Jackson Hole Underground

Our beloved local brewery made like Bode Miller and took home a lode of medals at the World Beer Cup.

Snake River Brewing Co. won three golds and one silver at the competition in San Diego, which drew nearly 2,900 entries from 58 countries.

Winning gold were the much decorated Snake River Pale Ale and Zonker Stout from the Jackson brewery, as well as Rock Chuck Rye from the pub in Lander. On Belay IPA, also from Lander, took silver in the English-style India Pale Ale category.

Grand Teton Brewing Co. of Victor, Idaho, won a bronze for its Bitch Creek ESB.

Congrats to all the brewers, and let’s drink the spoils!

Wyoming Blue Cross/Blue Shield is raising its rates again next month, by about 20 percent.

The cost of an MRI at St. John’s Medical Center is about $1,300.

But if you’re the St. John’s CEO, you’re moving into a $2.5 million house the hospital just bought you, while making nearly $500,000 a year.

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Will this bucolic pasture be home to a major new development? Not likely.

The sale of the 78-acre Lloyd property at the mouth of Cache Creek Canyon has residents of east Jackson alarmed.

The prized parcel, much of which is marsh land bordering the creek, was bought by developer and Jackson Hole native Jamie Mackay late last year, with backing from others in the community.

Mackay has not revealed his plans for the land, which borders the Bridger-Teton National Forest and sits outside the city boundaries. But the prospect of 40 to 50 housing units — a figure floated by his attorney — has the resistance organizing.

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I concluded Powder Week at JH Mountain Resort with one more out-of-bounds run, this time in Granite Canyon.

When the guys from Nordica skis, my assigned partners for the afternoon, approached me about skiing Granite, I was leery, to say the least. The north-facing, cliff-laden chutes already had seen one serious avalanche and one stranded snowboarder that week.

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A citizen has filed suit against the Town of Jackson, claiming the government’s partnership with Imagine Jackson for a $1 million state grant violates the Wyoming Constitution.

Attorney Peter Moyer filed the suit this morning in 9th District Court in Jackson on behalf of Armond Acri, an engineer and town resident.

The Wyoming Constitution “contains a very broad and strict prohibition on donations by the state, towns and other public bodies to or in aid of private individuals and private entities,” the suit states.

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