The Last Stand
Humble Ranch holds benefit
Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008
Local philanthropists in cowboy boots will not be the only ones decked out for Humble Ranch Education and Therapy Center’s annual fundraiser tonight — the center’s therapy horses also will don their finest.
Businesses decide on police plan
Oak Creek owners to present demands to Town Board next week
Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008
Oak Creek business owners came to a consensus Thursday night on what the town needs to do to improve community-police relations, though they are keeping mum on exactly what those demands are until presenting them to the Town Board next week.
Man in critical condition after crash
South Routt resident remains at Denver hospital
Friday, Sept. 5, 2008
An Oak Creek man remained hospitalized Thursday in Denver after sustaining serious injuries in a rollover crash Monday night off Colorado Highway 131 near Phippsburg.
Get down with Java and Jazz
Partners hosts annual fundraiser at Catamount
Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008
Heather Sullivan and her 8-year-old junior partner not only have a great time catching frogs, riding their bicycles and playing miniature golf — their time together gives her partner a chance to set aside family difficulties and just “be a kid,” Sullivan said.
Cisneros wants venue change
Murder suspect’s trial scheduled for next week
Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008
Murder suspect Luz Cisneros is seeking a change of venue for her upcoming trial, which is scheduled to begin Monday in Routt County District Court.
Board gets down to business
Oak Creek trustees to meet with concerned parties tonight
Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008
In hopes of making tangible progress with community-police relations in Oak Creek, a group of concerned business owners will meet with members of the Town Board tonight.
Massive fungus found locally
20-pound mushroom unearthed in Routt County
Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008
When Al Wentworth unearthed a soccer ball-sized puffball mushroom in South Routt last summer, he figured there was no chance he’d ever find a larger wild mushroom. He was wrong.
Labor Day filled with activities
Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
Oak Creek’s annual Labor Day festivities kick off tonight, starting a weekend full of fun — from family events like Sunday’s Kiddie Fun Fair, to social events including barbecues and pancake breakfasts, to the sillier Oak Creek traditions such, as the Kiss the Pig contest.
Labor Day filled with activities
Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
Oak Creek’s annual Labor Day festivities kick off tonight, starting a weekend full of fun — from family events like Sunday’s Kiddie Fun Fair, to social events including barbecues and pancake breakfasts, to the sillier Oak Creek traditions such, as the Kiss the Pig contest.
Oak Creek seeks compromise
Businesses, residents, police hope worst is behind them
Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
One week after a majority of Oak Creek businesses signed off on an open apology to their customers for the actions of the town’s police department, business owners seem to share the sentiment that the tide is turning — hopefully for the better.
Fatka sentenced to jail
Steamboat woman gets 8 years for role in bank embezzlement
Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
Terri Dawn Moody Fatka was sentenced to eight years in prison Wednesday for her role in embezzling more than $1 million from Alpine Bank and its account holders, a crime prosecutor Carl Stahl called “probably the largest theft that this county has ever seen.”
Injured motorcyclist remains hospitalized at Denver Health
Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008
A Hayden man remains hospitalized at Denver Health Medical Center after he was critically injured in an Aug. 19 motorcycle accident on Routt County Road 37.
Community supports Tyler
Auction attendees bid on $20K worth of items to help pay child’s medical bills
Monday, Aug. 25, 2008
As Steamboat Springs’ Tyler Johnson has been recovering from a serious illness, the support from friends and the community has been amazing, his grandmother, Louise Thomas, said.
'Routties' play on and off the field
South Routt softball team revives after taking a year off
Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008
Despite years of dedication and playing together, the members of South Routt’s longstanding women’s softball team, which once went undefeated for six years in Steamboat Springs’ now defunct women’s league, are not sure what their team’s name is.
Vision 2030 report: Community valued
Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008
When locals were asked what they would like Routt County and their community to look like in 20 years, the most common answer was surprisingly simple. “Friendliness. That’s what people value the most,” Vision 2030 co-chair Kathy Stokes said.
Volunteers help Search and Rescue
Group to host annual fundraiser with live music, food Sunday
Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008
Each year, volunteer crews from Routt County Search and Rescue respond to an average of 60 calls for requested service in wildly varying situations, weather and locations.
Speaker has hopes for peace
Golan: Israel, Palestine are close to agreement, differ on goals
Friday, Aug. 22, 2008
While the prospect of ever resolving the Israel-Palestine dispute may appear “pretty bleak,” the two countries actually are closer to agreement than ever, Galia Golan said at a Thursday night seminar.
