Author: Grace Ballou
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Yellowstone National Park hosted a total of 847,864 visits in June 2023 alone. Compared to the previous year that is now known for its historic flood (525,363), this is a 61% increase. In 2023 as a whole, the park has hosted 1,493,510 recreation visits, 19% higher than this time in 2022 (1,258,834 recreation visits), and…
Listen up everyone! The 2023 Wyoming State Fair is coming up fast, and you don’t want to miss it. The Wyoming State Fair has recently announced its grandstand lineup of events for August with events promising to make your heart pound. Without a doubt, the fair plans to showcase an unforgettable week for people of…
Walgreens, a one hundred-and twenty-two-year-old nationwide international chain, has plans to close 150 stores in the United States, and 300 stores in the United Kingdom. Will the pharmacy chain close its only location in Cody anytime soon? That decision hasn’t been announced. Walgreens has yet to disclose which U.S. stores will be shuttered but has…
Over the past month there have been a number of incidents in Yellowstone National Park in which the public approach and provoke wildlife despite being advised not to. In fact, the problem has turn rampant, and Park Service officials have resorted to begging visitors to leave the wild animals alone because enforcing fines and threatening…
The fight for “Taco Tuesday” has officially begun with punches flying back and forth from two rival, and beloved fast food taco joints. As of now, the end of the feud is far from in sight. Despite Taco Bell’s dedicated fight to detach the trademark “Taco Tuesdays” from the Wyoming-based food chain, Taco John’s, is…
What most of us imagine when we think of the word “rodeo” are men and women on horses and bulls, competing to have the fastest time or stay on a bucking animal the longest. We are familiar with those cowboys and cowgirls who are brave enough to take the center stage, defying the odds, riding…
It wasn’t too long ago that a standard gratuity for a server in restaurant culture was 15% or lower. Tips would be roughly estimated, jotted down on the merchant’s receipt or left on the table for the waitstaff to collect. But recently two societal forces have worked in tandem to change the tipping culture throughout…
A patchwork of brightly colored tents, sleek bicycles, containers of equipment and people wearing shirts decorated with all kinds of colors and logos and bike shorts have taken over the grassy space on 13th street between the entrance to the library which ends at the back parking lot of the post office. The newly-arrived visitors…
For the very first time, the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation will open to the public a session of its workshops for teachers from around the country for a presentation on the mistreatment of German American war resisters in Montana during World War I. Dr. Keith Edgerton, a recently retired historian at Montana State University-Billings, will…
For the last five years, Wy Thai, a family-owned-and-operated Thai restaurant, has run a successful food business in a small trailer on Big Horn Avenue. That changed on June 8th when they opened a new, sit-down restaurant in the building of the old Noon Break breakfast place at 2619 Sheridan Avenue. Originally started in Ralston…