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  • For mourners, 399 was like a 'first love'

    Billy Arnold, Jackson Hole News&Guide via the Wyoming News Exchange|Nov 7, 2024

    JACKSON - Rain and snow fell Saturday evening on Town Square as a group of soaked, candle-holding mourners listened to wildlife guide Bo Welden talk about one of his life's most meaningful, one-way relationships. "Seeing 399 is like falling in love for the first time," he said. "Every time you got to see her, it was kind of like you forgot to breathe. You will just bail on your friends and your family to go spend time with that first love. And I argue people do that with 399 all the time."...

  • Hundreds of Northern Arapaho sacred objects returned

    Billy Arnold, Jackson Hole News&Guide via Wyoming News Exchange|Oct 17, 2024

    ETHETE - In the mid-1980s, Merle Haas got a call. Representatives of the Episcopal Church of Wyoming wanted her to meet them in Laramie. Haas, who is Northern Arapaho, drove to St. Matthew's Cathedral, the seat of church leadership. There, she was led into a dark room, packed with boxes. In the boxes were artifacts - everyday clothes, as well as toys, and sacred objects that Northern Arapaho people had traded a church official for food in the mid-1900s. Haas panicked. She didn't know what to...

  • State officials, Jacksonites question 'disposal' of Kelly parcel

    Billy Arnold Jackson Hole Daily|Nov 16, 2023

    JACKSON — For the first time in recent memory, a small herd of horses was grazing outside the Teton County Library. Inside, their owner, Jake Hutton, wore a worn, drooping cowboy hat as he regaled state officials with his thoughts on why 640 acres of state land near Kelly shouldn’t be auctioned off. Hutton grazes his small herd on the parcel, which is just east of Grand Teton National Park, and runs an outfitting business there. He’d like to keep that job, but couldn’t if a developer buys th...