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Courtesy Editor’s note: This is the first installment in our Calling All Readers feature, wherein Craig Press readers ask follow-up questions about stories that ran previously. The proposed Craig Urban Renewal Authority would designate two sections of the city as urban renewal areas, creating the potential for property owners in those areas to apply for tax increment financing to help improve their property. Tax increment financing invests the increase in future property tax revenue that is a...

Cuyler Meade / Craig Press Not long after deciding to allow recreational marijuana sales in town, the city of Craig is dipping its toes into the possibility of taking the next step: Legalizing the product’s use within the establishments that sell it. Currently, Craig — like most municipalities where retail pot is legal — only allows a purchaser of the product to use it in private. It’s not legal for someone to walk over to Rocky Mountain Cannabis, for example, buy some pot and smoke up ...

With the impending closure of coal mines and power plants in northwest Colorado, Craig officials and river enthusiasts are hoping a long-overlooked natural resource just south of town can help create economic resilience.

With the impending closure of coal mines and power plants in northwest Colorado, Craig officials and river enthusiasts are hoping a long-overlooked natural resource just south of town can help create economic resilience.

Craig Press File After much discussion at other council meetings and even a special workshop, the Craig City Council ultimately voted down a motion to implement a marijuana sales tax during its meeting this week. Additionally, the council agreed to table the discussion indefinitely, meaning that the Museum of Northwest Colorado and the Craig library will have to make do without additional funding from the taxes. An ordinance had been written, intending to implement a 2% sales tax on marijuana s...

Craig homeowner states she is not in negotiations with Housing First Alliance A homeowner whose address was suggested last week by Housing First Alliance of Craig as the potential new location for a proposed homeless shelter said it’s just not true that she was in negotiations with the organization for her property. Michele Munfreda is selling her home in the 800 block of Tucker Street due to a family situation that is causing her to leave the area. Before information was released by the Hous...

For the Craig Press Frank Moe will make a presentation to a new Urban Renewal Authority on the third week in May that could determine the future of his Colorado Great Outdoors Experience and Hall of Fame. The project still carries the name Yampa Valley Adventure Center, but Moe renamed the nonprofit portion of the project to focus his efforts on getting that part constructed or at least well underway. The nonprofit would honor those responsible for bringing the outdoors to life as well as help ...

Jim Ferree (center) was awarded the Volunteer of the Year award Tuesday at the Moffat County commissioners meeting. Ferree is joined by (left to right) City Manager Peter Brixius, County Administrative Assistant Erin Miller, Moffat County United Way Executive Director Kristen Vigil and Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Jennifer Holloway. (Joshua Carney / Craig Press) Jim Ferree thought Moffat County United Way Executive Director Kristen Vigil invited him to attend Tuesday’s Moffat County...

There may finally be some movement regarding the vacant Golden Cavvy building and the empty Spicy Basil restaurant in downtown Craig. During an Economic Development Committee meeting Monday, April 19, members of the committee said the former Spicy Basil location is on the market, while the owners of the Golden Cavvy have confirmed that they are willing to sell and are asking for $50,000 for the building and the property in downtown Craig. “It is my understanding that its on the market, and th...

Craig Press Declining interest in the law enforcement profession nationwide can be felt at the Craig Police Department, which Interim Police Chief Michael Cochran acknowledged this week. Speaking to Craig City Council members at their meeting Tuesday, Cochran said his department is dealing with the same challenges in recruiting and retaining police personnel as other law enforcement offices throughout the country due in large part to police reform. “We are seeing a huge exodus from this field...