Author: Andrew-Rossi
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Businesses operating in Yellowstone are making summer reservations as they normally would. While Xanterra has said they won’t open any of their concessionaires until June 15th at the earliest, that doesn’t mean that Yellowstone won’t be opening until that point. Sunny Burns, the owner of Cody Wyoming Adventures, says that during a conference call with…
No Cody students are going back to school this spring. Yesterday, Interim Superintendent Peg Monteith confirmed that Park County School District No. 6 school buildings will remain closed through the end of the current school year. This decision was announced after the latest amendments to Governor Gordon’s public health orders were announced this week. There…
Bored at home? Why not enter a model-building competition? The Greater Yellowstone Coalition has announced a model building competition for all state residents to enter during their coronavirus lockdowns. But this particular project has a specific focus: wildlife crossings. Recently, state agencies like WYDOT have seen an influx of funding to put towards the construction…
It’s a battle between two foundational parts of Wyoming. A recently published report suggests that the tidal wave of oil and gas leases in the Bureau of Land Management is limiting your access to hunting across the entire West. The report, published by the National Wildlife Federation, says prime fishing and hunting territory is being…
Another casualty of the coronavirus uncertainty is kindergarten registration. Originally scheduled to take place tomorrow, April 30th, registration for the Cody School District has been canceled. At this point, that’s about all there is to say on the matter. Brooke Sieg, the Early Childhood Community Liaison for Park County School District #6, says she is…
A prominent organization announces its opposition to a proposed coal mine. The Powder River Basin Resource Council have taken a stand against the Brook Mine, a new mine to be opened by Ramaco Resources, a coal company primarily based in Pennsylvania and the Virginias that specifically mines metallurgical coal for use in steel production. They…
Five wildlife habitat management areas will soon be open for the year. Wyoming Game and Fish maintains these areas to give big game a safe, unaffected range to weather out the winter, but all species benefit from the lack of human incursion. In winter, these areas are closed to stop stress-inducing disturbances. Now that winter…
Cody students have been recognized for their literary abilities. Two students from our area placed in their respective grade levels in the 2019-2020 Wyoming Letters About Literature Contest. Wyoming Letters About Literature is a reading and writing promotion program of the Wyoming Center for the Book, a program of the Wyoming State Library. Students write…
A Cody officer has been commended by the FBI. Last week, Cody Police Officer Scott Burlingame received an official commendation from the FBI for his outstanding assistance in connection with the investigation and apprehension of Allisson Bebiano. Bebiano, a Brazilian native with a travel visa, was stealing cash from ATM machines using counterfeit debit cards.…
It was a question of millions of dollars during a Yellowstone Regional Airport board meeting. Yesterday, board members met over the phone to discuss the recent allocation of over $18 million dollars to the airport as part of the CARES Act passed by Congress (the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act.) The first point…