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In what County Commissioner John Kolb described as “critical” to the Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County’s operations, the Sweetwater County Commission is moving forward with the process to approve a $1 million budget amendment to help the hospital pay for needed maintenance improvements. During the Sweetwater County Commissioners meeting Tuesday morning, a motion was made and unanimously approved to move forward with getting the hospital on the agenda for the next meeting after Kolb gave...
The Sweetwater County Historical Museum has a Christmas exhibit on display to celebrate the season. Museum director Brie Blasi said the display was finished Friday afternoon and is comprised of a number of the toys within the museum's collection. Amongst those toys are tin soldiers, dolls, cars and a copy of the Rock Springs Monopoly game. The scene is a vignette of how a living room might have been decorated for Christmas morning. Blasi said the display is based on the theme of "Naughty and...
A few candidates reported raising and spending several thousands of dollars in their election bids, according to campaign finance documents reviewed by the Green River Star. Candidates are required to report the amounts they raised and spent on their campaigns during and prior to the elections. Along with candidates seeking positions on the Green River City Council and Sweetwater County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees, candidates for county offices, as well as the committee involved in p...
A shooting involving the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office and the Rock Springs Police Department was ruled a justified use of force by Sweetwater County Attorney Daniel Erramouspe. According to a press release from the county attorney’s office, officers and deputies were dispatched to the Elk Street Kum & Go Nov. 21, to respond to a call regarding an agitated man striking nearby vehicles with a hatchet. The man, identified as Austin Pacheco, 26, allegedly failed to respond to orders to dro...
There’s only a few more days until the Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County and the Memorial Hospital Foundation kick off the Christmas season with their How NOVEMBER Stole Christmas event. The halls of Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County will be transformed into its very own MHSC-Whoville complete with games, cookie and ornament decorating activities, food, carolers, a visit from Santa Claus, and a special guest appearance from one of MHSC-Whoville’s very own citizens. Free to the community, How NOVEMBER Stole Christmas is this Fri...
U.S. Senators Mike Enzi, John Barrasso and Congresswoman Liz Cheney, all R-Wyo., urged U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to prioritize eliminating the Japanese tariff on U.S. natural soda ash during the U.S.-Japan trade agreement negotiations. While the United States currently supplies nearly 50 percent of the Japanese soda ash market, from 2014 to 2017, U.S. exports of natural soda ash to Japan decreased by 2 percent, while Chinese exports of synthetic soda ash to Japan increased by 73 percent. In their letter, legislators...
Solvay Chemicals is appealing an assessed valuation in regards to property taxes. During the Sweetwater County Commissioners meeting Tuesday morning, the Commissioners heard an update from County Assessor Dave Divis and Sweetwater County Treasurer Robb Slaughter about the appeal process. Commissioner Chairman Reid West said the matter doesn’t require any action from the Commissioners, but thought it would be a good idea for them to hear an update on it. Divis said the Department of Audit conduct...
Emails sent amongst members of the Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County board of trustees show how board members came to a decision regarding its withdrawal of funds from Bank of the West. An environmental policy on the bank’s website created a stir within Wyoming when it stated it would not do business with certain operations within the energy industry. The statement led to the Sweetwater County Commissioners pulling county funds from the bank and Governor-elect Mark Gordon, currently the W...
Sweetwater County Commission meetings will start being streamed live sometime in December. During the Commission meeting Tuesday, the Commissioners voted unanimously to approve a motion to spend up to $10,000 for equipment needed to get them live on the internet. “We’ve had discussions before about broadcasting the meetings,” information technology director Tim Knight said. However, each time those discussions seemed to come up budget constraints were always an issue so the issue was put on the...
Western Wyoming Community College's Performing Arts Department presents "Promises, Promises" at Western's theater Nov. 16, 17, 29, 30 and Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m. and a matinee performance on Dec. 1 at 2 p.m. "Promises, Promises" is the story of a young insurance executive and a romantically troubled waitress, caught up in a jumble of corporate antics and affairs. Based on the Oscar-winning film "The Apartment" by Billy Wilder, "Promises, Promises," is a masterpiece of complex characters and...
Republicans made huge gains in Sweetwater County Tuesday night. All three Republicans vying for seats on the Sweetwater County Board of County Commissioners won their electoral bids, while the Republican challengers for county sheriff and county clerk also made successful election bids. Incumbent Randy Wendling received the most votes of the three Republicans, earning 7,987 according to unofficial results from the Sweetwater County Clerk's Office. Jeffery Smith and Roy Lloyd were only separated...
The Sweetwater County Commission will not support funding the Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport commercial terminal without a guarantee that it will receive federal grant funding. During the Commission meeting Tuesday morning, the Commissioners were split on the issue. A motion was made by Randy Wendling to approve a budget resolution request for $133,333 to pay for the schematics of the project, but it almost died for a lack of a second. Chairman Reid West asked if he could second it, but...
Two parcels of land west of Green River could be the home of a Love’s Travel Stop in the future. The parcels, located along Highway 374 and near Exit 85 on Interstate 80, will be the focus of a zone change in December. Jim Zimmerman with the Sweetwater County Planning and Zoning Department, said the Love’s chain is interested in using the parcels to build a truck stop. Zimmerman said both parcels are currently zoned for agricultural use and need to be shifted to commercial zoning. The ini...
