Margaret Hair Reporter
Margaret Hair covers arts and entertainment for the <cite>Pilot & Today</cite>. She started working at the paper in August 2007, and is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has worked for McClatchy-Tribune News Service (Washington, D.C.), the <cite>News & Record</cite> (Greensboro, N.C.) and <cite>The Daily Tar Heel </cite>(Chapel Hill, N.C.). Margaret writes about music for the Independent Weekly (Durham, N.C.) and the Boulder Weekly, and she holds on to a childhood belief that Rasheed Wallace is the best basketball player ever.
Recent stories
- ‘Baby and Me’ program provides incentives for mothers to quit smoking
- November 14, 2009
- This fall, six women graduated from “Baby and Me — Tobacco Free,” a program to keep women from smoking during and after pregnancy. Funded by a grant and led locally by Hope Cook, the prenatal coordinator for the Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association, the program gives expecting and new moms incentive and motivation to quit smoking and stay smoke-free.
- Hayden OKs car rental, lodging tax hikes
- November 3, 2009
- Hayden voters passed a referendum Tuesday that will increase sales tax for car rentals at Yampa Valley Regional Airport. Based on 2008 rental car figures, Referendum 2B would generate $143,500 next year for the town of Hayden.
- Bust of Steamboat to kick off its 8th year
- Art auction and event helps fund exams, breast cancer services
- October 28, 2009
Presented by the Yampa Valley Breast Cancer Awareness Project, the eighth annual Bust of Steamboat auction is from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at Three Peaks Grill. Tickets are $30 and are available in advance at All That Jazz and Epilogue Book Co.
- YVMC puts new restrictions on hospital visitors
- Rules aimed at preventing spread of flu and other viruses
- October 22, 2009
- Changes restrict children and unwell people from visiting hospital. Visitors must check in, and some will be required to wear masks.
- New ski films take center stage
- Teton Gravity Research, Telemark Skier Magazine to screen new films this weekend
- October 1, 2009
- Click on the headline to watch trailers of new ski films by Teton Gravity Research and Telemark Skier Magazine. TGR’s “Re:Session” plays at 7 p.m. tonight at the Sheraton Steamboat Resort ballroom.
- Wine Festival brings top sips, ‘Top Chef’
- 4-day culinary event features TV show winner, seminars, tastings
- July 29, 2009
The day Gail Wiltshire heard Boulder fish chef Hosea Rosenberg had been chosen to compete on the Bravo TV cooking competition “Top Chef,” the TeamSage Productions employee and sixth annual Wine Festival at Steamboat organizer called Rosenberg’s restaurant.
- Traveling Western art show comes to town
- Sale features antique prints and newer paintings
- July 28, 2009
At 11 a.m. Thursday, the 11th annual “Spirit of the American West” fine art show and sale opens at the Steamboat Springs Center for Visual Arts. Mary Williams’ collection will be on display and available for sale through Sunday, and the gallery will extend its hours through the weekend.
- 29th annual Balloon Rodeo to lift off Saturday
- Event offers contest for pilots, colorful skies for visitors
- July 10, 2009
- The 29th annual Hot Air Balloon Rodeo is Saturday and Sunday at Bald Eagle Lake. The launch field opens at 6 a.m. each day, with balloons inflating at 6:30 a.m. and taking off at about 7 a.m.
- STARS on the slopes
- Program teams volunteers, skiers for recreating on Mount Werner
- March 16, 2009
- Almost every Saturday since mid-January, Seth Sobeski and Scott Bjorgum have strapped on their skis and hit the NASTAR racecourse at Steamboat Ski Area.
- Strings announces 2009 season
- Tickets for Different Tempo Series, classical and family concerts on sale March 30
- February 20, 2009
Violinist Elmar Oliveira will open the 22nd season of the Strings Music Festival, starting a summer of music that includes performances by The Neville Brothers, country musician Chris Hillman and guitarist Jason Vieaux.
