Week 11: The pandemic in Wyoming from May 24-29
The blitz of hourly news developments associated with COVID-19 makes it difficult to track where we’ve been and what’s changed. WyoFile’s weekly review connects the throughlines.
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Week 10: The pandemic in Wyoming from May 17-22
The blitz of hourly news developments associated with COVID-19 makes it difficult to track where we’ve been and what’s changed. WyoFile’s weekly review connects the throughlines.
Nowoodstock: Ten Sleep’s quirky music fest is all characters
Eighteen years on, the three day music festival named after an illicit keg-party has retained its unique personality and loyal community.
Bighorn Basin fossils could teach about climate change
Discoveries in the heart of Wyoming are — technically — off limits to its students due to state’s ban on Next Generation Science Standards.
Rig fatality in May was Wyoming’s 8th death on the job this year
A 32-year-old Worland man was killed in a drilling rig accident north of Baggs, Wyoming, on May 15. Carl Jordan had been on the job for less than 90 days, said his wife, Cathy Jordan. “It could have been prevented. It was an operator error,” she told WyoFile. Carl was working on the floor of Winchester Well Service’s rig No. 1691 when blocks used to “cool the brakes” fell and struck him, said Carbon County Sheriff Jerry Colson. Jordan died at the scene.