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You probably never could convince young siblings that they’ll grow up to be good friends.

That goes double for brothers and sisters.

The girls basketball team swept a pair of home games, but the boys basketball team was blanked in Wyoming. The Bulldog wrestling team learned it has a long way to go to live up to the tradition laid out by past teams, and the swimmers competed in the season’s largest meet.

What do you get when you combine two construction workers, a chiropractor, a financial advisor, a hospital nurse, two English teachers, a librarian, a coal miner, two high school students and a hockey puck?

The new fantasy adventure film “The Golden Compass” is undoubtedly resonant in its deep messages, but its heavy-handed approach loses direction along the way.

The Moffat County Commission heard some of the details and trends revealed in the recent 25-question Senior Needs survey at its meeting Tuesday.

8 a.m. The Craig Downtown Business Association meets at Serendipity Coffee Shop, 576 Yampa Ave. The second Wednesday of each month is a Meet-and-Greet, hosted by a local business.

A day after Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman said voting equipment used in Routt County and throughout the state has been decertified, a leading state legislator expressed hope that some of the problems soon would be corrected.

There are mixed feelings about abbreviating Christmas as Xmas.

Some view it as yet another way that Christmas has been stripped of its true meaning.

It’s an opportunity for the Museum of Northwest Colorado and Moffat County locals to have something new, Moffat County Commissioner Tom Gray said.

John Boyd, Colorado Northwestern Community College president, is looking at the future of the Craig campus. And he’s looking far.

Suzanne Brinks, who works as the Moffat County assessor, is concerned potential rule changes at the Colorado Division of Property Taxation will prevent local tax authorities from properly assessing the taxable value of oil and gas company property.

I found the article in the Saturday Daily Press very interesting, the comments by two county commissioners and the Natural Resource director disturbing.

For many, winter weather warrants a house closed tightly against the cold.

Yet, for nearly half the homes in Colorado, this practice can increase the concentration of a naturally-occurring gas proven to cause lung cancer.