Jim Fletcher and Stephanie Kopp
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Oak Creek musher Thurston puts the finishing touches on a sled he's building before leaving next week to run in the Iditarod dogsled race in Alaska. Thurston said he'll put about 40 hours into the new sled, one of two that he's taking along for the 1,150-mile race.
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Soroco High School junior Cody Miles looks at going up for a shot during Saturday's game against Vail Christian.
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Soroco High School senior Bobby Mason goes up for a layup during Saturday's game against Vail Christian. Soroco won, 62-42.
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Hayden senior Mitch Doolin wrestles Ty Spangler, of Norwood, to the mat Saturday in the championship match of the 160-pound weight division at the regional wrestling tournament in Palisade. Doolin was one of nine Tigers to qualify for this year's state tournament.
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Hayden freshman Chad Terry puts the squeeze on Soroco freshman Lauryn Bruggink on Saturday in the championship match of the 103-pound weight division at the regional wrestling tournament. Terry went on to win the match with a first-round pin, but both wrestlers qualified for this weekend's Class 2A state wrestling tournament in Denver
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Steamboat Springs High School senior Eric Bonner sends a Palmer High School player to the ice during Saturday's match. Steamboat won 2-0.
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Steamboat Springs High School senior Grant Ehrick takes a shot during the first period of Saturday's game against Palmer High School. Steamboat won, 2-0.
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Giant stacks of dog food sit in Thurston's garage. He already has shipped more than half a ton of food to Alaska in preparation for running the Iditarod dogsled race.
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Tom Thurston and his wife, Tami, load a dogsled into a trailer Friday afternoon before Tom leaves on one of his final training expeditions leading up to next month's Iditarod dogsled race in Alaska. Although he'll be alone with the dogs for the 1,150 miles of winter trail, Tom Thurston said his trip wouldn't be possible without the help of his family and the community.
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Hayden resident Dallas Robinson is making mortgage payments on a lot he owns in the Lake Village subdivision on the south side of Hayden. He can't build on the site because the development is tied up in a legal battle.
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Hayden resident Dallas Robinson walks by a rusty dump truck Thursday, which seems to have been abandoned on his lot in the Lake Village subdivision in Hayden.
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A shooting range for a new Northwest Colorado Law Enforcement Training Facility might be partly operational as soon as early summer for local law enforcement. Sheriff's Office investigators, from left, Ken Klinger and Mike Curzon, Steamboat Springs' director of public safety J.D. Hays and Sgt. Miles DeYoung, of the Sheriff's Office, are involved with the project.
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Discovery Learning Center assistant teacher John Schoen leads a "music and movement" activity with his students Friday.
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Jimiann Murphy, an assistant teacher at the Discovery Learning Center, reads a book to her students Friday. Murphy is taking early childhood education classes at Colorado Mountain College.
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Editorial cartoon for Feb. 15, 2009
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Carol Davidson
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Andy Brown started MyWireless in fall 2003. The 23rd store is scheduled to open soon in Fort Collins.
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MyWireless employs nearly 20 people in Steamboat at its two stores and its headquarters.
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MyWireless founder Andy Brown backs up one of his company's vehicles, which are known for their flashy paint jobs.
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Steamboat Springs-based MyWireless is nearing the $20 million mark in revenue despite an economy that is challenging most businesses nationwide, says MyWireless Founder and Chief Executive Andy Brown. He says the industry is recession-proof.
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Keith Giglio
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Sports med patient Allison Holt holds Panda's paws Friday at the hospital. Heeling Friends volunteer Karen Covillo makes sure that her dog is wearing a nice outfit and her nails are painted with dog nail polish.
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Heeling Friends volunteer Karen Covillo, left, lets Sports Med patient Allison Holt visit with Panda, a Chihuahua, on Friday at the hospital.
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Name tags for Heeling Friends volunteer Karen Covillo and her Chihuahua, Panda, hang from Panda's harness.
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Auctioneer Troy Allen auctions off heifers during the April 19, 2008, North Western Colorado Bull Sale at the Routt County Fairgrounds in Hayden.
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Yampa Valley Medical Center patient James Ellis, of Milner, visits Friday with Panda, a Chihuahua belonging to Karen Covillo, who volunteers her three dogs for the hospital's Heeling Friends program. The visit brought smiles to Ellis, who shattered his legs after falling from his roof Feb. 8.
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Seventh-grader Jasper Good, center, counts 10 tickets to parent volunteer Debbie Wilson, right, to redeem for a soccer ball at the Steamboat Springs Middle School store. Students earn tickets from teachers and parents by following the school's code of conduct.
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A Stagecoach Reservoir hat was one of the items remaining in John Fetcher's office Thursday. Fetcher was instrumental in the building of the Yamcolo and Stagecoach reservoirs and Steamboat Lake.
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Kevin McBride, district manager of the Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District, tells stories about his former boss, John Fetcher, on Thursday in Fetcher's old Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District office. Fetcher, a local icon, water expert, ski area creator and North Routt County rancher, was 97 when he died Feb. 6.
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The master bedroom of the model unit at One Steamboat Place has its own fireplace.
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The color red is a predominant theme in the newly completed model unit at One Steamboat Place. Tours of the model are available by appointment.
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Steamboat Springs resident Sue Weir looks at an old map of Old Town Steamboat Springs from 1910 on Feb. 6 during the opening of a discovery center in Howelsen Place that is used to help market projects by Green Courte Partners.
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Nine-year-old Madeline Boucher, of Steamboat Springs, looks at a display facing Lincoln Avenue through a window of Howelsen Place on Feb. 6 during the opening of a discovery center being used to help market several downtown developments by Green Courte Partners.
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