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TELL FIRE Caprock Country first responders, including fire departments fromMatador,TurkeyandMemphis, the Hall County Sheriff’s Office and theTexas A&M Forest Service, came together last Thursday night to extinguish a fire near Tell, Texas. | COURTESY PHOTO

TELL FIRE Caprock Country first responders, including fire departments fromMatador,TurkeyandMemphis, the Hall County Sheriff’s Office and theTexas A&M Forest Service, came together last Thursday night to extinguish a fire near Tell, Texas. | COURTESY PHOTO

TELL FIRE

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Tuesday, August 9, 2022
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HOWTHEWESTWASWORN Costumes pictured on Elsa Dutton (Isabel May) and James Dutton (Tim McGraw) from the hit TV series‘1883’are on display at the National Ranching Heritage Center. | PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF 101 STUDIOS AND PARAMOUNT+

HOWTHEWESTWASWORN Costumes pictured on Elsa Dutton (Isabel May) and James Dutton (Tim McGraw) from the hit TV series‘1883’are on display at the National Ranching Heritage Center. | PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF 101 STUDIOS AND PARAMOUNT+

1883: A Ranching Origin Story’ on view at Lubbock’s National Ranching Heritage Center through fall

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Tuesday, August 9, 2022
Body STAFF REPORTS Visitors to the National Ranching Heritage Center this season can experience the world of ‘1883,’ the hit Paramount+ series prequel to TV’s ‘Yellowstone.
UNITED METHODIST CHURCHES in McAdoo, Matador and Spur are amongthoseintheLubbockDistrict considering disaffiliation with the United Methodist denomination. | COURTESY PHOTOS

UNITED METHODIST CHURCHES in McAdoo, Matador and Spur are amongthoseintheLubbockDistrict considering disaffiliation with the United Methodist denomination. | COURTESY PHOTOS

Local United Methodist churches consider split with denomination over social issues

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Tuesday, August 9, 2022
Body BARBARA BRANNON | THE CAPROCK COURIER Divisions among affiliated churches over religious questions aren’t a new development— questions have arisen over centuries regarding belief, interpretation, doctrine and modes of worship.

Flomot News

Earlyne Jameson
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Body Overheard An accordion was purchased when I was eight years old. A music teacher came to town offering lessons, and she provided me with a small, student-sized accordion.
MATADOR NATIVE Doug Meador offered an example of collaborative case management in a recent meeting of Motley County EMS staff. | COURTESY PHOTO

MATADOR NATIVE Doug Meador offered an example of collaborative case management in a recent meeting of Motley County EMS staff. | COURTESY PHOTO

Meador leads EMS case discussion in Matador

Staff Reports
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Body During the recent monthly case review for the Motley County Emergency Management Service, Doug Meador, a retired paramedic from Ozona, reviewed a case in which a man had run his pickup truck into a cattle guard gate, impaling the truck and the man.

Motley County Senior Citizens Center Menu

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Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Body The Motley County Senior Citizens is open to serve meals inside or for carry out from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. every weekday. Seating inside the center has been arranged to meet safety guidelines for dining 6 feet apart.

FRIENDSHIP QUILTERS

Joy Stodghill Well, The Quilters Really Got
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Body Well, the quilters really got their needles going Thursday and made a big showing on Bobbye’s quilt. It is a lovely quilt and is a different pattern which will be so pretty when finished. We received a couple of small showers but not enough to make the grass green.
Texas Spur, Caprock Courier, Floyd County Hesperian- Beacon garner TPA awards

Texas Spur, Caprock Courier, Floyd County Hesperian- Beacon garner TPA awards

Texas Spur, Caprock Courier, Floyd County Hesperian-Beacon garner TPA awards

Staff Reports
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Body At the 142nd convention of the Texas Press Association, July 28–30, in San Marcos, The Caprock Courier, The Floyd County Hesperian-Beacon and The Texas Spur were among almost 80 Texas daily, semi-weekly, and weekly newspapers receiving annual awards for outstanding journalism in...
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT

SHINING A SPOTLIGHT

SHINING A SPOTLIGHT

News Staff
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Body SHINING A SPOTLIGHT on local news coverage is the aim of the Texas Press Association’s annual Better Newspaper Contest, in which The Texas Spur earned five awards this year