Council approves range

The Green River City Council approved a request for State Lands and Investment Board funding to build a shooting range in the new Green River Police Department building.

The request will now go to the Sweetwater County Commissioners for final approval before being sent to the SLIB board.

The commissioners and SLIB are needed to approve the request because the range construction utilizes county-wide consensus block grant funding provided by the Wyoming Legislature, which requires the governing bodies representing 70 percent of the county's population to agree upon how it's spent. The request wi...