Archive for June 23rd, 2014
Val Rasmussen…March 18, 1924 – June 21, 2014
A memorial service for longtime Lamar resident, Valeta Bertha Rasmussen, affectionately known as Val to her family and friends will be held at 2:00PM on Saturday, June 28, 2014 at the Grace Lutheran Church with Reverend Harold Baldwin officiating. Inurnment will follow at Fairmount Cemetery in the Veteran’s Section. Per Val’s request cremation […]
County Re-assumes Ownership of WPA Building, Discuss Child Abuse Hot Line
Prowers County has taken back ownership of the WPA buildings on East Maple Street in Lamar, and they need repairs. Ownership was recently transferred back to the county from Lamar Community College, as LCC has not been able to fund an historic rehabilitation project that would have eventually renovated the buildings and would become the […]
Latest Drought Information Statement from NWS-Pueblo
Spring thunderstorms across the area brought some spotty but beneficial moisture to portion of the southeast Colorado plains over the past few months. This moisture, however, was not widespread enough to put a dent in the severe to exceptional drought that has gripped portions of the southeast Colorado over the past few years. With […]
Colorado Employment Situation – May 2014
Nonfarm payroll jobs increased 9,100 over the month from April to May to 2,443,800 jobs, according to the survey of business establishments. Private sector payroll jobs increased 8,700 and government increased 400. Colorado has had 31 consecutive months of payroll job gains. According to the survey of households, the unemployment rate decreased two tenths […]
Prowers County Commissioners Review ARPA /Repowering Project Scenarios
The public has a choice of two meetings to learn about developments relating to the ARPA Lamar Repowering Project and the two basic choices Arkansas River Power Authority board members may take to determine the outcome of the coal-fired plant in Lamar. Meetings will be held on June 25 and June 30, at 7pm, both […]
