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- Highway 160 Bridge Project Set to Start
- Prowers Journal Alert Winner Claims Prize
- Public Invited to Meet City Administrator Candidates this Thursday
- LUB Reviews Financials, Approves Scholarship Renewals
- Another Monthly Increase for Lamar City Sales Tax
- Another Monthly Increase for Lamar City Sales Tax
- Motel Lodger’s Tax Proposed to Lamar City Council for November Ballot
- Lamar Teen Center Moving to Lincoln Elementary School
- Lamar 18 & Under Team Wins Merchants Park Tournament
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Believe It or Not – Petrified Wood Building
Located on North Main in Lamar, CO USA, this deviant of Architectural Structure is built of Petrified Wood. Reminiscent of a log cabin, this structure features a jagged roof edge with vents to allow water to escape from the flat roof. Currently a part of Stagner, Inc., the Petrified Wood Building was built in 1932 by W. G. Brown, a local resident who wanted to build something so significantly different that people would stop to visit. Brown got his wish. Nothing else in the area even comes close to the dignity and stature of this “twig” faced former gas station located on the crossroads of US Highway 50 and US Highway 287 in Lamar, Colorado. Current owner, Roger Stagner, a Lamar City Council member, hopes to preserve the historic value of the building and re-establish the former gas station to it’s former glory as a Novelty Tourist Site for the community of Lamar, because of its vintage location along the Santa Fe Trail. Members of the Lamar Historic Preservation Board are working toward establishing the building in the registry of historic sites along the Santa Fe Trail in order to create a directory of sites for families and historians to visit.
Posted in Commentary, Community Development, Santa Fe Trail
Tagged Colorado, Lamar, Petrified Wood Building, Santa Fe Trail, Stagner, W.G. Brown
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Introducing Hasty, CO – Danielle Simone Presents
Hasty, Colorado is a little burg just west of Lamar, Colorado along the Santa Fe Trail with access to one of the largest reservoirs in the area. John Martin Reservoir holds massive quantities of water and provides flood control, recreation and water management for western Kansas and eastern Colorado. People of the area are country folks with an eye for living on the prairie. They like life in the middle of nowhere, and they love living in a resort community. If you ask them, they often comment on the wealth of life in the small town, the delightful opportunities that come about from existing on the edge of recreation, and thrill of waking up to the peace and quiet of a rural community. These folks have their lives planned out, including travel to larger local communities to work every day, or a plan for retiring where they can view the sunrises and sunsets without interruption. One retiree from Hasty came out of retirement recently with pen and paper in hand, long enough to start a column with a local paper. Her column with one local paper, became two, and she’s begun writing her own blog. I’m happy to announce that Danielle read more…
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Tagged Colorado, Danielle Simone, Hasty, Hasty News, Lamar
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Writer Conference Success
LaJunta, Colorado August 23, 2008 – What do wrestling pro, Mr. USA, Kevin Magoon, and Paleontologist, Tom Betz have in common? Both discussed writing with ACE Writers at the Fall into Publishing Writer Conference, Saturday, August 23, in La Junta Colorado. Tom Betz, former Publisher of the Lamar Daily News, currently Publisher of the Goodland Star-News, kicked the conference off with an introduction to the great historic Oceans of Kansas. Prime journalists must have interests other than writing, so intense that writing becomes a part of their “other life” according to Betz whose interest in fossil history has paid off in numerous prehistoric finds. Sherry Lynn Allen, a columnist for the Tribune-Democrat, whose ability to research and write for various publications has paid off with a total of only TWO rejections slips in over eight years of writing, spoke on the skills required to find writing slots and openings in many publications. Allen passed out magazines, pointed out sidebars, shorts, and full-blown articles during her discussion, explaining in detail how to write those stories and get published. Lunch Hour Speaker – introduced by columnist – Jack Wilson, using a plathora of friendship and writer anecdotes – Chuck read more…