Water board to hear annual audit
Sun, 12/11/2022 - 12:00am
The district’s financial audit for 2021-2022 will be presented when directors of the Mesa Underground Water Conservation District meet this week.
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Pre-registration needed here for upcoming AgriLife crop seminar
Sun, 12/11/2022 - 12:00am
With limited space available, those wanting to attend the upcoming AgriLife Extension Crop Production and Protection Seminar at the Lamesa office will need to register in advance.
Texas Farm Bureau adopts policies for advocacy efforts
Sun, 12/11/2022 - 12:00am
Texas farmers and ranchers established policy to help guide the agricultural advocacy efforts of Texas Farm Bureau (TFB), the state’s largest general farm and ranch organization.
TFB president highlight’s successes
Sun, 12/11/2022 - 12:00am
Texas farmers and ranchers battled the hardships of drought, inflation and high input costs but still led the state’s largest general farm organization to many successes this year, according to Texas Farm Bureau (TFB) President Russell Boening.
KLONDIKE ‘LIGHTS’ DONATION
Sun, 12/11/2022 - 12:00am
The Klondike High School Student Council recently collected and donated around 100 toys for the Lights of Love campaign to provide gifts to children of needy local families at Christmas time.
Bring in your letters to Santa by Wednesday
Sun, 12/11/2022 - 12:00am
“He’s making a list and checking it twice...”
Baling slower after last year’s large harvest
Sun, 12/11/2022 - 12:00am
SLATON- The 2022 cotton harvest and baling season has been under way since October, but baling so far is not as high as the record setting numbers set last year.
Abatement, seal-coating among items on commissioners agenda
Sun, 12/11/2022 - 12:00am
After having only light slates of business for their recent meetings, members of the Dawson County Commissioners Court have a full agenda for their regular meeting this coming Tuesday.
Moments in time
Sun, 12/11/2022 - 12:00am
_ On December 16, 1773, a group of highly disgruntled Boston colonists board three ships loaded with taxed tea from Britain. While it would undoubtedly have been enjoyed by the locals, following the refusal of officials to return it, the men hurled the tea into Boston Harbor as a form of protest against “taxation without representation.” _ On December 18, 1912, amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson discovered human remains in the Piltdown gravel pit in Sussex, England. Dubbed the “Piltdown Man,” he was thought to represent the missing evolutionary link between apes and mankind until it was confirmed at a 1953 international congress of paleontologists that the specimen was a fraud, consisting of skull parts both human and orangutan.