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The Sweetwater County Commissioners may investigate if using bonds to pay for part of its proposed judicial building is a good idea. However, not everyone is on board with the idea. Commissioner John Kolb asked the other commissioners about their thoughts on possibly bonding a portion of the upcoming judicial complex building costs. The building, with an estimated cost of approximately $20 million, would combine the county’s two circuit courts into one facility near the Sweetwater County D...
A Rock Springs man was arrested early Sunday morning and faces multiple charges after allegedly leading sheriff’s deputies on a chase along White Mountain. Daniel Ray Potter, 21, faces five counts of felonious restraint; felony interference with a peace officer; two counts of misdemeanor-level reckless endangering; driving while under the influence of alcohol, second offense; misdemeanor-level reckless driving, and misdemeanor-level fleeing and eluding police officers and misdemeanor-level o...
(Editor's note: the article was changed to correct a typo in the print version of this article.) A number of arrests took place last week in conjunction with a year-long investigation regarding methamphetamine trafficking in the area. According to a release from the Wyoming Department of Criminal Investigation, 33 Sweetwater County residents were indicted by a grand jury last week for drug-based offenses. Two others under investigation by DCI were previously indicted through a federal grand...
The Sweetwater Board of Cooperative Educational Services and the WWCC Performing Arts Department, with assistance from the Episcopal Suicide Prevention Connection, will present “Chimes,” an original one-act play by Rock Springs resident Donovan Rawlings Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the WWCC Theater. “Chimes” was commissioned by the Rev. Bernadine Craft to emphasize that September is Suicide Prevention Month; the play highlights some of the reasons adults make the decision to end their lives. Craft chairs the statewide Suicide Prevention Connect...
The Wyoming Peace Officer Association has named Dayton Senior Game Warden Dustin Shorma the 2015 Peace Officer of the Year. The Peace Officer of the Year award is given to a peace officer who provides outstanding services to his department, community and himself and has a major impact on law enforcement in Wyoming. Shorma was nominated by his peers for his unmatched effectiveness, dedication, work ethic, leadership, perseverance, attitude and professionalism as a Wyoming game warden. Shorma received the award during the 88th Annual Wyoming...
A woman whose infant died last September pleaded no contest to a second-degree murder charge and three other felonies. Amanda Dawn Triplett, 25, appeared in the Third District Court of Judge Nena James Aug. 27 at a change of plea hearing to first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and two counts of child abuse. In exchange for Amanda’s no contest plea, the first-degree murder charge was reduced to a second-degree murder charge, the rest of the felony charges remained the same. A sentencing h...
Recent suggestions regarding sage grouse core habitat have drawn the ire of a Sweetwater County commissioner. Tuesday morning, Commissioner Wally Johnson voiced displeasure with the state government’s refusal to add area on White Mountain to recognized core habitat for sage grouse. The bird has drawn a lot of attention statewide as many fear of its inclusion on the endangered species list, which politicians including Johnson say would curtail industrial development in Wyoming. Within S...
For the past week, smoke has drifted into Sweetwater County and although it seems to have lessened, it will not disappear anytime soon. According to Dave Lipson, Fire Weather Services Team Member at the National Weather Service Center in Riverton, it is hard to pinpoint just exactly where all the smoke is coming from. He said with so many fires in Washington, Idaho and Montana, it is hard to tell which state or if all three are contributing to the smoky conditions, which at times have made it...
Changes might be coming to the Rock Springs Sweetwater County Airport. The facility’s manager recently submitted a six-year plan to the Wyoming Department of Transportation’s aeronautics division for review and possible approval. While WYDOT is frequently thought of as managing the state’s highways and interstates, the department also manages air travel throughout Wyoming. Devon Brubaker, the airport’s manager, said he expects the plan to be voted on in October or November. If that approva...
A lot of good can come from one conversation. Such is the case when Julie Lutz, an environmental engineer from Tronox, was having a light conversation with Gavin Lovell, assistant manager of resources for the Bureau of Land Management and Mark Zornes, regional wildlife managing coordinator for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. The two were discussing issues with wildlife, particularly sage grouse and pronghorn antelope, running into the old BLM fences that divide regions and properties and...
Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County may have a method of working around the county commissioners for funding its proposed ambulatory surgery center. Last week, hospital officials hosted a public meeting to present funding options for the surgery center they’ve researched, as well as to highlight the need for such a facility at the hospital. Barbara Bonds, a bonding attorney from Cheyenne working with the hospital, said a bonding method exists that would allow the hospital to receive bonds w...
A new publication from the Sweewtater County Museum gives residents and visitors information about local rock formations like Camel Rock and the Palisades, as well as area geology. The pamphlet, "Rock Formations of Sweetwater County," was released Monday morning. Brie Blasi, interim director of the museum, said the museum originally had pamphlets about local rock formations, but had been out of print for several years. "People have been asking for it," Blasi said about the pamphlets. Blasi said...
