Caprock Country 2025 rewind:

YEAR IN REVIEW
VOICEOFTHE PEOPLE At the June 9, 2025 regular session of the Hall County commissioners court in Memphis, citizens spoke in public forum before commissioners took up deliberations on a proposed county property tax abatement for a Lancium Clean Campus large data center to be constructed south of Turkey, in the southern part of the county. Summarizing discussion from a June 5 town hall in Turkey was EDC president Carley du Menil (center, above). Commissioners voted to approve the abatement. | CAPROCK COURIER
VOICEOFTHE PEOPLE At the June 9, 2025 regular session of the Hall County commissioners court in Memphis, citizens spoke in public forum before commissioners took up deliberations on a proposed county property tax abatement for a Lancium Clean Campus large data center to be constructed south of Turkey, in the southern part of the county. Summarizing discussion from a June 5 town hall in Turkey was EDC president Carley du Menil (center, above). Commissioners voted to approve the abatement. | CAPROCK COURIER

Openings and closures, wins and losses

JANUARY

Paducah’s legacy MooreThriftway prepared to close its doors for good. Tim Moore, owner of the Thriftway, who has owned and managed the store for 34 years with his wife, Erica, and other family members, was ready to retire. The Moores posted For Sale ads and signs, and launched a liquidation sale.