Top articles from the Kiowa County Press in Eads, Colorado, for the week ending September 12, 2020.

Frustration over robocalls continues to grow - and chosing to answer or not answer unknown caller will not change the number of call you receive.

From the 133-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 Sliim Randles.

Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed an executive order Saturday extending a requirement for people in the state to “wear a medical or non-medical face covering” due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

The order notes that wearing facing coverings can reduce the spread of COVID-19 by as much as 65 percent. Recent data is showing an increase in infections, though the daily number of cases has declined since early August.

The United States is an angry nation, a fact political campaigns use to their advantage - and the expense of the country.

Firefighters are breathing smoke, which puts them at greater, potentially deadly, risk from COVID-19 coronavirus.

Evidence supports wearing a mask to reduce the risk of transmitting the coronavirus - but yelling at people who don't wear one doesn't help.

Extreme drought grew to cover more than half of Colorado according to the latest report from the National Drought Mitigation Center.

In northwest and north central Colorado, extreme conditions expanded to cover all or portions of Rio Blanco, Moffat, Routt, Jackson, Larimer and Grand counties. Along the Front Range, Clear Creek, Gilpin, Boulder, Jefferson, Adams, Denver, Arapahoe and Douglas counties also saw severe conditions shift to extreme drought.