Sweetwater County farmers who have suffered from the drought can now file for assistance. According to a press release from the United States Department of Agriculture, Sweetwater County has been designated as a primary natural disaster area. “Producers who suffered losses due to a recent drought may be eligible for USDA Farm Service Agency emergency loans,” the release states. “It’s just that we sustained the drought long enough and it was bad enough that it effected our agriculture busines...
The search for a Rock Springs resident continues nearly a week after he was reported missing to the Rock Springs Police Department. Terry Meador, 74, was initially reported missing Oct. 25 and was believed to have gone hunting by himself near Pine Mountain south of Rock Springs. His pickup truck was found badly stuck north of Pine Mountain. Meador’s rifle was found inside the cab. Searches conducted throughout the weekend by sheriff’s deputies, family members and Sweetwater County Search and Rescue were unsuccessful in locating Meador. The sea...
A bill passed in Washington, D.C., will impact the Fontenelle Reservoir. Provisions in the America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 will allow for the expansion of water storage at the reservoir, as well as support other water projects throughout Wyoming. U.S. Sen. John Barrasso was one of the bill’s authors and its sponsor. He is also the chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works The act was passed by a 99-1 vote in the Senate Oct. 10, with the only dissenting vot...
A question submitted to panelists at a candidate forum resulted in warranty deeds filed at the Sweetwater County Courthouse changing ownership of property in Green River. During the Sweetwater County Assessor’s forum Thursday, panelists received a question from the audience regarding if Sweetwater County Assessor David Divis and his opponent, Republican candidate Perri Rubeck, owned property in Sweetwater County. One of the requirements to be a county assessor in Wyoming is to own real p...
The Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County has made quite the turn around in its finances in one fiscal year. According to Sweetwater County Commissioner John Kolb, who acts as a liaison to MHSC, the audit recently conducted on the hospital came back clean. Kolb said the auditing firm has been the group that has been watching the hospital for years. “Never have they seen a hospital of that size make that big of a turn around in one year,” Kolb said. “They had a clean audit. It’s probabl...
As the General Election approaches, candidates are looking to promote themselves as much as possible in the final weeks leading to Nov. 6. Aside from candidates for Green River City Council and Sweetwater County Commissioner, voters will also have a choice to make regarding if the county should continue the optional lodging tax and if it should increase to 4 percent. Jenissa Meredith, executive director of Sweetwater County travel and Tourism, spoke to members of the Green River Chamber of...
The Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport commercial terminal issue wasn’t even discussed at the Sweetwater County Commissioners meeting. The Commissioners voted to un-table the motion, but the motion died when Commissioners John Kolb, Don Van Matre and Wally Johnson voted not to take it off the table. Commissioners Randy Wendling and Reid West voted in favor of taking it off the table. The issue wasn’t discussed because it wasn’t taken off the table. “I don’t know when and if we will ever deal...
More than half of attorneys responding to a judicial poll tabulated by the Wyoming Survey and Analysis Center oppose Circuit Court Judge Craig Jones’ retention. Jones, as well as Circuit Court Judge John Prokos were reviewed in the 2018 Wyoming Judicial Advisory Poll, a biennial poll, which anonymously surveys Wyoming attorneys on their opinions regarding circuit, district and state supreme court justices up for retention for the Wyoming State Bar. The poll uses a five-point scale to determine a...
All of the county’s funds have officially been pulled out of Bank of the West. During the Sweetwater County Commissioners meeting Tuesday morning, Sweetwater County Treasurer Robb Slaughter said the there was about $540,000 left in the accounts at the bank, but by Friday all the accounts were closed. The only county exception is with Sweetwater County Community nursing, which will take a little longer than they thought it would. However, Slaughter said Commerce Bank is ready and willing to w...
Algae blooms have been discovered at the Lost Dog area of the Flaming Gorge, prompting the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality and Wyoming Department of Health to issue an advisory for people recreating in the area. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a harmful algae bloom occurs when colonies of algae grow out of control and produce toxins harmful to fish, animals and people. Algae blooms occur in every state. NOAA cites climate change and nutrient...
Commerce Bank has been selected by the county treasurer as the bank Sweetwater County will put its depositories in. At the Sweetwater County Commissioners’ meeting Tuesday morning, county treasurer Robb Slaughter gave the commissioners an update on how the transfer of funds out of Bank of the West was going. The county had $15.8 million of the general fund is with Bank of the West, while $1.4 million is in insurance with them and about $14 million is invested with the bank. The reason the county...
The Sweetwater County Treasurer’s Office is the target of a scam involving fraudulent checks sent to people across the country. As of Tuesday, six checks have been cashed, totaling $15,400. The checks use a Bank of the West account used by the treasurer’s office and features the bank’s routing number too. However, the county is already moving all of its accounts to Commerce Bank. County treasurer Robb Slaughter said his office hadn’t issued checks using that account since Sept. 4, with the fra...
