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The 501

The 501

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The 501

Hanaba Munn Welch
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Body Is a makeshift handwritten will better than none at all? Let’s hope so. Mine’s tucked away with the Cutco knife documents. Look under the silverware tray. Yep, I believe the story about a farmer who was definitively trapped under his tractor.

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Who’s cut out to create docs that’ll stand up?

News Staff
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Body We digress again. Suffice it to say that property weighs you down, no matter who you are. First you worry about how to get stuff. Then maybe you go through a divorce and fight over stuff – even children.
Panic buttons, locked doors for Texas schools

Panic buttons, locked doors for Texas schools

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Panic buttons, locked doors for Texas schools

Gary Borders
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Body would have to install panic buttons in classrooms and ensure all doors and windows are locked and monitored under new proposed safety standards released last week by the Texas Education Agency.
A great year for football

A great year for football

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A great year for football

Our Three Newspapers Cover Eight
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Body Our three newspapers cover eight counties and 10 school districts. That means 10 football teams, and 2022 has been chock full of exciting stories across the region. For The Texas Spur, both Spur and Jayton made the playoffs again this year.

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Roaring Springs Lions to change up meeting date, place

Staff Reports
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Body Wes Campbell, the Roaring Springs Lions Club will now be meeting for lunch and business monthly at the Motley County Senior Citizens Building, 621 Stewart Ave, Matador, TX 79244. The next meeting will be held Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022, and the following one Wednesday, Jan.

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State Sales Tax Revenue Totaled $3.8 Billion in October

Staff Reports
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Body Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar today said last week that state sales tax revenue totaled $3.82 billion in October, 11.9 percent more than in October 2021. The majority of October sales tax revenue is based on sales made in September and remitted to the agency in October.
DARWIN LANKFORD, district engineer for the Childress District (right) of the Texas Department of Transportation, received his 35-year service award during the 96th annual Transportation Short Course recently held in College Station. MarcWilliams,Texas Department of Transportation executive director, presented the award to Lankford, who has served as the D.E. for the Childress District since September 2021. | TxDOT PHOTO

DARWIN LANKFORD, district engineer for the Childress District (right) of the Texas Department of Transportation, received his 35-year service award during the 96th annual Transportation Short Course recently held in College Station. MarcWilliams,Texas Department of Transportation executive director, presented the award to Lankford, who has served as the D.E. for the Childress District since September 2021. | TxDOT PHOTO

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DARWIN LANKFORD

News Staff
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Body DARWIN LANKFORD, district engineer for the Childress District (right) of the Texas Department of Transportation, received his 35-year service award during the 96th annual Transportation Short Course recently held in College Station.
Doing the math, newsprint style

Doing the math, newsprint style

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Doing the math, newsprint style

Lastweekwegavereaders
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Body a heads-up to look for a revamp of physical features— sheet size, color pages, and one I didn’t mention: where the susbcriber address goes. These are the result of making a change in printing operations, a major undertaking for weeklies like this one.
SOUPWEATHER Not much smells better on the stove than a bubbly pot of soup or stew. | ANGELINA LaRUE PHOTO

SOUPWEATHER Not much smells better on the stove than a bubbly pot of soup or stew. | ANGELINA LaRUE PHOTO

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Roasted potato soup

News Staff
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Body Vegetable soup may be difficult to get excited about, but throw in some roasted potatoes and it’s a game changer. It’s soup weather, and not much smells better on the stove than a bubbly pot of soup or stew.

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Smuggling: bacon to Bibles

News Staff
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Body Another friend managed a similar situation by purposely living below the poverty line. Whatever works. Back to smuggling. It was 1969. The Czechoslovakian border guards carried machine guns. We were daring. Bibles were contraband.