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After receiving criticism from the Sweetwater County commissioners regarding the city’s project list, Green River representatives submitted a prioritized list to the county last week. The list is heavy on infrastructure projects, focusing on several road packages and totals $32.4 million. The top priority for the city is its first roads package, listed at a cost of $15.9 million. The package would fund full rebuilds, including water and sewer replacement, on both sides of Riverview Drive, B...
A request to reduce the annual weight limit residents have at the city’s solid waste transfer station did not receive support during a workshop meeting last week. The Green River City Council spoke about the request after Michelle Foote, Wyoming Waste Systems’ general manager in Rock Springs, said the company wasn’t making as much money as initially believed. She said the company anticipated more people meeting the 1,800-pound weight limit initially set. “Bottom line, we’re not making money,” s...
Green River police officers arrested a 45-year-old North Dakota an following an alleged hit-and-run collision Friday. Leif Johannessen, 45, of Dickinson, N.D., was arrested after officers discovered he had an active warrant from an original charge of driving while under the influence of alcohol, second offense within 10 years. At 6:34 p.m., officers responded to the intersection of Roosevelt Drive and Uinta Drive to a report of a hit-and-run collision where two people had fled the scene on foot. It was reported a vehicle was traveling...
Members of the Sweetwater County commissioners voiced their displeasure with Green River representatives’ list of projects they’re seeking sixth penny tax funding for. During a special commissioners’ meeting about the tax and various proposals made by local governmental agencies to use the tax, Mayor Pete Rust said the city came to the county with $44 million in projects because the city views all of the projects it identified as important uses of a potential sixth-penny tax. “The Council...
A Green River man faces a charge of first degree murder after a child’s death at Primary Children’s Hospital. Christopher James Nielsen, 26, was initially arrested Nov. 14 and charged with aggravated child abuse, but those charges were amended last week following the child’s death at the hospital Thanksgiving Day. He was placed on a $1 million cash or surety bond and is in the Sweetwater County Detention Center. A preliminary hearing is scheduled Dec. 11. According to court documents, the Green...
The school calendars for the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years were brought to the Sweetwater County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees Tuesday night. The board’s vote was not available as of press time. According to Interim Superintendent Jamie Christiansen, the two calendars were created through input received by surveys issued to staff and parents, as well as the board. Christiansen said the calendar doesn’t change drastically from the district’s current calendar. He said the board wanted to keep the end of the first semester in li...
The State Lands and Investments Board gave conditional approval for a $27.6 million loan Green River intends to use towards the construction of a new wastewater treatment facility. Green River Mayor Pete Rust said the approval was granted Thursday. He said the conditional approval is based on the city’s ability to prove it can pay back the loan, which he isn’t concerned about. The city intends to gradually raise its sewer rates to pay back the loan. The city currently treats wastewater thr...
The spirit of Christmases past is on display at the Sweetwater County Historical Museum throughout December. An exhibit features toys, a Christmas tree, and other sights from what Christmas would look like decades ago. “Christmas exhibits are fun to do,” Brie Blasi, executive director of the museum, said. “It’s more about a feeling and the time of year.” One of the toys featured in the display is board game based off of journalist Nellie Bly’s attempt to recreate the feat originally proposed in Jules Verne’s “Around the World in 80 Days.” Th...
A man accused of inappropriately touching a 17-year-old while at work will serve prison time. Bradley A. Baugh, 23, appeared in the Third District County of Judge Richard Lavery at a sentencing hearing to one count of third-degree sexual assault and three counts of fourth-degree sexual abuse of a minor. In exchange for Baugh’s guilty plea to third-degree sexual assault, the other three felony charges were dismissed. Baugh was given a five-to-nine year prison sentence with credit given for 229 d...
With Wyoming Waste Systems starting to accept curb-side recycling this week, the company is working to educate residents about what is and isn’t acceptable in their recycling bins. According to a flyer the company will distribute, residents must clean their recyclable items before placing them in the bin. People should place the items directly in the bin, and not in plastic bags, Residents can place printed materials such as junk mail, newspapers, magazines, catalogs and phone books in the bin. They can also placed clean paper, milk cartons, p...
