Penny Preston
Freelance ReporterWhen Penny Preston came to Cody, Wyoming, in 1998, she was already an award winning broadcast journalist, with big market experience. She had anchored in Dallas, Denver, Nashville, Tulsa, and Fayetteville. She’s been a news director in Dallas and Cody, and a bureau chief in Fayetteville, AR. She’s won statewide awards for her television and radio stories in Arkansas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and Wyoming. Her stories also air on CBS, NBC, NBC Today Show, and CNN network news.
But, her greatest love is Northwest Wyoming, and that is where she’s produced more than broadcast news stories since 2000. As former news director at the Big Horn Radio Network in Cody, she produced hundreds more radio stories and newscasts.
Penny has years of historical knowledge about Northwest Wyoming, and the Greater Yellowstone Area. She lives within 30 miles of Yellowstone. She has close connections with the scientific community in the region. She was a seasonal Park Ranger in Yellowstone for five years.
On June 21st, 2014, the Wyoming Association of Broadcasters gave Penny two awards for photography and breaking news coverage. Since moving to Wyoming, she’s received four other WAB awards for excellence in television and radio news coverage.
Penny’s husband Charles is a scientist who came to Cody to create the content and programs for the Draper Museum of Natural History at the Center of the West. Penny received the “Civilian Desert Shield - Desert Storm U.S. Air Force Medal” in recognition of her volunteer civilian service under hazardous wartime conditions in Saudi Arabia. Penny is a martial artist, with a 2nd Degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do. She is also a certified scuba diver. Penny has traveled world-wide, but loves to travel most in Wyoming and Montana.
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A new district court filing alleged Cody’s City Planner had multiple conflicts of interests regarding the building approvals for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) temple. -
The City of Cody has issued a building permit to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) to build a temple there. The Temple will have a 101 foot tower, or steeple above it.Cody Mayor Matt Hall said the city was forced to issue the permit because LDS representatives from Salt Lake City threatened to file a federal lawsuit if the permit was further delayed. -
The group seeking to stop construction of a The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) Temple in a Cody neighborhood has filed a lawsuit in district court.
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The deadly wildfires in Maui are raising questions about the power of wind-driven fires. Twenty years ago, two huge wind-driven fires engulfed the forests along Yellowstone National Park’s eastern corridor. -
Cody’s controversial Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple project was finally approved. -
Since the late nineties, Yellowstone National Park has sent thousands of bison to slaughter. They did it in keeping with a legal agreement with the state of Montana to control populations and keep the animals from leaving the park in search of food in the spring. Yellowstone officials and the Intertribal Buffalo Council, which represents 83 tribes, celebrated an expanded holding facility that will reduce the slaughter, and send more live animals to tribal lands across the country. -
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) has decided to build a Temple in Cody. A Temple is not just a church. To LDS members, also known as Mormons, it has a special purpose and a special construction. That construction has drawn criticism from neighbors because its large lighted tower will be more than 100 feet tall from the ground. That’s about the height of a ten story building in a rural neighborhood. The town of Cody doesn’t have a ten story building.
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Yellowstone National Park officials say a major storm blew down hundreds of trees near lake Yellowstone. Some of those trees damaged part of the park’s oldest hotel: Lake Hotel.Cleanup continues now, and will continue for days and weeks ahead.
