Steamboat Springs sophomore Lance Ostrom, right, races Battle Mountain's Yini Ruiz for a loose ball deep in the Sailors' zone Saturday. The teams played to a draw, 1-1.
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Steamboat Springs's Hanson Buchner tries to get around a Battle Mountain defender and get at the ball in the second half of Saturday's game in Steamboat Springs. Buchner and the Sailors finish with a tie, 1-1.
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A Steamboat player tries to bump the ball to a teammate Saturday as the Steamboat Springs High School soccer team played Battle Mountain to a 1-1 draw.
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Jenna Gruben smiles wide as she takes the final steps in her second consecutive Steamboat 50 ultra marathon victory. Gruben repeated as the women's champion, winning Saturday's race 9 hours, 14 minutes.
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Paul Doyle leans toward the finish line of Saturday's Run, Rabbit Run 50-mile trail run at the base of the Steamboat Ski Area. Doyle finished in 9 hours, 50 minutes.
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Husband and wife Matt Morrill and Jenna Gruben Morrill hug after she won the women's division of the Run Rabbit Run Steamboat 50 ultra marathon in September 2009. Gruben died Feb. 13 in a car accident on U.S. Highway 40. She was 32.
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Steamboat Springs High School golfer Skyler Martin watches Alan Capistron tee off Saturday during a practice round at Haymaker Golf Course.
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Maria Sanchez-Silva works on an in-class project.
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Adrian Najera listens during class.
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Teacher Tiffany Gebhardt keeps students interested and focused with her active and energetic approach to teaching. Here she teaches Bradley Escarcega-Rios, left, and Asad Khabibullaev basic sentences.
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English Language Learner teacher Tiffany Gebhardt looks at the picture student America Estrella drew during her English Language Learner class at Soda Creek Elementary School.
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Local ELL enrollment
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Teacher Tiffany Gebhardt interacts with student Karina Ventura-Perez during their English Learner Class at Soda Creek Elementary School.
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The coal stove in Elk Tavern in Oak Creek currently isn't being used because the weather hasn't been too cold. Those who use coal in Routt County will need to get their coal outside of the county after Twentymile Coal Co. stopped distributing coal for home use, instead contracting the service to Bower Brothers Construction in Craig.
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Twentymile Coal Co. has stopped distributing coal for home use, instead contracting the service to Bower Brothers Construction in Craig. Many rural Routt County residents use coal for heat in the winter.
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Brooke Jones and Tim Huff, of Grand Junction, enjoy their beers Saturday during OktoberWest at the base of Steamboat Ski Area.
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Robbie Shine does pushup during a workout at Manic Training in Steamboat Springs.
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Julie Wernig works out during a session at Manic Training in Steamboat Springs.
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Mark Hermacinski works out at Manic Training in Steamboat Springs.
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Graham Muir, owner of Manic Training, has brought his brand of fitness to Steamboat Springs and is developing a strong following.
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Soft light hits an aspen grove above Muddy Pass Lake on Thursday morning. The many contrasts in the photo - from the blue sky to yellow aspens and even the not-yet yellow aspens - help make for a great work of art. The fall colors are spreading out among the trees on Rabbit Ears Pass and across the Yampa River Valley daily.
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Not all the best views are from the top of a mountain with a patchwork forest laid out below. Sometimes just looking up, with the sun illuminating the golden leaves, can be amazing.
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The great thing about fall is it's happening everywhere. A hike up at Buffalo or Rabbit Ears passes can yield amazing views, but so can a drive to Oak Creek. This photo was taken on Routt County Road 7 south of Yampa.
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Kathleen Dobell, a senior at Steamboat Springs High School, was named the Optimist Club's Teen of the Month.
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Jaycie Lee Schneider and Christopher Lane Frentress are planning a late July 2010 wedding.
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Steven James Chavez and Jennifer Day Ramsey were married on Sept. 26, 2009.
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Sue Gallion
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Suicide prevention speaker Bryce Mackie showed his film "Eternal High" on Thursday night at Steamboat Springs High School. Mackie and his father, Tom, spoke to an audience about suicide awareness.
