JACKSON — When the Jackson Town Council made it illegal to discriminate against another person based on sexual orientation or gender identity in 2018, the move didn’t address hate crimes.
JACKSON — When the Jackson Town Council made it illegal to discriminate against another person based on sexual orientation or gender identity in 2018, the move didn’t address hate crimes.
Teton County isnât quite out of the coronavirus woods, but it looks like there may be a clearing up ahead, and it could be just the right place to hold a music festival.
Summer 2020, aka the Summer That Wasnât, was a bust for nearly all of the regionâs arts and entertainment events. Last April and May, as the seriousness of the pandemic began to become apparent, festivals that had for years, even decades, seemed as constant as the Teton Range went into COVID-induced isolation. Even the outdoors wasnât considered safe. From the Music on Main series to the Grand Teton Music Festival, the coronavirus felled them all.
As other counties and states make headlines by tying COVID-19 vaccinations to benefits like free drinks, Teton County is wondering what role it can play in incentivizing people to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
No decisions have been made and the Teton County Board of County Commissioners is not unanimous in what it wants to do, if anything.
But it did begin the conversation Monday when Commissioner Luther Propst asked to hear more from the Teton County Health Department about what would be helpful.
After that morningâs meeting, Propst told the News&Guide he didnât want a resurgence of the virus. COVID-19 case levels have been low, with the county reporting a seven-day average of daily new cases at 2.3 Sunday. Thatâs the lowest level seen in Jackson Hole since the end of June 2020, when cases began to climb towards their summer peak. With that and a relatively high vaccination rate as a backdrop, county officials met in-person and mostly unmasked Monday morning â
In early January Commissioner Luther Propst sent an email to the other four county commissioners, laying out what he perceived as the county’s move away from transparency.