{"version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1", "title": "The Valley Signal", "home_page_url": "https://valleysignal.com/", "feed_url": "https://valleysignal.com/feed/json/", "items": [{"id": "https://valleysignal.com/opinion/sin-bin/her-voice-carries-to-rexburg-he-keeps-listening/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/opinion/sin-bin/her-voice-carries-to-rexburg-he-keeps-listening/", "title": "Her Voice Carries to Rexburg. He Keeps Listening", "summary": "This week's Sin Bin: his ex hangs out with the neighbor upstairs, her voice carries, and the dog won't settle. Sully says stop dating the ceiling.", "date_published": "2026-10-28T05:02:45+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Sully", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/sully/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-28T05:04:08.555221+00:00", "tags": ["Sin Bin"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/density-limit-out-family-land-division-vote-delayed/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/density-limit-out-family-land-division-vote-delayed/", "title": "Density Limit Out, Family Land Division Vote Delayed", "summary": "Teton County commissioners struck the density requirement from the family land division ordinance, then continued the vote to Nov. 9 to confer with counsel.", "date_published": "2026-10-27T19:55:24+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Wade Williams", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/wade-williams/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-28T02:16:18.328373+00:00", "tags": ["Growth & Land Use"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/sheriff-blotter/teton-valley-sheriff-blotter-2026-week-41/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/sheriff-blotter/teton-valley-sheriff-blotter-2026-week-41/", "title": "Teton Valley Sheriff Blotter 2026 Week 41", "summary": "Teton Valley sheriff blotter for October 4\u201310: 371 dispatch calls, six fraud reports, two pickleball complaints and a DUI after a 4 a.m. noise call.", "date_published": "2026-10-27T16:40:02+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-27T16:40:23.273307+00:00", "tags": ["Sheriff Blotter"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/the-week-ahead/fall-river-rates-victors-council-and-three-driggs-hearings-on-election-day/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/the-week-ahead/fall-river-rates-victors-council-and-three-driggs-hearings-on-election-day/", "title": "Fall River Rates, Victor's Council, and Three Driggs Hearings on Election Day", "summary": "Seven meetings fill the rest of the week, from a Fall River rate vote to Victor's council. Nov. 3 brings Election Day and three Driggs hearings.", "date_published": "2026-10-27T14:23:05+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-27T14:24:30.388677+00:00", "tags": ["The Week Ahead", "Elections"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/teton-county-puts-off-a-midway-substation-decision-as-all-three-commissioners-voice-doubts/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/teton-county-puts-off-a-midway-substation-decision-as-all-three-commissioners-voice-doubts/", "title": "Teton County Puts Off a Midway Substation Decision as All Three Commissioners Voice Doubts", "summary": "Teton County commissioners closed the Midway substation hearing without a vote and sent the competing studies to staff. All three voiced doubts.", "date_published": "2026-10-27T14:22:50+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Wade Williams", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/wade-williams/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-27T14:22:50.216960+00:00", "tags": ["Growth & Land Use", "Midway Substation"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/the-week-ahead/teton-county-commissioners-monday-the-midway-substation-two-subdivisions-and-a-budget-opening/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/the-week-ahead/teton-county-commissioners-monday-the-midway-substation-two-subdivisions-and-a-budget-opening/", "title": "Teton County Commissioners Monday: The Midway Substation, Two Subdivisions, and a Budget Opening", "summary": "Teton County commissioners take up 36 items Monday, Oct. 26: the Midway substation hearing, two subdivisions, a budget opening, and final tax rates.", "date_published": "2026-10-24T17:20:21+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-26T16:56:51.674950+00:00", "tags": ["The Week Ahead", "Budgets and Taxes", "Midway Substation"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/after-a-year-and-a-half-driggs-puts-its-consent-for-576-victor-units-in-writing/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/after-a-year-and-a-half-driggs-puts-its-consent-for-576-victor-units-in-writing/", "title": "After a Year and a Half, Driggs Puts Its Consent for 576 Victor Units in Writing", "summary": "Driggs gave Victor written consent for sewer connections serving 576 units, then let its public works director approve the next ones without a vote.", "date_published": "2026-10-23T05:15:55+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Wade Williams", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/wade-williams/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-27T14:23:42.360166+00:00", "tags": ["Government & Accountability", "Waste Water"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/victor-urban-renewal-board-postpones-fire-engine-deal-over-south-district-clause/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/victor-urban-renewal-board-postpones-fire-engine-deal-over-south-district-clause/", "title": "Victor Urban Renewal Board Postpones Fire Engine Deal Over South District Clause", "summary": "Victor's urban renewal board postponed reimbursing Teton County Fire & Rescue for a fire engine after the fire district objected to a South District clause.", "date_published": "2026-10-20T22:52:23+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Wade Williams", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/wade-williams/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-21T20:09:45.701066+00:00", "tags": ["Government & Accountability", "Victor"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/sheriff-blotter/teton-valley-sheriff-blotter-2026-week-40/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/sheriff-blotter/teton-valley-sheriff-blotter-2026-week-40/", "title": "Teton Valley Sheriff Blotter 2026 Week 40", "summary": "Teton Valley sheriff blotter for September 27\u2013October 3: 322 dispatch calls, signed warnings near Victor, three DUIs and a ricochet off a tree.", "date_published": "2026-10-20T22:38:26+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-21T02:38:35.749061+00:00", "tags": ["Sheriff Blotter"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/teton-county-agrees-to-pay-paws-after-shelter-cuts-off-sheriff/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/teton-county-agrees-to-pay-paws-after-shelter-cuts-off-sheriff/", "title": "Teton County Agrees to Pay PAWS After Shelter Cuts Off Sheriff", "summary": "PAWS is taking the sheriff's animals again after Teton County commissioners agreed to pay $5,000 owed and sign a $33,000 contract. A vote is still to come.", "date_published": "2026-10-20T21:59:59+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Wade Williams", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/wade-williams/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-23T03:24:33.939895+00:00", "tags": ["Government & Accountability", "Budgets and Taxes"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/the-week-ahead/four-meetings-monday-a-downtown-tax-district-and-six-deadlines/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/the-week-ahead/four-meetings-monday-a-downtown-tax-district-and-six-deadlines/", "title": "Four Meetings Monday, a Downtown Tax District, and Six Deadlines", "summary": "Four boards meet Monday, a downtown tax district comes before the Driggs City Council Tuesday, and six deadlines fall in the next two weeks.", "date_published": "2026-10-19T14:30:55+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-20T02:02:20.934649+00:00", "tags": ["The Week Ahead"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/victor-moves-toward-connection-fees-of-up-to-25020-per-new-home/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/victor-moves-toward-connection-fees-of-up-to-25020-per-new-home/", "title": "Victor Moves Toward Connection Fees of Up to $25,020 Per New Home", "summary": "Victor's council adopted studies justifying connection fees of up to $25,020 per new home. Most is a sewer fee set by a lift station