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In full bloom
Botanic Park offers beauty, new events this summer
Gayle Noonan might work in Eden, but on a hot summer afternoon, the gardens are no paradise.
Our View: Special session an ode to politics
Sadly, the special legislative session on immigration is little more than election-year politics.
Shirley Stewart: Rainbow defense
Just for the information of some of you folks who are bashing the Rainbow Family Gathering there.
Kristi Brown: Revise liquor ordinance
As a parent, public health advocate, community member and liquor license holder, I have an unusual vantage point from which to examine the city's liquor enforcement policy.
Rita Kelly (1916-2006)
Longtime Steamboat Springs resident Rita Kelly passed away on the evening of June 24, 2006. She was 90.
In Step
July 4 parade a community affair
In last year's Fourth of July Parade, the Steamboat Libraries Freadom Book Cart Drill Team shocked onlookers.
An event worth the wait
Howelsen's year-round jump dedicated as 'The Senator'
Kevin Bennett was one of the many smiling faces present on Saturday afternoon at Howelsen Hill for the dedication of the K-68 year-round ski jump. The jump's dedication was an affirming realization of a journey that began six years ago for former Steamboat Springs city council president in the kitchen of his mother's Minnesota home.
Calamity Jane's new in Oak Creek
When the West was still wild, women like Calamity Jane ruled.
Dancing with the Devil
Newcomers to Flat Tops call Causeway a heck of a hike
Beware of tempting Mother Nature and the Devil.
URA has plans for base of ski area
Funding for operational costs of projects still must be identified
Changes are coming to the base of Steamboat Ski Area, but officials still are figuring out how to pay for the ongoing costs associated with those projects.
New names for Pluto's moons
In March, astronomers Hal Weaver and Alan Stern surprised the world with the announcement that the Hubble Space Telescope had spotted two new moons orbiting the planet Pluto.
Mining for real estate
Vista Ridge planned for Peabody Energy land
One of the nation's largest energy companies has a stake in the latest rural residential subdivision in Routt County.
A sweet ending
Carol Ginsberg estimates she has an inventory of nearly 10,000 T-shirts and a September deadline to get rid of them.
Competing to buy
Entry-level duplex sells above asking price
The market for homes priced below $500,000 in Steamboat Springs has heated up to the point that some buyers are making initial offers above the asking price.
Business briefs for July 2
First National Bank of the Rockies has moved into its new building at 270 Anglers Drive, next to McDonald's. For the past two years, the bank had been operating at 465 Anglers Drive.
Ready for the next 100 years
Maxwell/Squire Building getting a facelift
A landmark building in downtown Steamboat Springs is undergoing a historical preservation project that should assure its second 100 years at the corner of Ninth Street and Lincoln Avenue.
Bringing the love
Rainbow Family members prepare Interdependence Day celebation
Instead of shooting off fireworks and grilling hot dogs for the Fourth of July, members of the Rainbow Family of Living Light plan to form a prayer circle thousands of people wide and pray for world peace.
John F. Russell: Living by a code in Rodeo
On Friday night I watched bareback rider Jed Baker take a nasty fall off of a bucking horse named Magic.
South Routt calendar July 2
Monday, July 3
The Record for June 30
Friday, June 30
Thomas Laprade: Smoke screen
The bandwagon of local smoking bans now steamrolling across the nation from sea to sea has nothing to do with protecting people from the supposed threat of second-hand smoke. The bans are symptoms of a far more grievous threat; a cancer that has been spreading for decades. This cancer is the only real hazard involved -- the cancer of unlimited government power.
Tom Cody: NASCAR drivers
Hey. I'd like to talk about the insane driving going on around Steamboat, Hayden, Craig, Oak Creek and Yampa. I would like to live five minutes from work, but I don't. I commute like so, so many others around here.
