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Wrestling The Green River Wolves wrestling program continued its commitment to excellence during the winter 2021 sports season. Those successes included the varsity team taking down the Rock Springs Tigers at a dual in Green River. While the annual Thoman Soda Ash tournament didn't end as well as the team would have liked, with narrow losses to Worland and Cheyenne East, the wrestlers dominated the other teams they took on. The boys took second in their regional quad and finished fourth at...
This year, despite ongoing challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic, budget cuts faced by organizations, and personal and professional changes in many lives, the people of Green River and Sweetwater County continued to give generously, grow personally and come together as a community. Giving back Many groups found opportunities to give back to others this year, showing the generosity that keeps a community going as people support one another. In the spring, Green River High School students...
The year started with two new members of the Green River City Council being sworn into office. George Jost replaced a retiring Lisa Maes in Ward 2, while Sherry Bushman replaced Tom Murphy in Ward 1. They were joined in the ceremony by Councilman Robert Berg, who had won re-election to a second term in the 2020 election. The Green River City Council would also resume in-person meetings in February, following several months of virtual meetings as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Tax revenue was...
Green River Police Department reports for Dec. 16 At 12:11 p.m., officers responded to a report of a larceny at Maverik. Officers met with the manager who reported several individuals had come into the store, one of the individuals made a purchase and took another item, and believed the other individual concealed several items on their person, then left the store. Officers located the suspected individuals and the stolen property. Officers issued Nathaniel Lee, 24, of Rock Springs, and Anthony Bryson, 19, homeless, citations for alleged...
The end of 2021 means the COVID-19 pandemic will have lasted nearly two years in Wyoming. While the first signs of the pandemic didn’t hit the state until March 2020, its impacts were immediate. State basketball championships were canceled, followed by a closure of public buildings and schools as people scrambled to make sense of the disease this novel coronavirus caused. Now, at the absolute end of 2021, more than 800,000 deaths in the United States have been attributed to COVID-19. It isn’t hard to see a day when that tally hits seven figures...
Wyoming officials can rant and cuss about the federal government’s coal policies as loudly and as angrily as they want, but it won’t change one fundamental fact: They have failed our coal communities and their woe-is-us, innocent-victim act is a load of rubbish. I could use the Western equivalent of that assessment, something that’s found in abundance in horse pastures. But you get the idea. Gov. Mark Gordon said he’s “furious” because none of the state’s applications to a federal coal community assistance program were selected as a finalist...
This year, the Board of County Commissioners had new faces join county leaders and worked through ongoing discussions about the future of the county — especially in regard to ambulance service and the proposed Natrium plant being built in Wyoming. New faces Mary Thoman began her first term as a county commissioner in January after being elected in November 2020. Thoman replaced longtime Commissioner Wally Johnson. In June, Sweetwater County Treasurer Robb Slaughter announced his decision to resi...
Gov. Mark Gordon issued an emergency suspension order Monday seeking to temporarily block the Environmental Protection Agency from potentially shutting down one of four coal-burning units at the Jim Bridger power plant for falling out of compliance with regional haze parameters. Jim Bridger owner and operator PacifiCorp — which operates as Rocky Mountain Power in Wyoming — has until Jan. 1 to install “selective catalytic reduction” controls to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions at unit 2, and until the end of 2022 to install the controls at unit...
John D. Homan, 85, of the Bridger Valley, passed away Dec. 28, 2021, at Rocky Mountain Care Center in Logan, Utah. He was born in Lansing, Michigan on Oct. 6, 1936. He is survived by six children; John and Lori Homan of New Mexico; Jeff and Stephanie Homan of Green River; Robert and Nissa Homan of Rock Springs; Cindy and Rudy Zampedri of Fort Bridger; Daniel Homan of Randolf, Utah; and Debbie Homan of Oregon. He is also survived by scores of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He was...
JoAnn Ruth Dice, 91, passed away Monday, December 20, 2021 at Deer Trail Assisted Living in Rock Springs, Wyoming. She was a resident of Green River, WY for 50 years. She was born on December 16, 1930 in Casper, WY, the daughter of Arthur DeVault and Pauline Randall. JoAnn graduated from Natrona High School in 1948. She married William Russell Dice in Casper, WY on March 16, 1949. He preceded her in death on September 11, 1995. She traveled the United States with her husband and a close group...
Margaret Peggy Griffin, 96, passed away peacefully on December 21, 2021 with her daughter and son-in-law by her side. Mrs. Griffin was a resident of Rock Springs, Wyoming for the past two years and was a former resident of Green River, Wyoming and Rawlins, Wyoming. She was born June 3, 1925 on Hastings, Minnesota; Raymond Knotz and Bertha Thomas Mrs. Griffin attended schools in Hastings, Minnesota and was a 1943 graduate of Hastings High School. She received her nursing degree from Saint Ann's...
