The tax rate and COVID-19 days for staff members are on the agenda for O’Donnell school board members to consider at their 7 p.m. Tuesday regular meeting in the board room at 400 Small Street in O’Donnell.
Blackie Sherrod – arguably the best sportswriter this side of the ancient Olympic Games begun in Greece seven centuries before the birth of Christ – had a name for us. He classified us as drones and worker bees, mostly “9-to-5’ers” with little hope of ever getting ahead.
To me, “the farm” has always meant the farm where my mother grew up, one of 11 children. Every book I ever read that was set on a farm, and many other books as well, all took place in my imagination at my mother’s family farm and the surrounding woods.
The God of the Bible says of Himself, “. . . for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose’ . . . (Isaiah 46:9-10)
Members of the Dawson County Commissioners Court thought they had taken their final action to adopt the county’s tax rate about a month ago.
At its 68th Annual Meeting, Lubbock-based Plains Cotton Cooperative Association announced further fiscal year-end cash distributions to its grower-owners totaling $21.32 million.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is providing additional time for livestock and poultry producers to apply for the Pandemic Livestock Indemnity Program (PLIP). Producers who suffered losses during the pandemic due to insufficient access to processing may now apply for assistance for those losses and the cost of depopulation and disposal of the animals through Oct. 12, 2021, rather than the original deadline of Sept. 17, 2021. PLIP is part of USDA’s Pandemic Assistance for Producers initiative.
If improving financial security and tackling confusing financial issues are things you’re interested in addressing, a four-part financial workshop series in Lubbock can help, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert
ANDREWS – A federal agency this past week issued a license for the construction of a consolidated interim storage facility for spent fuel at Waste Control Specialists’ site in far west Andrews County.
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