Weatherization and Crisis Intervention programs ensure efficient home heating 

The Low-income Energy Assistance Program’s (LEAP) primary mission of helping Coloradans pay winter home heating costs is complemented by two crucial programs: the Crisis Intervention Program (CIP) and the Weatherization Assistance Program.

​Help threatened and endangered wildlife with a voluntary contribution through the “nongame and endangered wildlife cash fund” on your Colorado tax returns this year. Filling out line No. 1 of Colorado tax form 104CH (the Voluntary Contributions Schedule form) supports wildlife rehabilitation and preservation of threatened and endangered species in the state through Colorado Parks and Wildlife programs.

The Kiowa County Sheriff’s Office has announced an arrest following a high-speed pursuit that occurred Wednesday (February 15).

All state and county Colorado driver license offices will close at 3 p.m. on Friday, February 17, for a technology upgrade

• Eads Drivers License Schedule RENEWAL'S ONLY February -21-22-27 MVR Reports Available

• D. C. Callum, Dentist, will be in his office at Weisbrod Hospital on February 16th.  Call the Weisbrod office at 438-5401 for an appointment

• Good News!. The hot tub at Prairie Pines has been repaired. Contact Prairie Pines 438-2141 for hours etc.

Each year, over $300,000 is available in scholarship funds at Lamar Community College.  While the College and LCC Foundation plan to award the same amount next academic year, application deadlines are quickly approaching.  All interested students should apply for scholarships as soon as possible.

The Kiowa County Board of Commissioners along with the Kiowa County Fire Protection District Board would like to express their sincere gratitude to the Cheyenne County Fire District for their generous gift of fire equipment to the Kiowa County Fire Department.  Chief Travis Watson of Cheyenne County Fire  District met with local firefighter Glen Beeson and proceeded to gather several sets of bunker gear,  boots and gloves, SCBA bottles and storage racks, a window jack and some hand tools.  It is a special bond that firemen share and there have been many occasions that ou

Colorado students are among 765 students who completed associate, bachelor's or graduate degrees at Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kan., in the fall 2016 semester. 
Graduates are listed with their degrees and majors and, in parentheses, areas of concentration. 
Fort Hays State, one of six public universities in the Kansas Board of Regents system, does not release degree lists until transcripts have been verified as having met all requirements for graduation. 

Over the last seven years, the number of dead standing trees in Colorado forests increased almost 30 percent, to an estimated 834 million trees – or nearly one in every 14 standing trees.