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The Green River Police Department is currently investigating recent reports of vandalism to local businesses and vehicles. According to Green River Police Department Det. Luke Benson, sometime around July 27 and 28 during the night or early morning, the Walk N Run Day Care and a vehicle on the property, the Green River Recreation Center, and a vehicle on Alabama Drive were spray painted with red spray paint. Benson said the person or persons remain unknown. Some of the identifiable marks were a smiley face and the words KEMPO and Wicked. Also,...
Five years supervised probation is what a Green River man received for sexual abuse charges. Tommy R. Wheeler, entered an Alford plea in the Third District Court of Judge Richard Lavery, which is a guilty plea of a defendant who proclaims he is innocent of the crime, but admits the prosecution has enough evidence to prove that he is guilty, to a felony charge of sexual abuse of a minor in the third degree and sexual battery, a misdemeanor. Pursuant to a plea agreement, if Wheeler successfully co...
The 11th annual Art on the Green is this weekend, starting Friday, with a new event; an art battle. It’s a no contact battle, unless the contact between paintbrush and canvas counts. The Battle on the Green is a live art competition where the artists competing have to create a piece of art in each round of the competition. The art battle was a suggested idea to the art council Jeremy Gomez of the Green River Arts Council said. Each round is 45 minutes long, each round narrowing down the pool of...
The 14th Annual River Festival will provide lots of family fun as summer comes to a close. The festival will take place Friday and Saturday at Expedition Island. Both days are filled with fun activities, and there is something for everyone to enjoy. “The festival is a fundraiser for the chamber so we appreciate any help from the community,” the Green River Chamber’s Public Relations and Marketing Specialist Destinee Rael said. Rael said the festival provides great entertainment for the community. The Micro Brew Gardens will kick the festi...
Ever want to meet a U.S. Senator? While residents of many more populous states don’t have the opportunity, Wyoming’s low population allows residents to see and meet their Washington D.C. representatives more commonly than residents of other states. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., is scheduled to appear during the Cajun Shrimp Boil at Expedition Island Friday evening. Barrasso attends the event yearly, spending time to talk to people at the island, as well as to partake in the yearly shrimp feast....
Imagine waiting in emotional agony for days, waiting for blood work results for your sick furry, four-legged family member. This family member has been your beloved pet for many years. It would break your heart if anything bad were to happen to your beloved pet. Now imagine mailing out your monthly bill payment on the usual day you send it out to get there in time. Only this time, it’s much too late and you receive a late fee for the bill in the mail weeks later. The bill keeps rising. Now f...
A Green River woman who pleaded guilty to one charge of falsifying bacteriological reports sent to the Environmental Protection Agency was sentenced. Margaret R. Jones appeared in the Third District Court of Judge Richard Lavery at a sentencing hearing to five felony forgery counts, which come from five separate incidents. Pursuant to a plea agreement, in exchange for Jones guilty plea on one count of forgery, she will receive a four-to six-year suspended prison sentence, a 30-day jail sentence...
What once was a place of worship and reverence has become a place for learning. Construction on Expedition Academy’s new home on Upland Way completed and the school district celebrated with a ribbon cutting ceremony Monday. Steve Core, chairman of the Sweetwater County School District No. 2 Board of Education said the completed school is a “win, win, win, win” for the United Methodist Church, the state, the district and the community. The building originally originally served as a church, which...
Sweetwater County was the scene for two deadly vehicle crashes during the last week. According to the Rock Springs Police Department, 44-year-old Stacey McPherson, of Green River, died in a motorcycle crash on Railroad Avenue, near N Street, in Rock Springs early Saturday morning. The department responded to the scene at 3:28. a.m. after receiving calls regarding two people laying in the road. An unidentified man was taken to Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County with injuries, while McPherson...
Sales-tax revenues have declined for the past several years, which has resulted in the county’s two cities to budget more conservatively. According to the mayors of Rock Springs and Green River, economic indicators from the Wyoming Association of Municipalities suggests the picture won’t improve anytime soon. For Green River Mayor Pete Rust, the current financial situation now is much different than when he served on the Green River City Council. “We had all kinds of programs we were start...
