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Clare Dunn Headlines Sand and Sage Concert, Tickets are On-Line Now
Clare Dunn with special guest Corey Kent White To Kick-Off 2017 Sand and Sage Round-Up.Clare Dunn Sound and Sage Round Up Concert & Charity VIP Party tickets are on sale now. Country music star Clare Dunn kicks-off the Sand and Sage Round-Up on Saturday August 5, 2017 at 8:00 p.m. Gates and beer garden open […]
Busy Weekend for Lamar Area Hospice
While the Back Yard Bash committee was putting together final plans for their Saturday, June 3rd event, fund-raising committee members for Lamar Area Hospice found time this past Friday afternoon to accept a $7,000 check from February’s ‘Pirate’s Night’ fund-raising event at the Buzzard’s Roost in Lamar. This marked the 4th year where people got […]
Bronc Riding Featured at Cowboy Up at the Wagons
If you took away the speaker system, and the automobiles or any modern convenience surrounding the End of the Line Arena in Camp Amache in Granada, it would be an easy sell to convince you the date was somewhere in the 1870s. The cook wagons from the Santa Fe Trail Cookers stood side by […]
Gov. Hickenlooper announces Colorado Trail Explorer – Online Statewide Trail Map
DENVER — Friday, June 2, 2017 — The Colorado Trail Explorer – a comprehensive online statewide trail map and a key component of Gov. John Hickenlooper’s Colorado the Beautiful initiative – is now live and available to the public in celebration of National Trails Day on June 3. The Colorado Trail Explorer includes more than […]
15th Annual Holly Bluegrass Festival set for June 9-11
The free Holly Bluegrass Festival gets underway at 6pm, Friday, June 9th with an evening barbecue and jam session at the park in Holly. The main event, featuring five notable bluegrass bands, will be held Saturday, also at the park. Fans are encouraged to bring their lawnchairs and recliners and find a shady area close […]
2017 Wiley Hay Days Schedule of Events
Friday, June 2 – 6pm, Jenea Aguilera Memorial Softball games; 7pm Wiley Lions Bingo/Kid’s game night @ Community Center Saturday, June 3 – 7am, Wiley Hay Days 5K Run; 7:30-9:30 Breakfast at Rock School House; 10am Parade from Ward Street Line up; 10:30am Kid’s Carnival @ Park; 11:30 to 1pm Lions Club Sloppy Joe Lunch; […]
Council Approves Ordinances for Veteran’s Cemetery and Tourism Advisory Board
Two ordinances were passed by the Lamar City Council on first reading during its Monday night meeting, May 22nd. The first pertains to an amended city code establishing eligibility criteria for internment in the veteran’s section of Fairmount Cemetery. The change now includes eligible dependent children in addition to the veteran’s spouse to be buried […]
Sunshine Prevails for Saturday Lamar Days Festivities
It’s too bad there wasn’t a way to scoot the calendar around so this past Friday would have been sunny. The chilly rain that spread through Prowers County dampened the first-ever Lamar Chamber Noontime BBQ for Lamar Days, a change from the traditional Good Morning Lamar Breakfast. Despite the weather, the board of directors served […]
2017 Wiley Hay Days Royalty: Robert & Margaret Porterfield
The Porterfield’s moved to Wiley in 2008 after growing up in Holly and then living in South for over 40 years. Margaret Files and Robert Porterfield were married in the Holly Methodist Church in 1960 and chose to return to southeastern Colorado to be near Margaret’s Holly relatives after retiring from their jobs in Dallas/Fort […]
Lodging Panel Funds Car-Related Events
Requests for marketing funds for a demolition derby/monster car show and a car show/concert were approved by the Prowers County Lodging Tax Panel at their monthly meeting, May 16th. Jacob Holdren of Holly received $3,656 to fund the Holly Gateway Classics Car Show to run concurrent with the annual Holly Fair on September […]
Lamar Days Activities: See and Do Around Town
Friday, May 19th: Kick-Off BBQ at the Chamber Parking Lot from 11am-1pm – $9 at the door or purchase tickets at the Chamber at 336-4379 (DJ, Lunch, Merchant Sidewalk Sales and Specials) No-Booze Cruise – 6:30 PM at Sonic Drive-In. Help raise funds for the annual Fire Department July 4th Fireworks Show Saturday, May 20th: […]
Sand Creek Massacre Observes Memorial Day Weekend with Special Evening Walk
Join the staff of Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site in observance of the Memorial Day weekend with a special evening walk on Friday, May 26, at 7 pm. Park staff will explore the night march of Colonel John Chivington and 675 troops of 1st and 3rd Regiments, Colorado (US) Cavalry, as they marched from […]
Holly Commercial Club Preparing for Spring Events
Eric Depperschmidt, Executive Director of PEP, Prowers Economic Prosperity was present and a guest. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. The Treasurers Report was read and approved. The Holly Shopper Report was given, with a loss and the Membership Report was given. Calvin Melcher added to the agenda about […]
One Step Up Students Host Fundraiser at Lincoln School
One Step Up Students were busy with a number of events this past Friday, May 12th at Lincoln School in Lamar. The main event was a fundraising auction for needed supplies to seed the playground at the school on North 10th Street so students could have a grassy area for fun, exercise and outdoor […]
DeWitt’s are Lamar Days Royalty
Life-long Lamar residents, Janet and Terry DeWitt have been selected as this year’s Lamar Days Royalty by the Lamar Zonta organization. The couple will lead the annual parade this Saturday morning, May 20th at 10am. This year’s Lamar Days theme is, “Legends of the Wild West” and the parade route will be the same as […]
