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Chores to tackle to get your home ready for spring

(Family Features) After months spent largely indoors while harsh elements battered your home’s exterior, many homeowners are throwing open the windows and embracing spring’s … more

4/27/23

Five steps to spruce up your outdoor spaces

(Family Features) When spring arrives, days of enjoying your outdoor living space aren’t far away. Getting your yard ready for months of outdoor enjoyment will take a little work, but … more

4/27/23

Powell couple charged with exposing child to meth, fentanyl

A Powell couple stands accused of exposing a toddler to meth and fentanyl last week. Ashton Wollam, 26, and Makala Butz, 25, each face a felony count of child endangering, alleging they stored the … more

By CJ Baker | 4/25/23

Geoff Hovivian gets a hug from McKennah Buck while other first responders wait in line to welcome Hovivian back to Powell after an extended stay in a New York hospital.

First responders celebrate return of ‘big brother’

After being away for more than a month, Powell City Councilman and Powell Volunteer Fire Department member Geoff Hovivian was fighting back the tears after being escorted home by an entourage of … more

By Mark Davis | 4/25/23

Local groups team up for run to honor Berry Bryant, fund scholarship

A pair of local organizations is looking to raise awareness of violence prevention and raise funds for a scholarship in honor of a Northwest College student who was killed by a fellow student in … more

By Zac Taylor | 4/25/23

Property owner Kevin French was approved for this billboard and two signs last spring, but said at the time he didn’t think WYDOT would allow him to put a sign on the other side.

Commissioners narrowly turned down second sign variance request

Park County Commissioners narrowly defeated a sign variance request Tuesday that would have allowed a landowner just east of Ralston to be able to get a second variance to add a sign on the back side … more

By Zac Taylor | 4/25/23

For the Powell High School Drama Club’s Spring Scream fundraiser, Levi Hawley dons a spooky mask with integrated lights.

Students make people scream in spring

Powell High School students decided to give community members a good spring spook on April 15. The Spring Scream Haunted House is the Powell High School Drama Club’s way of having a little … more

By Braden Schiller | 4/25/23

Lummis reintroduces legislation to stop Fentanyl trafficking into the U.S.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) joined Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) and their Republican colleagues in reintroducing the Stop Fentanyl Border Crossings Act, legislation … more

4/25/23

University of Phoenix announces agreement with Northwest College

Large online school University of Phoenix has a new academic agreement with Northwest College that supports building pathways from community college courses to higher degrees at the … more

4/25/23

Utility asks to increase customer rates 7.6%

Rocky Mountain Power, Wyoming’s largest electric utility, wants to increase ratepayers’ bills by an average of 7.6% in response to higher-than-expected fuel and transmission costs during … more

By Nicole Pollack, Casper Star-Tribune Via Wyoming News Exchange | 4/25/23

Ancient bat discovered at site near Kemmerer

CASPER — A pair of 52-million-year-old bat skeletons found in a southwestern Wyoming quarry ago are believed to be the oldest such remains ever discovered — and have been identified as … more

By Nicole Pollack, Casper Star-Tribune Via Wyoming News Exchange | 4/25/23

Worland Middle School students Anna Siegfried and Katelynn Cauffman watch as Jasper Richardson (on ladder) makes ‘blood spatter’ by squeezing droplets of dyed water onto a target below from various heights. Jaden Butler (center) stands ready to adjust the target for the next trial run during a Forensics Club meeting in the eighth grade science room on April 17.

Forensics Club fresh on the scene at Worland Middle School

WORLAND — The eighth grade science room at Worland Middle School looked like a scene out of an episode of CSI on Monday when the Forensics Club met to run experiments on blood spatter. … more

By Sean Mortimer, Northern Wyoming News Via Wyoming News Exchange | 4/25/23

A large elk herd kicks up a cloud of dust as it evacuates a hillside on Little Mountain.

Thriving elk, struggling deer: Research suggests not coincidence

Findings emerging from an intensive, years-long Wyoming research project are beginning to substantiate suspicions that elk may be thriving on western landscapes at the expense of widely struggling … more

By Mike Koshmrl, WyoFile.com | 4/25/23

Looking for first big win

Despite having a long list of projects designed to increase access to public lands and possible ventures to increase enjoyment of the great outdoors, the Park County Outdoor Recreation Collaborative … more

By Mark Davis | 4/20/23

Trial begins for Cody woman accused of killing toddler

A two-week-long trial began on Monday for a Cody woman accused of abusing and causing the death of a toddler in 2021. Carolyn Aune, 30, is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the … more

By CJ Baker | 4/20/23

Powell’s WY-TOPP scores come back strong following post-COVID-19 dip

Following a dip during COVID-19, students in Park County School District 1 recorded higher English language arts and science scores on the fall 2022 WY-TOPP assessments compared to four years ago … more

By Braden Schiller | 4/20/23

Powell Valley Recycling is holding onto its bales of cardboard until the price goes back up for the commodity and it’s once again worth shipping. Board member Jerry Rodriguez said there are 3-4 truckloads stacked up already.

Recycling center looking for more people to recycle, more funding to repair baler

The Powell Valley Recycling Center may be stockpiling compressed bales of cardboard boxes and plastic milk jugs and pop cans waiting on higher sale prices and/or lower shipping rates, but the staff … more

By Zac Taylor | 4/20/23

Gretchen Hutton (center) stands to speak Tuesday to Park County commissioners on behalf of her and her husband’s request for a special use permit to continue to run a youth outdoor church camp during the summer on their Clark property and some surrounding land.

Clark church camp: Commissioners ask for more time before decision

For the past 18 years, a Clark couple has run a church camp for youth from central Minnesota. Last year, however, the camp drew a complaint from a neighbor, and Park County officials determined … more

By Zac Taylor | 4/20/23

Northwest College graduate and Billings tattoo artist Kyle McCaffery visited Powell on Monday to share his art with students.

NWC grad returns to teach students about inking skin

Much of Kyle McCaffery’s skin pigment has been heavily dyed black and gray, which made him stand out in the brightly painted classroom in Northwest Community College’s Art department … more

By Braden Schiller | 4/20/23

UW and Wyoming SBDC Network to host Google Maps workshop in Powell

Small-business owners can learn how to increase their companies’ visibility on Google Maps Wednesday, April 26. Devan Costa-Cargill will lead the discussion during a Wyoming Small Business … more

4/20/23