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Holly Commercial Club Holds December 18 Home Lighting Contest
The annual Christmas home lighting contest has been announced by the Holly Commercial Club. $450 in prizes will be awarded in categories of religious, original and novelty themes. There sill be one $100 winner and one $50 winner in each category. Any residential customer of the town’s electric utility department can participate; rural […]
Clarification from Prowers County Sheriff’s Office
The Prowers County Sheriff’s Office assisted the Bent County Sheriff’s Office in serving a search warrant in the 1000 block of South 12th Street on Thursday, December 6, 2012. The search warrant was to locate stolen “horse tack”. Several sheriff vehicles from Prowers and Bent County were on scene to serve the search warrant. I […]
Lamar City Sales Tax Revenue Ending Year on Steady Growth
Although the monthly sales tax revenue collections for October were down 3.82%, the year-to-date figures showed a 3.45% increase, or $102,351.78 above numbers from this same time last year. 2012 Total Sales and Use Tax Collections are at $3,073,124.63, compared to $2,970,772.85 for 2011. Both City Sales Tax and Use Tax collections were down […]
Boiler Design Flaws Plague Repowering Project
The Lamar Utility Board spent their last meeting of 2012 looking ahead to the spring of 2013 when light plant officials hope to see a successful test and tuning of the Repowering Project boilers. The boilers have been offline for almost two years due to what has been determined to be design flaws. ARPA […]
Letter to the Editor – Recount
In 2008, John Duvall lost the election to Henry Schnabel, for Prowers County Commissioner, by 19 votes. Because the outcome was a few decimal points shy of 0.5% (the threshold to automatically qualify for a RECOUNT); the Prowers County Clerk, Dottie McCaslin, informed DuVall that he would need to pay the county $7,000 for […]
Lamar Redevelopment Authority Sets 2013 Budget
The Lamar City Council met as the Redevelopment Authority and passed a resolution approving an appropriation of revenue and expenditure funds for the 2013 budget. A figure of $116,440, based on $115,940 for property taxes and $500 for interest income was set as the 2013 Lamar Redevelopment Authority budget. Shawna Hodge, Lamar Main Street Coordinator, […]
Lamar Chamber Parade of Lights Float Results
McGruff, The Crime Dog, led the way for the annual 2012, Lamar Chamber of Commerce Parade of Lights this past Friday evening, December 7. This year’s theme was, “It’s a Wonderful Christmas Story”. The colorful entries started their Main Street journey at 6:30pm and concluded their trip just past the Enchanted Forest where Santa […]
Chamber Welcomes Two Shot Attendees
On November 28th, board members from the Lamar Chamber of Commerce and the Lamar Chamber Honkers paid a visit to the Rodeway Inn Cow Palace to welcome the annual Two Shot Goose Hunt participants to the 28th Annual event. The welcome was performed at the beginning of the President’s reception which includes an auction benefiting local charities. […]
Low-flying Aircraft to Count Deer in S.E. Colorado
LAMAR, Colo. – Colorado Parks and Wildlife is advising residents and hunters in the state’s southeastern counties that biologists will be using a low-flying helicopter to conduct aerial deer surveys in the coming weeks. Flight dates are weather-dependent, but generally, the flights will start around December 15 and continue through the end of the year. […]
Drought Expands, Concerns Mount About Wheat and Rivers
The unusual warm weather in the United States this year is affecting the key farm states in the Midwest the hardest. Drought continued to expand through the central United States even as winter weather sets in, wreaking havoc on the nation’s new wheat crop and on movement of key commodities as major shipping waterways grow […]
Veteran’s Honors Set for Saturday at Fairmount Cemetery
The Peacock Funeral Home would like to invite the community to our second annual ceremony for Wreaths Across America will be held on Saturday, December 15, 2012 at 10:00AM in the Veteran’s Section at Fairmount Cemetery in Lamar. The Lamar VFW Post #3621, American Legion Post #71 as well as our local Cub Scout […]
Two Shot Goose Hunt Winners!
Winning teams were announced recently for the 46th Annual Two Shot Goose Hunt, held in Lamar, Colorado, November 28 through the 30th. Headquartered at the Rodeway Cow Palace Inn, hunters from around the country converge for the annual event which features a mixture of local upland game hunting, sporting clays, a goose hunt, a fund-raising […]
New Lamar Chamber Manager Selected
The Lamar Chamber of Commerce announced today that Paula Pfeiffer-Thornton will become the new office manager, replacing Chana Reed who will retire at the end of the year. Paula grew up in Granada, Colorado and recently moved ‘home’ in May 2012 after traveling the states for the last 40 years. Paula received her Business […]
Lamar Area Hospice Hosting Annual Holiday of Lights & Memories
This Friday, just prior to the annual Parade of Lights in Lamar, the Lamar Area Hospice will host their 6th annual Holiday of Lights and Memories by the windmill at North Main and West Hickory Streets. Hospice members each year renew the annual tradition of lighting the windmill to remember the passing of family, friends […]
Southeast Mental Health Services receives NEA grant to support Mural Project
La Junta, CO— National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Rocco Landesman announced today that Southeast Mental Health Services is one of 153 not-for-profit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Challenge America Fast-Track grant. Southeast Mental Health Services is recommended for a $10,000 grant to design and create a cultural and historical mural with professional […]
Police Apprehend Escapee in Lamar
Media Release: On Friday, 11/30/2012, Officers of the Lamar Police Department received information from the Colorado Division of Youth Corrections that an escapee from one of their institutions was in the Lamar area. Officers were advised that April Peterson from the Fort Collins area had an active warrant for escape and assault and was a […]
BBB Donate to SECCI
On October 6, Lamar was overrun with tutu-clad runners in the “Beers and Brats for Boobies” 5K race. The event took place in conjunction with Oktoberfest and aimed to raise funds for breast cancer awareness. Even though Oktoberfest saw a drop in attendance due to the chilly weather, the 5k was still a success. 65 […]
Dust, Then and Now
Those who watched the Ken Burns documentary on PBS tv earlier this month, “The Dust Bowl” gained a new respect for those who endured those conditions in the 1930s and 1950s in this part of the world. Anyone who was in southeast Colorado or western Kansas this past November 10, got a taste of […]
Stockings for Soldiers
Last Christmas almost 350 overseas soldiers received a surprise gift for their holiday, a Christmas stocking filled with items supplied by local residents, various organizations and coordinated by Peacock Funeral Chapel in Lamar. Those efforts are being duplicated again this year with the free stockings available from Peacock Funeral Chapel on South 4th Street in […]
Ola Schibbelhut…September 23, 1919 – November 28, 2012
Graveside services for Ola B. (Chatham) Schibbelhut will be held at 1:00 p.m. Friday, November 30, 2012 at Union Valley Cemetery, Hasty, Colorado. Pastor Bob Glasco will officiate. Visitation will be held from 2:00-7:00p.m., Thursday, November 29, 2012 at Valley Memorial Funeral Chapel in Lamar, Colorado. Ola Schibbelhut was born to Fred L. and […]