March 28th, 2012 | Comments Off
You help your community thrive when you shop locally!
Be sure to read The Prowers Journal each week when the Lamar Chamber of Commerce
and The Prowers Journal highlight a featured Business of the Week.
This week we are proud to spotlight Daylight Donut, located at 109 South Main in Lamar.
Daylight Donut has been a downtown business at this location for nearly 40 years. Current owners David and Barbara Scriven will celebrate their 12th anniversary in September of this year. David was born … Read entire article »
Filed under: Business, Business of the Week, Chamber/Local Business, community, Economy, Employment, Lamar
March 28th, 2012 | Comments Off
A decision on closing County Road 9 off Highway 287 in Prowers County will be delayed for 30 days. Greg Emick and Charlie Fowler met with the Prowers County Commissioners, Tuesday, March 27. Emick is purchasing some land which adjoins property he currently owns. The purchase would give him land on both sides of the half mile road and allow him to close it, eliminating the need for $4,000 cattle guards on either end. Fowler … Read entire article »
Filed under: Agriculture, Business, Commissioners, community, County, Featured, Granada, Holly, Lamar, News, Public Safety, Transportation, Wiley, Youth
March 28th, 2012 | Comments Off
Prompted, perhaps in part by questions about high electric fees from Colorado Beef representatives, members of the Lamar Utility Board have decided they’ve reached the point where they need to discuss options regarding their contract relationship with ARPA, Arkansas River Power Authority.
The Lamar Utility Board sat down with Doug Morris and Jim Mullins from Colorado Beef, Tuesday, March 27, over what the feedlot believed to be disproportionately high electric power rates at their facility west of … Read entire article »
Filed under: Business, City, community, County, Economy, Employment, Energy, Featured, Holly, Lamar, News, The Journal Alert, Utilities