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Suicide prevention speaker Bryce Mackie showed his film "Eternal High" on Thursday night at Steamboat Springs High School. Mackie and his father, Tom, spoke to an audience about suicide awareness.
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Sixth graders Joe Borgerding, and Ross Stuart look to see what they pulled out of a nearby pond during a afternoon at the Yampa Valley Science School. The boys took the sample back to a temporary lab set up at the Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts camp where they got a closer look. The Yampa Valley Science School is hosting science camps for middle school children this month.
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Former University of Wyoming professor Jerry Johnson talks to Steamboat Springs Middle School students at the Yampa Valley Science School earlier this week. Johnson, who taught microbiology, molecular biology and biochemistry at the University, said he enjoys volunteering for the camp and working with young people in the community.
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Steamboat Springs sixth grader Haley Doyle finishes an art project at the Yampa Valley Science School, which was held at the Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts Camp this week. The school will continue the next two weeks.
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Taylor Kortas uses a microscope to check out a sample she pulled from a pond at the Perry-Mansfield.
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Steamboat Springs sixth-grader Becky Brown completes an art project during Yampa Valley Science School, which was held this week at the Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School and Camp.
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Anderson uses her potter's wheel to turn clay into stunning art. The experienced potter will be teaching pottery classes this fall in Steamboat Springs.
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Artist Julie Anderson forms a bowl on her potter's wheel inside her studio in west Steamboat Springs. Anderson will be teaching pottery classes this fall, which include Raku.
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Julie Anderson uses her potter's wheel to turn clay into stunning art. The experienced potter will be teaching pottery classes this fall in Steamboat Springs.
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Artist Julie Anderson starts crafting a bowl on her potter's wheel at her studio in west Steamboat Springs. Anderson will be teaching pottery classes this fall, which include Raku.
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Julie Anderson begins the process of turning clay into art. The experienced potter will be teaching pottery classes this fall in Steamboat Springs, which will include forms like Raku.
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Artist Julie Anderson starts with a ball of clay that she will craft into a bowl on her potter's wheel at her studio in west Steamboat Springs. Anderson will be teaching pottery classes this fall, which include Raku.
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Artist Julie Anderson forms a bowl on her potter's wheel inside her studio in west Steamboat Springs. Anderson will be teaching pottery classes this fall, which include Raku.
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When the Raku firing process goes well and the artist adds alterations, a piece of ceramic art fired in a Raku kiln can look like this work created by Julie Anderson in 2006. The piece is carved, Raku-fired and embellished with beads and macrame.
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Julie Anderson and friends recently fired a few ceramic pieces in a Raku kiln outside Anderson's Warehome Studios. Here, an artist removes a red-hot pot from the Raku kiln with tongs.
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Issac Klaus places a hot, Raku-fired pot on a nest of newspaper while Morgan Peterson, crouching at right, gets ready to cool the pot with wet newspaper, hoping to make a crackle effect on its surface.
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Issac Klaus transfers red-hot pottery from a Raku kiln to a combustion chamber during a Raku firing session outside Julie Anderson and Greg Grasso's Warehome Studio. On right, local photographer Morgan Peterson stands by with a lid for the chamber, and on left, local sculptor Christopher Oar photographs the firing.
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Artist and Warehome Studio co-owner Greg Grasso prepares to remove the top of a Raku kiln, exposing ceramics that have been firing at 1800 degrees Fahrenheit.
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A pile of newspaper catches fire outside Julie Anderson's Warehome Studio after the artist places a pot that's just come from a 1800-degree Raku kiln on the pile.
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When completed in summer 2010, the Emerald Properties duplex will feature cedar lap siding, large stone columns and covered decks with custom steel railings.
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Cerei Jones, of Lynx Development, and Steamboat architect Michael J.K. Olsen take in the view of the gondola building and the Steamboat Grand Resort Hotel from a staircase in a four-story duplex under construction on Ski Trail Lane.
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The Emerald Properties duplex on Ski Trail Lane is the large roofed building under construction in the right center of the photograph. It is built on a lot with a challenging 34 percent grade; each home in the duplex has six bedrooms and 6.5 bathrooms.
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