Michele Shimomura tries to maintain a small lead against Angie Mangiardi near the end of last summer's Continental Divide trail run. The race returns Sunday, leading competitors past the first and second Fish Creek waterfalls and Long Lake before finishing at the top of the gondola at Steamboat Ski Area.
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Luke Jankoski, 10, leads Oreo through an obstacle course as part of a trail competition at the Routt County Fair. It was the first year Luke showed llamas, and he earned fourth place in the two competitions.
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Mary White, 13, looks at the judge as she leads Otis through an obstacle course during the llama trail competition at the Routt County Fair. Mary earned first place in showmanship and second place in the trail competition.
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North Routt Community Charter School students file out of the school's yurt after class in November 2008. Although the yurt is stable and innovative, state officials cited it as evidence of needed structural improvements when awarding a $3.1 million grant for a new charter school.
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Lacey Lewis, from left, Cosette McLaughlin and Shannon Ragan have learned the hard way that if you don't keep a close eye on your hula goats, they'll eat your grass skirts.
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Excel Gymnastics of Steamboat Springs gymnasts, from, left, Zofia Stroman, 5, Liesel Wilkinson, 5, Kaylee Goffe, 6, and Kenzie Radway, 6, do pull-ups Friday afternoon during class. The girls are participating in a summer beginner gymnastics class.
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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. State education officials awarded the project a $3.1 million grant Thursday. School Director Colleen Poole said the plan is to open the building in the fall of 2010.
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Lex Burton's great-grandson, Stone Balleck, watches him through a mirror in Burton's kitchen.
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Lex Burton points to an old photo of his family on a horse-drawn wagon taken when he was a child growing up in Browns Park.
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Burton said that when the city annexed his house, officials made a verbal agreement with him that he could keep horses there as long as he was alive. Now he faces fines if he doesn't move the horses. The Craig City Council will deliberate the issue, possibly making a decision at it next meeting Aug. 26.
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Lex Burton stands with his horse, Abu, outside his home in north Craig. Burton has kept horses on his property off and on since he moved there in 1965, but he recently was informed by the Craig Police Department that he would have to remove them or be fined.
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