All Entries Tagged With: "Lamar Library"
Lamar Council Okays Levee Study Funding
The City of Lamar is following through with Willow Creek Levee improvements as required by FEMA. Mapping the nation’s levee systems was mandated several years ago by the federal agency as a means of providing timely information for adequate insurance coverage within a community’s flood plain which would be impacted by a 100 year flood. […]
City Council Discusses Airport Hangar Development, Camera System at Library
The Lamar City Council and area residents were presented with the latest concept designs for the city’s Park’s, Recreation and Trails Master Plan during a council work session, Monday, April 28, at the Cultural Events Center. Britina Design Group was commissioned by the council to develop a series of ideas for four main recreation […]
Lamar Council Opens Willow Creek Park for Lamar Days/Cinco de Mayo
Mary Moore and Connie Gangwish from Lightkeepers Ministries outlined their plans to the Lamar City Council, to create a non-profit women’s homeless shelter at the former Troy Apartments on South Main Street in Lamar. Moore has researched various, similar shelters in Pueblo to learn the logistics of their operation. Gangwish has said she’ll provide […]
FREE Family Movie Location Change, April 5
‘Frozen’ is the featured film for this Saturday evening, with a FREE showing at 7pm at the Lamar Community Building. The event will cap a weeklong series of community weigh-ins on ideas to help develop the City of Lamar’s, Parks, Trails and Recreation Master Plan. The movie had been scheduled to be shown this […]
Redevelopment Board Approves Beech Street Property Purchase
The Lamar City Council, meeting as the Lamar Redevelopment Authority Board on Monday, March 24, discussed the merits of purchasing the vacant lots in downtown Lamar that adjoin the City’s existing municipal parking lot on the north and abuts Beech Street on the lot’s south edge. Shawna Hodge, Lamar Main Street Coordinator, and City Administrator, John […]
Library Shredding Party Highlights Early Improvement Bond Paydown
Lamar residents, city council members, county commissioners, library employees, volunteers, Friends of the Lamar Library and the Library Board gathered for a party to retire a finance bond ahead of schedule. The document shredding was held at the Cultural Events Center in Lamar, Monday evening, December 23. Board President, Jack Van Hook and Chris […]
Reflections from a Pumpkin’s Eye
It was a perfect night for Halloween this year. A warm sunny day that turned into a cool evening and once the sun went out of the sky, it became chilly. You could step on dry, crunchy leaves underfoot and there was just enough of a night time breeze to send some of them tumbling […]
City Council Approves Amended Weed Ordinance
The City of Lamar’s agreement with Honeywell Building Solutions for energy and utility upgrades in municipal buildings is ending as work on the contract is being finalized. $288,973 in contingency funds was included in the contract and $67,015 was spent on some contingencies leaving a balance of $228,043. Other work termed ‘change orders’ was performed […]
Lamar Begins Ordinance on Marijuana Prohibition
The Lamar City Council had a relatively light agenda for the final meeting of May this past Tuesday, May 28. The meeting was moved to Tuesday to accommodate the Memorial Day holiday. Both the City of Lamar and Prowers County are enacting ordinances prohibiting certain uses of marijuana in an effort to counteract the […]
City of Lamar – Memorial Day Schedules
MEMORIAL DAY PUBLIC NOTICE NEWS RELEASE All City offices will be closed on Monday, May 27, 2013 in observance of Memorial Day. The Community Building will also be closed on Monday, May 27, 2013. The Public Library will be open Saturday, May 25th from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and will be closed Sunday, May […]
Less Water, Higher Water Restrictions for Lamar Residents
Lamar is feeling the impact of the current drought and lack of ditch water, moving to more stringent water restrictions two weeks after the first Stage was approved. The Stage 2 water conservation resolution, approved during the city council meeting May 13, allows properties east of Highway 287 to water only from Midnight to 6am and […]
Water Restrictions Discussed/Carnival Coming to Lamar for State High School Rodeo
Events are moving forward to host a full-scale carnival in Lamar during the Colorado State High School Rodeo finals, June 5-9, but it won’t be at Willow Creek Park. If all goes as planned, a carnival will be set up at the Prowers County Fairgrounds, corresponding with the scheduled rodeo, in town for the annual contest. […]
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 […]
Lamar City Council Wraps up 2012
The Lamar City Council voted to approve several end-of-year city-oriented housekeeping measures during their final meeting of the year, Monday, December 17, 2012. City Administrator, John Sutherland, reminded the audience of the annual holiday office schedules during which the city offices will be closed December 24 and 25 and Tuesday, January 1 for New Year’s […]
October Booksale Underway at Cultural Events Center
You know it’s turned fall when the semi annual Friends of the Lamar Library host their October Booksale at the Cultural Events Center in Lamar. Thousands of titles in paperback and hardcover line the tables, ranging from such topics as mystery, general fiction, romance, history, self-help, cookbooks, science fiction, finance, kids books, autobiographies, religion and […]
Local First Responders Given Show of Appreciation
First Responders and fallen alike were honored and remembered in Lamar in three ceremonies this past Tuesday, September 11 on the 11th anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York City. A memorial flag raising ceremony was conducted for the victims of the 9/11 attacks at the Lamar […]
To Mrs. Munro, with Love
Former Lamar school teacher, Dixie Munro, was honored this past Saturday, August 18, by her former students for her years of service to the community. Several dozen students were on hand at the Lamar Cultural Event Center for remarks and presentations made by emcee Richard McCloughan, a student of Dixie Munro’s from the […]
Lamar Library’s Spring Book Sale Offers Ample Selections
Arms laden with books of all kinds, folks who enjoy reading roamed up and down the tables of books on display this past Sunday, April 1, looking for their favorite authors, or searching for a new one at the Lamar Cultural Events Center. The Spring Book Sale, hosted by Friends of the Lamar Library […]
Lamar Council Annexes Properties, Appoints Board and Commission Members
The Lamar City Council held a brief session Monday evening, March 26, approving several ordinances on their second reading, relating to annexing several properties into the city. The ordinance annexing the property on Yucca West Drive, known as Langston First Annexation, was amended and approved by the council. The amendment altered the zoning designation […]
Oscar Riley New Lamar Councilman, Buzzard Gets Renewed License
Oscar Riley was selected as a replacement Lamar City Councilman for PJ Wilson who resigned his position as he no longer resides within city limits. Wilson informed the council last month and Riley was one of three candidates who was interviewed by the council in executive session last Wednesday. Steven Rabe has been selected by […]