Portions of western Colorado saw some improvement in drought conditions while the south-central part of the state saw further expansion of extreme drought conditions over the past week.

Kiowa County Sheriff Casey Sheridan announced Thursday that a prisoner transport van had been donated to his agency earlier in the month.

The van was donated by Prowers County Sheriff Sam Zordel.

Sheridan said he was “sincerely grateful to Sheriff Zordel for this generous donation.”

This week at Lamar Theatre

Starts Friday

Disney's A Wrinkle in Time, 6:45 p.m. daily

Tomb Radider, stars Alicia Vikander, 8:50 p.m. daily

Coming Soon

I Can Only Imagine - Starts Friday, April 6

How much protein do we need in a day? Everywhere I look, I find different answers. --Need to Know

Dear Need to Know,

Forty students were inducted into the 2018 Phi Theta Kappa All-Colorado Academic Team on March 14, including Lamar Community College’s Ashtyn Loflin and Laura Lindholm.  The ceremony was held at the History Colorado Center in downtown Denver and presented by the Foundation for Colorado Community Colleges and the Credit Union of Colorado.

Last year the most popular camera on the photo-sharing site Flickr was Apple’s iPhone. In fact, smartphones occupied 10 of the top 20 slots (and 8 of the top 11) in a list of devices favored by the site’s users. That trend reinforces what you already know: Phones are handy for taking photos.

Due to the increased interest in the La Junta Open we have decided to take the following action to try and speed up the meet and get schools home at a semi-reasonable hour

HS Track Thursday at La Junta Start Time 12:00 Field Events Running 12:45