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A Green River Parks and Recreation Department employee died after a work-related incident at the Green River Recreation Center last week. Dave Hyer, a maintenance worker at the recreation center, was hospitalized after a lift Hyer was using tipped over at the recreation center’s gym Sept. 14. According to city administrator Reed Clevenger, Hyer was working on a motor used to raise the basketball hoops in the gym using a lift. While working on the motor, the hoop near the lift started to raise, t...
Anyone trying to look at information on the city of Green River’s website was greeted with an unfamiliar sight Monday. The website was replaced by a message the domain had expired, cutting off access to the website. According to the city’s IT specialist Brandan Corthell, the city’s domain registration had lapsed. A web domain is essentially the name of a website. People and businesses running their own websites often have to register their web domain to operate the website and ensure no one e...
Following an executive session taking place during the Green RIver City Council meeting Tuesday night, the Council voted to continue negotiations with Wyoming Waste Management and prepare an employee severance package should the Council vote to privatize its solid waste service. Prior to the start of their scheduled meeting, the Council hosted a workshop to hear an update about solid waste department. City Administrator Reed Clevenger said the city issued a request for proposal and selected two...
A proposed ordinance dealing with how alcohol is served in Green River has the American Legion Post 28 concerned with how it would impact its functions. The ordinance adopts changes to state liquor laws enacted by the Wyoming Legislature earlier this year and deals with access minors have to businesses serving alcohol to their customers. The issue impacting the American Legion, as well as the Eagles, is a change in how a dispensing area is defined by the ordinance. According to Mary Seppie, who...
A former Green River resident on the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office most wanted list was arrested in Montana for probation revocation on original charges of conspiracy to commit aggravated kidnapping and conspiracy to commit felony theft. The sheriff’s office announced the arrest of 18-year-old Hayden Anthony Riggs Tuesday evening. Riggs was involved in an attack on a worker at the Sweetwater Youth Crisis Center which left the employee tied up and injured. The worker was treated for injuries to her throat after the attack. Riggs and his...
The state of Sweetwater County School District No. 2 was discussed in a far-reaching presentation Tuesday night. Superintendent Donna Little-Kaumo said enrollment trends throughout the district have remained stable during the past several years. As of Tuesday, the total number of students enrolled was 2,611, making the district the 10th largest in the state. Of that group, Little-Kaumo said 17.5 percent are on an individual education plan, 2.2 percent are homeless, 3.2 percent have limited...
No contest. That’s the plea Jacob Anglesey made during an 11th hour change-of-plea hearing Friday afternoon, a few days prior to the scheduled start of his first-degree murder trial. “We were set to go to trial on Monday,” Third District Court Judge Richard Lavery said. As part of a plea agreement, Anglesey changed his plea to no contest to a reduced charge of voluntary manslaughter in the 2009 death of two-year-old Connor Allen. No contest is a plea made when a defendant does not admit or de...
An Idaho man who robbed Wyochem Federal Credit Union was sentenced recently for the robbery. Donald Sample, also known as Donald A. Sheriff, 60, of Pocatello, Idaho, was sentenced to serve 30 years in federal prison for bank robbery and use of a firearm. He was ordered to pay $178,375 in restitution in addition to his sentence. Sample was convicted after a jury trial June 30 in U.S. District Court and was sentenced Sept. 5. He was sentenced to 23 years for the bank robbery and seven years for...
Despite having funding cuts from both cities and the Sweetwater County Commissioners, the Sweetwater County Transit Authority continues to report more riders utilizing the service. Speaking to the Green River City Council Tuesday night, Judy Owens, director of STAR, said they provided 1,212 additional rides during the 2016-2017 fiscal year, bringing the total number of rides provided by the transit authority to 44,251 during the fiscal year. Of that number, 14,727 originated in Green River...
A water main break on Flaming Gorge Way impacted businesses Thursday morning as city workers rushed to repair the pipe. According to a Facebook post from city administrator Reed Clevenger, the break occurred beneath the intersection of Flaming Gorge Way and North 1st East Street at about midnight Thursday morning, with water flooding down nearby streets. The break occurred when a 2 1/2 foot cast iron pipe burst beneath the street. “It took some time to find the leak due to the difficulty of l...
With less than two weeks until the start of Jacob Anglesey’s trial in the 2009 death of Connor Allen, his defense sought a postponement due to concerns of not receiving everything on file at the Sweetwater County Attorney’s Office. A motion filed to postpone the trial was denied by District Court Judge Richard Lavery, keeping the Sept. 11 date to start the trial. However, the judge also said the county attorney’s office would have to file affidavits certifying that all information perta...
