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Three months ago, Dave Rodriguez was on the bottom rung of the Moffat County soccer-coaching ladder.

Lila Herod is holding out hope the Nov. 4 general election will draw more voters than the seemingly uninteresting primary election earlier this month.

When Deb Bergmann first heard the name, she had no clue what it meant.

Scott McKinney

Age: 42

Occupation: Business Owner

They may live in the mountains, but that doesn’t mean they play in them.

What if every reflective surface in your house stared back at you with scenes of gruesome demise? That menacing hypothetical looms large in the latest horror film, “Mirrors.”

Recently, this column has featured recipes for rhubarb and peanut butter cookies. This week it’s zucchini cookies.

The Colorado Division of Military & Veterans Affairs CDMVA sent all CVSO’s an email this week stating that the Division has DD-214s for many Colorado Veterans at their office in Denver. Their DD-214 files go back to 1980 and are filed by year of separation, then alphabetically. They say that if the vet’s mailing address, after separation, is Colorado they should have a copy on file. If your vet needs his/hers they can fax to the nearest CVSO office or we can mail copies directly to the vet.

I heard on KRAI where Ken Brenner has come out asking about the major differences in the gas prices between the towns in the valley.

In 1922, the seven Colorado River Basin states signed a compact that allocated 7.5 million acre feet of water to the three lower basin states of California, Arizona and Nevada. In addition, 1.5 million acre feet was allocated to Mexico.

To counter recent false and misleading attack ads by John McCain on Barack Obama’s tax proposals, here is the gist of Obama’s tax plan for America.

As long as the Iraq war lasts, it will be transitory except for its impact for at least a generation on the economy.

I know now why Bill Cosby thought that the things kids say were worth a 30-minute time slot during prime time. Their innocence and the fact that they haven’t developed many filters between their brains and tongues is often amusing, sometimes embarrassing and almost always worth listening to.

Moffat County Jail

Wednesday, Aug. 20

Darwin Roy Forquer, 41, of Craig, was booked into Moffat County Jail on a warrant.

Today

9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m. A new student registration session takes place at Craig Intermediate School, 201 E. Ninth St., for students in fifth through eighth grade who are new to Craig this fall. Students enrolled in Moffat County schools last year are not required to attend. For more information, call 824-3289.

Craig/Moffat Economic Development Partnership board members expect a pending consumer spending study to help their group identify local business opportunities.

Ask Hilda Schmidt the secret to living a long life and she’ll deny that there is one.