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O'Hara laid to rest after military ceremony in Denver
Flanked by an honor guard of his fellow soldiers, U.S. Army veteran Sgt. Eric O'Hara was laid to rest Thursday at Fort Logan National Cemetery in Denver. While family and friends said their goodbyes one last time, the men from O'Hara's unit said theirs with a gun salute.
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Watch the game live NOW
Tonight's Sailors basketball playoff game against Pueblo West is being broadcast live on steamboatpilot.com. Make sure you have Flash installed on your computer.
Margaret Hair: Art you can understand
Painter Michael Close has been in the art world for 30 years. He's seen movements come and go, he's tried surrealism, modernism, the elusive post-modernism, abstract this and realist that.
Working the land
Featured Artists' Gallery show focuses on natural scenes
Susan Corser is compulsively interested in the concept of place.
CD reviews of Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks and Chatham County Line
CD reviews of Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, "Real Emotional Trash," and Chatham County Line, "IV"
Let's dance
Group set for 36th annual concert
The props used in Molly Mintun's belly dancing piece for the 36th annual Steamboat Dance Theater Concert were supposed to be an unofficial secret. She kept it for the better part of six months, through weeks of choreographing and hours of rehearsing.
Police impound, auction off about 150 vehicles
Renewed focus on code enforcement in city coincides with increase in sales of unwanted, seized vehicles
Since 2004, the Craig Police Department has auctioned off abandoned and seized vehicles to bidders seeking a cheap vehicle, spare parts or scrap metal.
Fund Board approves $4.4 million budget
The Education Fund Board on Wednesday approved a record budget of more than $4.4 million for the 2008-09 school year, including $1.5 million to complete the long-delayed construction at Steamboat Springs Middle School.
On Scene: Steamboat music mainstays
The band was The Spider Bags, and West Chapel Hill shut down when it played.
Scattered roots
Michael Glabicki on genre mixing and songwriting
Rusted Root lead singer Michael Glabicki sets the bar high for audience reaction to his band's free concert in Steamboat Springs.
Strumming up interest
Jeff Austin and Larry Keel on the bluegrass boom
Jeff Austin has to talk about how he didn't come around to bluegrass music to talk about how he did.
Happy hours
Happy Hours for the week of March 7
Steamboat looks to slow down game against Pueblo West
One team wants to make it a sprint, the other wants it to be controlled.
Community Alliance celebrates eight years with annual event
Art Goodtimes knows growth. And he knows the problems that stem from growth - a need for affordable housing, considerations about land use, environmental concerns, the pace of development - are similar in ski towns and booming counties statewide.
Girls soccer team filled with youths
The Steamboat Springs High School girls soccer team has been consistently among the league's best for five years.
O'Hara laid to rest after military ceremony in Denver
Flanked by an honor guard of his fellow soldiers, U.S. Army veteran Sgt. Eric O'Hara was laid to rest Thursday at Fort Logan National Cemetery in Denver. While family and friends said their goodbyes one last time, the men from O'Hara's unit said theirs with a gun salute.
Youth hockey teams ready for playoffs
Six Steamboat Springs Youth Hockey teams have qualified for the playoffs.
Sailors baseball aims for strong season
As a four-year player on the Steamboat Springs baseball team, Elliot Girard has things pretty well surveyed.
Locals improve at home
Familiar course helps settle nerves in slopestyle competition
Competing in the Freestyle Junior Olympics on your home mountain comes with plenty of advantages. None of them helped keep the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club Freeskier team members from having to grab a shovel Thursday morning to clear the night's snowfall from Bashor Terrain Park at the Steamboat Ski Area.
Building positive values
Assets help youth increase expectations for their future
Young people continually learn values from their families, friends, schools and community. Values are imparted intentionally and unintentionally. Kenny Morris, a Soroco Middle School seventh-grader, exemplifies positive values in action, particularly Asset #30: Responsibility.
Game cancellation raises snow removal questions
Steamboat Springs School Board President Robin Crossan is worried that promises made to parents and students about the artificial turf field installed at Steamboat Springs High School are not being fulfilled.
Rob Douglas: Thank you, Eric
A week ago, this community lost one of its best. We lost a good man. We lost a brave soldier. We lost Eric O'Hara. How do we say "thank you" to a young man gone too early? How do we say 'thank you' to a young man who stepped up when so many didn't? How do we say "thank you" to a young man who answered the call of his country?
The Record for March 5
Midnight. A drunken pedestrian was reported in the 800 block of Yampa Street. Steamboat Springs Police Department officers responded.
Steamboat briefs for March 7
Youth lacrosse signups end today
Today is the last day for spring lacrosse registration for boys in grades five through eight. Call Steamboat Youth Lacrosse at 871-6100 for more information.
Little middle ground
Preservation debate continues as panel prepares ordinance
A committee charged with reviewing the city's historic preservation policies was praised Thursday for tackling an "impossible task," during a public hearing that continued to reveal the difficulty of the group's assignment.
SkyWest stands by pilots
Investigations of Yampa Valley airport incident continue
Officials with SkyWest Airlines are defending their pilots in the wake of a close call at Yampa Valley Regional Airport on Saturday, when a United Express flight trying to land came within 300 or 400 feet of a smaller plane on the runway before turning abruptly to the right and climbing to avoid a collision.
