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On thin ice
Vandalism, poor drainage visible problems with indoor rink in Oak Creek
At the last two Oak Creek Town Board meetings, residents have asked the board to address the state of the town's hockey rink
Council considers cutbacks
Declines in bus service, jobs, maintenance seen as solution to budget woes
The Steamboat Springs City Council will have to decide if it wants to see bus hours drop, 8.4 jobs eliminated and maintenance decline for city parks and trails in the 2003 city budget.
Regina Wendler's love of horses shows in teaching
Longtime Steamboat Springs resident Regina Wendler knew she loved horses well before her 10th birthday. Her love for horses was sparked when she was growing up in New York, and that love still remains strong today.
Sound Off for Sept. 29, 2002
Let it be known that the only people touting this policy governance are the school board, the superintendent and this newspaper, the latter of which has an editor, Scott Stanford, whose wife, Kelly Stanford, is the director of content standards and works directly for the superintendent. Let the majority speak. Ask a teacher. But wait, they can't thanks to policy governance.
All the way to state
Sailors strive for high school golf's most coveted title
Lakes, pot bunkers and 36 holes are the only things that separate 84 of the state's best young players from a coveted state title.
What a catch
Major league baseball players don't often have time to go hunting in the midst of a pennant race. But a trio of St. Louis Cardinals along with a member of the club's broadcast team, got the deal done last week at Three Rivers Ranch.
Behind the Headlines: Ben Beall
Ben Beall is the chairman of a committee formed to support the passage of a bond issue to pay for a new judicial facility. He discusses the need for a new courthouse in Routt County.
A partnership of success
Beth is the kind of thirteen-year-old girl that strikes immediate admiration in those around her. She has a tough-girl walk, but a baby face
Elementary school chips in for principal's bonus
Strawberry Park Principal John DeVincentis did not get his pay for performance this year but he did receive his "bonus" from his staff.
Math program accelerates learning
New curriculum designed to challenge every student
Parent Carole Buelter has found benefits by donating her time to help teach accelerated math to seventh-graders at the middle school.
Good to see skier rewarded
Nobody paid a whole lot of attention to Steamboat Springs freestyle skier Travis Mayer in the days leading up to the 2002 Olympic mogul event.
Searching for rhythm
Volleyball team wins, despite poor performance
Coach Wendy Hall shook her head in disbelief.
Sailors, May step up play
Trailing 14-7 at the half, Sailors coach Mark Drake told quarterback David May to start quarterbacking.
Prudential officially forms ranch division
What was once a merger has now become a division. Nine months after Romick and Associates merged with Prudential Steamboat Realty, it has become a separate division in one of Steamboat's largest real estate companies.
A house that shows its metal
Greta Newton-Brunken said she has been told she sells steel like a television evangelist sells salvation. As the finishing touches were being done to close in a light-gauge steel-frame on a house in Steamboat's Silver Spur development, Newton-Brunken gave a tour, preaching the virtues of steel in residential construction.
Business Briefs: Johnston to lead Craig Daily Press
Samantha Johnston has been named publisher of the Craig Daily Press. Johnston was previously general manager for the Daily Press, and has been with the newspaper since September 2000.
Advisers offer e-commerce assistance at conference
Resort business owners should engage an architect before taking on a building project, Jerry Nichols told a Steamboat audience this week. But bricks and mortar were the furthest things from his mind.
Ski Corp. touts redesigned Web site
Steamboat Ski & Resort Corp. officials have long thought they had one of the best proprietary reservation systems in the business. But they didn't have the same confidence in their Web presence.
Exhibition of culture
Intertribal troupe of Native Americans demonstrate authentic songs, dances
Charlie Denny moves to the beat of several drummers. The 13-year-old was in Steamboat Springs last week to perform with an intertribal troupe of Native American dancers from Colorado and Utah.
