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A pursuit involving the Green River Police Department and Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office ensued early Friday afternoon, which ended in a Green River man’s death. The pursuit started at approximately 1:50 p.m., when GRPD Lt. Burke Morin was at a gas station on the east side of Green River filling up his vehicle. He saw a white truck that matched the description of a vehicle involved in a hit-and-run crash last week. Morin finished fueling his vehicle and found the truck again, but could not...
When snow storms hit Green River, the city’s streets department hits the roads running, scraping, salting and sanding. The city’s policy of when to start scraping the streets is when the snow level reaches 2 inches, but even so, the city’s snow removal trucks are sent out much sooner. Streets Supervisor Randy Koloff said they will receive calls from the police department soon after a snow storm, alerting them of visible deteriorating driving conditions before a wreck happens. When the snow...
Pastor Jeff Chappell is a breath of fresh air for the congregation of the Green River Bible Baptist Church and Christian Academy, after being without a pastor for much of 2015. Chappell brings an added bonus to the community with his combined religious and education background. Chappell taught fourth grade for six years at a private Christian school at his previous home in North Carolina. In 2013, Chappell moved to Salina, Utah, with his wife Julie and four children, where he volunteered as the...
Residents living in the Hutton Heights mobile homes will see some mid-winter construction, starting in January. The construction is due to the replacement of the city’s water lift station located in Hutton Heights. “It’s in desperate conditions,” City Engineer Mark Westenskow said. The station lifts water to the houses in Hutton Heights and to a portion of the Hutton Heights shopping center. Westenskow said plans will be discussed with residents of the area before construction starts. The cit...
Green River residents who live on the west side of Mansface Mountain near Telephone Canyon have noticed major construction going on near their homes. Word of the construction has spread among the neighborhood, as well as a layer of dust on their houses, lawns and cars. The ongoing construction on the outskirts of the Green River neighborhood is due to the excavation, construction and building of The Raw Water Reservoir. The reservoir will be located at the mouth of Telephone Canyon, across from...
Green River residents may have noticed a new sign at the entrance to town at the intersection of Uinta Drive and Flaming Gorge Way, and may have noticed the fence along Flaming Gorge Way by the intersection was recently moved to better expose the new sign. The Green River Chamber of Commerce recently acquired a new digital sign to replace the outdated sign that was located by the chamber building, which will be removed in the next few months. Green River Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Re...
Pat White made an urgent phone call Friday afternoon, to notify the Green River Fire Department of smoke coming out of her neighbor's Tom and Paula Wall's house across the street. White said she first noticed the smoke when she looked outside to see why her neighbor's dogs were barking. The dogs were inside of the neighbor's house, the neighbors away to lunch. She called right away. "They're like family for me. I'd do anything for them," White said. The Green River Fire Department arrived on sce...
A man just walked in the office asking about why the local movie theatre listings are not in the newspaper. Truth is, we’d love to see the movie theatre listings back in the newspaper just as much as anyone else. Perhaps the movie theatre just assumes we all happily do an internet search for movie listings every time we’d like to go out to a movie, and such is not the case. Of course, unless we want to make the drive to the movie theatre or search for the movie theatre’s phone number to call. Ou...
With the recent stream of negative police publicity plaguing the nation, the question of how the incidences happening around the country may be effecting the Green River Police Department comes to mind. Interaction between the public and the Green River police force has not turned for the worse, as frequent national news stories depict across the nation. “I think our officers contacts with residents is about the same, as far as that goes, it’s been pretty much consistent,” GRPD public relations...
The 25th annual motorcycle toy run was Sunday. Motorcyclists from the Flaming Gorge Harley-Davidson, Vietnam Vets, Legacy Vets M.C. and independent motorcyclists delivered about 1,000 toys to the Rock Springs Fire Station No. 1. The variety of toys delivered includes games, monster trucks, match boxes, footballs, action figures, Legos, and more. "We've got quite a variety here," Fire Chief Jim Wamsley said. Wamsley said the amount of toys delivered by the motorcycle toy run was impressive. The...
Harrison Elementary school children had the chance to learn about bus safety Tuesday, with Buster the Bus. Buster is a miniature bus that travels to elementary schools, teaching them about bus safety. Second graders at Harrison Elementary learned bus safety from Buster with some magic numbers. The magic numbers are numbers to remember when getting on and off the bus to stay safe. The first magic number is five, for how many minutes to arrive at the bus stop before the bus is scheduled to...
The Wolves put up a good fight during the regionals tournament last week, but came away with two losses, against Natrona and Evanston. The Wolves went into regionals as the second seeded, so even with their losses at regionals they have an automatic bye to compete in state. Competing in regionals was to rank their placement in competing for state. "We fought really hard, but we lost both of our matches so we are going into the state tournament ranked fourth," Coach Rikki Shantz said. The girls...
The Green River City Council approved various actions at Tuesday’s meeting, many of which were aimed at applying for grant money. The council’s resolutions started with a move to approve the resolution for the north-side lift station grant submission to the Wyoming Business Council’s Community Readiness Program. The grant money will be utilized for the renovation of the north-side lift station, with a total project cost of $1,491,550. A council action item was a council movement to appro...
