This is classic. Our county leaders want to know a few things about you. START Bus wants to know a few things about you. In a survey released yesterday (feel free to take it) START Bus leaders want to know a couple of things including: Would you move to Pinedale if START sent a bus there? Can you drive the […]
April Norton has been chosen to head the new joint Affordable Housing Department. Norton was selected from an applicant pool of 15. That group was narrowed to three finalists last week that included Norton, T.R. Pierce, and S.C. Howard. A panel of six conducted the interviews: Alyssa Watkins (county administrator), Julianne Fries (county HR), Bob McLaurin (town manager), Tyler Sinclair […]
Elected officials agreed to establish a Community Priorities Fund and in doing so completely ignored the No. 1 concern of the community: conservation. Time and again, when polled, residents of Teton County have been in unison when it comes to preserving wildlife, habitat and open space. In fact, it’s the one and only thing this diverse community can agree on. […]
Faced with staying put with 1994 Comp Plan numbers that included 5.1 million square feet of commercial potential in the town and county, joint leaders were feeling pressure to increase these numbers. Some groups advocated for more nonresidential buildout while others — like Save Historic Jackson Hole — rallied against more commercial being added to the downtown District 2. Town electeds […]
Judd Grossman, candidate for town council, wrote the following on his Facebook page. We reprint here only because we at Save Historic Jackson Hole have been asking ourselves the same questions. Regarding the Budge Slide, Town needs to do a better job of answering the following questions: Who’s fault is the slide? Do we understand what went wrong and have […]
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 […]
The town discussion on a potential campsite for temporary laborers derailed before it ever got going. Councilman Jim Stanford appeared to be the only one interested in exploring the idea but he was not joined by his colleagues. Don Frank said, “I have to ask the philosophical question: Is it the government’s job to house employees…or private businesses that should take […]
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 […]
At Save Historic Jackson Hole we are always trying to get our message to the community in the most cost-effective manner. Big developments are taking place in the LDR revisions following the 2012 Comp Plan and we want citizens to know what these growth-enabling changes will bring to the valley: more people, more hotels, more businesses, more traffic. We believe there […]
The town council has decided they will wait no longer. They will not wait on whether or not a Housing Authority ever reshapes into anything trustworthy. They will not wait to see if voters will decide to tax themselves so government can build subsidized housing for the less fortunate in JH which includes (by the mayor’s definition) $500,000 homes for […]
