Steamboat Today, June 6, 2009

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S T E A M B O AT

TODAY

SATURDAY

JUNE 6, 2009

Steamboat Springs, Colorado

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Vol. 21, No. 135

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Trail rides

School’s out for summer

Steamboat gets funky Atlanta-based EntropyFunk makes a tour stop at Old Town Pub at 10 p.m. today

Emerald Mountain receives additional protection for 4,139-acre parcel

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PILOT & TODAY STAFF

Tom Ross

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS

S T E A M B O AT S P R I N G S

City may cite owners Closed downtown convenience store could face legal action for neglect Page 3

SPORTS

Supporting cycling Page 23

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■ INDEX Briefs . . . . . . . . .10 Business. . . . . . .18 Classifieds . . . . .30 Colorado. . . . . . .14 Comics . . . . . . . .28 Crossword . . . . .29

TOM ROSS/STAFF

Ava Scarborough races toward the finish line during the final day of classes at Soda Creek Elementary School on Friday. Students and staff celebrated the final day with a variety of activities including a talent show, egg drop and potato sack races. Friday was the last day for all Steamboat Springs School District students.

Happenings . . . . .7 Horoscope . . . . .28 Nation. . . . . . . . .16 Sports. . . . . . . . .23 ViewPoints . . . . . .8 Weather . . . . . . .22

Friday night’s Cash 5 numbers: 1-4-5-13-25 Drawings are held Monday through Saturday.

■ WEATHER

Afternoon storm. High of 66.

Not many office workers use the term “sheer bliss” to describe their commute. But that’s exactly how Chris Tamucci regards his ride along the Ridge Trail on Emerald Mountain. A couple of For more days of every For more week, Tamucci information rides his bike from about the his home south of BLM’s Emerald Steamboat along Mountain the hill trail that parcel and the takes him to his job Ridge Trail, go at outdoors equipto www.blm. gov/co/st/en/ ment and apparel fo/lsfo.html, or company Big Agcall the BLM nes in downtown Little Snake Steamboat Springs. Field Office at “I have 90 min970-826-5000. utes of pure bliss on a Monday morning,” Tamucci said this week. It helps that Tamucci is a competitive mountain biker capable of gobbling up the hilly 5.5 miles of the Ridge Trail and the winding descent down Howelsen Hill to his office on Oak Street. The Ridge Trail is the centerpiece of the Bureau of Land Management’s 4,139-acre Emerald Mountain parcel that stretches south from Steamboat’s southern limits toward the rural See Emerald, page 13

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