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PacifiCorp continues to operate unit 2 at the Jim Bridger coal-fired power plant despite running afoul of a federal regional haze permit — an infraction some believed would force a Jan. 1 shutdown. Gov. Mark Gordon, who recently attempted to intervene in the regulatory noncompliance, warned in late December the Environmental Protection Agency might force the unit to shut down on Jan. 1. “In several short days, PacifiCorp will be forced to shut down Unit 2, lay off employees, and buy power to make up for the lost generation,” Gordon wrote in a...
Albert Einstein was one of the great intellects of our time. Throughout his life, he never stopped being curious and never stopped learning. As brilliant as he was, he always learned from his past, asked questions and looked forward to the future. One of his famous quotes, and one he believed in and lived every day, was: "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." In light of what we have all been through over the past two years, I...
A pool problem in Rock Springs gave the Wolves a chance to host their rivals at home Friday, resulting in three swimmers punching their ticket to the state swim meet. The Wolves were initially scheduled to compete in Rock Springs for the Rock Springs Invite, but the venue was shifted to the Green River High School Aquatics Center because maintenance to the Rock Springs High School pool wasn't completed in time for the meet. "It's a chance to swim at our home pool, we'll take that advantage...
The Lady Wolves basketball team still showed their opponents they’re a force to be reckoned with during the Taco John’s Invite in Cheyenne over the weekend. The girls won two of their three games, defeating Cheyenne Central 56-54 and Wheatland 55-29, but took a 64-38 loss to Cheyenne East. Overall, head coach Rick Carroll said the Lady Wolves played well despite not having the full team available. He said Gabrielle Heiser missed the invitational due to illness. Regardless, the other Lady Wol...
There was a whole lot of basketball going on in Cheyenne with the annual Taco John’s Invite last weekend, with the Wolves earning two wins. The Wolves defeated Cheyenne Central 51-49 in a game ending in overtime. The Wolves followed that win up with a second against Wheatland 60-56. Their third game of the series against Cheyenne East was a different story however, with the Wolves falling 76-54. The Wolves ended the weekend with a 5-4 record. “We had tough competition at the Taco Johns Inv...
Following competition in California and Utah, the Wolves will have a chance to wrestle at home during the annual Thoman wrestling tournament this week. Following a hiatus due to the winter break, the Wolves took part in two competitions last week. Wrestlers who placed at state last year took part in the prestigious Doc Buchanan wrestling tournament in Clovis, California while the others participated in the Tournament of Champions in Vernal, Utah. Head coach Josh Wisniewski said quartet...
A threat made against the Sweetwater County Attorney's Office and the Sweetwater County Commissioners resulted in the county courthouse being locked down Tuesday morning. The building was locked down at about 9:35 a.m. after an individual called the county's dispatch center and issued a threat against the courthouse. According to Sweetwater County Commissioner Randy Wendling, the threat revolved around a claim the caller made about their plans to gun down employees in the Sweetwater County...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Green River City Council approved a lease agreement with JS Construction to develop two tracts of the former Lincoln High School property into residential housing. The council approved the bid for $70,000 for the B and C tracts of land Tuesday night. According to Council documents, the city only received the bid from JS Construction during a bid opening Nov. 10. The property was originally bid in 2017 for $100,000, but the builder working the project, New Peak, was unable to develop the two...
Christmas traditions vary from family to family, but one of the less spoken traditions people tend to share is that of the blurry-eyed Christmas morning. It’s a morning anyone with children can relate to. A morning so early the sun hasn’t started to raise. Children excitedly running to the Christmas tree as they look at what Santa Claus brought them. All the while the adults in the room, still trying to fully wake up and waiting for the coffee pot to fill, stand in the background with a tir...
Overcoming a disappointing opening in Casper, the Green River High School boys basketball team notched three wins throughout the Flaming Gorge Classic. "We had some glimpses of really good offense and defense throughout that (Casper) tournament, but we were inconsistent and I don't feel like we played four solid quarters in any of the games during the Oil City Tip Off," head coach Laurie Ivie said. During the Flaming Gorge Classic, Ivie believes the Wolves showed a better representation of what...
