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Howell leaving district
Superintendent, board agree on contract buyout
Donna Howell's tenure as the superintendent of the Steamboat Springs School District ended Friday afternoon as she and the School Board reached agreement on a contract buyout. In exchange for her resignation, the district will pay Howell $270,000, slightly less than the $300,000 she would have earned in salary and benefits from serving out the remaining two years on her contract.
Annual 'Lettuce Celebrate' event highlights Yampa's agricultural heritage
Bring your favorite salad dressing, it's time to celebrate Yampa's favorite vegetable - lettuce.
Sailors have early season jitters
Steamboat Springs golf team finishes fifth in first tournament
The good news is it was the first tournament of the year.
Business File for August 12
Pam Lindahl joins MacArthur & Stine
On Scene
Channeling Giamatti
The Tao Jones band returns to Mahogany Ridge
Taoism is all about finding constancy in a life of continuous, swirling change.
Happy Hours
Happy Hours
Deb Babcock: Hemlock: A horticultural horror
Two of the most poisonous plants in North America can be found here in the Steamboat area: poison hemlock (Conium maculatum) and western water-hemlock (Cicuta douglasii). Yes, hemlock is the plant that killed Socrates in Athens in 329 BC. Just a small taste of these plants can cause a quick, painful death.
Going the distance
Track coach plans double marathon in memory of mother
Greg Long knows how to prepare for a successful run.
On the bright side
Advances offer hope for cheaper solar power
Solar power technician Marc Landry bounces around a laboratory like lightning in a bottle - or more specifically, like silicon atoms subjected to extreme heat in a test machine.
Saving grace
Conservation called key to energy future
It is widely accepted that real changes in the production and consumption of energy will not only result from new technologies, such as innovations in wind and solar power. Real change will also - and primarily - result from conserving resources that already are in play.
Wheat country windfall
Wind power blows into Logan County
The truck seems out of place rolling past Main Street in Peetz, a dusty little town on the plains of northeastern Colorado.
Fall CMC enrollment up
Officials at Colorado Mountain College's Alpine Campus are gearing up for another busy fall.
Motocross highlights fair
93rd annual event kicks off today with open horse show
The 93rd annual Routt County Fair begins today in Hayden and continues through Aug. 19. For the first time, the fair will feature a freestyle motocross stunt show as its highlight event.
Ski Corp. selling chairlifts to benefit environmental projects
If your children grew up on the Headwall chairlift or you met your wife riding up Christie II, you'll soon have the opportunity to own a piece of that Steamboat history.
Chain store conundrum
Formula business debate ties up Planning Commission
An ordinance that could keep chain stores out of downtown Steamboat Springs is raising more questions than answers.
Bike tour brings riders to area trails
After 41 years of riding off-road motorcycles, Yuba City, Calif., resident Bob Jensen sees recreational dirt bike rides as a way to instantly open up the outdoors.
The Record for Aug. 8
1:53 a.m. A drunken man in the 1800 block of Ski Time Square reported that his car keys were missing. The man's mother came and picked him up, police said.
Old names, new work
'FIVE' local women open new downtown gallery
Ask Kimberly Conrad Saari why she decided to open the K. Saari Gallery in downtown Steamboat Springs and she acts as if it was something completely out of her hands.
Feminine touch
'Eleemosynary' examines relationship of three generations of women
From Toni Morrison's "Beloved" to Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club," mother-daughter relationships have long been a topic of artistic expression.
Coal country roots
Kathy Mattea brings sound of Appalachians to Steamboat
If you want to see Kathy Mattea perform tonight, get to the Strings in the Mountains box office this morning.
