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Castle Rock Hospital District will break ground on its new medical center building in July, according to CRHD CEO Bailie Dockter. The new building will be built in front of the current facility, with construction expected to conclude next summer. “We’re hoping to be open next summer,” she said. The staff and hospital district board started conversations about building a new center last year as they’ve had to deal with more building problems due to the current facility’s age and original...
The Green River City Council approved its preliminary budget Tuesday night for the 2019-2020 fiscal year. This budget can still be changed before the Council approves the final budget, which is scheduled to occur at its June 18 meeting. According to the budget summery provided by the city, the expected expenditures, totaling $15.06 million, are higher than the anticipated revenues, listed at $14.7 million. City Administrator Reed Clevenger said the city will receive some one-time funding during...
Employees throughout Sweetwater County School District No. 2 will receive a surprise Friday. The school board approved a series of one time stipends to employees during their meeting Tuesday night, which will be paid out Friday. The stipends were approved as a budget amendment to the 2018-2019 budget, which expires at the end of June. According to board documents, the total cost of the stipend is $928,000 and are based off of 4 percent of the overall salary total within an employee group....
The Muley Fanatics Foundation, an organization promoting wildlife conservation based in Green River, wants to allow people attending its Mansface Mountain Music Festival the opportunity to camp within city limits. The Green River City Council has yet to make a decision regarding this request. Speaking to the Council last week, MFF founder Joshua Coursey said the organization would like the Council to consider opening areas within the city to camping during its music festival, which is scheduled...
The Green River Urban Renewal Agency/Main Street organization is applying for a grant to help pay for a feasibility study to determine if Green River’s downtown district could support a another grocery store. The study, which is being done for Wild Sage Market, would help determine if a natural foods market would survive in the area. The Green River City Council approved the request last week. The grant, which would come from Wyoming Main Street, would pay $8,080 of the total $10,100 the study i...
Don Van Matre, a long-serving Sweetwater County Commissioner and former mayor of Green River, died early Thursday morning at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County. He was 76. Flags were flown at half-mast Monday in both Sweetwater County and the state offices in Cheyenne from sunrise to sunset in Van Matre’s honor. Van Matre grew up in the Farson-Eden area before joining the U.S. Army. He served as an aviator during the Vietnam War, earning a Bronze Star. He would later command an air base i...
A Green River man accused of strangling and throwing his pregnant girlfriend through a closet door is facing prison time for two felony charges. Michael Junior Martinez, 41, appeared in the Third District Court of Judge Nena James at an arraignment to aggravated assault and battery and strangulation of a household member. If he is found guilty of the two felonies, he could face a maximum prison sentence of 20 years and a maximum fine of $20,000. A jury trial has been scheduled to take place...
A discussion about a proposed senior discount for Green River residents shifted focus to the curbside recycling program offered by Wyoming Waste Management Tuesday evening, with many residents voicing displeasure with the service. The Green River City Council hosted a workshop discussion Tuesday night, with open of the topics covering a senior discount. Workshop meetings are focused on discussion only, and no official action is taken by the Council. Councilman Gary Killpack asked WWS Rock Spring...
The city has contracted with a consultant to review the drop structures placed in the river to evaluate their status and receive proposals for possible design solutions. The agreement, which will cost the city $12,700, was approved last week by the Green River City Council with S2O Design and Engineering. Speaking to the Council last week, Brad Raney, director of the city’s Parks and Recreation Department, said there are a number of known issues with the drop structures, including washouts n...
The City of Green River will seek damages related to opiate addiction after a vote by the city council last week. The Green River City Council approved an agreement with attorneys Charles Barnum and Rick Koehmstedt to represent the city in a class-action lawsuit against multiple pharmaceutical companies and pharmacies for the alleged over prescription of opium-based pain relievers. The city joins Rock Springs and Sweetwater County in the lawsuit. According to Council documents, the city will...
