Archive for November 10th, 2014
Crop Production – November 2014 – Colorado Highlights
Based on November 1 conditions, corn production in Colorado is forecast at 140.16 million bushels, up 8 percent from last year’s 129.69 million bushels, according to the Mountain Regional Field Office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA. The 960,000 acres expected to be harvested for grain this year is down 30,000 acres from […]
The Sand Creek Massacre
This article is part of a series by the National Park Service concerning the 150th Anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre. The Sand Creek Massacre, tragic and unnecessary, impacted Federal-Indian relations and created the circumstances for years of warfare. With the events of November 29, 1864 fixed in their minds, Plains Indian nations faced an […]
Little Caesar’s Robbers Sought
Press Release On Sunday, November 2, 2014, at approximately 9pm, Lamar Police Department officers were dispatched to a robbery in the 1200 block of South Main Street, Little Caesar’s Pizza. The suspects took money and the DVR system and existed the establishment. Suspects were described as two male parties, around 5’9″ tall, wearing dark colored […]
National Weather Service Drought Update
October 2014 was a very warm and mainly dry month across southeast Colorado, except for portions of the eastern mountains and plains which saw above normal to well above normal precipitation for the month as a whole, due to the remnants of Hurricane Simon moving across eastern Colorado on October 9 and 10. The US […]
HOPE Center Sports a Student-run Bicycle Repair Class
Take four bicycles in various stages of repair, four boys with somewhat greasy fingers, an instructor and a Friday morning at the Project HOPE Center at Lincoln School is underway. For the past four or five weeks, on Friday mornings and Monday evenings, youngsters, mostly middle school age boys, will cover the floor in their […]
