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The city officially hired a new city prosecutor Tuesday night and looks to hire a new city administrator next week. Prior to hearing a presentation by the Flaming Gorge Days Committee, the council met in an special session to approve Bobby Pineda as its new prosecutor. The vote was unanimous, with no discussion about Mayor Pete Rust’s appointment prior to the vote. After the meeting, Councilman Ted Barney said Pineda will represent the city well, having known him while working for the public defender’s office. Barney said the candidates app...
A week after explaining their plight to the Sweetwater County Commissioners, members of the Flaming Gorge Days Committee approached the Green River City Council to explain their situation and, possibly, receive some funding. After several years of declining revenues, the committee’s reserve funds took a severe hit last year when the 2014 celebration resulted in a $54,000 loss the committee blames on poor weather during the Friday night concert. The loss cut their reserve funding to approximately $120,000 and placing the board in a situation w...
All his life, Matt Stutzman wanted to be the best in the world at something. At 32 years old, he has accomplished this with the world's record for longest accurate archery shot at a target of 230 yards. While setting a Guinness World Record is an amazing accomplishment, it's even more remarkable for Stutzman who was born without hands. A 2012 Paralympic Silver Medalist, Stutzman was in Green River Saturday to give a presentation to a large crowd of both archers and residents at the Red Barn...
A bill aiming to provide protection to homosexuals and transgender people against discrimination in Wyoming failed in the house Tuesday, following what Rep. Stan Blake, D-Green River, called a close vote. Blake said Rep. Mike Madden, R-Buffalo, worked to strip the bill of many initial provisions before the vote, keeping its basic protections. However, that wasn’t enough to gather the necessary votes in the Republican-dominated House. “I knew it was going to be close,” Blake said. “It was almost 50-50.” The final vote came to 33 against,...
A memorial service for Reese Kyle Swapp Vechnak, 28, will take place at 2 p.m., Saturday at Davis Funeral Home. Cremation has taken place. Memorial contributions would be appreciated to the Fremont County Search and Rescue or PAWS for Life, in care of Davis Funeral Home. Reese was born Jan. 12, 1987 in Moab, Utah to Jennifer Whitmer. When he was four years old, she married Ken Vechnak who legally adopted him and always accepted him as his own son. Bill Lozar, Jr. was another dad to Reese since...
Thomas Leo Davis Sr., 83, of Clayton, Ga. passed away Jan. 28, 2015, at Northeast Georgia Medical Center. He was born March 20, 1931, in Johnstown, Penn., and was the son of the late Thomas and Leanna Davis. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a sister, Julia Davis. He is survived by his loving wife of 60 years, Carolyn Mosteller Davis; three sons, Thomas Davis Jr. of Gainesville, Ga. Chris Davis of Philadelphia, and Scott Davis of Florida; one sister, Jane Leitenger of California; four grandchildren and one...
Loma Mead, 84, of Rock Springs passed away Feb. 20, 2015 at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County. A longtime resident of Rock Springs, Mead died following a lengthy illness. She was born on July 23, 1930 in Wiley, Colo. the daughter of the late Chester Petersen and Lizzie Petersen. Mead attended schools in Buhl, Idaho and was a graduate of the Buhl High School with the class of 1948. She married Wilbur Mead in Elko, Nev. and he later passed away in Roosevelt, Utah. Mead had been employed as a...
Oliver W. "Bud" Tebedo, 84, of Rock Springs passed away Feb. 21, 2015 at his home. A longtime resident of Rock Springs and former resident of Woodbridge, Va., Tebedo passed away following a lengthy illness. Tebedo was born in Grand Junction, Colo. on March 26, 1930, the son of the late George Oliver Tebedo and Iona Manchester Tebedo. He attended schools in Grand Junction, Colo. and graduated from Grand Junction High School with the class of 1948. He also attended Regis College for one year and...
Following up on an earlier threat to veto it, President Barack Obama officially vetoed a bill approving construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline Tuesday. While many residents are probably fuming at the news, we have to say we agree with Obama’s veto, though not for reasons most would expect. Yes, studies should be concluded estimating the environmental impact of the project and other considerations before final approval is voted on, but we believe Congress should really focus on bills that promote domestic energy development. Senators and r...
This March and April Sweetwater County residents will have multiple opportunities to read, watch, and experience Charlotte Bronte’s classic novel, “Jane Eyre.” The Sweetwater County Library System and the Sweetwater County Library Foundation are partnering with Western Wyoming Community College and the Hay Library to make this possible. You may have noticed a number of pass-along copies of the book on display at any of our three main libraries. Please pick one up, read it, and pass it along to someone else. The books themselves are very nice...
On a very windy Sunday a couple of weeks ago, I went shopping for home improvement materials. After making my purchases and checking out, I returned to my car. The young lady in the car next to me, popped out of her car and started speaking with me. She informed me that when her daughter was getting out of the back of the car, their car door had banged into mine, leaving a one-inch long red mark on my white car. (I hadn’t even made it to the door yet to notice because she approached me so quickly.) She apologized and told me that she tried t...
I didn’t want to get out of bed last Saturday morning. I was tired and I didn’t sleep well. I tossed and turned all night with a million things going through my head. When my alarm finally woke me up from the one solid hour I had of consecutive sleep, my knee hurt pretty bad and I had a slight headache. It was warm in my bed, and after peaking my out of the covers to look outside showed me that it was cold outside. I just wanted to stay in my bed till at least 10 a.m., than slowly proceed to...
