City gets grant for mosquitoes

The city’s parks and recreation department is ramping up its continual battles against mosquitoes.

Tuesday night, the Green River City Council voted unanimously to accept emergency insect management funding from the state. The funds, provided through a grant from the Wyoming Department of Agriculture, total $8,913. The city also received $50,150 in matching funds from the department’s Emergency Insect Management Committee.

However, both award amounts were not the full requests made by the city, which were for $15,000 in grant funding and $84,400 in matching funds.

According to the gran...