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A Conversation with Alta’s Mayor
A Conversation with Alta’s Mayor

A Conversation with Alta’s Mayor

Providing you with the next exciting installment in Little Cottonwood’s leaders series your correspondent cornered mayor Roger Bourke after one of his many town council meetings that keep the town budgeted and resourced. A long-time resident and life long rocket scientist, he and his wife Margaret both have contributed to the town’s wellbeing. Canyon Blog: So, how exactly did you come to be mayor of the world’s greatest powder ski town? Mayor Bourke: When the previous mayor ran for re election he was the only name on the ballot. I have a principle, where there needs to be more than [...]

CanyonBlog2026-09-28T00:28:33+00:00Alta Utah, Interviews|

Alta’s Marshal Mike Morey

Our next installment in the Little Cottonwood leader series lands on one of your correspondent’s favorites anywhere in the canyon. Not the least of reasons is that he and his dedicated team can be found anywhere on Highway 210 from the mouth to the far end of Albion Basin precisely when you need them to be there. Mike Morey is Alta’s Marshal, a position he first occupied as a part-time deputy in 1988 but took over as full-time in 1990. He’s held the position ever since, working alongside his four deputies and the dispatchers who man Alta Central’s dispatch. A [...]

CanyonBlog2026-07-25T19:02:23+00:00Alta Utah, Interviews|

Alta Town Clerk Jen Clancy

Continuing this year’s interviews with leaders from within Little Cottonwood, your correspondent sat down with Jen Clancy, our town clerk. Well, it might be a mischaracterization. She suggested a walk and chat which turned into a two-hour tour of the entire Grizzly Gulch. And a bit of mountain goating… Canyon Blog, who’d already hiked up Peruvian Gulch for a ski run that morning, put on a brave face and did their best to take notes while walking and talking. Jen is a long-time member of the Alta community and it seems somehow fitting that as we approach the nation’s 250th [...]

CanyonBlog2026-06-24T23:39:48+00:00Alta Utah, Interviews|