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School district, city partner for sidewalk grant
Money would build sidewalks around CMS, Sandrock campus
To help alleviate the problem of youths wandering in front of cars, the city and Moffat County School District are working together to apply for $188,905 in state grant money to build sidewalks on six streets surrounding the CMS and Sandrock campus.
Allison Miriani: Time for the Olympics
I imagine that working at a news organization during the Olympics is pretty exciting no matter where you are. But short of being in Vancouver this February, I doubt it could get more exciting than working at a newspaper and magazine in Ski Town USA.
Minister performs weddings in blizzards, at ball fields, in balloons
Lynne Masters has performed wedding ceremonies for a decade, but her most unusual came last summer. “I did a surprise wedding,” she said. Masters performed a wedding ceremony for a couple visiting Steamboat Springs for a Triple Crown Sports event. The surprised party? The groom.
Ski Corp.’s vice president of sales and marketing Andy Wirth is back in town
Andy Wirth has a lot to be happy about. The vice president of sales and marketing for Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp. is back in Steamboat Springs, the place he’s always considered home, after a stint at Intrawest in Vancouver, B.C. He’s leading marketing at a resort he can ski regularly with his children, Jace, Cody and Natalie. And he’s engaged to be married to Karen deRidder in May. She’s a great skier, Wirth said, who showed him hidden spots at Whistler Blackcomb. Wirth sat down with At Home’s Blythe Terrell in September to talk about the upcoming season and his favorite pastimes.
Take a spinning class while the snow falls
There is little doubt that Steamboat Springs is a cycling town, with cruisers regularly patrolling the Yampa River Core Trail and mountain bikes dominating the summertime slopes. But when the weather gets nasty, true cyclists don’t give up. They go inside.
Routt County residents share their recipes for warming up the kitchen when the weather gets cold
“There’s something about a richness in food that makes it a comfort food,” Judith Emerson said. If that’s true, Bill and Judith Emerson’s chocolate bread pudding might just rock you to sleep. The warm and gooey pudding is delicious and expertly punctuated with cherries that provide a fruity complement to the rich chocolate.
Steamboat reclaiming its place among contemporary ski villages
The standard of luxury for vacation condominiums at Steamboat Ski Area is poised to gain a lofty plateau this ski season. And when Trailhead Lodge, One Steamboat Place and Edgemont welcome their first vacationers of the winter, a new design aesthetic will make itself known at the same time.
Tom Ross: Steamboat’s great four-way skier
Wren made U.S. Olympic team in slalom and ski jumping
Have you ever wondered who would win a four-way ski competition between Nordic combined World Champion Todd Lodwick and Olympic gold medalist Ted Ligety?
Take a trip to Vancouver
Fans of Steamboat’s world champion Nordic combined skiers who are hoping to watch history-making performances in British Columbia during the 2010 Winter Olympics are apt to see very little of the cosmopolitan city of Vancouver. However, winter sports fans leaning more toward the X Games get the best of both worlds.
Soroco basketball will try to build on last year
Memories of the 2008-09 basketball season aren’t bad for the Soroco Rams. The squad went 13-5, but it will try and build on that as it plays host to the Hayden Tigers at 7:30 p.m today at Soroco High School.
Hayden basketball looks to maintain success
Tigers return 2 of league’s top players
When Denver Nuggets superstar Carmelo Anthony scored a career-high 50 points Friday night to lead his team to a 128-125 victory against the New York Knicks, the Hayden High School boys basketball team was cheering wildly from the stands in Denver’s Pepsi Center.
The Record for Nov. 29, 2009
Sunday, Nov. 29
Steamboat Briefs: Sailors tickets available online at CHSAA Web site
Tickets to Saturday’s Class 3A high school football championship game, between Steamboat Springs High School and Valor Christian, are available online through the Colorado High School Activities Association site at: www.chsaa.org.
City’s Public Works Department testing new cost-saving schedule
With furloughs suspended until April and a new schedule to have workers available around the clock, Philo Shelton and snowplow workers hope to keep Steamboat’s streets clear on a smaller budget.
Corser takes over Oak Creek plans
Town gets 2nd extension for comprehensive plan, land-use code
The Oak Creek Planning Commission is enlisting Susan Corser in her first official meeting with the group tonight as the town struggles to finish a land-use code and comprehensive plan.
Tom Ross: Redefining ‘My Steamboat’
Author with local roots a new generational view of city
Dori Duckels DeCamillis, a 1981 Steamboat Springs High School graduate, has published “My Steamboat, a Ski Town Childhood,” which describes what her Steamboat was like on the social chart between ranch folk and town folk in the 1960s and ’70s.
Council to act on 2010 budget
City’s financial plan is up for final approval tonight
Steamboat Springs City Council could give final approval tonight to the 2010 budget, a new franchise agreement with Comcast and regulations allowing urban chickens. The agenda also includes the return of an ordinance regulating medical marijuana dispensaries in Steamboat Springs.
Huppert takes a different approach to lunch
Steamboat Springs students will get made-from-scratch meals in December
Steamboat Springs School District students will get a month’s worth of home-cooked-style meals starting today. Nutritional Services Director Max Huppert and his staff are preparing all meals from scratch this month.
Ski area’s tower guns elevate man-made snow
With a minor storm expected to arrive in the Yampa Valley sometime Wednesday, Ski Corp. spokesman Mike Lane said the ski area will have a better idea later in the week whether the combination of natural and man-made snow will enable opening Storm Peak Express.
Nordic champions share their love of the great outdoors
Skiing may be what they do best, but when World Champion Nordic skiers Johnny Spillane, Bill Demong and Todd Lodwick come out to play, they head to the fields and streams around Steamboat Springs.
Annual Hayden Christmas Tree Festival takes place Sunday
Organizations such as Love INC depend on fundraisers like this Sunday’s Hayden Christmas Tree Festival. The event, at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Routt County Fairgrounds’ Exhibit Hall, allows local organizations to auction decorated Christmas trees, wreaths and centerpieces. All proceeds go directly back to the organization.
