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A fire set off by a lightning strike caused a power outage in the Purple Sage area west of Rock Springs Monday morning. Sweetwater County deputy sheriffs and firefighters were advised of a power pole on fire early Monday morning, resulting in a power outage at residences and businesses in the area between Highway 191 South and Kanda. The burning pole was located north of Interstate 80 near the intersection of Purple Sage Road and old Highway 30. Sheriff Mike Lowell said the fire, which destroyed not only the power pole, but burned through a...
A reality television star recently plead guilty to poaching charges, which resulted in his hunting privileges being revoked for two years, a suspended jail sentence, one and a half years of probation and a $23,000 fine. Billy A. Busbice Jr. of Olla, La., appeared before Lincoln County Circuit Court Judge Frank Zebre May 23, pleading guilty to charges of intentionally allowing an antlerless elk to go to waste and an additional charge of taking an elk without the proper license. Busbice was given a 180-day suspended jail sentence and was placed...
Two new coaches were hired to head up the golf and cheer programs at Green River High School, according to information sent by Anthony Beardsley, athletics director for Sweetwater County School District No. 2. Karly Eyre was selected to be the new head golf coach, while Krista Simkin was chosen as the new cheerleading coach. Eyre currently works at Lincoln Middle School as a health and physical education teacher, while Simkin returns to Sweetwater County after living in Colorado. For Eyre, it’s a return, having previously worked as the high s...
Green River’s kids have a chance to up their basketball game under tutelage from a former Utah Jazz player Thursday. The Green River Parks and Recreation Department will host the free basketball clinic hosted by Bryon Russell at the Green River Recreation Center at 5 p.m., and will last approximately an hour. Russell will lead participants through various drills and competitions. Russell, 46, was a small forward drafted to the Utah Jazz in 1993, playing for the team from 1993 to 2002. He played in back-to-back NBA Finals in 1997 and 1998 and p...
Racing came hard and fast at Sweetwater Speedway during the Memorial Day Weekend. The first races of the year brought racers and fans from Utah, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming together for three days of racing. Starting the show May 26 the IMCA Stock Cars had 14 drivers hoping to take home the win. The drivers went green to checkered with Dillon Lawrence of Salt Lake City taking an early lead and obtaining his first IMCA Stock Car Win. There were 17 competitors in the IMCA Sport Mods. Brian Carey of Aztec, N.M., battled with...
Ten Green River residents were arrested as part of an methamphetamine ring investigation throughout Southwest Wyoming and Utah. According to a release from the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office, the investigation focused on a Green River-based drug trafficking group the sheriff’s office claims was loosely organized and involved the transportation, distribution and use of methamphetamine. Detectives with the office’s Sheriff’s Narcotics and Arrest Group, along with agents from the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation’s Southwest...
Green River’s Zac Taylor recorded his first 2017 win in Colorado May 13. Racing at the El Paso County Raceway in his family-owned 305ci winged sprint car, he ended the night on top in that division. He also competed in the midget car division to a third-place finish that night. “Usually when I drive the sprint and then the next week get in the midget it takes me awhile to adjust,” Taylor said. “It’s a big learning curve. But Saturday when I got out of the midget after hot laps I knew it was going to be a good night.” Taylor won his heat before...
An unidentified inmate of the Sweetwater County Detention Center attempted to harm himself during a court hearing in Green River Friday morning. According to a media release from the sheriff’s office, the incident occurred in Judge Nena James’ court at about 11:30 a.m. The inmate was removed and transported by ambulance to Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County, where he was treated for his injuries and was placed under observation. An update issued Tuesday evening stated the inmates injuries were not life threatening. Sheriff Mike Lowell sai...
County residents between the ages of 12 and 17 have a chance to see how the Green River Police Department operates. The department will host its Junior Citizen’s Academy June 6-9 from 8 a.m., to 5 p.m., and will accept applications to the academy through May 31. The academy is limited to 20 participants, who will undergo a background check. The four-day program consists of classroom and hands-on demonstrations regarding the department’s operations and include functions performed by the GRPD’s animal control, patrol, investigations and speci...
Daggett County Sheriff Jerry Jorgensen resigned from his post Sunday after an investigation into allegations of prisoner mistreatment at the Daggett County Jail. According to a media release from the Daggett County Sheriff’s Office, Jorgensen’s resignation was voluntary. “Sheriff Jorgensen’s resignation was completely voluntary. It came because of his desire to help the county move forward in the process with Utah Department of Corrections to return inmates to the Daggett County Jail,” the release stated. “He felt a clean break with a new sheri...
Staff Report Green River High School art teachers Denise Mosley, Shane Steiss and Sonja Higgins are impressed with how their students did at the Wyoming High School State Art Symposium. “We had another great year with some talented artists who took 153 pieces to display at the Casper Events Center this past weekend,” Mosley said. Green River artists were among 75 other high schools who displayed 4261 pieces of art ranging in size from small drawings to 10 foot tall sculptures. “As a school we were awarded 52 ribbons for our work,” Mosley...
Staff report Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County will open its new clinic in Rock Springs Monday, which will house physicians practicing family medicine and occupational medicine. The clinic is located at 3000 College Hill in Rock Springs. The new offices will be utilized by Dr. David Dansie, Dr. Michael Bowers, Dr. Jacob Johnson, Dr. Lawrence Lauridsen, Dr. Brytton Long, along with physician assistants Amy Dolce, Melissa Lehman and Mark Sanders. According to a press release from the hospital, the clinic’s location will be a one-stop m...
Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Deputies, along with investigators from the Rawlins Police Department, determined a man who had driven himself to Wamsutter and reported he was shot had actually done it himself. According to a media release from the sheriff’s office, an unidentified 54-year-old Sweetwater County resident had shot himself with a handgun west of Wamsutter, then drove to the Wamsutter Town Hall and told a sheriff’s office process deputy he had been shot and needed help. The man was taken to Memorial Hospital of Carbon County in Rawli...
Two Green River residents were elected to lead Sweetwater County Democrats during the 2017-2019 term. The two are Cathy Denman, who will serve as the state committeewoman and Todd Herreid, who was elected as state committeeman. They join new Chairman RJ Pieper, Vice-chair Joselina Mendiolea, Treasurer Dana Pertermann and Secretary Monique Vindal. “It was wonderful seeing so many new faces. I welcome these young women to our Executive Committee and I am looking forward to their fresh ideas,” Denman said. The Central Committee of the Swe...
It’s a group representing both the cream of the crop in Green River High School athletics and many individuals who earned great success after their high school years. The school district’s athletics office now seeks recommendations to add to this prestigious group’s ranks. The Green River High School Hall of Fame Committee seeks nominations for induction into the 2017 GRHS Hall-of-Fame. According to a letter sent by athletics director Tony Beardsley, the committee doesn’t have a formal nomination process. Residents who wish to nominate someone...
A vehicle drove into a Green River residence Friday morning. According to a release from the Green River Police Department, officers and emergency responders were dispatched to the residence at 695 Evers Street at 10:13 a.m., Friday after a vehicle had driven into the home. Four adults and a child were in the home when the crash occurred. Three of the adults and the child were transported by ambulance to Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County while the fourth adult drove their vehicle to the...
County residents may get a call from someone seeking donations and claiming to be from the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office, but the caller is a swindler according to the sheriff’s office. In a media release issued Wednesday, Sheriff Mike Lowell warns residents about a scam involving callers seeking donations from county residents, typically seniors. “These calls are bogus; no one from the sheriff’s office is making calls to solicit funds, and never will,” Lowell said in the release. Reports to the sheriff’s office indicate callers, bo...
A Powerball ticket purchased at Maverik turned out to be a $100,000 payday for a lucky Mills resident. Curtis Reid purchased the ticket Feb. 21 while in Green River. Reid is a truck driver for Food Bank of the Rockies, a program supplying food to food banks in Wyoming. Reid thought he might be a winner after listening to the numbers on his radio and realizing his ticket shared some of the numbers of the $435 million jackpot-winning ticket. After checking his numbers four times using Wyolotto’s online number checker, his lucky purchase dawned on...
Divers helped recover the body of a Utah resident at Anvil Draw Sunday morning who died after falling through the ice. The incident occurred Saturday when 59-year-old Rebecca Weston of Plain City, Utah, fell through the ice while riding an ATV. According to a release from the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office, Weston was part of a family group ice fishing at the Flaming Gorge. She was a passenger on the ATV with three other family members, all of whom escaped falling through. Due to limited daylight, the recovery dive did not take place u...
During the past week, the Green River Police Department has dealt with a few calls regarding residents feeding deer, an activity against city ordnance. Feeding deer was a controversial topic in the past. The city council banned the feeding of deer in 2011 due to increased conflicts between residents and wildlife living in the city, with some residents reporting deer charging them as they walked outside their homes. Others believed it wasn’t an issue as the deer already live in the city and enjoyed looking at the wildlife walking through t...
The search for a missing fisherman believed to have drown while unloading his boat at Cedar Springs Marina near Dutch John, Utah, was suspended due the worsening weather and equipment problems. The Daggett County Sheriff’s Office hopes to bring in more search teams with underwater sonar equipment to aid in the search. According to the Sheriff’s Office, the search was suspended Monday at 8 p.m., three days after the fisherman was reported missing from his vehicle. The search started Friday morning after Daggett County sheriff’s deputies were...
The Greenbelt might see some renovations if the city receives a $50,000 grant. Tuesday night, the Green River City Council approved a request to apply for a Doppelt Trail Development Fund grant. According to information provided to the council, the grant would be used for a new coating on the pathway, as well as crack sealing and filling from the Uinta Drive Bridge to Scotts Bottom. The grant the Green River Parks and Recreation Department seeks is known as a project transformation grant, which can range between $15,000 and $50,000. The trail...
With the ice fishing season arriving in Sweetwater County, the county sheriff’s office recently issued a safety advisory and some tips for safe ice fishing. Ice Fishing Safety Tips First and foremost, bear in mind the tried-and-true adage that there is no such thing as safe ice. Ice conditions can fluctuate drastically over short times and distances; water levels in lakes, and especially in reservoirs like the Flaming Gorge, can change - freezing and thawing weather patterns come and go, and submerged springs in certain areas can make a big d...
The Sweetwater County Library is hosting an exhibit of watercolor paintings by Green River resident Sandra Banks from now through the end of February. “Watercolor Retrospective” is 25 original watercolor paintings which include a variety of sizes and subjects – landscapes such as Jenny Lake and Green River, flowers, birds, still life and Chinese style brushwork. Banks has been interested in art throughout her life and at the age of 15, took a short correspondence course through the mail with Chicago School of Art. “Do you remember matchbo...
Black-footed ferrets, mule deer migrations, and grizzly bear management were among the top issues in 2016 for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. “It’s been a memorable year for Wyoming’s wildlife and those who support this incredible resource,” Game and Fish Director Scott Talbott said. “It’s rewarding to look back on a year’s accomplishments for our state-due to the great collaborative work between the public, partners and Game and Fish.” The following is a snapshot of notable accomplishments and impactful events this year in Wyoming cons...