due for upgrade.", "date_published": "2026-10-19T05:29:39+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-23T03:35:33.397656+00:00", "tags": ["Growth & Land Use", "Victor", "Waste Water"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/how-urban-renewal-redirects-property-tax-and-who-decides-how-its-spent/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/how-urban-renewal-redirects-property-tax-and-who-decides-how-its-spent/", "title": "How Urban Renewal Redirects Property Tax, and Who Decides How It's Spent", "summary": "An Idaho urban renewal agency keeps much of the property tax on rising value in its district, and an appointed board decides how to spend it.", "date_published": "2026-10-19T05:29:34+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Wade Williams", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/wade-williams/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-20T11:48:18.430297+00:00", "tags": ["Government & Accountability", "Budgets and Taxes", "Deep Dive", "Driggs", "Victor"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/warnings-signed-open-space-alliance-turn-up-at-four-subdivisions-near-victor/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/warnings-signed-open-space-alliance-turn-up-at-four-subdivisions-near-victor/", "title": "Warnings Signed \"Open Space Alliance\" Turn Up at Four Subdivisions Near Victor", "summary": "Warnings signed \"Open Space Alliance\" turned up on a building, a foundation and an excavator near Victor, then on the roads into three more subdivisions.", "date_published": "2026-10-15T04:45:32+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Wade Williams", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/wade-williams/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-15T04:48:05.273284+00:00", "tags": ["Health & Safety"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/this-county-needs-a-place-like-this-commissioners-approve-smallwood-event-barn/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/this-county-needs-a-place-like-this-commissioners-approve-smallwood-event-barn/", "title": "'This County Needs a Place Like This': Commissioners Approve Smallwood Event Barn", "summary": "Teton County commissioners unanimously approved the Smallwood event barn, capping most events at 250 guests and barring Sunday and Monday events.", "date_published": "2026-10-15T04:45:29+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Wade Williams", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/wade-williams/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-15T05:27:13.298816+00:00", "tags": ["Growth & Land Use"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/rad-curbside-faces-renewal-or-rebid/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/rad-curbside-faces-renewal-or-rebid/", "title": "RAD Curbside Faces Renewal or Rebid", "summary": "Teton County commissioners vote Tuesday on a two-year RAD Curbside franchise extension that RAD would have to sign unchanged by Oct. 26, or a rebid.", "date_published": "2026-10-13T04:08:46+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-13T20:47:10.818465+00:00", "tags": ["Government & Accountability"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/events/community-trails-shindig-and-fall-raffle-drawing-set-for-oct-16-in-victor/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/events/community-trails-shindig-and-fall-raffle-drawing-set-for-oct-16-in-victor/", "title": "Community Trails Shindig and Fall Raffle Drawing Set for Oct. 16 in Victor", "summary": "Mountain Bike the Tetons hosts its Community Trails Shindig Oct. 16 at the Wildwood Room in Victor, where the Fall Raffle is drawn.", "date_published": "2026-10-12T05:34:51+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Wade Williams", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/wade-williams/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-12T05:34:51+00:00", "tags": ["Events"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/opinion/sin-bin/the-bear-necessities-of-minding-your-own-business/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/opinion/sin-bin/the-bear-necessities-of-minding-your-own-business/", "title": "The Bear Necessities of Minding Your Own Business", "summary": "This week's Sin Bin: a stranger lectured a Driggs hunter for an hour, then admitted her open garage fed a family of bears. Sully says eat your lunch.", "date_published": "2026-10-12T04:30:53.195154+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Sully", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/sully/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-12T04:30:53.195154+00:00", "tags": ["Sin Bin"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/sheriff-blotter/teton-valley-sheriff-blotter-2026-week-39/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/sheriff-blotter/teton-valley-sheriff-blotter-2026-week-39/", "title": "Teton Valley Sheriff Blotter 2026 Week 39", "summary": "Teton Valley sheriff blotter for September 20\u201326: 312 dispatch calls, a second-offense DUI, a truck into a light pole, and a cow in the road.", "date_published": "2026-10-12T03:49:14+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-12T03:50:37.409037+00:00", "tags": ["Sheriff Blotter"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/the-week-ahead/wilder-ranch-and-an-expired-shelter-contract-reach-the-county-tuesday/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/the-week-ahead/wilder-ranch-and-an-expired-shelter-contract-reach-the-county-tuesday/", "title": "Wilder Ranch and an Expired Shelter Contract Reach the County Tuesday", "summary": "Four public bodies meet Tuesday as early voting opens. The planning commission hears Wilder Ranch, and commissioners take up an expired shelter contract.", "date_published": "2026-10-11T22:57:12+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-12T03:25:42.266807+00:00", "tags": ["The Week Ahead"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/driggs-urban-renewal-board-trades-a-year-of-revenue-for-a-new-district/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/driggs-urban-renewal-board-trades-a-year-of-revenue-for-a-new-district/", "title": "Driggs Urban Renewal Board Trades a Year of Revenue for a New District", "summary": "The Driggs Urban Renewal Agency board voted Oct. 7 to start a new downtown district and to close its Main Street district early, in 2027.", "date_published": "2026-10-11T22:57:12+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-14T19:42:57.684325+00:00", "tags": ["Government & Accountability"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/hoa-bans-on-political-signs-have-been-unenforceable-in-idaho-since-2020/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/hoa-bans-on-political-signs-have-been-unenforceable-in-idaho-since-2020/", "title": "HOA Bans on Political Signs Have Been Unenforceable in Idaho Since 2020", "summary": "Since July 1, 2020, Idaho HOAs cannot enforce covenants that ban political signs. What associations can still regulate, and how fines work.", "date_published": "2026-10-08T17:55:55+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-08T17:55:55+00:00", "tags": ["Government & Accountability", "Elections"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/driggs-catches-up-to-the-consent-agenda-law/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/driggs-catches-up-to-the-consent-agenda-law/", "title": "Driggs Catches Up to the Consent Agenda Law", "summary": "A 2025 Idaho law lets any councilmember pull a consent agenda item. Driggs voted 2\u20132 against one member's request, then reversed course the same night.", "date_published": "2026-10-08T17:55:50+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-22T03:56:56.479445+00:00", "tags": ["Government & Accountability", "Driggs"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/opinion/sin-bin/the-657-municipal-hat-crisis/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/opinion/sin-bin/the-657-municipal-hat-crisis/", "title": "The $657 Municipal Hat Crisis", "summary": "A Victor resident flagged $657.19 in VictorFest hats in a roughly $9 million budget. Sully runs the math and finds the real story is elsewhere.", "date_published": "2026-10-07T16:36:58.020910+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Sully", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/sully/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-07T16:36:58.020910+00:00", "tags": ["Sin Bin"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/driggs-sends-road-project-back-to-engineering-over-irrigation-ditch/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/driggs-sends-road-project-back-to-engineering-over-irrigation-ditch/", "title": "Driggs