Sometimes after I read an article, I’m left wondering how the future will turn out while other times I’m left dreading it. After reading about a legislative committee in Oklahoma voting to move a bill cutting funding for advance placement American history courses, I felt that unique feeling of dreading what the future may bring. Currently, the bill is being reworded after criticism about what the bill would do for students and the state’s school system was aired by parents and teachers. Howev...
Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County has a new physicians assistant. Mark Sanders joined the team at the hospital in January and will be seeing his patients in the Family Medicine Clinic, located in the Medical Office and Physician Clinic connected to the hospital. Sanders has practiced primary care and occupational medicine in Sweetwater County for the past 20 years, after serving as an EMT and working in industry for the 10 years prior. He is originally from Powell and attended Western Wyoming Community College and the University of...
Just don’t stop by to pick up results, stay and see what the Castle Rock Hospital District Health Fair has to offer. This is the message, CRHD operating manager Naomi Trumble would like to get across. She wants residents to know that they can not only pick up their results at CRHD on Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon, but they can visit with health-care professionals in various areas of expertise. A lot of the time people will just stop in and grab their results, she said, they just don’t know how much is at the health fair. Trumble starts pla...
Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County has a new doctor on staff. Dr. Wallace Curry recently joined the Memorial Hospital Urology, located in the Medical Office & Physician Clinic. A Salt Lake City native, Curry has practiced for the last 12 years in Western Kansas. He completed his undergraduate training at the University of Utah and subsequently graduated from the Medical College of Wisconsin. He returned to the University of Utah Hospital for his general surgery internship and urology residency which he completed in 2003. Curry is board cert...
With recent discussion about the future of Flaming Gorge Days and its committee’s financial woes, some have preemptively spoken up about how the weekend event supports their business. Robert Berg, manager of Green River’s Arctic Circle, said he’s forced to start preparing for the June event as early as March. “Flaming Gorge Days kicks off my weekend,” Berg told the Green River City Council last night. He said Flaming Gorge Days is often the busiest time of the year, with sales traditionally being double or even triple their average amounts....
Green River police are looking for a couple alleged to have stiffed a local restaurant on a $100 meal. According to information from the Green River Police Department, the incident occurred at the Krazy Moose Feb. 14 during its Valentine’s Day dinner service. A man with long hair described as wearing a turquoise shirt and woman ate a meal and left without paying. The department speculates the couple could have been passing through the area, but haven’t ruled out the possibility of the couple living locally. While somewhat rare, Krazy Moose co-...
The Green River Police Department isn’t just seeking people involved with shooting out a second-story window at City Hall, they’re seeking car thieves as well. According to a release from the Sweetwater Community Crime Stoppers, the GRPD seeks information about a car theft that occurred between Jan. 13 and Jan. 15. A red Pontiac Vibe was taken from a residence on Shoshone Ave. The vehicle was later found three miles south of Rock Springs, off of Wyoming Highway 430. The vehicle was found in a ditch, totaled, and was missing several items. Acc...
Dustin Shillcox, a Green River resident who serves as an ambassador for the Christopher Reeves Foundation will speak at the annual Mayor’s Leadership Awards next Wednesday at the Sweetwater County Events Complex. Shillcox was injured in a vehicle crash Aug. 26, 2010, when the business van he drove blew a tire out and travelled into the cable median on Interstate 80 outside of Rock Springs. The van flipped during the crash, ejecting Shillcox from his seat and resulted in Shillcox being paralyzed from the chest down. In 2013, Shillcox received a...
Anyone walking into Truman Elementary School's gym last Wednesday would have seen a somewhat peculiar sight as aides and custodians at the school were busy tearing off strips of duct tape from numerous rolls and placing them in easy to reach places. The strips hung from baskets, gym mats and even the brick wall itself. Moments later, Greg Figenser, Truman's principal, walked in wearing a long sleeve shirt and looked at the tape and a wall he would soon be stuck to. "Last time I did this, I...
After a nice dinner, those attending the Golden Hour Senior Center's Sweetheart Ball made their way to the dance floor. As some were dancing to oldies played by "The Late Boomers" of Evanston, others took advantage of seeing old friends and socialized. GHSC activities coordinator Megan Brown said the GHSC hosts a dance once a month from September through May. The dinner and dance nights bring in anywhere from 70 to 120 people, she said. This all depends on the time of the year and what is being...
Knowing about current events and the United States Constitution was enough for students in the Green River High School’s Advanced Placement Government Class to take third at the state We the People competition. GRHS AP government teacher Bill Hodges said the group competed against 26 schools in December for a chance to make to the state competition. With only six advancing at districts, the pressure was on. Hodges said the students were given 18 discussion questions on the U.S. Constitution, which they were asked to write four-minute essays o...
The Green River High School Speech and Debate team continues to bring home first-place finishes. During the Riverton tournament, which took place Feb. 13 and 14, Green River took first place with 76 points, while Riverton came in second place with 26 points. Jackson, which competes in the 3A division had 30 points and Evanston took third in 4A division. Head coach Carina Stulken said Evanston and Riverton were the teams biggest competition at this tourney. “This tournament was smaller in scale with only 14 schools attending, but it was later i...
