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It’s fall pumpkin time!

Ellen Peffley

Wed, 10/09/2024 - 16:32

CUISINE & CULTURE Pumpkins are autumn. Harvest pumpkins in the garden when mature, fully developed and uniform in color. The rind will be firm and resist denting when pressed with a thumbnail. The inside flesh of fully mature pumpkins will never show greening.

Public and Civic Meetings Coming Up

News Staff

Wed, 10/09/2024 - 16:32

Please let us know of any corrections: News@thetexasspur.com COLUMBUS DAY HOLIDAY / INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' DAY Monday, Oct. 14; federal offices and many banks and other institutions will be closed.

2024 Community Calendar

News Staff

Wed, 10/09/2024 - 16:32

SPUR VISITOR CENTER, 101 Hill Street at Burlington Avenue, is operated by the Spur Area Chamber of Commerce and open during regular hours Tuesday–Saturday. Vistiors seeking information on the area may email spurchamber@gmail.com or call (806) 271-3097.

Has your mailing address changed?

News Staff

Wed, 10/09/2024 - 16:32

SUBSCRIBERS— If you’ve moved, don’t forget to tell us! It may take weeks for a USPS Change of Address notice to reach us—and your newspapers won’t come to your new address until it does. Instead, just email us at Spur@TheTexasSpur.com, and we’ll update it right away.

Ralna English: Still singing, still enjoying life

Kay Ellington |

Wed, 10/02/2024 - 19:06

LAWRENCE WELK SHOW PERFORMER SPENT FORMATIVE YEARS IN SPUR As Spur exes stream in from near and far for this week’s annual Homecoming, they may notice a distinctive sign uncovered during the downtown demolition that paved the way for construction of the new fire station.

HISTORY RAMBLE to visit gravesites of gunfighters Billy Standifer (above left ) and Pink Higgins will be led Oct. 12 in Spur by former State Historian of Texas Bill O'Neal (right). Space is limited; contact spurpalace1929@gmail to sign up. | COURTESY PHOTOS

State historian to lead visit to Standifer, Higgins graves Oct. 12

Barbara Brannon |

Wed, 10/02/2024 - 19:06

The red gravestone stands alone, iron-fenced and far out in the broken country of northern Kent County, Texas, on private land. Atop it, visitors have placed coins, which weath- er in the elements. Beside it lies an empty plastic mini-bottle that once contained a shot of Fireball.

COMMUNITY-MINDED VOLUNTEERS such as County Judge Young and Robbie Joe Hoover back in the day provided rural transportation as well as meals and other services. Flash forward to 2024, when the Spur Senior Center volunteers provide mealson- wheels lunches all over town, five days a week. | SPUR SENIOR CENTER

Spur Senior Center Marks 45th anniversary of serving community

Barbarabrannon |

Wed, 10/02/2024 - 19:06

The Spur Senior Citizens Center, at 210 South Burlington Avenue in Spur, is a stalwart with the city’s over-60 crowd.

THROUGHOUTTHEYEAR visitors to Spur drop in at the newspaper office. Here’s a blog post from an out-of-towner back in April. | THE TEXAS SPUR

Carolina visitors drop in at Texas newspaper office

Bill Brooks |

Wed, 10/02/2024 - 19:06

“You’re from the Carolinas. Nobody from around here says ‘Post’ that way.”

Windshield tour with Woodie: Bootleggers, brush and back roads

The Texas Spur

Wed, 10/02/2024 - 19:06

STORY AND PHOTOS BY BARBARA BRANNON | If you ever get an invitation to go touring around the hinterlands with a former county judge, take it. They’re repositories of historical knowledge.

BILL O’NEAL, “THE BLOODY LEGACY OF PINK HIGGINS: A HALF CENTURY OF VIOLENCE IN TEXAS” (1999)

News Staff

Wed, 10/02/2024 - 19:06

ABOUT THE BOOK Pink Higgins was a rugged Texan who lived a life of classic Western adventure. He was a cowboy, Indian fighter, trail driver, stock detective, rancher, and deadly shootist who killed more adversaries than did such noted gunfighters as Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Bat Masterson.

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