Sends Road Project Back to Engineering Over Irrigation Ditch", "summary": "Driggs moved an irrigation ditch for its South 5th and Johnson road project. On the mayor's tiebreak, the council sent the project back to engineering.", "date_published": "2026-10-06T21:24:24+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-12T21:23:30.288209+00:00", "tags": ["Government & Accountability", "Driggs", "Roads and Highways"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/sheriff-blotter/teton-valley-sheriff-blotter-2026-week-38/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/sheriff-blotter/teton-valley-sheriff-blotter-2026-week-38/", "title": "Teton Valley Sheriff Blotter 2026 Week 38", "summary": "Teton Valley sheriff blotter for September 13\u201319: 279 dispatch calls, two DUI arrests, a rescue on the Grand, and asphalt left in a ditch.", "date_published": "2026-10-06T21:13:31+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-06T21:13:31+00:00", "tags": ["Sheriff Blotter"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/the-week-ahead/early-voting-opens-and-two-cities-take-up-growth-decisions/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/the-week-ahead/early-voting-opens-and-two-cities-take-up-growth-decisions/", "title": "Early Voting Opens and Two Cities Take Up Growth Decisions", "summary": "In-person early voting in Teton County opens October 13. Driggs weighs a new urban renewal district, and Victor reopens the Birch Crossing annexation.", "date_published": "2026-10-05T20:46:56+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-05T20:46:56+00:00", "tags": ["The Week Ahead"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/fish-and-game-urges-teton-valley-to-call-early-about-problem-bears/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/fish-and-game-urges-teton-valley-to-call-early-about-problem-bears/", "title": "Fish and Game Urges Teton Valley to Call Early About Problem Bears", "summary": "Idaho Fish and Game told Teton County commissioners most bear conflicts are preventable and urged residents to report problem bears early.", "date_published": "2026-10-05T20:00:07+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-05T20:00:07.198372+00:00", "tags": ["Health & Safety", "Wildlife"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/events/victorfest-schedule-four-bands-bike-jams-and-shenanigans-at-sherman-park-oct-9/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/events/victorfest-schedule-four-bands-bike-jams-and-shenanigans-at-sherman-park-oct-9/", "title": "VictorFest Schedule: Four Bands, Bike Jams and Shenanigans at Sherman Park Oct. 9", "summary": "VictorFest runs 4 to 8 p.m. Oct. 9 at Victor's Sherman Park with four local bands, a Jump Jam, a skate trick contest, Touch-a-Truck and local brews.", "date_published": "2026-10-05T20:00:03+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Claire Peery", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/claire-peery/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-05T20:00:03+00:00", "tags": ["Events", "Victor"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/events/valley-mayors-can-earn-up-to-1000-for-their-towns-in-october-walking-challenge/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/events/valley-mayors-can-earn-up-to-1000-for-their-towns-in-october-walking-challenge/", "title": "Valley Mayors Can Earn Up to $1,000 for Their Towns in October Walking Challenge", "summary": "Victor, Driggs and Tetonia mayors signed up for the Mayor's Walking Challenge, which pays cities $500 or $1,000 when their mayors hit October step goals.", "date_published": "2026-10-01T20:08:08+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-14T01:53:02.214285+00:00", "tags": ["Events"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/sheriff-blotter/teton-valley-sheriff-blotter-2026-week-37/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/sheriff-blotter/teton-valley-sheriff-blotter-2026-week-37/", "title": "Teton Valley Sheriff Blotter 2026 Week 37", "summary": "Teton Valley sheriff blotter for September 6\u201312: 299 dispatch calls, fourteen wrecks, a car that hit a bear, and a tamale truck cited in a second town.", "date_published": "2026-09-30T21:33:26+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-09-30T21:33:26+00:00", "tags": ["Sheriff Blotter"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/fire-district-wont-fund-a-911-review-without-full-cooperation-from-the-county/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/fire-district-wont-fund-a-911-review-without-full-cooperation-from-the-county/", "title": "Fire District Won't Fund a 911 Review Without Full Cooperation From the County", "summary": "Teton County's fire district won't fund an outside review of 911 dispatch without full cooperation, as the county spends on its own fixes first.", "date_published": "2026-09-30T21:17:52+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Wade Williams", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/wade-williams/"}], "date_modified": "2026-09-30T21:17:52+00:00", "tags": ["Health & Safety", "911 Dispatch"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/opinion/sin-bin/twelve-years-later-she-bought-the-coffee/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/opinion/sin-bin/twelve-years-later-she-bought-the-coffee/", "title": "Twelve Years Later, She Bought the Coffee", "summary": "An ex-girlfriend Venmoed him $80 for coffee after twelve years of silence. Sully says keep it, tell your wife, and buy the family pancakes.", "date_published": "2026-09-30T15:55:04+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Sully", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/sully/"}], "date_modified": "2026-09-30T15:55:04+00:00", "tags": ["Sin Bin"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/smash-recreation-center-clears-zoning-code-review-is-next/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/smash-recreation-center-clears-zoning-code-review-is-next/", "title": "Smash Recreation Center Clears Zoning; Code Review Is Next", "summary": "Smash Recreation Center won its zoning appeal before Teton County commissioners, but it still needs a building permit and fire sign-off before it can open.", "date_published": "2026-09-29T16:05:33+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-19T01:47:11.069364+00:00", "tags": ["Growth & Land Use"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/a-skate-park-built-a-bouldering-wall-next-victors-impact-fees-back-what-residents-build/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/a-skate-park-built-a-bouldering-wall-next-victors-impact-fees-back-what-residents-build/", "title": "A Skate Park Built, a Bouldering Wall Next: Victor's Impact Fees Back What Residents Build", "summary": "Victor matched nonprofit fundraising with $150,000 in impact fees for a Sherman Park skatepark and bouldering wall. Here's how the partnership works.", "date_published": "2026-09-26T04:20:07+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Wade Williams", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/wade-williams/"}], "date_modified": "2026-09-26T04:20:07+00:00", "tags": ["Growth & Land Use", "Deep Dive", "Victor"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/the-week-ahead/the-two-week-ahead-the-smash-appeal-and-highway-33-closures/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/the-week-ahead/the-two-week-ahead-the-smash-appeal-and-highway-33-closures/", "title": "The Two-Week Ahead: The Smash Appeal and Highway 33 Closures", "summary": "Teton County commissioners take up the Smash appeal Monday, ITD starts closing Highway 33 driveways Oct. 1, and Driggs hears an East Ross rezone Oct. 6.", "date_published": "2026-09-25T22:36:32+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-09-25T22:36:32+00:00", "tags": ["The Week Ahead"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/four-agencies-asked-the-forest-service-to-drop-south-bowl-from-targhees-expansion/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/four-agencies-asked-the-forest-service-to-drop-south-bowl-from-targhees-expansion/", "title": "Four Agencies Asked the Forest Service to Drop South Bowl From Targhee's Expansion", "summary": "Four of five cooperating agencies asked the Forest Service to take South Bowl out of the Grand Targhee expansion at the Sept. 24 objection meeting.", "date_published": "2026-09-25T19:22:23+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-09-25T19:22:23+00:00", "tags": ["Growth & Land Use", "Cross State Cooperation", "Grand Targhee