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Spur Art Guild Homecoming Show welcomes exhibitors of all ages

Spur artist Vicki Diggs, who is helping organize this year’s Spur Art Guild show and contest, stopped by The Texas Spur offices this week to provide some updates.

Brannon to lead writing workshop at Lubbock Book Festival Sept. 25–26

The Lubbock Book Festival is this fall’s biggest freeto-the-public book event, and Spur author and 2017 Festival co-organizer will be leading a workshop and signing her latest novel this weekend.

Big Country Electric Co-op annual meeting to go virtual

Big Country Electric Cooperative’s (BCEC) annual meeting of the membership, originally scheduled for Tuesday, September 28 at The Coliseum in Snyder, is now a virtual event only; there will be no in-person meeting.

Spur council holds budget, tax rate hearing

In a brief called meeting at the Spur Community Center at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 7, the Spur city council held its announced hearing on the 2021–22 budget and tax rate. No members of the public were present to participate or comment.

Red Mud Cemetery markers suffer vandalism damage

The first man to be buried in Dickens County’s Red Mud Cemetery, in 1886, was killed by a neighbor who’d pumped him full of buckshot in an argument over a horse.

25th Annual ‘Return to the Remuda’ set for Oct. 1-2 at The Four Sixes

GUTHRIE—2021 will be the first Return to the Remuda in a new era of the Four Sixes Ranch. Since 1900, when Captain Samuel Burk Burnett established the ranch, legendary quarter horses and superior Black Angus cattle have been the hallmarks of the 6666, only 22 miles from the Dickens County line.

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