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While the Green River-based Southwestern Wyoming Recovery Access Programs is undergoing an administrative change, its services to its clients won’t change according to its interim CEO. Last week, Cathie Hughes, CEO and founder of SW-WRAP, resigned from her position. The board then selected former Green River resident Gene Smith to fill in as the organization’s temporary CEO until a new hire can be made. While the organization is making administrative changes, Smith said the services it offers won’t be impacted. “The changes are interna...
The Sweetwater County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees voted to approve a new kindergarten concept aiming to help kindergarten students who have difficulties transitioning into their new environment. Specifically, the junior kindergarten concept targets students whose birthdays are celebrated during the summer months, as well as those turning five years old in September, prior to the kindergarten cutoff date. According to Lu Kasper and Greg Figenser, the principals of Harrison and Truman Elementary Schools respectively, many of the...
A trip to Cheyenne resulted in $295,000 in additional funding for the city’s landfill closure and transfer station projects. Mayor Pete Rust said the city received the funding through the State Lands and Investments board during its annual meeting last week. SLIB is headed up by the five top elected officials in the state and provide funding and grant assistance to communities throughout the state. Rust said he was surprised when he was told elected officials from other communities don’t often travel to SLIB meetings to help present their fun...
With Sweetwater County seeking support from its neighboring counties towards a jointly shared industrial megacomplex, the cities of Rock Springs and Green River have offered up their support as well. Green River Mayor Pete Rust said he, Rock Springs Mayor Carl Demshar and County Commissioner Wally Johnson decided a unified approach, with the cities and county sending a unified message would help bring attention to the county. Rust said the city sent a letter to Gov. Matt Mead supporting the project. “I think it’s hugely important in reg...
Seeking to represent the county and state, Commissioner John Kolb attended a policy convention in Washington, D.C., in late February. The convention was hosted by the National Association of County Officials. Kolb believes the expenditure was well worth it to the county, noting that the trip cost him more in family time and lost income than the amount charged to the county. According to receipts released by the Sweetwater County Clerk’s Office, Kolb charged $3,971.73 to the county for airfare, meals, hotel accommodations, a rental car and r...
With its eyes firmly set on bringing an ambulatory surgery center to Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County, the hospital’s board of trustees presented their proposal to the Sweetwater County commissioners Tuesday. The commissioners are needed to sign off on the use of revenue bonds, which the hospital seeks to use in paying for the $40 million project because the county owns MHSC. Irene Richardson, chief financial officer for the hospital, said taxpayers would not be affected by a potential b...
Late last week, the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office, in conjunction with the Green River and Rock Springs police departments, arrested three people in Green River on drug charges. That same week, the sheriff’s office helped capture a Rock Springs woman in Colorado who was wanted on a felony theft charge. Both incidents were handled by the sheriff’s office newly-formed SNAAG unit. SNAAG, the Sheriff’s Narcotics and Arrest Group, has had a busy month working warrants and drug investi...
Thanks to the internet, entertainment options are plentiful. From streaming video websites such as Netflix, Hulu and Youtube, to online offerings from AMC, NBC and HBO, the internet has helped create an all-you-can-eat buffet of options for almost anything in existence. However, that wasn’t always the case and it wasn’t too long ago when the only options for television entertainment consisted of three different channels, all of which were black and white. The Sweetwater County Historical Museum’s oral history files include a presentation and d...
Today, Green River is a small city with nearly 13,000 people and hundreds of businesses, ranging from small, home-based businesses to franchised restaurants and corporate-owned stores. However, a little more than a century ago, Green River’s size and population were much smaller. In fact, a business directory spanning 1908 and 1909 lists only 38 businesses and professions in and around Green River. A transcribed conversation kept at the Sweetwater County Historical Museum between Henry F. Chady and Wiley F. Shaver, occurring October 1970, s...
Over the course of a century, many things tend to come and go. Ideas, technology, goods and even services crop up, but get buried in the wake progress creates. This happens with businesses too. However, there are those that survive the test of time and continue on almost like they have when they were first founded. Rock Springs Hide & Fur is one such business. One of the oldest family-owned businesses in Rock Springs, it joins other long-lived businesses including RSNB, Superior Lumber Co.,...
While many look back at the economic boom occurring in Sweetwater County throughout the 1970s through the lens of Dan Rather's report on Rock Springs during a segment on "60 Minutes" or though hazy recollections involving wild times, one thing people don't often recall is how the boom left a lasting mark on Green River. An interview stored in the Sweetwater County Historical Museum's collection of oral histories sheds a little light on how Green River was impacted by the boom. The interview, tak...
A kitchen fire required the attention of the Green River Fire Department Tuesday evening. The fire department received the house fire call at 6:07 p.m., responding to 455 East Fifth South Street. Fire Chief Mike Kennedy said the fire started when the resident was cooking a meal. The fire ignited from the stove top, quickly burning the overhead cabinets and scorching the ceiling. After the department was contacted, Kennedy said the resident was able to kill the fire by the time the emergency resp...
The postal sorting facility in Rock Springs is set to close later this month, but residents in Sweetwater County shouldn’t notice decreased service according to a U.S. Postal Service spokesperson. David Rupert, a spokesperson for the USPS in Wyoming and Colorado said processing will be done in Salt Lake City, but residents should still see the same two-day mailing time to locations in southwestern Wyoming. Rupert said the transition should be seamless, without any operational delays. The Rock Springs facility sorts mail for the 829, 831 and 8...
