Blame it on faulty record keeping or the passage of time. For years, there has been a whispered question: Who owns the library? Is it the county’s or the city’s? There isn’t a big battle over ownership, but there’s just no documentation to show how or when the county took over the library. Dawson County maintains, operates and owns the books and periodicals in the library. The building is even called Dawson County Public Library. But based upon the word from “old timers,” the City of Lamesa has always owned the building and the land it sits on. County Judge Foy O’Brien said he searched ...