Not surprisingly in this day and age, you don’t need a PhD to identify plants and animals out in the natural world. All you need is a smartphone and an app.

Birthdays

January 16

• Sean Lening
• Caitlyn Swartz
• William N.

Notice of Initiation of the Section 106 Process: 

Public Participation

Atlas Tower 1, LLC proposes the construction of a self-support style telecommunications tower approximately 0.17 miles west-southwest of County Rd. 33 & County Rd. N, Eads, Kiowa County, CO. Proposed project will include ground disturbance. 

January 14

• 9:00 am Lamar Elks Toy Show @ Lamar Elks Lodge in Lamar

January 14

• 10:30 am Bent's Fort Chapter Annual Meeting will be held at the JW Rawlings Heritage Center and Museum, 560 Bent Ave., Las Animas, CO

January 16

• Martin Luther King Jr Day

January 17

• 7:00 pm Kiowa County Fire Protection District Meeting

January 18

• 12:00 pm Eads Senior Citizen Dinner
• 5:30 pm Haswell Senior Citizen Meal

January 19

• Kiowa County Economic Development Foundatio

Kiowa County Extension will be hosting a "Learn to Preserve: Water Bath Canning Jam & Jelly Workshop" January 25, 2023, at 9:00 a.m. at the Eads Community Building, located on the Kiowa County Fairgrounds in Eads.

There will be a $15.00 fee and all supplies will be provided. You will take home your finished product from the workshop. 

This workshop will be led by Southeast Area Family Consumer Science Specialist, Abby Weber. Pre-registration is required by January 16, 2023, to ensure enough supplies are available for all participants.

The Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site Visitor and Education Center located in Eads has returned to normal operating hours.

A bill that limits Illinois counties’ power to regulate wind and solar farms is headed to the governor’s desk after the previous General Assembly approved the measure.

Emergency allotments for food benefits were more than $2 billion nationwide from March 2020 to this past December.

Corporations in Arizona could soon keep more money in their coffers.