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Each Tuesday, the Craig Daily Press will review the past week in Moffat County High School varsity sports, with complete team standings, schedules and past results.

Moffat County High School senior basketball players Chayton Owens and Mike Peters were named Sunday to the Steamboat ShootOut all-tournament team.

If the third time is a charm, competitors at this week’s Warrior Classic better beware.

Ray Beck, Craig City Council member, was 57 years old before he set foot in Colorado’s Capitol building.

Mollie and I would like to thank all those who came out to wish us well last week. We also would like to thank those who have called or stopped by or sent cards and letters. You are truly the best folks on the planet, and it has been an honor to serve the area for over three decades.

I wanted to extend a thank you to the gentleman who helped me Monday morning when I had my auto accident. You were kind enough to stay until the police arrived. And thank you also to all who stopped to make sure I was all right. How very lucky we are to live in a community such as Craig.

“Stop!” I heard 6-year-old Alan tell a couple of 3-year-old girls. “I think you’ve got a problem.”

I need to buy a snow shovel.

That realization hit me Saturday, as I watched the sky turn gray and the land turn white.

Moffat County Jail

Saturday, Dec. 13

John Junior Ballard, 36, of Craig, was booked into Moffat County Jail on a warrant.

Oh, the excitement of wrapping Christmas presents. The flurry of looking for the tape, ribbon, bows, stickers, etc. Checking the items for people I bought presents for, I had to remember some of the things I got and who I got them for, as I watched my daughter, Jane, do the work.

Crew completes Dinosaur monument trail projects

Today

8:30 to 10 a.m. Senior swimnastics is at the American Legion Post 62 pool, 1055 Moffat County Road 7. Call 824-3625.

The trial of a 32-year-old man charged with various felonies in connection with the alleged kidnapping and assault of a Craig woman is scheduled to begin today in Moffat County District Court.

Prosecutor Matthew Barrett spent Monday in his office at the Moffat County Courthouse, preparing for the first day of a jury trial and tying up other loose ends.

The employees of the Community Budget Center know a little something about paying it forward.

Successfully attracting new businesses to the Yampa Valley could depend on how much local economic development groups know about their communities, two state officials said at a public gathering Monday.