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Moffat County has hired an architecture firm to draw up plans for renovating the Public Safety Center with courtrooms, beginning a long process with an uncertain end.

Oohs and awes accompanied raucous applause from the darkly lit Moffat County High School auditorium.

This year will mark my first Thanksgiving spent without at least one member of my family.

Each Tuesday, the Craig Daily Press will review the past week in Moffat County sports, with complete team and individual statistics, along with a team schedule and results.

The yearly turkey time is in full swing. By this time next week, turkeys will be hashed, mashed and anyway else a person can eat turkey. But right now, turkey sounds real good, dinner-wise. You all have a real good Thanksgiving and all that goes with it.

Moffat County Jail

Thursday, Nov. 20

Lytle Paul Alderman, 54, of Craig, was booked into Moffat County Jail on suspicion of driving under the influence.

The Craig Daily Press is seeking three to four people to participate on its next editorial board, which begins Jan. 1, 2009. Editorial board members will meet from noon to 1 p.m. Thursdays to discuss the paper’s opinion pieces for the following week’s Wednesday and Saturday papers. Editorial board terms last three months. To apply, call Editor Jennifer L. Grubbs at 875-1790, or e-mail jgrubbs@craigdailypress.com.

You can take the girl out of Oklahoma, but you can’t take Oklahoma out of the girl. Even though I left Oklahoma in 1964 when I was 8 years old, I still join in at every opportunity for a rousing chorus of “Oklahoma!”

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.

For those who prefer not to cook - and those who prefer not to do the dishes - there are plenty of other places in Craig to get a full meal this Thanksgiving.

After five months of uncertainty, Moffat County Social Services staffed its Dinosaur office with a permanent clerk from the town.

Chinese free Christmas