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Visitors to last weekend’s Hayden Daze festival were introduced to the newest members of Hayden’s police force. Horses Smokie and Jake, both geldings, made their debut in what Hayden Police Chief Ray Birch is calling a mounted patrol “pilot program.”

Elizabeth Rita Hammond, 18, of Craig, was booked into Moffat County Jail on a warrant for violating her prohibition.

Two wildland fires - one Monday and one Tuesday - burned 55 acres of private land in Moffat County.

Pete & Pillar: The Big Rain” is an endearing new picture book written and illustrated by Jeffery Stoddard, who grew up in Craig and now lives in Colorado Springs. The book is “a book of friendship based on John 15:13.”

It was the sparkle in his eye that gleamed when his players asked for help.

More than 50 golfers hit the links Tuesday at the Yampa Valley Golf Course for the annual Yampa River Junior Golf Classic.

For all the plans Craig’s Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 4265 has cooked up in anticipation of the Vietnam Memorial’s Moving Wall, it has been hard to stir enough volunteers from the community.

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Gov. Bill Ritter flies into Moffat County to look at the Vermillion Basin.

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.

The City Council - six weeks after discovering some housing divisions, apartment complexes and businesses in Craig have privately-owned fire hydrants - introduced an ordinance requiring those hydrants be maintained and operable in accordance with the city’s fire code.

State statutes require voting centers in Colorado and Moffat County be approved by Aug. 8, and the Moffat County Board of County Commissioners wasted no time at their Tuesday meeting approving a resolution to designate four sites in the county.

The Wilderness Society has issued a strongly-worded letter in response to a letter from the Moffat County Commissioners to Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter.

In response to the letter from Rick Hammel and the Friends of Northwest Colorado that was published by the editorial staff of The Craig Daily Press on July 20.

The Equality in Health cooperative is hosting two discussion sessions to better enable health care workers in Moffat and Routt counties to provide service for people of different ethnicities.