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A few more candidates have filed for election in the upcoming Primary Election in August. So far, a race has developed for the Green River City Council Ward I seat. Councilman Tom Murphy has filed for re-election and faces challenger Sherry Bushman. If the two remain the only candidates for the position, both will move on to the General Election in November regardless of the results. Should one or more people file for candidacy in the ward, the two candidates with the most votes will move on to...
Green River Fire Department Chief Mike Nomis pleaded not guilty felony theft and wrongful appropriation of public property charges during an arraignment last week. Nomis appeared before Third Judicial District Court Judge Suzannah Robinson Thursday morning through a video conference. His trial was set for 9 a.m. Oct. 5. Nomis and his wife face charges after allegedly taking money from the Green River Fire Department Foundation’s various accounts. If found guilty of the felony change, Nomis f...
The filing period for candidates seeking public office is open, resulting in several Republicans seeking one of two positions on the Sweetwater County Board of County Commissioners. According to information from the Sweetwater County Clerk’s Office, three Republicans have filed to seek election to the board of county commissioners. Commissioner Lauren Schoenfeld, along with Mary Thoman and Mark Peterson have registered as of Tuesday morning. Schoenfeld and Thoman both sought to fill Commissioner...
People driving along Flaming Gorge Way Monday morning would have seen the line. Several people waited outside the Sweetwater County Courthouse’s south entrance on the first day the courthouse would open after an extended closure resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Once inside, temporary employees met with visitors to find out what they needed to do and placed them into different lines associated with different county functions. According to Garry McLean, the county’s human resources dir...
As more summer events throughout southwest Wyoming get cancelled due to concerns of spreading COVID-19, Green River Main Street still plans to host its popular Farmer’s Market in July. At least, that’s the plan right now. Jennie Melvin, Green River Main Street/URA administrator, said the organization isn’t sure what the recommendations from the state will be in July. As such, Main Street is moving ahead with the market, though only in a tepid fashion. Normally, Melvin would have had the vendo...
Recent social media posts suggesting residents would need to have their absentee ballots notarized to mail them to the Sweetwater County Clerk’s Office are untrue, according to Sweetwater County Clerk Cindy Lane. Should a resident want to vote using an absentee ballot, they only need to send the completed ballot to the county courthouse, where it will be tabulated with other ballots. The initial confusion resulted from a February Green River Star article that erroneously reported the ballots w...
When people look back at the COVID-19 pandemic in the future, one of the takeaways will likely be that the incident resulted in people using the time at home to brush up on their cooking skills. The fact that a lot of people started experimenting with recipes and techniques they were interested in, yet didn’t think they had the time for, is undisputed at this point. People sharing the sourdough starters they concocted over social media has become almost a joke in itself because of how common t...
An Iowa man was arrested last week in conjunction with several cold case investigations occurring in Wyoming and Tennessee, leading to charges in the murder of a woman known only as "Bitter Creek Betty." Clark Perry Baldwin, 59, of Waterloo, Iowa, was arrested May 6 at his home by agents from the FBI and Wyoming DCI and investigators from the 22nd Judicial District Attorney's Office in Tennessee. Baldwin is charged with first degree murder in Sweetwater and Sheridan counties, as well as two...
(Editor's note: This article was updated from the print edition published 5/13/20 to include comments regarding the Ciner facility.) As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact the economy across the globe, some of the local trona mines are facing decisions about the best way of moving forward. At Solvay Chemicals, an unspecified number of employees will be furloughed sometime near the beginning of the month. Todd Brichacek, the site manager at the Solvay facility, said the issue for Solvay is...
On March 1, 1992, a truck driver stopped off of Interstate-80 to change his fuel tanks discovered a woman's body 40 miles east of Rock Springs. Decades after her discovery, an arrest was made in the cold case involving a woman only known as "Bitter Creek Betty." The Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation announced an arrest related to two Wyoming cold cases, the Bitter Creek Betty investigation and a similarly unidentified woman found in Sheridan County who was dubbed the "I-90 Jane Doe." Cl...
As COVID-19 restrictions are easing up throughout Wyoming, the Sweetwater County commissioners have started debating when they should open up the courthouse and other county buildings to public visitation. Commissioner Randy Wendling asked the other commissioners about the possibility of reopening the courthouse. He said he’s looked at what other areas in Wyoming are doing and has seen everything from wide-reaching reopening orders to staggered openings. He also said he’s concerned about the...
The Sweetwater County Fair will be scaled down this year in response to uncertainty related to future COVID-19 guidelines. As a result, the fair will focus on 4-H and FFA projects this year, scaling back from an annual event featuring nightly concerts, a carnival and entertainment. “Due to the uncertainty of the COVID-19 situation, it is difficult to predict what the national, state, and community guidelines for events will be at the time of the scheduled fair dates. Our priority is ensuring t...
Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County’s first COVID-19 admission was recorded Thursday according to a news release from the hospital. The patient was described as a woman in her 50s from Rock Springs. She was notified April 29 and was admitted to the hospital April 30. The woman was later discharged from the hospital Sunday with an improved condition. Sweetwater County Public Health started contact tracing immediately, contacting all of the woman’s close contacts. Kim Lionberger, Swe...
The smile on three-year-old Dakston Griffiths' face couldn't get any wider. The small boy clutched on to his toy Batman car with a glee often reserved for Christmas as a procession consisting of a fire truck, ambulance and police vehicles drove down the street. The vehicles' lights flashed as they drove by and the fire engine's horn, by far the loudest, echoed throughout the neighborhood. The scene definitely left an impression on the boy. "Daks was all about it," his mother Hailey Griffiths...
Renovation work at Lincoln Middle School and the rapidly approaching summer months has resulted in changes to Sweetwater County School District No. 2’s food program. Food is now available from Truman, Washington, Monroe, Jackson and Harrison elementary schools, as well as Green River High School. The program allows children and teens a chance to receive breakfast and lunch meals after schools were closed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the weeks following the school closures, the p...
The Green River City Council approved a water improvement project on North 3rd West Street, scheduled to take place later this year. The project approval was originally tabled by the Council April 7. According to Council documents, the project originally consisted of the replacement and installation of water mains and other components beneath the street and an adjacent alley. Mark Westenskow, public works director for the city, said the original project would have run up the street from...
John Freeman is retiring from the Wyoming Legislature. Freeman, a Democrat representing Green River in House District 60, announced he will not seek re-election to the position he's held since 2011. Currently, a race has developed on the Republican side of the ticket between Mark Baker and Ted Barney and with Freeman opting not to run, leaves the Democrat side of the ticket empty as of press time. Filing for public office is scheduled to take place from May 14-29. House District 60 encompasses...
During a national press conference last week, President Donald Trump speculated about the potential use of disinfecting agents as a treatment for COVID-19 infections during a press conference about the pandemic. “And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that, so...
Former Green River City Councilman Ted Barney will seek election to the Wyoming Legislature's House District 60. Barney will run as a Republican, setting up a primary election contest between him and Mark Baker, who announced his intent to run for the legislative seat earlier this year. John Freeman, the Democrat who has represented House District 60 since 2011, has announced he won't seek re-election. Candidate filing is scheduled for May 14-29. "Basically, the reason I'm running is I enjoy...
There is a lot to unpack this week. Who would have thought the President of the United States of America, a person in a position that arguably demands a high degree of intelligence regardless of who is in office, would casually talk about injecting disinfectants as a possible means of treating and curing COVID-19. First and foremost, DO NOT inject or consume disinfectant as a possible means of curing COVID-19. Never thought I’d have to write that sentence. I could go on and on about how i...
Twin sisters graduating from Green River High School decided to restart what was once a yearly tradition for seniors, visible to thousands in the city. Kierstyn and Adrienne Revelli, with help from their mother Brooke Lewis and uncle Josh Lewis, painted and arranged stones to form a 20 beneath the painted GR on the north side of Mansface. What used to be an annual tradition quietly ended years ago when soon-to-graduate students stopped placing numbers representing their graduating year on the...
Green River residents can start shopping at Bomgaars this week. Located in the former Shopko building next to Smith’s, Green River’s Bomgaars store opened Tuesday. Bomgaars is a general merchandise retailer with an emphasis in farm and ranch supplies and offers automotive wares, power tools, and clothing departments, among other wares. “Everyone’s been happy with the store,” employee Ken Rhodes said. Rhodes said the store was consistently busy throughout opening day and said he heard a number of...
The Sweetwater County Events Complex received a $200,000 loan from the Sweetwater County commissioners Tuesday morning, shoring up finances that have taken a hit from the loss of two summer RV events. The request was approved with three votes. Commissioner Jeffery Smith abstained from the vote and Commissioner Lauren Schoenfeld was absent from the meeting. Despite those three votes, commissioners were reluctant to immediately motion for a vote, with several seconds of silence occurring between...
Following on an announcement from President Donald Trump about a three-phase plan to re-open the American economy, Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon announced the COVID-19 public health orders will remain through April 30. “You have done what was asked and have helped to flatten the curve,” Gordon said. “We are, and have been open for business.” Gordon said the state’s health orders are consistent with phase one of President Trump’s Opening Up American Again guidelines. Many of the guidelines...
The English language can be tricky. This is a language that offers different spellings for the same-sounding words. To, two and too, for example. Or there, they’re and their. Add in the fact that each of those six words have their own usage rules and definitions and you can see why English can be so difficult to learn for both native and nonnative speakers. Then there’s the regional variants for spelling. Think the difference between the British (and Canadian) “flavour” and the American “flavor...
