The Colorado Senate on Tuesday passed a bipartisan bill that aims to provide schools with a pathway to returning to the state's accountability standards that were removed during the pandemic.
President Joe Biden delivered the State of the Union address for the first time in his presidency Tuesday night, tackling a range of issues from the invasion of Ukraine and the status of the economy to funding police and securing the border.
James "Jim" Leo Ambrosier
June 11, 1949 - February 26, 2022
Mr. Ambrosier passed away at Keefe Memorial Hospital in Cheyenne Wells following a brief illness.
Visitation will be held Thursday, March 3, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at Brown Funeral Home in Cheyenne Wells.
Funeral services will be held Friday, March 4, beginning at 2:00 p.m. at the Wells of Faith Fellowship (formerly United Methodist Church) in Cheyenne Wells. Burial will follow in the Fairview Cemeter.
Joyce Lorraine Saffer
July 4, 1932 – February 24, 2022
Joyce Lorraine (Charles) Saffer passed February 24, 2022, at Memorial Central Hospital in Colorado Springs. For the past eight years, Joyce struggled with Alzheimer’s.
She spent these years at Prairie Pines Assisted Living in Eads, Valley View Villa in Fort Morgan, and Namaste Alzheimer Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Lamar Community College (LCC) president, Dr. Linda Lujan, announced she will step down December 31, 2022.
Despite snow falling in many regions of Colorado recently, most of the state is still experiencing drought conditions after an abnormally dry period at the end of last year.
Michael "Mick" Eugene Fields
December 20, 1945 - February 22, 2022
Funeral services are pending.
Mr. Fields passed away unexpectedly in Phoenix, Arizona, and was a former resident of Strasburg.
Arrangements are under the direction of Brown Funeral Home.
Agriculture news and information from the Eads USDA Service Center in Kiowa County, Colorado.
Colorado’s public employee pension fund is withdrawing more than $7.2 million that's held in a Russian bank following the country's invasion of Ukraine.
The three largest U.S. drug distributors and drug maker Johnson & Johnson have finalized settlements for most of the opioid lawsuits filed by state and local governments that will allow $26 billion to go to those government entities.