American Plains Artists has accepted a painting by Vicki Diggs of Spur for inclusion in its 35th Annual Juried Exhibit, to be held at the Fort Concho National Historic Landmark in San Angelo June 25–August 2, 2020.
Cheery red yucca flowers are in bloom about now. Their spiky evergreen foliage and graceful flower stalks punctuate desert landscapes, xeriscapes and rock gardens.
June is our Collaborative Summer Reading Program time of year. Sadly, we will not be having it this year. Our children’s programmer, Dominique McArthur, had some wonderful activities planned for the kids this year.
If you missed the duck eggs, the artisan bread, the local honey, the homemade preserves, or the décor, clothing and jewelry from the first Spur Farmers’ Market and Crafters’ Market in March, it’s back.
It’s not often that a small-town high school graduates triplets, and we regret that in typing the class profiles for last week’s special Class of 2020 Keepsake Issue we mixed up the college plans for two of the seniors. One, Garrett McCormick, happened to be class valedictorian. We apologize to both students and their families.