Carrying the ball, Soroco's Johnny Decosta breaks tackles during an Oklahoma tackle drill. Soroco football practices were held at Decker Park last week from 8 a.m. to noon. The practices focused on conditioning players for the 2006 football season. See below for the Soroco Rams' game schedule.
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Senior Andrew Hoing returns the ball during a volley. Hoing won, 6-0, 6-0 against his opponent from Alexander Dawson on Saturday. Matches were held at the Ranch tennis courts for the Steamboat Sailors boys' tennis season opener.
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Steamboat Springs quarterback Tanner Stillwell drops back for a pass during football practice last week. Along with three-year veteran Stillwell, Steamboat returns nine starters, including first team All-Staters Lane Shipley and Westin Cofer.
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Carrying the ball, Soroco's Johnny Decosta breaks tackles during an Oklahoma tackle drill. Soroco football practices were held at Decker Park last week from 8 a.m. to noon. The practices focused on conditioning players for the 2006 football season. See below for the Soroco Rams' game schedule.
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The Cottonwoods townhomes have been given a fresh look by original developer Carlos Palomino. Additionally, a partnership of four longtime locals has purchased and remodeled the interiors of six of the units for resale.
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Partners Jill Wehrli, seated, Scott Bradley and Jan Levy are nearing completion of a major overhaul of six townhomes at The Cottonwoods. The three-bedroom, 3.5-bath units are back on the market for $443,000-$459,000. Derek Ready was not present for the photo.
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Christina Palaia harvests greens from her greenhouse Thursday that she will sell to local eateries.
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The flowers from Christina Palaia's squash plants are used in meals at Vista Verde Guest Ranch.
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Firefly Mountain Produce owner Christina Palaia has not been able to keep up with the demand for her organic produce since she started the business last year.
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Glenda Long, 16, leads her steer to weigh-in on Wednesday. She was followed by her sister, Courtney, 18, and brother, Joe, 14. The total weight of the three steers was 2,273 pounds.
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Tannya Rozell, 9, grooms the two swines - which were sleeping - she entered in the 2006 Routt County Fair.
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Kaitlyn Jezzo, 13, walks one of Ryan Fralick's, in back, market swines to the wash area for a good bath and grooming before presentation.
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10-year-old Liam Delaney gives his sister's pig Wilber a washing in preparation for the Market Swine judging Wednesday at the Routt County Fair and Rodeo.
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Cole Carnahan, 11, tends to his ducks in the small animal barn on Wednesday. Cole was waiting for his ducks to be judged.
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4-H Interview judge Ramona Green interviews Joseph Kostechko, 10, at the Routt County Fair last week. Each 4-H member is interviewed about what they did during their 4-H projects.
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Kaelley Freideman, left, 18 months, and sister Katelyn, 3, spend time walking around the stalls at the Routt County Fair, where they found two bum lambs to pet Wednesday.
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Steamboat Springs quarterback Tanner Stillwell drops back for a pass during football practice last week.
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Steamboat Springs Weston Cofer sharpens his defensive skills during the Sailors practice Thursday afternoon at the high school's practice facility.
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The condition of the fly is checked after several casts during fly-fishing in the late summer due to the abundance of aquatic vegetation along the river bottom of Yampa, which could damage small hooks.
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Jim Curd a local fly-fisherman takes to the Yampa River casting where fish are surfacing looking for a meal. Jim said,Õ This year the river flow has been exceptionally well through the summer giving the river a health look".
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An anglers fly box contains the types of flies used for the time of day, season and types of fish ones fishing for.
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Mariah Hoots, 9 smiles after winning the Grand Champion Market Swine on Saturday. Her pig Hula takes a nap before the 4H Junior Livestock Sale.
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MaryKay Monger pours barbeque sauce on her roast beef slices at the 4H Presale/Bobby Robinson Memorial BBQ on Saturday as Lynn Whaley, left, slices more beef.
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Auctioneer Chad Green begins the Routt County Junior Livestock Sale at 6 p.m. Saturday night at the Hayden Fairgrounds.
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Plans to raise the level of Stagecoach Reservoir by four feet would significantly increase water storage for future demands but also would effect some of the trails, boat ramps and other amenities at the state park south of Steamboat Springs.
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South Routt Elementary School Principal Michael Young comes to Yampa from Perry, Okla., where he was an elementary principal for nine years.
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John Hanley completes a preflight inspection at the Steamboat Springs airport on Friday afternoon.
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Kelsey Samuelson parades her Grand Champion market steer after getting a cool $5,000 for her 1,251 pound 4H project at the Junior Livestock Sale on Saturday night at the 92nd Annual Routt County Fair.
