• Good luck for local prep football teams as they enter the final week of district play.
• People step up their efforts to help out the United Way during its fundraising campaign.
• Local schools take part in Red Ribbon Week, which encourages students to say no to drugs.
• Area residents looking for a four-legged friend adopt one this week, as American Humane’s Adopt-A-Dog Month winds down.
• Local residents beware of little ghosts and goblins this Halloween.
PITTSBURG —