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The Jackson Hole News&Guide took home 15 awards from the 2021 National Newspaper Association contest for its reporting and behind-the-scenes work, including five first-place finishes.

The Wyoming Economic Analysis Division released last week a Teton County "profile" that combines a slew of data about topics as wide-ranging as housing, employment, health insurance coverage and commuting.

The contest includes entries from news outlets in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico. The News&Guide won 13 awards for reporting, photography and design. The honors are usually given out at a ceremony at the Denver Press Club each spring, but this year’s contest was virtual because of the coronavirus pandemic. Reporters Emily Mieure, Mike Koshmrl, Billy Arnold and Mieure/Arnold won first-place awards in legal features, science and technology news, beat reporting and breaking news, resp...

A year of singing with the Young@Heart chorus Published: 4/8/2021 10:15:12 AM In the last 10 years, Iʼve had six life-saving surgeries on my vocal cords. I didnʼt think I’d ever be much of a singer anymore, but I was grateful to choose life over being a sometime-performer of Irish folk songs. And, while soloing wasn’t much of an option anymore, I could still sing harmony and was deeply involved with writing music and performing. So I said yes to Bob Cilman when he asked me to join the Y...

Community supports stabbing victim Benjamin Sánchez Nieto is reminded of that night every time he takes off his shirt and sees the jagged scar where the knife went in — on the left side of his chest, not far from his heart. “I don’t understand why this happened,” Sánchez Nieto told the Jackson Hole Daily through a translator in a phone interview. “I am happy to be here talking to you and happy to be alive.” The longtime Jackson resident was stabbed Dec. 30 ju...

The Wyoming Legislature has been abuzz this week with a number of high-profile bills — and topics — filtering through the House and Senate. Some would directly impact Teton County, and others have animated conversation around Medicaid expansion, abortion rights, taxes, power generation and voting. We’ve rounded up a few of the bills here. House Bill 164, co-sponsored by Teton County Rep. Andy Schwartz and Sen. Mike Gierau, passed the committee on Monday in a 5-2 vote. The legisla...

The Equality State is one of nine states that do not tax residents’ job-related earnings. Supported for decades by revenues from mineral extraction, Wyoming is notoriously tax-averse. A number of newly-elected Wyoming legislators campaigned on a “no new taxes” pledge, and there are only nine other tax-friendly Democrats in the 60-person Wyoming Legislature. But Yin told the Jackson Hole Daily opposition to taxes “doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be pushing this conversati...

‘What are you doing for others?’: Springfield celebrates legacy of slain civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Updated Jan 18, 2021; SPRINGFIELD — The annual celebration of the life and legacy of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. might have taken a different form this year — it was presented online, instead of in an event at the MassMutual Center that typically draws hundreds — but the message of continuing to work for equality and justice remained the same. Gov. C...

After hearing concerns about transparency, Teton County commissioners have opened up to the public future meetings of the committee overseeing planning for growth in northern South Park. “Northern South Park is the future of our community,” Brooke Sausser told the Teton County Board of County Commissioners on Monday. “It will be home to future generations of Jacksonites. It’s something we all have a stake in, and that’s why I was shocked and disturbed to hear that the s...

Iasked Jacksonites to reflect on the local news stories of 2020 that had the greatest impact on them personally. Susan Marsh, author and 30-year veteran of the U.S. Forest Service, wrote about Bear 399 and her four cubs wandering through the valley: “What really had an impact on me in addition to the bears themselves was how many people in the valley were hypervigilant about keeping them safe when they wandered out of the park. Instead of the usual eco-porn about grizzly bears with teeth b...