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Hayden's CSAP scores drop
Hayden Valley Elementary School fourth-graders had no room to improve this year after every one of them scored proficient or advanced in reading on the Colorado Student Assessment Program tests as third-graders in 2006.
Real estate transactions for June 20-26
Real estate transactions for June 20-26
Elk River Guns joins 'friendly competition'
The former home of Golden Cue Billiards in the Dream Island Mobile Home Park has a new occupant. Elk River Guns opened Monday to what owner Ken Constantine called "a wonderful response."
USDA study links creative populations to thriving economies
The "creative class" is on the rise in Routt County.
Prices sprouting at Snowflower
Longtime condo owners find themselves in right place at right time
For many of the longtime unit owners at Snowflower Condominiums, the summer of 2007 is turning out to be a case of being in the right place at an incredibly lucrative time.
Business File for July 1
Old Town realtor earns GRI designation
John Tomasini, a broker at Old Town Realty in Steamboat Springs, has earned the Graduate Realtor Institute designation. The designation is given to those who are highly trained in many areas of real estate to better serve and protect their clients, according to the Graduate Realtor Institute Web site. The program includes 90 hours of coursework on various topics such as marketing and servicing listed properties to real estate law. John and his wife Mary Brown have lived in Steamboat for more than 30 years.
Forest Service workers toil to replace lost pines, spruces
Along a hillside in the Routt National Forest, a crew of six men moved across a landscape Wednesday filled with rocks, fireweeds and charred trees.
Charlie Vogel: Put Coulter to rest
I do believe it's time to put an end to the Ann Coulter column. I noticed that she didn't have one this Thursday, probably due to her busy TV schedule to promote a book called "Godless: The Church of Liberalism" and to call for the assassination of a U.S. presidential candidate.
Paul and Mona Blee: Exceptional effort
We want to commend the Routt County Sheriff's Department for the recent search for our daughter Marie's physical remains. They put forth a tremendous effort and while they were not able to locate her remains, we appreciate all the work and cannot thank them enough. There was such exceptional coordination and cooperation from all involved. We also thank the NecroSearch team and Paul Draper's road and bridge crew for the great job they did.
Conservative commentary: Understanding the truth
I believe it was one of my idols, second president John Adams, who said that "every man is entitled to his opinion but not his own set of facts." President Adams would be a very frustrated man today for so many in the media seem determined to fold, bend and mutilate the facts into what they want the public to believe even when they know it's not the truth.
Our View: Compensate administrators fairly
The Steamboat Springs School Board should use the same criteria for determining pay and benefit packages for its administrators that it uses in determining pay and benefits for teachers and support staff.
The Record for June 29
Friday, June 29
Thrilling finish to challenging 10K trail nationals
It started with a grueling uphill that most competitors chose to describe as brutal. More than 1,000 feet in elevation gain in the first 1.65 miles took an elite field of the country's 67 top trail runners up and then straight back down Christie Peak at Mount Werner. And that was just the first lap.
John Russell: Not your typical rodeo
It's not your typical rodeo.
Cancer patients express life creatively
In the full and sonorous sound of an organ, the hymn "Amazing Grace" rings through the sanctuary of St. Paul's Episcopal Church when Marilyn Ramunno is asked to play her favorite song.
Video: Snowboarders recover after accidents
They both live for the days where riding a line in waist-deep powder is as good as it gets.
Oil tank blast sparks debate
Underage drinking a major concern
The mother of a teenager killed after a night drinking in the Routt National Forest thinks her son might still be around if South Routt communities had more to offer teenagers.
Dave Shively: Growing in Golden
The "pure Rocky Mountain spring waters," that flow into Golden provided the foundation for the world's largest single-site brewery and helped put Colorado on the map, or at least create an ideal of it in the minds of Coors' drinkers - specifically those who have never smelled the general brewery vicinity or wonder about what really washes off Interstate-70 and into Clear Creek.
Injured bicyclist flown to Denver
A 16-year-old bicyclist has been flown to a Denver hospital because of a crushed pelvis and a broken leg she sustained when she was struck by a semitrailer riding down Routt County Road 129 on Friday.
July 4 holiday events
Following is a list of major July 4 holiday events in the Yampa Valley.
Our View: After-school agreement is a smart plan
Kudos to the Steamboat Springs School Board and the City Council for reaching an intergovernmental agreement on after-school programs.
Property stolen in burglaries recovered
The Hayden Police Department served a search warrant in the 400 block of Jackson Avenue on Friday and recovered stolen property from two burglaries in the town.
Community agriculture alliance: Planting trees makes for a healthy forest
Did you know the Hahn's Peak/Bears Ears Ranger District plants an average of 60,000 trees a year? Forester Jeff Hartling said the forests in this area regenerate very well naturally, but after the Routt Divide Blowdown in 1997 and the wildfires that burned 38,000 acres in 2002, crews have worked diligently to help nature regenerate the forest.
Jimmy Westlake: The summer Milky Way
When the bright moon is not in the sky, the dark summer night reveals one of its most spectacular treasures - the soft, misty glow of the "Via Lactea," or the Milky Way. Contrary to what the ancient Romans believed, the Milky Way is not made of milk, but is the combined light of billions of distant suns, unresolved by the unaided eye.
Routt County Spotlight: Colleen Erin Lyon
Colleen Erin Lyon
Looking back: Pioneer picnic on Saturday
The finest dance pavilion in Northwestern Colorado will be completed sufficiently to accommodate the large crowds that will gather in Steamboat Springs for the Cowboys Round Up on July 4th, staged by the American Legion. The hall will provide room without crowding on the dance floor for 350 couples.</p
First resale on the books at West End
Last of deed-restricted townhomes sells
After 18 months of marketing, listing Realtor Norbert Turek of Elk River Realty reports he has sold the last of the 10 deed-restricted units in West End Townhomes. The buyer was a longtime Steamboat Springs resident.
Ann Reis: Community cares
Thank You, Thank You.
Richard Gaines: Rules restrictive
I am a resident of Florida and have been a vacation homeowner in Steamboat Springs since 1989.
Best of the Web for July 1
Best of the Web for July 1
Summer camp offers tennis, music instruction to South Routt youths
When 11-year-old Oak Creek resident and aspiring musician Jessica Miller writes a song, it comes from the heart.
Teams assemble for hopes of softball tourney glory
Believe it or not, it wasn't the skiing that brought Lisa Wynn to Steamboat Springs. It was the softball.
South Routt remembers fallen teens during service
Christopher King Fuller and Sam Theodore Hedemark grew up together. They shared in adventures together and, on Saturday, the two South Routt teens were laid to rest together.
Steamboat's top off-road racers look to keep sport alive in Yampa Valley
Randy Osborn has been fixing motorcycles in Steamboat Springs for nearly 40 years. For the past year, Osborn has been quietly wrenching the bikes of a dedicated clientele who entrust their two-wheelers to his one-man, hole-in-the-wall operation, The Motorcycle Shop.
A stroll through streetscape
Public given opportunity to help decide on proposed changes
The public has its first chance to help decide about proposed streetscape changes to downtown Steamboat Springs.
Mike Lawrence: Nothing on the books
Growth all but unchecked in Steamboat law
A popular question around town is why all this construction is happening at once - or more specifically, why the Steamboat Springs City Council approved a truckload of projects at the same time.
Joanne Palmer: So not cool
I am not cool.
Video: 'It doesn't seem to matter how old or how young you are, trains are magical.'
Even before the train blew its whistle, you could tell it was near by the unmistakable shrieks and laughter coming from the throngs of children standing along the train tracks Thursday.
