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October is a month of awareness for multiple causes, but one that is often overlooked is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. The tragedy of losing a baby affects one in four women and impacts families across the country, but remains an often undiscussed topic. Courtney Swanson is one Green River resident wanting to change that fact in order to bring more understanding, as well as hope and healing to those who've been impacted by it. President Ronald Reagan first declared October to be a...
Although Sweetwater County is a small community, it's not immune to feeling the effects of national unrest - such as the tensions between law enforcement and the public that have come to the forefront over the past year and a half. This is why the county's law enforcement agencies hosted the "Faith and Blue: A Community Conversation" as an opportunity to connect with the community. An open house event and dinner took place at the Sweetwater Events Complex Sunday. This was the second year local...
Friendship, the challenges of aging, and a battle of the sexes are all at the heart of "Beer for Breakfast," the Actors' Mission's newest production opening this weekend. The play tells the story of three retirement-age men who go to a cabin for a guy's weekend when their friend's wife shows up instead of him. The men feel that Jessie, the wife, has intruded on their fun, and a showdown full of grade school games and challenges ensues. "Each character has a backstory that I think we all can...
Hoping to inspire the community’s creative spark and submissions for its literary journal, Western Wyoming Community College plans to host workshops throughout the semester. “Boars Tusk” is a yearly literary journal publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, artwork, and photography. Although the journal was started many years ago, it fell by the wayside according to Michelle Zuppa, the publication’s faculty advisor. The journal was rejuvenated by Western faculty members Christopher Propst and Ric...
Exclamations of excitement, surprise and occasionally disgust filled the multipurpose room in the library last Thursday as a group of teenagers conducted a blind taste test of freeze-dried candy. Becky Iwen, the Sweetwater County Library System's Youth Services Manager, organized the taste test as one of the activities for the weekly Teen Thursdays program. Iwen owns a freeze dryer that she bought for her family to make food for backpacking. After buying it, she saw people on the internet...
The Sweetwater County Foster Care program’s emergency clothes closet is severely depleted and Peterson Beckner Industries (PBI) has made it a mission to help restock it. PBI is a steel erection company from Houston, Texas, currently working at the Genesis Alkali Granger facility. The work is expected to last until the spring. Even though many local workers were hired by PBI, several company representatives have made Sweetwater County their home for the duration of the project. “Everywhere we go we try to give back to the community,” Rick Haydo...
Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine boosters are available at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County’s COVID-19 Vaccine Drive-thru. The drive-thru is open from 3-6 p.m. every Tuesday and Wednesday at 1200 College Drive. The vaccines are free and no appointment is necessary. Please bring your vaccine card with you. Sweetwater Memorial is only offering Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines at this time for those 18 and older. For details, call 307-352-8561. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says COVID-19 vaccine booster shots are available for the f...
Sometimes living without regret means making big decisions. This is true for Jason Grubb, who announced last week he is resigning from his position as the Sweetwater County Library System director. Grubb told the Green River Star he is stepping down because he wants to start his own web design company. “I’ve always wanted to work with myself, I feel like there’s a unique opportunity, and honestly I’m not getting any younger, so I just feel like if I don’t do this now it’s just never going to ha...
The Green River Police Department has a Marine joining their ranks. Monday, new recruit Jennie Kordus received her badge and was welcomed into the fold. A 2013 graduate of Green River High School, she returns to her hometown after spending the last eight years in the Marines. Kordus said she initially wanted to go into a career in healthcare, but the amount of time she would have spent in college caused her to seek another path. She started looking into enlisting in the armed forces and decided...
If you drive up to Castle Rock Rehabilitation Center and the Villa, a small patch of trees at the front of the parking lot might draw your attention. You might notice the eclectic lawn ornaments, hear the wind chimes, or see the colorful painted rocks spread on the ground in front of another rock with red letters spelling out "The Castle Rock and Villa Rock Garden." If you look closely, you might see a woman sitting in a chair made out of horseshoes tucked among the trees, reading or tossing...
Two local attorneys were recently voted to the Wyoming State Bar. Chief Deputy County Attorney Teresa Thybo was elected to become the vice president of the organization while Jason Petri was elected to be a commissioner representing the Third Judicial District for the Wyoming State Bar. Petri, while operating a law office in Rock Springs, also serves as Green River’s municipal court judge. Thybo succeeds R. Scott Kath of Powell to the vice president position while Petri succeeds Thybo as commissioner. Thybo came to Sweetwater County in 2010, j...
Local members of Healthy Wyoming will host a candlelight vigil in Rock Springs next week to honor and remember our neighbors who have died and who are suffering because they cannot afford healthcare. The event will take place at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Bunning Park. Everyone is invited to attend. The vigil in Rock Springs is part of a series of events hosted by the Healthy Wyoming coalition in communities across our state this month, mostly on Sept. 17. Vigils are scheduled in Cheyenne, Casper, Laramie, Rock Springs, Sheridan, and Gillette. Others...
