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The city of Piedmont is looking at a significant utility rate increase starting November 1, and it's looking to cost citizens nearly 30% more each month.

Despite the thunder and lightning, the outage that left many Cody residents without power was caused by a raccoon - for the fourth or fifth time.

Written by Mac Morey on April 8, 2021 Wednesday into Thursday night Cody experienced a power outage that spanned over about a third of the city. The reason for that power outage was not blistering Wyoming winds or any sort of precipitation, but instead, a raccoon. The little critter got up into the WAPA substation up on Glendale near Beck Lake according to Dane Austin, Electric Superintendent of the Cody. Austin said that “he tripped out a sub and that it’s �...