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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...
Two meets competed in and two first-place finishes to show for it. The Green River High School boys swimming and diving team took first in Green River and in Evanston this weekend. The Wolves swam hard and it showed in broken records and two more state qualifiers. Head coach Colleen Seiloff said Jonathan Clark qualified in the 100-yard butterfly and the 100 backstroke this weekend, while Gabe Davis qualified in the 50-yard freestyle. “We had really good times across the board,” Seiloff sai...
Keeping the mind and hands active is something one resident tries to encourage seniors to do through her crafts. On Friday, Mission at Castle Rock Rehabilitation Center and Villa residents were busy painting miniature treasure chests, which were made out of wood. Kathy Elliott, who is the craft teacher, provided all of the materials to the residents. She put out tray after tray of paints filled with just about every color imaginable. Of those colors, some were plain, while others were metallic....
Prior to the Christmas break, the Green River High School boys swim team attended the Rock Springs swim meet and came in first. "The Rock Springs meet was pretty interesting. We were better than most of the teams there," diving and assistant coach Rick Barker said. Two swimmers, Elijah Kraft and Dean Lyon both qualified in more events. Even though the team finished in first place, Barker felt they swam a little off at the meet. He figured it was due to the mid-season blues and the swimmers...
A Green River High School graduate recently earned the title of All-American after a national cross-country competition. Braden Reichl, the son of Dawn and Aaron Reichl of Green River and who is a sophomore at the D-2 school Michigan Tech University, recently completed in the 2018 NCAA Division II National Championships. According to MTU's website, http://www.michigantechhuskies.com, Reichl became the university's first All-American in the men's cross country program. He finished 24 out of 280 c...
The speech team competed against 20 teams this weekend and came in third place. The Green River High School Speech and Debate team traveled to Cheyenne to compete in Cheyenne East’s tournament. “This has historically been a difficult tournament as many schools from Colorado attend and this year was no different,” head coach Carina White said. “We competed against 20 schools and about half of those were from large schools out of state including, Denver East.” First place went to Cheyenne...
The sixth penny improvement tax is almost certain be on the 2020 ballot. Both cities, as well as the county’s outlying towns, will need infrastructure improvements beyond what they can provide from their budgets. For Green River specifically, the city will need to start securing funding for its wastewater treatment plant and the improvement projects tax would make for an excellent source to receive some of that money. Beyond improvements, one idea that has come to our attention is the p...
One day without the internet doesn’t seem like that big of a deal until it happens to you. Last Thursday, as my coworkers and I tried to go about getting our work done, we quickly realized just how much we rely on the internet to do our jobs. Just simple things such as typing up the community calendar, getting a graphic for an ad or obtaining information via email, all require the use of a working internet connection. Even while typing up this column, I realized I need the internet to look up m...
Not much remains of a trailer that burnt on Dec. 22. All that is left is a hollowed out shell, which once was the home to a family of five. The cause of the fire is still undetermined and the investigation is ongoing, Green River assistant fire chief Austin Rider said. Around noon on Dec. 22, the Green River Fire Department was dispatched to 700 Schultz No. 36 for a mobile home fire. Rider said firefighters arrived within 3 minutes from receiving the call, but the damage had been done. The...
A scuffle over a bag of chips and some dip has left one mother with probation. Cory E. McCoy, 31, of Green River appeared in the Third District Court of Judge Nena James sentencing hearing to two counts of child abuse. In exchange for McCoy’s guilty plea to one felony count of child abuse, the other was dismissed. Under Wyoming Statute 7-13-301, McCoy’s guilty plea will not be entered and the charge will be dismissed if she successfully completes three years supervised probation. However, if...
It was a year of tough decisions for the Sweetwater County Commissioners. In March, the Commissioners were faced with a packed room of residents all waiting for their turn to voice support or opposition to U.S. Representative Liz Cheney’s proposed Wilderness Study Area bill, which would release Wyoming’s WSAs. With a 3-2 vote, the Commissioners approved a motion for a full release of all 13 WSAs, including the three areas that run into other counties. Commissioners Wally Johnson, Don Van Mat...
