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Spirit Challenge attracts elementary walkers, world-class runners
When asked what his favorite part was about completing 20 laps around the Steamboat Springs Middle School track Saturday, Hayden 5-year-old Garrett Salazar took a moment to catch his breath and then revealed the obvious answer.
Sailors track team ready for regionals
It was one of those days for Steamboat Springs discus thrower Westin Cofer.
Sailors sweep regionals
Steamboat girls tennis sending 11 players to state tournament
Steamboat Springs girls tennis coach John Aragon has contended all year the class 4A state championships will be a dog fight between four or five schools.
John F. Russell: Coaching more than winning
Blame it on the cost of living. Blame it on our somewhat transient community. Heck, blame it on the weather. But it's a fact that finding a coach in Steamboat Springs requires more work than it did a few years ago.
Citizens for a Community Recreation Center: A time of change
Steamboat Springs is in the midst of an exciting, collaborative and grassroots process of improving the unmet recreational needs of the community. This is an exciting time, and our group, Citizens for a Community Recreation Center, wants the community to get even more involved.
Denise Connelly: Hard questions
Every Board of Education has its own vision, and all our elected members bring varied backgrounds and experiences to mold and implement that vision.
Relay wins highlight Soroco
The Soroco Rams track and field team is hoping for some good weather and its best times, Friday and Saturday at the regional track meet in Grand Junction.
Community members: Reconsider LEED
We, as concerned members of our community, would like the school board to reconsider its decision to not seek LEED certification for the new Soda Creek School.
Best of the Web for May 6
I am impressed with our kids' performances on the CSAP tests. I'm not sure that they are the best way to measure our schools' effectiveness, but good going to all of the teachers and students.
Paul J. Epley: Why road to hell is paved with liberals
Conservatives are cursed with an unyielding need for Individual Accountability as illustrated by three basic principles: (1) Every-thing affects something else; (2) Everything has to go somewhere; and (3) There is no such thing as a free lunch. These three precepts point to the solution for "The Law of Unintended Consequences."
Our View: Move ahead with rec center plan
Results of a study into a possible community recreation center underscore our longstanding position that the city should give voters the chance to decide on an all-encompassing facility at a single site easily accessible by tourists.
Spirits run high at annual Cinco de Mayo event in Craig
When Bette Carlson, vice president of the Comunidad Integrada board of directors, woke up Saturday morning, she found snow on her front lawn.
Ski Time Square primed for massive face-lift
The magnitude of potential changes at the base of Steamboat Ski Area is enormous.
Medical Center earns award for emergency care
Yampa Valley Medical Center earned the top score for emergency care in a recent survey of 250 hospitals nationwide.
Local shops get in gear with latest and greatest in 2007 mountain bike fleet
As the mountain singletrack slowly dries out, dedicated bikers' appetites only become wetter when imagining putting tire to trail.
Soroco's student-written musical encourages creativity, involvement
For Soroco High School senior Martin Germain, playing himself in the school's musical wasn't as easy as he thought it would be.
Fifth-graders put SpongeBob on trial
Everyone knows SpongeBob SquarePants lives in a pineapple under the sea and that he is absorbent and yellow and porous, but not everyone knows the alleged darker side to the famous sponge's personality.
Community Agriculture Alliance: The price a cowboy pays in Routt County
It's fascinating that an industry which leaves manure on the bottom of your boots and a sunburn mark across your forehead can be so important to the health of this valley, but that seems to be the case. A Masters Degree study by Lindsey Ellingson showed that the summer tourists coming to Routt County listed the view of the working ranches as a major reason for choosing Steamboat as their summer destination. Seeing real cowboys ride their horses down a mountain slope with a herd of cattle in front of them suited their imagination of what it is to be a rancher. Ellingson's report estimated that $8 million in tourist money would be lost if the valley did not have a ranching industry.
Jimmy Westlake: Blue moons and red
Have you ever seen a blue moon up in the sky? How about a red moon? Well, this year, you'll have the opportunity to see both, beginning in May with an unusual blue moon.
Joanne Palmer: Prom night memories
In the end, the prom dress goes in the garbage.
Soles that are good for the soul
Steamboat residents prefer function to fashion in spring footwear
Imagine a shoe that has more height than the average stiletto heel, but is more comfortable. Sky-high wedges are street chic this spring, and can be no less than four inches, according to elle.com.
Routt County spotlight: Foster King
Spotlight on Foster King
Looking Back for May 6
F.M. Light sells clothing business to sons
A human skeleton with portions of dried skin still adhering to the bones was found Sunday afternoon by Charles Riester when he was driving cattle in the pasture southeast of his home. He followed a heifer which had run into a clump of choke-cherry and service berry trees, and his horse was almost upon the form before Mr. Riester saw it. The exact site is about a quarter of a mile from the airport on Marble Hill and near the Elk River Road. The figure was lying on the slope of the hill near the edge of the shrubbery.
Business File for May 6
Denver law firm acquires local office
A sustainable summit
This year's economic meeting to focus on environment
Auden Schendler plans to kick off Steamboat's annual Economic Summit with practical solutions to some very daunting challenges in terms of climate change.
Real estate transactions for April 25 to May 2
Real estate transactions for April 25 to May 2, 2007.
Graystone Park sells for $5.1 million
Angler's Retreat developers hope to repeat success
The second piece in the Ski Time Square Enterprises puzzle fell into place this week with the news that the 11.3-acre Graystone Park parcel sold to VGS Enterprises of Steamboat Springs for $5.1 million.
