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And, with a slate of contracts approved Tuesday, the project should once again be chugging along. Parks and Rec Director Steve Ashworth told the County Commission that he thought his department “did a much better job” of “reaching out to many of the stakeholders” this time around. The Teton County Board of County Commissioners agreed. The elected officials unanimously approved the three contracts Ashworth brought to them Tuesday. Those documents put a climbing gym consultant, a local construction manager at-risk, and an owner’s representative — an outside group t...

Close followers of Teton County government may feel like they have deja vu.

But manager Jim Morrison can’t say why, exactly. “Of course our business is down,” he told the News&Guide. “It’s just too difficult to say how much is purely affidavit driven, COVID driven, or snow driven. It’s pretty evident that people are willing to risk traveling in COVID environments, even at a high risk level.” Why hotels in the Roaring Fork Valley are seeing so much less traffic than those in resort towns like Jackson Hole is a central question in an ongoing debate in Pitkin County. Health officials there have reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic in two w...

A draft bill that some see as threatening “local control” loomed large over the County Commission’s vote Tuesday in favor of the Gill family’s 26-acre development in northern South Park.

A draft bill that some see as threatening “local control” loomed large over the County Commission’s vote Tuesday in favor of the Gill family’s 26-acre development in northern South Park. The Teton County Board of County Commissioners voted 4-1 in favor of the Gills’ sketch plan, a conceptual regulatory approval that precedes hearings on more concrete development and subdivision plans on the path to breaking ground. The family praised the decision. “Today’s vote further solidifies our family’s commitment to the northern South Park neighborhood plan, wate...