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Crowder Recognizes Family Farm at 2015 Centennial Farms Award

Crowder Recognizes Family Farm at 2015 Centennial Farms Award

    I would like to congratulate a recipient of the 2015 Centennial Farms, who was awarded commendation at the state fair, for continuously operating a farm/ranch in Baca County for over a hundred years. The Kirkendall Ranch in the Pritchett area was established in 1915 and continues to this day. The recipients of this […]

Donations for Veterans at Ft Lyons a Success; Storerooms Filled

Donations for Veterans at Ft Lyons a Success; Storerooms Filled

Lamar Lions Ken Callison and Dick Ramsay have been overwhelmed by the amount of local support and donations for the Ft. Lyon Veterans Center in Las Animas. They were recently informed that the stores are filled to capacity at the Center. “Our 24th load went out last week,” said Ramsay, and although any future donations […]

PCDI Board Learns How Demand for Hemp Production is Increasing

PCDI Board Learns How Demand for Hemp Production is Increasing

First there was legalized marijuana in Colorado through the passage of Amendment 64, and now hemp, basically a cousin to marijuana minus the hallucinatory ingredients, has proponents attempting to make it a viable, mainstream crop for farmers statewide and in the rest of the nation. Michael Bowman, a founding board member of the Sustainable Biodiesel […]

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Southeast Area 4-H Leaders Recognized for Service

  Southeast Area – Two 4-H leaders from the Southeast Area were recognized as Outstanding 4-H Volunteer Leaders at the 2014 Leadership Development Conference. Dawn James from Kiowa County and Mary Alton from Baca County were recognized at a banquet on January 25, 2014.    Dawn James has volunteered sixteen years (officially) as a 4-H […]

New Water for Baca County at Two Buttes Dam

New Water for Baca County at Two Buttes Dam

Volunteers in Baca County are providing traffic control while some road work and grading is being done at the Two Buttes Dam.  The Dam has had an unprecedented amount of water this past summer, due to several monsoonal rains which swept through sections of southeast Colorado.  A town hall meeting was called in August due […]

Lamar Man Driver of Semi in Train-Truck Crash in Campo

Lamar Man Driver of Semi in Train-Truck Crash in Campo

On Tuesday, May 28, 2013 at approximately 08:30 hours, an accident occurred on Highway 287 at milepost 9.8 just north of Campo, in Baca County Colorado.   A white 2000 Kenworth tractor pulling a flatbed style trailer, driven by Ernest Ray Hicks of Lamar, Colorado was traveling northbound on Highway 287. Witnesses stated that the Kenworth […]

Bridge Project to Close Highway 160 This Week

Bridge Project to Close Highway 160 This Week

  Traffic detours via county roads BACA COUNTY – U.S. 160 will be detoured later this week for bridge removal and culvert installation at Lone Rock Draw (picture attached), about four miles southwest of Pritchett. The closure is expected to begin at 6 a.m. on Thursday, December 13.  Traffic will be detoured four miles around the […]

Holly Hosting Rhythm and Rib Dance in October

  You can move your feet and get some ribs to eat on October 13 at the Holly Gateway Park with a dinner and music fund-raiser for the Holly Bluegrass Festival.  Marge Creech explained the baby-back rib dinner and dance will replace the traditional Grand Old Opry in Holly this year.  She was speaking to […]

Highway 160 Bridge Project Set to Start

Highway 160 Bridge Project Set to Start

July 10, 2012 – Southeastern Colorado/CDOT Region 2 – The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) begins a three-bridge improvement project on U.S. 160 next week, east and west of Pritchett. CDOT is replacing the bridges with concrete box culverts at North Fork Sand Arroyo (built 1935), 11 miles west of Pritchett and at Lone Rock […]

Ammonia Spill Contained in Walsh, No Injuries

Ammonia Spill Contained in Walsh, No Injuries

The all-clear was given for Wednesday’s anhydrous ammonia spill in Walsh at approximately 1pm. Three haz-mat vehicles and 75 responders took part in the evacuation of some three dozen residents and the handling of the tank carrying the fertilizer. Riley Frazee, from the state department of Emergency Management said wind blown fumes from the ruptured […]

Walsh Townspeople Evacuated Due to Toxic Spill

Walsh Townspeople Evacuated Due to Toxic Spill

Thirty-five to 40 homes in Walsh were evacuated between 8 and 9am this morning, February 8, due to a leaking 1,000 gallon tank carrying anhydrous ammonia. Riley Frazee, Colorado Department of Emergency Management Public Information Officer, said the leak occurred when an axle on a trailer towing the irrigation tank broke, tipping the tank at […]

Drought Expanding Across Southeast Colorado

Drought Expanding Across Southeast Colorado

La Nina conditions are expected to weaken into June, which is expected to bring dry conditions for the eastern plains and southern Colorado. The National Weather Service out of Pueblo reports the current U.S. Drought Monitor now indicates extreme drought conditions across Baca County as well as extreme eastern Las Animas County, extreme southeastern Bent […]

Lamar’s Friday Fire Wrap Up

Lamar’s Friday Fire Wrap Up

  One thousand acres of land in a two-mile stretch, running along highway 196 north of Lamar, burned this past Friday night and Saturday morning, caused by an out of control camp fire. The fire stretched between county roads 8.5 and 11 on land owned by Marvin Gruenloh, according to Prowers County Sheriff Jim Faull, […]