Chances are if you’ve been in Lamesa for awhile, you probably already know about how the Preston E. Smith Unit, a state prison here for men, got its name.
STANTON - Over 600,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines are planned to be distributed to smaller and rural hospitals in 185 Texas counties this week after they were left out of the first shipment of doses.
BROWNFIELD – Not long ago the Terry County community lost a special person from complications to the coronavirus. Tony Dill passed away on Oct. 23 and it shook the community. However, he will not be forgotten.
SEMINOLE – Last week, the Southwest Water Company announced some $25 million in replacements, repairs and upgrades to its infrastructure that serves 17 counties across Texas.
ANDREWS – Permian Regional Medical Center (PRMC) was recently approved for a substantial vaccine allotment through the state that will not only cover all its frontline healthcare workers, but also local first responders, PRMC Chief Executive Officer Donny Booth said Monday.
SNYDER - The Snyder Chamber of Commerce board of directors approved the chamber’s 2021 budget, as well as budgets for the Hotel/Motel Occupancy Tax Fund and the Travel and Tourism Fund, at its Monday night meeting.
The following were among the many calls received recently by the Lamesa Police Department:
Lamesa fi refi ghters use several tools to pry boards off the end of a mobile home to ensure no hot embers remain from a fi re which was reported just before 7:30 a.m. Wednesday at 806 S. 7th St. The blaze was confi ned mostly to the east end of the structure. LPR photo
Offers for a mineral lease and a contract for inmate housing are among the items on the agenda for Tuesday’s regular meeting of the Dawson County Commissioners Court.
A group of Texas Tech University (TTU) researchers genetically modified cotton plants to doubled fiber yields for cotton grown in semi-arid climates like those found on the Texas High Plains
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