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Houseplants unsafe for pets

With our colder days and nights more pets are staying inside for longer periods of time.

Students exhibit in 2023 Dickens Livestock Show

WINNERS’ CIRCLE RESERVE GRAND CHAMPIONS PAGE 7 SHOWMANSHIP PAGE 7 4-H PRINCESS JAYDEE FOSTER 4-H PRINCE DIEZEL RAMIREZ

BECKTON’S RESTAURANT

BECKTON’S RESTAURANT is open for business. More on their menu—and the backstory of their name

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Retiring DCHC chair Martin to receive statewide award

HISTORICAL HONORS Longtime Dickens County Historical Commission chair Harry Bob Martin (above, left), shown here with his wife, Mary, at the Palace Theater's anniversary showing of “Mackintosh and T.J., is the 2022 recipient of the THC’s John Ben Shepperd Award.

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Hunters ‘rack up’ in Star Feed & Seed’s Big Buck Contest

STAFF REPORTS For the past nine weeks, hunters in Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Garza, Kent, King, Motley and Stonewall Counties have tried their luck at winning the 23rd Annual Star Feed and Seed Big Buck Contest.

THC approves new language for historical marker on Kent courthouse grounds

Texas has a rich and singular history connected to the U.S. Civil War, commemorated by plaques such as the one explaining the role of Lubbock namesake Colonel T. S. Lubbock in the war, to one denoting the war’s last battle, Palmito Ranch, near Brownsville, to the Juneteenth marker erected in...

Beckton’s a new best-best eatery in Dickens County

There’s a new steakhouse in Dickens County with a name that goes way back. The owner’s deep roots in Dickens County, specifically Afton, play a role in the name. When the town that is now known as Afton was originally established in the 1890s, it was called Beckton.

Property tax cuts headline Senate budget proposal School choice, power grid also cited as top initiatives

The amount that homeowners can write off of the taxable value of their home before assessment would nearly double under the budget proposed by the Senate on Wednesday.