Steamboat Pilot & Today

Steamboat locals doing what they do best. Submitted by: Daniel Rynkowski

Soroco’s Chance Beatty and Hayden’s Christopher Carrouth race for the finish line at the end of the 1,600-meter run. Chance won that sprint, winning the eighth-grade boys race. Christopher was second overall but easily hung on to take first among sixth-graders Wednesday at a middle school track meet in Hayden. Photo by Joel Reichenberger

Dusk. Submitted by: Matthew Grasse

Local clarinetist and Steamboat Symphony Orchestra member Gary Foss will perform traditional and Broadway favorites with vocalist Kathleen Allen on Friday at Bud Werner Memorial Library. Courtesy photo

Kathleen Allen, a local piano technician and vocalist, will give a concert Friday alongside clarinetist Gary Foss and piano accompanist Lori Hermanson. Courtesy photo

Maxwell Bomberg delivers books to jail in observance of Monday's World Book Night, a literacy program. Submitted by: Karen Bomberg

Daniel Brindle goes for the block against Nick Dencke during a pickup volleyball match Wednesday afternoon at Howelsen Hill. Brindle and his friends, who are regulars at the sand court, said this is one of the earliest starts they have ever had in Steamboat Springs. Photo by John F. Russell

Spring has sprung. Babies everywhere! Submitted by: Emily Simmins

A dinner will be held to benefit Hayden pastor Doug Zirkle at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Heritage Christian School. Photo by Scott Franz

Tara King, a 2006 Steamboat Springs High School graduate, spent the past nine months playing professional volleyball in Denmark. Courtesy photo

Robin Bush offers instructions to a freshman physical science class Wednesday at Hayden High School. If passed by the state Senate, House Bill 1345 in its current form would increase total program funding to public schools by $57 million next school year to essentially keep state funding at its current level, according to a news release from the Colorado House Republicans. The bill easily was approved by the House on Tuesday. Photo by Joel Reichenberger