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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...
I took a short break from writing about old Nintendo games in the past few months. This is mostly because I got tied up hunting down the legendary animals in “Red Dead Redemption 2” and running a farm in “Stardew Valley,” but I’ve also been busy and just haven’t had time for video games. But, spending an afternoon playing an old game on the Nintendo’s NES Mini is a great way of unwinding, enjoying the power of nostalgia and remembering the fun times I had playing those games as a child. Then I...
An updated analysis conducted by Rocky Mountain Power suggests it would lower costs for customers if it sped up the retirement of four power-generating units in Southwest Wyoming, including two units at the Jim Bridger Power Plant. The other two units are at the Naughton Plant in Lincoln County. However, while the company’s Integrated Resource Plan recommends early closure for the four units, RMP doesn’t have a plan in place. “We don’t know the plan of what we’re going to do,” RMP President a...
Residents driving by Wolves Stadium Monday evening would have seen the Wolves soccer team working hard at a time when most high school students are enjoying spring break. For head coach Chris Bieber, the last week of competition showed him the team needs to improve to remain competitive. "We have stuff to work on," Bieber said. At the beginning of the month, the team defeated their Rock Springs rivals 2-1 at home, which was followed up the next day with a 2-2 tie against Evanston. Last Tuesday,...
A new coach has been selected to head up Green River High School's cheerleading program. According to Tony Beardsley, Sweetwater County School District No. 2's Athletics Director, Allison Meredith was offered the head coaching job for the high school's cheer team. Meredith was the team's assistant coach prior to moving into the new role. Meredith's placement still needs approval from the district school board. Once the approval is made, she will replace Amber Seppala for the 2019-2020 school...
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...
Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County earned a three year accreditation in computed tomography from the American College of Radiology according to a recent release from the hospital. According to Medical Imaging Director Tracie Soller, the accreditation is for the new CT scanner the hospital installed last summer. “We have been ACR accredited for CT since 2013,” she said. CT scanning, also commonly known as CAT scanning, is a noninvasive test using X-rays to produce a cross sectional image of...
The Wyoming State Loans and Investments Board awarded a $50,000 grant to Sweetwater County last week to help the county create a plan to attract industrial development near the Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport east of Rock Springs. The grant will cover one third of the anticipated cost, while the county and the Green River and Rock Springs councils are pledging to split the other $100,000 needed for the plan. Krisena Marchal, grants coordinator for the county, said the plan the grant will...
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...
The Sweetwater Aquatics Team, a group of swimmers from Green River, Rock Springs and Lyman, were declared the team champions of the winter state swim meet for USA Swimming in Laramie. The team brought home 26 individual titles and three relay state titles during the meet. The team of Lauren Jensen, Lauren Lee, Bryn Busskohl and Alexa Lauze earned both state titles in the relay events for the 15-16-year-old girls division, as well as 11 of 13 individual titles. Hailey Uhrig broke two state...
A red carpet welcome awaited anyone walking into Green River High School Monday evening. The high school's theater department hosted a special advance performance of "Bright Star" which will have its public premiere Thursday. This show was specially geared to residents in the county with mental disabilities. Green River High School theater director Bradlee Skinner said his students realized people with those disabilities often did not come to the theater productions. "They were a group not repre...
Given the context of our relatively short lives on this beautiful world we live on, it’s hard to think of a lot occurring within our lifetimes as being truly historic. It has been said that each generation has a defining historical event occurring during their prime developmental years. Think about the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the assassination of John F. Kennedy or the entirety of the Vietnam War. For people my age, that event will most likely be the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the World...
The county’s local lodging tax is set to increase this month, up to 4 percent as a result of voter approval during the 2018 election. Jenissa Meredith, executive director of the Sweetwater County Joint Travel and Tourism Board, said the board won’t see its check from the increased lodging tax until this summer. The lodging tax is charged only at hotels within Sweetwater County and according to Meredith, is primarily used to market the county as a travel destination to outside markets. “Tourism i...
(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...
A double-sided sheet of paper, with one side urging residents to fight Love’s Travel Stop’s ambition to build a truck stop west of Jamestown, while the other side features a copy of the county’s public comment form, was not sent by the county. Last week, some Green River residents received the sheet in their mail. Jim Zimmerman, the code enforcement officer for the county’s Land Use Department said the letter didn’t originate from the county, despite featuring a county public comment sheet. “W...
The Genesis Alkali trona mine west of Green River hosted a tour for U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., and Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta Tuesday. According to Enzi, he invites the secretaries he meets to visit Wyoming and when Enzi invited Acosta during his confirmation hearings, he took the senator up on the offer. The two spent two days in Wyoming, touring the North Antelope Rochelle Mine south of Gillette, the Wind River Job Corps Center near Riverton, as well as the trona mine. Acosta...
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...
I remember running into Allan Wilson at Smith’s a few years ago. He had been a member of the Green River City Council for a year or so at that point. He was on his way out and I was going in to grab a quick lunch. We exchanged pleasantries and he talked about how he planned to work on his cabin later that week. We shook hands and parted ways. He greeted me last week at the Sweetwater County Courthouse prior to his sentencing hearing. This time, the exchange was much different. He looked at me a...
The Lady Wolves return to the field this year with a large group of freshmen and several returning players from last year. Head girls soccer coach Tracy Wyant said the team attracted 14 freshmen and has five seniors. Wyant said some of the new players have club experience and the returning players have become team leaders. The senior players are Kylee Hosford, Michaelee Wisniewski, Jose Alatorre, Zoe Turner and Kelby Pope. “I’ve got a good core returning,” Wyant said. Wyant said the recent tourn...
While the boys soccer team traveled to Worland for competition, the Lady Wolves had the opportunity to stay home and compete in the annual Todd Malonek Southwest Invitational during the weekend. The tournament is named for Malonek, an assistant coach for the boys soccer team and booster for the high school’s soccer programs who died in 2016. The Lady Wolves had a strong start against Pinedale in the first round of the tournament, dominating the game with a 9-0 victory. “It was a good starting po...
