Christmas exploded at the Virginian this past Sunday as Soroptimist of Jackson Hole held its annual Christmas tree auction and brunch, one of their biggest fundraiser of the year.
Voters can cast their ballots at any of five voting centers on election day from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Specific purpose excise tax, or SPET, measures allow voters to choose how sales tax dollars will be collected — and spent — over the next few years. Sales tax collections for these 16 SPET measures, totaling roughly $160 million, are set to start in 2024. The number of projects voters approv…
The following responses from candidates were compiled — with minimal editing for readability and space — from a News&Guide questionnaire sent to each candidate. Voters will be able to choose a maximum of three candidates for county commission. Mark Newcomb and Luther Propst are both incumbents.
The following responses from candidates were compiled — with minimal editing for readability and space — from a News&Guide questionnaire sent to each candidate. Voters will be able to choose a maximum of three candidates for county commission. Arne Jorgensen and Jonathan Schechter are bo…
The following responses from candidates were compiled from a News&Guide questionnaire sent to each candidate.
The following responses from candidates were compiled from a News&Guide questionnaire sent to each candidate. Keith Gingery is the only incumbent in the race.
The following responses from candidates were compiled — with minimal editing for readability and space — from a questionnaire sent to each candidate. This seat is cu
The following responses from candidates were compiled — with minimal editing for readability and space — from a questionnaire sent to each candidate by the News&Guide. This seat is currently held by Democrat Andy Schwartz, who is not running for re-election.
The following responses from candidates were compiled — with minimal editing for readability and space — from a questionnaire sent to each candidate by the News&Guide. This seat is currently held by independent Jim Roscoe, who is not running for re-election.
The following responses from candidates were compiled — with minimal editing for readability and space — from a questionnaire sent to each candidate by the News&Guide. This seat is currently held by Democrat Mike Yin, who is running for re-election.
Voters will decide whether to continue funding for the Teton Conservation District and which three candidates will sit on the district’s board.
Two candidates are vying to replace outgoing Republican Rep. Liz Cheney in the U.S. House of Representatives: Republican Harriet Hageman and Democrat Lynnette Grey Bull.
Incumbent Republican Governor Mark Gordon is running against Democrat Theresa Livingston and Libertarian Jared Baldes.
Two candidates for Wyoming Superintendent of Public Instruction, Republican Megan Degenfelder and Democrat Sergio Maldonado, will vie for the top state education seat on Nov. 8.
GILLETTE — Voters will get the chance to decide on two amendments to the Wyoming Constitution in the general election.
On a frigid night nearly 100 valley residents came to together at The Virginian Lodge to celebrate all things Jackson Hole. The theme for this year’s 49’er Ball — the oldest and longest running community event in Jackson — was “Act Like a Local.”
Gangsters and flappers gathered en masse at the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar Saturday to try their luck at craps, roulette and blackjack while listening to big band music. It was the Rotary Club of Jackson Hole’s annual Casino Night, the group’s biggest fundraiser, to sponsor as many as 40 scho…
The fairgrounds on Saturday was a trick-or-treater’s Shangri-La — the one time it’s OK to accept candy from a stranger’s truck.
Black, empty and earsplittingly quiet, the fairgrounds at 5:45 a.m. are no place for a 9-year-old.
With the full moon, the clear skies and late-summer temperatures, this week was a favorite for many locals. Foliage peaked, decorating the valley with reds, yellows and oranges with a soundtrack of elk bugling and fox yips. With just a few more weeks until a fresh coat of paint, our photogra…
Buried between the shouts of little ones, Atticus Walters’ voice could be heard from a mile away.
When the Rev. Jimmy Bartz spoke to parishioners at St. John’s Episcopal Church on Sunday morning, his dog, Rooster, was not only by his side but was also incorporated into the sermon.
The first frost has come and gone, and with it, Zone 4’s short three-month growing season comes to an end.
A race for the fastest paintbrush in the West was on Saturday morning.
Some call Burning Man a lawless festival of debauchery — one that serves tech execs who try acting poor for a week, or aged adults who spend more time dancing to DJs than doing taxes, or whimsical hippies who dream of the day they can photosynthesize, or Instagram influencers who seek to fre…
As students enjoy the final throes of summer, new educators with the Teton County School District navigated their own first day of school jitters.
