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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...
Ah. Yes. It’s the case of the missing library books: part two. During this past month, my sons, Matthew, 8, and John, 6, have managed to misplace three library books. Even though I check their backpacks every day when they get home, things still wind up disappearing. The one book Matthew had checked out I never saw him bring home. This led to an even bigger question. Where did the book go between our house and the school? I asked him about the missing book that I can’t seem to remember the tit...
A group of seniors who wanted to make some home-bound residents' lives a little bit warmer made more than 80 blankets to give them. Members of the sewing group at the Golden Hour Senior Center started the project last spring in the hopes they would have enough made for the 75 residents who receive home delivered meals from the center, executive director Jackie Grubb said. She said the project was an idea former GHCS executive director Sheela Schermetzler had. This is the same group who made...
After listening to six books, children were faced with the tough decision of having to pick just one as their own. On Friday, first-grade students in Phyllis Timmons' and Brittney Montogmery's classes from Harrison Elementary School, visited the Sweetwater County Library to learn about the program Wyoming Reads and take a tour of the library. Youth services manager Becky Iwen said Wyoming Reads started in Casper, but then expanded to include the entire state. This program is funded through the...
For a second time, the Green River High School Speech and Debate team was named to the 400 Club. According to a press release from the National Speech and Debate Association, club awards were given to nearly 800 schools nationwide, including two Wyoming schools GRHS and Cheyenne East High School. The clubs range from 400 to 900 and both Wyoming schools were named to the 400 club. “Our Club Award winners show an incredible commitment to this activity, their students and their success,” J. Sco...
A play based on Charles Dickens “A Christmas Carol,” written by Green River High School seniors will grace the stage next week. GRHS theater director Bradlee Skinner said the one-man show is an adaptation of the beloved classic and is suitable for all ages. “This production is entirely produced by our seniors to help them apply for college scholarships. It is student designed, student directed and student acted,” Skinner said. “With Raymond Garcia in the role of Charles Dickens, he plays all...
This weekend the Lady Wolves basketball team won three games in a row on the road. The Lady Wolves traveled to Casper for the Casper Invite and played Natrona County, Cody and Laramie during the tournament. During the Natrona County game, the Lady Wolves came out on top 48-39. This win was one that would go down in the books because it was head coach Rick Carroll’s 300th win as a head basketball coach. “I’m extremely proud to be associated with such a hard working and great coach. The commu...
The Wolves swimming team took first place in the Laramie pentathlon and third in the Laramie relays. Diving and assistant coach Rick Barker said the team traveled to Laramie and competed in relays Friday night and the pentathlon Saturday. “These early meets are fun to get everyone going,” Barker said. “The kids looked really good and the times were solid. All in all, I was pretty pleased with the way the kids swam on Friday.” In the pentathlon event, competitors swim in the 100-yard freesty...
From hats, scarfs, purses and handmade knick knacks to rocks, soap, jewelry and candles. The Golden Hour Senior Center's Craft Fair had a little bit of everything. On Friday evening and Saturday, the GHSC was bustling with residents going from room to room looking at crafts and homemade baked goods that were for sale. One table was selling microwavable bowl holders. Bentia Hardinger of Rock Springs and her husband Orrin were selling them. If there wasn't a particular pattern someone wanted,...
Another road trip produced another fourth-place finish for the speech and debate team. The Green River High School Speech and Debate team traveled to Cheyenne this past weekend to compete in Cheyenne South’s tournament. Cheyenne Central took first with 185 points, Cheyenne East took second with a lower 100’s score, Rock Springs grabbed third with 57 points and Green River claimed fourth with 50 points. “We knew we would end up somewhere around there,” head coach Carina White said. “We were miss...
In what County Commissioner John Kolb described as “critical” to the Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County’s operations, the Sweetwater County Commission is moving forward with the process to approve a $1 million budget amendment to help the hospital pay for needed maintenance improvements. During the Sweetwater County Commissioners meeting Tuesday morning, a motion was made and unanimously approved to move forward with getting the hospital on the agenda for the next meeting after Kolb gave...
