U.S. President Donald Trump Monday demanded that governors across the country act aggressively against protestors and threatened military intervention if they did not.

New Greeley County Health Services partnership brings new general surgery practice to southwest Kansas.

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

(The Center Square) – Senate Republicans are pushing to freeze automatic increases to lawmaker salaries and per diem pay as the state slashes its budget because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

On Monday, Senate Minority Leader Chris Holbert, R-Parker, said on the Senate floor that he hopes two bills – one freezing increases to lawmakers' per diem pay and another freezing automatic salary increases – will get late filing approvals from majority leadership in the Senate.

Republicans have submitted late bill requests for both pieces of legislation. 

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

Colorado's annual free fishing weekend is set for June 6-7, 2020.

Constance Louise Weber

May 5, 1959 – May 27, 2020

A Funeral Mass for longtime Trinidad resident Constance Louise Weber will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 2, 2020, at St. Augustine Catholic Church in Kit Carson with Reverend Jason Keas as Celebrant.

A Rosary service will be held prior to the mass at 10:00 a.m. The Rite of Committal will follow the Mass at the Kit Carson Cemetery.

Kiowa County Public Library is happy to inform you that the variance plan submitted to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment by the Kiowa County Commissioners, Kiowa County Public Health Department, and the Kiowa County Hospital District has been approved!

With this news, and the official Kiowa County Public Health Order 1 2020, we are ecstatic to say we will officially be open starting Monday, June 1.

Graduation will be conducted in the Prairie Park and will consist of graduates, superintendent, one board member and a few family members.  Social distancing will be honored, and anyone who is feeling ill will be asked not to attend.  

Anyone who would like to honor the graduates are encouraged to park along Main Street, Church Street, or Park Street June 7 before 2:30 p.m. as the seniors will be paraded on a flatbed trailer for about 15 minutes after the ceremony.  

As you know, COVID-19 has put a damper on many of our lives in multiple ways. This includes not being able to offer an in-person Summer Reading Program at the Library this year.