County has quick meeting
Sun, 07/19/2020 - 12:00am
With only couple of items on the agenda, a special meeting of the Dawson County Commissioners Court on Thursday lasted only about five minutes.
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Klondike board continues eyeing possible bond vote
Sun, 07/19/2020 - 12:00am
Klondike school administrators this past week outlined plans to have all instruction done on-site when classes resume next month.
Dawson trustees to meet Monday
Sun, 07/19/2020 - 12:00am
Issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic will be among the items facing members of the Dawson school board when they meet Monday evening.
PCG participates in roundtable with Perdue, Cornyn, ag groups
Sun, 07/19/2020 - 12:00am
Steve Verett and Kody Bessent with Plains Cotton Growers and Tom Sell and Matt Huie with Southwest Council of Agribusiness joined representatives from Texas Farm Bureau, Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, and Texas Cattle Feeders Association for a roundtable discussion with U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and U.S. Senator John Cornyn near Austin on Thursday.
Brands, retailers can now source U.S. Cotton with more confidence
Sun, 07/19/2020 - 12:00am
As of this past Wednesday, brands and retailers can join the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol, a new system for responsibly grown cotton that will provide annual data for six areas of sustainability in line with the U.N. Sustainability Goals. This year-over-year data, available for the first time, will allow brands and retailers to better measure progress towards meeting sustainability commitments.
County has 22 COVID cases in 1 week
Wed, 07/15/2020 - 12:00am
Dawson County has now seen more cases of COVID-19 confirmed in just the past three weeks than it did during the first three months after the virus was first reported here.
Five-year plans are focus of city budget discussions
Wed, 07/15/2020 - 12:00am
It didn’t take members of the Lamesa City Council long to handle all of the items needing action that were on the agendas for a pair of meetings early this week.
Housing project to benefit from PACE program
Wed, 07/15/2020 - 12:00am
The planned Vista Park Living residential development on the west side of Lamesa will be able to benefit from an energy conservation financing program given approval Tuesday afternoon by the Dawson County Commissioners Court.
Hegar, Castaneda win primary runoff races
Wed, 07/15/2020 - 12:00am
Voters here agreed with their counterparts statewide in Tuesday’s Democratic party primary runoff election.
COMET NEOWISE
Wed, 07/15/2020 - 12:00am
Seen shortly before sunrise in the northeastern sky last weekend, Comet Neowise should now start being visible in the northwest about an hour after sunset, just to the right of where the sun goes down. Best viewed with binoculars or a telescope, the comet should be visible until about the end of July and won’t pass Earth again for another 6,800 years. LPR photo by Russel Skiles