News that SkyWest Airlines flights through Salt Lake City will no longer be available at Yellowstone Regional Airport is disappointing.

While travelers will still have the ability to fly to and from Cody by way of Denver, the loss of the Delta connection service to Salt Lake will reduce the number of available flights as well as the options for making connections.

Teachers and students in Powell schools will have the latest technology in hand this fall when each student in the middle school and the high school will be issued an iPad.

The program, which also would provide three carts, each containing 30 iPads, for each of the elementary schools, was approved by the Park County School District No. 1 board on the recommendation of  Superintendent Kevin Mitchell at its June meeting.

Teachers and students in Powell schools will have the latest technology in hand this fall when each student in the middle school and the high school will be issued an iPad.

The program, which also would provide three carts, each containing 30 iPads, for each of the elementary schools, was approved by the Park County School District No. 1 board on the recommendation of  Superintendent Kevin Mitchell at its June meeting.

Family not home at time of Sunday night explosion, officials investigating blaze

An explosion felt more than a mile away and the ensuing fire totally destroyed a home on Llama Drive south of Powell late Sunday night.

The owners of the house, Mark and Jean Imsand, were not in the home at the time of the explosion, nor was their adult son, Bill, who lives with them. A second son, Brad Imsand of Cody, said they left Sunday morning for Florida.

A wet spring in the Midwest, combined with a heavy mountain snowpack and warming temperatures in Wyoming, is raising concerns about high water in the Big Horn Basin.

Flooding downstream prevented the U.S. Bureau of Recreation from releasing enough water through Yellowtail Dam to receive the expected inflow from the snowpack, and last weekend, the lake level rose into the flood-control allotment.

An explosion felt more than a mile away and subsequent fire totally destroyed a home on Llama Drive late Sunday evening.

Officials said Monday morning that no one was in the house when the explosion occurred. Park County records say the property is owned by William and Jean Imsand.

The cause of the explosion was apparently a natural gas leak, but that has not been confirmed. One neighbor reported minor damage from the explosion, and was planning to have his home inspected.

Llama Drive is a short street off Riverside Drive about half a mile east of the Willwood highway approximately three miles south of Powell.

For more information, see Tuesday’s Tribune.

An explosion felt more than a mile away and subsequent fire totally destroyed a home on Llama Drive late Sunday evening.

Officials said Monday morning that no one was in the house when the explosion occurred. Park County records say the property is owned by William and Jean Imsand.

The cause of the explosion was apparently a natural gas leak, but that has not been confirmed. One neighbor reported minor damage from the explosion, and was planning to have his home inspected.

Llama Drive is a short street off Riverside Drive about half a mile east of the Willwood highway approximately three miles south of Powell.

For more information, see Tuesday’s Tribune.

As they do every year, Powell High School Alumni will be coming back to the old home town this weekend to reunite and rekindle old friendships.

Northwest College will ask the Wyoming Community College Commission to consider a proposal for a new classroom and laboratory facility.

The NWC board voted to submit the proposal at their regular meeting last week, and included a provision that the college would provide 10 percent of the estimated $14.3 million cost from reserve funds.

The 11 percent increase in Park County’s assessed property valuation announced this week is generally a positive development.

The increased valuation means that, without raising tax rates even one mill, property tax revenue in the county will rise by $5.8 million, which will help the county, towns, fire departments and other taxing entities in the county maintain their services.