For another consecutive month, Dawson County saw an across the board increases in its sales tax allocations while the City of Lamesa enjoyed a jump in its monthly payment, but a decline in its total rebates for the year.
A new tractor, a policy change and an appointment are all on the Dawson County commissioners’ Tuesday agenda.
Pre-schoolers with intentions of enrolling into the Lamesa Head Start program can register starting at 9:30 a.m. until 3 p.m., Monday.
Members of the Lamesa Service Club on Tuesday presented a $1,500 Craig Cowan Culinary Award to the Lamesa High School culinary teams to assist them in traveling and competing in Family, Career and Community Leaders of America culinary contests. The local culinary students have been assisting the past few years with the Service Club’s annual fundraising pancake supper. Longtime club member Craig Cowan, who is moving to Abilene, has been the club’s pancake supper chairman for a number of years.
FFA teams from Lamesa and the surrounding area continue to do well in various Career Development Events (CDE) contests across the region.
Enough already. The eclipse of April 8 has been smothered with coverage by both mass and social media. Americans-- some who flail at things that go “bump” in the nightyearned for even more darkness! They carved out time from busy schedules and squeezed funds from their budgets to make their way to a slice of the globe where the solar eclipse darkened the day for some four minutes-give or take a few seconds.
My husband, Peter, and I spend the winters in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. The center of the town is a designated World Heritage Site, which means the facades of the buildings must remain as they were in the mid-1700s. The streets are made of round and sometimes slippery cobblestones. The doors are stout and covered with hundreds of coats of paint, and on the top of every building is a rooftop terrace where people can watch the fireworks that go off for no reason that anyone has ever been able to figure out. It is wonderful.
President Abraham Lincoln once said, referring to America in the face of civil war, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” And Aesop, a great thinker and story teller of history, wrote something similar, “United we stand, divided we fall.”
Honor roll students in the O’Donnell school system have been announced for the fifth six-week grading period.
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Lamesa, TX 79331
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