S T E A M B O AT
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JUNE 5, 2009
Steamboat Springs, Colorado
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Vol. 21, No. 134
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Last-day goodbyes
EXPLORE STEAMBOAT Your weekend guide
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Correction Steamboat Springs High School graduate Oren Pierce is joining the Marines. Pierce was misidentified during last weekend’s graduation ceremony at the high school and in a subsequent story in Sunday’s Steamboat Pilot & Today.
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MATT STENSLAND/STAFF
Strawberry Park Elementary School third-grader Sam Shaffer heads back to his seat after giving bus driver Connie Wagner a hug Thursday after school. Wagner is retiring today after about 30 years on the job. For story, see page 2.
Post office on track?
Postal Service, developers seek to iron out differences in deal Tom Ross
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The vital signs of the real estate deal that would facilitate moving the Steamboat Springs Post Office out of downtown were stabilizing Thursday after U.S. Postal Service officials pulled back from earlier state-
■ LOTTO Thursday night’s Cash 5 numbers: 11-13-28-29-32 Drawings are held Monday through Saturday.
ments that the move was off. Two spokesmen for the Postal Service in Denver contacted the city of Steamboat Springs and the Steamboat Pilot & Today on Wednesday to say the deal with developers Brian Olson and Rod Forrester was dead. However, Olson insisted he still was in a contract to build a new home for the post office in
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Scattered storms. High of 69.
the first phase of the proposed City South project on a vacant parcel on the southwest corner of U.S. Highway 40 and Pine Grove Road. “Nobody has paid me the courtesy of telling that to me,” Olson said Wednesday afternoon. “Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been invested in this project, and as far as I’m
concerned, it’s not going anywhere.” By Thursday afternoon, it was apparent that the two sides had different takes on a letter Olson sent to postal officials seeking to reopen the terms of their contract. The contract calls for the developers to build the new post See Post office, page 16
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