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Library Receives Growing Readers Together Grant
Growing Readers Together @ Lamar Public Library Growing Readers Launched at Lamar Public Library. The library program, sparked by a grant from the Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation, provides early literacy activities and resources for family, friends and neighbors who care for children under the age of six. Growing Readers Together is an opportunity for informal […]
McKenney and Gourley named LCC’s Outstanding Alumni
(Lamar, Colorado; May 8, 2017) Lamar Community College named two former students as its outstanding alumni for 2017 during the college’s Antelope Night celebration on Friday evening: Ruth McKenney of Lamar and Bob Gourley of Two Buttes. Dr. Linda Lujan, LCC President, introduced the two awardees during the celebration, highlighting the reasons for their nomination […]
LCC Nursing Class of 2017 Honored in Pinning Ceremony
On Friday, May 5, Lamar Community College Nursing graduates danced their way into the LCC Wellness Center to celebrate their accomplishments with the annual Nurse Pinning. The Nurse Pinning ceremony is a traditional rite of passage that each nursing student completes before entering the profession. 54 students were pinned including 31 from the Level I […]
Equine Students Showcase Work, Compete for Scholarships
Lamar Community College freshmen in the Horse Training & Management (HTM), Equine Business Management (EBM), and Barrel Horse Training programs demonstrated their hard work from this past year during the Spring Horse Show held on Friday, April 28. At the end of each semester, students in the equine programs at LCC perform reining patterns and […]
Best of Luck to Whitham Family in the Kentucky Derby
Clay Whitham, president of Frontier Bank in Lamar, will have his family represented in this year’s Kentucky Derby by McCraken, a colt foaled in 2004 who will be running in the race this Saturday. The family has long been interested in racing, over 40 years now as his mother, Janis, continues to be involved in […]
LCC Students, faculty and community members Walk a Mile in Her Shoes
(Lamar, Colorado; May 1, 2017) Saturday, April 22, marked a first for a handful of men as they walked a mile down Savage Avenue in bright red high heels. The fun, though painful, walk was part of a new event on the Lamar Community College campus: Walk a Mile in Her Shoes. Walk a […]
Lamar Days Breakfast Becomes Downtown BBQ Lunch
For numerous years, the Lamar Chamber of Commerce sponsored the traditional Friday morning, Good Morning Lamar Breakfast which was held at the Lamar Elks Lodge and later, at the Lamar Eagles Lodge. The event kicked-off the annual Lamar Days festivities. This year, there will be a change as the chambers directors decided that instead of […]
Spring Snowstorm Interrupts Power
“Saturday wasn’t so bad, but Sunday brought a lot of power line interruptions to our area,” according to Lamar Light Plant Superintendent, Houssin Hourieh. There were some scattered outages due to downed power lines on Saturday, but the brunt of the storm, as far as downed lines, occurred through Sunday with the eastern-most areas of […]
Dodged a Bullet?
Although Lamar residents encountered snow and winds and downed tree limbs, compared to other areas of Prowers County, we got our moisture, but not all that much snow. Springfield and other southern Colorado communities had anywhere from 10 inches of snow to 7.5 as reported in Campo by the National Weather Service and from four […]
Vance Johnson Speaks From the Heart to Local Kids
Former Bronco wide receiver star, Vance Johnson, one of the original Three Amigos, knows how to develop a rapport with a crowd. Whether it was tens of thousands of fans in Bronco Stadium back in the late 1980s or this past Thursday at the Lamar Middle School gym, Johnson has an appeal that can relate […]
99 Job Seekers Attend Lamar Workforce Center Job/Resource Fair
Terming the job and resource fair at the WorkForce Center in Lamar a success, Elva Macias, Labor and Employment Specialist, said the event on April 25th gave the employers an opportunity to visit with each other and network. Held at the SOS Center on East Olive Street in Lamar, 99 attendees had an opportunity to […]
78th Lamar Community College Commencement to be held on May 6
(Lamar, Colorado; April 21, 2017) The 78th annual Lamar Community College commencement ceremony will be held at 10:00am on Saturday, May 6, at the LCC Wellness Center. Over 200 degree or certificate-seeking students are eligible to walk in commencement, including fall 2016 graduates as well as spring and summer 2017 candidates for graduation. No tickets […]
Broken Water Main Under Repair
A water main was broken during construction on the Lamar Main Street project Tuesday morning, April 25th, at the corner of Main and West Olive Streets. The rush of water, approximately 8,500 gallons a minute, was more than the drain system could handle at first and water backed up along the west side of the […]
Minnick and Boero lead LCC to fourth place finish in Torrington
The Lamar Community College men’s golf team finished in fourth place this past weekend in Region IX play hosted by Eastern Wyoming College. The Lopes totaled a two-day score of 637, led by Jeremy Minnick and Facundo Boero. Minnick finished the tournament tied for sixth place with a score of 152 (80-72), just six strokes […]
LCC’s Hicks and Klassen place at Casper College Rodeo
Lopes Rodeo returns from weekend competition at Casper College with two top ten finishers, Kadyn Hick and Jalisa Klassen. Sophomore Kadyn Hicks led the men’s team with a second place finish in steer wrestling. He finished with a time of 9.8, just .1 second behind the first-place finisher. He moved to ninth place in the […]
