Jump to full article: Casper (WY) Star-Tribune, 2008-01-15
Author: JEFF GEARINO Southwest Wyoming bureau
Intro: GREEN RIVER -- Somebody, it seems, didn't like the smoking ban compromise after all.
Smokers in mostly smoke-free Green River hardly had time to come in out of the cold and back into the bars before a petition was submitted to city officials seeking to overturn the town's new smoking ordinance.
But just who exactly submitted the petition remains a mystery, city officials and bar owners said Monday.
"It certainly wasn't us," said Ponderosa Bar owner Bobby Easton, who is also president of the Green River Liquor Dealers Association.
"We're (OK) with the compromise," Easton said.
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