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County finds no takers for Cody library cafe

No private businesses appear willing to take over the money-losing cafe inside the Cody library.

Park County commissioners put out a formal request for proposals last month, hoping to find someone to run a cafe in the space that’s now occupied by the county-run Biblio Bistro.

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Information, fellowship highlight second Women and Allies March in Cody

People gather to march in the Women and Allies event, organized by Wyoming Rising-Northwest, at Cody City Park on Sunday.

More than 300 participants from around the region descended on Cody’s City Park on Sunday for the Second Annual Women and Allies March.

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School security: Visitors must sign in through new electronic system

Rob McCray explains the new sign-in system during staff training on Monday morning at Westside Elementary School. Also pictured are (from left) Mark Lynn, Robbi Welch and Sandy Specht. The Powell school district’s electronic sign-in system went live on Tuesday.

If you’re visiting a Powell school, be sure to take your driver’s license.

Beginning this week, Park County School District No. 1 is using a new electronic sign-in system that requires visitors to scan their licenses.

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Diamond Wing certified by Game and Fish to raise sage grouse

Diamond Wing raised tens of thousands of pheasant and chukar in 2017, from brood stock to raising chicks from eggs. The Powell wild bird farm has been approved to collect wild sage grouse eggs this spring in an attempt to raise and develop brood stock of the imperiled species.

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has cleared a Powell game bird farm to try rearing and breeding greater sage grouse in captivity.

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Yellowstone records second-busiest year

Backcountry campers safely ski by bison on Jan. 6 in Yellowstone National Park. Winter is a much quieter season for the park, which recorded more than 4.1 million visits last year.

Visits to Yellowstone National Park dropped in 2017, but it was still the second-busiest year on record, park managers say.

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Green light given to repair NWC’s Cody Hall

With one dissenting vote, trustees approve $3 million dorm project

After months of discussion, analysis and multiple architectural evaluations, the Northwest College Board of Trustees voted last week to move ahead with proposed repairs to water-damaged Cody Hall.

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Every bird counts: Volunteers survey area’s eagles and other raptors

Nathan Horton, research assistant and lab manager for the Draper Natural History Museum, glasses the skies near the McCullough Peaks while volunteering for the Big Horn Basin Midwinter Eagle Survey Saturday.

Moments after climbing into the truck on Saturday, Susan Ahalt, also known as “The Bird Lady,” barks a command to her new friend Cal Horton: “Stop the car!”

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First baby of 2018 arrives in Powell

Tera Cliame of Lovell holds her baby boy, Krysler Shad Gordon Cliame, on Friday at Powell Valley Hospital. Krysler arrived on Thursday night, a week before his due date. Usually, Powell’s new year’s baby arrives within a few days of Jan. 1, but not this year. With a Jan. 11 birthday, Krysler is the first baby of 2018.

On New Year’s Eve, Tera and Gordon Cliame thought they may be parents to the first baby of the new year.

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Come for the basketball, stay for the wedding

Skyler Zabriskie and his fiance Kira Marlow smile for the camera shortly after his proposal over the winter break. Zabriskie, a former standout on the Northwest College hoops team, met Marlow last year, her first as a Lady Trapper.

It wasn’t exactly love at first sight.

When Shelley, Idaho, native Kira Marlow chose Northwest College to continue her basketball career last year, the last thing she expected was to meet the love of her life, at least right away. The three-sport athlete had bigger fish to fry as she transitioned from high school to the collegiate game, and didn’t need any distractions.

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