Photos for February 24, 2008

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Discovery Canyon's Nick Adams takes down Justin Iacovetto in the Class 2A 112-pound finals Saturday night, a feat only one other wrestler had accomplished prior to the final.

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Soroco junior Justin Iacovetto receives his second-place award after falling to Discovery Canyon's Nick Adams in the Class 2A 112-pound finals Saturday night at the Pepsi Center in Denver.

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Soroco senior Dennis Morgan takes home second place in the Class 2A 189-pound state wrestling championship final Saturday at the Pepsi Center in Denver, losing to Burlington's Mike Satterly, 5-0.

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Soroco senior Dennis Morgan and Burlington's Mike Satterly battle in the 189-pound state wrestling championship final Saturday at the Pepsi Center in Denver. Satterly won 5-0.

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Joe Roberts draws a cartoon that appears weekly on the editorial page of the Sunday Pilot & Today. This is the cartoon for Feb. 24, 2008.

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Soroco senior Dennis Morgan and Burlington's Mike Satterly battle in the 189-pound state wrestling championship final, which Satterly won, 5-0.

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Hayden junior Coy Letlow lost his Saturday consolation semifinal to Byers' Steven Turecek but battled back to beat Wray's Paul Campfield in overtime for fifth place in the 189-pound class.

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Steamboat's Houston Mader lost the fifth-place match to Delta's Tyler Gieck in the Class 4A state wrestling tournament consolation bracket to take sixth in the 140-pound class.

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From left, Michael Ward, Aleck Gantick, Erik Lynch, Jake Barker, Austin Reed, Ben Berend, Cliff Field and Mary O'Connell stand outside of Mountain Cuts after getting their new hairdos. The eight members are off to J-2 Junior Olympics in Michigan on Monday.

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Kathleen O'Connell sticks her landing on Howelsen Hill in Steamboat Springs during ski jumping practice Wednesday afternoon. O'Connell has qualified for the upcoming Ski Jumping Nordic Combined Junior Olympics in Ishpeming, Mich.

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Lena Barker blows a bubble with her gum as she rides a lift up Howelsen Hill in Steamboat Springs during ski jumping practice Wednesday afternoon.

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Mary O'Connell, 13, gets ready to land on Howelsen Hill in Steamboat Springs during ski jumping practice Wednesday afternoon.

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Jean Paul Caouette of Oak Creek, better known as Jean the Weatherman, sets off on his recent research trip to the Arctic Circle. Caouette sports traditional Native American garb, pieces of which have been passed down in his family for generations.

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Published on February 24, 2008

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Steamboat Springs High School's college and career adviser Gayle Dudley discusses the responsibilities of students and their parents in securing financial aid for college.

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A vehicle makes its way through the intersection at 13th Street and U.S. Highway 40 in Steamboat Springs on Saturday afternoon.

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Local citizens gathered at the new location of the Integrated Community Intercultural Center in Steamboat Springs on Wednesday night.

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Workers on Thursday were installing silos at the wood pellet plant in Kremmling. When completed, the plant will utilize 100,000 to 150,000 tons of dead and dying beetle-kill trees a year.

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Confluence Energy co-owner Mark Mathis has been stockpiling lodgepole pines this winter at a piece of property in Kremmling, where he is building a wood pellet production facility. Mathis is hopeful the new plant will be turning the beetle-killed timber into pellets once it is finished in four weeks.

Published on February 24, 2008

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Grant Pound, executive director of Colorado Art Ranch, plans to bring seven artists to Steamboat Springs to create works loosely related to land stewardship.

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Rebecca Dybas

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The middle "star" in Orion's Sword is actually an enormous complex of gas, dust and stars known as M42 or the Great Orion Nebula. Our own sun probably formed from a similar nebula nearly 5-billion years ago.

Published on February 24, 2008

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Published on February 24, 2008

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Published on February 24, 2008

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The 54 single-family building lots on Hayden's east side in Dry Creek Village were carefully designed so none of the new homes will back up to another. Just across the southern property line is the riparian zone along Dry Creek itself.

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Sales director Mark Murrell invites prospective buyers for the ski-in/ski-out condominiums in Edgemont Ridge to visit the new sales center in the Steamboat Grand Resort Hotel.

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Sarah Ford helps guests with their skis as they unload the gondola Thursday at the Steamboat Ski Area.

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Lindsey Caddey moves a lever to take a cargo car off the gondola line Thursday at Steamboat Ski Area.

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Australia natives Sarah Ford, left, and Lindsey Caddey chat during work Thursday in the Gondola Building at Steamboat Ski Area. The two are able to work in the United States using H-2B visas.

Published on February 24, 2008

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Australia natives Sarah Ford, left, and Lindsey Caddey chat during work Thursday in the Gondola Building at Steamboat Ski Area. The two are able to work in the United States using H-2B visas.

Published on February 24, 2008