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Sunshine Kids return to Steamboat for Winter Games
Smiles in Steamboat
Kristine Duthie, from Hewitt, N.J., was one of about 25 youths who made the trip to Steamboat Springs last week to participate in the Sunshine Kids Winter Games. Sunshine Kids is a national nonprofit group that provides activities for children with cancer.
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Everything Outdoor Steamboat ice climbing trip one to remember
The Pumphouse is a frozen waterfall dangling off the side of a mountain near Vail, and ax swing by ax swing and step by step, Steamboat Springs Middle School students trusted their way up the steep ice tower.
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Highmark condominiums auction seen as bellwether
Highmark sales could set bar for luxury condo prices at base of ski area
The Steamboat Springs real estate and development communities will be paying close attention Friday when 15 luxury condominiums at The Highmark go on the auction block. By the end of the day, it could become clearer how prices for high-end condominiums close to the base of Steamboat Ski Area are trending.
Hayden boys basketball headed to state
Tigers win regionals, earn ticket to Pueblo
The Hayden boys basketball team beat John Mall High School on Saturday, capping an astonishing finish to the season for the Tigers and earning them a trip to state for the first time since 1982. The game illustrated well what set this year’s 19-5 squad apart from last season’s 10-10 team.
Older voters leading Steamboat 700 turnout
Those 34 years and younger have cast about 14 percent of annexation ballots
Voters younger than 35 have cast only about 14 percent of the ballots on the Steamboat 700 annexation, despite accounting for about 32 percent of total city voters and creating the demographic arguably most affected by long-term growth. 3,228 Steamboat residents had voted through Friday.
Hayden Student Council bakes cookies for troops
Project continues effort to help others
Hayden Valley Elementary School Student Council members decided to bake cookies to send to troops overseas after hearing the idea from Student Council co-sponsor Tena Frentress. The project is one of several the students have completed this school year.
Oak Creek slate set for April 6 election
3 newcomers, 3 incumbents to appear on ballot
After eight years on the Oak Creek Town Board, Mayor J Elliott will not seek re-election, but three newcomers and three incumbents have filed paperwork to run for five available seats. They turned in their candidate packets to run for trustee positions before Friday's deadline.
Steamboat dominates at Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined Junior Olympics
Highlighted by elite individual performances and brilliant team efforts, the Rocky Mountain Division, mostly Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club members, dominated the 2010 Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined Junior Olympics.
2010 Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined Junior Olympics results
2010 Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined Junior Olympics results
2010 Pentathlon Tune-up 5 Mile Run, March 6, 2010
2010 Pentathlon Tune-up 5 Mile Run, March 6, 2010
Thurston ready for Iditarod race
1,150-mile trek starts today in Alaska
Festivities in the 37th annual Iditarod began Saturday with a ceremonial start in downtown Anchorage, Alaska. Racers will restart today at 3:45 p.m. Mountain Standard Time and begin making their way down the 1,150-mile trail that ends in Nome, Alaska.
Manninen wins in Finland at Nordic World Cup event
Finland’s Hannu Manninen won on his home soil Saturday in Lahti, Finland, beating Austria’s Felix Gottwald and French skier Jason Lamy Chappuis at a Nordic World Cup event.
Sailors baseball loses 2 games at Denver East
The Steamboat Springs High School baseball team dropped a pair of games Saturday at Denver East. Steamboat lost the first game, 7-4, and the second game, 18-7.
Sailors baseball loses 2 games at Denver East
The Steamboat Springs High School baseball team dropped a pair of games Saturday at Denver East. Steamboat lost the first game, 7-4, and the second game, 18-7.
Soroco hoops falls at regionals
The Soroco High School boys basketball team played about as well as it could Friday against Lutheran-Parker in a Class 2A basketball regional tournament in Broomfield but still found itself on the losing end. The top-seeded Lions won, 53-37.
John F. Russell: Hockey game all about love
OK, so it’s not the United States vs. Canada in the gold medal game. The teams will not be made of NHL stars who have returned home in search of national pride, and the game will not lead to citywide celebrations when the final score has been determined. But this game is important.
Steve Havenner: A fool will repeat
The meeting with Jane Norton was attended by 15 Routt County residents (I assume by invitation only). I’m wondering if they are the last 15 people in the county to support the failed policies that have created our current economy and destruction of the middle class.
Kenny Reisman: What to do next
Ten days ago, I stood in Olympian Hall as the Nordic combined team triumphantly won silver. And as I looked around that room, I was taken by the people with whom I watched.
Bill Marolt: Be proud, Steamboat
Steamboat Springs, you should be very proud. Your community has played a significant role in our athletes’ Olympic success. Your hometown heroes, including Johnny Spillane and Todd Lodwick, along with your adopted sons Billy Demong and Brett Camerota, made history.
Good For Steamboat committee: Our future is now
The choice is clear: a yes vote on Referendum A will fulfill 15 years of community planning, give us the tools to control growth, and protect open space in the Yampa Valley. But in a campaign environment, the choice can be obscured by misinformation. Often, if a campaign can’t fight fair with the facts, then they fight the facts with fear.
