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All County Offices Closing at Noon 12-22-11
Notice: All Prowers County Offices will close at Noon, December 22, 2011 including Welcome Home.
Power Loss, Minor Inconvenience to Communities
Photos by Russ Baldwin Wednesday night’s power outage disrupted evening plans for most residents across southeastern Colorado. Breaker failure is attributed to the loss of four Xcel transmission lines which caused power outages between Canon City and Kansas as well as from Pueblo to the New Mexico border. This reporter placed a phone call to […]
Lamar Council Reviews Ball Field Misuse and Unemployment Fund
Citizen’s Ballfield at the Lamar Sports Complex has recently received some rough treatment. Rick Akers, city Leisure Services Director expressed his concern to the city council during Monday night’s meeting, May 23. Akers said the backstop pads at the new softball field had baseball imprints embedded into them, apparently from baseballs hit towards them at […]
Lamar City & County Office Schedule: MEMORIAL DAY
All City offices will be closed on Monday, May 30, 2011 in observance of Memorial Day. The Community Building will also be closed on Monday, May 30, 2011. The Public Library will be open Saturday, May 28th from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and will be closed Sunday, May 29th and Monday, May 30th in […]
Lincoln School Closing
“No more pencils, no more books…” A Wednesday night tribute to Lincoln Elementary school in Lamar became a final reunion of sorts. Former students from years or decades ago arrived singly or as couples to catch up with others from when they were students there. In a cost-cutting move, the RE-2 school board recently made […]
Highway 50 Closed Near Las Animas due to Rangeland Fire
A wind-driven, fast-moving prairie fire closed highway 50 to traffic at 1:10 pm Saturday afternoon. There is a multi-community response from area fire departments to contain the fire. Traffic was diverted just outside of Lamar at the Wiley Junction and another detour point at county road 20 near Hasty. The fire closed traffic on Highway […]