Two Sweetwater County men face felony-level charges following an alleged armed robbery on Interstate 80 Dec. 7. Green River resident Jinyi Isaiah Benjamin Martinez, 24, and Rock Springs resident Nicholis Roy Roberson, 24, are being held at the Sweetwater County Detention Center awaiting trial. Martinez is charged with aggravated robbery, conspiracy to commit a felony, kidnapping and theft greater than $1,000, all of which are felony-level charges. Roberson faces charges of aggravated robbery,...
The Green River High School wrestling program started their season strong with their first competition at the Wasatch Duals in Heber City, Utah. "I thought that we wrestled really well," head wrestling coach Josh Wisniewski said. Wisniewski said the boys wrestled aggressively and showed their desire to win throughout the tournament. "It was exciting to see our team's competitiveness," he said. Amongst the varsity wrestlers, Wisniewski said he was impressed with both Tommy Dalton and Spencer...
An alleged threat made at Green River High School resulted in disciplinary action and was investigated according to Superintendent of Sweetwater County School District No. 2 Craig Barringer. Barringer issued a press release regarding a comment made by a student at GRHS and the actions following the incident Tuesday afternoon. He said anytime the district is made aware of a potential threat, the top priority is to ensure the students and staff are safe. The district works with the Green River Pol...
This week, Green River High School’s theater students are performing a play titled “Lockdown,” about a group of students facing a lockdown situation at their school as an entry into the state theater competition. The play features a group of students locked in a classroom with a teacher as the group tries to determine if the lockdown is a drill or a real event and how they should respond to it. Tensions mount as the students and teacher cope with the situation in their own ways, many of whom...
Members of the Green River High School theater department will present a play focused on a groups of students in a school lockdown situation during the Wyoming State Thespian Festival. According to the high school's theater director Bradlee Skinner, "Lockdown" is entered in the proscenium category of the festival. The category refers to the type of stage the performance takes place on. He said the Wyoming High School Athletics Association is hosting a hybrid festival, with live events taking...
Stormie Prime remembers the day she decided to enroll in Climb Wyoming. The Green River native had noticed an advertisement for the program, which aims to help single mothers learn job skills in high-demand and high-paying fields such as truck driving and nursing, and quickly became interested in what it offered. An unemployed recovering alcoholic who wanted to provide a better life for her children, she talked a friend into enrolling with her. That was the day when Prime began to feel...
High inflation for construction materials and a discrepancy in the low bid has prompted the Green River City Council to reject bids for the city’s planned wastewater treatment plant. The city received two bids for the project that exceeded the $26.7 million loan it secured for the project. COP Construction LLC, a regional construction company with offices in Wyoming, Utah and Montana, submitted a bid for $42,550,000, while Bodell Construction of Salt Lake City submitted a bid for $36,272,850. Ac...
Buyers continue to show their interest in purchasing parcels of land in the Red Desert, despite the area being devoid of utilities or means to access properties. Jim Zimmerman, the code enforcement specialist for Sweetwater County’s Land Use Department, said he continues to receive a steady stream of calls from people looking at land listings online, as well as people who purchased land. The calls have gotten so common that Zimmerman’s first question to callers is the same. “I ask, did you a...
Monday afternoon, a group of residents stood on Monroe Avenue outside the Sweetwater County School District No. 2 Central Office and protested a vaccination clinic hosted by the district. Melissa Moffat, one of the protesters, said the protest was against the vaccine clinic itself, which she claims is extending the pandemic more than helping end it, as well as the fact the district could receive $5.6 million in ESSR funding from the Biden Administration for COVID-19-related uses such as to help...
The Wolves' wrestling program is putting the work into having a successful season and head coach Josh Wisniewski is feeling good about the kids and the team's composition this season. "We have a great group this year," he said. Wisniewski is happy with the number of wrestlers coming out for the season, saying the group looks to have a great depth at some weight classes. He said some of the athletes had competed in middle school and with the Green River Grapplers program, but they also had a...
With non-conference tournament play set to start next week, head coach Laurie Ivie is already happy with what she's seeing from the Green River High School boys basketball team. After a week of tryouts, the Wolves' practices started this week. Ivie said the first few tournaments the team will play in December and early January will allow the Wolves to size up the competition they face this season, as well as give her coaching staff an opportunity to experiment with different players and...
