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America’s ongoing national recession presents two competing problems for Moffat County Social Services: As the economy gets worse, more people need services, but the state has less money to provide them.

Whittle the Wood artists are progressing on their works, moving past the first parts of designing their sculptures that will be displayed Saturday.

The state Legislature wants to pressure the Colorado Department of Local Affairs to use a $17 million grant for a new highway interchange off Interstate 70 near Parachute.

Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association received a report of the first confirmed case of H1N1 flu in Routt County. The case was mild and the person is fully recovered.

Today

Age: 16

Justin Folley, Moffat County American Legion baseball coach, summed up his team’s batting and the weather with one word. Cold.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) - It is important to remain impartial if you are called upon to make a difficult decision that will affect dissenting factions. If you show impartiality, no ill will shall result from your decision.

Dear Annie: I am 19 years old and in a very committed relationship. My boyfriend and I have been together two years. When we had been dating only six months, I had an abortion because we just weren’t ready for children. But I’m going to be 20 soon and feel I’m ready for a baby. I plan on being with my boyfriend for the rest of my life. I know I’m young, but all of my friends already have had a baby or are expecting one. I hear it’s hard, but that being a mother is the greatest thing in the world.

Our son came home for a 12-day visit.

I don’t find it difficult to find something (or 1,000 somethings) to occupy my time on a construction site, but my children do.