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The Green River High School varsity boys’ basketball team is having a difficult time clearing that hurdle and getting their next win. Thursday, the varsity boys went up against Evanston. It was initially a loss for Green River with the final score of 64-37. Yet, the game ended in a forfeit by Evanston, because a member of the Evanston team played over the quarter allotment time for players, playing in both the junior varsity and varsity games. Green River’s high scoring players of the game, Cha...
The University of Wyoming men’s basketball team returns to the friendly confines of the Arena-Auditorium to host Fresno State on Wednesday at 7 p.m. The Cowboys (12-14, 5-8 MW) will look to avenge a 71-60 road loss to the Bulldogs (16-9, 7-5 MW) on Jan. 26, but Fresno State was victorious in its trip to Laramie last season. The two have split their last six meetings. The contest will be televised by ROOT Sports (Charter: 523, DirecTV: 659) and broadcast on the radio by the Cowboy Sports Network. A Look at the Matchup The Pokes and head coach La...
A Rock Springs woman faces more than a dozen felony charges stemming from a Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office embezzlement investigation had her initial appearance in court on Friday. Janette Marie Klapel, 33, was arrested Thursday by county detectives. She is charged with 15 counts of felony-grade theft and forgery. As described in court documents, Klapel began employment with No Bull Construction as a bookkeeper in September, 2013, when her name was Janette Olds. She married Deputy Sheriff Mike Klapel of the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Off...
A Green River Police officer was placed on administrative leave, after he was indicted for a first-degree murder charge. Last Wednesday, Feb. 3, Jacob Anglesey, 34, appeared in the Third District Court of Judge Nena James in front of a grand jury. The jury convened to determine whether or not there was enough probable cause to charge Anglesey for first-degree murder, which stemmed from the 2009 death of Konnor Allen, a 2-year-old boy. Allen was the son of Phylicia Rasdall and Corry Allen. "He...
The Green River City Council rejected a bid for the city’s electrical maintenance at Tuesday’s meeting. The city’s previous electrical contract agreement is now expired. The bid proposed by Mountain West Electrical Inc. was 50-61 percent higher than the previous city electrical contracts. By rejecting the bid for a city-wide electrical contract, this allows the various city departments can call any electrical work provider for a quote, and will contract out individually for each project or wo...
A longtime Republican politician from Idaho has his sights set on Rep. Cynthia Lummis’s seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Lummis announced her decision to retire, which has sparked interest in the seat amongst the state’s Republicans and Democrats. Rex Rammell originally grew up in the Teton Valley in Idaho, a location his family has lived at since homesteading in the Valley during the 1880s. Rammell, now a resident of Gillette, initially campaigned for the U.S. Senate in Idaho as a Rep...
The residents of Granger are making use of the community building in their town. The building, originally the town’s school building, was the site of a major renovation project on the building’s main floor, which now houses the Sweetwater County Library System’s Granger branch. Granger Mayor Sandy Allen said the library has more space than it used to, saying the Town Council has had the opportunity to host its meetings in the community center. An open house is scheduled for Feb. 27 and takes...
