15 Years Ago - April 8, 2011

• Wild Horse Roundup- Curtis Schrimp: It seems like April has turned into July. Marty and I went to Burlington. It was 85 degrees.
• Commissioner’s Corner- Dick Scott: We learned that Competitive Power Ventures has withdrawn from their proposed wind farm in the east end of the county.

25 Years Ago - April 6, 2001

• When completed, the new addition to the RE-1 School, which will include two classrooms, multipurpose room, and concession area, will have cost approximately $280,000.

40 Years Ago - April 4, 1986

• At the Haswell Town Election, there were 25 of the registered voters that turned up at the polls.
• Western Kansas Groundwater Management District 1 has requested that the Colorado Department of Natural Resources renew a permit to fly over Colorado when seeding clouds.
• Nursing Home News- LaVerne Fischer: Tuesday we packed our wheelchairs and walkers and headed to Cheyenne Manor Nursing Home to play Bingo.

50 Years Ago - April 2, 1976

• Republicans outnumber Democrats in Kiowa County 583 to 387 according to voter registration release by Secretary of State. Another 349 are unaffiliated.
• Restoration of the Karval Reservoir “fishing hole” should be completed by mid-summer.

100 Years Ago - April 2, 1926

• Pleasant Hill: Mrs. Carl Deepe has over 800 young chickens already