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GARZA Hotel Garza offering 1920’s Murder Mystery Night for Valentine’s POST—The Hotel Garza in Post is offering a 1920s Murder Mystery Night forValentine’s Day on Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024.

Spur Senior Citizens Menu

The Spur Senior Citizens Center, located at 210 Burlington Ave., serves a noon meal Monday through Friday. The dining room is open, or if you feel more comfortable during the Covid-19 pandemic, we are offering a curbside lunch you can reserve by calling (806) 271-4472.

Meet the 2023 Shrub of the Year: Spirea

We continue with the National Garden Bureau’s 2023 “Year of the” plants. Each year the National Garden Bureau (NGB) selects one annual, one perennial, one shrub, one edible, one houseplant, and one bulb crop as their “Year of the” crops.

Couscous and spinach grain bowl

Grain bowls are a powerful way to build a nutritious meal all in one dish. One typically consists of a few veggies, a grain, and a protein. I like a leafy green veggie to get the bowl started. The grains I often use are rice, barley or quinoa.

A Dickens of a time last week at the Spur library

If you were not at the library Saturday January 6th you missed a great—or should I say a Dickens of a—time! The book reading an history event, sponsored by the Dickens County Historical Commission and with food catered by the amazing Beverly Pickett of Spur, was entertaining and informative.

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Submit your community announcements (maximum 75 words) to news@thetexasspur.com for events within the coming month, to run up to 4 issues Local Events Please let us know of any corrections: News@thetexasspur.com DICKENS COUNTY-SPUR PUBLIC LIBRARY and the Dickens County Historical Commission are...

COMINGS & GOINGS IN ’23

OPENED LAST YEAR • Turnaround Top Café, Spur • Beckton’s Chophouse and Tavern, Dickens • BG’s Designs, Spur (March) • JJ’s Custom Wood Works, Spur (March) • L3 Realtors, Spur • Family Dollar, Spur • G-Ma’s Cafe, Spur • Bison Café, Quitaque, open/closed off and on • The Shed, Spur, opened in vacant...

Spur council approves‘smart meters’at Dec. meeting

In the regular meeting of the Spur City Council on December 19, the council swore in new police chief Ramon Golden and took two steps toward implementing “smart meters” for water and gas recordkeeping and payments.

Groundbreaking ceremony for esVolta project set for January 11 in Dickens

TheSpurAreaChamber of Commerce and Saber Power Services will host a groundbreaking for the Burksol Battery Energy Storage System project by esVolta, on Thursday, Jan.11.

Texas Spur Country’s top stories of the year

Residents of both Dickens and Kent counties rejoiced in the return of some basic services last year as rural Texas continued to emerge from pandemic-era challenges.