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Steamboat Springs — A Texas-style restaurant is scheduled to open this year at the Steamboat Grand Resort Hotel. The restaurant will serve items including chicken-fried steak and hamburgers, co-owner Scott Terzick said.

"The price point's going to be extremely reasonable," he said, adding that the spot will have live music at night.

Terzick is working with David McCarble on the restaurant, which Terzick said should open by October or November.

Kiewit gets approval for YVRA improvements

Yampa Valley Regional Airport has received approval to proceed with summer improvements to Taxiway A. Kiewit Western won the contract for the $2.6 million project in 2007, Airport Manager Dave Ruppel said.

The Federal Aviation Administration's Airport Improvement Program will fund 95 percent of the project at the Hayden airport. Airport reserves and the Colorado Department of Transportation will fund the rest, he said. Improvements include replacing asphalt in some spots and adding asphalt in others, Ruppel said.

The project was approved in 2007 to be done in 2008, but officials put it on hold when fuel prices soared. They re-examined the project after costs decreased, and Kiewit Western agreed to do it for the original amount, Ruppel said. The Routt County Board of Commissioners OK'd the notice to proceed Tuesday.

"We're all on track to proceed with that, and we actually are expecting a slight cost reduction because our engineering company has reduced the cost of their fees, but we don't have those numbers yet," Ruppel said. "Everything looks like it's on track."

The project is scheduled to start the first week of June and to be finished within two months.

April mass layoffs affect nearly 300,000 workers

In April, employers took 2,712 mass layoff actions involving a total of 271,226 workers, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Mass layoff events and initial claims decreased from March, when both recorded their highest levels on record. Throughout the year, layoff events and initial claims more than doubled.

Mass layoffs are those that involve at least 50 people. The number of events decreased 221 compared with March, according to the bureau.