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The children are all lined up in a row on both sides of the gym waiting for their next set of instructions. They are obviously excited about performing in front of the crowd. Some are jumping up and down looking for their parents or grandparents. As soon as they spot their relatives, they smile big and wave. Jackson Elementary School kindergarten teachers Kelly McCully and Farrah Hamel were making sure the children stayed in line and remained somewhat focused in spite of the gym being packed....
Three Green River Lady Wolves Soccer players were named to All-Conference and one was named to All-State last week. Head coach Tracy Wyant said the Lady Wolves usually have five to as many as eight girls named to All-Conference, but this year, they had three. It speaks to how well the whole west conference is improving, which is something Wyant said is needed. “The competition is a little more fierce than it used to be,” Wyant said. It shows the whole west conference is improving, which is som...
A Green River man who admitted to shooting another man will serve at least three years in prison. Ted G. Kalivas, 59, appeared in the Third District Court of Judge Richard Lavery at an sentencing hearing to aggravated assault (threatens with deadly weapon.) In exchange for Kalivas’ guilty plea, he was given a three-to-five-year prison sentence and was transported to the Wyoming Department of Corrections. According to court documents, in May of 2016, Green River Police officers responded to W...
As I watched my five-year-old son John walk down the isle with a smirk on his face, my heart fluttered. Yes. There he was in his red graduation cap and gown enjoying all the attention he was receiving from the audience. I quickly learned my son, likes and knows how to captivate and audience, yet I couldn’t help but wonder how did we get to this point in our lives so quickly. What happened to time? How can this be happening already? Is he really my youngest? I haven’t even gotten rid of the baby...
State may not have went the way the Green River High School Lady Wolves soccer team wanted it to go, but they did gain experience. Head coach Tracy Wyant said she was confident and excited when the team found out they were going to play Cheyenne Central first because she knew her team could beat them. However, much like the rest of the Lady Wolves’ season, things don’t always work out the way they plan or go their way. “It was like a giant roller coaster ride for sure this year,” Wyant said. The...
Making sure the pancakes are fresh for those coming in the door is a priority for volunteer Ray Curtis. For the past 25 years, Curtis has been volunteering for the Golden Hour Senior Center's Breakfast Club. Although the club was officially done for the summer, a few of its members were still helping out the kitchen staff with the public pancake breakfast. Curtis was one of those and said he'd been volunteering forever. Curtis' job is making sure the pancakes hot and ready before putting them...
A woman who was told she may have as little as three days to three years to live has decided to enjoy every minute of what time she has left. Carol Patterson Kelsey of Green River has been busy putting numerous decorations in her yard. From several bird feeders hanging on a tree to stakes with butterflies, birds and globes on them spread throughout the garden, Kelsey has been sure to put everything out she wants. Along the driveway are fairy and gnome gardens, bikes with the baskets full of...
A Rock Springs man accused of attempting to commit human trafficking claims he’s innocent. Guadalupe J. Chavez-Arellano, 53, appeared in the Third District Court of Judge Richard Lavery at an arraignment to solicitation to commit human trafficking in the first degree, attempt to commit human trafficking in the first degree, attempt to commit sexual servitude of a minor and attempt to commit sexual abuse of a minor in the second degree. Chavez-Arellano pleaded not guilty to all four felony c...
The Green River High School Lady Wolves soccer team will need to put their poor regional performance behind them and focus on their upcoming state games. It was almost like looking at a different team during regionals this past weekend and head coach Tracy Wyant knew it. During the first game, the Lady Wolves had to take on their biggest rivals, the Rock Springs Lady Tigers. In the last two match ups the Lady Wolves came out on top, which left the Lady Tigers ready to settle the score....
A tea focused on celebrating mothers took place at the senior center Thursday. The tables were decorated in bright colors with flowers as center pieces. In front of each guest was a tea bag, dessert, which was an ice cream cone filled with chocolate mousse with whipped cream and a strawberry. A plate filled with bite-sized cookies and bars was also on the table for mothers to snack on. Golden Hour Senior Center activities and marketing coordinator Barbara Bates was busy making sure all of the...
A Green River High School student will join 160 other U.S. Presidential Scholars in Washington D.C., in June to receive a medallion and participate in numerous activities. Anna Harris, a senior at GRHS, recently received a letter from United States Secretary Betsy DeVos of the Department of Education informing her of her selection as one of the 2017 Presidential scholars. According to a press release, Harris was one of 722 semifinalists from nearly 5,100 candidates who applied across the...
By STEPHANIE THOMPSON People Editor Several Green River students brought home first place and honorable mention awards from the State Young Authors Competition. “The results for Green River are excellent. Given our small population, to have that many representative winners and honorable mentions speaks volumes for the talent and dedication of our young authors. This is a big deal,” Fredrick “Steve” Schwartz, Sweetwater County School District No. 2 young author’s coordinator, said. Each dist...
It may have been a while since plans were formed to put in a new water line from Green River to Rock Springs, but the project is now underway. With construction starting, residents on Railroad Avenue, were wondering what the city was doing and why plans were in place to remove several large pines from the property. This property is the grassy area located next to the Railroad Depot, often referred to as a park. According to Mark Westenskow, the city’s public works director, back in 2013 the c...
