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2024 Community Calendar

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Pitch made for new power plants

joined with the world’s largest investment firm to pitch investors on building natural gas power plants in Texas at a summit held last week in Houston.

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Newspaper, chamber to host candidate forum in Spur

On Thursday evening, Feb. 15, from 6:00 to 8 p.m., The Texas Spur and the Spur Area Chamber of Commerce will co-host a County Candidates Forum for Dickens County voters to meet candidates in several county races, including the three-way race for county sheriff, and to submit questions for their consideration.

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2024 Community Calendar

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Jayton man wanted to meet teen for sex in Lubbock, sentenced to federal prison

CAITLYN ROONEY, KAMC

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Will the real journalist please stand up?

Ida Tarbell. Tucker Carlson. Elon Musk.

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Lost and found, for now

I dream I can make a garden of everything I have ever lost. —Poet Siarra Freeman

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TEA annual report just released

AUSTIN— The Texas Education Agency’s annual report was released last week. It indicates perstudent funding in the 20212022 school year averaged $14,928 per student, up 42% since 2011. However, state funding has only risen slightly in the past decade, while local funding has increased substantially.