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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: October 2009
Dangerous Sexually Violent Predator Living in Lamar?
***********NEWS ALERT************ If you live in or around Lamar, have daughters or value your personal freedom this meeting is important for you to attend. The meeting will be held on November 4th at 6 PM in the Cultural Events Center (down the hallway from the Lamar Public Library) as an informational meeting by the Lamar Police Department. While Colorado State Statute requires the Lamar Police Department to have an informational meeting to inform residents of Dangerous Sexually Violent Predators living in the community, the LPD does not feel there is any danger involved with this resident. Currently, there are 16 registered sex offenders living in Lamar, Colorado and the surrounding area, all known and recognized by the police department who have fairly regular contact with each of them. The Lamar Police Department maintains familiar knowledge of the offenders and contacts them periodically as both a service to the community and a reminder that they’ve served their time and their lives are valuable and important. The case in question, the only sex offender labeled as a “Dangerous Sexually Violent Predator” was charged with statutory rape, a consensual act where the ‘victim’ was underage. The label is issued by State Statute as read more…
Canine Costumes – Moonlight Madness Promotion
Dress like your dog – please. Bring a picture if your puppy hasn’t got company manners. So much happening in down town Lamar, you’ll have a great time at Moonlight Madness! The Local Buzz and the Lamar Chamber of Commerce hosts this event every year, together with the community haunted house – hosted by the Lamar Chamber of Commerce Retail Trades Committee where the kids get to scare themselves silly and enjoy the daring disguises of all those frightening city volunteers. *************ADVERTIZEMENT************* Piano Lessons – Reasonably priced, scheduled to meet your needs. Contact information and more at PIANO LESSONS **************************************** This year’s theme, “Who Let the Dogs Out…” according to Ruthie Esgar, who invites everyone to bring your pooch or a photo of your pooch in costume to the Local Buzz and enter him in the contests. Special bonus points go to those contestants who co-ordinate their costumes with their pets. Won’t that be an interesting sight? Anybody got a bull dog? Y’know, it’s been said that if you live with your dog long enough, you begin to look like him (or her). *************ADVERTIZEMENT************** Variety Gift Show — Lamar Community Building Dance Room — Come and shop for Christmas. Bring read more…
Halloween – The Small Town Party Version
Halloween has many meanings, but most recently kids have decided it just means fun. Parents on the other hand are something else. I’ve been in communities where burning cows on Main Street was an acceptable activity (not with me), setting fires on the bank building and throwing pumpkins at anything moving was their cup of tea (not mine). Other communities had open parties, and trick or treat streets for the kiddies, or parties for families, and some had harvest parties and barn dances with pie sales that collected money for local charities. My favorite Halloween spoof happened many years ago. I was about fifteen and the local college had scheduled a Scavenger hunt for a Halloween Party. Several kids from the college came by to find a bale of straw and ended up taking my sister, my mom and I with them for the rest of the hunt. All but one of the kids was from out of town and she’d only been here a few years, so it just made sense to have a native helping them search. The list included things like a rattle snake rattle, a bail of straw, a field mouse (eew), a hamburger wrapper, an read more…