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Two departments at Northwest College will have endowed chairs, thanks to two local donors who want residents to benefit from local education opportunities. On Dec. 14, the Northwest College Foundation announced the single largest gift in the foundation’s history – just over $3 million. That gift is being used to establish the first endowed chair…
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…
When it comes to devastating wind speeds, Clark continues to top the charts after another windstorm blew 118 mph winds thru the northwest Wyoming community. Fall 2021 has proven to be excessively windy, even by Wyoming standards. Already, numerous windstorms have been blowing Wyomingites around, leading to dangerous situations in communities and on state highways.…
Worland High School Graduate Darla Hernandez is playing Womens’ College Basketball at Northwest College in Powell. Darla is the starting Center for the Lady Trappers. She lead Northwest Collage in scoring both Friday and Saturday with 16 points, 10 rebounds, 3 steals and a block on Friday against the Carroll College JV winning 77-64. Saturday…
Once again, the Park County community shows its incredible generosity by aiding two families who lost everything in Monday night’s fire outside Clark. One of the hallmarks of Park County is its extreme generosity – when the going gets tough, Park County residents get going. Now that compassion and selflessness is on full display. On…
Park County School District #6 eases its COVID-19 protocol, changing how families can choose to quarantine for the benefit of Cody students, staff, and teachers. COVID-19 continues to be a daily struggle for many places in Cody, especially for Park County School District #6. The ongoing spread of the Delta variant has students being stuck…
Homes and buildings are burned down in Clark after 100 mph winds knocked down trees and powerlines, sparking a 300-acre wildfire around Line Creek. Park County Fire District #2 has been busy since Monday night, battling a wildfire near Clark. The unexpected and quick-burning fire was aided by extremely powerful winds, which continued to make…
If you don’t like the autumn wind, too bad. The National Weather Service is calling for winds as high as 75 m.p.h. in Park County for the next few days. So far, November 2021 has been warm and mild in Park County. But Sunday, Nov. 14, brought strong winds to northwest Wyoming. And the winds…
Park County makes cryptocurrency history, as a Decentralized Autonomous Organization becomes the first to buy a piece of land to create a city of the future. CityDAO is “an experiment in decentralized ownership of real-world assets,” in their own words. According to the group’s website, they finalized the purchase of their first physical asset in…
Park County law enforcement wants to ensure no residents are scammed by scammers, so they’ve created a handy guide to “stop the scams.” Many different scams have been popping up in Park County over the last year. Scammers have been posing as anything from contact tracers, cities threatening utility cutoffs and law enforcement threatening arrest…