Expansion"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/teton-401-asks-for-709-million-a-year-after-the-state-cut-its-levy/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/teton-401-asks-for-709-million-a-year-after-the-state-cut-its-levy/", "title": "Teton 401 Asks for $7.09 Million a Year After the State Cut Its Levy", "summary": "Teton School District 401 asks voters for a $7.09 million supplemental levy on November 3, after state money cut its property tax by $1.55 million.", "date_published": "2026-09-25T19:22:10+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-09-25T19:22:10+00:00", "tags": ["Government & Accountability", "Elections"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/victor-accepts-the-aj-trail-easements-2-1-without-attaching-any-conditions/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/victor-accepts-the-aj-trail-easements-2-1-without-attaching-any-conditions/", "title": "Victor Accepts the AJ Trail Easements 2-1, Without Attaching Any Conditions", "summary": "Victor's council accepted the AJ Trail easements 2-1 and approved a maintenance agreement, attaching no conditions on e-bikes, enforcement or closures.", "date_published": "2026-09-25T17:39:17+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Wade Williams", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/wade-williams/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-14T03:09:59.220333+00:00", "tags": ["Growth & Land Use", "AJ Linnell Trail", "Victor"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/county-planners-deadlocked-on-smash-recreation-center/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/county-planners-deadlocked-on-smash-recreation-center/", "title": "County Planners Deadlocked on Smash Recreation Center", "summary": "Teton County planners deadlocked on Smash Recreation Center's appeal, then voted 6-0 to send it to the commissioners without deciding it.", "date_published": "2026-09-23T21:41:09+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Wade Williams", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/wade-williams/"}], "date_modified": "2026-09-23T21:41:09+00:00", "tags": ["Growth & Land Use"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/victor-has-35-million-saved-for-sewer-work-its-own-plan-prices-at-122-million/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/victor-has-35-million-saved-for-sewer-work-its-own-plan-prices-at-122-million/", "title": "Victor Has $3.5 Million Saved for Sewer Work Its Own Plan Prices at $12.2 Million", "summary": "Victor has $3.5 million set aside for sewer infrastructure against $12.2 million of sewer work its engineers say the collection system needs by 2030.", "date_published": "2026-09-23T18:58:01+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Wade Williams", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/wade-williams/"}], "date_modified": "2026-09-23T18:58:01+00:00", "tags": ["Government & Accountability", "Victor", "Waste Water"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/itd-will-close-five-highway-33-access-points-starting-oct-1/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/itd-will-close-five-highway-33-access-points-starting-oct-1/", "title": "ITD Will Close Five Highway 33 Access Points Starting Oct. 1", "summary": "ITD will close five Highway 33 access points and two four-wheeler tracks between Driggs and Victor starting Oct. 1, with four more removals to follow.", "date_published": "2026-09-22T18:46:00+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-12T03:11:41.610066+00:00", "tags": ["Health & Safety", "Roads and Highways"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/sheriff-blotter/teton-valley-sheriff-blotter-2026-week-36/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/sheriff-blotter/teton-valley-sheriff-blotter-2026-week-36/", "title": "Teton Valley Sheriff Blotter 2026 Week 36", "summary": "Teton Valley sheriff blotter for August 30\u2013September 5: 306 dispatch calls, a US Marshals registry sweep, two DUI stops three minutes apart, no theft.", "date_published": "2026-09-22T15:50:57+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-09-22T15:50:57+00:00", "tags": ["Sheriff Blotter"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/victor-now-expects-to-vote-on-the-aj-trail-easements-wednesday/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/victor-now-expects-to-vote-on-the-aj-trail-easements-wednesday/", "title": "Victor Now Expects to Vote on the AJ Trail Easements Wednesday", "summary": "Victor's council is now expected to vote Wednesday on the AJ Trail easements, a week after the city told the Signal there would be no vote that night.", "date_published": "2026-09-21T22:56:13+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Wade Williams", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/wade-williams/"}], "date_modified": "2026-09-21T22:56:13+00:00", "tags": ["Growth & Land Use", "AJ Linnell Trail", "Victor"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/the-week-ahead/the-two-week-ahead-the-kunz-rezone-asks-for-october-and-a-parks-agreement-expires/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/the-week-ahead/the-two-week-ahead-the-kunz-rezone-asks-for-october-and-a-parks-agreement-expires/", "title": "The Two-Week Ahead: The Kunz Rezone Asks for October and a Parks Agreement Expires", "summary": "Victor's council takes up the Kunz rezone Sept. 23, with the applicant asking to push it to October, plus an annexation and the AJ Trail easements.", "date_published": "2026-09-18T18:07:29+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-09-18T18:07:29+00:00", "tags": ["The Week Ahead", "Waste Water"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/victor-and-driggs-hand-their-wastewater-agreement-to-an-outside-facilitator/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/victor-and-driggs-hand-their-wastewater-agreement-to-an-outside-facilitator/", "title": "Victor and Driggs Hand Their Wastewater Agreement to an Outside Facilitator", "summary": "Victor and Driggs ended their joint sessions and turned to an outside facilitator after a review of their 2011 wastewater agreement found eight disputes.", "date_published": "2026-09-17T20:01:53+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-12T16:27:52.728475+00:00", "tags": ["Government & Accountability", "Waste Water"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/sheriff-blotter/teton-valley-sheriff-blotter-2026-week-35/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/sheriff-blotter/teton-valley-sheriff-blotter-2026-week-35/", "title": "Teton Valley Sheriff Blotter 2026 Week 35", "summary": "Teton Valley sheriff blotter for August 23\u201329: 296 dispatch calls, a $90,000 wire scam, three drug stops inside an hour, and one DUI.", "date_published": "2026-09-17T15:45:10+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-09-17T15:45:10+00:00", "tags": ["Sheriff Blotter"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/teton-valley-health-care-ceo-leianne-everett-will-leave-at-the-end-of-2026/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/teton-valley-health-care-ceo-leianne-everett-will-leave-at-the-end-of-2026/", "title": "Teton Valley Health Care CEO Leianne Everett Will Leave at the End of 2026", "summary": "Teton Valley Health Care CEO Leianne Everett will leave at the end of 2026, she told commissioners, reporting the hospital about $1 million ahead of budget.", "date_published": "2026-09-17T15:29:14+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-09-17T15:29:14+00:00", "tags": ["Health & Safety", "Teton Valley Health Care"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/the-spud-drive-in-has-its-permit-and-its-sewer-letter-back/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/the-spud-drive-in-has-its-permit-and-its-sewer-letter-back/", "title": "The Spud Drive-In Has Its Permit, and Its Sewer Letter Back", "summary": "Teton County approved the Spud Drive-In special use permit on September 14, and Driggs extended the expired sewer letter the next night.", "date_published": "2026-09-16T21:08:23+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Wade Williams", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/wade-williams/"}], "date_modified": "2026-09-16T21:08:23+00:00", "tags": ["Growth & Land Use"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/aj-trail-easements-return-to-victors-council-sept-23-without-a-vote/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/aj-trail-easements-return-to-victors-council-sept-23-without-a-vote/", "title": "AJ Trail Easements Return to Victor's Council Sept. 23, Without a Vote", "summary": "The BLM and Fish and Game will discuss the AJ Trail easements with Victor's council Sept. 23, but there will be no vote that