Hayden junior Holli Salazar set the school shot put record Friday in a track meet in Rifle. Salazar, who qualified for state in the shot put as a freshman and sophomore, hopes to place at this year's season-ending meet.
Published on April 20, 2008
file photo The mountain pine beetle epidemic will force several popular area campgrounds to either close or delay their opening this summers to allow for hazardous tree removal. The Hahn's Peak Lake campground will be closed for the entire season. Managers plan to remove 1,600 trees and will use the opportunity to refurbish the area, restoring water sources and updating camping sites.
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Steamboat Springs' Brittany Long flies toward the finish line in the 1,600-meter run Friday at a track meet in Rifle. Long, who finished fifth in the race, has been a key part of the track team's successful distance group.
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Alexis Lezin, left, and her sister Valerie Lezin are looking forward to possibly playing together at the state tournament.
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Steamboat Springs High School tennis players Alexis Lezin, left, and her sister Valerie Lezin don't let sisterly arguments get in their way on the court.
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First-grader Macray Dillingham, left, talks about a rain forest reading assignment Friday at North Routt Community Charter School in Clark. Next to Macray are first-graders Quinn Wellman, center, and Jack Martin. The students - along with three other first-graders - read their assignment in a kindergarten coat closet at the school to separate their group from another group reading in the adjacent classroom.
Published on April 20, 2008
This rendering shows the proposed, new North Routt Community Charter School building, a structure of about 12,000 square feet that would include six classrooms, a large gathering space and administrative offices. The new school could house 90 students, head of school Colleen Poole said. The charter school currently has a maxed-out enrollment of 56 students, with a waiting list of 19.
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Second-grader Maddie Crosgrove, left, reads about rain forests Friday at North Routt Community Charter School in Clark as second-grader McKinley Muhlbauer looks on. Another group of students in the class read in a coat closet - an example of space needs that have North Routt educators planning a new school building.
Published on April 20, 2008
Durango Planning Director Greg Hoch says he felt "political pressure" from city officials to approve the 681-acre Three Springs development in 2004.
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Tim Zink, of the Three Springs development in Durango, uses a model of the site to explain its new urbanism planning style, which is designed to reduce off-site car trips with pedestrian-friendly features, parks, commercial districts and other features.
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Durango senior planner Tim McHarg says the city's Three Spring development, annexed in 2004, got a significant boost from a new hospital and commercial district that already were on the site and spurred the community's growth.
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Tim Zink, general manager of the 681-acre Three Springs development that was annexed into Durango in 2004, talks about the annexation process in a conference room on the site April 10. "We basically had to prove our case that this was going to be a good thing for the city of Durango," he said.
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Joe Roberts cartoon for April 20
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Tim Zink, general manager for the 681-acre Three Springs development in Durango, talks about the site April 10. "It took us a long time to get gas, water and other improvements installed," he said. "You don't understand the amount of money that's underneath this dirt."
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The city of Durango
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Members of the South Routt chapter of the National FFA Organization practice parliamentary procedure during a demonstration Thursday evening at Soroco High School.
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Watch tiny pieces of Halley's Comet rain down into the Earth's atmosphere every May and October during the annual Aquarid and Orionid meteor showers.
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Mark Satkiewicz, vice president of sales, sets an example for other employees by riding his bike to and from work each day. SmartWool rewards employees who take on a green lifestyle and encourages them to use bikes instead of cars.
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Network engineer Jeremiah Baughman won the Pinnacle Award for 2007. The award, an employee recognition program at SmartWool, is just one of the reasons the Steamboat Springs-based company made Outside magazine's "Best Places to Work" list.
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