1st grade Santa Letters
Dear Santa, Yuo are nice! I wish for my Mommy to be as hapy as posbbuleLove, Calen Hoffman
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By Eads 1st Grade Class
Long Time Gone "Ten Lords A-Leaping?" Where Did They all Come From? And What ...
KIOWA HEALTHMART PRESENTS: LONG TIME GONE
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Long Time Gone and...Shhh - Did You Hear That???
There’s something about old buildings that make them distinctly different from those recently built. Of course, there are the obvious reasons; architecture and style, the type and age of the materi...
Overwhelming & Uncontested: Impeachment - The Last Resort.
One of the best lines on the “impeachment inquiry” this writer heard, was played on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal program. The caller said, in effect, if this was the best the Democrats had to offer,...
Kiowa Healthmart Presents: Long Time Gone and a Hero's Letter Home
This is the story of a boy who became a cowboy. A cowboy who became a soldier. A soldier who became a man. A man who became a hero. A hero who sacrificed his life for others and, along with eleven ...
The Remarkable Philomene
One of the loveliest traditions during the Christmas season in Kiowa County is the annual Christmas cantata performed at Eads United Methodist Church. Originally started nearly 70 years ago by a re...
Corruption Corrupts
[Writer is not an attorney or member of the Colorado Bar, but is a member of the Bench – C.M.J.A. - Colorado Municipal Judges Assn., since 2010.]
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Mrs. Bean's Bookshelf: Furious Hours
Furious Hours by Casey Cep
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Long Time Gone and the Legacy of Ruthanna Jacobs
There are scores of people who are infinitely more qualified than I am to write an article about Ruthanna Jacobs. I never had the opportunity to meet her or to to hear the way she spoke or to see h...
#Election Day
#ElectionDay It is seven o’clock in the morning. The wind is chilled against my cheeks and the draft is finding its way nicely up my winter coat. I am standing outside a polling location with five ...
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INDY PICKS: Harris Pumpkin Patch
This harvest season is upon us and with that brings the opening of the local Harris Pumpkin Patch. Located east of Highway 385 in Sheridan Lake, C...
Kiowa County Board of County Commissioners take...
After going to press last Monday September 27, the Independent learned that Otero County Board of Commissioners have signed and adopted a resolutio...
MANDATES IN RURAL COLORADO CAUSING “COLLECTIVE ...
Polis couldn’t be more wrong and out-of-touch with rural Colorado.
Last week Julie Martin with KKTV asked Governor Polis what he thought of the Ot...
Senior year
I’ve been waiting for this year since I can remember. Every day at school was just one day closer to becoming a senior. How could I not be excited?...
The Price of a Dream; Faith and Farming.
I still remember the way the sun was setting through the trees in my backyard, in April of 2018, when my husband, James, told me we had 2 weeks to ...