Stories for April 17, 2009

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CMC students embrace gallery setting in annual show

For two days at the beginning of April, art students from Colorado Mountain College's Alpine Campus took over the floor and wall space at the Steamboat Springs Center for Visual Arts.

Race on to pay off tech center

Programs, grants help fund new vocational facility in Hayden

The debt on the Babson-Carpenter Career and Technical Education Center is dwindling in jumps as grants come tumbling in. The most recent grant, $75,000 from the Gates Family Foundation, reduced the outstanding loan for the Hayden School District to $233,000.

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Sailors baseball splits with Bulldogs

For Steamboat, the best way to look at Thursday's doubleheader split with Palisade is to look forward rather than glance back.

Verdant lawns targeted

City, Mount Werner district develop water conservation plan

Lush landscaping is public enemy No. 1 in a water conservation plan being developed by the city of Steamboat Springs and Mount Werner Water.

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'Bridges out of Poverty' teaches strategies for social services

As the economy contracts and unemployment and social service rolls swell, a group of about 80 Northwest Colorado professionals are in Steamboat Springs this week to learn how to more respectfully interact with their clients.

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Banning uses twigs, threads to create sculptural pieces

Beth Banning was driving through downtown Steamboat Springs on a summer afternoon when a pile of twigs caught her eye. The thin, pliable willow branches were perfect for the kind of fiber art Banning practices, a sculpturally influenced creation that pairs parts of trees with synthetic and natural fibers.

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CMC students embrace gallery setting in annual show

For two days at the beginning of April, art students from Colorado Mountain College's Alpine Campus took over the floor and wall space at the Steamboat Springs Center for Visual Arts.

Ritter asks Tri-State for concerns about federal energy policy

Gov. Bill Ritter recently addressed the crowd at Tri-State Generation & Transmission's annual meeting in Westminster.

Steamboat Briefs: Kiwanis announces holiday ornament design contest

The Kiwanis Club of Steamboat Springs is offering a contest to Routt County youths ages 18 and younger, to design the club's 2009 Kiwanis Christmas ornament.

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Hayden officials cut budget

Town slices nearly $250,000 as it expects decreased revenue

Hayden officials took a hard look at the 2009 budget Thursday, agreeing to cut nearly $250,000 from planned spending.

Spring storm ambles away

Forecasters say worst of recent snowy weather has passed

The worst of the weather has passed Steamboat Springs after a spring storm dumped about a foot of snow across the valley Thursday.

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Rob Douglas: It's time to question everything

In a recent column examining the Routt County Board of Commissioners' April Fools' Day decision to cut county employees' pay by 10 percent, I questioned why we need full-time commissioners.

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Race on to pay off tech center

Programs, grants help fund new vocational facility in Hayden

The debt on the Babson-Carpenter Career and Technical Education Center is dwindling in jumps as grants come tumbling in. The most recent grant, $75,000 from the Gates Family Foundation, reduced the outstanding loan for the Hayden School District to $233,000.

Tournament to benefit Andy Caress

Dodgeball, silent auction to raise medical funds for tennis pro

Fans of Steamboat Springs' growing dodgeball trend will play for a cause this weekend.

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Sports briefs: Telemarkers meet Colorado governor

Steamboat Springs High School students Lorin Paley and Ben Paley met with Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter and several other prominent state politicians Thursday, the first time either had rubbed elbows with the state's big wigs.

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Wednesday, April 15

On scene: Ozomatli rocks mountain during closing weekend

It takes a certain kind of party band to incorporate a clarinet intro or lead off a song with a line played by a melodica, and have those touches come off as something other than supremely nerdy or horribly misguided.

Steamboat soccer blanks Rifle, 6-0

The game was clean and tidy, just like Steamboat Springs High School girls soccer coach Rob Bohlmann prefers.

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Ashley Raines living to 'serve the song'

Songwriter sings matters of the soul from the heart

In 2007, singer-songwriter Ashley Raines had just come off tour, and he wondered where to go next. What was he doing away from home 10 months out of the year, playing in bars where bad things were happening?

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Ghost Ranch Saloon set to open May 22

New bar, music venue to offer VIP rooms, lion-skin rug, late-night food

Any musician skeptical about sound quality in a completed Ghost Ranch Saloon could refer to venue co-owner Amy Garris's reaction when the bar's speakers, soundboard and preamp arrived: "Toys got here."

Hayden prepares for big weekend event

Bull sale, cowboy poetry, granary grand opening party scheduled

Hayden will be buzzing with agriculture-related events today and Saturday.

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Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club names Worrell coach

Ex-US Ski Team trainer to lead Alpine programs

Budget cuts by the U.S. Ski Team have given the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club a rare opportunity to bring a top-level Alpine coach into the fold.