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Energy Savings, Financing and Rehab Program Outlined for County
Plans for implementing a home or business owner’s energy efficiency audit program were presented to the Prowers County Commissioners this past Thursday, April 19. Glen Marciniak, the Governor’s Energy Office Community Energy Coordinator, Laura Negley, S.E. Colorado Resource Conservation & Development Council Chair and Ravi Malhotra, iCAST President discussed the scope of […]
Letter to the Editor – From CEO at Prowers Medical Center
Re: Letter to the Editor from James Fairchild, Chief Executive Officer of Prowers Medical Center. Because of the email formatting of the letter, the first portion of the letter cannot be posted in the introductory box as are our usual articles. Readers will need to click on the read entire article disclaimer to access the letter […]
Letter to the Editor–Just Say No to New Health Care Tax
LETTER TO THE EDITOR JUST SAY NO TO NEW HEALTH CARE TAX To My Patients, Friends, Colleagues, and Members of the Tax District, The Hospital Board of Directors and the Therapy services of Physical, OT, ST, cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation services, have done a great job in pulling PMC out of the financial crisis […]
Colorado Employment Situation-March 2012
Employers in Colorado added 2,600 nonfarm payroll jobs from February to March for a total of 2,290,500 nonfarm payroll jobs, according to the survey of business establishments. Private sector payroll jobs increased 2,600 and government was unchanged. According to the survey of households, the unemployment rate was unchanged over the month at 7.8 percent. The […]
Prowers County Farm Bureau Receives Donation
Members of the Prowers County Farm Bureau were on hand as Gary Melcher was presented with a $2,500 check from the Monsanto Foundation this past Wednesday, April 18. Melcher was selected for the Monsanto Fund’s, America’s Farmers Grow Communities. Melcher was selected from eligible farmers from 1,245 counties in 39 states. His check will […]
SECORHT and State Tournament are Funded by Lodging Panel
Only two requests were made to the Prowers County Lodging Tax Panel for funding during their monthly meeting, Tuesday, April 17. SECORHT, a six county regional tourism promotion group, had asked for $10,000 from the panel, a yearly request that had been granted for the past four years. However, the panel agreed to fund half […]
PMC Board Candidates Discuss Dollars and Sense at Public Forum
While all six PMC board of director candidates recognized the need for some form of expansion at the hospital to accommodate an outpatient rehabilitation facility, most stated their dissatisfaction with a lack of specifics on the proposed renovations and expansion to warrant the $5million bond issue which goes before the voters on May 8. […]
Prowers County Sheriff Report, March, 2012
The Prowers County Sheriff’s Office responded to 295 calls for service for March, 2012. Lamar generated 153 calls, there were 25 for Holly, 15 in Wiley and 93 in the county at large. Fifty-seven of the Lamar calls were jail related and 20 resulted in warrant arrests. Holly reported four traffic accidents and related problems, […]
NWS Report Shows Under Average Snowpack
As of April 1, 2012, this year’s snowpack levels were well below average for South Central and Southeast Colorado. In the upper Rio Grande Basin, the snowpack as at 53% of average overall, down from 83% of average last month at this time, and tracking well behind last year’s 76% of average. In the Arkansas […]
Stulp LCC Keynote Graduation Speaker
LAMAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE OBSERVES 73RD COMMENCEMENT (LCC Nursing Pinning to Follow) Lamar Community College will host its seventy-third annual Commencement on Saturday, April 28, 2012 at the LCC Wellness Center. Approximately 215 degree or certificate-seeking students are eligible to walk in this year’s commencement. This includes fall 2011 graduates as well as spring and summer […]
Commissioners Approve Museum Roof Project
The Prowers County Commissioners have given the go ahead for construction of a new roof for the Big Timbers Museum. The project had been delayed for almost a year due to a lack of needed funding from grants in 2011, coupled with a new set of bids this year that had almost doubled the […]
New Granada Trustees Assume Duties
New members of the Granada Town Board of Trustees took their places following their oath of office Wednesday night, April 11. C.W. DeForest replaced Lesli Baca as mayor and Glenn Otto and Andi Riddle were sworn in as new members, while Debra Choat and Martin Jensen were administered their oath as returning board members. […]
How Close is $4/gallon Gas?
We’re on the verge of $4 a gallon gasoline, with the latest price increase just a few days ago in Lamar to $3.959. Gas prices are expected to peak in May, just prior to the start of the summer season in the U.S., during our Memorial Day holiday. The first week of January, the […]
The Remember Foundation Begins Local Efforts
Almost any adult has had moments in their lives when they can’t remember where they left their car keys, some cordless house phones have ringers on the base unit that beeps the missing handset so you can find it buried in the sofa cushions, some of us enter a room, temporarily forgetting why we’re […]
Energy Drilling Coming to S.E. Colorado?
There are about 46,000 active oil and gas wells in Colorado, and as the demand for more fuel increases, there may be some wells developing in southeast Colorado, an area of increased interest in land for leasing. County clerks and assessors, as well as elected officials in several communities, have commented on an influx of […]
Lamar Chamber Honkers and Directors Visit Kelly Corman at NRCS
On March 16th, members of the Lamar Chamber Honkers and Board of Directors paid a welcome visit to Kelly Corman at the local NRCS office. Kelly moved to the area last September to work in the Lamar NRCS Field Office at 3503 South Main. Kelly works with Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Rocky […]
Letter to the Editor-PMC
Dear Editor, I went to Prowers Medical Center on April 6, to get x-rays and an MRI to try and find out why I was having excruciating pain in my arm and shoulder. I was treated very nicely when I handed them the $3,000 they insisted upon before I could receive the services, in […]
AVWPE to Perform in Lamar & Holly
April 10, 2012 Southeast Colorado Concert Association and Southeast Colorado Arts Council present the Arkansas Valley Wind & Percussion Ensemble Spring Concert – 7pm at the Lamar High School Auditorium. The concert is free to the public and season tickets to the upcoming 2012-2013 community concert association will be available in the commons beginning at 6:00pm. […]
Dates for Kiddy Barnyard Have Been Set
Lamar FFA Kiddy Barnyard is held every spring at the LHS ag farm behind the high school and is open to all pre-schools and day cares in town. All students of Washington Elementary and Alta Vista schedule group tours each year. FFA members hope to provide exposure to agricultural education to the youth of Lamar […]
Lamar School Board Meets this Monday, April 9
The RE-2 District Board will consider some staff changes during the Monday meeting beginning at 6:30pm. For the 2012-2013 school year, the board will vote to eliminate a secretarial and custodial position at the high school, a math interventionist at the middle school and the transportation secretary position as of December 1, 2012. Personal changes […]