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A motion to reduce Bradley Setzer’s bond to $250,000 was denied by Circuit Court Judge Craig Jones last week. Setzer is charged with attempted first-degree murder after allegedly attempting to shoot his wife through the front door of the couple’s Green River residence Aug. 25. Setzer appeared at a preliminary hearing Oct. 16 to determine if evidence presented against him supported probable cause and is strong enough to send the case to District Court. During the hearing, Setzer’s attor...
Members of the Green River City Council believe funding a future sixth-penny tax should be based on a timeframe to pay the tax off, not an arbitrary cap on request amounts. Comments from Council representatives resulted from a meeting where city officials presented potential sixth-penny tax projects to the Sweetwater County commissioners Tuesday morning. Commissioners have vocally supported a future tax ballot amounting to $80-$100 million, with Chairman Wally Johnson saying he supported request...
Amendments to Green River’s ordinances regarding smoking in public places passed its first reading Tuesday night. The amendments include definitions for electronic vaporizers and other similar devices, effectively banning them from areas smoking tobacco products are prohibited. A public hearing on the proposal also took place, with no one commenting if they supported or opposed the proposed amendments. According to City Prosecutor Bobby Pineda, the amendments were drafted after Councilman Gary K...
Following a lengthy executive session involving student discipline, potential litigation and personnel issues, the Sweetwater County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees voted unanimously to approve a retirement request from Superintendent Donna Little-Kaumo. Chairman Brenda Roosa said the day-to-day operations of the district would transfer to Assistant Superintendent Jamie Christensen. Little-Kaumo originally said she planned to retire at the end of the 2019-2020 school year. However,...
Wearing T-shirts reading “Support our team Oscar and Brian,” members of the Sweetwater County School District No. 2 transportation department attended the board of trustees’ monthly meeting Tuesday night, wanting to know what’s next for the group. During the public comment portion of the meeting, bus driver Laura Pearson approached the board and spoke of how the department was broken. “I don’t even recognize it,” she told the board. Before she could continue, Board Chairman Brenda Roosa stopped...
Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) believes the Democrats have wanted to impeach President Donald Trump since in election win in 2016. Barrasso, who was in Green River Monday, said Democrats wrote articles of impeachment against Trump in December 2016, a month prior to when he took office. “They’ve been beating the impeachment drum since day one,” Barrasso said. Barrasso claims Democrats have been obsessed with impeaching the president to such a degree that it’s holding up pieces of legisla...
Only two Wyoming schools were included in the national Blue Ribbon Awards list and Truman Elementary School was one of them. In a press release, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced 362 schools nationwide will received the 2019 Blue Ribbon Schools designation. According to the nationalblueribbonschools.ed.gov, "An important part of the U.S. Department of Education, the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program recognizes outstanding public and non-public schools. In identifying several...
The city should start seeing money from the historic racing and off-track betting establishment in Green River. Eugene Joyce, Wyoming Horse Racing LLC., president and general manager, gave a brief presentation at the Green River City Council meeting Tuesday evening about the racing facility’s needs and what the Council could expect to see in revenue generated from the historic racing and its’ off-track betting establishment called Town Bar and Grill. “We have high hopes that it will gener...
While Census Day doesn’t take place until April 1, 2020, Green River municipal officials are quietly preparing to take an accurate count of city residents. The city has formed a committee to initiate the census campaign and is receiving assistance from census workers in Denver to ensure the process is both smooth and provides and accurate resident count. The census is taken every 10 years and according to Communications Administrator Amanda Cavaz, plays a role in the sales-tax distribution t...
A Green River man accused of strangling and throwing his pregnant girlfriend through a closet door was placed on supervised probation. Michael Junior Martinez, 41, appeared in the Third District Court of Judge Nena James at a sentencing hearing to aggravated assault and battery and strangulation of a household member. In exchange for Martinez’ guilty plea to a felony aggravated assault and battery charge, the felony strangulation of a household member charge was dismissed. He was given an 8-10 y...
In order to determine the condition all Green River streets are in, the city hired a street surface inspection company to review every street. At the last Green River City Council meeting, the Council unanimously approved a $28,300 contract with MDS Technologies Inc., to complete and update the city’s pavement management plan. The city received offers from three firms and went with MDS. In an interview, Public Works Director Mark Westenskow, said the company already completed the field work, w...
The city is going to request about $53 million in projects, which will be completed using the sixth-penny special purpose tax funding, if the tax is approved. Tuesday night, the Green River City Council once again reviewed its lengthy list of projects that at one point reached near $96 million to determine what Green River absolutely needed. City Council members have stated numerous times all of the projects on the list are not "wishes," but necessities. However knowing the Sweetwater County...
After a 50-minute conversation about the sixth-penny, special-purpose tax, Green River council members decided to think about what projects they want to fund and how much to ask for this time. City Administrator Reed Clevenger kicked off the discussion by giving the Green River City Council an overview of what the tax is and what it has been used for in the past. The money can only be used for defined projects voters approved it to be spent it on at an election. Most of the money the city has re...
A man accused of strangling his girlfriend and then kicking her in the face with a steal-toed boot claims he’s innocent. Jeramia Rael, 40, of Green River, pleaded not guilty at an arraignment in the Third District of Judge Richard Lavery to one felony count of aggravated assault and battery, one felony count of strangulation of a household member and one misdemeanor count of domestic battery. If found guilty of all three, he could face a maximum prison sentence of 20 years in prison six months i...
A $27.6 million loan application for the construction of a replacement Wastewater Treatment Plant facility was approved by the Green River City Council last week. The loan request will be made though the Wyoming Clean Water State Revolving Fund loan program and, according to Public Works Director Mark Westenskow, will represent 100 percent of the anticipated construction costs if awarded. The loan would have a lifetime of 30 years at 2.5 percent interest. The treatment facility has been on the...
Discussion near the end of the Green River City Council meeting last week indicates the Council is willing to examine if vaping should be included on the city's smoking ordinance. During the Council comment period last week, Councilman Gary Killpack asked if the Council would be willing to examine the issue, saying he heard a complaint from a resident. Killpack said the resident was concerned that while smoking is prohibited in public parks, vaping isn't included in that prohibition and didn't l...
Sweetwater County School District No.2’s summer food program served up thousands of meals and brought some revenue to the district as well. Nutrition Services Director Leah Kenison told the Sweetwater County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees the district served 13,639 lunches and 3,774 breakfasts at four locations throughout the summer. Compared to last year, the district served approximately 2,400 more meals this year. The meals were provided free of charge to residents 18 years old a...
A man accused of threatening his father with a machete was bound over to Third District Court last week. Robert Mandros, 20, Green River, recently appeared in the Third Circuit Court at a preliminary hearing to aggravated assault and battery, a felony, and property destruction and defacement, a misdemeanor. According to court documents, on Aug. 21, at 8:17 p.m., officers responded to a home in Green River for a report that Mandros was threatening his father, Johnny Mandros, with a machete. Upon...
A longtime Green River physical education teacher who is widely known for her many contributions to Sweetwater County School District No. 2 died over the holiday weekend. According to an obituary from Vase Funeral Home, Nancy Eklund died Saturday at her home. She was 67 years old. Eklund worked within the school district for decades, living in Green River for the past 47 years. She was an educator and coach during much of her career with the school district and later earned multiple awards for...
