Craig Daily Press / Craig, Colorado, News and Information

January 28, 2012

Last year was an active one for the Moffat County Sheriff’s Office concerning livestock investigations. In addition to being home to one of the state’s largest cattle theft cases in recent memory, Moffat County was also the site of the first confirmed case of Equine Piroplasmosis in state history. Equine Piroplasmosis is a parasitic disease that affects horses, mules, donkeys and zebras. It’s most prevalent in South and Central America, the Middle East, Europe and Africa, and causes fever, anemia, jaundice, swollen abdomens and labored breathing in infected animals. Equine Piroplasmosis is most commonly transmitted by ticks, but has been widely spread of late through contaminated hypodermic needles used on racehorses.

Video

January 28, 2012

Dance Program at Sunset Elementary

Local news

January 28, 2012

Starting this summer, The Memorial Hospital, along with its satellite facilities, will be completely tobacco-free. At its regular meeting Thursday, the hospital board unanimously approved the final draft of a plan to prohibit smoking and any other kind of tobacco use on TMH grounds. Hospital officials are planning to put the new policy in place July 1. Smoking is already prohibited within a short distance outside a hospital, said Jennifer Riley, TMH chief of organizational excellence.

Sports

January 27, 2012 · Updated 5 hours, 12 minutes ago

If you look at Tyler Pogline’s boxing record, the Craig native has gone 1-4 in his past five bouts dating back to March 6, 2010. Pogline fought Jan. 22, 2011, in Las Vegas in his first televised six-round match against Anthony Lenk. Lenk won the contest by a 60-53, 60-53, 60-54 decision. But, as Pogline, a 1998 Moffat County High School graduate, prepares for his next match today against Cletus Seldin in Huntington, N.Y., he has no doubts where he stands in his boxing career.

Education

January 28, 2012

A lively Greek tune began to play, and clusters of fifth-graders began to move in synch to the music. “Five, six, seven, eight,” Susan Nicholson called into the microphone positioned at the front of the Sunset Elementary School gym. On Friday morning, the gymnasium looked more like the setting of a barn dance than a basketball game. Instead of T-shirts and shorts, most students wore button-up shirts and colorful blouses. Parents, some toting cameras, filled nearly every folding chair around the gym’s perimeter.

Local news

January 28, 2012

“Seventy-five and sunny,” the Accuweather app on my Android reported one day last June. A quick check through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration verified the report. The gorgeous meteorologist on TV said the same the night before. But, I don’t believe weather girls actually have to have degrees to talk about degrees; the gorgeous part is usually enough for ratings.