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New business in Steamboat offers scooter, cruiser bike rentals
There’s a new way to get around Steamboat Springs this summer. Kimmie’s Kruisers on Yampa Street in the Howelsen Place building is offering hourly and daily rentals of scooters and cruiser bicycles, with helmets available and, soon, maps of potential routes.
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Steamboat Class of 2010 finishes remarkable year
Johnny B Good’s owner praises graduates for academics, athletics, character
When preparing for his speech, Steamboat Springs High School valedictorian Jeffrey Lambart presented a question to teachers and students at the school: What one word defines the Class of 2010?
Stories
The Record for May 28
The Record for May 28
The Jail Report for May 22 to 28
Jail Report for May 22 to 28
Steamboat 8th-graders excel among competitors at lacrosse tournament
Peter White and Ben Wharton are prime studies in the ever-growing sport of lacrosse in Steamboat Springs. They’re proving that the growth of lacrosse in Steamboat isn’t defined just in numbers anymore.
Laurie Hallenbeck: Hayden Town Talk for May 30, 2010
Happy birthday wishes to Tyson Letlow, Nicholas Hughes, Lauren Frentress, Megan Svoboda, Tiahanna Schuster, Tim Frentress Sr., and Marilyn Frentress.
Routt County Spotlight: Babette McAlpin Dickson
Age: 47 Occupation: Educator Place of birth: Paris, France
On the Market: Kelly Becker joins up with Colorado Group Realty
Kelly Becker is the newest broker/associate at Colorado Group Realty. She will assist Jim and Coleman Cook with their business in addition to working with her own clients and listings.
Mountain Resorts of Steamboat Springs takes Highmark reins
Officials looking forward to adding luxury product to stable of properties
The staff at Mountain Resorts is preparing this week for its new role as the management company of The Highmark. Mountain Resorts officials anticipate that it will give the longstanding Steamboat company a luxury product they think already is establishing a new standard for vacation lodgings here.
Real Estate transactions for May 21 to 27, 2010
Real estate transactions across Routt County for the week of May 21 to 27, 2010.
Barn Village at Steamboat prices sliced in half
51 unsold lots remain in the mountain-area subdivision in Steamboat Springs
The mountain area of the Steamboat Springs real estate market has seen the sale of just five building lots in the past 12 months, and the developers of Barn Village at Steamboat have responded by cutting in half the prices on their 51 unsold lots.
Local officials express concern about underage drinking in Routt County
The law enforcement officers in Routt County are tired of seeing underage drinkers come to the hospital, by ambulance or ditched by friends, after binge drinking has led to intoxication — or worse.
Adam Mayo, Sarah Hamilton win kayaking rodeo in Steamboat
At least in public, Adam Mayo was nice about it. He didn’t rub his friends’ noses in the fact that for the next year, he has bragging rights. For 12 months, Mayo is the king of the kayaking rodeo in Steamboat Springs.
John F. Russell: Too soon to think about the Olympics?
There are roughly 1,348 days left until the 2014 Winter Olympic Games kick off in the Caucasus Mountains near Sochi, Russia, but the work already has begun for the next class of hometown Olympic hopefuls.
Joel Reichenberger: Time to super size river fest?
Saturday was a good day on the Yampa River. It wasn’t hot, but the sun kept things warm and the chilled waters of the river kept things cool. Large crowds gathered along Steamboat’s signature river’s banks for the main events in the 30th annual Yampa River Festival.
New business in Steamboat offers scooter, cruiser bike rentals
There’s a new way to get around Steamboat Springs this summer. Kimmie’s Kruisers on Yampa Street in the Howelsen Place building is offering hourly and daily rentals of scooters and cruiser bicycles, with helmets available and, soon, maps of potential routes.
Business File: Mountain Valley Bank announces 2 promotions
Mountain Valley Bank President and CEO Terry Jost announced promotions last week for two associates. Annette Banwart-DellaCroce has been named executive vice president, and Ben Curby has been promoted to assistant vice president.
Stuart Handloff: Can they be trusted?
Isn’t anyone else shocked and alarmed by the public discourse of Bob McConnell and columnists like Cal Thomas?
Our View: City, CDOT, Scott should compromise
The Steamboat Springs City Council should reject a proposal to pay several days’ worth of overtime to Scott Contracting in exchange for the company not working the first few days of September.
Steamboat briefs: Library plans ‘Dog Days of Summer’ program
Bud Werner Memorial Library invites users to be part of the “Dog Days of Summer,” the new Read to Dogs Program at the library.
Looking back for May 31, 1935: Graduating class told self control is needed
“Train the mind and will to do the thing when it ought to be done whether you want to do it or not.” Rev. Charles Odell Thibodeau of Greeley, district superintendent of the Methodist church, advised the graduating class of 1935 at the Steamboat Springs high school Tuesday evening when he gave the commencement address.
Lila Rider: Oak Creek/Phippsburg news for May 30, 2010
Joan Gibbs, who lives on Yellow Jacket Pass, comes in every Wednesday and cooks cookies and spreads them around the hospital, and we thank her for that.
Rocky Mountain Youth Corps team to rehabilitate aging Routt County structures
The More Barn, the iconic structure that is the subject of some of the most famous photos of Steamboat Springs, will get a boost this summer from a Rocky Mountain Youth Corps crew.
El Sol offers international flavors in Steamboat
Mendozas’ market selling fresh tamales, tortillas, fruits and more west of downtown
A new, family-owned market on the west side of Steamboat Springs is offering Mexican and South American foods brought in from Denver weekly. El Sol Mendoza’s Market is off U.S. Highway 40 next to West End Liquor, less than a mile west of the stoplight at Routt County Road 129.
Best of the Web: Gymnastics meet
Eagles league gymnastics is not about upper level gymnastics and winning and glory. Sure, those kids get an opportunity to try gymnastics skills and a level that they are working on for the next USA Gymnastics season and stretch themselves skill ways.
Class notes: Local student awarded Alpine Bank scholarship
Mark Guerrero is the first Routt County student in four years to receive the Alpine Bank Hispanic-Latino Scholarship. Guerrero moved to Steamboat a year ago from Dallas, Texas.
Kayaking classes in Steamboat help beginners get in the water
Don’t muscle it; keep your head high and your paddle low. Barry Smith disseminated a wealth of kayaking tips last week as he lead a group of first-timers into the cold waters of a slow-moving Steamboat Springs creek.