Three streets have still not had improvements completed to them that are covered by the sixth-penny sales tax and one resident wanted to know why. During the Green River City Council meeting last night, questions arose from Green River resident Kevin Kinney as to just how much money the city still had of the 6th-penny tax and why certain improvements hadn’t been made yet. Finance director Chris Meats addressed these questions saying the city has about $3 million of the 6th-penny tax that will b...
Playing an instrument is what allowed 13 Green River students to make their way across the country to perform in front of massive crowds and see national landmarks and monuments. Members of the Green River High School band who are also members of the Wyoming All-State Marching Band recently made their way to New York and Pennsylvania. "My students had the opportunity to play with other high-school musicians from around the state and represent the state of Wyoming on a national level," GRHS band...
The boys basketball team will lean on its leadership to have a good season this year. "Our seniors work together like a well-oiled machine," head coach Laurie Ivie said. "Together, they make each other better. We expect our seniors to do big things." Those seniors are Grant Cobb, Haden Counts, Lane Hutchison, Kyle Ivie, Matthew Seymour, Chase Stoeger and Braxton Yeager. Six of the seven have all contributed at the varsity level prior to this season. The team also has a handful of juniors and...
The Lady Wolves basketball team has been hitting the courts for the past couple of weeks to prepare for the season. "We have a lot of girls that have come out to play basketball this year," head coach Rick Carroll said. So far, he's noticed how positive the players' attitudes are and how quickly they are unifying as a team. This year, 36 Lady Wolves from freshman to seniors have been at practices, consisting of four seniors, nine juniors, 10 sophomores and 13 freshmen. "We all practice at the...
The Green River Wolves swimming team is training hard for their first meet. Diving and assistant coach Rick Barker said this year there are about 26 swimmers and four divers who have decided to join the swim team. For the past 10 days, the swimmers have been working on getting back into shape and improving their strokes, while the divers have been busy coming up with six different dives to be ready for competition. The team has been putting in an hour of weight lifting before school; and after...
Determining what to do with the old Carnegie Library is something the county is hoping a grant can help out with. During a recent Sweetwater County commissioners meeting, the board unanimously approved a resolution allowing the county to apply for one or multiple grants so a structural engineering firm can assess the structure. Human Resources director Garry McLean said the facilities committee has been reviewing its master plan for county-owned structures and is trying to figure out what to do...
Remember when we used to have Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas on separate days? I do too. It used to be the holidays were more separated. Now, it seems like the commercialism of it all has completely taken over. I thought it was bad enough when Christmas items were out before Thanksgiving, but this year some stores had Halloween and Christmas items on sale in the same aisle. To me that’s just nuts. The only time Christmas items should ever be in the same aisle as Halloween is if it’s a S...
Armed with Nerf guns, the seniors set their sights on the target -- balloons with turkeys drawn on them. Sometimes they would hit one and other times they would miss, but the goal was always the same: to shoot as many turkeys as possible before running out out ammo. Last Wednesday afternoon, Mission at Castle Rock Rehabilitation Center residents kicked off Thanksgiving with a turkey shoot. CRRC activities director and volunteer coordinator said she got the idea from Pinterest, which is where...
A new item called the quesadilla burrito created by two Green River students will be added to a business's menu after they won the company's culinary competition. Vincent Leahy and Kassandra Reyes, both Green River High School seniors, recently won the Taco John's culinary competition in Wyoming. Their culinary arts teacher Marisa DeClercq said every year Taco John's hosts a contest encouraging high-school students to come up with a new and innovative recipe to add to its menu. She said Reyes...
A book motivated one Green River preschool class to make dog donuts and then take them to the animal shelter to feed the dogs. Last week, Nancy Johnson’s Monkey Class at the Green River Sweetwater County Child Development Center visited the Animal Control Shelter to see how dogs would react to the dog donuts they made. The idea came through the book called “If You Give A Dog a Donut,” by Laura Numeroff. Johnson picked the book because the class was focusing on the letter D and thought this...
