Jackson Hole’s youth figure skaters had a successful weekend at the Sun Valley Winter Games in Sun Valley, Idaho this past weekend, bringing home a variety of medals. Altogether, seven figure skaters competed against clubs representing three states across … Continue Reading
The Jackson Hole Ski & Snowboard Club’s Nordic Program raced in the final Intermountain Junior National Qualifier at the Boise, Idaho this past weekend. J2 athletes raced 5km and the J1 & OJ athletes raced … Continue Reading
The Jackson Hole High School Speech and Debate Team is undefeated after eight competitions so far this year. That eighth win came as Jackson won the Star Valley Invitational Speech Meet, hosted by Star Valley High School on Friday and Saturday. The squad ended the meet with 117 sweepstakes points, followed by 4A school Casper Kelly Walsh, with 84 points. Seven schools participated in the Star Valley meet. Jackson travels to Rawlins this weekend for their last regular season meet.
Jackson Hole Broncs played at home this weekend taking on the Mountain View Buffs on Friday and the Lyman Eagles on Saturday. Both the girls and boys won their contests with Mountain view, the girls ending up with a 37 to 32 victory and the boys defeating the Buffs 58 to 49. On Saturday, the girls beat the Eagles a heart-stopping 39 to 37 while the boys fell to the Eagles 67 to 52.
The Community Foundation of Teton Valley earlier this month announced the selection Kim Trotter of Driggs as that organization’s new Executive Director. Trotter has served the last seven years as director of the Idaho Water Project for the statewide office of Trout Unlimited. From 1999-2005, she was … Continue Reading
Bridger Teton National Forest Supervisor Jacque Buchanan announced Friday that she had accepted a new position in the Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Regional Office in Denver. Buchanan came to the Bridger Teton in October of 2010. Forest Service Spokesperson Mary Cernicek says Buchanan’s new position will … Continue Reading
Teton County Search and Rescue spent another late night out Wednesday searching for and finding two lost snowmobilers in the Gros Ventre Mountains. The party of two, riding one rented snowmobile, became stuck and stranded. The snowmobile rental company … Continue Reading
The National Elk Refuge reports there are now 6,285 elk on feed in the southern portion of the refuge with cows, calves and spikes vastly outnumbering the bulls. Still, flights over the area by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department indicate there are significant numbers of … Continue Reading
The cutter race teams are here and racing begins tomorrow south of Jackson on the track at Melody Ranch. Rod Everett of the sponsoring Shrine Club says activities at the track begin at noon. Everett says the racers are all going for points that are totaled through … Continue Reading
USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service National Water and Climate Center says the February streamflow forecast foretells of a decline in nearly every state and basin. The dry conditions continue from the less-than-average precipitation during January, which indicates … Continue Reading
