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District's first Montessori students finish program
Some students will attend traditional school for the first time next year
Tristan Fischer, 11, admitted he's "a little nervous" about attending the sixth grade next year in a traditional educational setting. But he's confident the Montessori method has prepared him for middle school.
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by Jack Weinstein
at 2:38pm
Early Morning
River respect encouraged
Tubers asked to follow management plan
If you sit long enough by the edge of the Yampa River, you can see the season changing. Not by the colors of the leaves or the temperature of the air, but by the occasional tube intermixed with the kayaks and rafts that can be seen floating down the high water.
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by Zach Fridell
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Stories
District's first Montessori students finish program
Some students will attend traditional school for the first time next year
Tristan Fischer, 11, admitted he's "a little nervous" about attending the sixth grade next year in a traditional educational setting. But he's confident the Montessori method has prepared him for middle school.
Town Challenge kicks off today
Race series to start at 5:30 p.m.
The 2009 Town Challenge Mountain Bike Race Series opens today with a race unlike any other on the slate.
The Record for June 8
Monday, June 8
Steamboat Briefs: Hayden Town Hall starts new working schedule
Because of budget cuts, Hayden Town Hall will close Friday afternoons. The town has started furloughs for all employees, whose hours will be cut by 10 percent starting June 20.
Murray Tucker, Ph.D.: Buying reinsurance
Forty years ago, the President's Commission on Income Maintenance Programs issued its final report. Its recommendation for a Guaranteed Annual Income or "Negative Income Tax" morphed six years later into the "Earned Income Credit."
Mark Greenwood: Facing extinction
When you see people riding bicycles instead of driving a hydrocarbon-burning, molecular oxygen-consuming vehicle, we should be grateful that someone is contributing to the future survival of humans on planet Earth.
Omar M. Campbell: D-Day was missing
I read, re-read, and had my wife double-check for any mention of D-Day in the June 6 and June 7 issues of the Steamboat Pilot & Today. The only reference to honoring those veterans of that epic event was in the often vapid Mallard Fillmore cartoon.
Contractors protest Hayden bidding process
Town could use reverse auction method for Poplar Street project
Contractors confronted Hayden officials last week about an online bidding process the town aimed to test drive. Hayden planned to use BidBridge, an online reverse auction company, to contract for Poplar Street improvements.
Teachers of the Year announced
Steamboat Springs School District reveals each school's winner
Amy Bohmer, from Steamboat Springs Middle School; Maggie Glueck, from Steamboat Springs High School; Susie Gruben, from Strawberry Park Elementary School; and Laura LeBrun, from Soda Creek Elementary School were named as Steamboat Springs School District 2008-09 Teachers of the Year.
River respect encouraged
Tubers asked to follow management plan
If you sit long enough by the edge of the Yampa River, you can see the season changing. Not by the colors of the leaves or the temperature of the air, but by the occasional tube intermixed with the kayaks and rafts that can be seen floating down the high water.
Our View: Emerald's future is in our hands
We applaud last week's action by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to preserve a 4,139-acre Emerald Mountain parcel from energy and mineral development for the next 20 years.
'Stimulus' fund to help 4-H
Supporters raise money to divide at livestock auction
Fear not, Routt County 4-H members: "Stimulus" money might be headed your way. Several 4-H supporters, worried that the recession could depress prices at the Junior Livestock Sale, are starting a fund to help out.
Author T.A. Barron celebrates young heroes
Book talk will focus on youth achievements
Boulder-based author Tom Barron, known by his penname T.A. Barron, will tell some of his favorite stories about young heroes in a presentation and a book signing at 7 p.m. Thursday at Bud Werner Memorial Library.
Joanne Palmer: Crawdads and ice cream
The heat from the boat dock warms my beach towel as slowly, one by one, I feel the muscles of my body begin to let go.
Cash questions continue
City Council insists Steamboat 700 developers assume all risk
Risk aversion was on everyone's mind Tuesday night as City Council and Steamboat 700 developers resumed their slow dance toward annexation. At the end of the evening, council members left little doubt about who could be left holding the bag.
Relay For Life aims high
Annual Craig fundraiser hopes to rally support despite recession
When Ken Prescott's wife was struggling with Hodgkin's lymphoma, he was stricken with many terrifying thoughts. One of the most difficult scenarios was how he could raise their two children on his own.