It’s official. The Mission at Castle Rock Villa Assisted Living is now open to those who need assisted living. On Saturday, the Villa hosted an open house to allow residents and potential clients a chance to tour the facility. “It’s already up and running,” Villa director Susan Crofutt said. The Villa is mainly for people who need a little bit of help, but aren’t ready to go into a nursing home, Crofutt said. This facility is for those who may need help going to the bathroom, while taking a...
Residents will see more sixth-penny tax work going on throughout Green River. According to a media release from the city, the intersection of Hitching Post Drive and Shoshone Avenue will close Sept. 5 for the next phase of construction work on Hitching Post Drive. Residents are recommended to use West Teton Boulevard and Monroe Avenue to get around the construction work. Residents can also expect to see the intersection of Crossbow Drive and Hitching Post Drive to open the same day. The project consists of replacing a 12” water main and adding...
A Green River Police officer who has been charged with murder after a two-year-old boy in his care died, has until Friday to make a plea deal. Jacob Anglesey, 35, who was charged with first-degree murder, was going to change his plea in the Third District Court of Judge Richard Lavery at a change of plea hearing in June, but when it was time for the hearing, it was announced a deal hadn’t been reached after all. Since then, an order after pretrial document has been filed in the Third District C...
A group of residents, tired of corporate money influencing state and national elections, is working to gather signatures for a proposed 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Specifically, the amendment seeks to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United vs. F.E.C., which ruled political spending is protected speech under the First Amendment and the government cannot keep a group or corporation from spending money in an election. While those groups cannot directly contribute...
During the course of its 46-year lifespan, Wilson Elementary School has been a number of things to Green River residents. Many studied in the building during its time as an elementary school. Others remember the building as Expedition Academy’s home until the alternative high school relocated. Most recently, students from Monroe Intermediate School utilized the building as sections of the middle school were renovated two years ago. Now, it will house the district’s administrative staff. The sch...
With budget shortfalls and potential additional cuts to Wyoming schools, school funding has been a hot topic across the state. Residents and school employees from throughout the region converged at Rock Springs Junior High School Monday evening to make their voices heard regarding the upcoming recalibration of school funding from the state. Recalibration is a process mandated to adjust funding levels to school districts in the state as a result of five separate lawsuits filed against the...
After working with the Green River Police Department since 1992, Chris Steffen will hang up his uniform and take a position with the Muley Fanatics Foundation later this year. Steffen said he doesn't plan to leave his post until mid November, but announced his intent to leave in an email last week. Steffen said he'll definitely miss the people he works with throughout the police department and city and believes he will struggle to adapt to life outside of law enforcement, but said he's excited...
Sweetwater County’s group for Wyoming Promise will collect petition signatures on the corner of S. 2nd E. and E. 4th S. adjacent to Evers Park in Green River Friday between 1-8 p.m., and on Saturday between 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wyoming Promise is an organization whose effort is aimed at overturning the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision that prohibits the government from restricting independent political expenditures by nonprofit corporations, for-profit corporations, labor unions and other associations. The mission of Wyoming Promise is simple: to...
Green River may not be in the “path of totality” for the 2017 total solar eclipse. Ninety-nine years ago, however, Green River became the temporary home of the world’s leading astronomers who came here for the best view of the 1918 total solar eclipse. During that eclipse, both Rock Springs and Green River were in the exact path of the eclipse, which was visible here June 8 at 5:17 p.m. Months earlier, various railroads began advertising eclipse excursions and the newspapers were touting the eclipse as a once-in-a-lifetime, not-t...
A new CEO for the Green River Chamber of Commerce will start working Monday according to a media release from the chamber. Irene Parsons was recently hired to replace Rebecca Eusek, who left the position for a job with the Wyoming Business Council. Parsons, a 41-year resident of Wyoming and University of Wyoming graduate, formerly worked for Sen. John Barrasso as his field representative in Southwest Wyoming, where she was responsible for communication with Sen. Barrasso and his staff. “Irene is well versed in many aspects of business and c...
A man accused of sexually abusing two 13-year-old girls pleaded innocent to four felony charges. Justin Lucas Smith, 18, of Green River appeared in the Third District Court of Judge Nena James at an arraignment to four counts of third-degree sexual abuse of a minor. If Smith is found guilty of all four felonies, he could face a maximum sentence of 60 years in prison and a maximum fine of $40,000. A jury trial has been scheduled to take place Oct. 10, at 9 a.m. The cases stem from two separate...