The city Council moved to approve an increase in the capital projects and general funds at Tuesday’s meeting, for the fiscal year of 2016 carryover in the amount of $5.5 million. It’s not a surprise amount, according to Chris Meats, finance director of Green River, it comes down to timing and producing the correct dollar amount. The raised budget amount is for previously started projects that are multi year projects with a vast majority of the funds coming from the Sixth Penny tax, $4 mil...
In a special conference Thursday featuring local officials from city, county and state governments, representatives from CLIMB Wyoming announced they plan to reintroduce the program to Sweetwater County. Climb Wyoming focuses on providing job training to single mothers in high-demand and high-paying fields. The program was in Sweetwater County from 2007 to last October, but was pulled when the organization faced a critical budget shortfall as a result of federal funding cuts. “How could you p...
There are a variety of scam phone calls out there that plague citizens, and Green River is no exception. Phone scams go on as they always have, but residents are getting smarter. The amount of scam reports are the same but the numbers of victimization is going down, GRPD officer Luke Benson said. “People getting taken advantage of is going down quite a bit,” Benson said. “Residents are more aware of the potential for scams.” Phone scams usually ask for either money or personal informa...
A few honks and hand waves were generated on Flaming Gorge Way by a group seeking legalization of marijuana for medical uses. The group, Wyoming Cannabis Activists, were in both Green River and Rock Springs Monday to promote their views on medical marijuana. Holding signs on the sidewalk in front of Centennial Park, three members from the Casper-based organization, as well as a couple of county residents came out for the cause. The Wyoming Cannabis Activists is a nonprofit organization seeking...
External cost adjustments do make for a better budget. Tuesday night, the Sweetwater County School District No. 2 board passed the 2015-2016 budget. The $65.9 million budget, without those cost adjustments, would have been a bit more difficult to build. Pete Brandjord, business manager for the district, said it was the best budget his office put together since the last cost adjustments in 2010. According to the budget’s introductory page, the district’s assessed valuation decreased slightly by approximately $2 million, leaving the val...
Tuesday evening, the City Council motioned to appoint members of the Airport Advisory Board for Green River’s Intergalactic Spaceport. The motion confirmed the Mayor Pete Rust’s appointment of Gordon Gunter, Ed DeCastro, Barry Tippy, Ed McPherson, Dorothy Krauss, Holden Wright and Councilman Brett Stokes to the Green River Airport Advisory Board. It was Councilman Alan Wilson who moved the motion with another council member’s second. Councilman Gary Killpack opposed the motion, and the motion carried regardless, with two motions to carry...
Thursday evening, at 5:20 p.m., a vehicle crash occurred at the intersection of Uinta Drive and Riverview Drive that condensed traffic. A white Dodge Journey was driving north bound, down Uinta and was attempting to turn left onto Riverview Drive on a green light for oncoming traffic going straight, with a yellow turning light when the crash occurred. The second vehicle, a white Jeep Liberty, was driving south bound on Uinta, going straight through the intersection in the outside, right hand lane. Approaching the intersection, neither driver...
The Green River Animal Control Shelter has several roles in the community, but their ultimate goal in every situation is to care for the animals. They are part of the police department and all calls dealing with animal situations go to them. They patrol for animals, capture both wildlife and domestic animals and issue citations and warnings to animal owners violating laws and regulations. Animal control are law enforcement officers, but there is another side to animal control that some people tend to overlook. Animal control’s primary role i...
An employee at the Shopko Hometown store employee got a shock Sunday morning when she saw a mountain lion between the store and the Grace Tabernacle Church. The Green River Police Department responded to the call, but were unable to locate the animal, however possible mountain lion tracks were found around Stratton Myers Park. Det. Cpl. Karl Bode of the GRPD said the sighting occurred about 6 a.m. He said the department will respond to such calls with police officers as opposed to animal control due to the type of animal involved. He also said...
After 30 years and two months, GRPD Sgt. Dan Friebel is putting aside his badge and officer uniform and donning his fishing pole and boating gear once again. Retirement has been a long time coming for the 57-year-old officer. His career in law enforcement started May 1, 1985, at age 27. Before he started work as a police officer, he was working as a taxidermist at Fred’s Taxidermy. One of the customers, Sgt. Mike Keneberg told him he’d make a good cop. So, he went for it. “I hadn’t thought of being a police officer before that, but apparently i...
