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Energy Impact grant requests up for review
Oak Creek and Hayden could soon know whether they will receive a combined $1.15 million that they have requested in Energy Impact Assistance grants.
Stagecoach owners reject five-acre plan
At their annual meeting, Stagecoach property owners voted not to recognize Routt County's rezoning option for five-acre consolidations, and efforts to overthrow the board Saturday were unsuccessful.
Mountain area readying for Grand impacts
Merchants at the base of the Steamboat Ski Area are working to adjust to a new era the arrival of the Steamboat Grand Hotel. Members of the Mountain Business Association met at the Tugboat last week to talk about a test plan to manage the influx of pedestrians the hotel will bring to Mount Werner Circle, Ski Time Square and Gondola Square this winter. They are looking for ways to make the mountain village pedestrian-friendly while ensuring the flow of private automobiles and condominiums shuttle vans isn't unduly hindered.
Day care gets boost
Little Friends partners with school district
The Little Friends Day Care summer youth program got a boost of local help that could mean a bright future for south Routt's only nonprofit, child-care organization. In the spring, the South Routt School District agreed to partner with Little Friends' summer youth program to offer transportation, staff and a school building. The child-care program gives children, 7 to 12 years old, something to do for the summer at a reasonable price.
Excise tax proponents know debate is coming
Money would go toward affordable housing
Rob Dick believes the problem with the supply of affordable housing in Steamboat and Routt County has less to do with the cost of building a home than it does with the cost of the building lot.
Non-residents own more than half of homes
75% of listed land also in other hands
Everybody, it seems, wants a piece of Routt County paradise whether they are local wage earners or families from Arizona. But the pie is only so big, and Routt County locals and non-locals are forced to divvy up what space is available. Records from the county assessor show that the biggest slice of that property pie now goes to people who call somewhere else home.
Stolen Harley still missing
The Oak Creek Police Department is still following leads, but so far has turned up no signs of a stolen Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
Challenge campers ready to go fish
What could be more fun than spending an entire day fishing, having a barbecue and visiting with good friends? Not much, according to members of the Steamboat Challengers camp.
Storms mark beginning of monsoon season
If you are thinking and hoping that Steamboat's sudden summer storms might mark the end of an unusually dry, hot spell, you're not alone.
CSU's Lubick visits Steamboat
Next week, Colorado State University coach Sonny Lubick will head back to the office and begin planning his attack on the 2000-01 football season.
City, rural fire districts reach service agreement
The city of Steamboat Springs and the Steamboat Springs Rural Fire Protection District have entered into a non-binding agreement that would result in the city assuming responsibility for both emergency medical and fire suppression services by Jan. 1, 2002.
Hurt miner's long-term prognosis still uncertain
A 26-year-old miner who was critically injured while working at Twentymile Mine June 6, has moved to Craig Rehabilitation Center in Engelwood and remains stable.
CMC creates 'Business Incubator'
The long-vacant Lucy Bogue Hall on the Colorado Mountain College Alpine Campus has been turned into a "Business Incubator" where start-up businesses and non-profit agencies can find affordable office space.
Young artists hosting exhibit tonight
Third- through eighth-graders taking part in the South Routt Summer Art Institute will show off their work at an art show tonight.
Sport finds niche at Howelsen
The first time Wes Post came to the Steamboat Doubles Volleyball tournament at Howelsen, he was wearing diapers. "I can remember coming to the tournament when my youngest son Wes was still playing in his playpen," Bill Post said.
Fastpitch takes to the diamonds at Howelsen
Local softball fans will have a chance to root on two local teams in this weekend's Mountain Invitational fastpitch tournament, being held at Howelsen Hill. The tournament, which is now in its 14th year in Steamboat Springs, should draw the top fastpitch softball teams from around the state and region. Two of those teams will come from here in Steamboat.
Swimmers end regular season at Rangely
Worsley's campaign ends at the top of his age division
Blake Worsley highlighted the top list of finishes at the Steamboat Springs swim team's last regular season meet of the season ion Rangely.
Students score low
4th-graders below the state average in reading, writing
Soroco's fourth- and seventh-graders' reading and writing skills leave room for improvement, according to the Colorado Student Assessment Program spring test results. For fourth-grade students, 53 percent were "proficient" readers, well below the state average of 62 percent. In writing, 32 percent were tested as proficient, which was below the state mark of 36 percent.
College taking business lead
Director sees new center at CMC playing role in developing Steamboat's economic diversity
By taking Colorado Mountain College's Small Business Development Center under his wing, Scott Ford is helping to tacakle one of Steamboat's biggest challenges: developing economic diversity.
Top professional athletes motor through town
Blues' Twist leads drive for more helmet awareness
A group of top professional athletes, led by St. Louis Blues player Tony Twist, made their way through Steamboat Springs last weekend as part of the Twister's Iron Horse Tour to support the Head First Foundation.
Lightning likely cause of 2 small forest fires
The electrical storm that rumbled through Routt County Monday night may have caused two fires that were reported no more than a mile from each other, 20 miles north of Steamboat Springs in the Routt National Forest.
Tournament continues to be one of the most popular in state
More than 140 youth soccer teams will arrive in Steamboat Springs this Friday for the start of the Steamboat Mountain Soccer Tournament.
War on the West is a minor skirmish
Guest comment
Over the July 4th weekend, 500 angry rebels took up their shovels to repair a road leading to a wilderness area in the Jarbidge Mountains on the Nevada-Idaho border. This modern-day tea-party in protest of the federal government's refusal to rebuild the road along a spawning stream for endangered bull trout attracted scores of national reporters and television cameras. Usually such media attention brings in the politicians like wolves to a wounded elk.
Creek-restoration project under way at Creek Ranch
About 8,000 plants went into the ground at the Creek Ranch last week during a project to restore a length of Trout Creek.
Steamboat to tackle triathlon again
On Sunday, Sept. 10, Steamboat Springs resident Jay Bayless will try to breath some new life into an old idea.
Emergency building moratorium passed
Effective immediately, the city has put a 90-day moratorium on the admission of major development permits into the planning process.
Kissane wins again
Young Vermont runner makes it two-for-two in local running series events
Seventeen-year-old Katie Kissane displayed the type of running style in winning Sunday's Mountain Madness 10-kilometer race that would leave almost any high school cross-country coach drooling.
Raise the bar, RALF
The Regional Affordable Living Foundation has set its excise tax threshold dangerously low, in our opinion. As a way to raise money to buy land upon which affordable homes could be built, RALF is proposing to ask voters to approve an excise tax that would be attached to the square footage of new construction. To protect smaller (read: more affordable) homes, RALF leaders have decided to omit homes below a certain size: 1,300 square feet. We believe that level is too low.
Pick your IRA path carefully
Because IRAs are frequently a large part of a client's total assets, estate planners are often required to include part or all of the IRA in the client's estate plan. The client may also request that the estate plan provide that assets be given by will or living trust to beneficiaries at the client's death, particularly when the client believes there should be management of the IRA asset and supervision over the payout of the bequest. Thus the estate plan frequently provides that IRA benefits be payable at death to a trust.
Chicago flight crossed off
Airline program organizers scrambling to buy seats
One thing is certain in the wake of a decision by local lodges not to continue to collect a 1 percent resort fee: The Chamber Resort Association's program for guaranteeing airline flights to and from the valley is not going to work this coming winter like it did last ski season.
Hantavirus threatens rural areas
Disease spread by deer mice
Seven years ago, Terry Arnold of Craig became the first known survivor of the hantavirus in Colorado.
