketball team headed into the Flaming Gorge Classic with a three game winning streak. However, the team came out of this past weekend's tournament 2-2. On Thursday the Lady Wolves used the momentum of the previous wins to capture another victory. They came out on top of the Rawlins Outlaws, 58-50. On Friday, the Lady Wolves had a taste of what it is like to be on the other side of the game. They lost both of their Friday games. The first loss was to Star Valley...
Competing against some of the best teams in Colorado, the Green River High School wrestlers ended competition in Grand Junction, Colo., and Fruita, Colo., with a seventh-place finish for the varsity team and a sixth-place finish for the junior varsity squad. Varsity wrestlers competed against 41 teams, while the JV team competed against 17. Head coach Marshall Rhodes said the team continues to improve, though admits the wrestlers need to work harder. “We have a few guys that are improving and w...
Most of the Green River elementary schools were busy having Christmas parties Friday before the holiday break started. Washington Elementary School was no different, and every classroom in the building seemed to be celebrating in different ways. Some of the classes were making paper wreaths for students to display at home. Kindergarten student Marlei Zimmerman said she already knew were she was going to put her wreath when she got home. Other classes, were busy watching various Christmas movies...
Cooks and bakers were busy preparing and serving Christmas dinner last Thursday at the Golden Hour Senior Center. For the cooking staff at GHSC, the day started at 5 or 6 in the morning. Each person was helping prepare the ham with cherry sauce, broccoli, sweet potatoes and rolls. Desert was also homemade and served to those in attendance. "I made five pans of sweet potatoes," senior cook Lynn Dewailly said. She figured it was about the equivalent to 40 pounds of sweet potatoes. About 20 hams...
The Green River High School Speech and Debate team came home with a third-place finish. The team traveled to Cheyenne to compete in the Cheyenne East tournament this past weekend. About 26 schools attended the tourney. Of those, 11 were from Wyoming and the rest were from Colorado. Cherry Creek and Kent-Denver schools from Colorado took first and second place at the tournament. “We took third place, which is the best showing we have had at this very competitive and difficult tournament,” hea...
A Green River High School graduate will have the chance to intern for Sen. Mike Enzi in Washington D.C. Alexander Marchal, a sophomore at the University of Wyoming, who is majoring in economics and finance and minoring in the honors program and mathematics, recently received news from Sen. Enzi’s office that he was selected for an upcoming internship. This internship starts Jan. 4, 2017, and Marchal is looking forward to the experience. Marchal heard about the internship program from a friend w...
Friday, Dec. 23 Christmas Holiday City offices close at noon Sweetwater County Library closed Green River Star office closed Saturday, Dec. 24 Sweetwater County Library closed Sunday, Dec. 25, Sweetwater County Library closed Monday, Dec. 26 Christmas Holiday City offices closed Sweetwater County Library closed Friday, Dec. 30 Sweetwater County Library closed Saturday, Dec. 31 Sweetwater County Library closed 2017 Senior Class Fundraiser -- 3D Archery Shoot 12-6 p.m., White Mountain Archery Barn, (FMC) Cost is $10 per adult, $5 per child New...