The city is accepting bids for repair work to the city’s Solid Waste Transfer Station. The call for bids was issued last week, with the closing date listed for May 9. A bid meeting will take place Thursday. The transfer station has remained vacant since a fire in the building in September. The building’s closure has been linked to a decision made by Wyoming Waste Services to take recyclable materials collected through the recycling program offered in Green River to the landfill outside Rock Spr...
UPDATE: This weekend's event has been cancelled. The following was posted on U.P.'s website, "To ensure the Big Boy is ready for its big debut, No. 844's whistle-stop tour that was scheduled for April 27-28 has been cancelled. Instead, No. 844 will double-head with No. 4014 from Cheyenne to Ogden on May 4." For up-to-date information directly from U.P., visit the website https://www.up.com/heritage/steam/schedule/index.htm In celebrating its 150th Anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad’s Completion, the Union Pacific is having a couple o...
A workshop meeting set for April 30 will give the Green River City Council a chance to discuss a discount for residents aged 62 and older and the future of Wyoming Waste Systems recycling program. The workshop takes place at the Council chambers in City Hall at 6:30 p.m. Councilman Jim Zimmerman encouraged residents to attend the meeting, believing more solutions to the problems facing the city’s recycling program might become available through added discussion. “I’m really hoping more peopl...
The Green River Police Department is making progress in investigations regarding several burglaries occurring in the city during the past few months. According to Jamie Green, spokeswoman for the GRPD, the burglaries have centered on vehicles that have been left unlocked overnight. The vehicles are opened up and rummaged through, with the perpetrators seeking valuables or loose cash and change to take. So far, the burglaries have occurred in February, March and April and have taken place on...
Green River and other municipalities should have received their excess sixth-penny funds on Friday. Green River’s share is about $1.59 million. The 2012 specific purpose tax, also known as the sixth-cent tax, terminated on April 1, 2018, however, the county collected more than the projects needed. During a recent Sweetwater County Commissioners meeting, Sweetwater County Treasurer Robb Slaughter gave the commissioners an update on what is going to be done with the excess sixth-cent penny collect...
By DAVID MARTIN Publisher Region V Board of Cooperative Educational Services, which services several school districts including Sweetwater County School District No. 2, seeks a .2 mill levy from the district to help fund its work. Representatives of the organization spoke to school board members Tuesday night about the services they provide the district and the mill levy they seek, which amounts to $185,895. Region V BOCES provides services to students with emotional, social and behavioral...
Winter weather in Green River has created a number of potholes the city is working to address. With the weather improving throughout the last week, more potholes have appeared on city streets. Speaking during the Green River City Council meeting last week, City Administrator Reed Clevenger said the city’s streets crew used up the patching material it had, forcing the city to order 25 tons of mix. “We burned through that (original supply) immediately,” Mark Westenskow, director of public works...
(Publisher’s note: the following article is a teaser for the Star’s annual Historical Edition, which is found in this week’s newspaper.) The earliest Green River Star available to anyone is dated Nov. 17, 1905. The archives at the Star’s building only go back to 1940, due to a fire destroying the newspaper’s earliest archive books, but the newspaper can be found online on the Wyoming State Library’s newspaper project, newspapers.wyo.gov. Listed as Vol. XVI - No.14, the newspaper is faded in so...
Green River theater students will once again be the first in the state to perform a new musical this week. According to Green River High School theater director Bradlee Skinner the students will perform "Bright Star," which is a musical written by Steven Martin and Edie Brickell. It is set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina in 1945-46 with flashbacks to 1923. The musical is scheduled to take place at 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday. "This particular production deals with...
Former Green River City Councilman Allan Wilson’s plea agreement was finalized during his sentencing hearing Thursday morning. Pleading guilty to sexual abuse of a minor in the second degree, Wilson’s other charges were dismissed and was placed on five years supervised probation. If he completes the probation term, the charge will be removed from his record. If not, Wilson faces a maximum penalty of up to 20 years in prison and a $20,000 fine. District Court Judge Nena James told Wilson not...
