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The following were among the many calls received recently by the Lamesa Police Department:

The season of spring – God bless it – wears many faces. It has inspired poets to greatness, encouraged the downhearted, confounded meteorologists and induced weeping by throngs of spouses who don’t care for yard work. I am one of those, ashamed that I’m far south of my wife’s expectations, rarely carrying “my part of the mulch.” Spring can enter quietly, like Carl Sandburg’s description of fog tippy-toeing on “little cat feet,” or comparable to Mother Nature’s “ruffled rage” upon discovery that “it’s not real butter.”

The Lamesa Community Players’ annual LaCopa awards banquet will be held at 6 p.m. this coming Friday, March 6, at K-Bob’s Steakhouse.

ANDREWS – The hospital board on Tuesday approved publishing a request for qualifications to expand Permian Regional Medical Center’s Family Birth Place.