Martin County’s youth have been enjoying the Summer Reading Program at the Martin County Library in Stanton. Last week they made tropical fish out of water bottles.
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GRADY - Applications are being taken starting this weekend for three places on the Grady Independent School District Board of Trustees.
Deadline to file for a place on the ballot is Aug. 21. The election will be Nov. 7.
The three incumbents whose terms expire this year are Tammy Blocker in... + continue reading
WEST TEXAS - The first high school football practices for the 2017 season are less than a month away while the coaches have finalized their schedules, they may not have enough men in the white and black stripes to officiate the games.
"I go to church on Sundays I get bombarded with people... + continue reading
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by Bartee Haile
Lillian Knox, once the prime suspect in the staged suicide of her timber tycoon husband, was back in the news on Jul. 15, 1939 following her arrest in Los Angeles on warrants out of Dallas and Shreveport.
The Big D district attorney announced that the notorious “Lady... + continue reading
by Baxter Black
Piojos! Lice! The biting kind. You see ‘em everywhere They’re thick as thieves on cattle’s backs and crawlin’ in their hair!
And ticks the size of Tootsie Pops transfuse a cow a day!
And two can pack a yearlin’ off or pull a two-horse sleigh... + continue reading
STANTON - The Old Fashion County Fair, hosted by the Martin County AgriLife Extension Family and Consumer Sciences Committee, was considered by many a huge success.
The fair drew over 60 entries with 34 in the youth division and 33 adult entries.
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MARTIN COUNTY - The grueling first weeks of the football practices in the West Texas summer heat are no longer the dreaded two-a-day practices that football players once loved and despised at the... + continue reading
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By Bartee Haile
OPEN OR CLOSED? NOTHING NEW ABOUT BORDER DEBATE
Worried the war might cut off their supply of cheap labor, the Texas Dirt Farmers Congress appealed to the federal government on... + continue reading
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Home sites available in Stanton’s Buffalo Addition
Luke Dillard, Builder *Texas Tech University *U.S. Air Force Veteran *Married to Melissa with four children - Quinn, Jaycee, Kennedy and... + continue reading
