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The Green River Urban Renewal Agency/Main Street organization is applying for a grant to help pay for a feasibility study to determine if Green River’s downtown district could support a another grocery store. The study, which is being done for Wild Sage Market, would help determine if a natural foods market would survive in the area. The Green River City Council approved the request last week. The grant, which would come from Wyoming Main Street, would pay $8,080 of the total $10,100 the study i...
Don Van Matre, a long-serving Sweetwater County Commissioner and former mayor of Green River, died early Thursday morning at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County. He was 76. Flags were flown at half-mast Monday in both Sweetwater County and the state offices in Cheyenne from sunrise to sunset in Van Matre’s honor. Van Matre grew up in the Farson-Eden area before joining the U.S. Army. He served as an aviator during the Vietnam War, earning a Bronze Star. He would later command an air base i...
A Green River man accused of strangling and throwing his pregnant girlfriend through a closet door is facing prison time for two felony charges. Michael Junior Martinez, 41, appeared in the Third District Court of Judge Nena James at an arraignment to aggravated assault and battery and strangulation of a household member. If he is found guilty of the two felonies, he could face a maximum prison sentence of 20 years and a maximum fine of $20,000. A jury trial has been scheduled to take place...
A discussion about a proposed senior discount for Green River residents shifted focus to the curbside recycling program offered by Wyoming Waste Management Tuesday evening, with many residents voicing displeasure with the service. The Green River City Council hosted a workshop discussion Tuesday night, with open of the topics covering a senior discount. Workshop meetings are focused on discussion only, and no official action is taken by the Council. Councilman Gary Killpack asked WWS Rock Spring...
The city has contracted with a consultant to review the drop structures placed in the river to evaluate their status and receive proposals for possible design solutions. The agreement, which will cost the city $12,700, was approved last week by the Green River City Council with S2O Design and Engineering. Speaking to the Council last week, Brad Raney, director of the city’s Parks and Recreation Department, said there are a number of known issues with the drop structures, including washouts n...
The City of Green River will seek damages related to opiate addiction after a vote by the city council last week. The Green River City Council approved an agreement with attorneys Charles Barnum and Rick Koehmstedt to represent the city in a class-action lawsuit against multiple pharmaceutical companies and pharmacies for the alleged over prescription of opium-based pain relievers. The city joins Rock Springs and Sweetwater County in the lawsuit. According to Council documents, the city will...
The city is accepting bids for repair work to the city’s Solid Waste Transfer Station. The call for bids was issued last week, with the closing date listed for May 9. A bid meeting will take place Thursday. The transfer station has remained vacant since a fire in the building in September. The building’s closure has been linked to a decision made by Wyoming Waste Services to take recyclable materials collected through the recycling program offered in Green River to the landfill outside Rock Spr...
UPDATE: This weekend's event has been cancelled. The following was posted on U.P.'s website, "To ensure the Big Boy is ready for its big debut, No. 844's whistle-stop tour that was scheduled for April 27-28 has been cancelled. Instead, No. 844 will double-head with No. 4014 from Cheyenne to Ogden on May 4." For up-to-date information directly from U.P., visit the website https://www.up.com/heritage/steam/schedule/index.htm In celebrating its 150th Anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad’s Completion, the Union Pacific is having a couple o...
A workshop meeting set for April 30 will give the Green River City Council a chance to discuss a discount for residents aged 62 and older and the future of Wyoming Waste Systems recycling program. The workshop takes place at the Council chambers in City Hall at 6:30 p.m. Councilman Jim Zimmerman encouraged residents to attend the meeting, believing more solutions to the problems facing the city’s recycling program might become available through added discussion. “I’m really hoping more peopl...
The Green River Police Department is making progress in investigations regarding several burglaries occurring in the city during the past few months. According to Jamie Green, spokeswoman for the GRPD, the burglaries have centered on vehicles that have been left unlocked overnight. The vehicles are opened up and rummaged through, with the perpetrators seeking valuables or loose cash and change to take. So far, the burglaries have occurred in February, March and April and have taken place on...