Flat Tops Ranch Supply for sale; listed at $1.6M
Feed store, farm owners want to move on
Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008
After spending years getting Flat Tops Ranch Supply off the ground, its owners are ready to pass the Phippsburg farm and feed store on to a new pair of hands.
Israeli scholar closes seminar series
Golan to discuss possibilities for peace in Israel and Palestine
Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008
If there ever was a time for Israel and Palestine to try to set aside their differences and seek a two-state solution to decades of often violent conflict, that time is now, Galia Golan said.
Man critically injured in motorcycle crash
Hayden rider ejected from bike after striking deer on C.R. 37
Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008
A Hayden man was airlifted to Denver Health Medical Center with critical injuries after crashing his motorcycle on Routt County Road 37 on Tuesday night.
Sheriff’s Office creates mock hostage scenario for school district bus staff
Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008
This wasn’t about mountains of new school supplies or what to wear on the first day of class.
Fire cause under investigation
Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008
The cause of a wildland fire that threatened two homes southwest of Steamboat Springs last week still is unknown, Routt County Emergency Management Director Chuck Vale said Tuesday.
Mutton busters hang on at fair
Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008
Seven-year-old mutton busting champion Hayden Friel demonstrated Saturday that when speeding across an arena on the back of a cranky sheep, riding backward is better.
Back to school is here again
Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008
Construction at South Routt schools may look like a mess, but the summer projects were “97 percent” complete Friday and due to finish up in time for the first school bells to ring Thursday, Superintendent Scott Mader said.
Four missing on flight from Steamboat
Texas family left Steamboat Springs Airport on Friday
Saturday, Aug. 16, 2008
Civil Air Patrol is searching for a missing Texas family who departed the Steamboat Springs Airport on a private plane Friday morning and never made it to their destination.
Alpine Bank losses refunded
Embezzled $1.2M returned to victims, Fatka due for sentence
Saturday, Aug. 16, 2008
The account holders who allegedly had as much as $1.2 million embezzled from their accounts were reimbursed by Alpine Bank earlier this year.
Oak Creek Town Board hears concerns about police
Saturday, Aug. 16, 2008
In a six-week period, Black Mountain Tavern co-owner Doug Diamond said he had eight regulars — from nearby communities including Steamboat Springs, Lynx Pass and Kremmling — seek him out and tell him that while they love the restaurant, they will not be returning to Oak Creek until the police situation changes.
Evidence admissible in Cisneros case
Murder trial to begin Sept. 8 in Routt County District Court
Friday, Aug. 15, 2008
Statements and evidence gained from Luz Cisneros on Sept. 6, 2007 — the day she is suspected of killing her 1-year-old daughter — are admissible in her upcoming murder trial, Routt County District Court Judge Michael O’Hara determined Thursday.
Oak Creek to investigate police actions
Friday, Aug. 15, 2008
The Oak Creek Town Board agreed Thursday to appoint an undetermined special investigator to examine the circumstances surrounding former mayor Kathy “Cargo” Rodeman’s July 19 arrest and the Oak Creek Police Department’s subsequent internal investigation of the incident.
Oak Creek Town Board wants Rodeman’s arrest investigated
Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008
The Oak Creek Town Board is calling for an independent investigator to examine Kathy “Cargo” Rodeman’s July 19 arrest and police Chief Russ Caterinicchio’s subsequent internal investigation of the matter.
Fatka confesses in bank case
Woman accused of embezzlement tells detectives details of theft
Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008
Terri Dawn Moody Fatka, one of two women accused of embezzling as much as $1.2 million from Alpine Bank account holders, told detectives in June that the thefts began when she put $10,000 down the front of her pants at the bank.
Fatka: “I had $10,000 in my pants”
Woman accused of embezzlement tells detectives details of theft, use of money
Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008
Terri Dawn Moody Fatka, one of two women accused of embezzling more than $1.2 million from Alpine Bank account holders, told Steamboat Springs police detectives in June that the thefts began when she put $10,000 down the front of her pants in the safety deposit box room at the bank.
County denies Wall’s funding request
Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008
The Routt County Board of Commissioners unanimously denied Routt County Sheriff Gary Wall’s request Tuesday to outfit all Sheriff’s Office vehicles and the Routt County Justice Center with defibrillators.