Green River seventh-and eighth-grade students are taking part in a real-world study done by the Green River Trout Unlimited group and the Game and Fish Department. Oct. 22 was the kick-off event for the students, at Firehole, at Flaming Gorge Reservoir. The students went through four stations, learning about the study they will be a part of through the school year the Adopt-a-Trout program. Trout Unlimited in conjunction with the Wyoming Game and Fish have put on the Adopt-a-Trout program...
The wolves kicked off the football game against the Cody Broncs with a touchdown in the first quarter with 7:17 left in the quarter. This would earn them six points, and the PAT was successful, taking the score to 7-0. Soon after the wolves' touchdown, Candon Croft made a first down with 28 yards, to the 33 yard line. Soon after, Tyler Vendetti took them another 32 yards. Tyler Vendetti then made the Wolves' second touchdown with five seconds left in the first quarter, bumping their score up to...
The GRHS varsity volleyball team is well on their way toward regionals and state. Green River comes away from the weekend with a win and a loss. Thursday was the conference game against Kelly Walsh High School in Casper; Kelly Walsh winning three out of the four matches. “They were a bunch of really tight games,” head coach Rikki Shantz said. “It could’ve gone either way, but we came up a little short.” The next day however, on Friday, Green River came up on top, beating Natrona with three win...
A 4-3 vote to move money from the city’s U.P. Depot fund to pay for a shooting range at the Green River Police Department reflected a major division amongst members of the Green River City Council. The city will move $210,000 originally earmarked to help seal the U.P. Depot on Railroad Avenue to cover a shortfall seen in bids the city received regarding the shooting range. The council also approved a bid award for the range totaling $550,000 from Rawlins-based Sheppard Construction in a unanimous vote. Mayor Pete Rust and Councilpersons Lisa Ma...
Green River will soon be without a garbage landfill. Green River’s landfill will close in 2017, but not before the city’s garbage transfer station is built by late 2016. The transfer station will be used as a holding facility for Green River’s residents garbage before transporting it to the Solid Waste District No. 1 landfill, near Rock Springs. Meaning, Green River residents will still have a location to take their garbage to in town. Residents will not have to travel, but their garbage will. T...
An agreement to conduct topographic survey services for phase four and five of the sixth-penny projects was passed at the Green River City Council meeting, Oct. 6. The sixth-penny projects are a series of street improvement projects the city voted on in 2012 to carry out using six-penny tax money from sales taxes. The first year’s project was street improvement on East Teton. The second project, just finished this year, was street improvements on Wind River, Locust, a block of North 4th East a...
A few years ago, the city of Green River thought about disbanding the Overland Stage Stampede Rodeo, a Green River tradition for many years. Numbers of contestants and spectators were consistently down. A new committee took charge of the rodeo in 2013 and have been on a journey to get the rodeo back on its feet, or hooves. Rodeo committee member spokesperson Chris Davis, presented new numbers to the Green River City Council at the Oct. 6 City Council meeting, and they are up. This year, at the...
Green River High School swimmers came away from the Gillette Invite triumphantly, with improved times and state-qualified swimmers added. “We pretty much had time improvements across the board, so that was nice,” coach Coleen Seiloff said. Two girl’s swimmers, Jarin and Emilee Mandros’ times improved well enough to qualify them for state, joining five of their teammates who are set to swim for State. Jarin qualified for State with the 100-yard butterfly. The qualifying time limit for the but...
The wolves came out of the gates charging. They dominated the first set, winning 25-7. "The girls came out and just really focused on not letting the ball hit the floor and hitting really well, and they got a lot of blocks in that first game," coach Rikki Shantz said. "That was really fun to see, watching them play at their highest." After winning the first game, the girls relaxed, allowing the Tigers to get ahead of them by a few points. The Wolves lost the second game, 21-25. After a win, the...
GRHS varsity cross country-runner Josie Givens won the race; the varsity girls 5,000-meter run. The race took place at the White Mountain Golf Course in Rock Springs, against runners from schools around the region. Givens' race time was 20:03.70. The next runner up came in 24 seconds later. Givens was a State runner last year and a two time all-conference runner. "She's one of the top girls," coach Steve Boyd said. "She has a chance maybe to be conference champion, it's a possibility. We're...
There were 90 zombies and other frightful creatures stalking the streets of Green River Saturday. The Zombie Walk, hosted by the Sweetwater County Library System is an annual family-friendly event, or "zombie parade" that kicks off the October month to lead up to Halloween. This year's batch of zombies started lurching at the Sweetwater County Library, down to Flaming Gorge Way, and lurched all the way to the clock tower plaza in front of City Hall. There was a costume contest, awarding zombies...
The Rock Springs Business and Economic Development Alliance and the city of Rock Springs is applying for a $50,000 grant from the Wyoming Business Council to conduct a Sweetwater County-wide retail gap analysis. They are asking for support from the city of Green River and other entities in the form of monetary funds of up to $5,555 and a letter of support; monetary amounts are not official. “We support the idea to entertain the possibility of providing some sort of funding,” Mayor Pete Rust sai...
