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Two Arrested in Lamar Drug Bust

Two Arrested in Lamar Drug Bust

On Monday, 3/30/2015, at approximately 5:00 PM, officers from the Lamar Police Department executed a search warrant at 224 Sage Dr. Officers have been conducting an investigation of the residence since December of 2014. During the investigation officers have received numerous tips from the community concerning the sales of illegal narcotics from the residence. Officers […]

Wind Turbine Project Approved

Wind Turbine Project Approved

The five members of the Prowers County Planning Commission, following a March 31st public hearing on a proposed addition to a wind turbine project, voted in favor of approving a special use permit allowing for construction to begin within a year. Pacific Wind Development, LLC, a subsidiary of Iberdrola Renewables, LLC, has plans to construct […]

Time as a Hostage, Margaret Loewen, MD

Time as a Hostage, Margaret Loewen, MD

  Dr. Margaret Loewen’s early days as a young pre-teen could easily be made into an adventure novel or movie, based on an event in her life as a child of academics, teaching in the Belgian Congo in the early 1960s. The Prowers Medical Center based doctor recounted her 111 days spent as a hostage […]