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The Green River Shopko Hometown Store will be closing. Shopko announced more store closures Wednesday and the Green River location was one of the stores named. The estimated closing date given by the company is May 12, 2019. Other Wyoming locations that are closing are Lander, Mountain View, Thermopolis, Greybull and Worland. Both Thermopolis and Greybull's closures were announced in January. According to an earlier press release from Shopko dated Jan. 16, 2019, Shopko, a leading operator of...
Students were asked to bleed green for the 11th annual high school blood drive challenge. Green River High School students and members of the community were at the high school auditorium Thursday for the same purpose: to donate blood. While some students waited their turns and others ate snacks after donating blood, others were already in the donation chairs giving blood. Kendahl Coy, blood drive chair and GRHS senior, said she was cochair last year and had a pretty good idea of what it would...
Learning how to incorporate nature into early childhood education in a fun and interesting way is something about 30 workshop attendees learned how to do. On Friday, participants from Evanston, Jackson Big Piney, Afton, Rock Springs and Green River attended the Wyoming Project WILD and Wyoming Project Learning Tree hands-on workshop. The workshop focused on nature education curriculum for formal and non-formal early childhood educators and daycare providers. Leading the workshop was Lucy Wold,...
One Green River student has received a $25,000 scholarship from the Horatio Alger National Scholarship, which can be used at any college of choice. Green River High School senior Mary Harris was quite surprised when she recently received the news. “I’m just really honored to receive it,” Harris said. According to a press release, “This annual scholarship recognizes outstanding students, who, in the face of great adversity, have exhibited an admirable commitment to continuing their educati...
It was one of the toughest competitions of the year, but the speech team came home with third place. This weekend the Green River High School Speech and Debate team traveled to Casper to compete against 32 teams and about 600 students, including competitors from South Dakota. “It was good to see competition from other states. There is always a bit of a difference in the way they compete and the level of talent they bring,” head coach Carina White said. Cheyenne East came in first followed by...
Records were broken, first-place finishes obtained and two more qualified at regional swimming this past weekend. The Green River swimming and diving team came home with third after competing in regionals in Evanston against six teams, including Laramie and Kelly Walsh. “We actually had a good weekend,” head coach Colleen Seiloff said. “We finished where we thought we would.” In fact, they were even closer to Kelly Walsh then they thought they were going to be. Seiloff was proud to have two mor...
The tournament may have been a smaller one, but the competition was tough. The Green River High School Speech and Debate team traveled to Evanston this weekend to compete against eight schools and more than 200 students. “They did a fantastic job; we took second place but we had a lot of competitors in elimination rounds and it gave us some solid data on the direction we need to go for the rest of the season,” head coach Carina White said. Cheyenne East took first with 158 points, Green River gr...
More than 70 children were learning dance moves to a song during the Green River Wolfpack Dance Team's dance camp. On Saturday two Green River High School gyms were filled with children from preschool through eighth-grade students who were all learning dance moves to the song "It's Party Time" from "Hotel Transylvania 3." Assistant dance coach Christine Peterson said the older children in grades fifth through eighth were learning a separate dance from the preschool through fourth-grade dancers....
In a highly competitive swim meet, the Wolves swimming and diving team came home with a fifth-place finish. Nineteen teams from across the state were in Gillette this weekend trying to see where their team was in comparison to others. The Green River High School boys team kept themselves in the top five. They showed they can be competitive against Kelly Walsh and Cheyenne Central, Lander and Thunder Basin. This weekend the team will travel to Evanston for regionals. The team is still trying to q...
Before the Federal government shutdown stopped, residents were asked to help TSA employees at the Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport to make ends meet until the shutdown was over. The seven TSA employees at the airport had been working since Dec. 22 without being paid, this means they have missed two paychecks, airport director Devon Brubaker. Due to the loss in pay, Brubaker asked the community to help by donating nonperishable food items, diapers and wipes, groceries, laundry detergent, dish...
With the Federal government still shut down many organizations are starting to feel the trickle effect of that shut down. However, Linda Martin, Sweetwater County School District No. 2 nutrition services director, said the free and reduced lunch program is not being impacted by the government shut down nor does she expect it to be. “We have enough funding to get through March,” Martin said. Even if the government were to impact the free and reduced lunch program the worse case scenario is the...
A grant matched by Sweetwater County will continue to be used to fund two full-time Sweetwater County Emergency Management Agency positions. During the Sweetwater County Commissioners meeting Tuesday morning, the Commissioners unanimously approved a fiscal year 2018 Emergency Management Performance Grant agreement from the Wyoming Office of Homeland Security. Under the agreement for the $120,000, the grant will provide $60,000 and the county will match it with $60,000. According to Judy...
The Lady Wolves basketball team won on their own court against Jackson Saturday, but they lost on the road to Evanston. Both the Evanston and Jackson games were conference games, taking the Lady Wolves to 1-1 in the conference and 7-6 overall. The Lady are one of four teams in their quadrant, which includes Star Valley, Evanston and Jackson. On Thursday, the Lady Wolves came up short against Evanston, 41-39. “It was a close game throughout the game,” head coach Rick Carroll said. At any giv...
