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Rifle goalkeeper Abby Schmidt didn’t really mind the relative inactivity on her end of the field. After all, it meant that her Bear girls soccer teammates were keeping the pressure high on the other end of the field.

Twenty-two days. It has been that long since the Moffat County High School track and field team last competed in a meet.

The vagaries of the Colorado Legislature’s budget process left House District 57 Rep. Al White of Hayden as the lone Republican voting in favor of the $17.6 billion budget that now goes to the Senate for debate.

When we think of missionaries, we usually envision someone traveling to Africa or China - living among the natives in primitive housing and enduring numerous dangers and challenges to spread one religious message or another.

The history of the local 4-H Foundation is a long one, dating back to July 17, 1962, but its intent remains the same: to develop an avenue for kids to sell their livestock and to develop funds to help support the 4-H program.

There is a problem.

9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The KRAI/55 Country Spring Expo takes place at the Centennial Mall. Weenie dog race registration begins at 9 a.m. with the races at 9:30 a.m. Crawling baby races begin at 11 a.m. The Sudoku tournament begins at noon.

Calling all victims of high school bullying.

Ready, set. Wait. It’s the sequence for some Colorado Northwestern Community College students who are taking classes toward an elementary school teaching degree.

Stayton Mosbey, Moffat County High School lighting technician, and Dylan Reed, his freshman apprentice, have a viewpoint above it all.

Gather all the students who have dropped out of Moffat County High School during the past nine years, give them names and faces, and the result is a disturbing one for Jane Harmon, Moffat County High School principal.

Despite the relative comfort of being tax-exempt compared to residents, Moffat County and the city of Craig are not immune to gas price fears, officials said.

The principal organizers of the long-awaited and newly installed Moffat County Drug Court agree on what would constitute a success: one client kicking a drug habit and turning around a life once on the brink of a prison sentence.

City officials were undecided Friday about whether to share revenues from the city’s half-cent sales tax for education with school districts in Hayden and South Routt.