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Annual public meetings are scheduled in July and August to address future highway and bridge improvement projects in northwest Wyoming. The State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) process involves annual meetings with public officials and citizens who play key transportation partnership roles in Wyoming, said Wyoming Department of Transportation District Engineer Pete Hallsten, P.E., of Basin.…
Correction: In the original article, it was said that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints anticipates traffic will only increase “by 32 vehicles per day” on Skyline Drive. A review of official documents provided by the Church shows an anticipated traffic increase of 32 vehicles per hour. Hundreds of people met and mingled…
While it’s difficult to make a cellphone call in the Wapiti Valley, a call for judgment will be heard loud and clear next year. A court date has been set to hear the cases for and against a new 195-foot cell tower in Wapiti. U.S. District Court Judge Alan Johnson scheduled a bench trial in…
The City of Cody’s Community Development Director and City Planner Todd Stowell announced that a public hearing of the Planning, Zoning, and Adjustment Board – scheduled in the Cody Auditorium on Wednesday, May 24 – has been canceled. The meeting’s purpose was “to consider the applications related to the Cody Wyoming Temple of The Church…
The news that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints intends to build a temple in Cody was immediately met with waves of emotion in the Cody community. Now, that emotion is manifesting into action – on both sides of the issue. In October 2021, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints announced…
Removal and replacement of the existing lighting system inside the big tunnel west of Cody on US14/16/20 is scheduled to begin Monday, May 1. Casper Electric is the prime contractor on the $5.184 million lighting replacement project inside the big tunnel west of Cody. Casper Electric’s work includes the removal and replacement of the existing…
Cody Beers, WyDOT Public Relations Specialist, spoke about upcoming projects in and around the Cody area since the weather is getting nicer. One project is a bridge rehab near the jail on the Chief Joseph highway. That project is expected to take 3 months and there will be traffic delays over the bridge during that…
The much-anticipated temple will become an architectural landmark in Cody and northwest Wyoming is already a point of pride for the local church community. Anticipation and excitement are building in northwest Wyoming for the Cody Temple for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Now, local church members have an image of what…
The next massive construction and rehabilitation project in Yellowstone National Park begins in June thanks to $118 million from the Great American Outdoors Act. Yellowstone National Park recently awarded an approximately $118 million construction contract to replace the structurally deficient Yellowstone River Bridge on the Northeast Entrance Road near Tower Junction. Funded by the Great American…