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Local readers will soon have the chance to connect with rising romance author Annissa Gonzales, who is returning to her roots ...
After almost three years on the job and three decades working in public education, Lamesa School Superintendent David Ritchey ...
Cash rents in Texas for pastureland and irrigated and non-irrigated cropland showed slight changes from last year, according to the new rental rates report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...
A local minister came up with a number 1,556. It’s the number of Dawson County school-aged children who aren’t saved.
Texas pecan growers are preparing for the 2025 harvest season with a crop outlook that reflects the state’s diversity in weather and geography, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service ...
It’s months before candidates in next year’s county elections can begin filing, cut Dawson County Judge Foy O’Brien has ...
It’s one of the final decisions county commissioners are faced with when finishing up on the new budget and tax rate. Their annual approval Sept.
Fire Chief Larry Duyck was home, getting ready for work on Sept. 11, 2001, when he first heard about the terrorist attack on the World Trade City’s Twin Towers in Manhattan in New York City.
With the approach of falling temperatures, Dawson County’s Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI) recent rating is also on the rapid decline. The KBDI rates an area’s drought, vegetation and soil ...
For decades there’s been talk about the state’s Interstate- 27 (I-27) project that could be routed either near or through Lamesa. Through those years, the state-funded project has been on the table, ...
Interested in learning about “Gardening in West Texas?” Then Texas A&M AgriLife Extension office has the classes for you. Local gardener Danielle McElwee is presenting twice monthly sessions through ...