night, the city clerk said.", "date_published": "2026-09-16T20:19:04+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Wade Williams", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/wade-williams/"}], "date_modified": "2026-09-16T20:19:04+00:00", "tags": ["Growth & Land Use", "AJ Linnell Trail", "Victor"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/commissioners-hold-off-on-wildlife-advisory-committee-letter/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/commissioners-hold-off-on-wildlife-advisory-committee-letter/", "title": "Commissioners Hold Off on Wildlife Advisory Committee Letter", "summary": "Teton County commissioners took no vote on the Wildlife Advisory Committee letter asking the recreation district for wildlife safeguards.", "date_published": "2026-09-16T20:18:59+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-22T03:39:10.951224+00:00", "tags": ["Government & Accountability", "Wildlife"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/events/victorfest-debuts-october-9-at-sherman-park/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/events/victorfest-debuts-october-9-at-sherman-park/", "title": "VictorFest Debuts October 9 at Sherman Park", "summary": "VictorFest, the first community celebration hosted by the City of Victor and the Victor Skate Park Foundation, runs 4 to 8 p.m. October 9 at Sherman Park.", "date_published": "2026-09-14T22:09:23+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Claire Peery", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/claire-peery/"}], "date_modified": "2026-09-14T22:09:23+00:00", "tags": ["Events", "Victor"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/wyoming-will-require-a-yearly-certificate-to-take-an-rv-or-trailer-over-teton-pass/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/wyoming-will-require-a-yearly-certificate-to-take-an-rv-or-trailer-over-teton-pass/", "title": "Wyoming Will Require a Yearly Certificate to Take an RV or Trailer Over Teton Pass", "summary": "WYDOT will bar RVs, trailers and vehicles over 10,000 pounds from Teton Pass unless drivers complete a yearly online self-certification.", "date_published": "2026-09-14T21:02:05+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-09-14T21:02:05+00:00", "tags": ["Health & Safety", "Roads and Highways"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/sheriff-blotter/teton-valley-sheriff-blotter-2026-week-34/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/sheriff-blotter/teton-valley-sheriff-blotter-2026-week-34/", "title": "Teton Valley Sheriff Blotter 2026 Week 34", "summary": "Teton Valley sheriff blotter for August 16\u201322: 259 dispatch calls, two DUI arrests, a $10,000 gift-card scam, and a rental driver on the wrong side.", "date_published": "2026-09-11T19:37:08+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-09-11T19:37:08+00:00", "tags": ["Sheriff Blotter"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/the-week-ahead/the-two-week-ahead-a-joint-wastewater-session-and-a-56-acre-rezone/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/the-week-ahead/the-two-week-ahead-a-joint-wastewater-session-and-a-56-acre-rezone/", "title": "The Two-Week Ahead: A Joint Wastewater Session and a 56-Acre Rezone", "summary": "Victor and Driggs hold a joint wastewater session Sept. 16, Victor weighs a 56-acre rezone Sept. 23, and the county hears the Spud Drive-In permit.", "date_published": "2026-09-11T19:05:54+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-09-11T19:05:54+00:00", "tags": ["The Week Ahead", "Waste Water"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/county-planners-back-a-family-land-division-exemption-minus-the-resale-limits-it-started-with/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/county-planners-back-a-family-land-division-exemption-minus-the-resale-limits-it-started-with/", "title": "County Planners Back a Family Land Division Exemption, Minus the Resale Limits It Started With", "summary": "Teton County's planning commission unanimously recommended a family land division exemption that shed its resale restrictions before the vote.", "date_published": "2026-09-09T18:46:16+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-14T17:40:34.183848+00:00", "tags": ["Growth & Land Use"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/driggs-approves-180-unit-corona-valley-after-staff-concedes-the-application-is-incomplete/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/driggs-approves-180-unit-corona-valley-after-staff-concedes-the-application-is-incomplete/", "title": "Driggs Approves 180-Unit Corona Valley After Staff Concedes the Application Is Incomplete", "summary": "Driggs City Council approved the 180-unit Corona Valley subdivision 2-1 without resolving three application defects its own planning director conceded.", "date_published": "2026-09-03T22:54:18+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Wade Williams", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/wade-williams/"}], "date_modified": "2026-09-03T22:54:18+00:00", "tags": ["Growth & Land Use", "Driggs"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/sheriff-blotter/teton-valley-sheriff-blotter-2026-week-33/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/sheriff-blotter/teton-valley-sheriff-blotter-2026-week-33/", "title": "Teton Valley Sheriff Blotter 2026 Week 33", "summary": "Teton Valley sheriff blotter for August 9\u201315: 385 dispatch calls, a jet on its belly in Driggs, 20 loose buffalo in Felt, and a theft that wasn't.", "date_published": "2026-09-03T18:05:36+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-09-03T18:05:36+00:00", "tags": ["Sheriff Blotter"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/fall-river-refiles-the-midway-substation-on-the-parcel-it-was-denied/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/fall-river-refiles-the-midway-substation-on-the-parcel-it-was-denied/", "title": "Fall River Refiles the Midway Substation on the Parcel It Was Denied", "summary": "Teton County denied the Midway Substation because its impacts could not be mitigated. Fall River has refiled on the same parcel, offering more mitigation.", "date_published": "2026-09-03T18:05:36+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Wade Williams", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/wade-williams/"}], "date_modified": "2026-09-03T18:05:36+00:00", "tags": ["Growth & Land Use", "Midway Substation"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/the-week-ahead/the-two-week-ahead-the-midway-substation-returns-and-a-permit-appeal/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/the-week-ahead/the-two-week-ahead-the-midway-substation-returns-and-a-permit-appeal/", "title": "The Two-Week Ahead: The Midway Substation Returns and a Permit Appeal", "summary": "Teton County commissioners take up the Midway Substation permit September 8, and Driggs hears an appeal of a permit its planning director approved.", "date_published": "2026-09-02T22:06:02+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-09-02T22:06:02+00:00", "tags": ["The Week Ahead"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/how-a-fire-engine-kept-victors-urban-renewal-program-alive/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/how-a-fire-engine-kept-victors-urban-renewal-program-alive/", "title": "How a Fire Engine Kept Victor's Urban Renewal Program Alive", "summary": "Teton County Fire & Rescue could have gutted Victor urban renewal districts under a 2025 state law. It signed a deal for a new fire engine instead.", "date_published": "2026-09-02T22:05:52+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Wade Williams", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/wade-williams/"}], "date_modified": "2026-09-02T22:05:52+00:00", "tags": ["Government & Accountability", "Victor"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/victor-reopens-the-birch-crossing-annexation-and-its-14-conditions-are-back-in-play/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/victor-reopens-the-birch-crossing-annexation-and-its-14-conditions-are-back-in-play/", "title": "Victor Reopens the Birch Crossing Annexation, and Its 14 Conditions Are Back in Play", "summary": "Victor's council reopened the Birch Crossing annexation Aug. 26, putting all 14 conditions, including workforce and short-term rental limits, back in play.", "date_published": "2026-08-30T14:20:05+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Wade Williams", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/wade-williams/"}], "date_modified": "2026-08-30T14:20:05+00:00", "tags": ["Growth & Land Use", "Birch Crossing", "Victor", "Workforce