TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS NAMED AS NATIONAL BLUE RIBBON SCHOOLS IN 2024
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Archer City Elementary SchoolBob L. Kirksey Elementary SchoolBRYSS AcademySt.
Wed, 10/02/2024 - 19:06
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50th Annual Running Water Draw Arts & Crafts Festival set for Oct. 18 in Plainview
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The Plainview Rotary Club’s 50th Annual Running Water Draw Arts & Crafts Festival will be held at the Ollie Liner Center (2000 S. Columbia St.) on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, October 18th, 19th and 20th.
In celebration of the 50th Anniversary, entry to the event is email FREE.
Wed, 10/02/2024 - 19:06
SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loans available to Texas small businesses
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Small nonfarm businesses in 29 Texas counties and neighboring counties in Oklahoma are now eligible to apply for lowinterest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced Francisco Sánchez Jr., associate administrator for the Office of Disaster...
Wed, 10/02/2024 - 19:06
ELLEN PEFFLEY
Texas trees that flaunt fall color
Ellen Peffley
CUISINE & CULTURE
ELLEN PEFFLEY
Autumn is prime time to choose landscape trees with a fall color display. The season’s warm fall soils favor root establishment.
Not all trees have foliage that change from their summer green to autumn color.
Wed, 10/02/2024 - 19:06
Try your hand at homemade flour tortillas
Try your hand at homemade flour tortillas
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You may have seen the column a couple of weeks ago about making corn tortillas. Many folks also like flour tortillas, so here is a quick tutorial.
Wed, 10/02/2024 - 19:06
BLUE AND GOLD fundraisers are a fun way for Spur exes to show their hometown spirit— and support their hometown library. | THE TEXAS SPUR
LIBRARY NOTES
Donnice Carruth |
Welcome home exes!
Some Spur High School ex-students graduated and never left. Some, after graduation moved away and moved back after a few years (that’s me). Some moved away after graduation and return once a year at homecoming.
Wed, 10/02/2024 - 19:06
BILL O’NEAL, “THE BLOODY LEGAC Y OF PINK HIGGINS: A HALF CENTURY OF VIOLENCE IN TEXAS” (1999)
BILL O’NEAL, “THE BLOODY LEGACY OF PINK HIGGINS: A HALF CENTURY OF VIOLENCE IN TEXAS” (1999)
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Pink Higgins was a rugged Texan who lived a life of classic Western adventure.
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 05:47
State historian to lead visit to Standifer, Higgins graves Oct. 12
State historian to lead visit to Standifer, Higgins graves Oct. 12
Barbarabrannon |
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 weather in the elements.
Beside it lies an empty plastic mini-bottle that once contained a shot of Fireball.
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 05:47
JGISD to hold two more community sessions on bond propositions
The Texas Spur
As early voting is set to begin a month from this week, the Jayton-Girard Independent School District has invited members of the community to learn more about their four bond propositions that will be on the November ballot.
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 05:47
JAYTON-GIRARD ISD BOND PROPOSITIONS, NOVEMBER 2024
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•PropositionA involves $10 million in bonds for school facilities and the purchase of new school buses and the levy of taxes sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds.
Thu, 09/26/2024 - 05:47