New Frontier Imaging in Rock Springs is in the midst of introducing a new mammography technique that will improve cancer detection rates in breast cancer screenings. Digital tomosynthesis, or 3D breast imaging, will be introduced to the county though NFI next week. Maria Stradley, NFI’s CEO, said the new technology was approved by the FDA in 2011 and took a year to plan for the equipment’s introduction at NFI. “It’s pretty amazing, you won’t miss cancers,” Stradley said. “This is huge.” She said the technology averages 41 percent improve...
The lights and sounds of a video game arcade are things that will always put a smile on my face. I was in Salt Lake City over the weekend and had a chance to stop off at the Nickel Mania arcade in Murray, Utah. The arcade itself is located on State Street, but is pretty much housed within a nondescript, single-story building with large windows. A small sign with an image of a friendly-looking coin waving a people, along with an LED sign displaying the names of the various arcade machines...
Last week, the Green River City Council voted to waive traveling vendor fees for the annual farmer’s market. According to city documents, the city has historically waived the fees for the market vendors. Without that waiver, merchants attending the weekly even would be required to pay a $10 fee for a traveling merchant license each week they participate. Last year, the Main Street board opted to waive its booth fees, as well as convinced the Council to waive its license fee. This year, approximately 30 vendors are anticipated to take part in t...
While he has said the 2015 legislative session was somewhat disappointing for him, Rep. Stan Blake, D-Green River, said he’s definitely happy with one bill he helped pass. House Bill 70, which was sponsored by the select water committee, grants funding to a number of water projects throughout the state, included the Jamestown-Rio Vista Water and Sewer District’s proposed water line in its funding bill. The bill gives $4.2 million in grant in funding to help start the project. The funding amounts to 67 percent of the estimated project cost, of w...
Being a Sweetwater County Tradition for the past several years, the Bowls of Caring fundraising event attracted more than 800 people to the Sweetwater County Events Complex last week. The soup dinner, which features artistic bowls made by people throughout the county, was changed up a bit from previous years, focusing on the YWCA and its programs. Lauren Schoenfield, executive director of the YWCA, said the event originally was a fundraiser hosted in memory of Kathy Crabtree, a resident who...
Seniors at the Golden Hour Senior Center Friday evening were treated to a Hawaiian luau-style dinner of barbecued ribs and tropical drinks. Then, being the helpful members of society seniors often are, they helped solve a murder most foul. The night was a dinner-theater performance hosted by Stage Crush, a group of members from nonprofit theater group Actor’s Mission. Kristen Riley, who heads Stage Crush, said it’s a group who focus on improvisational acting and sketch comedy who help provide publicity for the Actor’s Mission and its perfo...
More and more Green River residents are catching a ride with the Sweetwater Transit Authority. Judy Owens, executive director of STAR Transit, said ridership by Green River residents continues to increase. Last year, Green River residents accounted for 18,844 of the total 67,133 rides recorded by the service. Owens said a number of residents use the bus to travel to Rock Springs for work or errands, utilizing the shuttle service available on Railroad Avenue. However, 10,439 rides were taken within Green River; a number Owens said represents a...
A letter signed by Sweetwater County Commissioner Wally Johnson criticizes the Environmental Protection Agency for multiple layers of regulation impacting Wyoming industry. The letter, sent to Gina McCarthy, the U.S. EPA Administrator in Washington, D.C. comments on and objects to proposed regulations regarding ozone standards. Ground-level ozone is created through the chemical reaction between sunlight and volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides from industrial emissions, vehicle...
With a few rooms emptying out at the old Roosevelt Elementary School building, Golden Hour Senior Center is looking at expanding into some of the freed-up space. Executive Director Beth Whitman said the center’s offerings are expanding and with additional space in the building as a result of relocations to the county’s Health and Human Services building in Rock Springs, believes the senior center can utilize more space. “We are very busy,” Whitman told the Sweetwater County Commiss...
By DAVID MARTIN Editor Reed Clevenger started his post with the City of Green River Monday. Clevenger, who was hired to be the new city administrator, said his biggest focus right now is on the budget, which will be taking center stage with the governing body in the coming months. The city hosted a workshop session last week to allow Chris Steffen, Chief of Police for Green River, and Laura Profaizer, director of community development, to discuss staffing needs in their respective departments....
A 17-year-old Green River girl is sought after she reportedly ran away from home Sunday. The Green River Police Department is seeking information regarding McKayla Cuthbertson, who had left home without permission and has not returned. Det. Luke Benson of the GRPD said the department is unaware of where Cuthbertson could be headed. She is described as being 5'5" tall, weighing about 185 pounds, having brown eyes, brown hair with purple tips. She also has a tattoo on her right shoulder of a tree...
During a session that had been described as “a mixed bag” and “disappointing” by local representatives in the Wyoming House, there was one success that is expected to have an impact on local educators. The Wyoming Legislature passed an external cost adjustment for Wyoming school districts, which means an additional $1 million will flow into Sweetwater County School District No. 2. The money will go to boost teacher salaries and help update some of the aging technology across the district. “We’re very excited,” Sandra Bowling, president of...
