Phil Leeds took a year off from college in 1974 and got a winter job at Skinny Skis.

Cowboy Coffee owner Rob Ottaway is feeling better these days about his shop’s spent coffee grounds.

As a businessman and Chamber of Commerce member Zachariah Turpin is proud of the shopping experience Jackson offers. There’s a variety of retailers, he said, and they offer personal touch you don’t always find in other locales.

Brad Wolf is a truck guy. So is his longtime business partner, Brian Christensen. And as it turns out, when you put two truck guys together, you get a used car dealership.

When salon owner Patty Pappas had to find a new home for her hair salon, clients kept telling her to go meet Maria Vargas.

Gerard Kindt made a living for 25 years in 250 square feet of Jackson, selling the jewelry he taught himself to make after he was already in business.

After Jackson Hole shoppers wiped away their tears upon hearing the news of the impending disappearance of Kmart — oh, OK, they didn’t. There were no tears. A few questions but nary a sniff.

As Snow King Hotel renovates all 203 of its guest rooms an out-of-town company is selling everything that used to fill them.

If you’ve wondered what it would be like to drive a hundred miles to buy cheap underwear, you’re likely to soon find out.

Investors who bought Huntsman Springs two years ago have renamed the golf course development, are promising millions in improvements and are putting down roots.

At the former Exitus Escape Room in Jackson you and your friends were confined to a small space where you worked as a team to piece together clues about how to get out.

Teton Mountaineering founder Chuck Schaap was at the store Monday afternoon looking pretty relaxed after three weeks in Spain.

Stio is adding an ingredient to its outdoor clothing recipe: Gore-Tex.

Starting next month if you shop at Valley Bookstore and didn’t bring your own bag you’ll be offered several options for toting your new reads, including a recycled cardboard box or waterproof wrapping paper.

Dogs coming through the doors at Amy Vignaroli’s new location have looked confused: Accustomed for years to visiting the Teton Tails store on Pearl Avenue, they suddenly find themselves going somewhere else and finding an even bigger assortment of stuff they love.

Lights. Camera. Real estate action.

The summer of 2019 was a great one for some Jackson businesses, pretty good for some and a bit off for others.

Imagine this scenario: You’re researching, and you have 20 scientific papers to comb through. How do you find the parts of each one that are relevant?

Bryan Dallman worked quickly, greeting customers with a smile and asking them what flavor they’d like to try.

Four new condos on a quiet Jackson street might not stand out in a busy real estate and construction market, but the units at 285 Pine Drive and Aspen Drive below it are part of an experiment.

Jackson Hole Mountain Resort will now use renewable energy to power its lifts and other operations, making it the largest organization in the valley to make that sustainability shift.

The Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce has chosen its annual award winners, recognizing a handful of individuals and businesses “who are making an impact in Jackson Hole.”

True to form, Give’r has a new product, the Frontier Mittens, and it’s starting a Kickstarter. But the path from idea to crowdfunding can be as trying as bushwhacking through an overgrown forest trail.

When Abi Garaman chose the southwest corner of Cache and Broadway for his new business, the land was occupied by the Log Cabin Club, an old-Jackson bar and dancehall owned by John and Jess Wort, heads of a pioneer family and builders of the famous Wort Hotel, a half-block away.

A new socially conscious Jackson business plans to spend one of its cash prizes from Pitch Day the same way it uses its net proceeds from selling drinkware: to bring clean water to underserved areas of the world.