Prowers County News

Chris Wilkinson addressed the Lamar City Council Monday evening regarding events at the Elks Lodge.

Veteran Cirilio Silva of Granada tosses candy to youngsters during the 18th annual Granada-Bristol Days parade on Saturday.

The virus can be passed from infected mosquitoes to humans, birds, horses and other animals.

Officers of the Lamar Police Department narcotics and drug unit with the assistance of the Lamar Police Department Special Emergency Response Team executed a narcotics search warrant at 107 S. 10th Street on June 11, 2009.

A potential revenue increase of $35,000-$40,000 a year has the Prowers County Board of Commissioners exploring the option of adopting the Model Traffic Code for Colorado.

Mail ballot elections are generally considered less expensive and easier for the clerks office to hold.

Investigations are being conducted to determine the source of the hantavirus exposure.

Two drivers are dead after colliding hear-on in Prowers County. This happened Wednesday afternoon on Highway 50 about four miles east of Lamar.

Friends of the family are invited to come visit with the families from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Host for the reunion are grandchildren of Oscar and Estella Batterton who lived in Wiley.

Statewide, 73 percent of third graders tested at or above proficient in reading on the CSAP tests administered earlier in the school year.

Gerald Bennett of Powdersville, South Carolina, will present a slide show of hundreds of arrowheads found by him, while living in Saudi Arabia during the eighties and nineties.

Colorado Department of Transportation maintenance crews will be chip sealing numerous highway segments through southeastern Colorado this month.

USDA can only extend approximately 1.5 million acres out of a total 3.9 million acres expiring this year.

As of Monday, six cases of H1N1 virus have been confirmed in Colorado. Five of the cases were confirmed in Front Range communities with one case located in the central mountain county of Eagle.

The city council decided Monday to not extend the program that expired at the end of April.

Rebekah Amaya was ensconced by law enforcement personnel and her legal team Tuesday as she left the Prowers County Courthouse.

The two entities have been engaged in tense and often heated negotiations regarding the future of fire and ambulance service in the area.

Jackie Brown, Prowers County Director of Public Health, said precautions taken by both the state and Prowers County should leave the area well prepared should the virus be contracted by area residents.

A missing man has been found Tuesday morning. The El Paso County Sheriffs Office was looking for 88-year-old Van Hollingsworth.

The Prowers County Board of Commissioners covered a full agenda when it met Tuesday for its second meeting of April.