Stories
Hayden team might be too top-heavy
In the sport of wrestling, being strong on top and weak on the bottom is not all that uncommon, but it is not often used to describe a team.
UNDER THE SUN
Bumper battles
Whether it's the weaving one-lane highways, the unpredictable weather, or something to do with why water boils at a lower temperature at higher elevations, bad drivers become horrible drivers in the high country.
LETTERS
Letters for Nov. 18, 2001
The record
The record for Nov. 10-16, 2001
ENERGY EXPRESS
Thinner thighs? Less jiggle means more energy
Are you prone to inner thigh jiggle? Would you like to whip those adductor muscles into shape so one thigh isn't rubbing against the other when you walk across the room in your underpants?
Soroco faces low turnout
Coach says Rams that have come out are good athletes
Quality, not quantity, is what Soroco's wrestling program will be selling this year.
Residents upbeat about giving thanks
Thanksgiving 2001 comes at a time when people might struggle to find reasons to be thankful.
Potter-Mania
Eleven-year-olds Tara Conlin and Missy Krous were the first muggles in line for the 7 o'clock showing of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone at the Chief Plaza Theater Friday night.
Back to the mats
Small but dedicated group of Sailors out for the wrestling team this season
The weight room head coach Jay Muhme knew when he was in high school is nothing like the one he saw Monday afternoon when he arrived for his first practice as the Sailors' head coach.
Bazaar brings arts awareness for Hayden students
Promising young artists at Hayden High School might be the unlikely recipients of a new holiday tradition in Hayden.
Building permits
Building permits for Nov. 1-9
Mixing it up for the holidays
The traditional menu sees a transition
If stepping out on a limb with holiday food this Thanksgiving or Christmas feels a little too unnatural but staying with traditional items seems too bland, try a variation with your favorite foods. Patrick Lowe, Steamboat Grand Resort Hotel executive chef, said he thinks people are curious to try new variations of traditional holiday food. However, since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, people have returned to traditional or comfort foods.
AFTER THE WHISTLE
What's right with wrestling
I can't help but wonder if new wrestling coach Jay Muhme is one of those guys who has a Rubix Cube sitting on the table next to his favorite recliner at home.
Teachers learn to delve into data
Technology could assist educators in their approach to CSAP
They might not have been wearing hard hats or brandishing pick axes, but the school administrators and support staff that gathered at Steamboat Springs High School this weekend were learning to mine. Mine for data, that it is.
WEDDING
Vitek and Draper
Around Town
Around town for Nov. 18, 2001
BEHIND THE HEADLINES
The changing of the guard
Kathy Connell became the new president of the Steamboat Springs City Council last week an unenviable task given the recent divisive elections, an uncertain economic forecast and a thinning city budget. What differences in leadership will she bring and how does she see her next two years as council president? We asked her to give her thoughts on upcoming issues.
Still time for the 'Big One'
The most aggro anglers in Routt County won't be putting away their poles when winter finally grips the valley and the ski runs are open. However, for many, when the white stuff comes it's time to grab the sticks and go skiing.
Weekend storm deemed 'weak'
NWS: Winter weather likely to hit later this week
Rain, sleet and snow fell in Routt County on Sunday, and up to 3 inches of the white stuff was forecast to have fallen in Steamboat Springs by today. However, the National Weather Service says the moisture is not the beginning of the first substantial winter storm in the High Country but that storm could be right around the corner.
Meteor shower spells doom for Denver Donkeys
I didn't recognize it at the time, but looking back on it now, I can see quite clearly that in the early morning hours of Nov. 18, I received a cosmic sign, a celestial caution if you will, that Sunday would not be a good day to hang around the hacienda and watch the Denver Broncos attempt to play football.
Doctor earns teaching award
McCaulley honored by students who learn from him
The necessary training for a doctor to excel in his practice stems from his education in the classroom and through his clinical experience under the guidance of physicians. Dr. Mark McCaulley, one of many physicians in Steamboat Springs who teaches medical students, has received the Outstanding Clinical Faculty Medical Student Teaching Award through the University of Colorado's Department of Medicine.
New rules take effect
New state rules about losing weight at the last minute will change how Colorado high school wrestlers weigh in this year.
BUSINESS FILE
Apartment vacancy rates on increase The vacancy rate for apartments in Steamboat Springs is lower than the statewide average, but still higher than most mountain towns.
Dollar volume down 50 percent
Sept. 11 attacks, eroding economy have taken their toll on Steamboat housing market
A shaky economy and eroding consumer confidence in the face of terrorist attacks have combined to cut the dollar volume of Steamboat real estate sales in half during the first nine weeks since Sept. 11.
United ups total seats out of YVRA
Airline returning to airport and will stay for summer
A spokesman for United Airlines said this week his company intends to serve the Yampa Valley again beginning Dec. 14 and continue next summer and beyond.
Steamboat Grand's future is a mystery
ASC won't say if hotel and conference center is part of pending ski area sale
American Skiing Company officials declined this week to say whether the Steamboat Grand Hotel and Conference Center will be included in the pending sale of the Steamboat Ski Area.
OUR VIEW
It's been more than a year since Steamboat Springs residents learned of the tragic loss of Lori Bases in their community. Bases was brutally murdered slashed repeatedly and left to die by someone who had little compassion for a person who has been described as "the best friend anyone could ask for."
Local briefing
Local briefs for Nov. 18, 2001
In Brief
In brief for Nov. 18, 2001
Weekly Planner
Weekly planner for Nov. 19-24, 2001
Class notes
Class notes for Nov. 18, 2001
ASKED AND ANSWERED
War of the waistline
Soon enough, stuffing, potatoes, butter and pies will surround our kitchens and invade our homes. You have two choices: get ready to have some will power or get ready to get fat.
RALPH ANDERSON
1940-2001
A gathering to give thanks
Soroco High School honors its community's senior citizens
Jim Pitzer returned to familiar surroundings Thursday for the first time in seven years. Pitzer, who taught speech and English for seven years at Soroco High School before retiring almost 20 years ago, shared a Thanksgiving meal at the high school with other senior citizens.
Council vets say they've left the city a little better off
Bennett, Engelken and Brenner discuss their time in city government
Picture roads clear cut into the rock 50 feet from the chairlift on Howelsen Hill, 6,000-square-foot luxury homes plopped onto the ridgeline of Emerald Mountain.
Slip-sliding away: Tips for safe driving
Believe it or not, winter will soon be here.
Johnson back in Routt County
Before convicted murderer Thomas Lee Johnson starts serving a life sentence in prison, his last two months will be spent in the Routt County Detention Center.
High and dry
Skiers, farmers keeping their eyes to the skies
Colorado's dryland wheat farmers and ski area operators have a couple of things in common. They both put on bibbed overalls to go to work (although wheat farmers typically pay $200 less for their overalls than do skiers) and they both look to the jet stream for their salvation. It's all about snow.
Cookie dough dispute
'Hot Cookies Steamboat' calls it quits instead of paying more for lease
A fixture at the entrance to the Steamboat Ski Area for the past 17 years disappeared unceremoniously this week when a crane loaded the gazebo that housed "Hot Cookies Steamboat" onto a Low-Boy truck that hauled away the little blue and white building with the peaked roof.
