New this week at the Lamar Theatre:

Starts Friday

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, 6:45 p.m. daily

Held Over

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, 8:35 daily

Coming Soon

God's not Dead 2

The Boss

The Jungle Book

One of our most popular features from the past 15 years - a full-page color photo on the front of the Kiowa County Press showing various impressions of life in Kiowa County. While a limited number of copies continue to be printed and distributed each week at Kiowa Healthmart, COOP C-Store in Eads, Haswell Propane, and Thunderbird Petroleum, we wanted to bring this feature to our online readers as well.

Shown below - the front page of the April 22, 2016, Kiowa County Press - One of two tornados in Kiowa County last week. Photo by Kiowa County Sheriff Casey Sheridan.

Strong to severe storms are possible over the far eastern portion of southeast Colorado Saturday, including most of Kiowa County.

Temperatures will rise to the low 80s for the day, accompanied by 15-20 mile-per-hour winds gusting to 35 mph in the afternoon. Showers and thunderstorms could form after 4:00 p.m. Overnight temperatures will fall to the mid-40s.

Sunday and Monday will see highs in the mid-70s and wind speeds falling to 10-15 mph.

Free Presentation “Why Washita? : 20 Years of Washita Battlefield” Sat April 23 @ 5:00pm Crow-Luther Cultural Events Center Eads CO

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Eads Landfill WILL BE CLOSED Wednesday April 27 for training.

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Birthdays

April 25

Bryson Watne

Scott Gyurman

Kelli Jensen

Sarah Fecko

Erica Rice

Todd Dunlap

April 26

Greg Lopez

Sarah Rybacki

Glen Beeson

Bradley Morrow

Carolyn Lutz

Jennifer Weber

April 27

Roger Bentley

Laurie Elarton

Kyle Owens

Charlotte Stavely

Sherell Stum

Bill Black

April 28

Richard Glover

Tim Weeks

While a significant portion of the state is still abnormally dry, last weekend’s rain and snow brought welcome relief in drought conditions.

Pages from the Past

15 yrs

April 27, 2001

Mike Miller stated the Colorado Rockies baseball team had awarded Eads High School with 80 tickets to home game because the school had one of the highest collective grade point averages in the state.

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25 years

April 25, 1991

State Anthropologist informed the Kiowa County Sheriff Office,  bones found near Blue Lake were skeletons of Native Americans.

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40 years

Friday, April 22

9:00 a.m. FFA Jackson’s Pond Workday

3:00 p.m. BSB (H) Manzy

10:00 p.m. MS T at S.F. lv 7:45 a.m.

Saturday, April 23

9:00 a.m. HS T at Holly 6:45 a.m.

Prom 8:00 p.m. Grand march

Monday, April 25

3:00 p.m. FFA Meeting

5:30 p.m. Accountability

7:00 p.m. Board Meeting

Colorado residents who renew their driver license or identification card online will now receive a newly designed card. Customers are always first in line when they renew online at www.colorado.gov/dmv.

Renewing online allows customers to avoid visiting a DMV office. It also offers individuals the opportunity to update their current physical and mailing addresses. Individuals may renew their driver license up to two consecutive times online. The most recent photo on file with the DMV is used when renewing online.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife now offers apprentice licenses and hunter education test-out options. The changes, effective April 6, 2016 are intended to encourage people to get active in the outdoors and interested in hunting.

Hunter education test-out options are available for U.S. military and individuals 50-years of age or older.

“Safety is our primary concern,” said Todd Schmidt, CPW’s hunter education coordinator. “The new options help recruit those who have the hunter safety knowledge and experience to get in the field.”