If you’re hearing a lot more moaning, groaning, sighing and other sounds of bliss coming out of the Yampa Valley, it can only mean one thing. It’s Spa Week in Steamboat Springs! Now through August 10th, a collection of the best spas are offering locals and visitors special discounts on spa packages, facials, massages, manicures, [...]

Last issue my unfavorable report on the Balloon Rodeo garnered both enthusiastic support from my fellow non-morning people, and extreme disapproval from the segment of the population that is capable of achieving consciousness before dawn and loves the tradition of ballooning in Steamboat.

Arrogant, self righteous and disrespectful are the words that come to mind when we watch someone in control mode.

So for me to get the opportunity to speak with, I am going to say legendary, for sure Broadcast Hall of Famer, sports announcer Verne Lundquist, really cannot be expressed in words.

It’s furnace-stoked and jungle-sticky in Milan, a touch delirious. Reality shimmers, like an oasis you can’t quite be sure is there. Things blur even in the car with the AC cranking. The wavy gravy of 100 + is lurking and looking for any excuse to creep in. It takes will power to drive alert.

The sheriff began calling for help. Mrs. Gaymon heard him but didn’t think it was anything more than the prisoners making their usual noise.

We are in the midst of intense change. We have a “grand cross” forming in the heavens, which promise huge expansions and breakthroughs in our way of thinking. Our old belief systems are changing and so are our relationships to other people and to money.

A great light in journalism has gone out. Last week Daniel Schorr died at a Washington hospital at 93. He had had a long and illustrious career, starting covering post-war stories in 1946 and ending doing news analysis pieces for National Public Radio until just a few weeks ago.

“Rooooaaaarrrr!” was the sound from the Steamboat and Ski Town Lions Clubs members when they voted on bringing the Culpepper & Merriweather Circus to Steamboat on August 4th & 5th. But after advertising and selling advance tickets for the past several weeks, plans to host the exciting event almost fell apart when the circus announced its intention to drill 52 two inch holes in the Meadows Parking Lot.

It is curious that two articles last week dealt with discussions of immigration and amnesty. They were in TODAY, dated 7-13 and -14, respectively and titled “Local wants Amnesty  Chapter”; and : “Religious panel examines immigration”. A spokesperson for the latter panel says the event has been ‘publicized to” Communidad Integrata (Integrated Community), whose members [...]

The 35th Annual Scholarship Golf Tournament will be held Wednesday, August 11 at the Rollingstone Ranch Golf Club, with a shotgun start at 8:30 a.m. The tournament is a scramble format for 5-player teams and the pre-registration fee is $140.00, which includes the Deck Party on August 10.

Libra This fortnight you will begin a small feud with your local school district when you are refused access to Pig Latin as a foreign language. And hey! Your right! Its not fair to restrict education of the unfamiliar yet verbally stimulating language of the Piglatin..eeze.. ites... ogons...

Communities across the country have been reinventing their central business districts and returning them to prominence as the social centers they once were. Our downtown is no exception. Downtown Steamboat Springs is becoming the vital, vibrant, desirable place that MainStreet Steamboat Springs envisioned when it was first established in 2004. Back in the day, residents [...]