S T E A M B O AT
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THURSDAY
JULY 23, 2009
Steamboat Springs, Colorado
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Vol. 21, No. 175
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Preserving history
Community Cares Fund donations near $30,000 in 30 days Page 2
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Council split about code City officials discuss housing ordinance revisions at Tuesday’s meeting Page 5
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Workers, from left, Jim Williams, Scott Kemp and Brian Edwards work Wednesday on the restoration of the Diamond Window Cabin in Stagecoach. Historic Routt County hopes the preservation of the more than 100-year-old cabin will cause people to take on other restoration projects. For story, see page 3.
Death brings peace Colby West works out Page 15
■ INDEX Briefs . . . . . . . . .10 Classifieds . . . . .25 Colorado. . . . . . .14 Comics . . . . . . . .23 Crossword . . . . .23 Happenings . . . . .7
‘Cowboy Bob’ was subject of family’s 30-year search Brent Boyer
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Last weekend’s death of Robert “Cowboy Bob” Matteson in a garage in Oak Creek brought an end to a 30-year family mystery rooted in up-
■ LOTTO Horoscope . . . . .24 Nation. . . . . . . . .36 Scoreboard. . . . .22 Sports. . . . . . . . .15 ViewPoints . . . . . .8 Weather . . . . . . .19
Wednesday night’s Powerball numbers: 4-6-16-22-32; 11, 2 Lotto numbers: 2-18-21-25-26-31 Cash 5 numbers: 3-8-16-21-27
state New York. Matteson, 63, died Sunday of heart failure resulting from coronary disease. He was found in the garage where he was sleeping off Main Street. His death sparked immediate reaction in the small South Routt County town where
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Sunny and warm. High of 85.
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Cowboy Bob, as he affectionately was known, had called home for the past seven or eight years. Thought to be Oak Creek’s only homeless person, Cowboy Bob spent his years in Oak Creek working occasional odd job and spending time at local bars. But the folks who knew him
best actually knew very little about him. His death, they feared, would go unnoticed because of his social standing. On the other side of the country, in Oswego County, N.Y., news about Matteson’s See Matteson, page 13
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