All Entries in the "Wiley" Category
Police Announcement Re: Campaign Signs
RE: Campaign Signs: We are approaching the election season and there are several campaign signs posted around our area. The Lamar Police Department would like to remind citizens that defacing or taking the signs is prohibited by law. A person who is caught destroying or defacing the signs will be cited or arrested for criminal […]
Colorado Employment Situation – August 2012
Nonfarm payroll jobs were unchanged from July to August at 2,293,300 jobs, according to the survey of business establishments. Private sector payroll jobs decreased 1,700 and government increased 1,700. According to the survey of households, the unemployment rate decreased one tenth of one percentage point over the month to 8.2 percent. The decrease in the […]
Warrant Issued for Lamar Police Commander – Updated as of 9/26/12
Prowers County Sheriff’s Office Media Release On September 10, 2012 Prowers County Sheriff’s Deputies were called to a Wiley residence on a report of a theft. The home owner reported the theft of a water softener, valued at $1,050.00, from a home that was rented to Lamar Police Commander Edward David Herrera and his wife, […]
Lamar Open House Set for Conduit Project
Residents along the Arkansas River will be given an opportunity to comment on an environmental impact statement regarding the Arkansas River Conduit project, running between Pueblo and Lamar. The Bureau of Reclamation has set up a series of public hearings between September 24 and 27 in various locations. One will be held in La […]
First 2012 Human Case of West Nile in Prowers County
Lamar, CO– Prowers County Public Health and Environment officials have received word of the determination by of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment of the first human case of West Nile Virus in the county. In 2012 Prowers County only recently had West Nile Virus confirmed in mosquitoes from a pool of samples […]
Children Health/Education Needs Assessment for Prowers County
Kristy Adams, Development Director of kids Count in Colorado explained the latest assessment results for children under 18 in Prowers County this past Tuesday, September 18. Physical and mental health care providers and education representatives were in attendance at the Cultural Events Center to hear the results from this non profit group that conducts […]
New Outreach Possibilities Being Explored at Lamar Library
The new Outreach Services Vehicle which replaced the Lamar Library Bookmobile has seen constant use beginning this past June since it was purchased with city and county funds. Lamar Library Director, Debbie Reynolds and Sheri Eirhart, Library Outreach Coordinator, presented the Prowers County Commissioners with an update on activities. While there isn’t as much […]
Proposed County Fire Ban Ordinance Fizzles
The Prowers County Commissioners decided, after conferring with county attorney John Lefferdink, to let the current county fire ban remain in place. Since the dry spell of this past summer, local and state fire departments have been mindful of potential fire disasters such as Waldo Canyon along the Front Range. Governor Hickenlooper enacted a […]
Prowers County Sheriff-August Report
The Prowers County Sheriff’s Department responded to 289 calls for August, 2012, with 154 for Lamar, 83 for the County, 29 for Holly and 12 for Wiley. Fifty-seven of the Lamar calls were jail related and ten were for warrant arrests. Other Lamar calls included six for traffic incidents, three DUI calls and one each […]
24 Hour Traffic Stops This Week between Las Animas & Lamar
TRAFFIC ADVISORY BENT COUNTY – As part of its project to add passing and merging lanes and construct other improvements on U.S. 50 in the Hasty area, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) is stopping traffic around-the-clock through mid-week to install a new water pipes underneath the highway. Flaggers are alternating eastbound and westbound traffic, 24 hours […]
Local First Responders Given Show of Appreciation
First Responders and fallen alike were honored and remembered in Lamar in three ceremonies this past Tuesday, September 11 on the 11th anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York City. A memorial flag raising ceremony was conducted for the victims of the 9/11 attacks at the Lamar […]
PMC Hosting Annual Free Prostate Clinic this Week
Each year, several hundred men in the Prowers County area over the age of 40 receive a free prostate medical exam performed by PMC medical providers. This year’s two-part exam is co-sponsored by Prowers Medical Group and Frontier Bank. No appointments are needed, but you should expect 30 minutes or more for your visit. […]
Latest Lamar Fire Department Response Calls
The Lamar Fire and Ambulance Services responded to several calls during the Labor Day weekend and afterwards. Personnel were on hand for a semi- truck that had rolled off the highway at the Wiley Intersection on Sunday morning, September 2. A 2013 Freightliner rolled off the highway onto the driver’s side where the only damage […]
West Nile Mosquitoes are in Prowers County
First 2012 mosquito pool positive test for West Nile Confirmed for Prowers County Lamar, CO– Prowers County Public Health officials have received lab confirmation of West Nile in a sample pool of mosquitoes collected on the night of August 27th. This positive result is from a number of surveillance locations in and around the city […]
NWS Hydrology/August Precip Report
Temperatures were generally 1 to 3 degrees above average across southern Colorado during August. Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Alamosa were 2.5, 1.9 and 0.6 degrees above average, respectively. Precipitation was generally below average across southern Colorado this past August. The primary observation sites at Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Alamosa were 3.22, 2.08 and 0.77 […]
Jackie Brown Begins New Position with Health Group
“My job is so new, there’s no real job description for it yet, but we’re already at work and we know what we want to do,” is the way Jackie Brown summarized her new position in health care in southeast Colorado. Brown’s last day as Director of Public Health and Environment for Prowers […]
Health ACA Provides for Immunization Coverage in Colorado
Campaign seeks to raise awareness of immunization coverage provisions included in Affordable Care Act The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has launched a new campaign to help educate Coloradans about vaccination benefits available through the Affordable Care Act. “The Affordable Care Act requires health insurers to provide full childhood and adult immunization coverage […]
Tobacco Use Decline
Tobacco use trend shows slow decline for middle and high school students in Colorado DENVER– According to a newly released CDC report on the 2011 National Youth Tobacco Survey, tobacco use among middle and high school students shows a downward trend from 2000 to 2011 – from 34.4 percent to 23.2 percent for high school […]
Show of Support for Lamar Area Hospice
The benefit dinner and dance for Lamar Area Hospice is an annual event and major local fund-raiser for the organization. The donations raised from this, and other events, helps support the ongoing work of Lamar Area Hospice, currently renovating their new headquarters at the former Lamar Hotel on West Olive Street in Lamar. A […]
Lamar Utility Board Reviews Customer Disconnect Policies
Most of the discussion during the August 29 Lamar Utility Board meeting focused on items not specifically on the agenda. Lamar Light Plant Superintendent Houssin Hourieh discussed the rules and regulations pertaining to policies for re-connect and disconnect for electric service, mostly for residential customers. The Light Plant follows at 70 page document set […]