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A field of five Democrats drops to four after one of the candidates announced his plans to drop out of the race. Ted Barney, currently a Green River City Councilman, announced his intent to withdraw from the election Tuesday evening. Barney said he’s withdrawing as a result of personal issues. “An unforeseen development has arisen this week and after verifying the events, it is with regret that I have to announce my withdrawal from the Sweetwater County Commissioner race for 2016,” Barney wrote...
Officers assisted Wyoming Highway Patrol locate a vehicle on Astle Avenue and Uinta Drive described in a REDDI (Report Every Drunk Driver Immediately) report on Highway 530 south of Green River. Officers assisted Castle Rock Ambulance Service on a medical call. Officers received a call of two dogs described as huskies at large on Shoshone Avenue and Uinta Drive. Officers checked the area and were unable to locate the dogs. Officers assisted Castle Rock Ambulance Service on a medical call. Officers contacted a resident who was advised their resi...
The Green River City Council made it evident they value community programs at Tuesday’s city council meeting. In order to give city staff some direction for the finalization of the city budget set for June 21, the decision of how much money each community program asking for funds will receive was decided by consensus. Each council member voiced their opinions down the line for fund amounts to each program including the Retired Seniors Volunteer Program, Green River Food Bank, Golden Hour S...
A man accused of slapping his five-month-old baby was given prison time for his crime. Dustin Tankersley of Green River appeared in the Third District Court of Judge Richard Lavery at a sentencing hearing to four felony counts of child abuse and one count of aggravated child abuse. In exchange for Tankersley’s guilty pleas to two counts of felony child abuse, he was given two, four-to 10-year prison sentences, which will run concurrently. He was given credit for 226 days of pre-sentence c...
Officers responded to a noise complaint of loud music coming from a vehicle on Arkansas Drive. The owner of the vehicle was contacted, given a warning and turned the music down. Officers received a report of suspicious odor of something burning from a residence the reporting party walked by on Hitching Post Drive. Officers contacted the resident at the address, who advised everything was okay. Animal control officers located a yellow labrador at large on Hitching Post Drive and Stage Place, which was taken to the animal shelter. Officers met...
Utility rates in Green River will not decrease. A utility rate study conducted by NewGen will not have solid estimates of what the rates may look like in the future, but rates will increase. The recommended changes will more than likely be implemented by the next fiscal year, July of 2017, city finance director Chris Meats said at a city budget workshop last week. “The rates aren’t going down,” Meats said. “All the funds will need to increase to different extents. There’s some big ticket items....
An unidentified motorcyclist was transported to Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County after a crash involving her motorcycle and a truck Friday afternoon. The crash occurred at about 12:13 p.m. at the intersection of Uinta Drive and Roosevelt Drive. According information from the Green River Police Department, a pickup truck driven by 83-year-old Chris Leventis moved into the turning lane and attempted to make a left turn, striking a motorcycle traveling south on Uinta Drive. The police...
Grace doesn't want her restaurant to look like a restaurant. She wants it to look like home. She wants her guests to be at "home" in her home, she said. Grace Yeager opened the doors to her new restaurant "A Taste of Grace" on Uinta Drive, on Memorial Day. The element of home is an important element to Yeager's restaurant, her home. A taste of Grace means the recipes used at the restaurant are her own recipes from home. The restaurant is essentially a sandwich shop specializing in paninis....
Animal control officers responded to an address on wilderness Trail in reference to a report of a cat caught in a trap. Animal control officers responded to an address on Schultz Street in reference to a welfare check on a dog. Officers responded to an address on Fir Street in reference to a report of a suspicious person. Animal control officers responded to the address of 705 Uinta Drive in reference to a report of a dog left in a vehicle. Animal control officers responded to an address on Knotty Pine Street in reference to a report of a...
An incident at a residence on West Railroad ended with one person shot and another arrested Sunday. Ted Kalivas, 57, of Green River was arrested Sunday night after allegedly shooting his daughter’s boyfriend in the leg. Kalivas made his initial appearance before Circuit Court Judge John Prokos Monday to a felony charge of aggravated assault and battery, which carries a maximum penalty of not more than 10 years in prison and a fine of not more than $10,000. He is being held at the Sweetwater Coun...
Longtime Green River resident Richard Baxter has filed to run for city council in Ward I. Baxter has lived in Green River for 29 years, works at Little America and is a Green River High School graduate. Baxter currently serves on the Western Wyoming Community College Board of Trustees as secretary. Before his current position, he was treasurer for two years. He said as treasurer and secretary, he and the other board members would have to make tough decisions when it came to the budget. "I've...
Monday and Tuesday evenings were a time for families to watch Green River's senior high school students in the age-old tradition of graduation. Monday, seniors from Green River High School received their diplomas, while Tuesday was reserved for Expedition Academy's graduating class. According to Phil Harder, EA's graduation speaker and math teacher at the school, the tradition dates back more than 3,000 years to ancient Greece. While the event itself dates back to ancient times, both students...
