Top articles from the Kiowa County Press in Eads, Colorado, for the week ending October 16, 2021.

Federal education data shows that public school enrollment dropped 3% compared to the previous year. That means roughly 1.5 million students exited the U.S. public education system.

From the 134-year history of the Kiowa County Press in Eads, Colorado.

Pearls of faith from Pastor Richard Zabriskie.

Rural life and humor, with characters from the mind of Slim Randles.

The National Agricultural Statistics Service will be sending its first Hemp Acreage and Production Survey to two thousand Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming producers.

Among young adults early in the pandemic, there were modest reductions in motivations for using marijuana for celebratory reasons and slight increases toward using marijuana because of boredom.

Californians have been concerned about wildfires for a long time, but the past two years have left many of them fearful and questioning whether any solutions to the fire crisis truly exist.

More than 200 million U.S. residents have gotten at least one shot of a COVID-19 vaccine with the expectation that the vaccines slow virus transmission and save lives.

Even when kids spend five hours a day on screen – whether computers, television or text – it doesn’t appear to be harmful.