A soldier, whose remains were found near Green River in the 1980s was finally put to rest last Wednesday. According to Dana L. Pertermann, Western Wyoming Community College associate professor of anthropology and geology, director of Center For Southwest Wyoming Archaeology and director of the Federal Artifact Repository, the soldier was excavated in the 1980s on the bluffs near Green River. This occurred when survey work was being conducted for the freeway. According to Philip Parnell, WWCC...
The Green River High School Lady Wolves Soccer team secured a spot at the state tournament when they clinched the second-seed spot in the Southwest 4A conference. Last weekend, the Lady Wolves finished the regular season by playing Natrona County and Kelly Walsh. On Friday the Lady Wolves took on Natrona County and won, 2-0. “I felt the game went really well,” head coach Tracy Wyant said. “Each time we meet them we know the team has improved. It doesn’t matter if we beat them the first time, we...
In a packed room, Korean War Veterans and their families gathered together to reflect on the war and to receive a peace medal. According to Doug Uhrig of the Wyoming Veterans Commission, the Korean War, was on of the bloodiest wars, but due to lack of public attention, it's often referred to as "The Forgotten War." "It was a short, but exceptionally bloody," Uhrig said. According to www.history.com, about 5 million people died in the war and half of those were civilians. Forty thousand American...
The former senior vice president of Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County has filed a claim against the hospital claiming she’s entitled to a previously agreed upon severance package. Keri Chorazewitz recently filed the complaint in the Third District Court of Judge Richard Lavery against MHSC and its board of trustees, including Richard Mathey, Taylor Jones, Barbara Sowoda, Edward F. Tardoni and Robert Scott. According to court documents, Chorazewitz began working for the MHSC in 2010 as t...
One word that could accurately describe Friday and Saturday’s soccer weather would be awful. It was snowing, windy and cold; and all three of these factors impacted how the Green River High School Lady Wolves Soccer team played their games. On Friday the Lady Wolves took on the Evanston Lady Red Devils and despite the terrible weather conditions, the Lady Wolves came out on top 4-1. “That was probably the worst field conditions we’ve ever played in,” head coach Tracy Wyant said. “It was like...
This award is given to a resident who is passionate about Green River. It’s given to someone who goes above and beyond though volunteering and supporting projects from behind the scenes to improve Green River. Not only has this person been an active volunteer, but has demonstrated a long history of civic involvement to the community. It’s a prestigious award only given out to one person each year and this year the Green River 2017 Distinguished Citizen of the year award went to John Fre...
The dining room was packed with volunteers enjoying a meal while listening to letters written about them. During the volunteer appreciation luncheon at the Golden Hour Senior Center Thursday, volunteer after volunteer was recognized for what they do for the center. "We couldn't run the senior center without it," GHSC executive director Sheela Schermetzler said. "Almost every activity at the center is ran by a volunteer." Green River City Councilman Gary Killpack was on hand to talk to the...
The paper trails led the way for Girl Scouts and their mothers. Paper of various colors was spaced throughout the Golden Hour Senior Center Saturday afternoon and girls and their mothers were encouraged to follow the paper paths to get from activity to activity. All of this was for the Mom and Me Girl Scouts Tea, which was themed around the game Candy Land. With this theme in mind, the girls and their mothers, grandmothers or aunts were asked to decorate a hat to reflect the theme. Rita and Jaid...
A man who was accused of sexual intrusion and hitting the victim in the face will serve a year in jail. Austin W. Pacheco, 24, of Green River, recently appeared in the Third District Court of Judge Richard Lavery at a change of plea and sentencing hearing to first-degree sexual assault, third-degree sexual assault, battery and reckless endangering. The sexual assault charges are felonies, while the battery and reckless endangering charges are misdemeanors. Pursuant to a plea agreement, the...
Bus load after bus load of kids were dropped off at Expedition Island for the city's Earth Day celebration. Students from kindergarten through sixth grade hurried into the pavilion for a chance to complete numerous Earth-Day related projects. The pavilion was packed to capacity with children going from booth to booth completing projects. One booth encouraged children to bring an old T-shirt, which was used to make a T-shirt bag or converted into a tank top. The students learned where to cut the...
About 100 residents recently attended a dinner and dance event at the senior center. Friday night the Golden Hour Senior Center's dining room was packed with residents ready to eat a delicious meal, which was then followed by dancing. "I thought the dance went really well," marketing and activities coordinator Barbara Bates said. This time the event did have one minor glitch. Bates said the vocalist they had scheduled to perform couldn't make it because she was sick. However, one of the members...
The Jackson Elementary School gym was lined with students dressed like historical Wyoming figures. The fourth-grade students, who were portraying the historical figures, were not moving because they were pretending to be made out of wax. Next to the students, were posters filled with information about the person, place, animal or thing they were dressed up to be. Fourth-grade teachers Maria Anderson, Amy Gilmore, Joe Morgheim, Sarah Wright instructed their students look through their Wyoming...
