David Sanderson with the Ackerly Volunteer Fire Department (left) and Eddie Schwartz with the Lamesa Fire Department dump water from trucks into a portable drop tank at the scene of a fi re south of Lamesa on Thursday night. Trucks shuttled water from Lamesa to ensure enough was on hand to battle the fi re that consumed a house and an RV trailer. A foaming agent was added to the water in the tank.
Members of the Lamesa City Council on Tuesday are scheduled to consider appointing a new city manager.
Members of the Dawson County Commissioners Court are expected to take action Tuesday to begin the annual budget and tax process.
This report contains the results from the March Agricultural Survey which was conducted during the first two weeks of March 2020. The estimates provided in this report are intended to reflect grower intentions as of the survey period. New acreage estimates will be made based on surveys conducted in June when crop acreages have been established or planting intentions are firm.
Last week, President Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, designed to protect public health and help individuals, businesses, health care, agriculture and others amidst the COVID-19 epidemic.
USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is seeking public comment on proposed revisions to 49 national conservation practice standards through a posting in the Federal Register. The proposed revisions posted this week with the public comment period closing April 23, 2020.
To help provide the public with factual information about COVID-19, questions were submitted to the Dawson County Hospital District. The answers are authored by Dr. Michael Sprys and Dr. Eileen Sprys, both PCP Primary Care Physicians at Medical Arts Clinic.
A group of Lamesa school teachers held up signs and waved greetings to their students in cars as they passed by the park near South Elementary recently. Lamesa ISD Facebook photo
A fourth case of COVID-19 virus has been confirmed here, according to Dawson County Judge Foy O’Brien.
Just as they’re fully underway to teaching students at home, schools across Texas learned Tuesday they will be continuing that process for at least another month.
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