ANDREWS – A fire department spokesman and county justice of the peace agreed that March 15’s horrific vehicle crash nine miles east of Andrews was the most catastrophic here in recent memory, if not ever.
SEMINOLE – One of the most anticipated events in Gaines County each summer is the Fourth of July Fireworks Extravaganza hosted by the Seminole Chamber of Commerce.
SNYDER – Snyder Fire Department personnel responded to a call shortly after noon last Thursday of a fire located near the intersection of Cavender Road and Block Line Road.
For two days at the start of next month there will be an array of vehicles, motorcycles and custom bicycles along the downtown Square.
Lamesa fi refi ghters Chris Rose and Steven Archer pull down smoldering branches surrounding a vacant house that burned to the ground before daylight Monday morning in the 200 block of S.E. Gary Ave. With the building already on the ground, the branches were pushed into the fi re so they could go ahead and burn to prevent them from catching on fi re later and possibly allowing wind to spread the fl ames to dry grass in the surrounding area. Three vacant houses in that immediate area have now burned in the past few months, which fi refi ghters believe may be the result of vagrants staying in the structures. LPR photo by Russel Skiles
“It will change everything,” said Lee Peterson, executive director of Lamesa Economic Development.
A heavily attended church function and bad weather may be the blame for the lack of students showing up for the first week of English as a Second Language (ESL) classes.
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Traversing on and across N. 4th St. (Highway 180) through Lamesa got even more challenging this past week as work to reconstruct the roadway moved all the way to Dallas Ave. Construction crews began ripping up the pavement on the south side of the street as more orange barrels and barricades went up and new roadway striping was put down on both N. 4th St. and Dallas Ave. LPR photo
Workers were nearing the roof line Friday as they continued to put in blocks on another section of exterior wall going up on the new gymnasium under construction at Lamesa High School. The scope and form of the building are now becoming evident as the walls take shape. LPR photo
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