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PLAYOFF PLOT THICKENS

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PLAYOFF PLOT THICKENS

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Wed, 02/05/2025 - 07:13

Last week’s surprise overtime win of the Rotan Lady Yellowhammers over the Jayton Lady Jaybirds has complicated the District 15-1A basketball playoff picture.

BI-DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP SPUR VERSUS O'DONNELL MONDAY, FEB. 10 AT 6:30 PM IRA

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BI-DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP SPUR VERSUS O'DONNELL MONDAY, FEB. 10 AT 6:30 PM IRA

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Wed, 02/05/2025 - 07:13

SPURETTES MAKE PLAYOFFS The Spur varsity girls basketball team have made the playoffs as they are district runner-up to the #1 team in the state, the Valley Lady Patriots.

PRIDE OF PLACE In its 2024 third-quarter earnings report, Galaxy included a schematic of its flagship Helios data center in northern Dickens County. | COURTESY IMAGE

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Galaxy expected to double local jobs in 2025

Barbara Brannon |

Wed, 02/05/2025 - 07:13

In Dickens County, Galaxy Digital’s Helios Phase II is what’s on the horizon for the firm’s currently operating Bitcoin mining facility, which is now focused on increasing its operational capacity at its West Texas campus beyond the initially approved 800 megawatts (MW) of power, potentially...

Chelle’s Garden grows in Matador

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Wed, 02/05/2025 - 07:13

Chelle’s Garden, at 1122 Eubank Street in Matador, has recently opened the addition of an in-house restaurant, “The Kitchen.”

Rock on! Stone landscaping features set in Spur’s Rickels Park

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Wed, 01/29/2025 - 06:59

STONE WALL Some of the last phases of the xeriscaping project in Rickels Park in downtown Spur were put in place last week, with large slabs from the Lueders quarry stacked as a privacy wall and windbreak, and installed at random elsewhere in the small park.

Filings open for city councils, school boards across Texas Spur Country

Kay Ellington |

Wed, 01/29/2025 - 06:59

The last day to file to run for the city councils of Spur, Jayton and Dickens is coming up February 14. The deadline is the same to run for the Spur and Jayton-Girard school boards. The only candidate in these races to file so far is David Warren, mayor of Dickens, who has filed for re-election.

ONTHE BALL Following up on the Jayton Jaybirds’2024 State Football Championship, on January 23 Robert Bybee of Jayton (left) presented KCBD-TV (Lubbock) Sports Director Pete Christy a football signed by the Jayton 2024 State Championship players and coaches. Bybee said the souvenir was presented“in recognition of the friendship he showed to the Jaybirds Athletic Department.”

Bybee presents Jaybirds signed football to KCBD-TV’s Christy

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Wed, 01/29/2025 - 06:59

Local Events

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Wed, 01/29/2025 - 06:59

Submit your community announcements (maximum 75 words) to news@thetexasspur.com for events within the coming month, to run up to 4 issues Please let us know of any corrections: News@thetexasspur.com DICKENS COUNTY–SPUR LIBRARY story time, Thursdays, 10 a.m., for babies to preschool, 403 E. Hill...

Changes coming to Spur, Dickens County

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Wed, 01/29/2025 - 06:59

The new year has already brought some changes subtle and significant to the landscape in Spur and Dickens County, from a newly groomed Rickels Park to progress on the Lucee’s (former Partners Convenience Store) in Dickens, to the huge Helios phase 2 expansion in Afton—but more is on the horizon.

STAR FEED AND SEED ANNOUNCES WINNERS

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Wed, 01/29/2025 - 06:59

BIG BUCK WINNER Evan Botsford of Lubbock was named the Overall and Bow Winner of the 2024-25 Big Buck contest sponsored by Star Feed & Seed of Spur. Botsford’s whitetail scored a total score of 174.5 inches with an inside spread of 20.625 inches.

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