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Heart Mountain Interpretive Center has a new exhibit celebrating the neighborhood where Japanese and Black Americans found solidarity. When an executive order forced Japanese Americans in a Los Angeles neighborhood known as J-Flats from their homes and into incarceration camps in the United States, their African American neighbors came to their aid. The family of…
It’s almost time for the last Planning, Zoning, and Adjustment Board Meeting regarding the proposed temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, proposed at 555 Temple View Lane. Before that meeting can take place, the members of the Planning, Zoning, and Adjustment Board had to discuss the “Findings of Fact” from the…
A collaboration between Governor Mark Gordon, Superintendent Megan Degenfelder, the Wyoming Department of Education, the State Board of Education, and the University of Wyoming College of Education, known as “Wyoming’s Future of Learning”, has selected nine school districts into the RIDE Pilot which supports Student-Centered Learning. Seventeen school districts across the state submitted applications, with…
What was meant to be a fun getaway to Yellowstone National Park, quickly changed the lives of Chris Whitehall and his fiancée Amber Rogers after Rogers was attacked by a bison. Whitehall, met with KPNX-TV to share about the violent bison attack that happened earlier this week that caused Rogers to be airlifted to Idaho.…
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…
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has filed a lawsuit against the City of Cody’s Planning, Zoning, and Adjustment Board. The petition, filed Monday, July 17, 2023 with Park County’s District Court, was submitted in regards to the proposed Temple development. In the petition, it requests the Court to review the “agency action”…
Beginning at 6 A.M. on Wednesday, July 19, the West Thumb Geyser Basin, located in the southern part of Yellowstone National Park, will close temporarily for road improvements. The areas that this will affect include West Thumb Geyser Basin, its’ restrooms, boardwalks, and parking lot, the Duck Lake Trail, and the Yellowstone Lake Overlook Trail.…
The Planning, Zoning and Adjustment Board Chair has called for a special meeting for the Board to discuss the proposed temple that will be held Wednesday, July 19 at 6pm. The meeting will be held in the City Council chambers in the City Hall, located at 1338 Ramsey Avenue in Cody. On the agenda, the…
On Saturday July 15th, 2023, shortly after 9 A.M, Park County’s dispatch received a call of a vehicle that had been parked in the area of Newton Lakes for three days. Inside the vehicle appeared to have keys and valuables inside. The investigation revealed that the vehicle belonged to a male from Montana that had…
The Park County Sheriff’s Office Communications Division received a call Friday, July 14 shortly after 2 p.m. about a stranded and injured climber in the area of the Gardner Headwall on the Beartooth Highway. Multiple agencies in both Montana and Wyoming were dispatched to the scene in order to reach the stranded and injured climber…