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The Moffat County High School girls varsity basketball team entered the extended winter break on a high note Friday, cruising past Montezuma-Cortez, 62-34, in Palisade.

My husband and I would like to thank the young man who is putting on the best Christmas light show we have ever seen. Everyone should go out and see it. I know it is a little bit of a drive, but it is well worth it.

It’s depressing to see how some people leave Christ out of Christmas.

Winter moving in, the end of the year coming around the corner, Christmas speeding up and I’m still moseying along, getting what I call last minute things done.

Moffat County Jail

Friday, Dec. 19

Gregory Ray Bauer, 40, of Craig, was booked into Moffat County Jail on a court order.

Today

NO Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary bingo. For more information, call Mary Walters at 824-2923.

Alvaro Landa, 34, straddles the space between two worlds.

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.

After racking up 46 points Friday during the first day of the Warrior Classic high school wrestling tournament in Grand Junction, Moffat County High School was sitting comfortably in 11th place.

This week we celebrate the birth of a man from Galilee. This man was born, as all of us are, as a small helpless being, dependent on the care and protection of a mother and father.

I loved the small, rural community that sheltered me in the early 1950s and the elementary school that anchored it. The old brick building had creaky wooden floors, hissing radiators, and banks of windows darkened by contrary roller shades. George Washington and Abraham Lincoln kept solemn watch over classrooms filled with wooden desks. The cafeteria smelled of cinnamon rolls, and every morning a tower bell tolled eight times to summon us from the playground.

As I prepare for my first Christmas in Craig and away from family on the Front Range, I am reminded of things that once were holiday constants.

The Moffat County Work and Life Skills Program Hiring Committee has selected finalists for its coordinator and counselor positions.

After four days of hearing arguments and testimony from more than 20 witnesses, a Moffat County jury returned with guilty verdicts Friday night on all counts against a 32-year-old Craig man.

Horizons Specialized Services is asking Moffat County residents to help support its program for local children.