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Home insurance rates might lower for Green River residents after a new rating for the city was issued by the Insurance Service Office. The ISO rates cities on a variety of criteria regarding how well-prepared a city is to deal with a fire, which include fire department response times and how high a city’s fire flows are within its water system. Green River was upgraded from a four rating to a three, which goes into effect March 2016. The ratings ISO gives are based on a 10-point scale with o...
By STEPHANIE THOMPSON People Editor A man who admitted to physically abusing his elderly uncle will serve time in prison. Kevin Andrew McCarrie, 38, of Green River, appeared in the Third District Court of Judge Nena James at a sentencing hearing to aggravated assault and battery and two counts of abuse, neglect, abandonment, intimidation or exploitation of a vulnerable adult. In exchange for McCarrie’s guilty plea to the aggravated assault and battery charge and abuse, neglect, abandonment, i...
Postal inspectors and the Green River Police Department are looking into a series of post office box break-ins at the Green River Post Office. According to Pamela Durkee, a postal inspector with the United States Postal Service in Denver, less than 10 boxes had been broken into. Customers affected by the break-ins were notified Tuesday. Durkee said the break-ins occurred between 9 p.m. Monday and 5:30 a.m. Tuesday morning. The locking mechanisms on the boxes were bent, causing the doors to be...
A homeland security grant to benefit the Green River Police Department was approved by the City Council last night. The grant totals $45,954 and will not require any funds from the city and is fully reimbursable. The grant will be used to fund new secure proximity card-reader doors for city hall and the police department, as well as security cameras for the police department and parks and recreation department. “We sat down and thought, what are our needs,” Lt. Burke Morin said. Morin said the...
Two 16-year-old Green River boys will be charged as adults after they attempted to strangle a woman at the Green River Youth Home so they could run away. Even though they are juveniles, the boy’s are being charged as adults and because of that their names have been released. Hayden A. Riggs and Charles Paiz, both of Green River, were charged with kidnapping, conspiracy to commit kidnapping, aggravated assault and battery, conspiracy to commit aggravated assault and battery, theft, conspiracy t...
Animal control officers received a call that two dogs got out of a garage and were at large on West Teton Boulevard. The dogs were located and returned to their owner. Animal control officers responded to a report of a dog at large at 2200 East Teton Blvd. A traffic warning for speeding was issued on Shoshone Avenue. Animal control officers received a call of a dog at large at 1445 Uinta Drive. Officers located the dog and determined it belonged on the property. Officers were dispatched to a 911 hang-up call from an undisclosed address....
Officers were dispatched to an alarm on Faith Drive. Officers checked the property, everything appeared OK and contacted a responsible party for the property. Officers assisted Castle Rock Ambulance personnel on a medical call. Officers contacted an individual, in reference to a report of a stolen large plastic water tank, on 515 E. Flaming Gorge Way. Officers completed a report regarding the incident, which is under investigation. VIN checks were conducted at the Green River Police Department. Officers contacted an individual who reported...
The Green River school district is targeting e-cigarettes and vaporizers in a series of amendments to school policies. Last night, the district’s board of trustees approved amendments to the school’s athletics handbook and its suspension and expulsion guidelines to include the use of e-cigarettes and vaporizers. A third amendment to the student conduct guidelines was voted down by the board in order for its language to match up with language used in the other two amendments. The amendment will b...
A man walking his dog early Thursday morning prompted a lockout nearly encompassing the entire school district in Green River. According to a release from the Green River Police Department, at about 7 a.m. Dec. 3, an employee at Green River High School reported seeing someone walking through the school's parking lot with what they believed to be a rifle slung over their shoulder. The school resource officer, with staff from the school, reviewed security footage and saw a man walk an airedale...
The new city ordinance concerning disorderly conduct raises a question of Green River’s influx of transients and other disturbances, which the ordinance now can deal with. “It’s not a huge problem, but we have a pretty heavy influx of transients in the summer months,” Green River Police Chief Chris Steffen said. “We deal with that problem every summer.” Steffen says it’s been an issue for quite a long time now in Green River. It hasn’t gotten any worse, but it hasn’t gotten any better either, an...
The first readings of two new ordinances for the City of Green River passed at the city council meeting Tuesday night. The first was a new city ordinance for disorderly conduct. Both the Green River Police Department and the city prosecutor have felt that they lack the ability to enforce disturbances that are not covered under the code of violations. When the GRPD receives calls from business owners and other citizens concerning the removal of transients from a location, the police officers have...
