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2016 Candidate field set

2016 Candidate field set

The deadline to file for Town and County offices has passed. As of 5pm today, the official list of candidates for Mayor, Town Council and board of County Commissioners is as follows:   MAYOR Sara Flitner    (sara@flitner.net) Mark Obringer    (mobringer@bresnan.net) Stephen McDonald   (stephen.mcdonald@jacksonhole.com) Pete Muldoon   (jacksonholepete@gmail.com)     TOWN COUNCIL Hailey Morton Levinson   (hailey@haileyforcouncil.com) Jim […]

Come, Work, Camp…(tent not provided)

Come, Work, Camp…(tent not provided)

We will be watching with great interest this afternoon’s town workshop where discussion will take place about creating possible camping areas for Jackson’s peon workforce. Councilman Jim Stanford has led the charge to create temporary man camps where 90-day wonders could come and toast marshmallows around the campfire in between their shifts schlepping food and folding sheets for tourists. These […]

Epic battle over Jackson’s future

Epic battle over Jackson’s future

Wrap-up of one doozy of a council meeting over LDR revisions. Mayor Sara Flitner began the epic 4-hour meeting by saying, “I feel the tension in the room.” She got that right. The packed house included the usual suspects—Mary Gibson (JH Alliance), Kelly Lockhart (large landowner), Judd Grossman (political activist)—along with some of the valley’s heaviest hitters like Clarene Law […]