15 Years Ago

January 31, 2003

• Great Outdoors Colorado Board awarded $150,000 in lottery funds to the Central Kiowa County Recreation District to help improve & expand the athletic facilities at the Eads Athletic Field.
• The Salvation Army store in Eads has closed its doors temporarily due to lack of volunteers to operate the store.
• Kiowa County Economic Development Foundation issuing a call for photographs of Kiowa County to be used to promote the county.

25 Years Ago

February 4, 1993

• A rash of UFO sightings across eastern Colorado have scientists and government officials looking for answers.
• Towner News-G.K & Ann Harkness: Anyone traveling highway 96 between Sheridan Lake & Towner discovered about a mile of the highway had collapsed.

40 Years Ago

February 3, 1978

• Fifty-six landowners & farm operators in Kiowa County petitioned Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland to authorize normal crop acreage on land once in government conservation programs which remains in vegetative cover.
• Potpourri: A new word is working its way into the nation’s vocabulary these days: gasohol.
• Mr. & Mrs. V.A. Harris of Sheridan Lake experience an eerie & shaky feeling when a bullet from a high-powered gun sailed through the 3 walls of their home from an unknown source.

50 Years Ago

February 2, 1968

• A new project in Towner has created new employment for that small farming community and caused a greater demand for locally grown grains.