June 2020 agricultural prices received for the United States and USDA mountain states region.

Highlight from the 2020 United States farm expenditures report from the United States Department of Agriculture.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife is offering free entrance to state parks throughout August for active duty military, veterans and the National Guard.

Top articles from the Kiowa County Press in Eads, Colorado, for the week ending July 31, 2021.

LEGACY

"The memory of the righteous will be a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot."

Proverbs 10:7

More than 77 million Americans volunteer a total of 6.9 billion hours a year doing everything from fighting fires to raising funds for cancer research. These efforts help others and support communities. But volunteering also tends to benefit the volunteers themselves.

The distance from home that kids are allowed to roam and play has shrunk significantly over the last 50 years. That’s largely due to parents’ concerns over safety, especially in cities.

Scientists have warned for over 50 years about increases in extreme events arising from subtle changes in average climate, but many people have been shocked by the ferocity of recent weather disasters.

For many Americans, buying fresh local food at one of the estimated 9,000 farmers markets across the U.S. is one of summer’s pleasures. But farmers markets aren’t just nice amenities.

You try to use your credit card, but it doesn’t work. In fact, no one’s credit card works. You try to go to some news sites to find out why, but you can’t access any of those, either. Neither can anyone else. Panic-buying ensues. People empty ATMs of cash. This kind of catastrophic pan-internet meltdown is more likely than most people realize.