More candidates have filed for election to local offices, but time is running out for those interested in becoming a city councilman, county commissioner or state legislator. As of Tuesday evening, two of the three available council slots in Green River will be contested. In Ward I, Richard Baxter and Tom Murphy will vie for the council seat while in Ward III Robert Berg will attempt to defeat incumbent Brett Stokes. Lisa Maes, the incumbent in Ward II, has filed for re-election, but faces no opposition at this time. In Granger, only Kimberly...
Officers responded to a report of a television on in the basement of a residence on Yates Street the reporting party advised should not have been. Officers checked the property which appeared OK. Nothing was else was disturbed. Officers responded to an alarm on South Carolina Drive. Officers contacted the resident and determined the alarm was accidental. Animal control officers picked up a cat in a trap on North 3rd West. Officers received a call of a child accidentally locked in a vehicle at 895 Uinta Drive. Officers unlocked the vehicle and...
A natural gas line will add an additional $3,500 to the construction costs for the police department’s indoor shooting range. The line is just beyond the shooting range, between the firing line and the bullet trap of the range. If the gas line were to be struck by a bullet, the effects could be lethal and explosive. The city has two options to deal with the problem: build armor around the gas line or relocate the line outside of the building. Relocating the line is the cheaper of the two o...
A man who admitted to having sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old girl will serve time in prison. TJ Luna, 32, Green River, appeared in the Third District Court of Judge Nena James to a sentencing hearing to six counts of first-degree sexual abuse of a minor and two counts of second-degree sexual abuse of a minor. During the change of plea hearing, which took place earlier this year, Luna pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree sexual abuse of a minor. In exchange for his guilty plea, al...
The Green River Parks and Recreation Department is set to celebrate Arbor Day Saturday at Indian Hills Park. The celebration begins at 10 a.m. Numerous door prizes will be given away including a gas chain saw, tree pruning lopper, and other great landscaping tools. Cottonwood, Ash, Dogwood, and Pine seedlings will be available to take home for free along with planting instructions and tree care advice. The Green River Girl Scout troop will plant new trees in the park and refreshments will be available to all who attend. “The importance of a...
A traffic warning was given for alleged speeding at 200 E. Railroad Avenue. Officers were dispatched to a fire alarm at 840 Hitching Post Drive, which was determined to be a false alarm. Animal control officers picked up a cat in a trap on Uinta Drive and the cat was taken to the animal shelter. Animal control officers received a call of an injured bird in a business at 341 Uinta Drive. Officers responded to a report of a vehicle speeding through a neighborhood on Pennsylvania Boulevard. Officers located the vehicle and contacted the driver who...
The Sweetwater County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees voted to approve the 2017 contract between themselves and the district’s employees, paying a little more money to district employees. On the employee side, the contract was met with 99 percent approval before the board finalized it Tuesday night. It creates a new base salary of $47,305 for certified staff, an increase of $100, while a vertical step of $712 and a horizontal step of $1,017 was granted to all eligible employees. For s...
Torrential rain, hail and snow hit Green River Friday evening and continued throughout the night. The downpour of rain and hail affected some regions of Green River more than other. Effects on higher lying elevations were less severe, while lower lying areas of the city suffered some flooding. The area around Second South to the river suffered the most flooding Friday night. "It was just a lot of water at once," utilities director Jason Palmer said. The city utilities department had two crews...
It was a normal, average day for the Salas family. Eddie mowed the grass, and the family enjoyed dinner on their porch. Eddie and his wife Danielle discussed things they'd like to fix around the house. The family later got a phone call and heard someone from Green River won the Wyoming lottery. "It was almost seven before we checked the numbers, because you never think you're going to win," Danielle said. It was a nice, average day; nicer than even they could imagine. Little did they know,...
Joseph Seelen, 34, of Green River, was arrested on an Albany County warrant for failure to appear on an original charge of allegedly driving while under suspension. Animal control officers gave a resident a warning for dog at large at 1000 W. Flaming Gorge Way. Officers contacted an individual who reported receiving harassing messages by text and on social media. The reporting party wanted a trespass warning issued to individuals for their property. Officers completed a report regarding the incident. Animal control officers responded to a...
“The sky is falling,” may not be the best thing to hear at a city budget workshop. Neither are the words “managing the free fall,” which is what a portion of the budget presentation was titled at Thursday’s workshop. “The sky hasn’t fallen yet, but it’s getting pretty cloudy,” city finance director Chris Meats said. After a reduction of between $1.3-$1.5 million in sales tax revenue, combined with the city’s $3.9 million in operational costs, and two rounds of cuts across the board, the city...
If a natural disaster was to strike Sweetwater County today, there would be no plan to cover its impact on the community. Research and planning is currently underway to create a regional multi-hazard mitigation plan for natural hazards such as floods, wild fires, winter storms, dam failures and others. The plan will pertain to Region 4 of Wyoming, which includes Sweetwater County, Lincoln County and Uinta County. The state hired the company Amec Foster Wheeler to help Green River Interim Fire...
A man who originally claimed he was unfit to enter a plea, changed his plea to no contest and was given prison time. Raymond Price, who originally plead not guilty by reason of mental deficiency in the Third District Court of Judge Nena James at an arraignment to three counts of aggravated assault and battery appeared in the district court again at a sentencing hearing in April. In March, Price appeared at a change of plea hearing in March for the three felony counts. During that hearing, the co...
