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Southeast Colorado Meeting to be held in Lamar February 6, 2025 Colorado wheat farmers are invited to attend and participate in the annual county business meetings and elections jointly sponsored by the Colorado Wheat Administrative Committee (CWAC), the Colorado Association of Wheat Growers (CAWG) and the Colorado Wheat Research Foundation (CWRF). The business meetings and… 
 
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We made it another week. Donate, Advertise, Sponsor, or Subscribe today. Thanks again to our local writers, Wayne Thompson, Steve Doner, & Bill Bunting. Keep local news alive! It’s time to get ready for the Cook Oil Company annual filter sale. Mark your calendar for Breakfast on February 6th. Fill up your stomach and save… 
 
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We made it another week. Donate, Advertise, Sponsor, or Subscribe today. This week’s issue includes DAR Good Citizens, the new Baca Economic Development Director, the new Walsh school and more. Keep local news alive! It’s time to get ready for the Cook Oil Company annual filter sale. Mark your calendar for Breakfast on February 6th.… 
 
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The names of those who lived in Springfield and community back in the year 1889 disclosed in a The Democrat-Herald (Springfield, Colorado) 25 Jan 1935. — clipping from the Springfield Herald, the predecessor to The Democrat-Herald. This is a reprint of a February 25, 1889 letter written from Springfield, Colorado and reprinted in the… 
 
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I will probably work at adding to this in pieces, maybe in the form of a timeline, but I thought it would be fun to start looking at various festivals and fairs held in Southeast Colorado/ Southwest Kansas/ Baca County through the years. Sam Konkel mentions an 1888 fair in Boston, Springfield, and Minneapolis, but there isn’t… 
 
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Greetings from an unseasonably mild but windy Casper Wyoming. I have a little bit of reflection and a couple of messages related to a local history blog, social media, and the sparks that lit a book project about one of the wildest little towns of the old west. Four years ago, I launched Bacacountyhistory.com. At… 
 









