Archive for June, 2024
Karen Bruckner – July 30, 1935 – May 13, 2024
A Celebration of Life for Karen Bruckner will be held at 2:00 p.m., Friday, July 12, 2024 at Valley Memorial Funeral Chapel in Lamar, Colorado with a reception to follow. Karen was born July 30, 1935 to Hazel and John Bruckner in Lamar, Colorado. She journeyed to the next world on May 13, 2024 at […]
Lowell Eugene “Gene” Bond – May 25, 1961 – June 1, 2024
A celebration of life for longtime Granada, Colorado resident Lowell Eugene Bond, affectionately known to his family and friends as Gene, will be held at 10:00AM on Friday, June 07, 2024 at the Peacock Family Chapel with Pastor Joseph Garness of the Star Community Church officiating. Interment will follow at the Minneapolis Cemetery in Two […]
Boggsville honored with National Park Service grant of $523,000
LAS ANIMAS – The National Park Service recently awarded $5 million to eight projects in six states as part of the Historic Preservation Fund’s History of Equal Rights (HER) grant program, which focuses on the preservation of sites directly associated with the struggle for all Americans to gain equal rights. As one of the awardees, Boggsville, […]
Mass parachute jump over Normandy in commemoration of 80th anniversary of D-Day
American D-Day veterans attend a welcome ceremony at Charles de Gaulle airport on Saturday, June 1, 2024 in Roissy, north of Paris. More than sixty American veterans arrived for ceremonies marking D-Day’s 80th anniversary CARENTAN-LES-MARAIS, France (AP) — Parachutists jumping from World War II-era planes hurled themselves Sunday into now peaceful Normandy skies where […]
Ground is broken for new Arby’s restaurant in Lamar
With shovels, left to right: Rob Evans, City Administrator; Ron Cook, Prowers County Commissioner; Lamar Mayor Kirk Crespin; Quyntyn Johnson, Senior VP of Operations for LV Petroleum; Michelle Carver, Site General Manager of LV Petroleum; David Zavala, Lamar City Councilman Under a bright blue sky on Saturday morning, June 1, 2024, ground was broken for […]
