Week of May 2, 2024
Week of May 2, 2024
The annual Green River Pond and Garden Tour is returning once again this year, and is continuing to expand and showcase even more gardens in Sweetwater County. This year, the tour will cover homes in Green River, Rock Springs, and, for the first time, in Reliance as well. A Master Gardener will be on hand, ready to answer questions about growing and maintaining gardens in Wyoming. "If you are new to Sweetwater County and looking for gardening ideas or backyard ponds this event is for you,"...
The Green River Wolves are on fire, as they won two more conference games over the weekend and remain on top in the 3A West Division despite their loss to Lander on Tuesday. They had won their eighth consecutive conference win of the season, and then had an unfortunate loss to the Lander Tigers. On Friday, the Wolves hosted a conference game against the Lyman Eagles. During the first half of the game, Green River scored four goals while Lyman was unable to put the ball in the net. Green River...
As home to about 38% of the planet's remaining greater sage grouse - far more than any other state or province - and the architect of key conservation measures, Wyoming has a lot to gain or lose from upcoming changes to the complex, multi-agency matrix of rules and regulations governing management of the imperiled bird and its habitat. Those stakes were top of mind Wednesday evening for Natrona County rancher Doug Cooper and others who attended a BLM information session on the agency's recently...
In Wyoming, someone can be deemed a danger to themselves or others, be committed to the state hospital for severe mental illness, be released, go directly to a store and buy a firearm. Such gun purchases violate federal law, and potentially state law. But because Wyoming is one of only three states that don't regularly report people who have undergone mental health adjudication to the federal National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, pre-purchase enforcement is all but...
Several Wyoming residents were recently sentenced in the U.S. Attorney's Office for a variety of offenses. Child Pornography Ricky Lee Smith, 55, of Laramie, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography. According to court documents, On Jun. 25, 2023, law enforcement received a CyberTip from a provider of cloud-based services regarding the user of a Verizon phone with a Wyoming number that traced back to Smith, who is a registered sex offender. Investigators...
Dear Editor, I retired from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department in 2014 after a 40 year career as a Wyoming Game Warden. During that career, I wrote several hundred citations to people violating the laws and regulations that dealt with illegal taking of wildlife in Wyoming, and spent many sessions in courts around southwest Wyoming dealing with the aftermath of these violations. I am as sickened as most folks are after hearing of the injured wolf at the Green River Bar in Daniel. No one should...
Dear Editor and community, I would like to start a bike program for inmates that are upon release to be given a bike to ride to achieve their new goals and dreams or even just to Cruel Jack's truck stop. I feel that a donation pile would be greatly healthy due to being on the way to the local landfill, and the detention center being right there! I would like to donate at least beginning with one day of my time a month for the rest of my short stay on this Earth being that we are not promised...
