Bob Weiss cheerily walked shoppers through the Jackson Cupboard’s offerings on its front porch Christmas Day, keeping pep in his step against the freezing weather.

Since 1982, artist Rob Pudim has been bringing his sense of humor, insight and skepticism to the drawing board, penning weekly editorial cartoons for the Jackson Hole News and then the News&Guide.

Richard was roaming the streets of Riverton in late July. His hair was unruly — even more unruly than usual for a schnauzer — and he had developed severe periodontal disease. No one knows how long he had been on his own.

“’Twas the night before ribbon-cutting, when all through the center, feathers were fluffing with dreams of a home that is better.”

Dr. Seuss has descended on a snowy Jackson Hole.

We should have made a list. And we certainly should have checked it twice.

There are lots of questions about Christmas this year. Can I see my family? Will we be able to travel?

On Friday, after attending a zero-waste conference, Teton County Waste Diversion and Outreach Coordinator Carrie Bell had a lot to think about regarding buying habits and how important consumer choices are when it comes to reducing our waste stream.

Not even a global pandemic can stop the valley’s holiday cheer. And for some, nothing says Christmas is around the corner like giving back to the community.

For half of Kelsey Mitchell’s students at Mountain Academy she’s a perfectly normal teacher. She delivers science lessons in the classroom, working one on one with students on experiments.

Last holiday season, Hannah Navarro was working at a ski shop when she realized there were no books for young children like hers to read about skiing. One year later, she has one of her own on the shelves of many area ski shops and bookstores.

If you want to see what’s going on at the United Nations, you have to log in and watch the proceedings virtually. Some of its meetings have been held in person, but spectators are not being allowed right now because of the coronavirus pandemic.

“’Twas the night before ribbon-cutting, when all through the center, feathers were fluffing with dreams of a home that is better.”

Dr. Seuss has descended on a snowy Jackson Hole.

We should have made a list. And we certainly should have checked it twice.

There are lots of questions about Christmas this year. Can I see my family? Will we be able to travel?

On Friday, after attending a zero-waste conference, Teton County Waste Diversion and Outreach Coordinator Carrie Bell had a lot to think about regarding buying habits and how important consumer choices are when it comes to reducing our waste stream.

Not even a global pandemic can stop the valley’s holiday cheer. And for some, nothing says Christmas is around the corner like giving back to the community.

For half of Kelsey Mitchell’s students at Mountain Academy she’s a perfectly normal teacher. She delivers science lessons in the classroom, working one on one with students on experiments.

Last holiday season, Hannah Navarro was working at a ski shop when she realized there were no books for young children like hers to read about skiing. One year later, she has one of her own on the shelves of many area ski shops and bookstores.

If you want to see what’s going on at the United Nations, you have to log in and watch the proceedings virtually. Some of its meetings have been held in person, but spectators are not being allowed right now because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Blake Dyson, his brother Alex and father Todd walked into Dad’s Bar and Steakhouse in Thayne on Friday night. The family from Salt Lake City was hoping to play some darts while on a Thanksgiving visit to Star Valley Ranch. Instead they stumbled upon a Calcutta auction and were introduced to …

The annual Veterans Day ceremony on Town Square saw a good turnout, despite it being snowy and below freezing.

After the Japanese bombed the U.S. Navy at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Jacksonite Jim Richards enlisted.

Four seniors at the Jackson Hole Community School are part of the 1%.

As Bobbi Thomasma started recounting her favorite memories from her life in Jackson Hole, a loud slurping noise interrupted her thoughts.

“COVID be darned — it’s not gonna take our book club away!” cried Nanci Turner Steveson as her parent-daughter book club prepared to bury a time capsule last week at St. John’s Episcopal Church.

Karen Hogan and her son, Finn, love homeschooling. They are part of a growing cohort of families who left the public school system because of the coronavirus pandemic, eschewing the uncertainty of hybrid schedules and in-school education for freedom and flexibility.

From 82 golf balls to full cans of beer to a fly rod, over 200 volunteers helped pick up some interesting trash during the weeklong Fall Clean Up. A new counterpart to the annual Spring Clean Up, the event ran from Monday, Oct. 12, through Sunday, Oct. 18, to allow for safe distancing betwee…

This COVID-creeping Halloween, Jackson Hole proves it’s as much trick as it is treat.

Trevor Bloom, Kate Gersh and Linda Merigliano circled around a game camera strapped to a standing dead tree just far enough off the Wilson Canyon trail to be somewhat inconspicuous.

In 2012, at age 35, Whitney McDowell realized she had inherited her mother’s good genes and her bad genes.

OK, maybe there’s not much dancing involved in the annual elk rut, but there sure is plenty of the other kind of boogying. And there’s bugling, too.

Two retired couples lounged in their rented recreational vehicle at the Fireside RV park, off the Moose-Wilson Road, after a long day on the road when they heard a bang on their door.

Daisy and Fred sat on the lawn outside St. John’s Episcopal Church, listening to the Rev. Jimmy Bartz give his Sunday sermon: the story of St. Francis.

The 70 area residents allowed in the gates of Astoria Hot Springs at any given time during its opening weekend enjoyed the complex in a number of ways.

People in horse costumes danced to music on Town Square and more than 200 rubber ducks raced down Flat Creek as Jackson Hole’s large nonprofit community celebrated throughout the days leading up to Saturday’s Old Bill’s Fun Run for Charities.

Imagine a community where at least 50% of people adopt a regular practice that helps develop focus, emotional regulation and compassionate response mechanisms. Becoming Jackson Whole launched a campaign to do just that.

When Tom Hargis moved to Jackson in 1996 the population of the town was just over 6,000, and Rock Springs Buttress had barely any established climbing routes.

Wyoming’s thriving community journalism crushed the National Newspaper Association’s Better Newspaper Contest, with the Jackson Hole News&Guide joining the wave of wins for the Cowboy State.

Some 95,114 wild horses and burros roam free throughout the United States, according to a March 1 count by the federal Bureau of Land Management.

There’s more to it than sparkles and hair spray. Contestants in the Teton County Fair and Rodeo royalty program spend months or even years training for their big day.

It’s a strange time to start a new job, especially in education.

Before they even left the premises of St. John’s Episcopal Church, volunteers Liz Collins and Pam Woodson found their first takers. Of course: As they’ve discovered it’s never hard to find takers for free ice cream.

A gasp of astonishment could be heard from out of the left corner of Blair Garden. It was the sound Lori Clark-Erickson made when she discovered a zucchini the size of a wine bottle sitting at the edge of her garden plot.

Thirty-four pigs, 32 steers, 24 lambs, four goats and two turkeys later, Teton County 4-H’ers left the county fair auction Friday night $620,000 richer.

We have a visitor.

When Mariela Santelices called out of school sick in mid-March she didn’t realize that she was missing her last day of high school — and all the things that go along with it.