Summer
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There will be challenges putting together the workforce for this summer’s tourist season in Cody, Tina Hoebelheinrich said Tuesday morning on KODI’s “Speak Your Piece with Darian Dudrick.” “We bring on an additional 1,500 workers,” the Cody Country Chamber of Commerce executive director said. “And those 1,500 extra people that we need during the peak…
Pennsylvania has a groundhog and its shadow as the first sign of spring – Yellowstone has a grizzly and its appetite to unofficially begin the summer. Park officials have announced the first Yellowstone grizzly sighting of 2021. On Saturday, March 13, a pilot supporting park wildlife studies saw that grizzly and got quite the spectacle.…
Things are getting busier at Yellowstone Regional Airport. After the typical seasonal slowdowns and the COVDI-19 closures and cancellations devastating the airline industry, it seems that things are beginning to look up at Cody’s airport. Bob Hooper, the Director of Yellowstone Regional Airport, reports that last weeks’ total number of passengers were over 100 –…
There were some pleasant surprises ready to great Yellowstone’s first visitors through the East Gate. As announced last week, the East and South Entrances to the park opened for the beginning of the amended summer season. The opening was planned for noon yesterday. But when the first eager people drove up to wait for the…
Want to keep your teenager out of the house this summer? Give them to Yellowstone. The Park is now recruiting for the 2020 Youth Conservation Corp, a residential work-based education program for young men and women between the ages of 15 and 18. Corps members work together with National Park Service staff to complete a…