The Last Stand
Council debates slashing budget
Community funds may be halved
Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008
City Council struggled this week with a tentative plan to cut its community support budget virtually in half from $1.7 million to about $810,000.
Triple Crown approved
Steamboat City Council passes two-year contract by 4-2 vote
Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008
The Steamboat Springs City Council concluded five months of Triple Crown contract negotiations Tuesday night when it voted, 4-2, to bring the national youth baseball tournaments back to Steamboat for at least one more year, and possibly two.
Tom Ross: Pilots defied stereotypes
Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008
Ethel Meyer Finley and Charles McGee were reunited with an old friend Saturday afternoon at Steamboat Springs Airport.
Hampton Inn adding suites
Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008
The Missouri-based owner of the Hampton Inn and Suites in Steamboat Springs has found a way to add five new hotel suites without expanding the building on South Lincoln Avenue.
Average July price doubles since ’06
Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008
The dollar volume attributable to real estate transactions in Routt County last month was only 40 percent of dollar volume from the record-setting July 2007, and year-to-date numbers were half of what they were last year.
Luxury slopeside project has broken ground
Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008
Ground has broken on the luxury condominiums at Edgemont, and Atira Group executives say construction will enter the vertical phase this fall and continue into the winter.
On the market for Aug. 31
Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008
Routt County recorded the sale of 40 dwelling units in July, bringing the year-to-date total to 355.
Aviation veterans to speak at 4th annual Wild West Air Fest
Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
It’s an old axiom in the business world that it’s easier to keep an existing customer than it is to find a new one. It rings particularly true for Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame member Ralph Hood.
SmartCode introduced for 700
Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
City planning officials will consider tonight a model zoning code for the West of Steamboat Springs Area Plan and Steamboat 700 that has been used elsewhere in Colorado to create neighborhoods where pedestrians hold sway over automobiles.
Tom Ross: Accidental melon patch defies Steamboat’s climate
Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008
After two decades of half-hearted attempts, I have succeeded in growing a watermelon. Make that two watermelons. But it isn’t because I ever planted watermelon seeds. At least not intentionally.
Boulder Ridge view lots previously ‘un-tapped’
Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008
Bob Hamilton always dreamed of carrying through on the final phase of the Mountain View Estates development in Steamboat Springs. But there was one big hitch.
Buyers take plunge at First Tracks
Deed-restricted development has 12 new homeowners
Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008
After nearly 20 years of life in Steamboat Springs, Rene Mattone had begun looking for a job elsewhere when the opportunity to buy an affordable condominium at First Tracks presented itself.
Hiking with llamas
Animals help carry load into rarely explored areas
Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008
It’s only natural that hikers in Steamboat Springs approach the Mount Zirkel Wilderness Area from the west side of the Continental Divide. It’s only 13 miles to the Continental Divide Trail on Buffalo Pass from downtown Steamboat.
Tom Ross: Appreciate a work of Art
Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008
You’ve admired Art Gumprecht’s work all over Steamboat Springs. But you probably didn’t know it.
Tugboat is staying afloat
Ski Time Square spot escapes wrecking claw for another winter
Friday, Aug. 22, 2008
Steamboat’s landmark ski town bar, the Tugboat Grill & Pub, will live to see its 36th winter after all. “We’ve agreed to a month-to month lease for this winter and are exploring a longer arrangement,” co-owner Larry Lamb said Thursday.
Tom Ross: August snow strengthens friends’ bonds
Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008
There are times in the life of a mountain woman or mountain man when a little adversity can be a positive thing.
Realtor turns to matchmaking
Steamboat housing market hung up on the big contingency
Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008
Joy Rasmussen has added matchmaker to her skills as a Realtor.
Elk Meadows allows modern rural life
Subdivision offers country culture 11 minutes from Steamboat
Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008
Land preservation subdivisions have been the dominant trend in rural Routt County for a decade. Now, that trend is creating a niche for more traditional rural subdivisions — neighborhoods where residents have more freedom to use their 35-acre parcels to suit them.
On the market for Aug. 17
Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008
The number of single-family homes priced less than $700,000 has been growing this summer in the neighborhoods west of Steamboat Springs city limits.
WWII fighter pilot to speak at Air Fest
Saturday, Aug. 16, 2008
It took more than 60 years for former U.S. Army Air Force fighter pilot Burt Newmark to open up about the most harrowing experience of his life. However, he will be sharing his near-death experience with an audience here this month.
Tom Ross: Trout fishing is as good as it gets
Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008
I released some chunky brown trout back into the Yampa River on two different days last week. But that doesn’t mean I didn’t come home with a full stringer.
Single-family home starts lag
Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008
Everywhere one turns in Steamboat Springs this summer, there are construction sites.
Iron Horse attracts developer interest
Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008
The city’s plans to redevelop the Iron Horse Inn to modernize and potentially double the amount of work force housing it offers have drawn preliminary interest from a diverse group of potential developers.