Housing"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/no-wastewater-plan-covers-the-valley-countys-joint-session-shows/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/no-wastewater-plan-covers-the-valley-countys-joint-session-shows/", "title": "No Wastewater Plan Covers the Valley, County's Joint Session Shows", "summary": "Teton County convened Driggs, Victor and Tetonia Aug. 25. No wastewater plan covers the valley. Driggs is bound by a consent decree, Victor owns no plant.", "date_published": "2026-08-28T20:17:42+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Wade Williams", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/wade-williams/"}], "date_modified": "2026-08-28T20:17:42+00:00", "tags": ["Government & Accountability", "Waste Water"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/the-week-ahead/the-two-week-ahead-a-victor-city-council-reconsideration-and-a-friday-ballot-deadline/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/the-week-ahead/the-two-week-ahead-a-victor-city-council-reconsideration-and-a-friday-ballot-deadline/", "title": "The Two-Week Ahead: A Victor City Council Reconsideration and a Friday Ballot Deadline", "summary": "The Victor City Council reconsiders an approved annexation August 26, Corona Valley returns to Driggs September 1, and ballot language is due Friday.", "date_published": "2026-08-26T15:26:50+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-08-26T15:26:50+00:00", "tags": ["The Week Ahead", "Elections"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/sheriff-blotter/teton-valley-sheriff-blotter-2026-week-32/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/sheriff-blotter/teton-valley-sheriff-blotter-2026-week-32/", "title": "Teton Valley Sheriff Blotter 2026 Week 32", "summary": "Teton Valley sheriff blotter for August 2\u20138: 302 dispatch calls, an unlicensed learner driver through three yards, a porta-potty arson, and no DUI arrests.", "date_published": "2026-08-25T22:32:39+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-08-25T22:32:39+00:00", "tags": ["Sheriff Blotter"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/commissioners-deny-the-corner-fox-industrial-amendment-reversing-their-own-approval/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/commissioners-deny-the-corner-fox-industrial-amendment-reversing-their-own-approval/", "title": "Commissioners Deny the Corner Fox Industrial Amendment, Reversing Their Own Approval", "summary": "Teton County commissioners denied the Corner Fox industrial amendment 3-0 on August 24, reversing the 2-1 approval they granted six weeks earlier.", "date_published": "2026-08-24T22:14:07+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-08-24T22:14:07+00:00", "tags": ["Growth & Land Use"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/opinion/joining-victor-city-council-and-why-ill-recuse-on-the-aj-trail/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/opinion/joining-victor-city-council-and-why-ill-recuse-on-the-aj-trail/", "title": "Joining Victor City Council, and Why I'll Recuse on the AJ Trail", "summary": "Erica Linnell, newly appointed to the Victor City Council, on the AJ Linnell Trail, her planned recusal, and what she asks of the local press.", "date_published": "2026-08-24T19:05:11+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Erica Linnell", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/erica-linnell/"}], "date_modified": "2026-08-24T19:05:11+00:00", "tags": ["Opinion", "AJ Linnell Trail", "Elections", "Victor"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/both-cities-stopped-planning-to-fix-the-driggs-lift-station-that-carries-victors-sewage/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/both-cities-stopped-planning-to-fix-the-driggs-lift-station-that-carries-victors-sewage/", "title": "Both Cities Stopped Planning to Fix the Driggs Lift Station That Carries Victor's Sewage", "summary": "Driggs tabled consent for Victor sewer connections over a Driggs lift station at 98% of capacity. Both cities dropped the upgrade and neither restored it.", "date_published": "2026-08-21T19:02:26+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Wade Williams", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/wade-williams/"}], "date_modified": "2026-08-21T19:02:26.498167+00:00", "tags": ["Government & Accountability", "Waste Water"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/the-spud-drive-in-cleared-every-vote-its-sewer-letter-expired-first/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/the-spud-drive-in-cleared-every-vote-its-sewer-letter-expired-first/", "title": "The Spud Drive-In Cleared Every Vote. Its Sewer Letter Expired First.", "summary": "Four years after a windstorm downed its screen, the Spud Drive-In still can't reopen. No county body opposed it; the Driggs sewer letter it needs lapsed.", "date_published": "2026-08-21T18:55:08+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Wade Williams", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/wade-williams/"}], "date_modified": "2026-08-21T18:55:08+00:00", "tags": ["Growth & Land Use"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/teton-countys-fy27-budget-grows-shifting-toward-dispatch-and-the-jail/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/teton-countys-fy27-budget-grows-shifting-toward-dispatch-and-the-jail/", "title": "Teton County's FY27 Budget Grows, Shifting Toward Dispatch and the Jail", "summary": "Teton County's FY27 budget rises about 5 percent, staying balanced while shifting money toward dispatch and the jail and trimming planning and building.", "date_published": "2026-08-21T18:45:14+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-08-21T18:45:14+00:00", "tags": ["Government & Accountability", "Budgets and Taxes"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/victor-appoints-erica-linnell-to-its-vacant-council-seat-2-1/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/victor-appoints-erica-linnell-to-its-vacant-council-seat-2-1/", "title": "Victor Appoints Erica Linnell to Its Vacant Council Seat, 2-1", "summary": "Victor's council appointed Erica Linnell to its vacant seat on a 2-1 vote August 18, with Amy Ross opposed, and deferred her oath of office to August 26.", "date_published": "2026-08-19T05:41:20+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-08-19T05:41:20+00:00", "tags": ["Government & Accountability", "Elections", "Victor"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/sheriff-blotter/teton-valley-sheriff-blotter-2026-week-31/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/sheriff-blotter/teton-valley-sheriff-blotter-2026-week-31/", "title": "Teton Valley Sheriff Blotter 2026 Week 31", "summary": "Teton Valley sheriff blotter for July 26\u2013August 1: 297 dispatch calls, three DUI arrests, acid poured on a 4-H pig, and cows out in three towns.", "date_published": "2026-08-19T05:41:15.836859+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-08-19T05:41:15.836859+00:00", "tags": ["Sheriff Blotter"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/teton-county-weighs-putting-its-garbage-franchise-out-to-bid-for-the-first-time-since-2015/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/teton-county-weighs-putting-its-garbage-franchise-out-to-bid-for-the-first-time-since-2015/", "title": "Teton County Weighs Putting Its Garbage Franchise Out to Bid for the First Time Since 2015", "summary": "Teton County commissioners postponed a decision on whether to put the county's exclusive garbage franchise out to bid or renew it with RAD Curbside.", "date_published": "2026-08-19T05:41:15+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-08-19T05:41:15+00:00", "tags": ["Government & Accountability"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/sheriff-blotter/teton-valley-sheriff-blotter-2026-week-30/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/sheriff-blotter/teton-valley-sheriff-blotter-2026-week-30/", "title": "Teton Valley Sheriff Blotter 2026 Week 30", "summary": "Teton Valley sheriff blotter for July 19\u201325: 238 dispatch calls, nine thefts, $4,000 taken from a hiding spot, and no DUI arrests.", "date_published": "2026-08-15T17:51:17.603953+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-08-15T17:51:17.603953+00:00", "tags": ["Sheriff Blotter"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/victor-interviewed-six-for-a-council-seat-its-councilors-split-over-the-mayors-critics/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/victor-interviewed-six-for-a-council-seat-its-councilors-split-over-the-mayors-critics/", "title": "Victor Interviewed Six for a Council Seat. Its Councilors Split Over the Mayor's Critics.", "summary": "Victor's