Good day turns deadly for experienced ski group
Jackson Hole News&Guide
March 30, 2022
For John Marno, one of the skiers involved in the fatal March 17 avalanche on the west side of the Tetons, choosing to ski the Game Creek drainage late in the day represented a “failure” in judgment.
“We had had a good day, it was 3 p.m.; we probably should have called it and headed back to the yurt,” he told the News&Guide, recounting the story for the third time after speaking with family members and avalanche officials.
A Victor, Idaho, resident, Marno was hosting a group of close friends — skiers with varying degrees of experience — from Laramie and Boise. The party of eight stayed multiple nights at the Plummer Canyon Yurt, skiing nearby slopes and generally having a blast.
No Home For Elders
Jackson Hole News&Guide
May 4, 2022
When Legacy Lodge, the valley’s only assisted living facility, closed last year, KJ Morris moved her dad to a facility in Rexburg, Idaho. Months later the 84-year-old, who had dementia, died, leaving Morris wondering if the stress of the move may have contributed to his decline.
The Rexburg facility, Homestead Assisted Living, is a great home that offers residents tours of Yellowstone and time with horses, Morris said. It’s a third of the price she was paying in Jackson. But she couldn’t ride her bike to visits; the assisted living center is an hour and a half drive away.
Morris’ father wasn’t the only senior to move to Rexburg when Legacy Lodge shuttered.
Rent Spike Hits Local Business Owners
Jackson Hole News&Guide
March 2, 2022
When Storage Stables took over 150 Scott Lane, the 15,800-square-foot business space across from Sweet Cheeks, some of the local business owners worried a rent increase would come.
But they didn’t expect rent to double in a matter of months.
The hike, announced last week via email, brings prices from $21 per square foot to $42, one owner estimated, and could mean that half of the businesses — some which have operated for 30 years in the space — will move out. Not all of them have somewhere else to go.
Read the full story here.
Professors prepare classes for online learning
The Daily Northwestern
April 7, 2020
April 7, 2020
In a new era of remote learning, Communication Prof. Jeffery Hancock is now teaching dance to students around the world, without a studio.
Without access to Northwestern’s studio and stage resources for his two courses, Dance 130: Music Theatre Dance and Dance 235: Music Theatre Choreography, Hancock said he plans to focus more heavily on personal movement and daily diligence — students will be expected to practice a 20-minute routine daily. Dance 235 now has a new name, Music Theatre Choreography: Tight Spaces.
National report dubs Evanston a ‘hipsturbia’
The Daily Northwestern
October 10, 2019
October 10, 2019
A quick google search of the word “hipster” brings up almost exclusively images of a white men with well-groomed facial hair and flannel shirts. This is just one type of millennial stereotype, but a new study by the Urban Land Institute and PricewaterhouseCoopers is using the term in conjunction with “suburbia” to describe cities, including Evanston, as “hipsturbias.”
According to the report, Evanston is a prime example of this 2020 trend, with millennials increasingly choosing to “live, work, and play” in the northern Chicago suburb.
“No Pants Subway Ride” turns heads on the CTA
The Daily Northwestern
January 12, 2020
January 12, 2020
The day after a winter storm slammed Chicago, some locals donned heavy winter coats and set out to shovel their driveways, but others chose to brave the elements on the CTA Red Line without the common comfort of pants.
They met up on the fourth floor of a Loyola University — Chicago parking garage. Some brought their kids, others brought GoPros. Some came alone. One of the event’s organizers, Steven Preston, shouted instructions through a megaphone.
“If you choose to be a jack—, don’t be surprised if you’re escorted out by CTA officials,”