June 20, 2013

This week's headlines

Whooping cough reported

The National Infectious Disease Forecast Center has issued a warning for Delta County due to an outbreak of whooping cough (pertussis) discovered among multiple children and adults in the same family.

The children were unvaccinated.

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Mineral rights auctioned

The winning bids in an auction of county-owned mineral rights (oil and gas) under two separate parcels with private surface ownership were accepted by the Board of County Commissioners on Monday, June 10.

All of the mineral rights underlying an 80-acre parcel, and one-fourth of the rights under a 1,024-acre parcel were won by Rolf Sanburg, commissioners announced.

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