COVID-19
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The Cody Rec Center is opening as soon as possible. With Governor Gordon’s amended public health orders allowing gyms to reopen under a series of new restrictions, the Cody Rec Center is working hard to make sure they can safely open. That requires the permission of the county health officer, who was scheduled to tour…
As public health orders begin to loosen up the Park County Courthouse will be opening again. Effective today, May 4th, at 8 am the Park County Courthouse will reopen to in-person transactions. But this doesn’t mean that its business as usual. A number of temporary restrictions are being enacted, which mainly control the flow of…
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…
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…
There’s another venue for Wyomingites to seek relief: auto insurance. With so many people either unemployed or biding time until they can go back to work, there are fewer cars on the roads, fewer miles being driven, and fewer risks of accidents that insurance companies would need to cover. Makes perfect sense when you think…
Yellowstone has a message for the Cody community – they are hurrying up and waiting. Earlier this week, Yellowstone Superintendent Cam Sholly and Grand Teton Acting Superintendent Gopaul Noojibail held a conference call with members of the business communities in Cody and Jackson. Governor Gordon also participated for a time. The meeting was to discuss the…
There’s new initiative and organization behind the effort to coordinate Cody’s homemade personal protective equipment. An influx of Cody residents has taken it upon themselves to assist Cody’s healthcare responders by sewing cloth masks, due to the increasing sparsity of personal protective equipment seen in every part of the country. But all these efforts have…
Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney tackles the bureaucratic questions behind COVID-19. Representative Cheney held a virtual townhall yesterday morning, held by Wyoming Business & Industry Federation. Rather than discussing the medical side of the virus, Cheney focused on the recent passage of the CARES Act, and how soon Wyoming residents can expect to see relief in…
There’s a new initiative to aid Wyoming’s healthcare providers. The Wyoming State Board of Nursing is allowing APRNs, RNs, LPNs, and CNAs who may have retired, let their licenses lapse, or placed their licenses on an inactive status to get a temporary permit, provided their last renewal period ended after December 31, 2016. Cynthia Labonde,…
Feel stressed? There are solutions you can easily find at home. The Wyoming Department of Family Services is offering home solutions to the stressful situations that are affecting everyone during these pressing times. Ed Heimer, Field Administrator and licensed clinical social worker with the Department is particularly concerned about parents, already stressful but even more…