Cottle County commissioners reinstate burn ban

In the regular meeting of the Cottle County Commissioners Court, held Monday, August 9, the members voted to reinstate the county’s burn ban. The ban is specified for the county, rather than the city of Paducah. The court also approved voting precincts for November elections and early voting.

The cowboys wrote away

Rodeos and cowboy poetry have at least one thing in common: they’re both quintessentially North American inventions, phenomena sprung from the 19th-century beef cattle industry and the Spanish-imported horses essential to it.

Abbott tests negative four days after testing positive

AUSTIN—Gov. Greg Abbott announced via Twitter Saturday that he is now testing negative for Covid-19, four days after testing positive though asymptomatic. “I am told that my infection was brief and mild because of the vaccination I received.

R.C. & Bud

R.C. is an animal lover. Maybe not the kind of animal lover that the term has come to mean in this era, but the kind that requires a greater commitment. He would tell you he’s a farmer. But he’s a horseman and trainer, cattleman, hog producer, corn grower and great-grandfather.

Constitutional amendment to amend the Texas PUF introduced by Sen. Perry, Rep. Burrows

AUSTIN—Last week Texas State Senator Charles Perry (SD-28) and Texas State House Representative Dustin Burrows (HD-83) filed SJR 14 and HJR 24, respectively.

Shameless

At his sold-out show at Arrowhead Stadium last Saturday, Country Music Hall of Famer Garth Brooks and his fully vaccinated tour team performed for a record-breaking 74,500 fans after the Kansas City Health Department held a mobile vaccination clinic in the parking lot.

Abbott sued over mask-mandate ban

AUSTIN—A growing number of school districts, counties and cities have defied Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order banning mask mandates, as Covid-19 cases continue to spike due to the delta variant and a low rate of vaccination among Texans.

Visiting Dogs

When I hear a truck pull up in front of the house and the pandemonium of dogs barkin’ would wake a hibernating mastodon, I relax. It’s only my neighbor, D.K., come to borrow something of his back.

Napkin poetry publishing

If you write a poem, and somebody wants to include it in an anthology, and you have to look up the word “anthology,” you might be out of your league. Happened to me. Not that I didn’t know what “anthology” meant. I just had to be reminded. Yep. I once wrote a good poem.

Brothers on the Line

Benjamin Franklin was only six years old when a major fire destroyed over a hundred homes in Boston. When he moved from Boston to Philadelphia twelve years later, he and the founder of “the city of brotherly love,” William Penn, had something in common.