Going south from Twin Falls, Idaho on US 93 the tourist happens upon Jackpot, Nev., which is no more than a casino and gas station. From there on scenery is fairly uniform. Sagebrush and limited grass in the valleys, 9,000- to 10,000-foot mountains on either side miles apart with pines on the upper reaches, and no ranches or houses around.
Recent Klondike ISD graduate Briley Beck has been awarded a $1,500 scholarship from America’s Farmers Grow Ag Leaders, sponsored by Bayer Fund.
Local churches are once again teaming up to conduct the annual community Back-to-School Giveaway to assist local children.
Grain sorghum producers are reporting sugarcane aphids in the High Plains, but the pest has made little impact on the Texas crop during 2020, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts.
Texas farmers are about midway through the growing season for the state’s first industrial hemp crop in nearly 100 years.
Having played on a state championship golf team while in high school here, Courtney Adams Douglas has found plenty of rewards and memories from a game she didn’t even start playing until she was an eighth grader.
Chris Mason has been four places since he was a 16-year-old high school sophomore through basketball.
Kooper Shook is now hoping that he’ll have something else in common with his dad Wes when it comes to baseball besides the fact that they could both play a mean third base in high school.
Just like it did in mid-March when it stopped the high school baseball season, COVID-19 has kept there from being a return to the high school baseball diamond this weekend in West Texas.
Andrea Cantu, a 2020 graduate of Lamesa High School, represented Texas at the Our Diamond Miss National Pageant on July 18-22 in Chickasha, Okla.
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