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I took a short break from writing about old Nintendo games in the past few months. This is mostly because I got tied up hunting down the legendary animals in “Red Dead Redemption 2” and running a farm in “Stardew Valley,” but I’ve also been busy and just haven’t had time for video games. But, spending an afternoon playing an old game on the Nintendo’s NES Mini is a great way of unwinding, enjoying the power of nostalgia and remembering the fun times I had playing those games as a child. Then I...
It was a week of ups and downs for the Green River High School boys soccer team. Following a loss against Star Valley Thursday, the boys earned a win in their second meeting with Jackson at Wolves Stadium Saturday. The boys took on Star Valley a second time Tuesday, again coming up short in a losing 3-1 effort against the Braves. During the boys’ first game in Star Valley, head soccer coach Chris Bieber said the team gave up two early goals in the first half, coming from a penalty kick and a direct kick. Being put in a rough position early o...
An updated analysis conducted by Rocky Mountain Power suggests it would lower costs for customers if it sped up the retirement of four power-generating units in Southwest Wyoming, including two units at the Jim Bridger Power Plant. The other two units are at the Naughton Plant in Lincoln County. However, while the company’s Integrated Resource Plan recommends early closure for the four units, RMP doesn’t have a plan in place. “We don’t know the plan of what we’re going to do,” RMP President a...
I covered the University of Wyoming Board of Trustees for six years in the 1990s, through turbulent times that included academic and athletic program eliminations, proposed facility closures and controversies over academic freedom. Those challenges of yesteryear all pale compared to the recent bungled firing of UW President Laurie Nichols. The board chose not to renew the three-year contract of Nichols, who took the job in the wake of turmoil. The South Dakota native came to UW when the institution was facing a serious financial crisis. She...
Residents driving by Wolves Stadium Monday evening would have seen the Wolves soccer team working hard at a time when most high school students are enjoying spring break. For head coach Chris Bieber, the last week of competition showed him the team needs to improve to remain competitive. "We have stuff to work on," Bieber said. At the beginning of the month, the team defeated their Rock Springs rivals 2-1 at home, which was followed up the next day with a 2-2 tie against Evanston. Last Tuesday,...
A new coach has been selected to head up Green River High School's cheerleading program. According to Tony Beardsley, Sweetwater County School District No. 2's Athletics Director, Allison Meredith was offered the head coaching job for the high school's cheer team. Meredith was the team's assistant coach prior to moving into the new role. Meredith's placement still needs approval from the district school board. Once the approval is made, she will replace Amber Seppala for the 2019-2020 school...
A workshop meeting set for April 30 will give the Green River City Council a chance to discuss a discount for residents aged 62 and older and the future of Wyoming Waste Systems recycling program. The workshop takes place at the Council chambers in City Hall at 6:30 p.m. Councilman Jim Zimmerman encouraged residents to attend the meeting, believing more solutions to the problems facing the city’s recycling program might become available through added discussion. “I’m really hoping more peopl...
The Green River Police Department is making progress in investigations regarding several burglaries occurring in the city during the past few months. According to Jamie Green, spokeswoman for the GRPD, the burglaries have centered on vehicles that have been left unlocked overnight. The vehicles are opened up and rummaged through, with the perpetrators seeking valuables or loose cash and change to take. So far, the burglaries have occurred in February, March and April and have taken place on...
Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County earned a three year accreditation in computed tomography from the American College of Radiology according to a recent release from the hospital. According to Medical Imaging Director Tracie Soller, the accreditation is for the new CT scanner the hospital installed last summer. “We have been ACR accredited for CT since 2013,” she said. CT scanning, also commonly known as CAT scanning, is a noninvasive test using X-rays to produce a cross sectional image of...
The Wyoming State Loans and Investments Board awarded a $50,000 grant to Sweetwater County last week to help the county create a plan to attract industrial development near the Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport east of Rock Springs. The grant will cover one third of the anticipated cost, while the county and the Green River and Rock Springs councils are pledging to split the other $100,000 needed for the plan. Krisena Marchal, grants coordinator for the county, said the plan the grant will...
By DAVID MARTIN Publisher Region V Board of Cooperative Educational Services, which services several school districts including Sweetwater County School District No. 2, seeks a .2 mill levy from the district to help fund its work. Representatives of the organization spoke to school board members Tuesday night about the services they provide the district and the mill levy they seek, which amounts to $185,895. Region V BOCES provides services to students with emotional, social and behavioral...
Winter weather in Green River has created a number of potholes the city is working to address. With the weather improving throughout the last week, more potholes have appeared on city streets. Speaking during the Green River City Council meeting last week, City Administrator Reed Clevenger said the city’s streets crew used up the patching material it had, forcing the city to order 25 tons of mix. “We burned through that (original supply) immediately,” Mark Westenskow, director of public works...
The world of radiology began in 1895 when a European physicist Wilhelm Röntgen noticed fluorescence behind heavy cardboard when a cathode tube was activated nearby. Röntgen used his wife’s hand to demonstrate for the first time how these unknown rays, or X-rays, could penetrate the soft tissue of her hand and illustrate the bones that lay within. Röntgen generously refused to patent his discovery, which allowed the explosive growth and development of a new industry. Unfortunately, researchers were unaware of the dangers of too much X-ray expo...
