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LCC Encampment and Bent’s Old Fort featured at AHA Annual Meeting
(Lamar, Colorado; January 13, 2016) Lamar Community College historian Kelly Emick and Bent’s Old Fort Interpreter John Carson were featured on a panel sponsored by the Society of Western History at the American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting held January 5-8 in Denver, Colorado. The yearly AHA event is one of the largest gatherings of […]
Speakers Listed for Gov’s Ag Forum in February
Gov. Hickenlooper, Commissioner Brown among state officials stepping up to the mic at Governor’s Forum on Colorado Agriculture Joining a myriad of other speakers at the 2017 Governor’s Forum on Colorado Agriculture, Gov. John Hickenlooper and Colorado Agriculture Commissioner Don Brown will each be stepping up to the podium at the event. Gov. Hickenlooper and […]
Colorado State University Extension to Deliver Estate Planning Workshops
Planning how to transfer your farm, ranch, or other business to the next generation is difficult. Just as is planning for retirement and formalizing your estate plan. The many emotional issues involved with such planning causes us to procrastinate. We don’t want to make some of the tough decisions, so we don’t! Yet, […]
Winter Storm Approaching S.E. Colorado
WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE – NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 8:01 PM MST FRI JAN 13 2017 …WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY MORNING… * LOCATION…KIOWA…BENT…PROWERS AND BACA COUNTIES…INCLUDING EADS…LAS ANIMAS…LAMAR AND SPRINGFIELD. * CAUSE AND TIMING…A PACIFIC STORM WILL BRING A WINTRY MIX OF FREEZING RAIN AND SNOW TO THE […]
Newly Elected Take Their Oaths of Office in Prowers County
While the transition of political power plays out under national view in Washington, D.C., the same democratic procedures took place on a smaller, but no less important scale in Prowers County earlier this week. The oath of office was given to newly elected and re-elected officials at the county courthouse on Tuesday January 10th. 15th […]
Prowers County Coroner Reviews Busy Year
Delivering his annual update to the Prowers County Commisioners, Joe Giadone, Prowers County Coroner, detailed the increased numbers of cases that were handled in 2016 by his department. “We were very busy compared to other years, with 110 coroner calls which translated into 1,105 miles driven. In the past 18 months, we have had five […]
Courthouse Improvement Project Reviewed
The infrastructure of the Prowers County Courthouse is beginning to show its age. Built in the late 1920s, some of the facility operation systems are breaking down including on-going HVAC, electrical and safety failures. This need has prompted the Prowers County Commissioners to hire a construction firm, 360 Energy Engineers, to provide an assessment and […]
Schnabel Steps Down as Commissioner
Prowers County Commissioner, Henry Schnabel, brought his eight years of municipal service to the county to a close shortly before noon today, January 10th. Just prior to the lunch break which would be followed by official swearing-in ceremonies in the county district courtroom at 1pm, Commission Chairman, Ron Cook, presented Schnabel with a framed photograph […]
Report: 62,000 Clean Energy Workers in Colorado
Top 10 Counties: Denver, Arapahoe, Jefferson, Adams, Douglas, Boulder, Larimer, Weld, El Paso, Mesa; Energy Efficiency, Renewables Are Top Industries for Jobs DENVER (January 6, 2016) – More than 62,000 people in Colorado work in the clean energy sector, according to a new report unveiled today by the national, nonpartisan business group Environmental Entrepreneurs […]
New Year Means Big Problems for 272 Impaired Drivers
Heat Is On Campaign Logs Over 7000 arrests in 2016 STATEWIDE — Parties and celebrations rang in the new year across Colorado, but for 272 impaired drivers, the ring came from law enforcement sirens instead of festive horns and whistles. From Dec. 30, 2016 to Jan. 3, 2017, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT), Colorado […]
New Windfarm Construction Set for this Spring
Thirty-six wind turbines are scheduled to be built 23 miles south of Lamar beginning this spring. Mark Stacy, the director for Iberdrola Renewables LLC, told the Prowers Journal that roadwork east of Highway 287 is expected to begin in April. “Our operations and management building will go up in March and our central location will […]
CDOT Open House for Hwy 287 Project Set for January 19
LAMAR, COLO– The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) and the City of Lamar is hosting an open house on Thursday January 19, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. to kick-off the reconstruction of US Highway 287 through the City of Lamar. The meeting will be held at the Cultural Events Center located at 102 East Parmenter […]
Prowers Economic Prosperity Seeks Project Coordinator
LAMAR, CO, January 3, 2017 – With the New Year, Prowers Economic Prosperity (PEP), the economic development organization for Prowers County, is poised to implement its prosperity plan that was adopted in late 2016. The prosperity plan provides a potential road map for economic growth in Prowers County. A large portion of the plan calls […]
New Year: New County Officials
Swearing-in ceremonies for four elected officials for Prowers County have been scheduled for 1pm, Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at the Prowers County District Courtroom. The newly remodeled courtroom will be the location for the swearing-in ceremony and reception to follow for Stanley Brinkley, Chief Judge for the 15th Judicial District; Joshua Vogel, District Attorney for […]
Annual Precipitation Figures Plus December 2016 Climate Review and January Preview
December of 2016 started out where November left off, cool and unsettled with a modified Arctic airmass moving across the region December 6 through the 8th. Another Arctic airmass moved across the region December 17th through the 19th, with several more weather systems moving across the state throughout the month, bringing abundant precipitation, especially to […]