Stan Blake was chosen to receive the Labor Leader of the Year award at the Wyoming State AFL-CIO convention last weekend. The AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations) is a federation of 56 national and international labor unions. The Wyoming council is "one of nearly 500 state and local labor councils," according to wyomingaflcio.org. The Wyoming AFL-CIO hosted its 58th annual convention in Sheridan last weekend. The convention takes place each year the...
While the Greater Green River Intergalactic Spaceport hasn't received any extraterrestrial visitors lately, it has welcomed pilots and travelers from all over. During the annual Spaceport Days event last weekend, both local pilots and pilots from around the state flew in to the spaceport on Saturday morning. Bob McAdams, a Green River local since 1986, arrived at the spaceport in his Titan Tornado Super Stretch, a kit plane that he and his wife Debbie built in their garage. The Titan Tornado is...
Josie Odell, 9-year-old daughter of Scott and Joni Odell, former residents of Sweetwater County, has been honored as one of the brightest students in the world by the The Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY). She is the granddaughter of Marlene and Tim Merchant of Green River. Josie, as a home-schooled third grader now living in Anchorage, Alaska, was honored for exceptional performance on the SAT, ACT, or similar assessment as part of the CTY Talent Search. Josie earned High Honors in both the verbal and quantitative tests, being...
Josie Odell, 9-year-old daughter of Scott and Joni Odell, former residents of Sweetwater County, has been honored as one of the brightest students in the world by the The Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY). She is the granddaughter of Marlene and Tim Merchant of Green River. Josie, as a home-schooled third grader now living in Anchorage, Alaska, was honored for exceptional performance on the SAT, ACT, or similar assessment as part of the CTY Talent Search. Josie earned High Honors in...
The kids kept their eyes on their Wolf Pack teachers while they danced, carefully following the movements as they practiced their routine during this year's "Jr. Wolves Dance Camp" put on by the Green River High School Wolf Pack Dance Team. About 70 kids from preschool through sixth grade gathered at Lincoln Middle School for this year's dance camp, according to Wolf Pack coach Debi Kovick. The camp consisted of two hour-and-a-half-long sessions held one week apart, during which kids learned...
Students who have no one to play with at Washington Elementary School will have a place to sit that shows other students they would like to join in on an activity. The Women's Club of Rock Springs donated a buddy bench to the school as part of an initiative to have a buddy bench placed in schools. Other benches donated by the group were placed at North Park, Sage and Desert View elementary schools in Rock Springs. Buddy benches were created to help foster an environment of inclusiveness and...
The 15th Community Exhibit at the Community Fine Arts Center has a theme residents can likely relate to: “Sweetwater Landscapes.” Hosted each October, the exhibit is open to all artists from Sweetwater County. Artists of all levels are encouraged to submit artwork that follows this year’s theme. The show will open Oct. 1 and remain on display through Oct. 30. “Over the years we have had a variety of themes including portraits, postcard-sized art, autumn, trains, and the color gold for our 50th anniversary,” said Debora Soule, CFAC director....
The Community Fine Arts Center is exhibiting a collection of watercolor, acrylic and mixed media paintings by local artist Luana Ingabrand during September. An opening reception will be held Wednesday, Sept. 1 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. for the public. To honor the Luana's family heritage, the show is entitled "Narava," the Slovenian word for "Nature." While moving to Rock Springs in 2019, Luana became aware that she had quite a few paintings. She thought it was about time to gather them together for...
Green River Animal Control has been busy. Tracy Wyant and Kim Wilkins, Green River's two full-time Animal Control Officers (ACOs), have had their hands full lately. The Animal Control Shelter usually averages six to seven dogs at a time - last Friday they had 19. Wyant said the shelter has seen more animals than usual this summer, and Wilkins noted that they've been dealing with a number of other cases, such as wildlife calls. However, staying busy is nothing new for Animal Control. "We do more...
"Everywhere we go we try to give back to the community," Rick Haydon said. Haydon was one of the representatives from Peterson Beckner Industries (PBI) who brought backpacks full of school supplies to the Sweetwater County School District No. 2 Central Office last Friday. PBI is a steel erection company out of Houston, Texas, that is currently working at the Genesis Alkali Granger facility. Haydon said the $350 million project will last until the spring. Local workers were hired for the project,...
Several past Green River Wolves are being added to the Green River High School Hall of Fame. The Class of 2021 Hall of Fame Inductees are Don Van Matre, Dr. Marlene Tromp, Glen McLean and the 1976 GRHS football team. Don Van Matre served over 20 years as a US Army Lieutenant Commander for various Army and Army Aviation units in the Korean and Vietnam wars. He also commanded the Albrook Army Airfield in Panama. Van Matre was elected as Mayor of Green River in the 1980s, and was appointed as head of the Southwest Wyoming Veteran Services Offices...