Members of the Golden Hour Senior Center sewing group kicked off 2018 by stopping by the Sweetwater County Child Developmental Center's Green River facility to donate 120 hats they made for the children. In February, Mission at Castle Rock Rehabilitation Center learned a new type of artwork called decoupage. Decoupage is nothing more than a slight of hand. When done correctly, it gives one the impression that something was hand painted, but in reality it's glued on paper and sometimes coated...
Green River residents were busy making the community proud with their dedication, hard work, creativity and volunteerism. Last year, 2018 kicked off with the Green River High School Speech and Debate team becoming nationally recognized. The team was named one of the top 100 schools in the National Speech and Debate Association for the 2016-17 school year and was ranked 59 out of more than 3,000 schools nationwide. The team went on to take second at state and first at the WindRiver District Tourn...
Spreading holiday cheer and using Christmas trees is something one Green River resident aims to do. Christmas is a special time for city employee Kristine Lessard and that's something she wants all of those who see her trees to remember. "The reason why I just love Christmas isn't because of the presents and stuff," Lessard said. Growing up in a middle-class family, Lessard noticed how some things were different for her family. For stockings, Lessard and her family would find their biggest sock...
Nineteen Green River thespians recently received All-State honors after attending the Wyoming State Thespian Festival. Green River High School theater director Bradlee Skinner said in order to obtain a state title, students must receive a superior rating for their performance in the category they have entered. These categories are often judged by two or three judges who determine the rating. Students compete in various categories including, monologue acting, duet acting, group acting, solo...
The Lady Wolves basketball team split the weekend with two wins and two losses at home. During the Flaming Gorge Classic basketball tournament, teams from Wyoming, Idaho and Utah came to Green River to play each other. The Lady Wolves played Pinedale and Bear Lake High School from Montepillar, Idaho, Lyman and Mountain View. In the Pinedale game, the Lady Wolves came out fired up outscoring Pinedale 22-5 in the first quarter. “We came out really fast. We were playing really good on defense a...
The Wolves swimming team took third and qualified a couple more swimmers this weekend while at home. On Friday and Saturday the Green River High School boys swimming team showed off their skills in front of a home crowd earning them a third-place spot with 211 points. They finished behind Laramie High School and Lander High School, which had 284 and 251 respectively. Diving and assistant coach Rick Barker said Green River had eight teams in town on Friday and 10 Saturday. “All in all we had a pr...
Questions continue to arise regarding the ice jam near Jamestown that's impacting a few Jamestown residents. Finger pointing and claims that the U-drop diverting water into the Killdeer Wetlands in the Green River is to blame have also started. Both, representatives from the city of Green River and Sweetwater County have started to look into the issue. Jamestown residents Todd and Susie Heslep whose home is being threatened because of the jam have been watching the jam closely to see if there...
Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County will receive $1 million from the county to help pay for a central plant upgrade project. During the Sweetwater County Commissioners meeting Tuesday morning, the Commissioners unanimously approved a budget amendment for $1 million to help pay for the $3.2 million project. “We want to start addressing some of those needs and we’d appreciate your assistance on it,” MHSC CEO Irene Richardson said. According to documents in the county commissioners’ packet,...
As the water and ice started to pour onto the property, the owner just looked on in terror. Not knowing what do or who to call, he just stood there shocked and wondering if he and his wife would lose their home. The nightmare for Jamestown residents Susie and Todd Heslep started Thursday afternoon when the Green River started having an ice jam. This jam pushed water and ice onto their property engulfing the septic system and leach pond and coming within several feet of their house. “The ice j...
The Sweetwater County Emergency Management Agency can’t blow up ice jams in the Green River even if a home is being threatened. Jamestown residents Todd and Susie Heslep called emergency management hoping they would break up the ice jam, which is causing flooding on their property, but didn’t get the response they were hoping for. “It’s not our policy to break up the ice jam. We prefer for nature to run its course,” Emergency Management coordinator Judy Roderick said. “We can help with sandba...
