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8:30 to 10 a.m. Senior swimnastics is at the American Legion Post 62 pool,

Taking a stand.

It’s the concept Mary Rupert-Housely, Grand Futures Prevention Coalition tri-county executive director, uses when talking about preventing underage drinking in Northwest Colorado.

Since 2004, the Craig Police Department has auctioned off abandoned and seized vehicles to bidders seeking a cheap vehicle, spare parts or scrap metal.

Two men charged in Moffat County District Court are scheduled to enter a plea during arraignment hearings next week, according to court records.

On a nondescript day in 1978, Eutiquio Pereyra arrived in Craig with a friend from back home. From the outside, Craig seemed like a usual place. At least, it had the usual work.

Early-season cow elk hunts happen every year in Moffat County’s northwest corner, but 2008 will be the first year for early cow hunts in Game Management Unit 2.

In the world of golf, low numbers reign.

The break between the fall and spring rodeo seasons for high school students is about four months long.

It is Moffat County High School boys track coach Gary Tague’s 23rd season coaching Bulldog sprinters and jumpers.

Inheriting a baseball team returning its key starters from a Western Slope League co-championship team, one would think it’d be an easy task repeating.

Flanked by an honor guard of his fellow soldiers, U.S. Army veteran Sgt. Eric O’Hara was laid to rest Thursday at Fort Logan National Cemetery in Denver. While family and friends said their goodbyes one last time, the men from O’Hara’s unit said theirs with a gun salute.

No diver. A state championship contender. And a couple of swimmers from Steamboat Springs.

In Tuesday’s edition of the Craig Daily Press, there is a poll about putting the Bible in the school to be taught as a religious study.

Change. That is what first-year Moffat County High School girls soccer coach Alegra Yager said she is after.

As the snow starts clearing from the sidewalks, trails and slopes, it may be time to put away your skis and snowshoes and put on your walking shoes.

A friend who wishes to remain anonymous gave this old recipe for “Spud Nuts” to me. She said the recipe appeared in the Craig Empire Courier around the 1960s.

The Boys & Girls Club of Craig is hosting a basketball game April 8 in the Moffat County High School gymnasium.

Snow and ice cover the track at Moffat County High School, but despite Mother Nature, the conditions aren’t going to slow the start of the MCHS track team.

Entering the wrestling room in Moffat County High School, the sound of clanging medals draped around the necks of the more than 20 Bad Dogs wrestlers present at practice, drowns out the sounds one would expect to hear coming from the group of six- to 12-year-olds.

Jerry Schaeffer, former bass guitar player of a Craig rock and roll band, sometimes thinks about what might have been.

Depending on whether the state decides to issue a grant renewal this month, the Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association may be seeking a new community health educator.

In light of the recent controversy surrounding the Moffat County School District’s consideration of a new “Bible in Literature and History” curriculum and its subsequent decision to review and consider it in the normal process of their curriculum consideration, I thought it would be beneficial to elaborate on areas of agreement shared by the school district and the Craig Chaplains Association.

Nikki’s graduated from full-time speech therapy to occasional monitoring and despite the fact that I can now understand what she says, we still have trouble communicating.

Officials with SkyWest Airlines are defending their pilots in the wake of a close call at Yampa Valley Regional Airport on Saturday, when a United Express flight trying to land came within 300 or 400 feet of a smaller plane on the runway before turning abruptly to the right and climbing to avoid a collision.

Kristen Nicole Verplanck, 19, of Craig, was booked into Moffat County Jail on a warrant.

Volunteers are needed to sew or donate fabric for National Quilting Day, which is from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 15.