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While the boys soccer team traveled to Worland for competition, the Lady Wolves had the opportunity to stay home and compete in the annual Todd Malonek Southwest Invitational during the weekend. The tournament is named for Malonek, an assistant coach for the boys soccer team and booster for the high school’s soccer programs who died in 2016. The Lady Wolves had a strong start against Pinedale in the first round of the tournament, dominating the game with a 9-0 victory. “It was a good starting po...
Practices haven’t gone as well as head boys soccer coach Chris Bieber would have liked, but the Wolves coach sees the team making another appearance at State this year. With seven returning seniors and a large group of players, Bieber said the team has a lot of depth to its ranks. However, a few occurrences outside of anyone’s control have proved to be speed bumps for the team’s early season practices. Bieber said basketball players who join soccer at the end of the winter sports season were...
While the first game wasn’t the outcome they wanted, the Green River High School boys soccer team came home with three wins after losing their game of the season. “We were still trying to figure out where everyone fits in,” head soccer coach Chris Bieber said about the first game. The boys traveled to Worland to take part in a season-starting tournament. Their first matchup was against Riverton, who handed the Wolves their first loss of the season in a 3-1 effort. Bieber said he wasn’t happy wit...
Local snowstorms have dumped inches throughout Sweetwater County during the past few months, but the area is still considered abnormally dry according to a report from the U.S. Drought Monitor released Thursday. Despite that classification, drought conditions in southern Wyoming could improve. Abnormally dry is the lowest drought rating listed on the drought monitor, which uses a five-point scale ending with “exceptional drought.” According to the National Weather Service’s drought infor...
For Cheryl James, Climb Wyoming has given her the opportunity to provide for her family and stay in a community with a great school system. James, speaking to the Green River City Council during an update from the organization, spoke about her experiences before applying for the program and how CDL training offered by Climb Wyoming changed her life. Originally from New Mexico, James came to Green River when her husband accepted a job in the area. James took a job at McDonald's, but eventually...
A bill signed by Gov. Mark Gordon will allow the state’s community colleges to issue bachelors degrees without input from the University of Wyoming. The bill, Senate File 111, was signed Friday. Rep. John Freeman, D-Green River, said the bill allows the state’s seven community colleges to issue Bachelor of Applied Science degrees in specific fields. Freeman said once Western Wyoming Community College creates the coursework needed for a degree, residents can earn bachelor degrees without lea...
An increase in sales tax receipts in March led to increases in the amount collected by the state and for the Optional Fifth Percent Tax levied in Sweetwater County. According to Sweetwater County Treasurer Robb Slaughter, sales tax collected through the four percent state sales tax was up approximately $30,000 from the same time last year, while the Optional Fifth Percent Tax, which collects an additional percent on top of the state sales tax, was up $20,000 over last year. “It was s...
While Green River High School's boys basketball team made it to the state tournament for the first time since 2009, the Wolves were knocked out of the competition following losses to Campbell County and Evanston. The No. 2 seeded Wolves had their first game against the No. 3 seeded Camels. Head coach Laurie Ivie said the Wolves played tentatively during the first half, ending it with a 12-point deficit. The Wolves bounced back during the third quarter, closing the gap and taking the lead, but...
Sweetwater County School District No. 2's longtime superintendent will retire June 2020. Donna Little-Kaumo announced her intent to retire Tuesday night at the district board of trustees meeting. She said she wanted to give the community as much time as possible to find her replacement. Little-Kaumo said she wanted to spend more time with family. Little-Kaumo has worked in the district for the past 14 years. She said when she first arrived at the district, schools were recording scores as low...
Taking Green River’s curbside recycling to the Rock Springs Landfill is only a temporary solution according to Michelle Foote, Rocks Springs site manager for Wyoming Waste Systems. Foote said the major problem the company faces is a lack of sorting space. The company used the city’s transfer station to sort the recycling it collected, but has been unable to use the building since a fire occurred September 2018. Foote said they thought they would only be out of the building for a few months, but...
A conditional use permit application filed by Love’s Travel Stops will allow the company to build a truck stop near Jamestown if approved. The permit application will be put before the county’s planning and zoning commission April 10 at 10 a.m., and is scheduled to be brought before the Sweetwater County Board of County Commissioners for final approval May 7 at 8:30 a.m. According to the permit application, the truck stop would be built on two parcels of land, one owned by Aspen Springs and the...
Medicare has just announced it is penalizing more than 700 of the nation’s hospitals because they have higher rates of patient safety mishaps, which the government and patient advocacy groups have been trying for years to prevent. What are those incidents that have resulted in a one percent cut in a hospital’s Medicare payments over the year? They are mistakes you wouldn’t want to have happen to you or a family member, things like infections caused by incisions made during colon surgeries and hysterectomies, by urinary catheters and by centr...
Recyclable materials Green River residents sort and set aside in their recycling containers may not wind up at a recycling facility. Recycling bins from Wyoming Waste Systems are being taken to the landfill outside of Rock Springs, according to Solid Waste District No. 1’s director. “What we’ve seen are bins they’ve used for recycling come through,” Kevin Herman, the solid waste district’s general manager said. Wyoming Waste Systems did not respond to requests for comment as of press time....