Green River police officers issued citations to an individual they claim eluded an officer Nov. 10. According to a press release from the Green River Police Department, Dalton Kunz, 23, Green River, was given citations for alleged hit and run and eluding a police officer. The release states officers identified Kunz after an investigation indicated Kunz and the vehicle he drove were involved with the crash. A pursuit occurred during the early morning hours of Nov. 10. At 4:31 a.m., a GRPD officer attempted to stop a vehicle. A short chase...
A Green River attorney working in the Sweetwater County Attorney’s Office received a public censure from the Wyoming Supreme Court after misleading investigators about a female sex offender’s place of residence. John DeLeon received his censure last week for violating Wyoming Rules of Professional Conduct. Specifically, he violated Rule 8.4(c) for conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation and Rule 8.4(d) for conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice. He was req...
Work continues on bring the city’s solid waste transfer station back online, with workers currently repairing electrical systems in the building. Mark Westenskow, public works director for the city, said lighting has been installed and wired throughout the facility. Workers are currently set on repairing the building’s automatic doors. Westenskow said the fire also severely damaged a lot of materials with lower melting points, which include both wiring and PVC piping. Much of the damaged mat...
When she was only 3 years old, she started singing in front of an audience. Now, she has the chance to perform with students in a choir of more than 100. Chatney Tirrell, a Green River High School junior, is the only Sweetwater County singer going to perform in the Northwest American Choral Directors Honor Choir in March. According to Jacob Gantz, GRHS and Lincoln Middle School vocal music director, Tirrell is one of nearly 100 Wyoming singers chosen for the honor. Gantz said Tirrell is in the...
The death of a Green River woman has been ruled an accident. Aubree Shanae Corona, 28, who went missing July 13 after she left a campsite near New Fork Lake by Pinedale, was found Aug. 20. Fremont County Coroner Mark Stratmoen said since Corona was found more than a month after she went missing, the date she was found becomes the date of death. According to the coroner's report, the death was ruled an accident and the cause of death was due to complications of environmental exposure and...
A vehicle chase early Sunday morning ended when a Green River Police Department officer determined the chase was too dangerous to continue. According to the GRPD, an officer attempted to initiate a traffic stop on a vehicle at 4:31 Sunday morning. The vehicle, which the GRPD declined to describe as of press time, sped up to make a turn onto Mississippi Street and continued northbound, not stopping for the officer. The vehicle attempted to make a right-hand turn onto Wyoming Drive, colliding with a parked vehicle on the street. The vehicle then...
A public hearing focused on reviewing the proposed Wastewater Treatment Plant Replacement Project satisfied a requirement for a $27.6 million loan the city plans to apply for. According to Mark Westenskow, public works director, the loan would pay for the construction of the facility, which would be placed at the rodeo arena’s reserve parking area. Work towards replacing the aging sewer lagoons started in 2014 and the city has used a $2.4 million loan to progress through the plant’s design phase...
While at a recent meeting, employees from Castle Rock Hospital District were asked why they are moving forward with the construction of a new facility during an ambulance service funding discussion. The new facility will be built through a 40-year, $10 million United States Department of Agriculture loan. During the Sweetwater County commissioners meeting last week, Commissioner Randy Wendling wanted to know how the district can afford to pay for a new building when it has to keep asking the...
A man who pleaded no contest to kicking his girlfriend in the face with a steal-toed boot was placed on probation. Jeramia Rael, 40, of Green River, recently appeared at a change of plea and sentencing hearing in Third District of Judge Richard Lavery to a felony charge of aggravated assault and battery, a strangulation of a household member felony charge and one misdemeanor charge of domestic battery. In exchange for Rael’s no contest plea to the felony aggravated assault and battery charge, R...
Representatives from Castle Rock Hospital District were asked to return in January for another discussion on whether or not the county would continue to subsidize the district’s ambulance service. During the Sweetwater County commissioners meeting Tuesday, the commissioners spoke with district representatives about subsidizing the ambulance service for another six months from January through June. CRHD CEO Bailie Dockter said they have been attending the workshops about the possibility of c...