THE WAY IT WAS
Had whiskey arrested break jail
Whiskey was responsible for some excitement out of the ordinary at Oak Creek Wednesday when Joe Johnson, who now has the former Bennie Laughlin ranch, northeast of Yampa, was arrested with his brother and they broke out of jail, only one of them being recaptured. He was tried yesterday before Justice O.E. Mallory in Steamboat Springs and fined $100, which he paid. The brother is still missing.
Betsy Kalmeyer knows how to go the distance
Betsy Kalmeyer was looking for a new challenge this summer. More specifically, she sought a challenge stiffer than running a 100-mile foot race through the rugged San Juan Mountains of Colorado. Kalmeyer had already conquered the Hard Rock Hundred near Silverton in record time. She was looking for something tougher. She found it in an obscure event called "Nolan's 14."
Andrea Hayden juggles career, family
Grief drove Andrea Hayden into the arms of her new town. Her husband died three weeks before they were to move onto land they purchased near Hayden, and the only way she could think of dealing was to fill her time with work and meetings. She didn't know many people in town yet.
Linda Halteman turns skeptics into believers
Linda Halteman apologizes for going blank. She's worked as a holistic chiropractor in Steamboat Springs for 20 years helping countless people, so she has plenty of stories to share about changing lives.
Josie Dean hasn't met an animal she can't love
Josie Dean loves animals. But it is a love that has shifted in the past two months. And though she said her love has not lessened for her dog Comet and all the other animals she works to save through the Humane Society, it now has to be expanded to include her 9-week-old baby girl, Anna.
Cheri Daschle loves working with children
Cheri Daschle, the Steamboat Springs Middle School secretary, said when she was offered a higher-paying job, she realized she couldn't give up spending time with kids. "I couldn't see not working with kids I didn't know it meant so much to me until someone offered me a different job," she said.
Cattlemen exchange ideas on natural resources
Nature Conservancy program brings Ecuadorian ranchers to Carpenter Ranch
Jeff Blakeslee steered seven Ecuadorian ranchers through a system of swinging corral doors and into a chute wide enough for one cow. He was demonstrating the Carpenter Ranch's Temple Grandin-designed system for getting beef to the slaughter in the least stressful way possible.
Pat McKnight Redmond has roots in Yampa
If you had told Pat McKnight-Redmond while she was growing up in Sacramento, Calif., that she would spend her adult life in a town of 443 people with one dirt road, she probably would have laughed.
Jeanne Power puts out fires with the best
Jeanne Power did many things she liked to do before she found one thing she loved to do. Power, a paramedic and firefighter with the city of Steamboat Springs, has flirted with several professions.
Accomplished brothers pursue love of cycling
You can hear the pride in Jim Meyers' voice as he speaks about the accomplishments of his younger brother.
TOWN TALK: HAYDEN
Kenneth and Carol Rhodes left for Grand Junction as of late to seek warmer climates. They will be in Grand Junction for a while before going on to a much warmer area to spend the cold winter months.
More problems
On March 26, American Skiing Co. pulled the plug on its deal to sell the Steamboat Ski Area to a group of investors led by Tim and Diane Mueller. Things haven't improved much for Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp. in the six months since.
TOWN TALK: HAHN'S PEAK
What a glorious time of year! For most of September we've been watching the aspens change from a green to yellow, orange and red. This past week has been every color in every direction. Like I've said before, "Autumn is my favorite time of year until spring comes."
Gigi Walker's not afraid to do things differently
Gigi Walker has more bear stories than she can count. It comes with the territory of living in a tepee in the Colorado mountains. She remembers the first time a bear came to visit the tepee she and her husband, Johnny Walker, spend their summers in just outside of Steamboat Springs
Jean Morrow is a country girl at heart
Stepping into the Community Agriculture Alliance's executive director position hasn't been a leisurely walk through a hayfield for Jean Morrow, even though walking through a hayfield is part of the job.
Lynne Miller knows how to find adventure
Lynne Miller said her favorite times include picking her grandson, Taylor, up from school and taking him to Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory and walking around town, talking about nothing too important. "With Taylor I can be a kid again," Miller said.