Consideration to approve an increase in the general fund in the administration department for an amendment to the City Administrator’s Contract, in the amount of $20,862 was approved at Tuesday’s city council meeting. At the beginning of the council meeting Councilman Gary Killpack asked for the motion to be moved out of the consent agenda. That was for the public to be aware of the action. He said because some actions were done under the consent agenda concerning the previous city adm...
A man accused of raping a 15-year-old girl more than once, pleaded not guilty to eight felony charges. TJ Luna, 32, Green River, appeared in the Third District Court of Judge Nena James at an arraignment to six counts of first-degree sexual abuse of a minor and two counts of second-degree sexual abuse of a minor. If found guilty of all eight counts, Luna could face a maximum sentence of 340 years of prison and a maximum fine of $80,000 in fines. A jury trial has been scheduled to take place...
Officers received a call, in reference to a deer with a string of Christmas lights caught in its antlers. The deer would not let officers get close to it and Wyoming Game and Fish Department were notified. Animal control officers contacted an individual by phone who was interested in adopting a pet. Officers met with an individual who reported receiving harassing messages on social media. Officers completed a report regarding the incident which is under investigation. Officers responded to a citizen assist, in regards to a pet locked in a...
A pursuit involving the Green River Police Department and Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office ensued early Friday afternoon, which ended in a Green River man’s death. The pursuit started at approximately 1:50 p.m., when GRPD Lt. Burke Morin was at a gas station on the east side of Green River filling up his vehicle. He saw a white truck that matched the description of a vehicle involved in a hit-and-run crash last week. Morin finished fueling his vehicle and found the truck again, but could not...
When snow storms hit Green River, the city’s streets department hits the roads running, scraping, salting and sanding. The city’s policy of when to start scraping the streets is when the snow level reaches 2 inches, but even so, the city’s snow removal trucks are sent out much sooner. Streets Supervisor Randy Koloff said they will receive calls from the police department soon after a snow storm, alerting them of visible deteriorating driving conditions before a wreck happens. When the snow...
Keeping kids safe on the bus is a priority in Sweetwater County School District No. 2. Sandy Lee, District No. 2 bus driver and bus-safety team member with LaVonne Wadsworth, said each student who is going to ride the bus receives a tag to put on their backpack. This tag includes important information, including the bus number and symbol. Before school even starts, District No. 2 ensures the students receive their information on which bus they are riding. If a students loses their tag during...
Officers took a report of a missing person. The reporting party later contacted the police department and said the person returned home. Officers responded to a residence in reference to a report of a crash on Fur Street. Officers took a report of suspicious circumstances on Riverview Drive. VIN checks were conducted at the Green River Police Department. Officers responded to the area in reference to a report of a possibly intoxicated driver on Wyoming Highway 530 and East Flaming Gorge Way. Officers were unable to locate the vehicle. Officers...
Residents living in the Hutton Heights mobile homes will see some mid-winter construction, starting in January. The construction is due to the replacement of the city’s water lift station located in Hutton Heights. “It’s in desperate conditions,” City Engineer Mark Westenskow said. The station lifts water to the houses in Hutton Heights and to a portion of the Hutton Heights shopping center. Westenskow said plans will be discussed with residents of the area before construction starts. The cit...
Green River residents may have noticed a new sign at the entrance to town at the intersection of Uinta Drive and Flaming Gorge Way, and may have noticed the fence along Flaming Gorge Way by the intersection was recently moved to better expose the new sign. The Green River Chamber of Commerce recently acquired a new digital sign to replace the outdated sign that was located by the chamber building, which will be removed in the next few months. Green River Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Re...
Officers responded to a medical call at an undisclosed address. Animal control officers met an individual at the animal shelter who was picking up their dog. A VIN check check was conducted on Riverview Drive. Animal control officers picked up a contained black lab without a collar on Hillcrest Way. The dog was taken to the animal shelter. Officers met with an individual at the police department who reported an attempted scam. The reporting party was contacted by an individual, in reference to a sweepstakes. The reporting party suspected it to...
While the Green River City Council did vote to move money in the U.P. Depot renovation fund for use towards a shooting range at the Green River Police Department, the city is still committed to the project. City Administrator Reed Clevenger said a survey of the building was completed two weeks ago and the city still intends to complete asbestos and hazardous materials abatement. However, the city now seeks to seal the building and protect it from further damage and decay. Clevenger said the...
Special services students at Green River High School may have the chance to receive training on industrial equipment in the future. The district’s special services department is looking at purchasing virtual training modules capable of training students on commonly-used heavy equipment used in the county. Alan Demaret, special services director for the school district, said while the modules would initially be available only to students with mental or physical disabilities, they could u...
