Margaret Hair Reporter

Margaret Hair covers arts and entertainment for the Pilot & Today. 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 News & Record (Greensboro, N.C.) and The Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.). Margaret writes about music for the Independent Weekly (Durham, N.C.) and the Boulder Weekly, and holds on to a childhood belief that Rasheed Wallace is the best basketball player ever.

Recent stories

How to reduce energy costs
Winterizing a home can be a cheap and easy project
November 29, 2008
Last winter, Ace at the Curve employee Jim Warren cut his home energy costs by replacing all his windows. He also stopped warm air from leaving his house by caulking around those windows, and he put a hotel shower cap over the inside grate of a bathroom fan.
Visualizing Routt County’s future
Vision 2030 meetings to clarify goals, priorities for next 20 years
November 3, 2008
After a year of collecting ideas from Routt County residents about how they would like to see the area develop in the next two decades, Vision 2030 is starting to hone in on a plan.
Acting on autism
Early intervention helps children, families cope with spectrum disorder
October 19, 2008
It didn’t take Craig resident Michele Dugan long to notice something was different about her youngest son.
Salvage yard unveils art
Home ReSource to use warehouse to store items for winter
October 4, 2008
In the spirit of salvaging anything it can, Home ReSource opens its reclaimed warehouse today, with live music, food and a community art project.
Fifth annual wine festival draws crowds, celebrates vineyards
August 4, 2008
On Saturday afternoon at the Toast of Steamboat Grand Tasting, wine drinkers from across the state rubbed elbows in search of the perfect zinfandel, malbec or chardonnay. Humidity lifted up from the grass on Torian Plum Plaza as the sky clouded, dumped rain and cleared, while festival-goers lifted glasses and danced to the folk rock of Missed the Boat.
Hashing out health care
Denver doctor presents concerns about cost, insurance
July 14, 2008
Tom Bost, a highly specialized private practice physician from Denver, has a proposal: “If I said you can have better coverage for less money, and never go bankrupt from it and never lose, what do you think? I think you’d say, ‘Well, where do I sign up?’” Bost said, explaining his position in support of a single-payer universal health care system.
Two-legged dog takes top honors at mutt contest
June 13, 2008
The annual Nuts for Mutts dog show in Woodland Hills, Calif., isn’t quite on the same level as The Westminster Kennel Club.
Snow will dissipate today
January 7, 2008
A storm that brought 9 inches of heavy snow and wind gusts up to 55 mph Saturday and Sunday is forecast to continue to affect the region through this afternoon, with an additional 5 to 9 inches of accumulation possible in the city of Steamboat Springs.
Storm Peak opens today
Snowfall allows summit access at Steamboat Ski Area
December 8, 2007
The Storm Peak Express chairlift opens today, giving Steamboat Ski Area top-to-bottom skiing for the first time this season.
Bhutanese Buddhist figure to visit Steamboat
December 7, 2007
When His Holiness Lopen Ngawan Tenzin Rinpoche first came to Steamboat Springs in 2004, it was not only the first time he had come to the United States.

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