Suzie Romig

1 week ago | steamboatpilot.com | Suzie Romig

Hayden town leaders, the nonprofit Yampa Valley Sustainability Council and Routt County commissioners have advocated to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission that coal-fired Hayden Station be transitioned to electricity generation from deep geothermal heat. Xcel Energy, the majority owner and operator of Hayden Station, currently is considering geothermal energy production as an option, according to Michelle Aguayo, Xcel media relations representative, in a May 20 email.

1 week ago | steamboatpilot.com | Suzie Romig

Sitting down to reminisce with friends or to trade funny stories at a nostalgic location can bring up old memories, especially if that place is a Memory Cafe. Following the success of approximately eight Memory Cafes on the Front Range from Denver to Loveland to Estes Park, Memory Cafe programming will kick off June 9 in Steamboat Springs to help people suffering from memory loss, dementia or Alzheimer’s disease and their caregivers and family members.

2 weeks ago | steamboatpilot.com | Suzie Romig

Key changes will start June 1 in trash and recycling collection by the Yampa Valley’s largest waste hauler, Twin Enviro Apex. The changes will expand the types of plastic containers collected, change waste collection days for many residential wheel cart customers, and increase recycling collection to weekly for more than 2,000 residential customers.

2 weeks ago | steamboatpilot.com | Suzie Romig

For the fifth time in the 25-year history of the Daniels Fund, a Steamboat Springs High School senior has been awarded a full-ride college scholarship through the Colorado-based charitable foundation. In fact, this year two seniors from SSHS earned the prestigious, four-year, $100,000 scholarship — Lillian Hammer and Zoey Beckner. “To have two in one school in Steamboat for the first time ever is wonderful, and we are thrilled for them,” said Sean Duffy, Daniels Fund communications director.

2 weeks ago | steamboatpilot.com | Suzie Romig

The final two speakers at the annual Routt County Economic Summit earlier this month told a sobering, cautionary tale of reductions in the civically engaged middle class in desirable mountain communities and how Steamboat Springs is heading down the same path.