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Highway 70 Garage Sale set for May 2

The annual highway 70 garage sale from Jayton to Matador will be May 2, 2026. There’s still time to sign up if you want to have your own sale—just call Joan Day at (806) 271-4780 for sales from Jayton to Dickens, and from Dickens to Matador call Shane Jones at (940) 475-0226 to get on the list.

Hamilton steps down, Phillips tapped at Spur ISD

At a special board meeting April 20, the Spur ISD school board tapped current secondary principal Tanya Phillips as the lone finalist to succeed longtime superintendent Craig Hamilton in the superintendent’s post.

MOTOR WEST: A Route 66 Ramble across America

Barbara Brannon & Kay Ellington WITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE AUTHORS TRAVEL • MEMOIR • AMERICANA Boldface Books, an imprint of Wince Books & Media ISBN 978-1-- 935619-66-6 (casebound) $29.95 ISBN 978-1-- 935619-65-9 (softcover) $22.95 APRIL 2026, vi, 66 pages, 11x8.

Newspaper editors hit the road for the Birthplace of Route 66, to celebrate centennial kickoff

In the summer of 2024, as some of our readers may recall, we set out to see for ourselves what it was about America’s Route 66 that has inspired its fame—and motivated a loyal cadre of road warriors, cruisers and car nerds, creative types, entrepreneurs and everyday commuters to keep this...

Cody Schmidt

City of residence: Spur, from 2017 to now Bio background: Attended Spur ISD, 2001–08; graduated from Spur ISD 2008; Military Technical school, Utah State University, NCC Line School 2018.

Sheridan to produce and direct Alamo battle film for new museum

AUSTIN— The new Alamo Visitor Center and Museum in San Antonio will house the most technologically advanced 4D Theater in the world—a state-of-the-art immersive experience designed to recreate the story of the Battle of the Alamo.

Matador prepares for KCBD-TV Live Community Coverage Tour July 21

KCBDNewsChannel11’s Community Coverage Tour will visit Motley County on Tuesday, July 21. The popular week-long tour across the station’s viewership area, with hosts of the Lubbock television station’s evening news broadcast, will be in its 24th year. The television station will broadcast their 5 p.

BOUND FOR STATE TURF

BOUND FOR STATE TURF

JAYTON BAND HONORS

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