The boys swimming and diving team continues to show their skills in a couple of smaller meets this weekend. On Friday the Green River High School Wolves swimming and diving team traveled to Lyman to compete against a handful of teams. They came in first at that meet. On Saturday, the Wolves were in their own pool when they hosted the Green River Invitational. About eight teams made it to that meet. The season is starting to wind down for the Wolves. They will swim in Gillette this weekend,...
The Sweetwater County Library was bustling with children all there to build things with LEGOs. During the library’s LEGO Olympics, children could participate in three timed events at a chance to win a prize or they could just build whatever they wanted with the LEGOs provided. Youth services librarian Becky Iwen said over the years they’ve had many LEGO parties. She said a few years ago they used to have LEGO group that met once a week. Now, the library tries to host special events, such as thi...
The speech and debate team came home with another first-place finish after this weekend’s tournament. The Green River High School Speech and Debate team traveled to Star Valley to compete against six other schools, which is one of the team’s smaller competitions. “Star Valley hosted an excellent tournament and we will be returning to it again,” head coach Carina White said. Green River came out on top with 150 points, followed by Jackson with 81 points and Riverton with 48 points. “The te...
On Friday afternoon, students at Monroe Elementary School were recognized for various accomplishments by their teachers. During an assembly, students at the school were asked to stand and then come forward in front of their family and friends to receive a small token of appreciation. One third grade class at the school was given applause for being the class to raise the most Box Tops. Box Tops for Education is a program that encourages students, parents and their families to collect Box Tops....
Nineteen teams were vying for the No. 1 spot, but Green River walked away with the honor. The Green River High School Speech and Debate Team traveled to Casper this weekend to compete in the Kelly Walsh Invite and came home with first place. They were followed by Natrona County in second place and Cheyenne East in third. From now on, only varsity team members will be competing, head coach Carina White said. This weekend the 41 varsity members competed against more than 300 students from across...
The boys swimming and diving team continues to place in the top three at the meets it has been attending. The Green River High School swim team recently traveled to Cheyenne to swim at both Cheyenne Central and Cheyenne East school pools. They took first place in the Cheyenne Central meet where they competed against two other teams and they took third at the Cheyenne East meet where they competed against 10 teams. In a previous interview, head coach Colleen Seiloff said the team is getting tired...
In a dominating fashion, the Lady Wolves came home with a win against Worland. Last Thursday, the Green River Lady Wolves basketball team traveled to Worland earning a commanding 64-39 win. The first quarter started off slow for the Lady Wolves, but then they started to work hard and were more focused on their defense,” head coach Rick Carroll said. “We increased the intensity and that increased the turnovers we created for Worland,” Carroll said. “We also got very serious on the glass and lim...
For at least the past five years, Sweetwater County has participated in a nationwide homeless population count to determine just how many homeless people are in the county. The annual Point in Time Count will take place from sundown Jan. 22 to sundown Jan. 23 to gather this information. The national PIT county is an unduplicated count on a single night of the people in a community who are experiencing homelessness. This includes both sheltered and unsheltered populations. Kathy Tacke, member of...
A power outage shut down Green River High School Friday and students were released early. Around 7:40 a.m., shortly after school started, the power went out. GRHS principal Darren Howard said the main breaker at the high school went bad. He said the main breaker was the original breaker put in when the high school was built in 1997. The back up generators kicked in, but the generators only run the lights, not heat. "I've got to compliment our maintenance crew," Howard said. They were at the...
To sum up 2018: it was a both a good and bad year for fires. Sweetwater County Fire Warden Mike Bournazian gave the Sweetwater County Commissioners an update on the 2018 fire season, but he wasn’t going to give out any predictions on what 2019 would bring. “What 2019 will hold, I do not know,” Bournazian said. “I never predict what next year’s going to be.” However he does know that things can’t continue the way they are now. “We can’t stretch our folks to the level we did,” he said. Bournazian...
A 21-year-old man was charged with a felony after he allegedly punched a 15-year-old boy in the face. Chance D. Wood, of Green River, was arraigned in the Third District Court of Judge Nena James for felony child abuse. He pleaded not guilty and a jury trial is set to take place March 4 at 9 a.m. If he is found guilty of the crime, he could face a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a maximum fine of $10,000. According to court documents, on July 31, 2018, at around 8:39 p.m. two Green...
The Green River Lady Wolves basketball team traveled to the east side of the state for a tournament and lost three games. On Thursday the Lady Wolves lost to Laramie 56-43, while on Friday they lost to Cheyenne Central 58-53, and on Saturday they lost to Cheyenne East 54-47. “The games were a good test. We didn’t play with a great intensity against Laramie,” head coach Rick Carroll said. Despite the losses, the team continued to work hard and Carroll said they put forth a much better effort afte...
