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HISTORY PARTNER Bob Saul, who has served as editor, vice-president, and president of publishing companies in Texas and Tennessee, in 2019 lent his expertise as consultant in volunteer program management and software development to reviving Texas’s longest-running cowboy poetry event. | HISTORYPARTNERS.COM

HISTORY PARTNER Bob Saul, who has served as editor, vice-president, and president of publishing companies in Texas and Tennessee, in 2019 lent his expertise as consultant in volunteer program management and software development to reviving Texas’s longest-running cowboy poetry event. | HISTORYPARTNERS.COM

Briscoe County native spurs revival of heritage Big Bend tradition

Barbara Brannon
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
Body Bob Saul isn’t a poet, and he isn’t a cowboy—although he’s part of a family that’s raised cattle outside Quitaque, Texas, for 70 years.
SNOW DAY Throughout Caprock Country last week, snowfall totals ranged from 7 inches in Briscoe County, at the western edge, to 3.2 inches in Cottle County, in the east—with Motley notching a record 11 inches, according to the National Weather Services. Full story, page 8; more reader photos, page 10. | COURTESY PHOTO

SNOW DAY Throughout Caprock Country last week, snowfall totals ranged from 7 inches in Briscoe County, at the western edge, to 3.2 inches in Cottle County, in the east—with Motley notching a record 11 inches, according to the National Weather Services. Full story, page 8; more reader photos, page 10. | COURTESY PHOTO

SNOW DAY

News Staff
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
Body SNOW DAY

LONE STAR COWBOY POETRY GATHERING 2023

News Staff
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
Body WHERE: Alpine, Texas WHEN: February 15-18, 2023 WHAT: Featuring a show rodeo with the members of the Sul Ross State University Rodeo Team on Wednesday; Chuckwagon Breakfasts and catered suppers on Friday and Saturday; cowboy poetry and music performing in day sessions,...
BISON IN THE BLIZZARD When Caprock Canyons State Park experienced more than half a foot of the white stuff last Tuesday, photographers Rick and CJ Boales were already stationed in the right spot to capture once-in-a-lifetime images. | RICK BOALES PHOTO

BISON IN THE BLIZZARD When Caprock Canyons State Park experienced more than half a foot of the white stuff last Tuesday, photographers Rick and CJ Boales were already stationed in the right spot to capture once-in-a-lifetime images. | RICK BOALES PHOTO

Spur photographer duo capture perfect snowfall at Caprock Canyons

Barbara Brannon
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
Body Photographers Rick and CJ Boales are no strangers to Caprock Canyons State Park in Quitaque, especially since their retirement and move to Dickens County from the Metroplex puts them just a short drive away.

Overheard

News Staff
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Body Seems I was a frail, skinny little kid when I was attending kindergarten at Toms River, N.J., back in 1947. My grandmother Applegate often told my mother that she was not feeding me enough which really wasn’t true.
LORENZO LIBATIONS Garrett Irwin, vineyard manager at the Estate Cerro Santo Vineyard of Adelphos Cellars, inspects grapevines. Lorenzo, 35 miles west of Dickens, is the home of the grape growing operations of the winery, which plans to open a tasting room. | COURTESY PHOTO

LORENZO LIBATIONS Garrett Irwin, vineyard manager at the Estate Cerro Santo Vineyard of Adelphos Cellars, inspects grapevines. Lorenzo, 35 miles west of Dickens, is the home of the grape growing operations of the winery, which plans to open a tasting room. | COURTESY PHOTO

Regional Roundup

News Staff
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Body NEWS & EVENTS IN SURROUNDING COUNTIES CROSBY Lorenzo vintners plan tasting room LORENZO—David Conklin and Jim Irwin, friends for more than 20 years and business partners since 2018, have big plans for Lorenzo-based Adelphos Cellars.
WILD HOGWINNER The winner of Star Feed and Seed’s Big Buck Contest, Wild Hog Division, is Preston Gilliam of Rhome, Texas, who won a monogrammed jacket. Gilliam’s hog weighed 225 pounds and was killed in Dickens County in mid-November 2022. | COURTESY PHOTO

WILD HOGWINNER The winner of Star Feed and Seed’s Big Buck Contest, Wild Hog Division, is Preston Gilliam of Rhome, Texas, who won a monogrammed jacket. Gilliam’s hog weighed 225 pounds and was killed in Dickens County in mid-November 2022. | COURTESY PHOTO

Hunters ‘rack up’ in Star Feed & Seed’s Big Buck Contest

Staff Reports
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Body For the past nine weeks, hunters in Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Garza, Kent, King, Motley and Stonewall Counties have tried their luck at winning the 23rd Annual Star Feed and Seed Big Buck Contest.

SPOTLIGHT ON MOOREROSE FUNERAL HOME RENOVATION

News Staff
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Body FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILIES Floydada-based Moore-Rose Funeral Home, with facilities also located in Lockney, Idalou, and Briscoe County, has updated their Silverton Visitation Center to better serve the region.