Texas
County talks to abatement attorney, makes no decision
Members of the Dawson County Commissioners Court on Tuesday delayed action on guidelines and participation in any property tax abatements.
Hospital re-elects officers
Dawson County Hospital District directors unanimously agreed Tuesday to keep their board officers in the same positions for another year.
County seeks joint meeting to discuss existing contracts
With both entities now preparing new budgets for the next fiscal year, members of the Dawson County Commissioners Court are seeking a joint meeting with the Lamesa City Council.
Many closing for July 4th holiday
There will be no mail delivery, banking or trash pick up Tuesday for the Independence Day holiday.
Life of service
Dr. Russell H. Dilday, Jr. – for 16 years president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth – died recently in Dallas, leaving a legacy that deserves more superlatives than space allows.
Unlikely companions
Ispent the week visiting my parents at their retirement home “up north,” and so I got to see them and my mother’s outside pet, Stubby, the red squirrel.
America’s humble beginnings
America had a humble and desperate beginning. Our nation’s Declaration of Independence reveals this. Thomas Jefferson, who carefully crafted the historic document wrote, “The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.” Then Jefferson goes on to list 27 examples of the king’s oppressive governmental rule over America’s 13 colonies.