Archive for Thursday, May 10, 2012

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Janet Sheridan: Missed opportunities
May 10, 2012
Hearing no answer to my query about lunch, I studied my mother and her remote expression. Lost in thought as she pressed Dad’s shirt, she seemed unaware of her surroundings: the fresh scent of drying cotton that rose in the wake of her iron, the soft thump and scrape from the game of jacks I played on the kitchen floor, my question. Earlier, I’d helped her sprinkle the freshly laundered skirts, dresses, and shirts she’d iron by shaking water on them from a Nehi soda bottle with a perforated nozzle. “This one’s a little too wet,” she teased as she took a skirt from me, rolled it loosely, and nestled it in a plastic-lined basket, “Are you sure you can see what you’re doing through that jumble of uncombed hair?”
Craig kids learn fundamentals at Big Blue Football Camp
Safety and fun the hallmark of 8-year program
May 10, 2012
Pig skins were flying, whistles were blowing and athletes were hitting the tackle bags as members of the Moffat County High School football team broke camp Wednesday. But the action on the MCHS practice field wasn’t in preparation for the upcoming season. Rather, it was designed to teach Craig’s budding grid stars basics of the sport. More than 50 local children in kindergarten through fifth grade participated in the Eighth Annual Big Blue Football Camp at MCHS this week. The two-day camp provided Craig and Moffat County youth with the opportunity to learn skills such as throwing, catching, blocking, kicking and tackling in a non-contact environment from more than 20 current MCHS players and coaches.
On the Record for May 10, 2012
May 10, 2012
On the Record for May 10, 2012
At the Movies: Bigger is better in ‘The Avengers’
May 10, 2012
The more popular comic book movies get, the more we can expect to see. And, the more we see, the greater in scope each one will become until soon all the world’s resources will go to supporting the process. At this rate, perhaps the team that makes up “The Avengers” will have to save us from the future they’ve created. At least until then, we can enjoy the ride.

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Question of the week

News this week showed snowpack in the Yampa River basin has reached 94 percent of median for the date. Do you think Moffat County is out of the woods as far as drought concerns?

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