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A presentation given to the Green River City Council Tuesday night will have to be investigated further before the Council can act, according to Mayor Pete Rust. The Council discussed privatizing trash collection during a workshop. Rust said some Council members are concerned with current employees in the city’s Solid Waste Division and are still skeptical if the move to a private service would result in savings. Rust said he would like to see the city have representation on the Sweetwater C...
A suspicious man sending an envelope at the Green River Post Office resulted in a response from the county’s bomb squad Monday night. According to a release from the Green River Police Department, officers met with a person at 7:47 p.m. who said they were on Interstate 80 between Rock Springs and Green River and were passed by a maroon-colored Toyota Camry with Oregon license plates, driven by a man wearing a gas mask. The person claimed they followed the vehicle to the Green River Post O...
It isn’t a secret that sales tax revenues in Sweetwater County have continually declined during the past few years. Both the Green River and Rock Springs municipal governments have had to cut their budgets due to reduced sales-tax revenue, however sales tax isn’t only impacting cities in Sweetwater County. Reduced sales tax income has also resulted in a change to when the county can end its specific use sales tax. In 2012, county voters approved a 1 percent specific purpose sales tax, com...
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...
Castle Rock Hospital District’s financial health continues to improve, with the district $150,000 higher than it was at this time last year. “We’re doing well by any measure,” Chief Financial Officer Todd Toolson said during the district board of trustees meeting Tuesday night. Toolson said the hospital district’s days of cash on hand, a measure of funding reserves calculating how long the district could survive without any income, are expected to be at 67 days by the end of April, the distr...
The two remaining tracts of land where old Lincoln High School was once located will be the subject of a public hearing May 16. Tuesday night, the city Council approved a request to host a public hearing to determine if the city would like to vacate the two tracts of land still under city ownership. One tract of land was previously vacated and is the site of a housing development initiated by New Peak Construction. Laura Leigh, director of community development for Green River, said a...
An Idaho woman is accused of slicing a man’s ear with a knife during an altercation in Green River over the weekend. Lexie Coziah, 57, of Lewisville, Idaho, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault Saturday night. The charge carries a potential maximum prison sentence of 10 years, as well as a maximum fine of up to $10,000. According to court documents, officers from the Green River Police Department were dispatched to 135 Fox Hills Drive for a subject removal call. Officers were told t...
For Bonnie Pope, the red flags went up as soon as she noticed the call came from Jamaica. The Green River resident received a phone call Thursday from a man claiming he was with Publishers Clearing House in Washington, D.C. The man told Pope the iconic prize van was en route to her house and would arrive in minutes. He told her she won $5,500 cash every day for the rest of her life and excitedly told her about the financial freedom she would enjoy in the future. “He was really trying to hype me...
Speaking to a small group of people Thursday night, Sen. John Hastert, Minority Whip for the Wyoming Senate, said the past legislative session didn’t result in cost-based cuts to education. “Education funding needs to be equitable and cost-based,” Hastert said. Echoing comments made by Representatives Stan Blake and John Freemen, Hastert said the session was one of the most difficult he’s been involved in. The legislature passed a bill which resulted in approximately $34 million in cuts to educ...
In an effort to cut $1.6 million from its budget, the Sweetwater County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees approved recommendations that would reduce the district’s workforce as well as cut Winter and Spring athletics programs. The district will cut two full time positions and one part time position, reduce positions through attrition while moving school librarians into the classrooms to teach. The board also agreed to cut building budgets by 10 percent. The board also voted to increase a...
A man accused of driving through a home with his vehicle and killing two people inside pleaded not guilty to three felonies. George Maestas, 68, of Green River, recently appeared in the Third District Court of Judge Nena James at an arraignment to two felony counts of aggravated vehicular homicide and one count of driving under the influence of a controlled substance causing serious bodily injury (first offense). If found guilty of all three charges, Maestas could serve a maximum sentence of 50...
The Tomahawk building is under new ownership. Friday, Green River Futures sold the building to Green River Opportunities Wyoming (GRoWYO), a limited liability company formed by a group of investors with local ties. Green River Futures member Mike Frink said he will continue tomanage the building, while GRoWYO will make investments into a fire suppression system and elevator, which will allow for futures improvements and open occupancy to the upper floors of the building. According to a press...
The Green River Police Department mourns the deaths of two of their own, one a respected detective and the other a beloved drug dog. Tuesday night, police chief Chris Steffen told the Green River City Council of retired Lt. Mont Mecham’s death in Idaho Falls, Idaho, Monday. Mecham was shot while on duty in 1996, an injury a teary-eyed Steffen said “is what probably ended his life.” Mecham was one of two officers shot during a confrontation with Steven Mitchell Oct. 14, 1996. According to a Gre...
Cold, alone and scared was how she was found in the road. The 10-month-old pit bull ran across North Second West Street next to Centennial Park right in front of a carload of teenagers. "We were just driving around because we had nothing else to do," Derrik Erickson said. At first, the group thought they had hit the dog, but they didn't hear a yelp or feel a thump against the car. However, they still stopped the car to check on the dog. All six of the Green River teenagers, Taylor Thornton,...
A man accused of killing a small child and her great-grandmother in a vehicle crash was bound over to district court Monday. George Maestas, 68, of Green River, waived his preliminary hearing and was bound over a week after making his initial appearance in Judge John Prokos’ Circuit Court. Maestas is charged with two felony charges of aggravated homicide by vehicle and felony driving under the influence with serious injury. His bond is set at $1 million cash. All cases involving felony c...
A proposed moratorium on the construction of cell phone towers will be voted on next week, which will give the city’s Community Development Department a chance to draft regulations for the cell towers. Laura Leigh, director of the department, said the city has received multiple inquiries to build new cell towers within Green River. Leigh expects more interest in cell towers in the coming years; however the areas where the towers have traditionally been constructed, such as Mansface, are g...
A Green River police officer’s quick thinking is credited with saving the life of a man suffering from a possible heroin overdose. Last week, the Green River City Council recognized Officer Martha Holzgrafe. Holzgrafe, according to Police Chief Chris Steffen, responded to a call at about 1 a.m. March 5 to an address on Wagon Wheel Drive. Upon arriving at the residence, Holzgrafe noticed the unidentified man in respiratory arrest and initiated rescue breathing. After other emergency responders a...
The long-discussed transfer station project was approved by the Green River City Council Tuesday night. The project, which was awarded to L.M. Olson, Inc., for $1.97 million, will replace the city’s landfill, which is scheduled to close by the end of June. Councilman Gary Killpack, while stating he’s in favor of the transfer station, asked why the city doesn’t plan to privatize the city’s trash collection. Public Works Director Mark Westenskow said the issue comes down to the level of service...
Phone conversations and video visits between a wife and her husband, who is in jail, can be used in court. Jacob Anglesey, 35, a Green River Police officer accused of murdering a two-year-old boy, filed a notice of intent to claim marital privilege in the Third District Court of Judge Richard Lavery. In the notice, Anglesey asked the court to exclude the introduction of jail calls, video visits or statements derived from conversations he had with his wife, Chanelle Anglesey, under Wyoming State...
The Green River may look a lot higher than usual during the next week. The Fontenelle Dam is schedule to increase flows into the river to mitigate the high amount of water resulting from snowstorms occurring earlier this year. Releases increased Tuesday at 2,700 cubic feet per second and are projected to increase to 5,500 cubic feet per second Monday morning. Judy Roderick, coordinator for Sweetwater County Emergency Management, said the flows are higher than usual during this time of year, but...
