MELISSA BOHL is the owner of Thoughts in Bloom flower shop in Lamar. Nearly every January Bohl leaves her very successful business in southeastern Colorado for a few days and heads to Pasadena, CA in order to help put together some of the most beautiful floats in the world.

Two schools just over 20 miles apart along Highway 40—in two separate states—both became their respective state’s 6-Man State Champions in football over the Thanksgiving break. In Colorado, the small town of Cheyenne Wells located on Highway 40 in extreme eastern Colorado won an exciting 6-Man Colorado Football Championship on Friday, November 29th.

Last week the Town of Haswell honored the good works of Marlynn Eikenberg who tragically passed away in November of 2023 by presenting a beautiful, newly constructed purple bench for the Haswell Community Building.

Kit Carson graduate Stephanie Framel is about to start her junior year at Adams State University in Alamosa in the nursing program where she will be starting her health and hospital clinicals this semester where she and her counterparts will be working in clinicals with this opportunity being funded by the Colorado Rural Health Workforce Initiative. But before she begins that serious and taxing work, she took an end-of-summer fling to Moab, Utah where she found herself checking off a major Bucket List item she had been carrying along in her mind for many years.

On September 30 Ruthie Hull turned 102 years old. On that day, she was able to return to the family homestead at Mount Sunflower just over the Colorado-Kansas border.