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Vol. 21, No. 227
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Road work concerns Some local businesses are worried about construction on Lincoln Avenue Page 3
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A light dusting of snow covers the upper part of Steamboat Ski Area on Monday morning. A cold front brought snow and cold to the area on the last day of summer.
Adapting on defense Page 20
Last day of summer sees snow at high elevations, 1st freeze predicted Zach Fridell
Charley Williams is a minority owner of the West Acres Mobile Home Park and received only a small amount of the $200,000 paid to the mobile home park’s owners for land needed to build the planned New Victory Highway in western Steamboat. Williams also is the mobile home park’s manager. The story “Meeting resolves little” on page 1 of Wednesday’s Steamboat Today portrayed Williams as the mobile home park’s sole owner. Williams’ name also was misspelled in the story.
With just 63 days until Steamboat Ski Area opens for the 2009-10 season, winter already has crept into the Yampa Valley — and just in time for the first day of fall. Forecasters expected the first freeze of the season Monday night in Steamboat Springs after the first snowfall fell at higher elevations Sunday night. National Weather Service forecaster Jeff Colton, work-
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ing in Grand Junction, said For more inforMonday night’s mation about temperature the autumnal in Steamboat equinox and was expected the start of fall, to drop to 22 read astronodegrees, enough mer Jimmy to cause the Westlake’s column on page season’s first 12 of today’s deep freeze. paper. “Snowfall amounts have been fairly light so far, 1 to 2 inches, and most of that is expected to end” Monday, he said. “Then (Monday night) we’re expecting
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Mostly cloudy. High of 55.
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the skies to clear out, which will allow the temperature to drop below freezing for the first time this season in the valley.” Colton said the freezing conditions create the possibility of black ice on roadways, especially at higher elevations such as Rabbit Ears Pass, where melting snow could cause standing water. After the first vegetation “killing freeze,” the National Weather Service will not issue any more freeze warnings, Colton said. Forecasters predict there is a 20 percent chance of pre-
cipitation Wednesday through Thursday night, with low temperatures at or below freezing each of those nights, further increasing the chance for ice on the roadways. Colton said the snowfall Sunday night extended along the Continental Divide, with accumulation of 1 to 3 inches. Colton said Vail Pass, Copper Mountain and Monarch Pass all picked up snow from the Sunday evening storm. The upper slopes of the ski area See Weather, page 14
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