Once host to hundreds of Boy Scouts throughout the summer months, the Treasure Mountain Boy Scout Camp, located in Teton Canyon, surrendered its permit this summer with the Caribou-Targhee National Forest Service, ending an 84-year-old tradition.
A bearded man in a suit played electronic Klezmer music from the bed of a jacked-up truck, while dozens of Hasidic Jewish residents danced the hora down Broadway.
From best cookies to team roping to pie eating, Teton County came out in droves to compete for ribbons at the fair. Some came from as far away as Kentucky and Wisconsin (see the horse pulls). Some kids just kept showing up again and again. (See English horse show results.)
The county’s biggest party roared back to life last week after two year years of muted festivities. The Teton County Fair had a huge turnout, and fair organizers were able to add more programming after sponsors poured money at the event.
Hose water glistened in the early morning sun as little ones in boots and bolo ties sprayed down the swine they’ve been raising for months. Dawn broke, and so did wind, as the kids prepped plump pigs for the 4-H Swine Show.
Last summer, Teton County Fire Station 1 on Pearl Avenue set a record with 18 calls in a 24-hour period. The county emergency management system averages 10 calls a day, and most come to Station 1. Most are ambulance calls.
The breeze picked up ever so slightly, catching a handful of dandelion seeds and spinning them into the summer sun. As people gathered on the quiet side of the Tetons under a white tent under a bright blue sky, four professional musicians found their seats just behind the Alta Branch Library.
If you are called to sun-soaked grass that smells of barbecue sauce and silver-haired people playing the fiddle, look no farther than the Jackson Hole Hootenanny.
Some 12-year-olds are busy learning TikTok dances. Grace Pickering is busy learning Norse and Greek mythology.
Perhaps it’s obvious, but the success of a Shakespeare play — whether the playwright’s immortal words rend the heart or wring belly laughs — depends a lot on the performers.
Each year the National Newspaper Association honors the best in community journalism in the Better Newspaper Editorial Contest and the best in community newspaper advertising in the Better Newspaper Advertising Contest. The BNEC and BNAC, together, make up the association’s Better Newspaper …
With no natural disasters and no major holidays, Saturday was the perfect bluebird day to head to Town Square and take a lap, or two, at the first Jackson Hole Farmers Market this season.
The Art Association was celebrating its 57th annual Art Fair Jackson Hole this past weekend but also its first fair in the Center for the Arts park.
It’s been a big week of loud and proud celebration, public declaration, and rainbow sophistication.
Motioning with a billowing, blue sleeve, Your Girl Catherine welcomed “Jackson’s first drag queen” to the Pink Garter Theater stage Saturday night.
Before Jackson Hole High School got its graduation kicks (see page 10), the valley’s smaller institutions showed off their graduates at a series of personalized ceremonies.
Jimmy Chin is used to climbing some of the tallest peaks and addressing monumental crowds with confidence. But he was nervous to speak in front of his home town.
Entering the Snow King Sports and Events Center on Saturday was a paradigm shift from mountain athletics to one of complete cultural significance — and Jackson soaked it in.
When Jackson’s Special Olympians got off the slopes a few months ago, they were already hungry for spring competition.
Sandra Guido recycles. But her trash still fills up really quickly.
Straw Free JH hosted its annual plogging event to help clean up the pathways around the high school. Plogging originated in Sweden and is the act of picking up litter while jogging. Athletes from the Jackson Hole High School track team showed up for their third year.
Twenty-four students graduated from Central Wyoming College’s Jackson campus on Saturday, proving their skills in fields beyond the school’s well-known nursing and culinary programs.
Over 100 students and their families packed into the Jackson Hole High School auditorium April 26 to find out if their efforts to win a scholarship from one of 50 organizations would come to fruition.
They knew they couldn’t keep them, but they didn’t care.
Before the hunt began, 3-year-old McCall Annetts had only ever heard of jelly beans.
Out of the big red truck tumbled an embroidered backdrop and costumes fit for a 60-kid cast. All that Missoula Children’s Theatre needed was talent, and boy, did Jackson provide.
Nadine Salas is interested in going into law enforcement but has had concerns, reflecting on what she’s heard about the profession and being a young Latina woman. She’s wondered whether the space is necessarily safe for her — and whether she should even ask questions about it.
As Teton County remains at a green COVID-19 risk level and the snow melts away at the nearby mountain resorts, concert fanatics had their spring fever teased with the return of live music in the valley.
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