Blunt, force trauma injuries sustained from a fall were what caused Marvin Dean Ortega to die. On July 28, Ortega, 53, of Lyman, was working on scaffolding at the Jim Bridger Power Plant, which is located near Points of Rocks, when he fell 45 feet, Sweetwater County Corner Dale Majhanovich said. An autopsy took place in Loveland, Colo., Thursday and although they are not completely finished, Majhanovich was not surprised with the initial results. "Preliminary results, after the autopsy, show he...
Oftentimes, along with the food, the fun and entertainment, the yearly Sweetwater County Fair brings with it people who make poor decisions and, unsurprisingly, get arrested for making those decisions. This year was different however. Only four people were arrested during Wyoming’s Big Show last week. According to Sheriff Mike Lowell, three of the arrests were for drunk in public while the fourth was as due to an outstanding warrant. Lowell said the number of arrests were an all-time low n...
A program geared towards giving single mothers job training in high paying fields may return to Sweetwater County. Tomorrow, CLIMB Wyoming’s founder and executive director Dr. Ray Fleming Dinneen, along with a number of funding and community partners, will make a formal announcement in Rock Springs, but the details of that announcement have yet to have been made public. “Our future plans are unconfirmed until the press conference,” CLIMB’s director of communications, Shannon Brooks Hamby, said. According to a media release from Hamby, the ann...
A fire south of Rock Springs continues to fiercely burn its way across the landscape. The fire, located about 20 miles south of Rock Springs, started Sunday at about 3 p.m. and is estimated to be around 2,500 acres. According to a Bureau of Land Management High Desert District press release, the wildfire has now spread to the Maggie Springs and Bitter Creek areas, near County Road 27. "We do not know what caused this fire," Sweetwater County Fire Warden Mike Bournazian said. With 35-45 mph winds...
On Monday, OCI Enterprises Inc., the North American subsidiary of OCI Company Ltd. (“OCI”) of Seoul, Korea, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its approximately 73 percent limited partner interest in OCI Resources LP (“OCI Resources” or the “Partnership”), as well as its 2 percent general partner interest and related incentive distribution rights, to Park Holding A.S., a subsidiary of Ciner Group of Istanbul, Turkey for $429 million. OCI Wyoming employs about 430 people at the Green River facility and its annual soda...
The National High School Finals Rodeo will make its way back to Rock Springs and Green River in the years 2018 and 2019. The recent rodeo was the last year scheduled for the National High School Finals Rodeo in Sweetwater County and will be in Gillette for the next two years. A bid was placed on the rodeo to decide where it would be hosted after Gillette. Sunday, the NHSFR board of directors voted for the rodeo to return Rock Springs. "I'm excited for them to come back, we just have to work the...
A week after water flooded parts of Rock Springs, many businesses have reopened, but a few continue cleaning up. Water spurred by heavy rainfall flooded many businesses in downtown Rock Springs, but wasn’t limited to that area of the city. Another heavily hit portion of the city was the industrial area off Elk Street, including Pacific Steel and Recycling, Surfaces Inc. and Winlectric. At Pacific Steel and Recycling, 14 inches of water entered the office area, resulting in sections of wall and office furniture being replaced. Chad Banks, m...
A 40-year-old Utah resident died at Greens Draw Friday night. According to officials from the Daggett County Sheriff’s Office, Ryan Gardiner of Vernal, Utah, sustained serious injuries after being pinned between a camper and a vehicle. Sheriff’s deputies and other emergency responders were called to Greens Draw at about 10:30 p.m. Gardiner was conscious and responsive when responders first arrived, however his condition deteriorated and was unable to be stabilized for transport. He was pronounced dead at 12:25 a.m. Saturday morning. The inc...
A night of pool ended badly for a group of Rock Springs residents and resulted in one man being arrested and charged with attempted murder. Norman Leroy Lange was charged with two counts of first-degree attempted murder and one misdemeanor charge of reckless endangering. If convicted, Lange could face life in prison. According to court documents, Lange was playing pool at the Bare Back Saloon the evening of June 28, 2015 with Stephanie Macy, and her friends Veronica Martinez and Tony Bowen. While the group played pool, Macy, Martinez and Bowen...
For Julie Porter, the moment the water started flowing through her insurance office was the moment she decided to grab her kids and get out of the building. Porter, an insurance agent, has an office on Broadway in Rock Springs, which was where some of the worst flooding in the city took place Tuesday evening. Mayor Carl Demshar said Broadway, as well as North Front Street and South Front Street, looked like rivers flowing through the downtown portion of the city. As of Wednesday morning, the...
The fourth was on fire. The fourth of July in Green River was fairly calm this year, compared to Rock Springs. There were five fire calls to the Green River Fire Department over the weekend, starting with a couple on Saturday afternoon around 4 p.m. with a small brush fire at Scott’s Bottom. At 10 p.m., there was a small fire citing on South Hill and on Blue Rim Road in Jamestown; both put out before firefighters arrived at the scene. Even though this year’s number of fire calls in Green River was relatively low in number, it did rise from las...
