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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...
The speech and debate team ended its first meet with a fourth-place finish. The Green River High School Speech and Debate Team traveled to Casper this weekend to start this year’s season. Cheyenne East took first, Natrona County grabbed second, Rock Springs nabbed third and Green River came in fourth. Head coach Carina White said they took 41 students and they will continue to improve on their pieces. “Students have worked on perfecting their primary event; now we need to add the secondary eve...
A Green River High School graduate is making a name for himself on the collegiate level in cross country. Braden Reichl, who is a sophomore at the D-2 school Michigan Tech University, was recognized for finishing higher than any other cross country runner in MTU history in the 8K at the GLIAC Conference, which took place Nov. 3. He finished in sixth place with a time of 25:09.7. He received the GLIAC First-Team All-Conference award. Reichl's parents Dawn and Aaron Reichl were at the GLIAC meet....
Solvay Chemicals is appealing an assessed valuation in regards to property taxes. During the Sweetwater County Commissioners meeting Tuesday morning, the Commissioners heard an update from County Assessor Dave Divis and Sweetwater County Treasurer Robb Slaughter about the appeal process. Commissioner Chairman Reid West said the matter doesn’t require any action from the Commissioners, but thought it would be a good idea for them to hear an update on it. Divis said the Department of Audit conduct...
Sweetwater County Commission meetings will start being streamed live sometime in December. During the Commission meeting Tuesday, the Commissioners voted unanimously to approve a motion to spend up to $10,000 for equipment needed to get them live on the internet. “We’ve had discussions before about broadcasting the meetings,” information technology director Tim Knight said. However, each time those discussions seemed to come up budget constraints were always an issue so the issue was put on the...
As patriotic music played, Green River veterans gathered for a free meal and fellowship. On Friday, the Golden Hour Senior Center provided all veterans with a free meal, including a French dip, wedge fries, broccoli salad, peaches and a dessert. To start the program, Boy Scouts from Troop 312 presented the American and Wyoming flags. Then, the veterans listened to a poem and watched pictures of themselves on the screen. Seniors were asked to bring in pictures of their favorite veterans to share...
Lincoln Middle School students wearing placards with names of veterans filled two sides of the auditorium, while the center seats were reserved for Veterans and family members. On Monday, LMS sixth-grade students, the LMS band and choir put on a special Veterans Day program as a way to show local veterans how thankful they are for their service. During the program, the band played the “Star Spangled Banner,” while the choir sang. Green River City Councilman Ted Barney recited President Don...
Sweetwater County residents have the chance to send Christmas presents to those in other countries who wouldn’t normally receive one. Mindy France, Operation Christmas Child central drop off team leader, said the Green River Assembly of God will once again be the drop-off location for Green River residents. However, this location will also be the central Southwest Wyoming location as well. OCC is a program through Samaritan’s Purse. Not only do they provide relief to those in need, but they tel...
With about 50 members, the Green River High School Speech and Debate team is preparing for its first tournament in Casper. “We remain one of the larger teams in Wyoming, but we have significantly decreased in size the last couple years,” assistant coach Dan Parson said. “We still have great kids on the team and strength in every event.” The team is pretty well balanced in the amount of seniors, juniors, sophomores and freshmen it has, which he sees as a benefit to the team. “It takes a couple...
Two Lady Wolves volleyball players were named All-Conference, while one was also named All-State. Katie Banks was named both to All Conference and All State, while Madelyn Heiser was named to All Conference. Banks was also named All State in 2017. All-State honors are determined by members of the Wyoming Coaches Association. Those members vote on which players they believe are the best in Wyoming for the season. As for All Conference, volleyball coaches vote on which players they believe are...
A Green River Boy Scout recently obtained the highest Boy Scout honor after carrying out his bat house project. For Boy Scout Troop 78 member Nathan Nelson, trying to help the community while completing a project for his Eagle Scout honor was something he just had to do. Nelson joined the Cub Scouts when he was 8. He then continued to advance in the program and moved onto the Boy Scouts and obtaining 22 merits badges. Not only did Nelson obtain badges, but he advanced his skills by attending...
