Mike Lawrence: Base-area bouillabaisse

As Steamboat Ski Area prepares for Scholarship Day on Wednesday, there’s a lot going on around the resort’s base that has nothing to do with skis or snowboards.

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Joanne Palmer: We could enjoy a starry night at Ski Time Square

Winter stargazing is just one of the activities that could happen in Ski Time Square … until we get a professional football team. The demolished site of Ski Time Square commercial area needs something that will attract tourists to the area.

Learning to overcome fear in Nairobi, Kenya

I returned to the Rescue Centre last week in order to be here when four girls from Tasaru completed secondary school. This is my first opportunity to be with girls from the start as they begin the process of transitioning out of the center once they have completed high school.

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Tom Ross: A place for book enthusiasts

Site helps you find reads like Stegner’s Powell biography

I haven’t logged any face time on Facebook yet, but I blog at least three times a week and I tweet like a neo-tropical songbird. Beginning today, I also read good. I now have a profile on a social networking site for bookworms called Goodreads.

Jimmy Westlake: Looking down on the universe

Have you had the opportunity to visit the Grand Canyon and stroll out onto the new Skywalk? It’s a glass bridge that is suspended out over the canyon such that visitors can literally look down under their feet and see the depths of the Grand Canyon below them.

Deb Babcock: You can count on geraniums

One indoor plant Steam­boat Springs gardeners can count on is the geranium. No matter how much abuse we heap on this plant, it seems to thrive and flower all year round. That’s partly because it’s so sunny here in Steamboat. Geraniums love sunlight.

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Luke Graham: Football on the brain

What a week for Sailors football, but what tough times for the University of Colorado Buffs. Here are some notes on Steamboat's upcoming game with Windsor in the second round of the Class 3A playoffs and the state of college football in Colorado.

Joel Reichenberger: Krakauer comes just short

Garth Brooks has been undoubtedly popular nationwide. Still, I always have been convinced that people from my region of Kansas liked him just a little bit more. I’ve always had the feeling that Steamboat Springs has a similar love affair with Jon Krakauer.

Bill Ritter Jr.: Tough times mean shared sacrifice

When Lt. Gov. Barbara O’Brien and I first took office in January 2007, we made education our top priority. We vowed to reduce the dropout rate, close achievement gaps and increase the number of in-state students who earn a college degree.

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Joel Reichenberger: Sailors take advantage with big plays

Steamboat Springs High School got what it needed Friday night at Gardner Field — a 24-13 opening-round playoff victory against Berthoud — but it wasn’t always pretty. In a lot of ways, the Sailors struggled.

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Tom Ross: Lea wants to borrow your car

Lea Croteau is a professional sports car driver, and she wants to borrow your vehicle. And don’t be surprised if your set of wheels seems to have undergone an attitude adjustment when she returns it — Croteau knows how to accelerate out of the corners.

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Joann Palmer: Beware the Snowy Triangle

Attention, all Steamboat Springs residents. Today, scientists announced the discovery of the Snowy Triangle. The Snowy Triangle is like the Bermuda Triangle where, poof, things vanish for no apparent reason.

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Tom Ross: Enjoy the balmy weather while you can

We drove to the base of the Thunderhead Express on Sunday morning determined to hike up the mountain through the fresh powder. I would estimate the depth of the newly fallen snow at one-quarter of an inch — wahoo! Rip it up. Just two weeks until opening day!

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Jimmy Westlake: A great year for Leonid meteors

Less than a year after the end of the American Civil War, two astronomers independently discovered a comet that now bears their names: Ernst Tempel, of France, and Horace Tuttle, of the United States. It is the debris shed by Comet Tempel-Tuttle that creates our annual Leonid meteor shower each November.

Deb Babcock: Force bulbs to grow indoors

Flowers can provide winter color and fragrance

Many of the local garden centers are promoting bulbs this month to plant for color next spring. As you consider whether to pick up some bulbs for the garden, consider purchasing a few to bring fragrance and color inside your home during the drab winter.

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