Jimmie Lee Sims, 1940–2026
Jimmie Lee Sims of Jayton, Texas, passed away on June 13, 2026, after a short illness.
Jimmie was born November 19, 1940 in Stamford, Texas, the son of Carl Sims and Louise Powell Sims. He grew up on a farm in the Sagerton community, and attended Sagerton Grade School and Rule High School. He…
Laura Marie Shaw
Laura Marie Shaw, 88, of Slaton, Texas, passed away on Sunday, July 12, 2026.
Viewing will be from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday, July 16, 2026 at Englunds Chapel, followed by visitation, 6–7 p.m. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, July 17, 2026 at Slaton Methodist Church. Interment…
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DICKENS COUNTY 4-H HORSE CLUB
announces its Tack Show, Saturday, July 11, 8 a.m. Vendor desks are set up for the…
IN TOP THREE AT NATIONALS for the FCCLA (Family, Career and Community Leaders of America) national conference were Spur ISD students Allie Weiser, left, and Paisley Smith of Spur’s Cowgals Snowcones enterprise. The students received their honors at a July 10 ceremony (below) | COURTESY PHOTOS
Spur students Paisley Smith and Allie Weiser were in Washington D.C., earlier this month, representing Spur ISD at the National FCCLA Conference.
Competing in Entrepreneurship Level 1, the girls presented a project featuring Cowgals Snowcones, a local business owned by Smith. After having taken…
ELITE HOOPS Kimberlee Segura (left), a graduate of the Spur High School Class of 2026, and her rising-eigth-grader sister Khloee Segura were among players for the West Texas Wildkats girls basketball teams competing in LasVegas, NV., last week. COURTESY PHOTOS
Recent Spur ISD graduate Kimberlee Segura and her sister, Khloee Segura, competed with the West Texas Wildkats girls basketball teams Friday through Sunday in Las Vegas, Nevada. Kimberlee played with the 17-and-under Elite team, which placed second in their age group. Khloee, an incoming eighth…
Monthly sales tax revenue statewide for June up in Dickens, Kent counties
Texas Office Of The Comptroller
(AUSTIN) — Acting Texas Comptroller Kelly Hancock today said earlier this month that state sales tax revenue totaled $4.2 billion in June 2026, 4.2% more than in June 2025. The majority of June sales tax revenue is based on sales made in May and remitted to the agency in June.
Receipts from the…
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Jayton Jaybirds head coach Josh Stanaland was recently recognized by the Texas University Interscholastic League as Six-Man Football Coach of theYear. Stanaland has led his alma mater, Jayton High School, to a
150–54 record in 16 seasons as head coach, highlighted by back…
Spur’s Weiser, Molina receive honors at State FFA Convention
Spur High School students Kylie Weiser and Keylee Molina each qualified to receive their Lone Star Degree at this year’s 98th FFA Convention in Fort Worth.
Weiser, accompanied by Superintendent Tanya Phillips, attended the convention July 7–10, attending educational sessions and conversing and…
Mid-July marks one month before the start of the 2026 Texas high school football season. Teams across the state are at the point where preparation is important, including the finalization of the football schedules.
On July 12, Jayton-Girard ISD announced the teams participating in the 23rd annual…
LODGING IN L.A. need not be extravagant; while the Beverly Hilton surely has its charms, we doubted we’d have enjoyed it more than this modest guesthouse with a luxurious koi pond and garden—and free parking.
Barbara Brannon And Kay Ellington
If America’s Route 66 would come to be known as The Mother Road, then the National Old Trails Road was the grandmother.
First laid out from Baltimore, Maryland, to Los Angeles, California, in 1912 with extensions into New York City and San Francisco, it was an early success of the Good Roads…
