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Ten school district employees, one administrator and nine teachers, signed up to take a volunteer separation program. The Sweetwater County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees approved the employees’ separation Tuesday evening, which will take effect at the end of the fiscal year. Board members had mixed emotions about their decision, happy the 10 had taken up an offer intended to avoid layoffs within the district, but disappointed with the reason why they’re forced into offering the pro...
Paying students’ negative balances off is something residents in Green River are trying to help out with. With 776 students, or 30 percent of Sweetwater County School district No. 2, on the free and reduced lunch meal program, the need to help pay off balances for those who have to go on this program is increasing. Thanks to donations of more than $1,500, the community is helping out with those negative balances, Linda Martin, director of nutrition services, said. The money received through d...
The Green River City Council issued special use approval for placement of a cell tower near Mansface Tuesday evening. According to Council documents, the tower was requested by Verizon Wireless and will be a 99’ monopole. Laura Leigh, director of community development for the city, said the city had to issue the special use permit because the tower’s location placed it in what’s known as the Bronze Belt Overlay District. Leigh said the district was created to protect the city’s scenic bluffs lik...
Sweetwater County School District No. 2 has one of the highest graduation rates in the state, according to a recent report from the Wyoming Department of Education. The district had a 92 percent graduation rate during the 2016-17 school year, graduating 183 students out of an expected graduate count of 199. District No. 2 had the second largest number of expected graduates of the school districts surpassing the 90 percent graduation rate. Lincoln County School District No. 2 had a 90.5 percent g...
A man arrested in Green River Friday had his bond set at $25,000 cash or surety after being charged with 16 counts of felony voyeurism. Ryan Flaten, 28, is in the Sweetater County Detention Center following his arrest. While voyeurism is often a misdemeanor charge, it becomes a felony when a camera or other recording device is used in the crime. Each felony count carries with it a penalty of not more than two years in prison and a potential fine of not more than $5,000. Flaten was also arrested in Lyman on Nov. 17, 2017, and charged with...
Editor's note: Due to the graphic nature of these particular cases and a need to protect the victim's identity, even the redacted court documents supporting the charges will not be published. Green River City Councilman Allan Wilson is accused of sexually abusing a minor, according to court documents from two counties. He was arrested last week for a charge stemming out of Lincoln County and one charge in Sweetwater County. A detention officer confirmed that Wilson was in the Sweetwater County D...
The Green River Chamber of Commerce has started its search for a new CEO. The chamber started publishing advertisements this week for the position, which was vacated after the chamber’s executive board released former CEO Irene Parsons prior to the chamber’s week-long break Dec. 20. Parsons was originally hired in August to replace Rebecca Eusek, who had been the chamber’s director for nearly five years. Eusek had accepted a position at the Wyoming Business Council....
In an extremely short meeting Tuesday night, the Green River City Council approved several grant requests to fund several needs within the city’s fire department, as well as transportation and swimming lessons for programs hosted by the Parks and Recreation Department. The fire department’s requests are for a new pumper/tender truck, 40 sets of turnout gear and funding to provide training. The three grant requests will be made to the 2018 Assistance to Firefighters Grant and, if all three reques...
A Green River family got to experience the excitement of being on a television game show, with the episode airing locally Monday. Mary Williams, along with her sons Stephen and Ryan, daughter Erika Johnson and her husband Joe competed on "Family Feud," the long-running gameshow hosted by Steve Harvey. The episode airs during the two-episode block starting at 3 p.m. on KUTV Mary said the process started when Erika contacted her about a audition taking place in Salt Lake City in January, 2017. At...
Editor’s note: Due to the graphic nature of one of these particular cases, as well as a need to protect the victims’ identities, the affidavit information supporting either case will not be published. Max Allen Louderback, 66, of Green River, recently appeared in the Third District Court of Judge Nena James at a sentencing hearing to two counts of first-degree sexual abuse of a minor, four counts of second-degree sexual abuse of a minor and a third-degree sexual abuse of a minor. Louderback ple...
Editor's note: Due to the graphic nature of these particular cases and a need to protect the victim's identity, even the redacted court documents supporting the charges will not be published. Green River City Councilman Allan Wilson is in the Sweetwater County Detention Center awaiting official charges. He was arrested in Sweetwater County for a charge stemming out of Lincoln County and one charge in Sweetwater County. A detention officer confirmed that Wilson is in the Sweetwater County...
Sweetwater County School District No. 2 will initiate a voluntary separation program. The district’s board of trustees voted Tuesday night to approve the voluntary separation program after a 24 minute executive session on the topic. “The bottom line is we are avoiding laying people off,” board member Steve Core said. Information regarding the program was unavailable on the district’s website prior to the meeting. According to Donna Little-Kaumo, superintendent of the school district, the pro...
Anyone passing by the American Legion Tom Whitmore Post 28 in Green River Saturday night would have heard the building barely containing the music coming from within. Inside, a packed house listened to local musicians, as well as those from Denver, Salt Lake City and Wisconsin as they hosted a benefit for veterans in the area. The American Legion hosted the fourth Music for Vets performance last weekend, which benefits the legion's Veteran's Relief Fund, a program providing cash grants to help v...
The Green River Chamber of Commerce’s Board Directors fired former CEO Irene Parsons after a closed meeting was hosted to discuss her job performance. The chamber issued a press release stating Parsons would no longer be employed with the chamber Dec. 21. The Green River Star requested emails sent and received by Allan Wilson, a Green River City Councilman who serves on the chamber’s board. According to those emails, the board hosted an executive session, to discuss Parson’s job perfo...
The Green River has slowly backed up over the last week as ice has hindered the river's flow. Water from the river has risen and froze portions of Riverside Park, as well as submerging sections of the Greenbelt. Brad Raney, Director of the Green River Parks and Recreation Department, said there isn't a lot the city can do, but monitor the situation. "We don't have anything in our department to deal with (the ice,)" Raney said. "We hope that it clears up." Raney said the department has closed...
The Green River City Council approved a retail liquor license Tuesday night for a bar and grill set to open in the city in early February. The license is for the Town Bar and Grill, which will be located at the old OT’s Sports Bar location at 95 East Railroad Drive. Buckley Hubert, the proprietor, said he aims to bring a nonsmoking, pub-like restaurant to Green River. He anticipates the restaurant to open Feb. 1. Hubert said he picked the location because it’s already an established loc...
Jacob Anglesey, once a highly regarded officer with the Green River Police Department, will go to prison. At the end of a two-day sentencing hearing Thursday, Anglesey was sentenced to spend 16-20 years in prison, with credit for 679 days served, for aggravated homicide in the death of two-year-old Konnor Allen in 2009. The maximum sentence for aggravated homicide is 20 years of imprisonment. Allen died after sustaining severe injuries while in Anglesey’s care, which the Sweetwater County A...
The Green River Chamber of Commerce had a major change-up in its staff late last week. According to a press release, Irene Parsons, who had worked as CEO of the camber since August, was no longer working at the Chamber as of Dec. 21. Lisa Herrera will be taking over Parsons’ duties during the interim. Parsons, who formerly worked for Sen. John Barrasso’s office, replaced Rebecca Eusek as chamber CEO when Eusek was hired to work for the Wyoming Business Council. “We wish her well in her new endeavors,” the chamber’s press release states....
For Green River’s municipal government, 2017 was a year of change and cautious optimism. The biggest change came when the City Council decided to close the solid waste division and contract with Wyoming Waste Services to manage the city’s garbage collection. The decision came as the city prepares to close its landfill. Stricter regulations from the Wyoming EPA has caused a shift from municipal landfills to regional landfills across the state, which locally has caused the city to build a tra...
