The Klondike High School Student Council recently collected and donated around 100 toys for the Lights of Love campaign to provide gifts to children of needy local families at Christmas time.
“He’s making a list and checking it twice...”
SLATON- The 2022 cotton harvest and baling season has been under way since October, but baling so far is not as high as the record setting numbers set last year.
After having only light slates of business for their recent meetings, members of the Dawson County Commissioners Court have a full agenda for their regular meeting this coming Tuesday.
_ On December 16, 1773, a group of highly disgruntled Boston colonists board three ships loaded with taxed tea from Britain. While it would undoubtedly have been enjoyed by the locals, following the refusal of officials to return it, the men hurled the tea into Boston Harbor as a form of protest against “taxation without representation.” _ On December 18, 1912, amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson discovered human remains in the Piltdown gravel pit in Sussex, England. Dubbed the “Piltdown Man,” he was thought to represent the missing evolutionary link between apes and mankind until it was confirmed at a 1953 international congress of paleontologists that the specimen was a fraud, consisting of skull parts both human and orangutan.
During a brief special meeting at noon Monday, Lamesa school board members unanimously agreed to contract with the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) to assist in the district’s search for a new superintendent.
For those shoppers looking for unique Christmas gifts, a stop at the first annual Santa’s Magical Mall this weekend just may be the right place to go.
The crowns have been bought. So have the sashes and trophies.
Adding to the array of local Christmas activities, the Lamesa Community Players production of “Little Women: A Merry Christmas” will take the stage Thursday evening for the first of six performances.
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