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Tour returns
Tour de Steamboat returns for second year Aug. 12
After more than a decade hiatus in the mid-1990s, the Tour de Steamboat returns for its second installment in as many years.
Fair time nears
Learn to walk on stilts, ride a pig, enjoy some bluegrass music or enter your baby in a contest to see whether he or she has the chubbiest feet. The Routt County Fair begins this week, and to say it provides a variety of events would be an understatement.
The kindness of strangers
Local woman receives medical help from unknown people
Complete strangers have donated hundreds of dollars to help Cassandra Krause.
WIC tackles childhood obesity
Childhood obesity is on the rise in Colorado. Children are consuming more total fat and are getting less than two-thirds of the daily recommendations for vitamins and minerals from their diets.
Unbreakable bond
Steamboat Springs sends three men to fight in Iraq
The chances that three Steamboat Springs residents would wind up in the same regiment halfway across the continent would seem on the surface to be one in a million.
The Record for August 5
Crime reports.
'Talladega Nights' zooms past challengers
The Will Ferrell NASCAR send-up "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" easily lapped the competition over the weekend, topping the box office with more than $47 million in ticket sales. The comedy from Sony Pictures was the biggest-ever opening for Ferrell in a starring role.
Tom Ross: Take this haircut and Shovick
Steamboat landmark counting down the days
August is a wonderful month to plan a family reunion in Steamboat Springs. You can organize an excursion to the top of the gondola for a picnic amid the late summer wildflowers at 9,000 feet. You can rent a party boat at Steamboat Lake and troll deep for trout as the sun sets over Meaden Peak.
Monday Medical: Take steps to reduce risk of suffering stroke
About 700,000 Americans each year suffer a new or recurrent stroke. That means, on average, a stroke occurs every 45 seconds. The good news is you are never too young or too old to reduce your risk for stroke.
