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In many ways, Yellowstone National Park is spending this summer recovering from last summer. While much of the park’s infrastructure devastated in the floods of June 2022 has been rapidly restored, other projects are slowly but surely reaching completion. Xanterra Travel Collection is the resort management company that manages the hotels and lodges in Yellowstone…
Despite an onslaught of winter weather, Cody schools will be open this Wednesday, but classes and bus routes will start two hours later than normal. Park County School District #6 Superintendent Vernon Orndorff sent a district-wide message on the evening of Tuesday, Feb. 21. Rather than cancel classes because of the latest winter storm, there…
Wyoming’s senior senator sees the two-year delay to the Natrium nuclear reactor project as another sign the United States must build a domestic supply of nuclear fuel through new legislation. On Tuesday, Dec. 13, Wyoming Senator John Barrasso, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (E.N.R.), released the following statement in…
There is a flurry of activity in the Wind River Canyon as W.Y.D.O.T. moves up the timeline for essential mitigation projects after last weekend’s rockslide – which means 30+ minute delays this summer. Last Saturday’s rockslide closed the section of US20/WY789 running through the Wind River Canyon for four hours. Because of this, W.Y.D.O.T. isn’t…
W.Y.D.O.T. prepares for its next Park County project – rehabilitating a section of highway running thru Shoshone National Forest to Yellowstone National Park. The Wyoming Department of Transportation is planning a Pavement Rehabilitation Project for Summer 2022. As a result, nearly 11 miles of the North Fork Highway will be repaved – along with other…
Sleeping Giant Ski Area will not open on Dec. 17 – and has no definite opening date – as warm weather prevents new equipment from making enough snow. In a Dec. 14 press release, Sleeping Giant Ski Area announced the opening date for the 2021-2022 winter season, initially planned for Dec. 17, has been indefinitely…
Winter weather has caused another delay on Sheridan Avenue, as construction workers are hoping and waiting for the ongoing project to start going downhill. WYDOT announced that the Sheridan Avenue rehabilitation project had encountered another delay. Due to the week’s winter weather, the massive concrete pour planned for this week has been postponed. 2021 has…
Another week, another delay on Sheridan Avenue – but not the type you might be thinking of. WYDOT has announced another delay to the beginning of the final phase of the Sheridan Avenue rehabilitation project. This is the second delay to the work in 2021. Freezing temperatures prevented construction from resuming on the intended start…
There are several weather-related obstacles for Cody traffic to avoid on the Greybull Hill – but construction barrels won’t be among them for another week. Cody’s sudden turn into sub-zero temperatures has delayed the intended start of the final phase of the Sheridan Avenue rehabilitation project. WYDOT announced that the intended start of Phase 3…
An incident of vandalism during the Sheridan Avenue Project cost thousands of dollars and days of unnecessary delays to the time-sensitive project. Phase 2 of the Sheridan Avenue Project continues this week, with work switching over to the westbound lanes sometime Wednesday. The contractor, S&S Builders, is capitalizing on the warm, dry weather to move…
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