When it came time to pick a play for Lamesa High School student thespians to perform, drama teacher Tommy Rodgers first considered staging Charles Dickens’ Christmas classic, “The Christmas Carol.”
Reservations are still being taken at Lamesa High School for a meal served by seniors in the school cafeteria between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., Dec. 19.
There’s only one item on the Lamesa school board’s agenda, but it’s one that will affect the school district for years to come.
Farmers in various parts of the county were taking advantage of last weekend’s rainfall to do breaking on their farms, turning sandy soil under and bringing more clay-type soil to the top. The practices not only helps prevent dry sand from blowing on the surface, it also loosens and prepares the soil for planting next spring.
The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will host the AgriLife Extension Crop Production and Protection Seminar Dec. 20 at locations across the Panhandle and South Plains.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has mailed survey codes to all known agricultural producers across the 50 states with an invitation to respond online to the 2022 Census of Agriculture at agcounts. usda.gov.
_ On Dec. 10, 1768, the first part of the first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, the oldest continuously published and revised work in the English language, was published and advertised for sale in Edinburgh, Scotland.
What seemed at first like a routine call for police to check on a local resident’s welfare has resulted in a Lamesa man being arrested on a charge of killing his father.
The odds are stacked against married couples celebrating their 50th wedding anniversaries, much less seeing their 75 years together.
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Lamesa, TX 79331
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