Stories for June 29, 2002

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Police on alert

Zero tolerance

Local and area law enforcement intend to take every precaution over the Fourth of July holiday to safeguard the public and property against the threat of wildfire.

The Godfather's bridge

James Brown snatched a piece of Steamboat history nine years ago

The Godfather of Soul returns to Steamboat Springs this week. This time he's going to do what he does best perform for thousands at the Independence Incident.

Invasion of the grasshoppers

Insects have infested, devoured Routt fields

Each step that Terri George took across her front lawn, a cloud of grasshoppers buzzed up around her knees. "It's like the yard is moving it's so creepy," said Terri George, who grows hay and alfalfa with her husband, Jeff George, at Elk River Ranch in Steamboat Springs. "You take a step and they just fly."