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LANDER — A Riverton woman is facing 20 years in prison for repeat shoplifting offenses under a new felony charge that debuted this summer. Beatrice Monroe was the first in Fremont County charged under the new law, which gives prosecutors the ability to seek bigger penalties for offenders who continue to shoplift in Wyoming. After four prior convictions in ten years, a fifth shoplifting charge can now become a felony, punishable by up to ten years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Monroe was charged with two counts under the new statute. Local p...
RIVERTON — Sen. Tim Salazar, R-Riverton, is authoring a bill to clarify language in the state’s Food Freedom Act after Department of Ag inspectors balked at the sale of raw milk on Riverton’s Main Street. “This is an issue also of just small business development, small business growth,” Salazar said of the legislation to a crowd of community members during a town hall event earlier this month. “My belief is that it will receive widespread support in the legislature.” One of Main Street’s newest businesses, Fremont Foods LLC, works much like...
