This year marks the 150th anniversary of the famous Hayden Expedition, a trek that captured the imaginations of the American public and played an essential role in establishing Yellowstone as a national park.
Dressed in her brown Carhartt overalls, and decked out in friendship bracelets and a colorful beaded crown, Jackson Hole Children’s Museum’s Education Director Anna Luhrmann shouted over the sound of whirring drills and hammers, leading her campers in her call-and-response chant signaling fo…
Tyler Hartz, a firefighter of 16 years and a Wilson Chicken Fry veteran, looked at the line of people wrapped around Stilson parking lot in astonishment. “I’ve never seen the line this long before,” he said. “And this is probably my 12th or 13th chicken fry.”
These aren’t the coffee-fetching intern tales you might hear in the Big Apple; summer internships in Jackson Hole offer high school students access to sunshine, sports and service to the community.
Teton County is celebrating its 100th anniversary of incorporation this year. The News&Guide and Teton County Library recently hosted a writing contest for people to envision what Jackson Hole would look like in 100 years. Here are excerpts from some winners.
Jackie Coca grew up going to the Jackson Hole Fourth of July parade. So she couldn’t wait to share the tradition with her 2-year-old niece and nephew, R.J. and Alara.
Boy Scouts, pancakes in the park and a 40-year-old hot air balloon festival round out the corners of Independence Day in the Tetons. There’s always a little bit of adventure cresting Teton Pass and peering behind the Spud Curtain, an affectionate way to describe the potato fields that still …
Jackson locals poured through the Rose’s doors wearing flashy colors, glitter and Pride flags to show support for the bar’s LGBTQ Pride-themed night. Partygoers celebrated Pride Month and danced the night away alongside fire breathers and drag queens.
For decades girls have sold cookies and been labelled “Brownies,” relegated to more domestic fun while their brothers and boy classmates earned badges for survival skills.
It would be easy to label the Class of 2021 as the class of the pandemic.
The Jackson Hole Classical Academy had just three graduating seniors this year, the first students to ever graduate from the private Christian school.
Excited graduates celebrated the completion of their high school careers at the Mountain Academy of Teton Science Schools graduation June 2.
If you were anywhere near the Center for the Arts, you couldn’t miss the Jackson Hole Community School graduation.
Teton County is celebrating its 100th anniversary of incorporation this year. The News&Guide and Teton County Library recently hosted a writing contest for people to envision what Jackson Hole would look like in 100 years. Here are excerpts from some winners.
Jackie Coca grew up going to the Jackson Hole Fourth of July parade. So she couldn’t wait to share the tradition with her 2-year-old niece and nephew, R.J. and Alara.
Boy Scouts, pancakes in the park and a 40-year-old hot air balloon festival round out the corners of Independence Day in the Tetons. There’s always a little bit of adventure cresting Teton Pass and peering behind the Spud Curtain, an affectionate way to describe the potato fields that still …
Jackson locals poured through the Rose’s doors wearing flashy colors, glitter and Pride flags to show support for the bar’s LGBTQ Pride-themed night. Partygoers celebrated Pride Month and danced the night away alongside fire breathers and drag queens.
For decades girls have sold cookies and been labelled “Brownies,” relegated to more domestic fun while their brothers and boy classmates earned badges for survival skills.
It would be easy to label the Class of 2021 as the class of the pandemic.
The Jackson Hole Classical Academy had just three graduating seniors this year, the first students to ever graduate from the private Christian school.
Excited graduates celebrated the completion of their high school careers at the Mountain Academy of Teton Science Schools graduation June 2.
If you were anywhere near the Center for the Arts, you couldn’t miss the Jackson Hole Community School graduation.
One day after Kevin Johnson moved to Jackson in 1985, as he was helping a friend paint a house across the street from Snow King, he wondered how he could ski for free in the valley. The project’s contractor happened to be a volunteer patroller for the mountain that loomed above them, and he …
On the sunny Saturday before Memorial Day, Elizabeth Carlson and her 17-year-old son William arrived at the base of Snow King to tend to graves at Aspen Cemetery.
The documentary begins with the first haunting notes of Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” played over a grainy still of a lynching. Images of a Black man’s back, scarred by whipping, Ku Klux Klan members watching a cross burn and Black sharecroppers follow.
Ann Ramsay woke up in the middle of the night and decided to donate nearly $2 million to the 4-H program in Jackson.
Teton County started a century ago with a big debate.
A stone’s throw from Yellowstone National Park sits the small border town of West Yellowstone, which is usually either buried in snow or swarmed by tourists. But at the end of April, the streets are quiet and locals can peacefully read newspapers on coffee shop porticos.
“Watch out for badger holes,” said naturalist Joe Lieb on the National Elk Refuge, “and does anyone have bear spray?”
The sound of splashing water and laughter filled the small kitchen as Isadora played with a rubber ducky during bath time. Her mother, Nara Souza, would wear an apron to protect herself from the splashes, but somehow she always managed to come away with at least one part of her soaked.
Hole Food Rescue has new leadership, but operations haven’t missed a beat.
One by-product of the coronavirus pandemic has been a resurgence of magic.
Last spring the Jackson Hole High School Speech and Debate team was in Green River. It was the annual state tournament, where the team usually does pretty well.
The mountains were calling and he decided he must go. Twice.
As seasons change, we have the opportunity to seek new and different adventures. Winter’s cold end is here, but summer’s heat is still a ways off. Bike rides, corn skiing, ice fishing, crust cruising and running are all to be had. Here we explore some of the best ways. Join in!
In the midst of an unthinkable crisis even the smallest offer of solace can provide a glimmer of relief.
Before there was Teton County’s brand new Food Waste Composting Facility, there was Integrated Solid Waste and Recycling’s $14.5 million project, “Taming the Wild Waste.”
The depth of winter draws us home. We find solace in those we trust, comfort in the spaces we know to be safe.
Though 2021 began as 2020 ended, with the country still caught in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, St. John’s Health preschool teacher Rebecca Belton has been looking forward to the new year with excitement.
If you don’t believe in miracles, this story might not be for you.
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