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Editor's note: This story was updated to include information about the cancelation of the Burbot Bash, which was not made available until after the physical edition was published. This story was changed to reflect corrections to comments attributed to Joe Skorupski of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department about fishermen exploring new ice after dark. They should not, as it can be a very dangerous activity because ice conditions can change a short distance away from the ice a fisherman walked in...
The price of oil has a number of officials looking into a future of uncertainty in the Cowboy State. Oil, priced higher than $80 a barrel prior to November, has dropped steeply to price of $47.23 per barrel as of Wednesday morning. The significant drop in value has been reflected in lowered fuel prices and job cuts from many of the major oil and gas companies. Last week, Schlumberger announced it would be cutting 9,000 jobs worldwide, with Baker Hughes announcing 7,000 layoffs this week. In Wyoming, much of the state’s budget is tied to the min...
The City of Green River approved a grant request to the Wyoming State Lands and Investments board which would help pay for water system improvements ahead of a road reconstruction project scheduled to take place in 2016. A Wyoming Department of Transportation Urban Systems Project will take place in summer of 2016, starting with Hitching Post Drive from its intersection with Upland Way, north to the intersection with Iowa Avenue, rebuilding the road as it’s a heavily used collector street needing repairs. WYDOT is funding the construction as H...
Residents driving along Flaming Gorge Way last week may have noticed workers placing the faces onto the new clock tower. According to Jennie Melvin, director of the city’s Urban Renewal Agency and Main Street organization, installing the clock faces was the last portion of work needed to complete the new park. “It’s a nice completed project we can all be proud of,” Melvin said. The project opened up what was originally a closed off plaza located next to the Sweetwater County Historical Museum. A groundbreaking ceremony took place May 12 last...
On Monday Green River Parks and Recreation employees were busy removing ice off of the boardwalk next to the Green River. Parks facility project manager Erek Roosa said ice along on the Green River just continued to spread until it was pushed over the top of the boardwalk. "We definitely didn't want anyone walking on it," Roosa said. The ice continued to build up until it reach a depth of two feet. Roosa said city employees made sure the area was clearly marked as closed so residents would not w...
Samuel Rolf Krmpotich, 37, of Green River passed away Jan. 17. A lifetime resident of Green River Krmpotich passed away suddenly. He was born on Oct. 13, 1977 in Rock Springs, the son of Robert Stephen Krmpotich and Vicki Diane Carlson. Krmpotich attended school in Green River and graduated from Green River High School with the class of 1997. He worked for Tata Chemicals for five years. His interests included hunting, fishing, camping and being a mechanic. Survivors include his parents Vicki D.... Full story
John Edward Gallagher, 80, of Rock Springs passed away Jan. 16, 2015 at Deer Trail Assisted Living in Rock Springs. A longtime resident of Rock Springs, Gallagher passed away following a brief illness. He was born on Oct. 2, 1934 in Chicago, the son of the late William Edward Gallagher and Effie Lanting. Gallagher attended schools in Chicago and graduated from Harrison High School with the class of 1954. He married Bernice Marie Menghini in Rock Springs on March 30, 1957 and she preceded him in... Full story
Joseph R. Martinez, 72, of San Antonio, Texas, died Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, after a brief illness. He was born July 14, 1942, in Chamisal, New Mexico, the son of Tomas and Claudina Martinez. He was raised in Green River and graduated with the Class of 1961. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in January 1962 and again in November 1964. Martinez served in Vietnam and received an honorable discharge in 1968. He lived in San Antonio and worked as a truck driver. His interests included camping, fishing,... Full story
The need for Sweetwater County to be chosen as the site for a large-scale industrial complex was highlighted last week with Schlumberger’s announcement that it would cut 9,000 employees from its worldwide workforce as a response to falling oil prices. Some of those positions will undoubtedly come from its Rock Springs facility and Schlumberger won’t be sole oil and gas company cutting back. If the price of oil maintains at around $50 per barrel, local governments will also feel the squeeze as much of the revenues flowing into state and cou...
Dear Editor, Mr. Jack Smith wrote an article in the last issue of the Star which stated that college shouldn’t be free. He was responding to President Obama’s idea that two years of community college should be free for interested students. Mr. Smith seems to feel that post high schoolers should have to get loans to go on to higher education. I disagree. On the day I turned 18, my father asked me if I was planning on going on to college. I had applied for scholarships and had been awarded a couple of them before I graduated from high sch...
January is usually a time of new beginnings. It’s a new year with new possibilities and new aspirations. We’re all trying to stick to our New Year’s resolutions to lose a few pounds, save some extra money, or get that promotion at work. While these are excellent goals for the New Year, I propose you go a different route and take advantage of January as a month to begin a new hobby. January is, after all, National Hobby Month. I enjoy getting my hands into a variety of things. I’ve tried knitting and crocheting, drawing, cooking and baking,...
At times, there are things that exist that don’t make a lot of sense and for me, diaper cakes perfectly fit that description. For the uninitiated, a diaper cake is an arrangement of diapers given to expectant or recent mothers as a celebratory gift. I only recently discovered the existence of diaper cakes after a friend’s wife remarked about how nice the diaper cake she was busy making was turning out. “It’s a baby shower thing. A way to give diapers without just getting a box of diapers...
When I’m excited for something it seems like time stands still. No matter what I do, every hour seems to never end and the days seem to pass by like a months and the months pass by like years. There are also times when life seems to go by too quickly. The great moments in life seem to pass by if they were seconds instead of minutes and decades instead of years. Each time I’m with my son Julian I really feel this is the case, and I’m sure that most parents feel the same. Time goes by too quickly...
