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Grimes County Commissioners Court held a Special Meeting, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, to continue discussion with Blue Jay Solar regarding construction of a 175–210-megawatt power station near Iola. Toward the end of the meeting, Open Roads Renewables Senior Development Manager Craig Adair announced that Blue Jay Solar has been acquired by Massachusetts-based Enel Green Power North America. Adair said of the change of ownership that occurred over the holidays, “The solar project is now technic...

COVID-19 numbers for Monday for southwest Kansas.

Earlier today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced a new Rural Telehealth Initiative’s Telehealth Broadband Pilot Program with the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center serving as the lead organization in Texas for the program, according to a news release made by the Tech HSC. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has invested $8 million to launch the program, according to the release. The pilot program is part of the Rural Action Plan that the U.S. Department...

Texas Game Warden Field Notes Penny Pinching A Shelby County game warden followed up on an ongoing investigation of a local individual who had hunted without a valid hunting license when he shot a buck in 2019. The subject confessed to not buying the license to save money for college. Case pending. Mama’s Got Your Back Two Harris County game wardens followed up on a local poaching complaint and discovered a suspect who had harvested a white-tailed doe had done so without landowner consent. T...

Prairie Lives A reader contacted me in early November and suggested writing about the impact of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic in our region. I have been reading an excellent history of that global pandemic by John M. Barry entitled “The Great Influenza” and recommend it to anyone interested in digging into the circumstances of that great plague. His account will guide us as we explore the nation the pandemic found when it exploded in the US and trace its beginnings to how it affected our r...

  Headlines from different publications show similarities of COVID-19 to the Spanish flu in 1918. (Photo compiled from Christine McKelvie’s book “Is There a Hospital in This Place? A Century of Hospital Care in Steamboat Springs”) STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — To keep from getting sick, Routt County residents were advised to avoid people with colds, cover their mouths and noses when coughing and sneezing, and stay home if sick, according to Christine McKelvie’s book, “Is There a Hospital in ...

Traffic to shift to new US-83 alignment in Haskell County next week.

By The Telegram staff Finney County added 29 new positive confirmed COVID-19 cases for an overall total of 5,602 as of Wednesday, with an increase to 304 active positive cases being monitored. Of the Finney County cases, there are 15 individuals currently hospitalized as of Wednesday, and there has been a total to 42 deaths.  A total of 8,958 cases have tested negative for COVID-19. There are 81 cases pending as of Wednesday. Local health officials have determined there is evidence of communit...

By The Telegram staff Finney County added 39 new positive confirmed COVID-19 cases for an overall total of 5,351 as of Monday, with   577 active positive cases being monitored. Of the Finney County cases, there are 14 individuals currently hospitalized, and there has been an additional death, bringing the total to 35 deaths.  A total of 8,627 cases have tested negative for COVID-19. There are 42 cases pending as of Monday. Local health officials have determined there is evidence of community ...

By The Telegram staff Finney County added 17 new positive confirmed COVID-19 cases for an overall total of 5,312 as of Friday, with an increase to 577 active positive cases being monitored. Of the Finney County cases, there are 14 individuals currently hospitalized, and there has been a total of 34 deaths.  A total of 8,599 cases have tested negative for COVID-19. There are 58 cases pending as of Friday. New Monday numbers for Finney County were unavailable by press time. Local health officia...