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A year after snowboarding accident, Nisley returns to mountain
Written by Tessa Schweigert
In the moments of early dawn, Brooke Nisley runs around the track at Powell High School. She runs alone, in the stillness of wintry mornings, watching as the world around her awakens.
“The sunrises are beautiful in the morning — oh my goodness,” she says.
A proposal to build an indoor equestrian center on Cody’s west strip with a temporary 1-cent sales tax has been put on hold.
Tony Scheiber, a Cody veterinarian who has helped lead the charge for the project, said the center’s proponents don’t want to conflict with a separate 1-cent tax proposal being discussed by leaders from Park County, the city of Powell, the city of Cody and the town of Meeteetse.
A federal district court judge in Cheyenne has rejected the federal government’s claim that it’s immune from being sued over the fatal 2010 grizzly bear mauling of a Illinois man, allowing the case to go forward.
On June 17, 2010, Erwin F. Evert was apparently killed by a 430-pound grizzly bear that was recovering from federal researchers’ tranquilizers in the Shoshone National Forest, just east of Yellowstone National Park. The 70-year-old botanist and his wife owned a cabin about a mile from the site and lived there seasonally for several decades.
City outlines project Tuesday night
Aiming to improve aging avenues, the city of Powell plans to widen and renovate five streets in a proposed five-year project.
A public hearing on the overall project takes place at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21, during the Powell City Council meeting at City Hall.
While most of the news about the state’s biennial budget being crafted by the 2012 Wyoming Legislature isn’t encouraging, good news is on the horizon for Northwest College.
After trying repeatedly for years to get state funding for a new classroom building at the college, it looks like this could be the year that happens.
Years ago, a group of folks in Cody came up with the idea of instituting an additional 1-cent sales tax in Yellowstone National Park to pay for improvements to and maintenance of the park’s roads, sewer systems and other infrastructure.
The idea didn’t gain traction then, and a revival of the concept didn’t fare much better in the Wyoming Legislature on Tuesday.
A 31-year-old man was fatally shot by Powell police on Thursday morning, ending a four-hour standoff in which the man reportedly claimed to have hostages and fired gunshots from a room at the Park Motel.
Nicholas Alan Ungar, a Chicago-area native who’s lived in Powell off-and-on for the past several years, was shot by an officer around 7:25 a.m. The shot from police came after Ungar exchanged fire with officers, said Powell Police Chief Roy Eckerdt.