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The Madonna of the Trail Gets a Facelift
The Daughters of the American Revolution, using grant funding helped secure an overhaul for Lamar’s Madonna of the Trail last week, beginning Wednesday, August 14. Earlier this summer, the DAR informed the Lamar City Council they would be in town for several days in either late August or early September, repairing some cracks and giving the […]
City Closer to Accepting Valco Pond Acreage
The Valco property is almost but not quite ready to be transferred to the City of Lamar. It had been hoped that the 100 acre-plus site could have been transferred before the end of 2012. With the mayor’s signature on the mineral permit, the property and some of the reclamation responsibilities will fall to the […]
DAR Visitors to Museum
Members of Denver’s Columbine Chapter of the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution hit the trail to Lamar over the weekend of April 28th. Their goal was a viewing of Colorado’s statue of The Madonna of the Trail. Michelle Brown, Darla DeSautels, and Diane and Laura Dykstra also visited Big Timbers Museum, and […]