Railroad linking Steamboat to I-70 studied
Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008
The hard details of high-speed passenger rail in Colorado — including a spur linking Steamboat Springs and Craig to the I-70 corridor — are due to be figured out during the next year, determining what types of trains will run, where and what that means for potential riders.
New South Routt preschool facility completed on schedule, ready for first students
Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008
Starting Sept. 2, the pitter-patter of 54 pairs of little feet will sound through the brand new hallways at the South Routt Early Learning Center in Yampa.
Relay For Life participants endure wet weather at overnight event
Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008
Seemingly every walker at Relay For Life on Friday and Saturday had a very personal story. They were walking in honor of someone currently battling cancer, in memory of someone they had lost or in support of friends and family whose lives have been touched by the disease.
New boating law in effect
Alcohol threshold lowered for boating under the influence
Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008
Boating under the influence laws got a bit tougher this week, with the blood alcohol threshold lowered to 0.08 percent and the law expanded to cover the operators of any waterborne vehicle.
Phippsburg line repairs on schedule
Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008
Repairs to Phippsburg’s water supply line are on schedule to allow usage restrictions put in place July 22 to be lifted next week.
Nerneys abandon liquor license
Jade Summit, Pirate’s Pub saga appears to be over
Friday, Aug. 8, 2008
Steamboat Springs Liquor License Authority Hearing Office Jim Moylan allowed owners of the former Jade Summit restaurant and its upstairs bar, Pirate’s Pub, to abandon their liquor license Thursday, bringing an end to one-and-a-half years of dispute between Kevin and Kathy Nerney and the city’s justice system.
Talbott focuses on climate
Brookings Institution president lectures about global issues
Friday, Aug. 8, 2008
Whether the next president of the United States is Barack Obama or John McCain, he will arrive in the Oval Office with a very full inbox, Brookings Institution President Strobe Talbott said Thursday night.
Vanpool options to be laid out
South Routt residents could subscribe for transit service
Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008
The possibility of a subscription-based vanpool between South Routt County and Steamboat Springs was well received at a public meeting Tuesday in Oak Creek, and planners are moving forward to price out options for the transit system.
Seminars at Steamboat continues with foreign policy discussion tonight
Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008
The Brookings Institution President Strobe Talbott will focus on the United States’ role in changing the course of climate change and nuclear proliferation in a free seminar tonight at the Strings Music Festival Pavilion.
Alcohol likely a factor in crash
Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008
Alcohol is believed to be a contributing factor in Monday morning’s fatal car accident off U.S. Highway 40 near Milner, according to the Colorado State Patrol.
Relay for Life hits track Friday
Local effort seeks to raise $200,000 for American Cancer Society
Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008
More than 500 people will take to the track at Steamboat Springs High School for Relay For Life on Friday night — and the walking won’t stop until Saturday.
Voicing vanpool viability
Transit research rolls ahead; input sought from South Routt community
Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008
Proposals for transit between South Routt County and Steamboat Springs are leaning towards a subscription vanpool concept, and those involved in the project are hoping for public feedback at a meeting Tuesday as they get closer to laying out details.
Rodeman recordings released
Sgt. Erik Foster told dispatchers: ‘They’re attacking me’
Friday, Aug. 1, 2008
In the July 19 incident that resulted in the arrest of former Oak Creek mayor Kathy “Cargo” Rodeman, Sgt. Erik Foster initially told dispatchers five people were physically attacking him.
Environmentally friendly products, choices growing for businesses
Thursday, July 31, 2008
The days of recycled paper being pricey, gray and notorious for gumming up office machines are long gone. These days, sustainable office products are widely available at high quality and competitive prices, and paper is no exception, PostNet President Kathy Stokes said.
Phippsburg water line under repair
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Water supply is remaining stable in Phippsburg, where residents have been asked to take extra steps to conserve water for the past week in light of a leak in the area’s water main. Construction crews began repairs on the line this week, and Routt County officials are optimistic that water use can return to normal soon.
Williams to enter plea Aug. 13
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Pamela Jean Williams, one of two women accused of embezzling more than $1.2 million from Alpine Bank account holders, had her case continued Tuesday in Routt County District Court. Her case is poised to go to trial after she enters her plea next month.
Buying into biomass
Oak Creek considers sustainable future
Sunday, July 27, 2008
A quarter century ago, downtown St. Paul, Minn., formed an energy district that would provide heat and power through hot water. Today, District Energy St. Paul’s customers pay less in real dollars than they did when the system was launched in 1983.
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