North Big Horn Hospital employees will no longer have to be vaccinated by January 4 in order to keep their jobs as a court injunction has suspended the vaccine mandate.
With the release of government rules on November 4, all hospital employees will need to be vaccinated by January 4, 2022, or they will be placed on leave.
There’s an ultimate speed bump as a driver enters Deaver from the north, but while it may slow vehicles to a crawl, it’s not a good thing for the community, according to Mayor Bill Camp.
A spectacular truck fire at the foot of the Big Horn Mountains Saturday morning that sent thick, black smoke high into the sky and featured leaping flames fortunately resulted in no injuries, though the fire did hold up traffic on U.S. 14A for some time.
With North Big Horn Hospital still facing staffing shortages from the impact of COVID-19, National Guardsmen assigned to the hospital have proved crucial to its operations this past week, hospital officials state.
Doug Hazen, Superintendent for Big Horn County School District No. 2, spent a morning last week as a cafeteria worker, serving lunch to students as they walked by in line.
Another day last week, he taught fifth-grade math.
Local officials are scratching their heads about the community level results of the 2020 United States census that shows the seemingly growing community of Lovell being hit with a significant drop in population, along with other towns in the county and state.
