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START bus riders will likely have more company onboard going forward. With an OK from Teton County health officials, and after the Wyoming attorney general said Jackson Hole’s public transit system was exempt from state health orders limiting bus capacity, the Jackson Town Council and Teton County Board of County Commissioners voted Tuesday to increase the number of people allowed to ride START buses at one time. Teton County Director of Health Jodie Pond supports the increase but didn’t say it’s safer — or more risky — than the previous situation. In Pond’s view...

What the measure will look like remains to be seen. “I personally want to make sure that we explore all the options,” commission Chair Natalia D. Macker told the Jackson Hole Daily. The Teton County Board of County Commissioners has, in the past, passed a resolution condemning hate. The board — then a separate slate of elected officials — did so in 2001 after Sept. 11, condemning both the terrorist attacks and the resulting “increase in discrimination, threats and violence against Arabs, Muslims” and other minority groups. The resolution also said that Teton Coun...

Teton County commissioners have named five of seven members to a committee that will help steer planning for future development in northern South Park. After meeting behind closed doors, the county chose Laura Bonich, Bill Collins, Scott Pierson, Jennifer Ford and Hans Flinch to serve on the steering committee for the northern South Park neighborhood planning process. Two other seats will be made available to as yet unnamed representatives of the Gill and Lockhart families, the two primary landowners in the area. “I would, on behalf of the board and staff, thank all of the members of the...