News

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The Steamboat Pilot and Today

The Steamboat Pilot is a weekly newspaper that serves Steamboat Springs and Routt County, Colorado. It is published on Sunday. The Today is a free daily tabloid newspaper published Monday through Saturday.

Funding allocated for summer events in Steamboat
Posted: March 12th, 2010
For promoters of new events who were hoping to get a chunk of the $75,000 supplied by the city of Steamboat Springs to increase tourism this summer, the word “bicycling” was a door opener.

Birch, Bosick deny sheriff’s run
Posted: March 12th, 2010
Two rumored candidates for Routt County sheriff have denied their intention to run, and no new affidavits have been filed in preparation for the November election.

Townsend H. Anderson: Old windows revisited
Posted: March 12th, 2010
In the fall, we wrote about preservation being the up-and-coming green. Quoting the United Nations 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report, we noted that, “Over the whole building stock the largest portion of carbon savings by 2030 is in retrofitting existing buildings.” This makes sense for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that any new structure we build, no matter how green, can at best be carbon neutral, which so far is mathematically impossible.

Rocky Mountain National Park News Releases

News releases from Rocky Mountain National Park.

Rocky Mountain National Park Lyceum Series Continues March 13 & 20
Posted: March 8th, 2010
2010 Lyceum Series “Wilderness: Of What Avail Are Forty Freedoms Without A Blank Spot On The Map?” Programs are free and open to the public.  They are held at 7 p.m. at the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center auditorium in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Temporary Closures to Protect 2010 Nesting Raptors in Rocky Mountain National Park
Posted: March 8th, 2010
Each year to protect raptor nesting sites, Rocky Mountain National Park officials initiate temporary closures in the Lumpy Ridge and Sheep Mountain areas of the park.  To ensure that raptors can nest undisturbed, specific areas within the park are closed temporarily to public use during nesting season and monitored by wildlife managers. All closures went in to effect on March 1 and will continue through July 31, if appropriate. These closures may be extended longer or rescinded at an earlier date depending on nesting activity.

Rocky Mountain National Park Lyceum Series Continues March 6
Posted: March 3rd, 2010
Saturday, March 6, 7:00 p.m. – Driven Wild: The Automobile and the Making of Modern Wilderness

Rocky Mountain News

Continuous publication of the Rocky Mountain News spans three centuries. Its status as Colorado's best daily newspaper has been reaffirmed annually throughout the past decade, both locally and nationally.

Rocky used Twitter to report its closure
Posted: February 27th, 2009
When Scripps CEO Rich Boehne announced he was closing the Rocky Mountain News, we used Twitter to report the event live. Comments were copied and pasted from Twitter. You will need to read them in reverse order, starting at the bottom of the page.

World followed closure on Twitter
Posted: February 27th, 2009
People around the world followed the live announcement of the Rocky's closure on the online and mobile service Twitter. Below are their comments about the institution's closure -- many directed at the newspaper's staff. The Rocky has been using Twitter to report news since early 2008.

Driveways won't be the same without the Rocky
Posted: February 26th, 2009
The Rocky has landed on some of their porch steps for as long as they can remember.

Other Online Resources

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