Green River and other municipalities should have received their excess sixth-penny funds on Friday. Green River’s share is about $1.59 million. The 2012 specific purpose tax, also known as the sixth-cent tax, terminated on April 1, 2018, however, the county collected more than the projects needed. During a recent Sweetwater County Commissioners meeting, Sweetwater County Treasurer Robb Slaughter gave the commissioners an update on what is going to be done with the excess sixth-cent penny collect...
By DAVID MARTIN Publisher Region V Board of Cooperative Educational Services, which services several school districts including Sweetwater County School District No. 2, seeks a .2 mill levy from the district to help fund its work. Representatives of the organization spoke to school board members Tuesday night about the services they provide the district and the mill levy they seek, which amounts to $185,895. Region V BOCES provides services to students with emotional, social and behavioral...
Winter weather in Green River has created a number of potholes the city is working to address. With the weather improving throughout the last week, more potholes have appeared on city streets. Speaking during the Green River City Council meeting last week, City Administrator Reed Clevenger said the city’s streets crew used up the patching material it had, forcing the city to order 25 tons of mix. “We burned through that (original supply) immediately,” Mark Westenskow, director of public works...
(Publisher’s note: the following article is a teaser for the Star’s annual Historical Edition, which is found in this week’s newspaper.) The earliest Green River Star available to anyone is dated Nov. 17, 1905. The archives at the Star’s building only go back to 1940, due to a fire destroying the newspaper’s earliest archive books, but the newspaper can be found online on the Wyoming State Library’s newspaper project, newspapers.wyo.gov. Listed as Vol. XVI - No.14, the newspaper is faded in so...
Green River theater students will once again be the first in the state to perform a new musical this week. According to Green River High School theater director Bradlee Skinner the students will perform "Bright Star," which is a musical written by Steven Martin and Edie Brickell. It is set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina in 1945-46 with flashbacks to 1923. The musical is scheduled to take place at 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday. "This particular production deals with...
Former Green River City Councilman Allan Wilson’s plea agreement was finalized during his sentencing hearing Thursday morning. Pleading guilty to sexual abuse of a minor in the second degree, Wilson’s other charges were dismissed and was placed on five years supervised probation. If he completes the probation term, the charge will be removed from his record. If not, Wilson faces a maximum penalty of up to 20 years in prison and a $20,000 fine. District Court Judge Nena James told Wilson not...
For Cheryl James, Climb Wyoming has given her the opportunity to provide for her family and stay in a community with a great school system. James, speaking to the Green River City Council during an update from the organization, spoke about her experiences before applying for the program and how CDL training offered by Climb Wyoming changed her life. Originally from New Mexico, James came to Green River when her husband accepted a job in the area. James took a job at McDonald's, but eventually...
Sweetwater County School District No. 2's longtime superintendent will retire June 2020. Donna Little-Kaumo announced her intent to retire Tuesday night at the district board of trustees meeting. She said she wanted to give the community as much time as possible to find her replacement. Little-Kaumo said she wanted to spend more time with family. Little-Kaumo has worked in the district for the past 14 years. She said when she first arrived at the district, schools were recording scores as low...
Taking Green River’s curbside recycling to the Rock Springs Landfill is only a temporary solution according to Michelle Foote, Rocks Springs site manager for Wyoming Waste Systems. Foote said the major problem the company faces is a lack of sorting space. The company used the city’s transfer station to sort the recycling it collected, but has been unable to use the building since a fire occurred September 2018. Foote said they thought they would only be out of the building for a few months, but...
Recyclable materials Green River residents sort and set aside in their recycling containers may not wind up at a recycling facility. Recycling bins from Wyoming Waste Systems are being taken to the landfill outside of Rock Springs, according to Solid Waste District No. 1’s director. “What we’ve seen are bins they’ve used for recycling come through,” Kevin Herman, the solid waste district’s general manager said. Wyoming Waste Systems did not respond to requests for comment as of press time....
For the past few days, residents have seen a moose wandering around Hutton Street and the surrounding neighborhood and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department recommends residents to leave it alone. According to Lucy Diggins-Wold, information and education specialist for the WGF office in Green River, the WGF is aware of the moose and plans to let it be as it hasn't threatened residents. She said darting and relocating the moose would be one of the last acts the WGF would want to do because it...