council interviewed six for a vacant council seat on August 12, made no nomination, and split over whether the mayor's critics should get the seat.", "date_published": "2026-08-15T17:45:34+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Wade Williams", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/wade-williams/"}], "date_modified": "2026-08-15T17:45:34+00:00", "tags": ["Government & Accountability", "Elections", "Victor"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/commissioners-reopen-the-corner-fox-comprehensive-plan-amendment/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/commissioners-reopen-the-corner-fox-comprehensive-plan-amendment/", "title": "Commissioners Reopen the Corner Fox Comprehensive Plan Amendment", "summary": "Teton County commissioners voted 2-1 to reopen their Corner Fox industrial approval after a City of Driggs objection was left out of the record.", "date_published": "2026-08-15T17:45:15+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-08-15T17:45:15+00:00", "tags": ["Growth & Land Use"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/the-911-tape-contradicts-the-dispatch-record/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/the-911-tape-contradicts-the-dispatch-record/", "title": "The 911 Tape Contradicts the Dispatch Record", "summary": "A June 9 house fire near Driggs: what the 911 tape shows, what Teton County's dispatch center recorded, and why the two do not match.", "date_published": "2026-08-13T22:01:51+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Wade Williams", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/wade-williams/"}], "date_modified": "2026-08-13T22:01:51+00:00", "tags": ["Health & Safety", "911 Dispatch", "Deep Dive"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/the-week-ahead/the-two-week-ahead-five-county-hearings-and-a-9-million-victor-budget/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/the-week-ahead/the-two-week-ahead-five-county-hearings-and-a-9-million-victor-budget/", "title": "The Two-Week Ahead: Five County Hearings and a $9 Million Victor Budget", "summary": "Five county hearings fill Tuesday evening, Tetonia and Victor hold 2027 budget hearings, and a 56-acre Victor rezone follows on August 20.", "date_published": "2026-08-11T05:47:45+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-08-11T05:47:45+00:00", "tags": ["The Week Ahead"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/the-joint-workshop-ended-with-four-working-groups-and-a-60-day-clock/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/the-joint-workshop-ended-with-four-working-groups-and-a-60-day-clock/", "title": "The Joint Workshop Ended With Four Working Groups and a 60-Day Clock", "summary": "Idaho and Wyoming's Teton counties left their first joint workshop with four working groups to price shared growth costs on a 60-day clock.", "date_published": "2026-08-11T04:21:57+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-14T17:57:10.210405+00:00", "tags": ["Government & Accountability", "Cross State Cooperation"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/four-cross-state-service-models-only-the-homegrown-one-works/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/four-cross-state-service-models-only-the-homegrown-one-works/", "title": "Four Cross-State Service Models: Only the Homegrown One Works", "summary": "The two Teton counties weighed four cross-state service models for paying for growth. Only the fire and EMS deal they built themselves clearly works.", "date_published": "2026-08-11T04:20:33+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-14T17:46:24.024776+00:00", "tags": ["Growth & Land Use", "Cross State Cooperation"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/a-push-to-negotiate-rather-than-object-to-grand-targhees-expansion/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/a-push-to-negotiate-rather-than-object-to-grand-targhees-expansion/", "title": "A Push to Negotiate Rather Than Object to Grand Targhee's Expansion", "summary": "A Teton County commissioner urged the two counties to settle their Grand Targhee expansion objections in direct talks with the resort, not federal review.", "date_published": "2026-08-11T04:20:28+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-14T01:36:46.019842+00:00", "tags": ["Growth & Land Use", "Cross State Cooperation", "Grand Targhee Expansion"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/idaho-is-leaving-federal-transit-money-on-the-table/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/idaho-is-leaving-federal-transit-money-on-the-table/", "title": "Idaho Is Leaving Federal Transit Money on the Table", "summary": "A Wyoming commissioner says federal transit money is lapsing for want of an Idaho match, and the two Teton counties weighed a regional transit board.", "date_published": "2026-08-11T04:20:25+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-21T20:12:46.961940+00:00", "tags": ["Government & Accountability", "Cross State Cooperation"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/stripped-of-its-housing-tools-teton-county-looks-across-the-line/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/stripped-of-its-housing-tools-teton-county-looks-across-the-line/", "title": "Stripped of Its Housing Tools, Teton County Looks Across the Line", "summary": "Idaho's HB 583 stripped Teton County of its short-term-rental housing tools. The one workable fix officials found originates across the line in Wyoming.", "date_published": "2026-08-11T04:20:20+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-14T17:50:15.803374+00:00", "tags": ["Growth & Land Use", "Cross State Cooperation"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/commissioners-look-to-the-fire-contract-for-a-wyoming-funded-deputy-in-alta/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/commissioners-look-to-the-fire-contract-for-a-wyoming-funded-deputy-in-alta/", "title": "Commissioners Look to the Fire Contract for a Wyoming-Funded Deputy in Alta", "summary": "At the July 23 joint workshop, commissioners leaned toward a Wyoming-funded Alta deputy on the fire-contract model, not a standalone sheriff's office.", "date_published": "2026-08-11T04:19:23+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-14T17:42:25.539161+00:00", "tags": ["Health & Safety", "Cross State Cooperation"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/service-by-service-what-grand-targhees-growth-costs-the-idaho-side/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/service-by-service-what-grand-targhees-growth-costs-the-idaho-side/", "title": "Service by Service: What Grand Targhee's Growth Costs the Idaho Side", "summary": "Seven Teton County departments priced Grand Targhee's growth costs, and most land on the Idaho side with no way to bill Wyoming for them.", "date_published": "2026-08-11T04:16:32+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-14T01:37:26.282182+00:00", "tags": ["Growth & Land Use", "Cross State Cooperation"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/the-wyoming-penny-that-could-pay-for-targhees-idaho-costs/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/the-wyoming-penny-that-could-pay-for-targhees-idaho-costs/", "title": "The Wyoming Penny That Could Pay for Targhee's Idaho Costs", "summary": "At a July 23 joint workshop, commissioners from both Teton counties kept returning to a Wyoming penny of sales tax to make Grand Targhee's growth pay.", "date_published": "2026-08-11T04:16:29+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-14T01:38:05.402341+00:00", "tags": ["Growth & Land Use", "Cross State Cooperation"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/lunch-over-the-pass-the-fire-deal-both-teton-counties-already-made-work/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/lunch-over-the-pass-the-fire-deal-both-teton-counties-already-made-work/", "title": "Lunch Over the Pass: The Fire Deal Both Teton Counties Already Made Work", "summary": "At the July 23 Teton counties workshop, the cross-state fire deal covering Alta and Grand Targhee stood out as the one arrangement already working.", "date_published": "2026-08-11T04:16:25+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-08-11T04:16:25+00:00", "tags": ["Health & Safety", "Cross State Cooperation"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/victor-and-driggs-councils-take-no-votes-in-first-joint-wastewater-session/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/victor-and-driggs-councils-take-no-votes-in-first-joint-wastewater-session/", "title": "Victor and Driggs Councils Take No Votes in First Joint Wastewater Session", "summary": "Victor and Driggs