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The Colorado River immediately below Glen Canyon Dam at Lake Powell is currently carrying 13,400 cubic feet per second of water as it winds toward the Grand Canyon and Lake Mead beyond. Lake Powell was at just 52 percent of capacity July 11.
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Thunderclouds building over Pine Valley Mountain offer the promise of rain for St. George, Utah, where skies are already hazy from the smoke of wildfires. The clouds produced lightning but no moisture in St. George, which receives just 8.3 inches of precipitation annually.
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Robert Bonds, who moved to St. George to escape the crowded highways of Pasadena, Calif., cools off with a cliff dive at Sand Hollow Reservoir.
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Kent Christiansen treats his friends to a wakeboarding session on a blisteringly hot evening at Sand Hollow Reservoir. Sand Hollow, the newest state park in southern Utah, stores domestic water for the city of St. George, about 15 miles away.
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Many homes in St. George depend heavily on desert plants for their landscaping. Many others are landscaped with a carpet of irrigated bluegrass.
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A view of Lake Powell, where water from the Yampa, Green and Colorado rivers is stored. St. George and Utah state officials are proposing to spend about $400 million to pump water out of Lake Powell and pipe it 120 miles west to their growing communities.
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The entrance to the Sunbrook development in St. George, Utah, is marked by lush plantings and natural-looking fountains.
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A course maintenance worker at the 27-hole Sunbrook Golf Club in St. George, Utah, applies water to the browning fringe of a green in the midst of a 107-degree afternoon. Golf in St. George is the counterpart to skiing and snowboarding in Steamboat Springs for second-home owners and retirees.
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Earthmovers carve subdivision roads out of the desert at the new Dixie Springs development. It is situated between St. George, Utah, and the entrance to Zion National Park at Springdale, Utah. New homes would be only two miles from power boating at Sand Hollow Reservoir State Park, which stores domestic water for St. George. Dixie Springs, together with two other developments - Sky Ranch and Cliff Dwellers - will add 40,000 residential building lots to the historical town of Hurricane City. The present population of Hurricane City is just more than 13,000. The local newspaper reports that Hurricane City's population someday could exceed 150,000.
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Brittney Rodriguez, 4, goes down the inflatable slide Friday at the Routt County Fair. Rides were free Friday courtesy of First National Bank of the Rockies.
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Keely Kaminski, 4, goes down the inflatable slide Friday at the Routt County Fair.
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Aaron Gabel, 3, climbs a rope on the inflatable obstacle course Friday. Rides were free courtesy of First National Bank of the Rockies.
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Oreo, one of Jack White's three llamas, was very curious about passersby Friday at the Routt County Fair.
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Adalia George, 2, pets one of Jack White's three llamas at the Routt County Fair on Friday.
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Stretch the Nine-Foot Clown entertains children at the Routt County Fair on Friday.
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Shelbee Weiss, 4, pets a pig Friday at the Routt County Fair.
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Jewel Vreeman, 8, and her sheep, Alfalfa, at the "dress your animal" show Friday.
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Kaia Kuzminsky, 7, and her sheep, Skittles, participate in the "dress your animal" show Friday at the Routt County Fair.
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Savanah Maxwell, 7, and her goat, Ripple, participate in the "dress your animal" show Friday at the Routt County Fair.
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Stretch the Nine-Foot Clown entertains fair-goers Friday.
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Pet communicator Megan Sisk gets up close and personal with Brewster.
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Animal communicator Megan Sisk watches as Brewster, a rat terrier, mugs for the camera. Sisk uses her knowledge of energy medicine, healing touch and aromatherapy to work with different kinds of animals.
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Soda Creek has marked areas where parents drive to drop off and pick up their children. But Principal Judy Harris said that although staff members are well-organized in helping match parents with students, the combination of kids and cars is cause for concern.
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Students at Soda Creek sometimes meet with adults for tutoring or mentoring outside the classroom. Currently, that takes place at desks in hallways, but plans for a new school include more private meeting places.
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Soda Creek Elementary School wasn't built to accommodate computers, but now they are part of every classroom. In the computer room, a lack of ventilation combined with the heat from several computers can make for an uncomfortably warm environment.
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The music room is one of several rooms at Soda Creek that have problems with ventilation. The door in the corner is the only source of airflow, but teachers can't put the fan in the doorway because it would create a fire hazard.
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The music room offers another example of how support beams divide classrooms at Soda Creek Elementary School.
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In this kindergarten room at Soda Creek, students sit in pods of tables wrapped around poles.
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Many teachers at Soda Creek have made creative use of the support beams in the middle of their classrooms. In this kindergarten room, students sit in pods of tables wrapped around decorated poles.
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The pole in this first-grade classroom makes it difficult for a teacher helping students in the reading area, foreground, to keep an eye on students sitting at desks near the door.
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Judy Harris is the principal of Soda Creek Elementary School.
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