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Boggsville Cleanup Day
On Saturday April 13, 2013, 35 members of the Bent’s Fort Chapter (BFC) of the Santa Fe Trail Association met at Boggsville Historic Site in Las Animas for a work day to help get the site ready for the 2013 season. Members raked leaves, cleaned windows, dusted, and spruced the place up. Lunch was provided […]
Lamar Snow Removal Operations Resume, Council Holds Last Meeting of 2011
City crews should be back on the streets of Lamar today, continuing their snow removal operations. City Administrator Bill Pfeilsticker told the city council during Monday night’s meeting, that the warmer weather will help with the clean up, as the colder temperatures froze the snow on the roads to hard-pack ice. He said they’ll attempt to […]
July 4th Holiday, More Drinking, Less Fireworking
Click a picture to see it full siize – Photos by Russ Baldwin Most area residents apparently took notice of the holiday fireworks ban in Lamar and Prowers County. Due to on-going drought conditions, communities in Prowers and Bent County banned several types of fireworks during the holidays. Any type of firework such as regular […]
Clearing and Cleaning the Path
An assortment of volunteers turned out for a clean-up day on the Willow Creek Nature Trail in the woods to the rear of Lamar Community College Friday, May 13th. The project ran from 9am to Noon with over a dozen young men and women showing up for their assignments. Linda Groat from the […]
Holly Clean Up Days Announced
The Board of Trustees has approved two dates in April for town-wide clean up days. For residential trash customers residing south of Highway 50, Wednesday, April 13 is the date scheduled for pick up; residential customers north of Highway 50, Wednesday, April 20. Please do not place discard items at the curb earlier than the […]
Parkview Elementary Students Involved in a Good Cover-up
Paint pans, donuts, brushes, chocolate milk, paint rollers, orange juice, drop cloths and old clothes. That was the line up for third and fourth grade student council members at Parkview Elementary School in Lamar Saturday morning, April 2. Principal Diane Nye noticed graffiti had marred the tennis practice wall at the playground parking lot, brought […]