The Regular Meeting of the Kiowa County Commissioners was called to order on September 10, 2019 at 9:07 a.m. by Chairman, Richard Scott. Donald Oswald opened the meeting with a prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance. Those in attendance were:

Richard Scott, Chairman

Donald Oswald, Commissioner

Howard “Butch” Robertson, Commissioner

Tina Adamson, County Administrator

Oswald moved and Robertson seconded the motion to approve the minutes as presented. Motion carried.  

Colorado Governor Jared Polis ordered the United States and Colorado flags be lowered to half-staff statewide on all public buildings from sunrise to sunset Saturday, October 5, 2019, to honor former Colorado legislator Leo Lucero.

Lucero served in the legislature for 14 years. He passed September 24. 

Funeral services are being held Saturday in Pueblo

Hello everyone. I’m sorry this after-fair report was so long in coming - I thought that things would slow down after fair!

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Colorado State Senator Jerry Sonnenberg argue that voters should reject Referendum CC in November.

Rural hospital closings have accelerated in recent years, leaving not only sick people but ghost towns in their wake. Does the failure to fix it speak to the ills of the larger health care system?

For people with "auto-brewery syndrome," microbes in the intestines produce abnormally high levels of alcohol.

Photo of the week from the October 4, 2019, edition of the Kiowa County Press in Eads, Colorado - Leaves beginning to change in Kiowa County.

Birthdays

October 7

• David Miner
• Jura Wilson
• Kelly V.