As the creator and producer of “The Sound of Texas,” one of the longest running syndicated radio programs in Texas, Tumbleweed seeks fascinating people who embody the spirit of the Lone StarStateandbringsthemintothehomesandheartsofthousands.

In the regular monthly meeting of the Briscoe County Commissioners Court on March 11, in open forum commissioners discussed contacting nonprofit entities for donating surplus supplies from the county. Jack Wellman stated that he would like to have Briscoe County start donating door prizes at conferences.

“I think I am only 57, but the paperwork does not back this up. I don’t feel old because your inside self doesn’t age.” – writer Anne Lamott (age 70) Last week after visiting a friend in an assisted living facility, I was reminded of many such trips to see my paternal grandmother in the 1970s and ’80s.

As the creator and producer of “The Sound of Texas,” one of the longest running syndicated radio programs in Texas, Tumbleweed seeks fascinating people who embody the spirit of the Lone StarStateandbringsthemintothehomesandheartsofthousands.

AUSTIN— Colorado State University researchers are calling this year’s hurricane season forecast “the most aggressive” ever, the Texas Standard reported. They say there is a 54% chance a hurricane will strike the Texas coast, and a 25% chance it will be major.

“The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error.”—Doris Kearns Goodwin My wayfaring existence, with a great deal of time spent behind the wheel, lends itself to listening to audiobooks. Nothing quite takes the place of reading material in one’s hands, which is why I still buy a newspaper.

COMMENTARY The tattooed and the non-tattooed. So far I’m still a blank slate.

Ah, the mentality of the five-year-old who whines to parents that he “really did take a bath” when the smell and dirt under the nails say otherwise. How about the students who wait until 7:56 a.m.

AUSTIN— State agencies and regulators were heavily criticized at a Texas legislative hearing for failing to communicate during the deadly Panhandle wildfires, the Texas Tribune reported. The three-day hearing, held in Pampa, investigated the Smokehouse Creek fire and others that burned more than a million acres, destroyed hundreds of homes, killed up to 10,000 cattle and resulted in two deaths.

MATADOR CITY COUNCIL Thursday, Apr. 11, 6:30 p.m., City Hall, 706 Dundee Ave., Matador, (806) 347-2255 PADUCAH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Thursday, Apr. 11, 6 p.m., Bicentennial City-County Library, 825 Backus St., Paducah GUTHRIE COMMON SCHOOL DISTRICT board meeting, Monday, Apr. 15, 6 p.m., school administration offices, 301 Jaguar Ln., Guthrie, (806) 596-4466 MOTLEY COUNTY INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT board meeting, Monday, Apr. 15, 7:00 p.m., board room, 1600 Bundy, Matador , (806) 347-2676 PADUCAH INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT board meeting, Monday, Apr. 15, 6 p.m., school administration offices, 810 Goodwin St., Paducah, (806) 492-3524 TURKEY/QUITAQUE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (VALLEY SCHOOL) board meeting, Monday, Apr. 15, 7 p.m., school administration offices, 11826 Hwy. 86, Turkey, (806) 423-1348 MATADOR MASONIC LODGE Thursday, Apr. 18, meal at 6:30 p.m. followed by 7:30 p.m. meeting, Lodge Building, 807 Bailey St., Matador