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Cotton QuickTake

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Thursday, March 27, 2025
Cotton prices were lower this week while stock markets regained some recent losses. Export shipments stayed strong, but mill demand softened.
Wesley Phillips

Wesley Phillips

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Wesley Phillips

News Staff
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Wesley Phillips had a great week in Houston, winning Reserve Champion British Breeding Heifer and Grand Champion Angus Heifer at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.
Olympic Sprinter Ernest Wiggins to Inspire Athletes at Bearkat Relays

Olympic Sprinter Ernest Wiggins to Inspire Athletes at Bearkat Relays

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Olympic Sprinter Ernest Wiggins to Inspire Athletes at Bearkat Relays

Garden City
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Former team USA sprinter and speed coach Ernest Wiggins will return to West Texas on Friday, March 28, to speak to athletes at the Bearkat Relays track meet in Garden City.
It’s been a crazy couple weeks in West Texas as winds as high as 80 mph blew dirt everywhere. TxDOT shut down portions of Hwy 176 south of Stanton were dirt drifts were over a foot deep. Other highways experienced blackout conditions where drivers couldn’t even see past the hood of their vehicles.

It’s been a crazy couple weeks in West Texas as winds as high as 80 mph blew dirt everywhere. TxDOT shut down portions of Hwy 176 south of Stanton were dirt drifts were over a foot deep. Other highways experienced blackout conditions where drivers couldn’t even see past the hood of their vehicles.

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Fatal Crash Claims Life of Tarzan Man on SH 176

Tarzan
Thursday, March 20, 2025
A fatal crash on Tuesday morning claimed the life of 61-year-old Randall Graham of Tarzan. The threevehicle collision occurred on State Highway 176 at mile marker 286 and left two others injured.According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, the crash happened at approximately 7:29 a.m.

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Fixin’ to Happen

Stanton
Thursday, March 20, 2025
- Who is ready for a fun evening of shopping, eating, and dancing.The Martin County Messenger is hosting a concert at the 1884 Plaza in Stanton on Mar. 29 from 5 p.m. till 8 p.m.
THE EVER EXPANDING TEXAS TECH

THE EVER EXPANDING TEXAS TECH

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THE EVER EXPANDING TEXAS TECH

News Staff
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Part Owner of Texas Forty thousand students are on the Texas Tech campus in Lubbock and attend classes in buildings with the Spanish Renaissance style of architecture. Another 20,000 students are on affiliated campuses around the state.
Spring Time in Texas

Spring Time in Texas

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Spring Time in Texas

News Staff
Thursday, March 20, 2025
The windmills are all turning and the dust is blowing....!!!!! First the dirt then the green. The dust is so thick the sun can’t shine enough to turn the solar pumps on. Good times for the windmills.The Van Horn dust gets here about eleven a.m. and the El Paso dust get here about mid-afternoon......
Count It Joy

Count It Joy

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Count It Joy

Jannie Linney
Thursday, March 20, 2025
James is writing to the twelve tribes of Israel, Jacobs sons. This letter belongs to us too because we have been grafted in. “My brethren, count it all when you fall into various trials”[James 1:2].Brethren includes anyone who is a child of God, a born again Christian.

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POPULAR TEXAN TURNED DOWN EVERY HONOR

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Thursday, March 20, 2025
On Mar. 22, 1877, Guy M. Bryan wrote the new President of the United States, who happened to be an old college classmate, to recommend a relative for the Supreme Court.William Pitt Ballinger had no idea why the caretaker governor summoned him in the middle of May 1865.
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