I noticed it earlier this month. At our local Walmart, even with their “we have no .22 ammo for sale” sign up, they had 50-round boxes in their sales case. And on my shopping spree to Utah for some new ice fishing gear and tackle, I saw .22 ammo at all three of the major sporting goods stores. Of course some of it was weird stuff I would not like to shoot, such as sub sonic, and the prices are sky high, but it was there. But did you know why? New shooters, profiteers, panic buyers, electronic technology, and China. It’s been just a littl...
It was a morning of strikes, splits and gutter balls, but this game of bowling was not taking place at a bowling alley. Thanks to modern technology and Nintendo's Wii game console, this game of bowling was taking place at the Golden Hour Senior Center. On Tuesday morning, six residents were involved in a game of bowling. Some were new to the game, others had played for years on regular bowling leagues, but they all had one thing in common -- to have fun. Mary Slagowski said that is the main...
The Sweetwater County Commissioners listened to a request for funding from the Green River Arts Council to help erect a bronze statue in the city’s Mining Memorial Park Tuesday. Despite commitments from Reid West and Don Van Matre to personally donate to the statue’s creation, the board requested time to consider the request. Discussion after the arts council’s presentation indicates the county is weary of donating tax money for a project within Green River. “We have to be very careful on what...
Last night, the Green River City Council voted to enter into a remediation agreement with the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality for upcoming work at the Union Pacific Depot building. The agreement is part of the groundwork needed to start work on the building, utilizing approximately $200,000 granted to the city in a Brownsfield Cleanup grant awarded to the city last year. The grant is not related to the $1 million grant awarded by the Wyoming Business Council the city ultimately returned last year. Mark Westenskow, the city utilities...
The Green River Speech and Debate team will have another first-place trophy to add to this year’s collection. This past weekend, the team traveled to Casper to compete in the Kelly Walsh tournament. The team rose to the occasion and claimed first-place and earned another sweepstakes trophy with 89 points. “This was one of the biggest tournaments we have attended this season with 28 schools in attendance,” head coach Carina Stulken said. During this competition, schools from Wyoming, South Dakota and Colorado were in attendance. The team was n...
Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso announced that he has nominated Green River High School graduate Joshua Shafe and student Reece Clingenpeel for appointments at U.S. service academies. Shafe is nominated for the U.S. Military and Naval Academies, while Reece is nominated for the U.S. Air Force and Naval Academies “Wyoming has a proud history of nominating some of our best and brightest students to attend our nation’s military academies,” Barrasso said. “Joshua and Reece are hardworking, highly motivated, and have shown they possess the cha...
It was a great weekend for the Green River High School wrestling team. Competing at home, the Wolves went undefeated and placed first at the annual Bill Thoman Memorial Wrestling Tournament. Green River won the tournament with wins over Moffat County, Colo. (62-12), Cheyenne South (54-21), Lander (54-21), Douglas (46-34), Scottsbluff, Neb. (53-24), Cheyenne East (48-26) and Uintah, Utah (38-29). The win in the finals against Uintah avenged an earlier dual loss against the Utes. "We wrestled...
Over their past six games, the Green River High School boy’s basketball team has traveled more than 1,400 round-trip miles. Tomorrow night the Wolves will have a much easier trip with a 86 mile trip to Evanston to take on the 7-4 Red Devils. It will be first game of 4A West Conference play for both teams. Afterward, the squad will get to play their first home game since before Christmas Saturday at 2:30 p.m. against Riverton (5-5). Green River head coach Dan LaRose said there is a lot of learning that comes from the pre-conference schedule a...
It’s a whole new season for the Green River High School girl’s basketball team. The Lady Wolves will open the 2014 4A West conference season with two games this week. Green River will travel to Evanston Thursday, and will host Riverton Saturday at 1 p.m. Last week, Green River (2-8) dropped two games on the road 40-26 against Cheyenne South and 42-39 to Laramie. Following the games, head coach Rick Carroll said the team is starting to see where they need to be on the offensive side of the ball. He said they are starting to get more fam...
Four-years-ago, University of Wyoming head basketball coach Larry Shyatt inherited a mess. Shyatt took the reigns of the program from former coach Heath Schroyer. Things were awful in Laramie, and it was time for a change. Schroyer’s record was under .500 and it wasn’t just that. Questionable coaching and the inner workings of the program led to a complete apathy with fans and the once rocking Arena-Auditorium was mostly empty when the Cowboys took the floor. So in stepped Shyatt. It wasn’t his...
The Green River High School indoor track team will kickoff their season Friday at Weber State University. Wolves head coach Steve Boyd said practice has been going good and it will be nice to get in the first meet of the season. He said there are currently 35 kids who came out for the team. While the numbers are a bit less than last season, Boyd said he likes the team numbers right where they’re at. With a meet also scheduled Friday in Saturday in Utah at Brigham Young University, Boyd said the Weber competition may not be as big as it has i...
The Green River High School boy’s swim team put up a strong performance last Friday on the road at Cheyenne Central. While the Wolves lost a close battle to the Indians 92-86, Green River came away with six first-place finishes. It was a strong day for senior standout Paul Wright, who finished first in the 200-yard IM and 100-yard butterfly. Phillip Blume finished first in the 100-yard backstroke and Brendan Bloomquist placed first in the 100-yard breaststroke. The Green River 200-yard freestyle relay team of Wright, Ethan Moffatt, Brendan Bloo...