councils reviewed both cities' wastewater systems and financing for a shared plant, took no votes, and will meet again in September.", "date_published": "2026-08-04T16:48:47+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-08-04T16:48:47+00:00", "tags": ["Government & Accountability", "Waste Water"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/sheriff-blotter/teton-valley-sheriff-blotter-2026-week-29/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/sheriff-blotter/teton-valley-sheriff-blotter-2026-week-29/", "title": "Teton Valley Sheriff Blotter 2026 Week 29", "summary": "Teton Valley sheriff blotter for July 12\u201318: 363 dispatch calls, a Camaro clocked at 114, a cocaine search warrant, and a three-car crash on Highway 33.", "date_published": "2026-08-04T16:42:27.816454+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-08-04T16:42:27.816454+00:00", "tags": ["Sheriff Blotter"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/the-week-ahead/the-two-week-ahead-a-victor-budget-hearing-and-a-council-seat-to-fill/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/the-week-ahead/the-two-week-ahead-a-victor-budget-hearing-and-a-council-seat-to-fill/", "title": "The Two-Week Ahead: A Victor Budget Hearing and a Council Seat to Fill", "summary": "A Victor budget hearing, a council-seat application deadline, and Driggs hearings on 180 homes anchor the two weeks ahead in Teton Valley.", "date_published": "2026-08-04T15:32:01+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-08-04T15:32:01+00:00", "tags": ["The Week Ahead"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/victor-opens-applications-to-fill-a-vacant-council-seat/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/victor-opens-applications-to-fill-a-vacant-council-seat/", "title": "Victor Opens Applications to Fill a Vacant Council Seat", "summary": "The City of Victor is accepting applications to fill a vacant council seat. Letters of interest are due August 10, with an appointment expected August 26.", "date_published": "2026-07-30T14:51:17+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-07-30T14:51:17+00:00", "tags": ["Government & Accountability", "Elections", "Victor"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/events/james-mcmurtry-returns-to-a-sold-out-knotty-pine/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/events/james-mcmurtry-returns-to-a-sold-out-knotty-pine/", "title": "James McMurtry Returns to a Sold-Out Knotty Pine", "summary": "Texas songwriter James McMurtry returns to the Knotty Pine in Victor on August 5 for a sold-out show, with BettySoo and four decades of Americana.", "date_published": "2026-07-30T13:24:00+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Julia Knowles", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/julia-knowles/"}], "date_modified": "2026-07-30T13:24:00+00:00", "tags": ["Events"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/fall-river-electric-backs-a-new-natural-gas-plant-citing-maxed-out-hydropower/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/fall-river-electric-backs-a-new-natural-gas-plant-citing-maxed-out-hydropower/", "title": "Fall River Electric Backs a New Natural Gas Plant, Citing Maxed-Out Hydropower", "summary": "Fall River Electric is backing a new natural gas plant in northern Idaho through PNGC Power, citing fully allocated hydropower and rising regional demand.", "date_published": "2026-07-30T13:23:55+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-07-30T13:23:55+00:00", "tags": ["Growth & Land Use"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/the-week-ahead/the-two-week-ahead-two-comment-deadlines-and-a-driggs-growth-hearing/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/the-week-ahead/the-two-week-ahead-two-comment-deadlines-and-a-driggs-growth-hearing/", "title": "The Two-Week Ahead: Two Comment Deadlines and a Driggs Growth Hearing", "summary": "Two comment deadlines close this week in Teton Valley: the Grand Targhee objection and Idaho's draft road plan, plus a Driggs hearing on 180 homes.", "date_published": "2026-07-27T23:36:38+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-07-27T23:36:38+00:00", "tags": ["The Week Ahead"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/teton-counties-hold-first-joint-workshop-on-paying-for-growth/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/teton-counties-hold-first-joint-workshop-on-paying-for-growth/", "title": "Teton Counties Hold First Joint Workshop on Paying for Growth", "summary": "At the two Teton counties' first joint workshop, the growth-cost fixes with the most momentum were ones neither county could enact alone.", "date_published": "2026-07-27T19:25:14+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-10-14T17:58:47.988894+00:00", "tags": ["Growth & Land Use", "Cross State Cooperation"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/driggs-wanted-victor-to-help-pay-its-council-and-police-costs-victor-objected/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/driggs-wanted-victor-to-help-pay-its-council-and-police-costs-victor-objected/", "title": "Driggs Wanted Victor to Help Pay Its Council and Police Costs. Victor Objected.", "summary": "Driggs' council tabled a plan to bill Victor for a share of its operational costs, from council pay to the sheriff, after Victor's mayor objected.", "date_published": "2026-07-27T17:19:46+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Wade Williams", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/wade-williams/"}], "date_modified": "2026-07-27T17:19:46+00:00", "tags": ["Government & Accountability", "Waste Water"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/sheriff-blotter/teton-valley-sheriff-blotter-2026-week-28/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/health-safety/sheriff-blotter/teton-valley-sheriff-blotter-2026-week-28/", "title": "Teton Valley Sheriff Blotter 2026 Week 28", "summary": "Teton Valley sheriff blotter for July 5\u201311: 333 dispatch calls, seven thefts, a golf-course battery, and no burn permits issued all week.", "date_published": "2026-07-27T17:19:40.732934+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-07-27T17:19:40.732934+00:00", "tags": ["Sheriff Blotter"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/a-contractor-hired-to-rebuild-victors-trust-withdrew-his-pending-contract-over-his-own-op-ed/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/a-contractor-hired-to-rebuild-victors-trust-withdrew-his-pending-contract-over-his-own-op-ed/", "title": "A Contractor Hired to Rebuild Victor's Trust Withdrew His Pending Contract Over His Own Op-Ed", "summary": "Victor's communications contractor asked the council to drop his pending contract after his own op-ed dominated the July 22 meeting.", "date_published": "2026-07-27T17:19:40+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Wade Williams", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/wade-williams/"}], "date_modified": "2026-07-27T17:19:40+00:00", "tags": ["Government & Accountability", "Victor"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/faa-wont-fund-driggs-runway-repair-leaving-the-city-a-1-million-bill/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/government-accountability/faa-wont-fund-driggs-runway-repair-leaving-the-city-a-1-million-bill/", "title": "FAA Won't Fund Driggs Runway Repair, Leaving the City a $1 Million Bill", "summary": "The FAA won't fund the Driggs runway repair after a burst irrigation line, leaving the city facing a bill near $1 million and contesting the decision.", "date_published": "2026-07-24T19:37:05+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Valley Signal Staff", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/valley-signal-staff/"}], "date_modified": "2026-07-24T19:37:05+00:00", "tags": ["Government & Accountability", "Driggs"]}, {"id": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/175-front-street-breaks-ground-the-housing-authoritys-next-funding-idea-runs-into-idaho-law/", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/growth-land-use/175-front-street-breaks-ground-the-housing-authoritys-next-funding-idea-runs-into-idaho-law/", "title": "175 Front Street Breaks Ground; the Housing Authority's Next Funding Idea Runs Into Idaho Law", "summary": "Teton County's housing authority floated a real estate transfer tax to fund workforce housing. Under current Idaho law, no county can levy one.", "date_published": "2026-07-22T16:48:15+00:00", "authors": [{"name": "Wade Williams", "url": "https://valleysignal.com/author/wade-williams/"}], "date_modified": "2026-07-22T16:48:15.571217+00:00", "tags": ["Growth & Land Use", "Workforce Housing"]}]}