Great horned owl Owly appeared, understandably, startled when the 120,000-pound barn started moving, right before her round yellow eyes.
After a few kisses and scratches on his head and back, Lazarus decided to take the loving to the next level.
The hillside along Game Creek Road was coated in telling brown patches of cheatgrass and purple tinges of knapweed.
As has become a September tradition, Town Square filled with runners, walkers and nonprofit donors Saturday for the 23rd annual Old Bill’s Fun Run for Charities.
Cool, crisp mornings and back-to-school sale signs at local retailers signify one constant of fall: School has started.
When Frances Clark moved to the valley eight years ago a mention of nature mapping in the newspaper caught her eye.
With the go-ahead from instructor Garrett Austen, the melee ensued.
The Children’s Learning Center’s Rafter J greenhouse project started several years ago, sparked by a group of intrepid 4-year-olds wanted to know more about where their food came from. They had a sense beef didn’t live in its life in plastic-wrapped packages and that bananas didn’t come off the tree with a neat piece of plastic wrapped around the bunch and marked with a sticker.
“OK, everyone, we’re going to play a game.”
Program Director Nealy Angell mostly held the attention of the children circled in the Jackson Hole Therapeutic Riding Association barn. Morning rain had pushed them inside for their warm-up activity. Angell held a rubber kickball plastered with images of farm animals.
Summertime, and the living is easy ... unless of course you’re in the local labor force coping with super-busy workdays and summer’s extra-heavy traffic.
The early scientist gets the bird. Every Wednesday morning for the past 10 weeks the Jackson Hole Wildlife Foundation bird banding crew rose before dawn to set up mist nets around the Teton Science Schools campus near Kelly.
More Jackson Hole residents and visitors have experienced the healing power of horses thanks to a tight-knit group of women.
Results provided by the Teton County Fair and Teton County 4-H. Additional results, photos and coverage can be found in the July 31 News&Guide or online at JHNewsAndGuide.com.
Even when they’re off duty, no red noses or gargantuan shoes in sight, Terry Donaldson sometimes forgets she’s talking to Denis Martinez rather than Ravioli the Clown.
Twenty-five steers weighing a combined 30,314 pounds were paraded, admired, bid on and sold Friday at the Teton County Fair, but the surprise of the day came with feathers.
When Mak Gavin landed an arrow square in the cheek of the black panther lounging in the field in front of him, he had only two words to say: “head shot.”
I had a sneaking suspicion it was the Texas Twister that did me in.
While some children get ready for bed by watching Netflix, playing their favorite video games or browsing social media, Kinzie Castagno walks her steer, Hook, up and down the hill in her backyard every night.
Gigi Mahood has been a part of 4-H for the last four years, but this is her first year working with lambs.
One of the first Teton County Fair events was held bright and early July 20 on the south lawn of the fairgrounds, and it was one that put a familiar animal through its paces: dogs.
After he finished shooting, put down his gun and walked away from the range, Will Harper, 11, wasn’t feeling all too great about his performance.
Gandalf and Merlin were born and raised exactly like full-size horses, despite being only 33 inches tall at the withers.
Pig Wrestling
Peewees
No times. For the second year in a row, the pigs dominated the category.
If you fly into Jackson Hole Airport on a Saturday this summer the first thing waiting to greet you won’t be a taxi driver or that friend generously picking you up in exchange for a beer.
Those in the know know to be there by 11 a.m.
A constant rhythm of the satisfying plonk of a bag hitting a cornhole board echoed through the air Sunday afternoon.
If you had followed Lost Creek Road to the Diamondfly Ranch last Saturday morning you would have stumbled upon four pairs of kids and their parents completing a variety of seemingly bizarre tasks.
July in Jackson Hole means the snow has finally begun to melt, the sun is (usually) out, and red, white and blue abounds.
Roy Kerswill painted Teton scenes and Indians and fur trappers and wild animals over four decades, but the Kerswill painting that was seen by the most people is the painting no one has seen for 20 years.
Any time News&Guide staff members have an the opportunity to talk about journalism, we take it.
It’s not every day that we find lightning bugs crawling around the News&Guide’s offices.
Pablo Castillo tries to play a little something for everyone on his morning radio show.
Sam Johnson was down.
She was having a rough day in the Utah canyonlands, driving her van — it doubles as her home — on the tail end of a weekslong stretch in which she hadn’t seen anyone. Her cat, Zamboni, was ill.
At Mike Yokel Park on Saturday afternoon the easily recognizable rainbow flag made several appearances among transgender, bisexual, genderqueer and myriad other waving pride flags.
The imposing staccato opening notes of “Pomp and Circumstance” echoed through halls across the valley as high schools sent off their graduating classes of 2019.
The students circled round the “watershed trailer.” Some sifted distractedly through the sand and others watched intently as a makeshift river gushed past miniature plastic frogs and otters through the mock riparian ecosystem.
Escaping the daily grind for a spell is good for anybody’s soul. For members of the clergy, time spent away from ministerial duties can sometimes be, well, a godsend.
The path to becoming a citizen of the United States is not an easy one.
Volunteers wearing blue latex gloves diligently sorted shelf-stable food into zip-lock bags decorated with characters from “Toy Story” last Thursday at the Hole Food Rescue headquarters.
Eleven-year-old Landon Holmberg spent the morning at the ElkFest rope bridge, checking off one part of the three parts needed to earn the coveted ElkFest patch.
The Hole Scroll
When the hammer went down the final time during Saturday's Boy Scouts of America Elk Antler Auction, the amount raised was the fourth highest in auction history, according to a release from the National Elk Refuge.
Yara Mauricio drags a wire cart through the doors, the laundry basket piled high with stuffed garbage bags.
The 2019 Bras for a Cause set a record, raising more than $100K for women’s health during the raucous event at the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar.
Every morning the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort ski patrollers boarded the Aerial Tram and chanted a resounding “Om.”
There’s a number of ways to protect national forest lands.
Sheena Dhamsania is a rock star in more ways than one.
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