Business at the Sweetwater County Regional Airport continues to climb as the airports 2018 figures show growth over previous years. Speaking to the Green River City Council Tuesday night, Devon Brubaker, airport director, said the airport has its third best year on record as far as the number of passengers processed. Nearly 48,000 passengers utilized the Sweetwater County Regional Airport in 2018. That amount is up 32.2 percent over passenger numbers in 2017 and 47.7 percent over 2016’s p...
For the past few days, residents have seen a moose wandering around Hutton Street and the surrounding neighborhood and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department recommends residents to leave it alone. According to Lucy Diggins-Wold, information and education specialist for the WGF office in Green River, the WGF is aware of the moose and plans to let it be as it hasn't threatened residents. She said darting and relocating the moose would be one of the last acts the WGF would want to do because it...
(Publisher’s note: The Prairie Doc is a new health column offered to us from the Wyoming Press Association. Let us know if you enjoy it.) My good friend, a single man in his 60s, didn’t like going to the medical clinic for anything, let alone a cold. His illness started with a fever, aches all over and a sudden overabundance of mucus. After one or two days of those obvious viral symptoms, for which we have no good therapy, he got better, except he acquired a new dry hacky cough. Initially he did what he should have and stopped going to wor...
Going to State for the first time since 2009, the boys basketball team will face the Campbell County Camels in the first round Thursday. The Wolves showed they were one of the toughest teams in the 4A West Conference last week, taking second at the conference tournament. The tournament featured a third meeting between the Wolves and their rivals, the Rock Springs Tigers, at the start, with Green River winning 55-38. The second round would see the Wolves take on the Evanston Red Devils, a team th...
Ed Taliaferro remembers finding his son Ramsey often wanting to play catch when Ed came home from work. After hearing a radio advertisement announcing tryouts for the Casper Rockies baseball team, Ed said Ramsey wanted to try out for the team. Ramsay was about four or five years old at the time. When the Taliaferros moved from Farson to Green River when Ramsey was eight years old, Ed said he thought it was a dream come true for his son, who finally had the opportunity to play organized...
The children gathered around coach Phil Harder in excitement. Some, gripping their tennis racquets in eager anticipation, listening as the coach described the next game they would play. As Harder spoke to the kids, his high school volunteers played a few light rounds as they waited to work with the group in their next activity. During the past four years, the Green River High School Tennis team has hosted tennis clinics to introduce the sport to Green River’s youth. The clinics take place d...
A mild earthquake was recorded northwest of Green River Friday afternoon, according to records from University of Utah seismograph stations. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake took place at 2:55 p.m., Friday and registered a magnitude 3.1. The shallow earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.7 kilometers. The quake did not impact operations at Genesis Alkali. David Caplan, director of corporate communications for the facility, said the mine has emergency response plans for multiple...
Seconds after the total was announced, the Rock Springs High School gymnasium erupted to cheers and screams, celebrating the accumulation of more than $75,000 to Make-A-Wish Wyoming. Students from both Green River and Rock Springs, who had been rivals moments before, hugged and congratulated each other on another successful fundraising campaign. While Rock Springs High School defeated Green River High School by raising $41,534.25 to the Wolves’ $34,783.09, everyone was happy with the result. ...
Three Green River wrestlers were crowned state champs during the state wrestling tournament in Casper over the weekend. Green River took second at the tournament, earning 204 points. The Wolves were edged out by the Kelly Walsh team, which scored 223 points and its first state title in the school's history. Rock Springs took fifth with 186.5 points. Clayson Mele took first at 106 pounds, followed by Dominic Martinez also taking first at 113 pounds and Payton Tucker taking first at 182 pounds....
With their last home game Friday night, the Green River High School boys basketball team now prepare for the regional tournament and a battle for a chance to play at State. The boys will travel to Cody for the tournament, which starts Thursday. The Wolves, seeded No. 3 south, will take on the Rock Springs Tigers in their first game at 8 p.m. The Wolves have enjoyed a great deal of success when they’ve taken on the Tigers this season. They’ve defeated Rock Springs twice, winning 83-51 in the...
If you’ve been wondering why there’s been so much talk of budget negotiations in the Legislature this year — a supposedly non-budget year — you’re not alone. During my 12 years of service in the House, I sensed that the most difficult aspect of state government for the general public to get a good grasp on was the state budget. The same was true for many legislators. Typical citizens perhaps know the Legislature meets annually. They may also realize every other year is a “budget session.” The 2019 session, as in all odd-numbered years, is ref...
A group seeking input for the state’s proposed computer-science standards for K-12 received criticism for not including local industry in conversations to create the standards. The State Board of Education will host five meetings this week, with meetings in Green River, Buffalo, Meeteese and Douglas already taken place. The meetings are aimed to generate public input about the proposed 2019 Wyoming Computer Science Content and Performance Standards. In 2018, the Wyoming Legislature passed S...
