Betty Jo was born in Cheyenne Wells November 30, 1941, and passed away August 25, 2023, at the Lincoln Community Hospital in Hugo.

Bettie Louise Kelley came into this world July 18, 1929, and went to her eternal heavenly home August 7, 2023. Bettie was born at the family home near Lycan. Welcoming her were her parents, James Harry Kelley and Grace Irene Settle Kelley, and a one-year-old brother, Floyd.

Siblings to be born in later years included Barbara, Keith, Jo Mae, Kenneth, and Dale.

Utah Governor Spencer Cox wants people to learn to disagree.

The Affordable Connectivity Program was expanded through the federal infrastructure bill.

Agriculture news and information from the Eads USDA Service Center in Kiowa County, Colorado.

Life in Eads and Kiowa County, Colorado, as observed by Doris Lessenden.

Judith Darlene Hammer

May 31, 1938 – August 8, 2023

I, Ernest Hammer, was raised on a ranch fifteen miles southeast of Fountain. Fountain was a small farming community south of Colorado Springs.

When I was in school there were twenty eight kids in the first grade and thirty two when we graduated in 1956. About seventy percent of us started together in the first grade.

Clean-water activists are angry over a decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The issue of whether all students and staff have access to safe drinking water remains a focal point.

U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper joined entertainment workers on the picket lines Friday.