Tom Ross: TV and Tater Mitts
Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008
I launched an all-out, disgusting TV binge Thursday night. But I had a great excuse. Having been without television for the preceding two weeks, I needed to give my video muscles a good stiff workout. I wanted to be at my best for Friday night’s marathon coverage of the opening ceremonies of the Olympics, broadcast 12 hours after the fact from China.
Balking at Triple Crown
Steamboat City Council votes to put off contract extension
Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008
After being pitched a ninth-inning curve ball Tuesday night, city officials responded with a checked swing.
700 moves to ‘main event’
City Council approves pre-annexation agreement for proposed development
Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008
City Council sent a signal Tuesday night that the five or six potential deal-breakers in the possible annexation of Steamboat 700 have been overcome. Now, it’s time for city government and residents to dig into the details.
Iron Horse contract on agenda
City Council will consider rental management agreement
Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008
City Council will consider authorizing a rental management agreement tonight that would reduce its annual deficit on the Iron Horse Inn employee housing project to less than $50,000.
Tom Ross: Performers’ hands speak volumes at Strings
Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008
When we strolled into the Strings Pavilion on Saturday night, I fully expected Heidi Krutzen’s harp to present a musical experience like none I’d ever encountered. And I was pretty certain that Mike Garson’s premiere of a piece of music created expressly for Strings with vocalist Nnenna Freelon would stretch the boundaries of what we know as the lullaby.
Trailhead Lodge construction hits halfway mark
Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008
When Trailhead Lodge is complete a year from now, owners on the south side of the building will overlook a series of grotto-style hot pools linked by a cascade and flanked by boulders and landscaping.
Yampa Valley’s summer tourism season peaks tonight
Saturday, Aug. 2, 2008
Denver’s weekend heat wave could help extend a tourism trend that has held sway in Steamboat Springs all summer long.
Yampa River due to rise
Thursday, July 31, 2008
The Yampa River typically snaps out of its summer decline and begins to run with gradually increasing flows July 30, as seasonal thunderstorms stream up from the south.
Two more projects queue up in rapidly evolving neighborhood
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
After the new Boathouse Pub’s opening on Yampa Street during the weekend, two new proposals would continue the evolution of that strip into a dining and shopping district along the Yampa River.
Taps to go dry for some
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
More than 130 households on the city’s south side will endure interruptions in water service this week, but the end of construction on Whistler Road is in sight.
Tom Ross: Get lost in the Triangle in Ski Time Square
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
I cannot say for certain if it was Colorado lamb chops or beef tenderloin topped with bleu cheese that I had for dinner on June 20, 1984. But I’m reasonably confident it was one of those two. I’m 100 percent certain we were dining at Mattie Silks on our wedding night.
A $55 million ranch
Big Creek Ranch encompasses 4.3K acres
Sunday, July 27, 2008
One of the largest ranches in the Yampa Valley is on the market for $55 million, and the firm marketing the property is pointing out that it offers the potential for more than 70 estate building lots.
Officials look at hot beds vs. green buildings
Sunday, July 27, 2008
City government is weighing the relative merits of hot beds and green buildings.
Departing jets 42 percent full in June
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Routt County’s jet flights from Yampa Valley Regional Airport to Denver and Salt Lake City, Utah, were 42 percent full in June.
Thunderstorm brings needed rain
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
The system that ripped through the upper Yampa Valley on Tuesday night more than doubled July precipitation to date.
County’s low precipitation may spur grasshopper spread
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
With just nine days left in July, rainfall in Steamboat Springs is lagging more than 1.3 inches behind the average for the month. And with every day that passes, grasshoppers in the area are becoming more resistant to disease.
Tom Ross: Who are you calling a lousewort, toadflax breath?
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
How does a beautifully delicate wildflower like Alpine lousewort get such a repugnant-sounding name?
Chadwick launches final phase
Quarter shares brought into mix
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Construction crews began moving ground Thursday on two residential buildings representing the first five units at the Chadwick Estate Villas, the third and final phase of Chadwick properties on Eagle Glen Drive near the base of the Steamboat Ski Area.
River Walk set for infrastructure work
Sunday, July 20, 2008
The first signs of construction soon will appear at the River Walk site on the east end of Yampa Street. But it shouldn’t be mistaken for a full launch of the mixed residential commercial project that could bring a new boutique hotel to downtown Steamboat Springs.
Tom Ross: Controversy often has found the Sheriff's Office
Saturday, July 19, 2008
If you think Sheriff Gary Wall’s DWAI conviction this week was shocking, you haven’t lived in Routt County long enough.
Performing arts school turns 95
Perry-Mansfield celebrates with shows, food, root beer floats
Friday, July 18, 2008
If 95 years have passed since your last old-fashioned root beer float, it might be time to end the drought.
Dream Island sale fails
Green Courte's mobile home park contract expires
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Green Courte Partners’ contract to purchase Dream Island Mobile Home Park no longer is in effect. But representatives of the park’s owner say they are talking without any sense of urgency to other potential buyers.
Bumpy ride for buses
Engineers addressing roundabout's tight turning radius
Thursday, July 17, 2008
City bus drivers are adapting to the new traffic roundabout intersection at Mount Werner Circle and Après Ski Way.
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