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Park County School District #1 Superintendent Jay Curtis took to Facebook with the latest update on the virus’s spread: three students and one non-instructional staff member have tested positive. Those people are currently in isolation, in addition to eight students and one staff member also in quarantine but who haven’t – currently – tested positive.…
Just four days into the school year, there’s a confirmed case of COVID-19 in Park County School District #6. The announcement was made Thursday by District Superintendent Peg Monteith on the Cody Public Schools, Cody Wyoming Park County #6 Facebook page. In accordance with the district’s reopening plan, Park County Public Health was notified immediately…
After over a year and millions of dollars, the “impossible” is finished and open. The Cody Chamber of Commerce joined the city’s public works department, Mountain Construction Company, and other agency representatives Thursday for the official ribbon cutting at Castle Creek. The original scope of the $14 million dollar Southfork Federal Lands Access Project was…
The Cody Field Office of Wyoming Game and Fish spent July restocking several mountainous lakes and ponds on the west slope of the Bighorn Mountains. 21 thousand Yellowstone cutthroat trout and other native fish were stocked in over a dozen ponds on the slope. Cutthroats were stocked in East Marion Lake, Emerald Lake, Lake Elsie,…
September has officially been designated Hunger Action Month in Cody. The Cody City Council voted unanimously in favor of the designation, read aloud by Mayor Matt Hall, to address hunger and food scarcity in Cody. The Council heard the proclamation discussing the growing problem of food scarcity in Cody and all of Wyoming and the…
Perennial Eastside Elementary School teacher Cheryl Turk Barrus passed away just one day before the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year. Barrus died Sunday, August 30, of unknown cause at 58 years old. She leaves behind her husband Rick, two children, and three grandchildren. Barrus was a life-long Park County resident, graduating from Powell Senior…
UPDATE (11:06 a.m.) Superintendent Peg Monteith posted an update on the Cody Public Schools, Cody Wyoming Park County #6 Facebook page: “As expected, we had our first positive case of COVID-19. Our partners at Public Health contacted the school immediately and followed up with contact tracing. Within a few hours it was determined that no…
Cody Regional Health’s new offering is a better way to get better care. The Emergency Medical Services of Cody Regional Health has launched a new Transfer Center, not only for Cody and Park County but for the entirety of the Bighorn Basin. All the hospitals and medical providers in the Basin will be using one…
If it passes, Cody’s sales tax will go right back into Cody. At Tuesday night’s City Council meeting, City Administrator Barry Cook presented Resolution NO. 2020-17 – A Resolution Obligating One Percent General Purpose Tax for Essential Services and Capital Expenditures Only. The General Purpose 1% Sales and Use Tax is on the ballot for…
After nearly a week, crews are still working to clean up a 3,000-gallon gasoline spill inside Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone National Park and the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality are working together to complete the hazmat cleanup of approximately 3,000-gallons of unleaded gasoline that spilled when a tandem trailer overturned last week between Mud Volcano…