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Mike Lefler doesn’t want the ball.

For more than 20 years the organization, Preserving the Last Frontier, has taken steps to insure Northwest Colorado history is not forgotten.

Wonderful, send out an apology.

Yesterday I was there to see my grandchildren off on their first day of school. Watching the children arrive with their parents on that first day is one of my favorite times of the year.

A three-month experiment to give students Fridays off was so successful that the Hayden School District has decided to use the schedule throughout the 2007-08 school year.

Maria Martin lives here, works here and is part of a family here. But she grew up in Peru, where an 8.0 earthquake crippled three coastal cities - Pisco, Ica and Chincha - on Aug. 15.

The numbers speak loudly.

I would like to extend a big thank you to the members of Friendship United Methodist Church who donated goods to the youth group yard sale and the members of the community who made it a success. Through purchases and donations the youth group met its goal of $150.

A cancer benefit is scheduled for 3 p.m. Sunday in the Hayden High School auditorium. The group Legacy is playing, and donations for the concert go toward medical expenses for 7-year-old Taylen Zabel’s ongoing battle against brain cancer. For more information, go to www.legacyquartet.com.

Johnathon Levi Ages, 18, of Craig, was booked into Moffat County Jail on suspicion of criminal mischief.

5:30 p.m. The Craig Beautification Commission hosts its monthly meeting at the Craig Chamber of Commerce. Goals, objectives and plans for 2008 will be discussed. The public is invited to attend.

Two new soccer fields for Loudy-Simpson Park came a step closer to reality Tuesday as the Moffat County Commission signed an application for a Greater Outdoors Colorado, or GOCO, grant worth $200,000.

The Colorado Northwestern Community College Craig Campus is looking to expand.

Whatever tension that once existed between Gov. Bill Ritter and the Western Slope political group Club 20 appears to have been forgotten.

Continuing efforts to construct a regional sports complex in Hayden were met with skepticism by the Routt County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday.