STANTON – It’s time to make the final tweaks in your soup recipe as the 34th Annual Great Texas Soup Cookoff is this coming Saturday, Feb. 24, at the Martin County Community Center from 5 to 7 p.m.
SNYDER – Jared Dennis, son of Mike and Marcie Dennis, has written a book about Scurry County’s African-American community.
BROWNFIELD – Brownfield has a new mental health resource that is open and available to the community.
A foursome of Lamesa Golden Tornado Band members will be advancing to state competition after earning high honors in the regional University Interscholastic League (UIL) Solo and Ensemble competition held this past Friday in Abernathy.
Hafeez Romans of Lamesa was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society. Romans was initiated at Texas Tech University.
Architectural plans for conversion of a downtown building to offices for the local adult and juvenile probation departments were slated to be presented to the Dawson County Commissioners Court on Tuesday afternoon.
Afederal judge is expected to rule quickly on the constitutionality of a Texas law about to go into effect that institutes new state penalties for illegal border crossings. During a hearing last week, U.S. District Judge David Ezra said he had concerns that other states would follow Texas’ lead in creating their own immigration laws – a power given exclusively to the federal government under the U.S. Constitution. The Austin American-Statesman reported the U.S. Justice Department sued the state over the law set to go into effect next month. It would allow any law enforcement official in the state to arrest someone here illegally, with mandatory sentences of between six months and 20 years.
It is no secret that the students who fill our Lamesa schools’ hallways are our communities’ future, but what may not be as clear to everyone just yet is how bright our future could be. As the principal at North Elementary, I can attest that we have some of the kindest, brightest, hard-working students, and if you were to visit, you are sure always to be greeted, given a smile, a hug, or even a high-five. Once greeted, you would see the collective learning efforts in each and every classroom. From 3rd grade, working on making inferences and proving them with evidence from the latest story they have read, to 5th-grade math, working on converting fractions to decimals using place value, to PE, working on asking higher-level questions; the goal of all students learning at high levels is pursued with passion by each adult.
A strong start turned out being just enough for Borden County’s basketball girls last Friday night at Brownfield. The stateranked Coyotes held off the tradition rich Whitharral Panthers, 62-59, in the area round of the Class 1A state playoffs.
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