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Eating the rainbow

Are you searching for ways to add more color to your diet? Nutrition experts recommend eating the colors of the rainbow to add more nutrients and variety to our meals.

Saving 66 for the next century

America’s storied Route 66, traversing eight states from Chicago to Los Angeles, wasn’t the nation’s first long-distance highway, but it’s the one that has remained most fixed in the imaginations

Decisions are not the same as choices

Isabel sees dead people. She and Martin were married on Día de los Muertos, “which no one gave much thought to in all the months of planning, until the bride’s

Birds bloom all summer

In our semi-arid growing region there is always a search to bring into the landscape drought tolerant and attractive accent plants. One shrub or small tree that meets both these

MEET YOUR NEIGHBORS: Steve Bridges

When the dormant Spur Area Chamber of Commerce met last month to reorganize in time for the swimming pool fund-raiser, a retired Spur newcomer generously stepped up to volunteer. Steve

MEET YOUR NEIGHBORS:

The first thing I see when I pull into Craig Harrison’s driveway is the Beatles bumper sticker on his pickup. The second thing is yard art. There’s a large, colorful metal roadrunner frozen in mid-step on the lawn to the right of the front walk. Harrison greets me at the front door and I tell him I like the roadrunner, which is when he asks if I’d seen the armed armadillo.

Queen Candidates announced for 2018 Motley-Dickens Old Settlers’ Reunion

Harlee Hill is this year’s Motley County contestant for the Motley-Dickens Old Settlers’ Reunion and Rodeo. She is the 10-year-old daughter of Clayt Hill and Tara Hill. She has one brother, Calby, and a sister, Treylee.

Harlee will be attending 5th grade at Motley County this fall. Harlee enjoys cheerleading, basketball and working on the ranch with her dad. She loves horses and rodeo events.

Harlee has never met a stranger and likes helping younger kids in her community. This will be Harlee’s first year to participate as a Queen contestant for the Motley-Dickens event.

Flying fun at Kent County Library

Lubbock’s Silent Wings Museum visited the Kent County Library on Monday, June 18, 2018, as part of the library’s Reading Rocks! summer reading programs. Following the museum’s interactive presentation, participating kids made and launched bottle rockets

 

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