The Sweetwater Aquatics Team, a group of swimmers from Green River, Rock Springs and Lyman, were declared the team champions of the winter state swim meet for USA Swimming in Laramie. The team brought home 26 individual titles and three relay state titles during the meet. The team of Lauren Jensen, Lauren Lee, Bryn Busskohl and Alexa Lauze earned both state titles in the relay events for the 15-16-year-old girls division, as well as 11 of 13 individual titles. Hailey Uhrig broke two state...
A red carpet welcome awaited anyone walking into Green River High School Monday evening. The high school's theater department hosted a special advance performance of "Bright Star" which will have its public premiere Thursday. This show was specially geared to residents in the county with mental disabilities. Green River High School theater director Bradlee Skinner said his students realized people with those disabilities often did not come to the theater productions. "They were a group not repre...
Given the context of our relatively short lives on this beautiful world we live on, it’s hard to think of a lot occurring within our lifetimes as being truly historic. It has been said that each generation has a defining historical event occurring during their prime developmental years. Think about the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the assassination of John F. Kennedy or the entirety of the Vietnam War. For people my age, that event will most likely be the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the World...
Recently Peggy, an Indiana woman and reader of this column, sent me a lengthy email about her 94-year-old mother who is rapidly spending down her minimal savings to pay for prescription drugs. Peggy didn’t hold out much hope that prices would come down before it was too late for her mom. But she succeeded in lowering her mom’s drug costs and what she learned along the way can be helpful to others strapped by high pharmaceutical bills. Her mother is typical of many women in old age who have only a tiny financial cushion to absorb the con...
The county’s local lodging tax is set to increase this month, up to 4 percent as a result of voter approval during the 2018 election. Jenissa Meredith, executive director of the Sweetwater County Joint Travel and Tourism Board, said the board won’t see its check from the increased lodging tax until this summer. The lodging tax is charged only at hotels within Sweetwater County and according to Meredith, is primarily used to market the county as a travel destination to outside markets. “Tourism i...
(Publisher’s note: the following article is a teaser for the Star’s annual Historical Edition, which is found in this week’s newspaper.) The earliest Green River Star available to anyone is dated Nov. 17, 1905. The archives at the Star’s building only go back to 1940, due to a fire destroying the newspaper’s earliest archive books, but the newspaper can be found online on the Wyoming State Library’s newspaper project, newspapers.wyo.gov. Listed as Vol. XVI - No.14, the newspaper is faded in so...
A double-sided sheet of paper, with one side urging residents to fight Love’s Travel Stop’s ambition to build a truck stop west of Jamestown, while the other side features a copy of the county’s public comment form, was not sent by the county. Last week, some Green River residents received the sheet in their mail. Jim Zimmerman, the code enforcement officer for the county’s Land Use Department said the letter didn’t originate from the county, despite featuring a county public comment sheet. “W...
The Genesis Alkali trona mine west of Green River hosted a tour for U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., and Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta Tuesday. According to Enzi, he invites the secretaries he meets to visit Wyoming and when Enzi invited Acosta during his confirmation hearings, he took the senator up on the offer. The two spent two days in Wyoming, touring the North Antelope Rochelle Mine south of Gillette, the Wind River Job Corps Center near Riverton, as well as the trona mine. Acosta...
Former Green River City Councilman Allan Wilson’s plea agreement was finalized during his sentencing hearing Thursday morning. Pleading guilty to sexual abuse of a minor in the second degree, Wilson’s other charges were dismissed and was placed on five years supervised probation. If he completes the probation term, the charge will be removed from his record. If not, Wilson faces a maximum penalty of up to 20 years in prison and a $20,000 fine. District Court Judge Nena James told Wilson not...
I remember running into Allan Wilson at Smith’s a few years ago. He had been a member of the Green River City Council for a year or so at that point. He was on his way out and I was going in to grab a quick lunch. We exchanged pleasantries and he talked about how he planned to work on his cabin later that week. We shook hands and parted ways. He greeted me last week at the Sweetwater County Courthouse prior to his sentencing hearing. This time, the exchange was much different. He looked at me a...
Ms. A. was in the bagel shop line and told the server she was allergic to peanuts. The server reassured her there were no peanuts in the bagel but was unaware some peanut butter was left on the knife from an earlier sandwich. After a few bites of the bagel, Ms. A.’s face and lips started swelling, she itched all over, slipped off her chair, vomited and fell flat losing consciousness. When the ambulance arrived the emergency team kept her flat, gave an intramuscular injection into her thigh muscle of epinephrine (also known as adrenalin), t...
The Lady Wolves return to the field this year with a large group of freshmen and several returning players from last year. Head girls soccer coach Tracy Wyant said the team attracted 14 freshmen and has five seniors. Wyant said some of the new players have club experience and the returning players have become team leaders. The senior players are Kylee Hosford, Michaelee Wisniewski, Jose Alatorre, Zoe Turner and Kelby Pope. “I’ve got a good core returning,” Wyant said. Wyant said the recent tourn...
