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GREEN RIVER Members of the community gathered at the Sweetwater County Library Wednesday evening to discuss the possibility of an alternate road that locals would be able to travel between Green River and Rock Springs.
On May 4, Representative Mark Baker, R-Green River, began discussions with the community regarding the alternate road, addressing both the Sweetwater County Commission and the Green River City Council.
Baker’s goal is to find federal funding, with the backing of the Wyoming Department of Transportation, through the American Jobs Plan. The American Jobs Plan is President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal to invest $2 trillion in U.S. infrastructure over the next eight years.
GREEN RIVER Representative Mark Baker, R-Green River, addressed both the Sweetwater County Commission and the Green River City Council on Tuesday to discuss a possible alternative road between Green River and Rock Springs.
According to Baker, the Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) has already applied for American Jobs Plan funding for projects on Wyoming’s roads and highways. The American Jobs Plan is President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal to invest $2 trillion in U.S. infrastructure over the next eight years.
“The federal government is looking for big, big projects,” Baker said. “I can tell you WYDOT has already applied for the I25 and I80 interchange, which is $350 million. They’ve already applied to reroute Interstate 80 away from Arlington along Highway 30. That’s another huge hundreds and hundreds of million dollars project.”
Green River Star -
May 6, 2021
It was after moving to Green River that Mark Baker found himself traveling along Interstate 80 much more frequently.
Baker, the Republican legislator representing House District 60, said he sees what kind of threat driving on I-80 can be for people commuting between Sweetwater County’s two cities as a result of heavy traffic often using the route. Semi trucks, using the route as a direct means of shipping goods across the country, are a common sight on the interstate, as well as travelers and locals making their way to their destinations.
The heavy traffic load means an increased potent.
Green River Star -
April 22, 2021
The Sweetwater County Historical Museum is researching Green River’s first cemetery, established in 1862 not far from the site of the Overland Trail Stage Station on the south bank of the Green River.
Last week a couple from Colorado, Stuart and Sue Stuller, came to the museum with a remarkable old photograph of a grave and headstone marked “Miss C.H. Kerfoot Died Aug 13th 1865 Aged 16 Yrs and 6 mo.” Stuart is a descendant of Cornelia “Neelie” Kerfoot, a frontier emigrant from Missouri who, according to family history, died on the Overland Trail in 1865 and was buried at Green.