All Entries Tagged With: "Eads"
Adult Community Corrections Facility Suggested for Lamar
Doug Carrigan from ATC, Advantage Treatment Center in Sterling, Colorado, addressed the Lamar City Council during a March 12th work session and outlined a concept for a 30-40 bed client facility in town. Carrigan is the executive director of the Sterling facility and he told the council he believes the Lamar community would benefit […]
NPS and High Plains Theater Hosts “From Sand Creek to Boggsville to Camp Amache and Beyond: Chief Lonebear and the Massacre of 1864”
Eads, CO – Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site (NHS) and the Crow-Luther Cultural Events Center will offer a free ranger program entitled “From Sand Creek to Boggsville to Camp Amache and Beyond: Chief Lonebear and the Massacre of 1864” at the Crow-Luther Cultural Events Center in Eads, CO on Saturday, August 29. The hour […]
Raymond Merle Frazee…December 29, 1921 – April 29, 2015
Raymond Merle Frazee was born on December 29, 1921, in Hugoton, Kansas, the second of six children born to William Forrest Frazee and Juanita Irene Moser. The family moved to Kiowa County Colorado in 1926, where they settled in the Galatea area and made a living farming and ranching. One of his fond memories of […]
LCC Renewable Energy and Kiowa County Team Up for Energy Efficient Project
This summer, the LCC Renewable Energy Program was given an excellent opportunity to showcase their acquired skills. They were approached by the county commissioners of Kiowa County to help develop a solar lighting system for the Veteran’s Memorial at the roadside park in Eads. LCC’s program was asked to assist in developing a solar lighting […]
Sand Creek Offers Special Walking Tour
The massacre of over 200 Cheyenne and Arapaho men, women, and children along the banks of the Big Sandy Creek in southeastern Colorado, known today as the Sand Creek Massacre, will be the topic of a free interpretive walking tour at the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site (NHS) on Saturday, September 13, 2014. Reservations […]
Murder of Chief Lean Bear Results in Revenge
“I can only say that I see no way in which your race is to become as numerous and prosperous as the white race except by living as they do, by the cultivation of the earth.” With these words President Abraham Lincoln welcomed Chief Lean Bear and other Plains Indian leaders to the White House […]
The Gold Rush and the Plains of Colorado
This article is part of a series by the National Park Service concerning the 150th Memorial of the Sand Creek Massacre. One of the contributing factors to the Sand Creek Massacre, the Colorado Gold Rush encouraged thousands of people to move across the plains, seeking their fortunes in Colorado’s gold fields. Over fifty thousand people […]
Holly Wildcat Weekly Basketball Update, February 12, 2014
One of Holly’s basketball teams extended its winning streak with two victories last week, while the other snapped a short skid, but could not make it two straight in the win column. The Wildcats earned wins over Wiley and Eads, pushing their streak to six straight, but the Lady Wildcats fell to #2 Eads one […]
The Southern Cheyenne Odyssey
This article is part of a series by the National Park Service concerning the 150th Memorial of the Sand Creek Massacre. The epic migration of the Cheyenne, or Tsistsistas, tribe from the American Midwest to southeastern Colorado was a journey hundreds of years in the making. An odyssey of people, animals, and events brought the […]
Colorado’s Premiere Small School Basketball Tournament Marks 50 Years
The holidays bring letters to Santa Claus, last minute shopping, and lots of basketball in Southeast Colorado. In 2013, the Lamar Holiday Basketball Tournament will tip off for the 50th time. The tournament features eight schools, either 1A or 2A classification, with both a boys’ and girls’ bracket. Beginning December 19th, the Lamar Community Building […]
Here Come the Riders!!
Lamar may experience a brief traffic snarl for a while this Friday afternoon, September 20, when approximately 1,000 bicyclists converge on the city for the second annual Pedal the Plains event in Colorado. Southeast Colorado was selected as the destination for 2013 with riders making a weekend loop from Eads, to Lamar, to La Junta […]
Plans Underway for Local Impact for Pedal The Plains Tour
Representatives for the second annual Pedal the Plains Bicycle Tour presented an overview of their needs from the Lamar and Prowers County community for the three day event on Thursday, May 2 at the Lamar Chamber of Commerce. Elizabeth Norris, Community Relations Manager for the Denver Post, and Reed Rowley, from the Colorado Office of […]
LCC Hosts CSU’s 2013 AGFEST for Elementary School Students
CSU’s annual AGFEST was held this past Wednesday for 225 fifth grade students from area schools. Mick Livingston, CSU Extension Agent from Burlington, said several thousand elementary students from Rocky Ford, Hugo, Brush, Sterling, Holyoke and in Prowers and Bent County will view the displays focusing on different aspects of employment in the agricultural […]
Pedal the Plains Bicycle Tour Includes Lamar, La Junta, Eads
DENVER — Wednesday, April 24, 2013 — Gov. John Hickenlooper, The Denver Post and the Office of Economic Development and International Trade today announced the route for the second annual Pedal The Plains Bicycle Tour, scheduled for Sept. 20-22, 2013. The tour this year will stop in Eads, Lamar and La Junta. A press conference […]
Winds Die Down, Travel Resumes in S.E. Colorado
Despite winds ranging between 45mph to 65mph in portions of southeast Colorado this past Friday, January 11, there was considerably less dust in the air from a similar wind storm almost two months ago on November 10. Recent snows and moisture around Christmas and New Year’s helped limit airborne dust during the day of high wind […]
We Got Wind, They Got Snow
Hopes for a wetter or whiter Christmas went unanswered this past Wednesday, December 19, with only a little snow and a lot of wind and dust combined. Gusts approached 60mph in parts of southeast Colorado and the blowing snow reduced visibility to the point that Highway 70 between Limon and Kansas was temporarily closed to […]
Highway 287 Project Shut Down for Season
News From The Colorado Department of Transportation www.coloradodot.info December 27, 2011 Contact: Bob Wilson, CDOT Public Relations, (303) 757-9431 Highway 287 Project Shut Down for Season CHEYENNE COUNTY – The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) has suspended the U.S. 287 concrete panel replacement project between Kit Carson and Eads for the winter. “All of the […]
Highway Construction Underway in S.E. Colorado
PUEBLO – The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) is expected to have at least 35 projects under construction throughout southeastern Colorado this summer and fall, work that includes paving, bridge replacements, and minor widening. “It’ll be another active construction season for us, which means motorists will encounter numerous cone zones throughout southeastern Colorado,” said CDOT […]
Obituary – Theodore D. DeLong
Theodore D. DeLong A private family graveside memorial service for longtime Eads, Colorado resident, Theodore D. “Ted” DeLong will be held at the Eads Cemetery at a later date. Arrangements will be through Peacock Funeral Chapel in Lamar. Ted was born on March 16, 1931 to Milton Elbert and Laura A. (Proper) DeLong and passed […]