Let’s Vote committee: Why you should vote ‘no’
In last Wednesday’s editorial, this newspaper urged voters to “understand that approving an annexation agreement is not the same as approving development.” We wholeheartedly agree, which is why we object to this annexation agreement.
Our View: Keeping spots open is crucial
It will take more than expanded parking hours and increased fines for the city of Steamboat Springs and downtown merchants to free up Lincoln Avenue and side-street parking for shoppers and diners. Real change will come only when there’s a total commitment on the part of all downtown businesses.
Colo. 131 closed periodically Wednesday
Colorado Highway 131 will be closed periodically Wednesday from Steamboat Springs to Yampa. Distinguished Builders is moving a large house that will take up a majority of the road, Office Manager Shannon Hurley said.
Sunshine Kids return to Steamboat for Winter Games
Smiles in Steamboat
Kristine Duthie, from Hewitt, N.J., was one of about 25 youths who made the trip to Steamboat Springs last week to participate in the Sunshine Kids Winter Games. Sunshine Kids is a national nonprofit group that provides activities for children with cancer.
Everything Outdoor Steamboat ice climbing trip one to remember
The Pumphouse is a frozen waterfall dangling off the side of a mountain near Vail, and ax swing by ax swing and step by step, Steamboat Springs Middle School students trusted their way up the steep ice tower.
Joel Reichenberger: Ups and downs in sports
I want to call this column the “things that are dumb” column, but since I don’t want to be seen entirely as a grump by those who haven’t already reached that conclusion, I’ll start with something not dumb.
The Record for March 5
12:28 a.m. Routt County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to a burglary alarm in the 36100 block of Quarry Ridge Road. Everything was fine.
The Jail Report for Feb. 27 to March 5
The following is a list of people booked into the Routt County Jail on suspicion of the listed charges. The arresting agency is listed in parentheses.
Base area businesses trying to stay afloat
Efforts are under way to revive business activity at the base of Steamboat Ski Area, but some establishments are struggling to bridge the gap until those efforts pay off. City officials announced that base area sales tax revenues dropped about 10 percent in January.
Business File: City to host tax seminars Monday, Tuesday morning
The city of Steamboat Springs’ sales and use tax department is offering two free seminars about sales tax and construction use tax. The seminars are intended to provide tax information for all types of businesses or people. The construction use tax seminar is from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Monday, and the sales tax seminar is from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday. The seminars are at Centennial Hall, 124 10th St., in Steamboat. Call the sales and use tax department at 970-871-8251 to register.
Bantam A hockey team wins in overtime, 3-2
The Steamboat Springs Bantam A hockey team sure has a habit of making things interesting. After getting a goal from Ryan Cagnoni in the final seconds of Friday’s win, Steamboat went to overtime Saturday before downing the Mountain States Renegades, 3-2.
School lunch menus for the week of March 8
School lunch menus for the week of March 8
Class notes: Strawberry Park students raise $2,000 for Haiti
In one week last month, the Strawberry Park Elementary School Student Council raised more than $2,000 for the Haiti earthquake relief effort. Student Council members presented Wish For Haiti’s Tracy Metzler with the check Feb. 26.
Laurie Hallenbeck: Hayden news for March 7
Happy birthday wishes to Trinity Goddard, Kent Copeland, Kassidy Goddard, Brian Hoza, Shari Copeland and Amanda Archuleta.
Lila Rider: Oak Creek/Phippsburg news for March 7
A big thank you to everyone who helped make the Doak Walker Care Center Winter Olympics a great success. We had fun traversing the hallways with a variety of games.
Cookbook celebrates life of Jean Anderson with stories, recipes
Celebrating “Mama’s Kitchen: The Complete Collection of Mile High Mama’s work from 2001-2007,” a book signing party features a recently released book that catalogs all Mile High Mama’s published recipes and columns.
Hayden Student Council bakes cookies for troops
Project continues effort to help others
Hayden Valley Elementary School Student Council members decided to bake cookies to send to troops overseas after hearing the idea from Student Council co-sponsor Tena Frentress.
Yampa dispensary stays low-key
medical marijuana provider creates tinctures, no ads
J-Jay Johnson, the owner of LMS Dispensary, said he thinks the town appreciates the low-key approach he’s taken to opening the business on the main street in town and that he still hasn’t advertised beyond a few fliers he handed out around town.
Routt County Spotlight: Chris McKenzie
Occupation: Chef (certified chef, certified pastry chef)
Real Estate transactions for March 1 to 4, 2010
Real estate transactions in Routt County for March 1 to 4, 2010
Short sales put families back in Sunray Meadows
Speculators initially bought at condominiums, but development is shifting
Short sales are proving to be the mechanism that is putting young families into condominiums in place of speculators at Sunray Meadows on Village Drive. During the overheated real estate run-up of 2007, speculators bought as many as four of the modest condominiums at a time, as the price increased to as high as $485,000 for a 1,060-square-foot two-bedroom unit with a one-car garage.
On the Market: Summit pushes ahead with affordable housing
Robert Allen, of the Summit Daily News, reported Feb. 21 that although demand for affordable housing in Summit County has dropped for households making more than 100 percent of the area median income, or AMI, a pair of affordable housing projects valued at a combined $31 million could break ground there as soon as this spring.
